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Errors in the current Did you know...

• The following DYK states that an actor was cast as a "female Ferengi". As Ferengi is a race, the hook needs to state that the actor was cast as a "Ferengi". Otherwise it's like saying there are Ferengi, then there are female Ferengi - there are humans, then there are female humans. This is incorrect. Incorrect hook is as follows: that prior to casting Andrea Martin as the female Ferengi Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David Livingston suggested Wallace Shawn in drag? MurielMary (talk) 09:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

  Isn't the hook simply trying to emphasise that it was a female role? The Rambling Man (talk) 09:24, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

  Concur. There are Ferengi, there are female Ferengi, and there are male Ferengi. A female human got the role ahead of a male human. Stephen 09:57, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

  Agree with Stephen & Rambling Man, but in different ways. Had the role been that of a male Ferengi AND the gender not the specific point of the clip, the gender adjective would almost certainly have been omitted (eg, per Armin_Shimerman, "Ferengi bar owner" and not "male Ferengi bar owner"). For this purpose at least, it is an irrelevant exercise whether the gender would have been included for a female role, absent the gender being the specific point of the clip. - Tenebris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.11.171.90 (talk) 13:15, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

  The article describes the character of Ishka as originally being conceived as "a feminist" and "Ferengi a women's libber". The very process of developing the character was inserting gender. If Quark had been developed as "a male chauvinist" or "a really macho male" that would do the same thing. And if women actors were first considered to portray a chauvinist male, it would be mentioned, because at the very least the joke would be in the gender. Although, I guess one might say that the entire Ferengi culture was macho male, so Ishka's female character was important to note she was female. — Maile (talk) 14:05, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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

• The Battle of Lake George entry says the two combatants fought to a draw, but the article's infobox says it was a British strategic victory, while the article itself in the aftermath section says it was a British victory. Banedon (talk) 04:18, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

• 1941 – Siege of Leningrad – The word world is redundant and quite unnecessary. We know it's the world we're talking about. Sca (talk) 13:49, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

  See also World history. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:13, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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