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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)

Tomorrow's FA

In Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2, 2024 the italic markup in the main page image caption is not closed, which is generating a lint error. It should be:

|caption=Hall's ''A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary''

Thanks —Bruce1ee^talk 17:41, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Done. Stephen 21:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. —Bruce1ee^talk 21:25, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

The blurb says that Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary remains in print as of 2021. The article has been updated to reflect that this is true as of 2024; the blurb should thus say as of 2024, or just remove as of 2021 entirely. --Usernameunique (talk) 21:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

I've commented out those three words but if others prefer that it's updated to shown "2024", I'm easy with that, too. Schwede66 22:57, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• Travis Clayton lead - please change to '... that Travis Clayton went from the eighth tier of English rugby union to being drafted into the National Football League, even though he never played in an American football game?' Clayton is British and I am pretty certain he would have played in a football game - Association Football, aka soccer. As per the MoS, his article should be written to accord with his nationality (spelling, terminology etc): football for Clayton would be the UK version, not the US one. Stronach (talk) 08:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  I can’t follow your logic, sorry. And article issues aren’t the scope of this page. Schwede66 17:29, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  @Schwede66,@Stronach is talking about the hook, which is contradicting the article. —Kusma (talk) 17:37, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

   Done One of the reasons that I couldn’t understand this was that the hook was using the wrong tense; I’ve fixed that as well. Schwede66 17:52, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• I can't determine if the wreckage image is protected? JennyOz (talk) 23:21, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

  It seems like it was not, because I just edited the file on Commons. Removed for now, I'll investigate in a bit when I get home it nobody else gets there first.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:02, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Now protected at WP:CMP and reinstated. In the olden days there were vandals who specifically watched for unprotected MP images, looks like they all retired. Stephen 13:35, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Ah, thanks. Actually, I see what happened now. In fact it was protected all along, only that the image has a parameter of |link=American Airlines Flight 1420 wreckage2.jpg which means you get a different image (not the cropped version) when you click through. Not sure I love that, it's quite confusing, but hey ho...  — Amakuru (talk) 14:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Sorry, team. I had looked into it and figured that it was protected, but before I could determine why it had this confusing setup, I was dragged away from the computer and then forgot all about it. Schwede66 17:26, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (1724): not an exact anniversary, should be moved to June 11. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 12:52, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Bach didn't compose it for 11 June, but for the first Sunday after Trinity which in 2024 is 2 June, related to that Sunday's liturgy. Not some Tuesday. We talk about the 300th anniversary of the beginning of his chorale cantata cycle. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

   Not done Not an error; thanks for explaining, Gerda. Schwede66 17:23, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Just to clarify what happened: I saw Ravenpuff's report earlier today, and investigated the article. The article states that this was first performed on June 11, not June 2. Since OTD follows the Gregorian calendar and not the Liturgical year, I moved the blurb to June 11. Z1720 (talk) 20:21, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Then remove it altogether please. The calendar date really didn't matter at all for Bach, Z1720, Schwede66. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Are we doing this for Bach, or for readers? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Should we mislead readers telling them that Bach composed his cantata for a Tuesday? We have a chance to inform them about Bach. Listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  I must be looking at a different Main Page to you—mine says "On this day June 1", but yours seems to say "On this day the first Saturday after Trinity". This is a very intriguing bug—has anyone else seen it? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:17, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 7)

Monday's FL

(June 3)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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