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

TFA today

This is affecting all four sections, but I'm listing it here. The TFA and DYK sections are far too wide, leaving ITN and OTD as a very narrow column, with a vast area of blank space at the bottom of DYK. Mjroots (talk) 05:32, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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OTD today

• Where is Easter? Just heading this off: fix the unreferenced section so that it is no longer a problem then feel free to come back here and ask to have it added. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  @Xaosflux: I removed the section entirely and explained on the article's talk page why. I think that fixes the issue? Killiondude (talk) 02:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  I think it solves the main issue "unreferenced section" -Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/April_1, would like to hold on this for a couple of hours to see if you started a BRD cycle. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  I already put it back in. —howcheng {chat} 02:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  Sounds fine too. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:07, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

• The false fact about the daughter of Emperor Xiaoming phrased in a transphobic fashion. This is a known problem, which has been discussed before, and the person who has apparently taken ownership of these false facts has outright refused to even discuss whether it should be here.—chbarts (talk) 00:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Please grow a sense of humor. I'm transgender myself, so stop throwing out the "transphobic" accusation. —howcheng {chat} 02:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
• I found the 'underwent gender reassignment' to be simply misleading or inaccurate. This term is in common use for when a person has surgery to change their gender. No surgery was done in the case of that young girl; she was simply 'declared' to be a boy. It would be more accurate for the headline to say 'was declared to a male' to replace 'underwent gender reassignment'. Note how Gender reassignment is a redirect to sex reassignment surgery. Ibanix (talk) 03:10, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I pointedly omitted the word "surgery". —howcheng {chat} 04:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
• Regarding ' Adolf Hitler was placed in a cage': The linked article Beer Hall Putsch has not use of the word 'cage' anywhere in the page. If the line is meant to say Hitler was jailed, it should say that instead. Ibanix (talk) 03:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
• And I just realized today's date. Those headlines are going to confuse english speakers not familiar with the 'holiday' events of April 1st, but I guess that's up to Wiki editors. Ibanix (talk) 03:22, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

It's an old, controversial but annual tradition. Here is a better place to debate whether to continue in years to come. Art LaPella (talk) 05:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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• I'll just put this in here as I didn't want that link in there regardless and I've only just seen it after waking up today. On the Christ the Lord Is Risen Today hook, the link to Llanfair PG (as the Welsh call it!) is a redirect to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. Can we either change the link or (even better) remove it altogether? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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