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Date	Section	Article	Notes	Resolved
12 September 2018	DYK	Reginald St John Battersby	Delightful read, but should link "commission" to Officer (armed forces)#Commissioned officers as it's a term which will be unfamiliar to the vast majority of our readers The article in question has no section called "Commissioned officers"... — Amakuru (talk) 08:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC) Just link it to Officer (armed forces) then.	Yes
		Vanessa Delgado	" is the shortest tenure since 1903" well, since she's still holding it until December, and who knows what will happen in between, it should be "will be the shortest". Plus, the reference seems to say "the newest 112-day addition"? Oh, and I fixed the badly formatted reference, you're welcome!!	Yes
		SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)	"season 9 is the longest-running season" season ... season in quick repeat...	Yes
		Lafargue Clinic	Seriously no need to link New York City. Once these sets are built, someone should "sanity check" the level of linking. And is poor old Fredric Wertham left out of this? He "conceived" of the idea and it was he who recognised the problem!! Also, it seems key that it was one of the first to provide low cost treatment, as specified in the article, which doesn't appear in the hook.	Yes
	OTD	2008 Chatsworth train collision	" the engineer of a Metrolink train in Chatsworth, California, ran through a red signal" - presumably this means he drove a train past a red signal, rather than ran through it himself... Also not comfortable with the "Distracted by text messaging". The article states "cause of the accident was most likely the result of the Metrolink engineer's use of text messaging", i.e. it was most likely as a result of the texting, but not definitively, as there were also other contributory factors. I've added "likely" to the start of the hook, but "ran (through) a red light" is a common American idiom ([1]) Fish+Karate 12:28, 11 September 2018 (UTC) Seems obvious that the engineer ran the train through the red signal, rather than stopping the train, getting out of it and jogging past the red signal. I don't see how anybody could be confused by this. This part is not an error, in my opinion. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:56, 11 September 2018 (UTC) It's AmEng, not universal, as in the UK we don't have "engineers" driving the train, we have "drivers" (oddly). An "engineer" would normally be someone onboard to assist the smooth running of the ... engine. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:38, 11 September 2018 (UTC) Sure. At any rate, I guess I'll jog on regarding this one for now. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:53, 11 September 2018 (UTC) The structure of that sentence was quite painful on the eye anyway, so I've given it a bit of a rewording: A Metrolink train collided head on with a freight train (damage pictured), resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging. — Amakuru (talk) 13:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC) The term "driver" is arguably BrE, not universal. I doubt that there is a satisfactory universal term in this case. The article uses "engineer", which is the common U.S. term for the operator of a separate locomotive (the engine). Hooks should respect the usage in the respective article. Jmar67 (talk) 21:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC) No, not if they introduce ambiguity to a large number of readers. How about a compromise such as "Metrolink engineer (driver) ..."? Jmar67 (talk) 21:44, 11 September 2018 (UTC)	Yes
13 September 2018	OTD	Ganesh Chaturthi	This year's date is not referenced.	Yes
		John Chrysostom	Not seeing where his Western Christianity feast day is referenced.	Yes
		13 September 2008 Delhi bombings	Not sure you need "synchronised" as well as "within a span of few minutes", they'd hardly be synchronised if the blasts didn't take place very close together.... Also "resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries" but the article states "The general consensus was that the blasts had claimed 18 lives.[10][14][15] However, there was some disparity, with CNN claiming as low as 15,[7] to NDTV claiming as high as 30.[17]" Once again, the level of uncertainty is such that these figures don't really seem appropriate for an encyclopedia's main page unless some serious caution or caveating is applied.
		Petros Voulgaris	Appears to have been born in 1883, not 1884. A ping for @Howcheng: - the reference you've used for 1883 ([2]) says his birthday was "13 Ιούλιος 1883". Ιούλιος [el] means July (not September). Probably needs to be switched out. Fish+Karate 09:19, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
	DYK	Luna moth	Firstly, why is this capitalised in prose, it should be "... the luna moth..." Secondly, the article has a much more succinct and less repetitive version of the hook, i.e. "the elongated tails of the hindwings are thought to confuse the echolocation detection used by predatory bats" rather than repeat "location/locate" here.
		Disappearance of Tiffany Whitton	Firstly, the article is about her disappearance, not her, so the link should be piped to the "disappeared". Secondly, and I think we had this before, she didn't run out and "disappear", she ran out and was not seen again. Thirdly, another EngVar thing, even the article uses "handbag" (and purse), so we should too as a purse in other variants of English is not a handbag, it's something you put money in which you then put into a handbag.
		Hanbo scandal	"presidential son"? "son of a president" more like... He was also jailed following a "related investigation", not clear if this is directly part of the Hanbo scandal...
		Magne Dæhli	" in 2016, 2017, and 2018?" we always work to avoid these easter egg links, e.g. " in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 tournaments?" or else simply don't link them, just say "from 2016".
		Quantic Dream	"would move to Canada if its tax breaks were taken away?" well the quote I'm reading in the source says "To tell the truth, without tax breaks I’m pretty certain we’d be in Canada right now." in fact, earlier in that interview, the interviewee says "If there were no tax breaks… well the project would probably still go ahead, but a lot less money would be spent on it..." so I'm not quite seeing that leap to the company upping and leaving the instant tax breaks were removed.

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From 21 July – 10 September 2018 (i.e. in 2181 days):

Reported and resolved errors by Main Page area
Area	Raised	Resolved	%
OTD	169	158	93%
DYK	178	165	93%
TFA	3	3	100%
TFP	16	12	75%
TFL	2	2	100%
ITN	9	9	100%
Total	379	351	93%

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1st error identified and fixed: 21 July 2018
50th error identified and fixed: 10 days
100th error identified and fixed: 17 days
200th error identified and fixed: 30 days
300th error identified and fixed: 44 days
1st error-free DYK day: 29 August 2018
Most errors identified and fixed in one day: 14 (19 August 2018)
Total error-free days: 0
Total error-free DYK days: 3
"You are being watched by": 37 editors

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Mark it: 19 August, the turning point? Well, it's not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.......

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