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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Today's FA

Thank you for featuring a great classicist on the main page! However: Reynolds didn't write an edition of Seneca's letters (Seneca did); he edited or prepared it. blameless 05:04, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Digging in to the body of the article, it seems that the word published is one option; it looks like the FAC missed reviewing for WP:LEAD, and the body of the article doesn’t reflect the problematic word used in the lead. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:53, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

• I find the wording "SpaceX launches (pictured)..." very awkward. Maybe I'm the only one, but I think it's because "SpaceX launches" is not a thing you can take a picture of. Also perhaps because the "(pictured)" is in the middle of a clause(?), I'm left waiting and asking "but what did they launch?" until after. Currently: "SpaceX launches (pictured) four astronauts on the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station." Propose changing to this: "SpaceX launches four astronauts on the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (launch pictured)." Arstoien (talk) 20:23, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
  • Or maybe even this? "SpaceX's Crew-3 mission (launch pictured) takes four astronauts to the International Space Station." Arstoien (talk) 20:58, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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