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Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Battle of Crécy – Not an error, but Crécy twice on the main page? – Sca (talk) 12:32, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't disagree, but they are separate articles. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:45, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, that's sorta the point. Topic duplication. (Main page space is limited.) – Sca (talk) 12:49, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Replaced with 1968 release of Hey Jude. --PFHLai (talk) 12:52, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Hmmm, somewhat Obscure. OTH there weren't many 7-minute rock hits with such sublime lyrics as na na na na na na na na na na.
– Sca (talk) 13:56, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• Independence Day of the Republic of Moldova - mostly unreferenced. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 07:17, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
• The Famous Five (Canada) - incomplete citations (page numbers), missing citations, a self-published online video Bumbubookworm (talk) 09:03, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(August 23)

Monday's FL

(August 19, today)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

Most of the blurb of today's POTD is unreferenced. In particular:

• "the secondary central business district of London" - unsourced (I'm also not entirely sure what this means).
• "one of the main financial centres in the United Kingdom and the world" - unsourced
• "One Canada Square, which opened on 26 August 1991" - this date is mentioned in the Canary Wharf article at all, even though I'm assuming this makes the POTD a date-specific one.
• "third-tallest in the UK" - this seems to be outdated. The source now has it as fourth-tallest.

There seem to have been an increasing number of POTD issues with unsourced prose on the main page lately, which is slightly surprising as I think we had reached a good place with this earlier this year. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 08:07, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

We had one a few days ago which I noted and was simply ignored for about 14 hours. It's not good enough. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 08:14, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed. Well it doesn't look like we're going to get much response here, so I've fixed it myself by tweaking the lead to reflect what sources say, and updating the POTD blurb accordingly. We are probably due another chat on the project's talk page over how we avoid unsourced material appearing on the main page going forward. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 10:55, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Any other Main Page errors

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