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Errors in In the news

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Does anyone think that instead of "two explosions near the finish of the Boston Marathon" that it should be changed to "A terrorist attack near the finish line..."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeanutButterPenguin (talk • contribs) 23:08, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

No, this is the usual practice as such wording can sometimes be taken as non-neutral. See WP:TERRORIST. Chamal ^T•C 00:39, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Can we instead use "bombings"? –HTD 10:43, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

• it would appear that the Boston Marathon bombing took place after the ones in Iraq. The blurbs should be swapped per ITN rules. Hot Stop (Talk) 12:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually, general practise is to keep items in order of the date they occurred, but not to worry about the exact time within each day (due to time zone issues). WP:ITN/A says 'ordered chronologically by date of occurrence (but not necessarily chronologically within that date)'. Usually the more recently posted item goes above the other, exactly as in this case. Modest Genius ^talk 12:29, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

There is a difference between the wikipedia page on the "West (Texas) explosion" and the main page. In the "West (Texas) explosion" page it says around 35 deaths while the main page says as 5 dead. Should we change it? Mattsung (talk) 08:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes we should, the template defers to the bolded article. If there is a cited source for new information the blurb should be updated to reflect this. Admins? 65.95.92.178 (talk) 09:29, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

west texas explosion

I think we should update the blurp. 12 bodies have been recovered, so while the exact figure may be yet unknown, we know it is at least 12[1]50.201.228.200 (talk) 14:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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

The article on Binod Bihari Chowdhury does not claim that he was last surviving anti-British colonial revolutionary in South Asia, and it's very unlikely that he was (no veterans surviving from the various revolutionary aspects of the Indian independence movement)? I propose correcting this to "... that Binod Bihari Chowdhury, who died on 10 April 2013 at the age of 102, was the last surviving revolutionary from the Chittagong armoury raid?" Warofdreams talk 09:25, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

No response, so I've fixed it. Warofdreams talk 09:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

• The "Sheep's fescue" story is totally misleading. The grass that was unsuitable for sheep, according to the article, was not sheep's fescue. I'm all for coming up with an interesting hook, but not for sacrificing accuracy in the pursuit of it. --Dweller (talk) 10:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Still confusing. I read the Sheep's fescue article several times looking for anything related to this. Finally found it on the Markwick page. While Markwick is the bolded term, the sentence really seems to focus on the fescue which is why I looked there first.--Khajidha (talk) 14:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

There's nothing in either Markwick or Festuca ovina that says sheep can't eat sheep fescue.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:22, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

The point that is being referenced is that while Markwick ordered Sheep fescue seed, he actually received some other plant's seed. This plant cannot be eaten by sheep. That's why the term Sheep's fescue is in quotation marks, it indicates that what is being called sheep's fescue is not really sheep's fescue. This item should probably be removed from DYK. --Khajidha (talk) 14:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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

1912 item - "striking gold miners in in northeast Siberia" - should be "striking gold miners in northeast Siberia". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uyer (talk • contribs) 00:54, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Done. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Shouldn't "Evacuation Day" point to Evacuation Day (Syria) instead of Public holidays in Syria? Chocolate Horlicks (talk) 06:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Seconded. --Dweller (talk) 08:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

There's a note in the OTD page suggesting it shouldn't be linked because it's a stub, and an entirely unreferenced one at that... The Rambling Man (talk) 08:20, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I think it makes us look silly. Is there a pressing need for the item to be included on Main Page, if we have no associated article we're proud of? --Dweller (talk) 10:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Thirded: Even if the main article on the topic is a stub, I say the link should still go there. TJSwoboda (talk) 14:42, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree with Dweller, if the article for this observance isn't eligible for appearance on the main page then the observance should not be mentioned at all. --Khajidha (talk) 15:46, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, all of you could have added a reference or two, or expanded the article in the time it took to write these comments. We rarely, if ever, link to an entirely unreferenced stub from the main page. Better luck next year I suppose. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

And the people who select on this day articles could have done the same over a much longer span of time. In the day that this was actually on the Main Page we may not have been able to FIND the sources to improve it (let alone in the time we spent typing these notices). --Khajidha (talk) 12:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

1st (1506) item – "Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica (interior pictured) in Vatican City..." The correct usage is the Vatican City, but in any case it should be changed to "Rome" in this sentence as the Vatican City didn't exist until 1929. Alternatively, "St. Peter's Basilica [...] in the Vatican" (NB the link destination) would also be correct. Ham 07:44, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

From the entry on Heligoland:

 On 18 April 1947, the Royal Navy detonated 6,700 tonnes of explosives ("Big Bang"
or "British Bang"), creating one of the biggest single non-nuclear detonations in history

rather than the 4,000 tonnes in the entry for 1947. Dick Kimball (talk) 18:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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