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Errors in the summary of Today's featured article on the Main Page

Re January 24 "Ohioan" -- since this is about a US ship and the article is almost entirely US-centric, then per the MOS, shouldn't the dates be in US style? ("October 8, 1936" vs. "8 October 1936") It seems they're in European style throughout the article. I'm sorry that I don't have the time to redo the entire article. Unimaginative Username (talk) 07:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, see just about any other ship article - they all use the international date style. :) —Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 00:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should the sentence "When the Panama canal was temporarily closed by landslides in late 1915, Ohioan sailed via the Straits of Magellan until the canal reopened in mid 1916." be removed? IMO, it has no context in the blurb... —Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 00:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Just looked at the article in question. This sentence has perfect context in the article, but part of the sentence before was removed for the blurb. —Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 00:08, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in In the news

Should names of satellites, such as Ibuki, be italicised? Wikipedia:MoS#Italics, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting), and Italic type don't have anything about this. I think satellites are, but would just like confirmation of this. SpencerT♦C 22:41, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at other satellite articles, they seem to be, so I'm going to be bold and fix this. If I'm wrong, please revert. SpencerT♦C 22:51, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar

"Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is arrested by the Rwandan military on its country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Its country's? I'm not sure what is signified by this, so I'm not going to change it myself; but could someone figure out what this means? Nyttend (talk) 03:55, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the border of the country of the Rwandan military --Nricardo (talk) 04:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Errors in Selected anniversaries/On this day

"1438 – Pope Eugene IV was suspended by the Council of Basel. He was pronounced deposed by the Council next year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope." is very poorly constructed. Something like "1438 – The Council of Basel suspended Pope Eugene IV and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope." would be better I think.

Reporters: please first correct the regular version.


Errors in Did you know?


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