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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• The last hook: ... that the U.S. Army Air Corps were so unimpressed by the Estoppey D-8 that one member stated that he would rather use "nails and a wire"?
  In American English, that would be "was" instead of were. But the hook also anthropomorphizes the Corps. I'd recommend something like ... that some members of the U.S. Army Air Corps were so unimpressed by the Estoppey D-8 that one stated [... etc.] MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:16, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

   Done Schwede66 02:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Monday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

That Belgian castle - should change "The Tudor-style castle..." (unreffed in the article) to "The Renaissance Revival castle..." There is nothing Tudor at all about the style, which relates to more local Renaissance architecture. Johnbod (talk) 01:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed Now whilst I'm not an expert on architectural styles at all, this indeed does not look like Tudor to me. Schwede66 02:26, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

Right sidebar with links to Commons/Wikiquotes, etc.

Where did that go? Did I accidentally make that disappear, or was that an admin decision? If so, is there an option to toggle it back? I liked having it visible when looking at actors/film pages. Sorry if this is the wrong place to inquire. Please let me know where to go, to ask such questions in the future. --Cinemaniac86^Talk_Stalk 15:17, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Help desk. (I don't see those links either.) Art LaPella (talk) 07:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Seemed so simpleWould that it were so simple! Thank you, Art. And okay, so it's not just me. Must be a layout overhaul, I suppose. --Cinemaniac86^Talk_Stalk 11:48, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Art LaPella In case you were curious, we have to click the drop-down menu of "Tools" up top right hand corner, next to "View history" and the watchlist star, then move to the right (or side). --Cinemaniac86^Talk_Stalk 17:30, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

November 22 double up

I've just noticed that we have two items scheduled that cover the same topic and use the same image:

• TFA (scheduled by Gog the Mild in September 2023)
• POTD (scheduled by Ahecht in June 2022)

My guess is that we'd want to bump one of those items. Or at least use a different photo for the TFA. Schwede66 02:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

It's the 60th anniversary of the event so I don't see anything inherently wrong with it being in both TFA and the POTD. I'd recommend changing the TFA picture to something like the Mary Moorman photograph which better depicts the event but isn't high quality enough to be POTD. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 03:46, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

I personally don't see any reason why both shouldn't run as is, since TFA focuses on the event and POTD discusses the picture. In fact, they could be said to complement each other, and there's the potential in the POTD blurb to focus more on the picture since TFA describes the event. So I would suggest looking at this as a feature, not a bug, and making the most of it.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

But if the same picture runs in two places, we're going to hear about it on this page on that day, which will just be a hassle. Figure out which one to switch out (I'm not impressed with the image for either case, and surely we have something better than can be used in one instance or the other?). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:17, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

That's a good point, Sandy. A lot of people look at the main page as a single entity. So if we swapped images, what possibilities are there beyond what has been offered? I don't necessarily think it has to be presently used in the article. Wehwalt (talk) 15:32, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

I might suggest the Croft photo, taken just before the shooting, then the Moorman one suggested above, which, though indistinctly, shows a fatally wounded Kennedy.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:36, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

I've made that substitution, but it's all rather small. Could someone do an ideal crop that would do well at thumbnail size?--Wehwalt (talk) 15:40, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

This was brought up by me around 15 days ago, and had suggested using simple JFK portrait, like this, or this. In my opinion, the Croft photo isn't the best possible choice. I'd be more inclined to have this pic instead, if the portraits don't work for all. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)