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

TFA today

The name of the country is essential, but the article and the TFA both say "Welsh village," unlinked. I've fixed the lede in the article itself. PS: This page was hard to find. -Inowen (nlfte) 04:35, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

On the issue of whether "Welsh" is acceptable instead of "Wales", we use the adjective forms of countries quite a lot at WP:FAC and WP:TFA. About the link: if you look back a few days ago at October 16, another editor removed a link to Wales, and I reverted. Some people think: we don't link US or England, so it's disrespectful to link Wales, as if Wales were some strange country people haven't heard of. Other people think that not linking it is disrespectful. When I get up in the morning, I'll look at how people have responded to your edits to the article. - Dank (push to talk) 05:00, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

My thinking is that the country doesn't need to be linked when the city is clearly linked nearby. The reader can easily click the one to get to the other, and it avoids the sea of blue. Modulus12 (talk) 05:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Per Dank: Welsh village is clear enough, and we don't link countries, per WP:OVERLINK. - SchroCat (talk) 06:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Ack! To clarify, I meant "some strange country people haven't heard of" in the hypothetical voice of someone who's feeling offended, not in my voice. I don't call countries strange. Anyway ... it looks like the proposed change to the article didn't get any support at the article. - Dank (push to talk) 21:27, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

People's Vote

Technically it's not a protest against Brexit, but more about a referendum on the final Brexit deal. And it should be "more than half a million" not "over". Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:47, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

I've made the change to "more than", as that seems non-controversial. I'd like to see more discussion about the other suggestion before changing anything. Vanamonde (talk) 20:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

The BBC says: "The People's Vote campaign said stewards on the route estimated 700,000 were taking part." Also e.g. The Guardian: "demonstrated by Saturday’s 700,000-strong march in London", etc. I know organisers may be biased in their count, and I know the blurb is not "wrong" as such, but that missing 200,000 equates to a 35% error? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:27, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Countries in blurbs

We sometimes name countries after naming a more specific location within them, and sometimes don't. It would be helpful, I think, to have some means of standardizing this, particularly when the location involved is a city or other sub-regional division. My personal preference would be for using "city, state/province" for geographically large countries, and "city, country" for smaller ones; but I'd like to hear more opinions. Vanamonde (talk) 21:19, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

The wrong place for this discussion. And even worse, a continued abuse of WP:ACCESS. But nothing less than I expect here. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:45, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, what? I'm not asking for a policy change; I'm asking here because the last few blurbs, some of which are still on the main page, have brought this up. If you have an issue with a specific blurb, please explain what it is. Vanamonde (talk) 21:52, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

You lack the competence for this discussion to continue. Try bringing it up with someone else. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Ah, I see. You're willing to come here to complain about me, but could not be bothered to post here the error you instead posted in your userspace. You couldn't be bothered to ping me there either (though I was obviously online, and so that would have been the fastest way of getting that error fixed), but chose to ping me at a nomination I was completely uninvolved with instead, where you were not even asking for my participation, but were just choosing to make a snide remark. Are you actually working for the readers' benefit, or simply trying to make a point? Vanamonde (talk) 22:03, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

You lack the competence to even understand the history of this situation. To even question that I'm working for the readers when I pick up (on average) six issues per day on the main page, is a joke. Your personal issues with me, exemplified by cherry-picking a DYK hook and destroying it through your own abject incompetence is enough to demonstrate that you need to revisit your own competencies. I have voluntarily removed myself from this forum, successfully so as we are picking up and resolving issues at a rate unseen before with a handful of helpful and competent admins. Vanamonde, you're not worthy to be an admin, and it's sad to say that because I've been around and seen a few. You fail. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:08, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Killing of Jamal Khashoggi is pipe-linked from the Main page. The page was moved to Murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Should pages linked from the Main page be move-protected? Or such moves at least monitored and adjusted to them. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:42, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Forget it, it seems moved back. The general questions should be considered, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:43, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

I think that's a good question, Gerda. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:49, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

POTD tomorrow

• The comma after Maranhão state can be removed. Prevented from draining due to the impermeable rock reads better as prevented from draining by the impermeable rock. "Listed as endangered" is also piped to a redirect. And using acres next to kilometers looks strange to me, but maybe that's just how Brazil works. Modulus12 (talk) 04:10, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
  • @Modulus12: I've made your tweaks, but left acres and km as I don't know whether that's normal for Brazil or not. Thryduulf (talk) 23:14, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
    • Nope, that's my fault. They should be consistent with SI first. GMG^talk 18:00, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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