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Errors with "In the news"

As new head of state, should't King Charles III be bolded Mjroots (talk) 03:37, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Bolded articles in blurbs are ones that have been reviewed at ITNC for quality purposes for posting; at the time that the blurb was added, the issue of succession hadn't been considered in the blurb so there was no attention given to that. Masem (t) 04:24, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

I could be opportune to show King Charles III in bold font once the Accession Council has met (Sat, 10 Sep), but that discussion should best be had at WP:ITN/C. Proclamation of accession of Charles III might be in a ready state by then; at the moment it's far from it. Schwede66 05:20, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

@Masem: The instructions at ITNC are to come here for any blurb amendments. The article in question is updated and up to scratch, so it shouldn't need a whole new debate, seeing as it has already been debated in the Elizabeth II discussion. Mjroots (talk) 05:53, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Well, that's the grey area of where those discussions should be had. I agree that ongoing tweaks of a blurb are best handled here. For adding a second bold-font article to a blurb, I would have thought that ITN/C is the more appropriate venue. Schwede66 06:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

 Done - as noted, it's not well defined whether ITNC or ERRORS is the place for this sort of discussion. Personally I would keep it all at ITNC, so it's considered alongside the original discussions that led to the blurb being posted. There's been an increasing Trend to speedily close candidate threads once the item is posted though, which has also happened here, so there isn't really anywhere except ERRORS. Anyway, in this case it seems eminently sensible to bold Charles as well, his accession is a major news item in its own right and the article is up to scratch. So I've been a little bold (🙂) and bolded it as requested. Also, The proclamation is a detail that will take place tomorrow, but he is clearly already monarch and that's the news story.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

This. I expect some unusual discussions on this topic over the next few days. Right now one blurb for both of these things seems to make good sense. Some will likely ask for a new blurb about Charles III soon - possible change would be to split him off of this blurb and move to his own, but I expect there will be a bunch of ideas/arguments then. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:19, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

• I think "dies at the age of 96" should be bolded, as there is now a separate article for Death of Elizabeth II. And I would unbold "Elizabeth II". Natg 19 (talk) 19:13, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

  I've had a look and that article is in good shape. I've placed two "citation needed" tags, which is quite acceptable (one of those passages had been added while I was reading it); the article is being heavily edited as can be expected. I'd support swapping the bold font from "Elizabeth II" to "dies at the age of 96" but thought to get reactions from other admins so that there isn't a back-and-forth happening. Schwede66 20:30, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

On the iPhone Wikipedia app, the date is wrong e.g. has QEII died "Thursday, September 7" etc. I can't see where to fix it there. alacarte (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Next DYK

In the third hook, "Mexico" shouldn't have its own link. Primergrey (talk) 05:48, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

WP:OVERLINK removed. Schwede66 08:43, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

The fifth hook needs a comma after "Building". Primergrey (talk) 08:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

And a matching one before "before". So * ... that, before there was a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory Building, William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built motorcycles in a shed?

Bazza (talk) 08:27, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Commas added. Schwede66 08:49, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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