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Le Griffon doesn’t look much like a brigantine in the illustration, the article reports that it was described as a barque or brigantine, and most sources on Google Scholar seem to prefer barque...by a considerable margin. (“Barque longest”, if you wanna get more specific.) So why “brigantine”? Qwirkle (talk) 07:19, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

PS “Barque Longue” that should be. (The Apple spill chucker strikes again.) This is not the same as yer modern Bark (ship) necessarily, so both words maybe should be used...or maybe an article with so many issues shouldn’t be featured on the front page. Qwirkle (talk) 14:09, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

"1679 – Le Griffon (pictured), a barque built by René-Robert de La Salle, began its journey to be the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes." This is awful English. Why not "the first full-sized sailing ship on the upper Great Lakes" as per the article. Though I note the article itself casts doubt upon the claim - Dumelow (talk) 15:23, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Yupp. “Maybe the first thing that kinda vaguely looked like a seagoing vessel, kinda, sorta...” is a better summation. This article never should have been linked to the front page here. Qwirkle (talk) 16:30, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

OTD tomorrow

Simele massacre

• Also, Simele massacre has quite a few maintenance tags in the lead, about the death toll - of the three citations for it, one (Zubaida) says "the total number of Assyrian victims of these events was estimated by British officials at about 600 but Assyrian sources put it at several thousand", one (the FIDH report) doesn't even mention Simele, and the third (a MA thesis) says "hundreds perhaps thousands". Yet these three references are being used to support a figure of 5,000 - 6,000 deaths. I think that article also has some NPOV issues, and given both these factors should probably be swapped out. Fish+Karate 12:59, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
  • The 5,000–6,000 number was put in by an anonymous editor, which I reverted. You missed it in the FIDH report because they use a different spelling. On page 17, The 1933 Sumel massacre, when close to 3,000 people were killed, is a key date in Assyrian political history. I make no comment on NPOV, though. If you feel it's worth tagging the article for, then go for it. —howcheng {chat} 23:27, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
    • Fair enough, then 3,000 is ok. Fish+Karate 12:05, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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• "that each of the sixty geese in Michael Snow's Flight Stop (pictured) is wearing a costume" erm, this sounds like someone has dressed real living or dead geese in costumes, which is repulsive either way. But they haven't. We're just misleading people. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:26, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
• "... that Governor-elect of Jalisco Enrique Alfaro Ramírez was the first winning gubernatorial candidate to come from the Movimiento Ciudadano party?" Missing a comma after Jalisco. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:28, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

  And I'd add one after "was", too. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:33, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

• "responding to the arguments of the growing community of right-wing YouTubers?" The article makes no claim at all (cited or not) about whether there is a "growing" community of right wingers on YouTube. This needs to be removed. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:41, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

The article contains the following referenced phrase: " right-wing Youtubers,[2] a user community that has greatly expanded in the late 2010s.[3]165.225.38.226 (talk) 17:25, 7 August 2018 (UTC)"

• "... that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice, and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?" We seem to inadvertently have squished two DYKs into one hook. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
• "... that chemical engineer Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone invented a flute made from the aluminium brass tubing used in oil refineries?" Our article consistently uses the verb "developed". So why does MainPage up the ante to "invented"? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:59, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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