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

Today's FA is SECR K and SR K1 classes and its blurb says "The class was the earliest large-scale use of the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement in Britain." This seems to be incorrect because, as the article explains, the earlier GCR Class 1B class had already used this arrangement. Twenty of each class were constructed so the numbers were the same. Andrew D. (talk) 17:36, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll keep an eye on the article and its talk page to see if there's agreement there to change it. - Dank (push to talk) 17:57, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

It's sourced to Casserley (1966), which is apparently an article in Railway World, which I don't have. The GCR Class 1B were indeed 2-6-4T, and also pre-dated the K class; but they were designed for hauling coal trains, whereas the K class were passenger engines, so I suspect that a qualification has gone missing somewhere. Maybe Casserley didn't mention it, or maybe the person who used Casserley as a source didn't realise the significance of that qualifier. The offending passage might be made more accurate by the insertion of the phrase "for passenger locomotives", as in either "earliest large-scale use for passenger locomotives of the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement in Britain" or "earliest large-scale use of the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement for passenger locomotives in Britain". --Redrose64 (talk) 00:07, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Redrose. This is now off the Main Page, so the discussion should continue at the article talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 00:16, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks to Redrose64 for confirming this. A quick and simple fix would have been to delete the sentence from the blurb. WP:ERRORS should not be waiting for an elaborate qualification such as Redrose64 suggests – this takes too long. Andrew D. (talk) 07:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Now we have 2003 Pacific hurricane season. The blurb states "The most notable cyclones during the year were Hurricanes Ignacio and Marty ... and were collectively responsible for about $1 billion (2003 USD) in damage." This figure of $1 billion is suspect. It sounds like it was produced by Dr. Evil and is not consistent with the damage values for those individual hurricanes which are elsewhere stated to be $21M (Ignacio) and $50/100M (Marty). This doesn't add up. Andrew D. (talk) 07:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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

Croatian independence referendum, 1991

The wording Despite a boycott by the local Serb population... implies that the boycott made it less likely that the result of the referendum would be in favor of independence. This wording might be justified if the Serbian populace was large enough that the legitimacy of the referendum could have been called into question due to a relatively low turnout of eligible voters, but the article doesn't say that this was the case. A better wording would be With the local Serb population boycotting the polls... --71.183.137.40 (talk) 00:29, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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