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

Hyphen

In tomorrow's featured article, the "Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism" should be hyphenated. Right now it uses a slash ("Alfred I. du Pont/Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism"). The name of the award is hyphenated in it's article and on it's website. Wrelwser43 (talk) 01:08, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Or more exactly, the article uses either an en dash (which is longer than a hyphen, and which should really be spaced, according to WP:ENDASH) or a hyphen, and the website uses either no punctuation at all or a hyphen. Art LaPella (talk) 01:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

When two entities cooperate to form a third, and their names are combined to name the third, as in this case, a hyphen is appropriate: the situation is directly comparable to hyphenated double barrelled names. Kevin McE (talk) 07:29, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

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Sudan

I think it should be "99% of voters are in favour," rather than "99% of voters in favour," can't really explain why, but it sounds gramatically weird to me the way it is. C628 (talk) 00:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I suggest specifying which voters (i.e., voters in Southern Sudan) are in favor of this. Adding an "are" wouldn't hurt, either. The sentence is just awkward as it is. Herr Lip (talk) 00:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

The phrase "in favour of Southern Sudan secession from Sudan" should read "in favour of Southern Sudan's secession from Sudan". 68.9.112.195 (talk) 03:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct today's or tomorrow's regular version.

The POTD is missing again. As is tomorrow's. Modest Genius ^talk 00:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

(As an aside, it might be easier to spot these things in advance if the link for tomorrow above was red when it didn't exist, rather than pointing to Wikipedia:Today's featured picture/Tomorrow which means it's always blue) Modest Genius ^talk 00:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Errors in Did you know?

• that Mario Moraga, former regidor of Pichilemu, Chile, is popularly known as "El Sin Pelos en la Lengua", meaning "The One Without Mince Words"?

reads very oddly to my UK eyes/ears. For readers here, mince is ground meat. Surely it should be "minced" words? 86.152.23.176 (talk) 08:20, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

• • Comment I agree, and so does the target article Mario Moraga, which says exactly that. Assuming it's just a typo and not some strange BrE/AmE usage thing, can we change it please? (Actually even if it is a usage thing it should arguably match the article, no?) Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Done - seems sensible :-). Thanks both for pointing it out! --Kateshortforbob _talk 09:59, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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