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Membership and allies/enemies

I think that the actual amount (or close amount) of members of the Mafia should be found especially since there's no way that the American Mafia has 50,000 members when most of the families have less than a 100 members and only a few have over a 1,000 members. Also, I think that the allies and enemies section should be shortened, there's no reason to include every single group and gang that every family is allied or enemies to. Like for the several Mexican, African or European groups could be put into categories like: African-American organized crime groups, or European crime syndicates.

Wiki Education assignment: Communication and Culture

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 February 2021 and 14 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jordanannunziata (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Wjenn001.

Peculiar sentence

Hi, very unimportant and I'm not a native speaker so perhaps the following is ok in EN, but ... the sentence "The rise of power that the Mafia acquired during prohibition would continue long after alcohol was made legal again" caught my eye. Stripped, it says 'the rise of power continued', while I think it should say 'the Mafia rose in power, and retained the new level of power'. I think the orig sentence conflates these two ideas, hidden by bad grammar. Also, does one acquire a rise in power? Or you experience, have, get, see, undergo ...? MVH, T 2A02:FE1:E16B:CC00:B11B:42FB:7793:350C (talk) 00:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]