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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)

Today's FA

Not sure if this is an error or not, but I don't think I've ever seen the image for the FA also have a text description? Is that a new thing? Chaheel Riens (talk) 09:38, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• ... that the Lady Carbisdale led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?

"Lady Carbisdale" is a self-styled (and misleading) nickname, why are we using it to refer to the person here? The article mentions the nickname's existence, but never does this, and calls her "Kane" throughout. Using it with the definite article - the Lady Carbisdale - is extra bad as it points even more strongly to this being a noble title and not a nickname. This form is never used in the article or just about anywhere else. Highly recommend switching to "that Samantha Kane..." -Elmer Clark (talk) 15:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

10 hours later and this is now live. Surely we can at least remove the word "the?" That part is an uncontroversial egg-on-our-face error to me. -Elmer Clark (talk) 01:52, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

I've implemented your original proposal. Sorry that it took so long. When I first saw this (many hours before the page went live), I assumed that one of the DYK admins will deal with that, or at least say why they don't agree. Schwede66 05:54, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.

Change the "A tornado" to "the largest tornado ever recorded"; the only reason it's at OTD is due to it's record-breaking size. Many tornadoes are deadlier than this one; we had a tornado on May 16 kill nineteen people. ^EF⁵ 00:43, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

I’ve copy-edited the item adopting wording from the article’s lead. Schwede66 16:35, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Unbold Kronan (ship) in the 1676 one. The event that happened is the battle, not the ship. - Sebbog13 (talk) 05:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

The blurb isn't exclusively about the battle, but also about "one of the largest ships in the world at the time". I therefore see nothing wrong how it's styled. Schwede66 05:56, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

Alexander Shulgin (on the births and deaths line) is orange tagged and should probably be swapped out for another article. Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:59, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Replaced Schwede66 06:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

In the 1973 entry, it should be "an" episode. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 04:51, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Day-after-tomorrow's OTD

In the 1982 entry, "which event was later used as justification for the" needs to be rephrased. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 04:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Fixed Schwede66 06:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 6)

Monday's FL

(June 2, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

I made some amendments to this yesterday before it was protected, but I realise that I've missed an error in one of the existing links - the link to rapid plant movement should be removed as this species does not exhibit movement fast enough to meet that definition. Also mucilage-secreting should probably be amended to mucilage-secreting (new error by me, sorry). YFB ¿ 09:59, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

I've made these changes to the unprotected version if someone wouldn't mind copying them over to the protected one please? YFB ¿ 23:08, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

 Done Sorry for the delay. It seems I'm the only admin on duty. And making requested POTD changes to the unprotected version is very helpful, Yummifruitbat – thank you. Schwede66 06:09, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

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