Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors

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Errors in the summary of Today's featured article on the Main Page

On tomorrow, 'is located across from the World Trade Center site' doesn't explain what it is across (didn't we already have a report of this?) Modest Genius ^talk 18:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, same item, the link to September 11, 2001 does not respond to date format preferences, not sure how to fix that. Further down there is an unlinked September 11, again breaking preferences. And on a purely stylistic point, I suggest linking 'power substation' to a relevant article. Modest Genius ^talk 18:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Non-wikilinked dates, and dates that are pipelinks to another article, are not adjusted according to preferences. I have made some changes to the September 11 attacks link but can't do much for the second one. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 00:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

• who adds news to the main page? none of the news items listed show up on news.google.com's main page. Clown (talk) 13:50, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

See WP:ITNMP. If you want news, go to Portal: Current events. --74.14.21.230 (talk) 14:42, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not entirely comfortable with the phrasing of the IPCC item. The problem is that it didn't release the AR4 today, but part of it. Other parts have already been published, and one more is yet to be finalised. Not sure how best to phrase the item to avoid misleading people. Modest Genius ^talk 18:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

"Permanent danger"

Neither the words 'permanent' nor 'irreversible' are in the article; where is this mentioned? I've had this asked on WT:ITN for over 12 hours now, if this isn't answered soon I will remove that part of the sentence personally. --Golbez (talk) 22:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree and I removed the word, although it does say "for more than a millennium". A runaway greenhouse effect would be more nearly permanent, but that isn't in the article either. Art LaPella (talk) 23:56, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Errors in Did you know?

• Template:Did you know/Next update needs to be restocked. --74.13.128.247 (talk) 11:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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Errors in Picture of the Day/Today's featured picture

'only one woman and two children surviving' is misleading, since 84 men also survived. Modest Genius ^talk 18:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up and old items

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• Wikipedia talk:Did you know
• Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries
• Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day

Any other problems

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