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Errors in "On this day"
- 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts for constitutional purposes and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit.
- Two suggestions for this hook:
- 1. "for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts" feels clunky to me, I would suggest "to include Indigenous Australians in population counts"
- 2. I would also change "and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit" to "and to allow the federal government to make special laws affecting them in states" (much closer to the article's wording). As this section points out, although the intention of the change may have been exclusively to benefit them, that was not part of the wording of the law and not always how it's been applied. And as it also mentions, the government already had this power in territories. And thirdly, the referendum simply gave the government the power to enact such laws rather than directly forcing the creation of any like the current wording implies.
- -Elmer Clark (talk) 17:09, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Done Sorry that it took so long. Schwede66 17:54, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- In the 3rd hook, remove the extra space right before the period. –CopperyMarrow15 (talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 00:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Errors in the summary of the featured list
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Errors in the summary of the featured picture
- "Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to man's efforts ...". I think there needs to be an "as" before "symbolic". JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed. Also changed it to British English "ploughing". The mix of language varieties in the target article should be fixed up. Schwede66 23:57, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- "symbolic to" should be changed to "symbolic of", and "This oil-on-canvas Wheat Fields painting" to "This oil painting on canvas titled Wheat Fields" the latter per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts § Medium. I also think "painted" is a better choice of word than "created". Ham II (talk) 11:49, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed. Also changed it to British English "ploughing". The mix of language varieties in the target article should be fixed up. Schwede66 23:57, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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