Redactle - THE HINTS THREAD

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Given how difficult it is to offer hints for redactle, without giving it away/being too obvious, this is a specific thread for hints.

Doesn't mean that they should give the game away, but it just stops other players seeing the hint every time they access the main thread.

So from now on, just keep your stats and general comments on the main thread and come here for any hints!

It’s somewhere currently in the news.

I know those aren't right, I meant that was what I thought after finally getting something to Google, but it turned out not.
Perhaps you could let me know the area of the thing he has done?

i went to reddit

Thanks @Dreikanter - got it now.

Got it, finally, after 174 guesses.
Found a reference to a relative which I could Google.

Phew!

Goodness, if this is a sample of one of Wikipedia's most "vital articles' I might as well give up now.

@Novum it's previously been stuff like "rope" or "desk", they're rarely this obscure.
I want to know who got this without googling.

Thank goodness for that, we've had two really obscure things within a week. The first one I did was the Franco-prussian war and I got that relatively easily; when I saw this one looked biographical/historical I thought I'd be OK, how wrong I was.

The article is however really interesting, and he's someone who was truly ground-breaking. And if more weight had been attached to his work (being a bit vague here, on purpose) then the warnings on one of the biggest existential issues ever might have come a bit earlier.

I think there's only been a few in the >100 I've done (started at #15) which have been quite this obscure.

If anyone is making heavy weather of todays Pedantle, note that the formatting is unhelpfully weird. There are two subscripted characters, each has for some reason had a line break inserted before them.

Struggling today - any hints welcome!

Is it driving you gaga?

This has got to be one of the best clues ever 🤣

Today's was a horrorshow!

My route to today's involved noticing that one of the unredacted words is weirdly capitalised. That led me to the type of thing related to the subject.
Then I threw the words I know about those things in, and got the first bit of the xxxx-to-xxxxxx phrase that's everywhere in the article. Once I had the other bit the title was evident.

That's what I did too.

(I was aiming my throwing at the xxxx-to-xxxxxx bit)

We are on over 200 guesses. Have the general area, and have put many excellent words. But would be very grateful for a clue now!

I found this relatively quickly because there was a random sequence of numbers written out as words. When I googled that, it took me to a site that threw up the answer.

@MrsElm it's kind of like the opposite of subtitles.

A very useful way to access MN if you can't see it.

Finally got it after 270 guesses. Couldn't see the wood for the trees by the end!

Can I have a hint for the second word please? I swear I’ve used every possible word!!!

It’s ok.I googled :)

Please may I have a hint? I thought inspiration would come overnight, but no!
I think I have the general area, in terms of subject and era, but specifics are eluding me.

@MrsElm

The first word is a beginning place or a baby's bed

The third word is a process of becoming less feral (but spell it the American way because although the other spelling appears later on it doesn't unredact the page)