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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"

• Re Portugal election- It was my understanding we tried to avoid using the word "plurality" in election blurbs as less likely to be understood; suggest "narrowly wins the most seats" or even dropping the word narrowly entirely. 331dot (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

   Done. I've amended to just "wins the most seats".  — Amakuru (talk) 15:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

Angelle (singer) (nom)

@Launchballer, AirshipJungleman29, and PrimalMustelid: I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier, but Angelle (singer) has multiple BLP problems. The Sunday Mercury is a tabloid, so I'd be very very hestitant to use it, but even if it were reliable, the "pop insider" was misquoted in the article and not even attributed in the hook, which is a huge red flag for a negative aspersion about a BLP. She wasn't the flop, a specific performance she gave was described by an anonymous source to a tabloid as a flop. That's very different, and on (DYK)BLP and V grounds, I'm pulling this. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:26, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

You caught me literally two minutes after I closed my lid; I did seriously consider saying "let's knock this prep set back by a day and I'll review the next one", and I'm annoyed that I didn't. I've taken out the Sunday Mercury and most of the Mirror (they're not seriously getting TV listings wrong, are they?). I just found Chart-watch.uk, which appears to be the blog of James Masterton, an WP:EXPERTSPS, so that could be used for ALT0, alternatively ALT3: ... that the British entrepreneur Sarah Bennett went from a flop music career to appearing on the Sunday Times Rich List 2017?--Launchballer 09:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Usually that'd work, but you can't use SPS for claims about living third parties. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:21, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

For posterity, I meant laptop lid... ALT4: ... that future Sunday Times Rich List 2017 entrant Angelle's 2002 debut single was promoted with an entire television channel - and still only made No. 43? (Ref 8, the Times, for the Rich List, Ref 4, the Guardian, for the channel, and Ref 6, the Official Charts Company, for the chart position.)--Launchballer 19:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Paula Arai (nom)

@Figureskatingfan: It doesn't look like the content on racial and sexual discrimination appears in the article? If I had more time, I'd be a bit more thorough, but that seems glaring. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

First paragraph of Career: "Arai later told Tsomo that she experienced untenable working environments for women, especially for women of color, including reviews of 75 percent of the courses she taught and as Tsomo put it, "as is quite common in the academy, she watched male candidates with fewer awards and achievements sail through the tenure process, only to see her own tenure process aborted"."--Launchballer 09:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Zwycięzcy oceanu (nom)

@Piotrus, Bogger, and PrimalMustelid: I'm not necessarily going to huff and puff on this, since it's my fault for not catching this before it went to the Main Page, but this hook doesn't pass WP:DYKFICTION. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

didn't know about that one.

Do now.

- Bogger (talk) 06:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to add it (inspired by Jules Verne) to solve this. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Could have combined it with ALT1 to solve this. Oh well. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 22)

"The Philippine television newscast 24 Oras has won thirty-two awards from ninety-three nominations." — See Template talk:Infobox awards list#Totals should be avoided. jnestorius^(talk) 11:49, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

It seems like that's a discussion that hasn't fully played out yet. You may want to solicit input from WT:FLC, as this would affect many featured lists. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Monday's FL

(November 25)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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