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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• Our article on Qasr Bshir appears to be in British English (e.g. "metres"), so we should use "travelled", not "traveled" in the DYK hook. JMCHutchinson (talk) 14:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

  @Jmchutchinson: The article has a language tag which was added here, but the spellings already seemed to reflect British English and were not subsequently changed. The article's about a Roman fort, so I don't know why the American English requirement was added. Bazza 7 (talk) 14:53, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Pinging Rjjiii, who added the language tag. JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:10, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I believe we normally try to establish a consistent Engvar within a DYK set, which may mean that an article's hook doesn't match the variety in the article itself. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 18:11, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

(Rjj on mobile): British English is fine for the article, and I have no issues with using "traveled" or "travelled" in the hook. I just used the wrong tag there out of habit. Rjjiii (ii) (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I've changed it to "travelled" in the hook. Schwede66 07:50, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

I've never heard of a requirement to have a consistent engvar between the hooks in a set. RoySmith (talk) 11:55, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't think such a thing would be desirable either. TarnishedPath^talk 12:26, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

The English variant of a hook needs to reflect the English variant of the target article. Schwede66 16:06, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

It would be ideal if there was an editor-in-chief, but good luck with crowd-sourced editing. —Bagumba (talk) 16:25, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• In the 1640 blurb, shouldn't it be "The Treaty of Ripon was agreed on" or is it an Engvar thing? ~~ Jessintime (talk) 14:49, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

  @Jessintime: I'd say (from my keyboard in the UK) that it's an Engvar thing. Collins agrees(!). Bazza 7 (talk) 15:54, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you ~~ Jessintime (talk) 16:16, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to address this, but the reference to Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani says he was born in 915; his page says he died in 915.

• Fixed. Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 19:57, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 7)

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(November 3, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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