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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 with "In the news"

A nightclub roof collapse

"... in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, kills more than 75 people": reads better without the article? Looking for other countries that take an article, ITN in September 2024 had "an attempted jailbreak at Makala Central Prison, Democratic Republic of Congo". Moscow Mule (talk) 03:16, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• "... that a former Uber driver is the nominee to be the deputy secretary of a U.S. government department?" Isn't this against WP:DYKBLP in unduly focusing on a negative aspect of a living person? Who of us didn't have a menial job in our early careers? Pull this hook, please. --GRuban (talk) 03:23, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  How is previously being a former Uber driver negative? The article and hook don't even state it as negative. SL93 (talk) 03:27, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  I don't see how this is at all necessarily negative. It could just as easily be interpreted as a positive, as a working-class background. Departure– (talk) 03:28, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Pinging nominator BeanieFan11, reviewer WikiOriginal-9, and promoter Cielquiparle. SL93 (talk) 03:29, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Why is this negative? Cielquiparle (talk) 03:32, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  It's not being pointed out as a particularly rare job, or a particularly interesting job, or a particularly heroic job; there are plenty of Uber drivers. It's being put as a contrast, as a menial job in comparison to a prominent job. As such, in this context, it's being used as a negative. So unless being an Uber driver is an important part of this subject's bio, which from reading this article it does not seem to be, it is unduly negative. --GRuban (talk) 03:37, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  WP:DYKBLP "Note that this is a stricter requirement than BLP as a whole: a sentence that might be due weight in the article can become undue if used in the hook, as all of the surrounding context of the individual's wider life is missing." --GRuban (talk) 03:41, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Why not wait to hear from the nominator before assuming things? SL93 (talk) 03:42, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  The intentions of the nominator do not affect the way the hook reads. --GRuban (talk) 03:44, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Well, it does if consensus states that it isn't negative. SL93 (talk) 03:46, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  No, this doesn't violate WP:DYKBLP.--Launchballer 03:51, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  I agree. This is at most a WP:DYKINT issue (which isn't a reason to pull something from the main page). jlwoodwa (talk) 03:56, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Given the existence of this CNN article that examines this person's rapid rise, I also don't think this violates BLP. This would be a much closer call if a source like that didn't exist. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 04:14, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• 2021: duplicate "a" – please remove first instance from outside the link. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 16:20, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

   Done --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:24, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

  I still see said error, now in "Today's OTD".--CRau080 (talk) 01:23, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

  Someone accidentally reintroduced the error while fixing something else. Fixed again. Floquenbeam (talk) 01:34, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(April 11)

Monday's FL

(April 14)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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