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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

If I'd my druthers, I'd mention that the submission of the rulers to the English monarch secured seven years of peace. That's the "on the ground" effect. Bremps... 06:11, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I've added "leading to seven years of peace" to the blurb. I hope the blurb is now not too long. Thanks for the suggestion. --PFHLai (talk) 16:25, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I've never made a posting here, so my apologies if this is the wrong forum or irrelevant, but the image illustrating today's OTD does not have a tag for its US copyright status, and in fact will be copyrighted in the US for a long time to come (cf. WP:URAA). Of course, there are plenty such images on Commons that no-one came round to doing anything about, but they should probably not be on the English Wikipedia main page. Felix QW (talk) 13:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes it looks like it is only PD in Israel, as least that is what is documented. Secretlondon (talk) 14:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Another pic is now on SA/OTD. Thanks for pointing this problem out. --PFHLai (talk) 16:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(July 12, today)

Monday's FL

(July 15)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Going batty

Has anyone else noticed we have two bats on the Main Page? Sca (talk) 20:50, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Game 6 of the 2013 World Series is scheduled for tonight, so there is bound to be some batting going on. --Allen3 ^talk 21:03, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

• Now this one is a coincidence. Unless, of course, shiny vampires have taken to sitting outside various editors windows at night... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Happy Halloween! --PFHLai (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I saw this guy hanging around my house last night. OK, I'd had a couple drinks, but I swear I saw him lurking by the garage!

Sca (talk) 23:36, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Another thing, the Did you Knows are all kind of gruesome. except some random feminist movie, wonder why that was put in there... maybe it was the word "killing" yes... :p75.73.114.111 (talk) 10:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, feminists *are* pretty scary....... (bu dum chhhhh!) --Coin945 (talk) 16:32, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

• The sea! The sea! (see Anabasis (Xenophon) and the references to it in TFA) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Happy Halloween

Hey front page kids at FA, DYK, FP, etc--great work today. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 00:25, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

More Movies?

This is like the 5th day in a row where one of the "Did you know..." pieces has been some movie reference, its like the second in a week about Danny Trejo. Seriously, >7 billion people and >200 countries and SyFy movie trivia is consistently more pertinent? I can forgive one or two references in a short while but this is a little ridiculous. 123.243.215.92 (talk) 22:55, 2 November 2013 (UTC)