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Errors in In the news

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Taliban?

• Currently the Malala Yousafzai item links to Taliban. I'm no expert on the politics of the region, but shouldn't this link to Pakistani Taliban? (this redirects to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) -- LukeSurl ^{t c} 21:30, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

The main article on the girl points to Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi instead. I'm not really sure which of the three pages should be linked to. - TexasAndroid (talk) 21:48, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

The distinction between groups referred to as the "Taliban" appears to be so unclear, fuzzy, and overlapping, that I really have no clue what the best target for that is. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:35, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

It's totally the wrong target, suggesting she was shot by an Afghan rather than domestic Pakistani group. It's the top item in ITN, and hence has sat at the top of today's Wikipedia main page all day here, yet contains a glaring error and piece of misinformation that no one seems willing to sort out. N-HH talk/edits 22:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Is this a new wikipedia standard, contrary from the "no information is better than the wrong information," wikipedia now goes with "any link is better than no link?" If it is wrong, it should not be linked. The main page is so intransigent, nothing will compel anyone to correct something that is wrong, if it is on the main page, argue, personally attack, defend, but correct, no way! if it is on the main page. That is what vandals should target now: articles that go on the main page, the surest way to embarrass wikipedia, because it will guarantee the error stays in the article. -Fjozk (talk) 00:51, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day...

The nuclear power station opened by the Queen on this day was Calder Hall. The name Sellafield was retroactively applied. It's use in this context is anachronistic - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/17/newsid_3147000/3147145.stm 122.106.177.130 (talk) 00:56, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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