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

Fungus

On the article northern hemisphere, the phrase is not capitalised. I have changed the text of the FA accordingly: I guess the blurb should also reflect the article specific to the concept. Kevin McE (talk) 23:06, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

But the article is entitled Northern Hemisphere, and references I found like this one and this one are almost unanimous for capitalization. Art LaPella (talk) 03:27, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Our MoS uses the phrase northern and southern hemispheres, admittedly not in the section on capitalisation. Kevin McE (talk) 08:01, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

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South Sudan

Can we use File:Flag of South Sudan.svg as the image? Nightw 06:53, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I think there's an unwritten rule (or it might be written somewhere) that we don't normally use flags on ITN (I recall doing it once a few months ago because we'd had the same image up for days). Besides, Atlantis hasn't been up for very long and it's usually a good idea to leave them for 24 hours so we don't run out of images. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Oh that's fine, I wasn't sure how long the shuttle image had been up for. But it's not every day you see a new country born; if the shuttle image gets a bit old, even File:Flag map of South Sudan.svg or File:South Sudan in Africa (claimed).svg would suffice. Nightw 16:53, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

We usually don't use flags because that's a lazy and unhelpful way of illustrating most stories. Just because an event happened in Generistan does not mean that the flag of that country is a good choice of illustration. However, we have used flags in cases where they are directly relevant to the story - e.g. when a new flag has been adopted. I think we also used the Kosovo flag when that nation declared its independence. I think South Sudan's independence is one of those situations where a flag would be a reasonable choice of image. Maybe it should go up once the Atlantis image has been there for 24 hours? Modest Genius ^talk 23:05, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Kuala Lumpur rally

I don't think Kuala Lumpur is famous enough to be mentioned without a country qualifier. I think Malaysia should be added to the blurb. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes I tend to agree. How about: "Amid the Bersih 2.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur, [Malaysian] police arrest more than 1,600 people."? --Mkativerata (talk) 21:44, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Done. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

I changed "amid" to "during". We use "amid" in the news of the world item, and also "amid the rally" feels a bit awkward. Spencer^T♦C 03:08, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Good change. The phrasing was weird before that. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 03:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

1806

There seems to be no bold linked article: probably should be Vellore Mutiny. The article on the fort suggests that the sepoys were based at the fort, in which case they did not break in. It seems rather one sided to only talk of the British dead. 100 Indians on the day and up to 800 dead in total according to the article. Kevin McE (talk) 22:55, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

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

Caption Needs Cleanup Today's POTD caption is bogus. First, it notes "there was" this and "there were" that, then "The story has it that" something. What story? I hope someone with the capability will please clean this up. Marquess (talk) 15:44, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, if you'd like to make improvements to the regular version (linked above), I can then copy those to the protected version. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:10, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Errors in Did you know?

• Passemant Astronomical clock hook: I just moved the article to Passemant astronomical clock as it is not a proper noun, so the hook should be changed accordingly. – ukexpat (talk) 03:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

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