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Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

The article describes Belshazzar's Feast as an oratorio, not a cantata. (I looked it up because I was surprised. I have sung it.) - Tenebris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.29.222 (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article is in Category:Cantatas, other sources use either word, and dictionaries don't consistently describe a difference. Art LaPella (talk) 13:59, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not that it matters now -- but since you feel that way, you may want to change the linked article itself to be consistent. - Tenebris 23:47, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

Template:ITN-Update A Google-search on {$2.15 2012 Dodgers} has 114,000 hits, including The New York Times[1], Los Angeles Daily News[2], and FoxBusiness.com[3]. We may as well list the new blockbuster number as $2.15 billion since everyone else will. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 14:03, 29 March 2012 (UTC) Please consider changing the block-buster price to $2.15 billion, since all major news sources are using this price.[reply]

Errors in the current or next Did you know...

The DYK on Fedor Baranov says, "... that Fedor Baranov, a founding father of fisheries science, was saved from a Gulag by one of his students"? It should say either: "... was saved from the Gulag" or "was saved from a Gulag labor camp." The Gulag for the communist Soviet Union during most of Baranov's time is the administrative unit for the collection of forced labor colonies. He was either saved from having to appear before the Gulag, or he was saved being sent to a Gulag labor camp. --Zawadska (talk) 15:29, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the Russian language, perhaps. But please see Wiktionary:gulag. Art LaPella (talk) 17:02, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Marion

"that Marion, Utah used to be called Denmark" should read "that Marion, Utah, used to be called Denmark"; note the comma. Chris857 (talk) 18:08, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't it be a better hook if it read "Marion used to be called Denmark"?--ukexpat (talk) 18:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, someone just changed it away from that. Chris857 (talk) 18:26, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's what it was originally, and it would be better. As just noted, Beeblebrox changed it for the worse once it was on the main page. I, too, think it should be changed back; it's far less effective now. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I added the comma according to WP:COPYEDIT#Parenthetical comma, with no comment on whether to remove "Utah" (and the commas). Art LaPella (talk) 19:54, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Better make that "...that in Utah, Marion used to be known as Denmark?" --142.1.32.35 (talk) 23:50, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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