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

Not an error, but perhaps an oversight: The term Resistance in the second to last sentence really should be linked to Drug resistance. - dcljr (talk) 00:16, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

Plains of Abraham item reads the wrong way around to me; it's also pretty long. I suggest rephrasing to: 'French and Indian War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France (pictured), though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded'. If length is an issue, deleting mention of Wolfe would sort it. Modest Genius ^talk 00:01, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I've reworded it; hope you like it. Wolfe needs to stay for the picture to make sense. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:30, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh good point, I missed that! Looks good. Modest Genius ^talk 15:37, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

This really isn't quite an error, but the page says that Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person at the time to become president, when he is the youngest ever Lee S. Svoboda tɑk 01:03, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct the regular version.

I made a whole bunch of corrections to the caption in the regular version. The image isn't a photograph, MIPS needed capitalising, WP:UNIT compliance, only hot dust shows at 24um, etc. Could someone copy them over please? Modest Genius ^talk 00:22, 14 September 2009 (UTC)