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Errors in the summary of the featured article
Errors with "In the news"
Can we perhaps combine the Lebanon blurbs? Very related. Pagers has been removed, but still recent enough to combine.Sportsnut24 (talk) 09:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- In my view, it's better to refresh the main page than to have issues hang around for days. Short of you making a specific wording proposal, Sportsnut24, I cannot see this get any traction. Schwede66 09:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
... in the deadliest day since the 2006 Lebanon War
: Counter to WP:ITNBLURB:
Blurbs should generally avoid comparison to any previous event, such as "Largest in the region since [year]"
Suggest removing. (The body also contradicts timeframe with The strikes were the deadliest attack in Lebanon since the end of the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War.
)—Bagumba (talk) 10:18, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Done — Amakuru (talk) 11:15, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "Did you know ..."
Fishy species
that the small fish species Poecilia vandepolli existed, then it did not, and now it does again?
What's in a name? That which we call a Poecilia vandepolli would still be as extant by any other name. "that the species classification Poecilia vandepolli existed, then it did not, and now it does again?" is awkward but works better. Sincerely, Dilettante 03:19, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- I just read the new hook and it still isn't right. The species name and classification has existed ever since it was first coined in 1887. It has appeared in books such as The Fishes of North and Middle America ever since and they don't flash in and out of existence. All that has varied is the extent to which this classification and name is recognised by other people. It's quite normal for creatures to be known by many names and this doesn't affect their existence.
- To fix this, please use the ALT2 hook. That was the hook recommended by the reviewer and I agree with them as it tells us something about the fish rather than its name. Notice that it ducks the issue of the Latin binomial name by using an English name instead.
- ALT2: ... that Antillean mollies solve food shortage problems by eating their own offspring?
- Done (with a slight variation of using the species name rather than the "Antillean mollies", as it was queried at the nom why that less common name was being suggested for AlT2). — Amakuru (talk) 11:21, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Memoirs
one of the only memoirs
looks wrong to me. Another user has edited the article to read "one of the few memoirs" -- John of Reading (talk) 06:19, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
"... that in addition to having been a center for local involvement in Chinese politics, the Kuomintang Building in Vancouver has hosted social events including a wedding reception?" Article is tagged for Canadian English, what with Vancouver being in Canada and all. Replace "center" with "centre". DuncanHill (talk) 11:22, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done — Amakuru (talk) 11:27, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "On this day"
Errors in the summary of the featured list
Errors in the summary of the featured picture
General discussion
Odd alignment
This is not an error, but the way the line breaks happen to fall for ITN today gives me this surprising line:
Lebanon and Syria."
If this is expected to stay on the Main Page for a long while (e.g., another week), then perhaps some thought could be given to re-phrasing it. Perhaps something like
"Exploding electronic devices kill 37 people and injure thousands in Lebanon and Syria."
would work? This suggestion removes the link to Hezbollah; perhaps someone else can think of a way to include that. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Line breaks fall for different people on different devices in various ways. Most people realise they have to read the whole paragraph. Stephen 06:46, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
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