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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 with "In the news"

Could we add magnitude to the earthquake? Without it, reads bland and meh-like given frequency of Japanese earthquakes. Brandmeister^talk 20:22, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I was surprised by the lack of magnitude, too. Does someone know the context for that decision? Schwede66 20:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

We haven't been putting magnitude on for ages, it's a fairly meaningless number to most people. It replaced a Chinese earthquake that didn't have the magnitude. Stephen 22:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Oh, interesting. Having lived through some 20,000 aftershocks, those numbers are rather meaningful to me… Schwede66 22:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Brandmeister, Stephen, and Schwede66: We could reword the blurb to "Japan's largest earthquake since 2015 strikes the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, leaving 57 people dead"? That would convey the severity of the quake without using magnitude numbers. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:16, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

That’s mentioned in the lead only and it’s not referenced, which is a showstopper. Schwede66 18:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Schwede66: Well, that's a fair point. I've removed that line from the article and added better info to the body. Reliable sources don't seem to mention the 2015 earthquake in their "major earthquakes to hit Japan" lists (e.g. Reuters), probably because it didn't impact the Home Islands + struck well offshore/underwater + caused little damage and only a few injuries. So based on them it seems fine to say it's the largest to hit mainland Japan since 2011. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 18:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I've had a go at rewording this, Ed. Schwede66 21:20, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Frankly, I learned what an earthquake magnitude is in my teens and it's used quite frequently in news outlets. If for most of our readers magnitude isn't meaningful, that's a pitiful situation... Brandmeister^talk 21:59, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I suggest that you start a discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:In the news, Brandmeister. This isn't the right place to nut out policy or practice. Schwede66 22:17, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• The Jiang Ge entry is troubling me. While I would say it is not interesting as phrased, it seems to be further problematic: in its vacuity, it seems to welcome implications that are both icky and potential BLP violations (of a non-notable person, that being the roommate.) I don't want to disparage work fellow editors do, but I really feel this entry should be quickly rewritten at a bare minimum.
  • Nominator: Toadboy123
  • Approval: Juxlos, AirshipJungleman29 and Daniel CaseRemsense留 01:24, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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