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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

The C U in da Ball Pit hook says “ best known song” when it should say “best-known song”. Zanahary (talk) 04:30, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, yes, a little stylistic glitch. The far bigger problem, though, is that the hook fact of it being the "best-known song" does not appear to be in the article. Or am I overlooking something? Ping ThaesOfereode (nominator), CSJJ104 (reviewer), PrimalMustelid (promoter to prep), and Z1720 (promoter to queue). Schwede66 05:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps reword in the interim to "... that despite the success of their song "C U in da Ballpit", Camping in Alaska says they all hate it? —Bagumba (talk) 05:13, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I've tweaked that suggestion a bit to not run into the normal language variety issue. Schwede66 05:33, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I think "success of" is better phrasing anyway. I thought the "best-known song" wording was in the article, but apparently not. I apologize; I should have caught it before DYK submission. Thanks for fixing it. ThaesOfereode (talk) 11:07, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

ouyay avehay omethingsay ongwray inyay ouryay ainbray ildchay ppay 199.235.193.64 (talk) 18:14, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

File:Working sketch of the mastodon rembrandt peale (cropped).jpg: needs US copyright tag. Therapyisgood (talk) 14:13, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Not an Error. You can attend to this once the protection comes off. Schwede66 17:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

• 1969 – The rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, played their only UK show in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.

This is ambiguous? From what I understand from the article, this was Blind Faith's only concert anywhere in the UK so I think we need a comma after "played their only UK show". Otherwise it can be read as the only show in the park ie they may have held concerts elsewhere in UK.

Or could be tweaked to:

'In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.' (or similar) JennyOz (talk) 05:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

• The 1917 entry states that the mines killed 10,000. Both the bolded article here and entries on its talk page now suggest that this might be a considerable overestimate based on a misinterpretation of German sources. There is no clear answer, but the hook seems unduly certain about the figure. Maybe add a "perhaps", as a minimum. JMCHutchinson (talk) 18:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 7, tomorrow)

• List of premiers of Victoria - the blurb has "Premiers who hold the office for more than 3,000 days are entitled to a statue, a milestone six premiers have achieved," but the lede of the list has "Five premiers, Daniel Andrews, Henry Bolte, John Cain Jr, Albert Dunstan, and Rupert Hamer, have achieved this milestone".

Its ref confirms five is correct. JennyOz (talk) 05:36, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed Schwede66 05:42, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Monday's FL

(June 10)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Today DYK 4/23/23 "The Glorious Cause"

". . . that "The Glorious Cause: . . ." has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?" Mixes categories, so it is misleading or a trick statement. It was the first volume published, but it was never intended to be the first volume chronologically-—when it was published it was intended to be the second volume, but since then the period before 1763 has been divided into two volumes. So it is now the third volume chronologically. Because the sentence doesn’t define in which way it is first, second, and third, it’s a TRICK statement, not a sensible statement of fact. Wis2fan (talk) 03:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)