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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)

Tomorrow's FA

• The Donner Party - At "some resorted to cannibalism to survive" the link should be piped to Human cannibalism (per article)

I think the name in the image caption "Margaret" should be spelled 'Margret' per the article and in James F. Reed and the book from which the image was sourced and which is a major source in the article (Rarick, Ethan (2008). Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West). The spelling appears to be incorrect on Commons and in file name. JennyOz (talk) 13:17, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Done, thx much Jenny. - Dank (push to talk) 13:31, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

"6:16 in LA"

The final clause really should read a song that Drake's uncle played guitar on? Remsense诉 07:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (1724): not an exact anniversary, should be moved to June 11. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 12:52, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Bach didn't compose it for 11 June, but for the first Sunday after Trinity which in 2024 is 2 June, related to that Sunday's liturgy. Not some Tuesday. We talk about the 300th anniversary of the beginning of his chorale cantata cycle. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

   Not done Not an error; thanks for explaining, Gerda. Schwede66 17:23, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Just to clarify what happened: I saw Ravenpuff's report earlier today, and investigated the article. The article states that this was first performed on June 11, not June 2. Since OTD follows the Gregorian calendar and not the Liturgical year, I moved the blurb to June 11. Z1720 (talk) 20:21, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Then remove it altogether please. The calendar date really didn't matter at all for Bach, Z1720, Schwede66. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Are we doing this for Bach, or for readers? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Should we mislead readers telling them that Bach composed his cantata for a Tuesday? We have a chance to inform them about Bach. Listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  I must be looking at a different Main Page to you—mine says "On this day June 1", but yours seems to say "On this day the first Saturday after Trinity". This is a very intriguing bug—has anyone else seen it? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:17, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

  Perhaps you will listen to reliable external references, organisations who perform/broadcast Bach cantatas. They perform today to start a series. Don't mention it on 11 June if you don't want Wikipedia to look ignorant.

  • SWR: Kantate vom 2 Juni 2024: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
  • Delft: 2 juni 2024: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20

  The main source, Bach Digital, has "First Sunday after Trinnity" in the subheader, and 11 June in the small print. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  That's no doubt true, Gerda, and I sympathise with your point here; but unfortunately the OTD format isn't geared-up for such situations. The top part of the template, which hosts feast days and commemorations, can have movable feasts such as Easter etc. but the main part of OTD has a bulleted list of things that happened in various years, under the heading "June 2". The formulation:

  June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946)

  • 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach directed his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his chorale cantata cycle.

  is simply inaccurate and misleading, so can't remain in that format. It wasn't on June 2, 1724, by any definition. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 13:34, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  I had a full day of enjoyment, and it's probably too late, but the First Sunday after Trinity in 2024 simply is 2 June, and that could possibly be worded. - Instead of pointing at the beginning of c. 40 masterworks that began on this day, we see what? - I'll enjoy the rest of the day instead of thinking about it. Tomorrow we'll think of the centenary of Kafka's death. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

• Main Page: "The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, killing all 29 people on board." Article: "The accident is the RAF's fourth-worst peacetime disaster." Anonymous 01:10, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  The target article was updated some years ago, but none of the other incidents have links that allow online verification. Whatever it is, I have replaced "its worst" with "a significant"; that will always be right. Schwede66 02:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  @An anonymous username, not my real name @Schwede66: I boldly changed it to "its then-worst" to reflect its standing at the time. Feel free to revert.—Bagumba (talk) 02:26, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  Yeah, I’ll revert that, Bagumba. It’s what the army rep did say, but the other three instances that are cited occurred earlier. Schwede66 03:22, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  @Schwede66: LOL. I had thought I did due dilligence with BBC saying that "It was the worst peacetime accident in the history of the RAF."[1] I'll leave it to the experts now. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 03:45, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

  Air Chief Marshall Sir William Wratten noted that it was "the largest peacetime tragedy the RAF had suffered". Bagumba, if Anonymous is right, you can blame Sir Bill for this error; the BBC was just quoting him. Schwede66 04:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• 3 June 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett (pictured) rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.

Virginia was an independent commonwealth from 1776 so link should be to Virginia not Colony of Virginia (per lede of Jack Jouett)? JennyOz (talk) 13:25, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:29, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

• In the 2nd hook, remove the extra space after "Liverpool F.C." before the comma. –CopperyMarrow15 (talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 00:23, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 8)

Monday's FL

(November 4, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Tomorrow's POTD

• "The larvae are ..., later developing yellow diagonal stripes on its sides ...". This is an ungrammatical change from plural "larvae" to singular "its". Please change to "the sides". JMCHutchinson (talk) 13:53, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
• "late instar stage". This only makes sense if one hyphenates: "late-instar stage". "Instar stage" on its own makes no sense since all stages of development after hatching count as instars; there are early and late instars. One could also say more simply, "shows a late instar of L. populi." JMCHutchinson (talk) 14:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

   Fixed both issues. Schwede66 21:05, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

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