Talk:Carnegie Hero Fund
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Front page of Daily Mirror London Friday 30 July 1937: Peggy Bunker 16 year old typist of Erphingham-road Putney. 10 June 1937 rescued 14 year old Cyril Smith from the Thames Bravery recognised by Carnegie Hero Fund Trustees - awarded £10 and certificate. K9ine 21:22, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
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According to https://www.carnegiehero.org/nominate/ the children who are excluded are those "considered by the Commission to be too young to comprehend the risks involved". The Wikipedia article says it is "children considered by the Commission to comprehend the risk involved" are the children excluded, which MAKES NO SENSE!!! I don't walk around having memorized the text on the foundation's page. I'm reading it just now because something doesn't make sense. I go and check on it. This is why I don't donate to Wikipedia. Anyone could have read this article and saw that excluding children who DO comprehend the risk, and risk their lives anyway, MAKES NO SENSE. What would make sense is that a child DID place their life at risk to save someone else's life, but doesn't KNOW that they were placing their life at risk, or has a comic-book idea of what dying is like and so doesn't really understand that's IT for the time on Earth, yes, then they cannot get a medal for KNOWINGLY risking their life, because that's not what they were doing. I think any copy-editor who read this would have noticed. I think you don't have copy-editors. And yet you have fundraising for money that you are not going to spend paying copy-editors.204.155.226.3 (talk) 08:06, 15 June 2020 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson
- You are correct that the text of this article was incorrect, and it has since been fixed. You are also correct that Wikipedia doesn't have paid copy editors. As explained at Wikipedia:Editing policy, "Wikipedia is the product of millions of editors' contributions ...." If you see an error on Wikipedia, and you know what the correct text should be (in this case, from having consulted the original source), you can click "edit" and fix it yourself if you want. But no paid copy editor is going to come along and correct the errors on Wikipedia, because they don't exist here. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:53, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
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Basic information to add to this article: the total endowment of this fund. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)