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

Odd wording

With William IV, we read that "Since his two older brothers died without leaving surviving legitimate issue, he inherited the throne when he was sixty-four years old." No errors here, but it's odd wording: why do we need "surviving"? If William's nephews and nieces died before William's brothers did, the brothers didn't leave any of them. Nyttend (talk) 14:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I've removed the word from the article, and as I'm an administrator I'm going to be bold (unless I find that there's some coding issue that I could break) and remove it from the summary. Nyttend (talk) 14:26, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

(ec)It's a clarification on what is meant by the word "leaving" - there is at least a reasonable chance that someone could interpret "leaving issue" to mean "had a child". (viz. that's the way I would interpret it) In that case "without leaving legitimate issue" would be interpreted as meaning "never had any legitimate children (ever)". That's not we're implying. Adding "surviving" might technically be a redundancy, but it's a harmless one which helps to clarify the point. -- 128.104.112.117 (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Errors in Picture of the Day/Today's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct the regular version.

Errors in Did you know?

Protection

Something's wrong with cascading protection. DYK Images on the main page are not being automatically protected. There was problems with the previous group. I tested and protected the image on this group. There's a thread at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Main_page_cascading_protection_not_working. Royalbroil 12:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Is this issue still live? --Dweller (talk) 14:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

The DYK image which is live now, File:Lyon0002soft.JPG, suffered some vandalism. I briefly deleted the image to remove the bad history, and restored the page and then purged the main page and re-applied image protection. I'm posting for two reasons. The first, so people can double check and make sure I didn't mess anything up and the second, to find out why the heck an unprotected image slipped by? Does this have to do with the broken cascade protection discussed above? Any ideas?-Andrew c ^[talk] 21:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that would be the cascading protection issue. The image is (and was) hosted on En, and therefore should be automatically protected by cascading protection once it's on the front page (which is why DYK admins intentionally haven't been manually protecting the images). However, it seems to have a few cracks now. Does anyone know if the software changed around the middle of March (Royalbroil's post) that would affect cascading protection? Also, we seem to be having a rash of Main Page image vandalism (I remember this OTD image getting vandalized a few days ago)...anyone know if it's the same person/IP? Shubinator (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC) (btw, archived Village pump thread is here)

I just created a bug report, it's number 18483. Royalbroil 01:31, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Any other problems

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