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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Today's FA

Is Richard II pictured or depicted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.215.241 (talk) 04:58, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• "... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national soccer teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?" - Look, I'm not taking any sides on the soccer vs football argument (I support rugby, which is technically rugby football...), but to have both of them in the same hook is just ridiculous. You can make arguments for soccer (it involved the American team, and presumably Canadian usuge is the same) and for football (it was held in the UK), but can we please pick one and roll with it? Fgf10 (talk) 00:08, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

  I don't see the problem in having both. Surely by now everyone reading the hook understands it's called different things in different places. We can't change "football" because it's a direct quote. We shouldn't change "soccer" because that's what the teams are called. I don't think it's going to confuse anyone. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

  One option is to just apply MOS:BRACKET (per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Original wording) e.g. "major-tournament [soccer]". Mixing WP:ENGVARs reads weird. Aside: Personally, I think DYK hooks make to much lazy usage of quotes without WP:INTEXT attribution to it's originator. If the person isn't notable enough to mention, it's a cheap use of a quote.—Bagumba (talk) 06:07, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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