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• Al-Ashraf Khalil - death date not verifiable, source is permanent 404. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:12, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

  Possible replacement: Rinchinbal Khan. What think you? --Jayron32 15:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

  Can't believe this article is good enough for inclusion tomorrow, awful syntax, and even the talk page has it down as a "Start class" ??? --BeckenhamBear (talk) 21:54, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

  Yes, it's very weak indeed. We just go with two then. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:08, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Errors in the current or next Did you know...

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• "... that after playing with Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of The Shard (pictured)?" - I did know that, because it was on the main page on the 10th of November. DuncanHill (talk) 22:11, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• "... that the German Army used pickelhaube helmets made of boiled leather until halfway through World War I?" - I knew that too, because it was on the main page on 12th of November. DuncanHill (talk) 22:11, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• "... that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP?" was on the main page on the 5th of November. DuncanHill (talk) 22:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• • DuncanHill it's to balance the main page, nothing cleverer than that. Have a look over the last few edits here at ERRORS in the history if you're interested. We don't introduce "new" DYKs to bulk the section up because people get upset that their hooks don't get the expected 24-hour exposure. If you can suggest a better way of balancing the main page with four dynamic sections changing on an hourly basis, feel free to do so. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• Couldn't we recycle ones that people have had a chance to forget, instead of such recent ones? DuncanHill (talk) 22:22, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• It's only you that remembered. And don't forget, we have different timezones too, so some people may not have even seen this stuff before. In any case, this has happened dozens of times, this is the first time you've picked it up, perhaps if you dislike it so much, formulate a guideline as to how long ago hooks should have been on the main page for them to be allowed to run again. Or run for RFA and make these decisions yourself. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• It's the first time I've bothered to mention it here, not the first time I've noticed it. And I am sure that others will have remembered, but they either may not know about this page, or will have been put off posting here by the shitty reception from one or two of those who own it. DuncanHill (talk) 22:29, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• Well as I said, we can complain about it or make some proposals to avoid it in the future. It appears you've made your bed on that one. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:30, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• I did make a proposal above - if we must recycle, then recycle older ones. DuncanHill (talk) 22:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

• Older than... one month? Two months? To find ones that you personally haven't seen? 99.5% of people won't remember what was on the main page last week, let alone last month. It's mainly only editors that get worked up about this kind of minutiae. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:38, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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