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[edit] Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

Second use of Wiesel's name spelled wrong: "Weisel writes about the death of God". —Preceding unsigned comment added by JEH (talk • contribs) 11:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

This has still to be fixed. Can someone expedite this correction? Careful With That Axe, Eugene ^Hello... 13:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

It is done. Thanks! TFOWR 13:35, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Errors in In the news

v • d • e A new item should be added to Template:In the news by Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:05 Wikipedia time (UTC). This template will turn yellow if not reset by that time and red one hour after. Current time: Monday, 6 September 2010 21:21 (UTC) Last updated: 16 minutes ago.   (verify · reset · purge)

What is Spanish Basque nationalist is there a French Basque nationalist group (the grouping in France is of ETA anyways). Or is there a new "Spanish Basque nationalism" that I'm unaware of? by definition they are exclusive. Basque naitonalist would more than suffice.(Lihaas (talk) 02:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC));

Agreed. However I think we should still provide some indication of where the Basque region is for those who might not know. How is: "The Basque nationalist group ETA, that operates mainly in France and Spain, announces a ceasefire, the first since a similar 2006 declaration." or is that too clunky with all the commas? - Dumelow (talk) 07:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Its certainly better than the current incarnation. Perhaps take away France (granted its been more active in france in recent times than in history), as its prime base of operations 'is spain, its just not a "Spanish Basque..." by definition.Lihaas (talk) 02:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Done - Dumelow (talk) 10:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Why doesn't it say "terrorist group" instead of "nationalist", considering that both countries in which it operates consider it so, as well as the USA, the EU, and the fact that they've killed almost one thousand people in Spain and France in the last 40 years? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.109.153.96 (talk) 14:18, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

• The USGS has updated their Canterbury earthquake shakemap. I've updated the copy used in our article on the quake; we should probably change the cropped version shown here too. --Avenue (talk) 02:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I have updated it. The new version doesn't look anywhere near as eyecatching though! - Dumelow (talk) 07:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

[edit] Millennium Summit

I suggested adding "...in New York City" to the end of the blurb to show where it happened (we usually tell people where things occurred). ~DC _{Let's Vent} 03:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC) It should be "at the turn of the 21st century" and not "in the turn..." ~DC _{Let's Vent} 04:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Done ad done. Thanks, mate. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:24, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Theodosius pic

Ugh, this is a terrible 19th century engraving, which doesn't even appear on the article page! It was finally purged from the article page itself after much discussion some months ago but it seems that it won't die. Can we please replace it with one of the perfectly nice actual contemporary images from the article? Maybe [1] or [2]. --Jfruh (talk) 02:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't see what's so egregiously wrong with it myself, nor how those images are superior to the current one, but input form others is welcome. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:24, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I guess Jfruh's concern is that the engraving is a 19th century recreation of what Theodosius may have looked like. Though it seems to be based on the coin anyway. Neither of the two alternatives are particularly appealing. There is perhaps scope to replace the image with one for another event. There are free images of Krulak and the Dawson's Fields highjacking (which is a fantastically historic image) - Dumelow (talk) 07:35, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

It's a bit of nineteenth-century hackwork done by some talentless individual- better than most because it does seem to bear some vague resemblance to a recognizable contemporary representation. But what a shame as the article has some unusually good contemporary images. Richard Keatinge (talk) 17:37, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested change to wording

"1955 – An overwhelming Turkish mob attacked ethnic Greeks in Istanbul, killing over 13 people..." This sentence reads slightly strange to me, referring to "over 13 people". For one thing, I expect to find the modifier "over" preceding a 'round' number, rather than an exact number like 13. Secondly, the article specifies "Between 13 and 16 Greeks and one Armenian" killed. To save expanding the snippet here I suggest "at least 13 killed". Careful With That Axe, Eugene ^Hello... 14:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct today's or tomorrow's regular version.
"...to food given to the animals..." - 'the' is superfluous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.138.84 (talk) 07:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, and done. Thanks! TFOWR 13:37, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Errors in Did you know?

v • d • e Earliest time for next update: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:00 (UTC) Current time: Monday, 6 September 2010 21:21 (UTC) Last updated: 3 hours ago.   (verify · reset · purge)

The sixth hook says "that the Arad–Szeged pipeline ... has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters (0.15 Tcf)". I saw 'Tcf' and had no idea what it means. I have a Physics degree and so I suspect that the average reader will have even less idea.

Eventually I figured out that it means Tera-cubit-feet. Mixing SI and Imperial notation is permitted but it needs to be clear, which this is far from. Also the hook is inconsistent, it should either be '4.4 billion cubic meters (15.5 billion cubic feet)' or '4.4Gm³ (15.5 Gcf)'. FerdinandFrog (talk) 08:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed Tcf as a very odd unit. Materialscientist (talk) 09:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

• "... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztecs?" Surely it should be 'Aztec lands'? You invaade the country, not the people - the invasion of France, not the French, for eg. 86.148.49.218 (talk) 18:34, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I changed it to "invaded the Aztec Empire" - Dumelow (talk) 19:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

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[edit] General discussion

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Contents 1 Main Page error reports 1.1 Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article 1.2 Errors in In the news 1.3 Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day 1.3.1 Millennium Summit 1.3.2 Theodosius pic 1.3.3 Suggested change to wording 1.4 Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture 1.5 Errors in Did you know? 2 General discussion 2.1 2005 Texas Longhorns football team in other languages? 2.2 September 4, 2010 FA title

[edit] 2005 Texas Longhorns football team in other languages?

Yes I know Today's Featured Article is only in the English Wikipedia - it's not on Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, Simple English, Japanese (I checked), but I was wondering why. Why are some of our featured articles only on the English Wikipedia? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

The answer is simple - nobody's written them over there. To be fair, it's not the most broad of topics, and you'll struggle to find speakers of any of those languages interested in that, let alone ones willing to write for Wikipedia about it.  f o x  11:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Well wouldn't that be obvious? American football is only popular in the US and to a lesser extent Canada, Mexico and Europe. My point is why are some of our featured articles about topics that are only found in the English Wikipedia? I checked some of our FAs and some of them, the only other Wikipedia that had an article about them was the French one. I can understand if it's an american topic, but look at Tulsa, Oklahoma, it's an American city but nevertheless has articles on other Wikipedias. What I want to know is why some of our FAs are only on the English Wikipedia and not others. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:06, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, what is wrong with that? There is no criteria saying that the topic of the FA should be interesting for other languages as well. As long as the article is excellent, it can be promoted to a FA. --Tone 12:11, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes I know but, I am just rather disappointed that some of our best content cannot be seen by those who can't understand English. I'm not saying that being in another language should be a requirement for being an FA, it's just that I wish more people could see these articles and use Wikipedia in the best way they can. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:16, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

That's not an English Wikipedia issue. If an article doesn't exist in another language, it's because nobody on that project has written an article on it. We're all volunteers, as are the editors of the French, German, Japanese, Farsi and any other language Wikipedia. I agree it's a shame that our best work isn't available in other languages, but there's nothing much we can do about it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:55, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Also, the existence of an article on the same subject in a different language's Wikipedia does not necessarily mean that "our best content" is available in said language. The article might or might not be translated from ours (or vice versa, or translated from a shared source), and its potential quality ranges from an empty placeholder to a featured article in its own right.

Likewise, of course, some of the English Wikipedia's articles are inferior to the corresponding articles contained in other Wikipedias. —David Levy 14:17, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I've had translators contact me in the course of translating a couple of my FAs to other languages. I don't know how organized this is, but at least some of the other projects are aware of what a tremendous resource the English WIkipedia is for them.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] September 4, 2010 FA title

The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart toured Italy seems like too much highlight. Could it be made shorter by either just highlighting "toured Italy" or just highlighting the name? --Chemicalinterest (talk) 11:24, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

It seems alright to me (it's shorter than yesterday's Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men). You can't shorten it to just his name as people would think that the FA was "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" and just highlighting "toured Italy" looks a bit strange - Dumelow (talk) 14:46, 4 September 2010 (UTC)