[USA] Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

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Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.
usatoday.com

"Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert."

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This indeed raises an important issue with our current rules. I will be discussing a potential change to those rules with other mods to make it more clear that, if the article isn't very clear, you are allowed to alter the title (within reason).

If you could edit the title to make clear this is about the US, that would be great (:

Sorry for the confusion.

The rule should probably be that it's required to be as descriptive or more as the title of the article. If you want to edit out click-bait, that should be allowed. As long as it's still just as descriptive it should be fine. (I understand this would be hard to enforce though.)

Can you put something in the sidebar to clarify whether this community is primarily for US news? We do have the worldnews community explicitly for non-US news.

This community is for all news at the moment, not primarily for US news.