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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 ..."

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The Glorious Cause

". . . that "The Glorious Cause: . . ." has been the first, second, and third volume of the Oxford History of the United States?" Mixes categories, so it is misleading or a trick statement. It was the first volume published, but it was never intended to be the first volume chronologically-—when it was published it was intended to be the second volume, but since then the period before 1763 has been divided into two volumes. So it is now the third volume chronologically. Because the sentence doesn’t define in which way it is first, second, and third, it’s a TRICK statement, not a sensible statement of fact. Wis2fan (talk) 03:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Notifying Hydrangeans (nominator), Storye book (reviewer), AirshipJungleman29 (promoter to prep), and Casliber (promoter to queue) for comment/input. Schwede66 04:24, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I would disagree with characterizing this as a "trick". The quirky phrasing is intended to make the hook "hooky", but I wouldn't consider this quirky summary of the series' and book's involuted publication history a "trick" so much as an amusement. Though intended to be chronologically second it was published first and later planned to be chronologically third. Still, if this is unbearably odious, Storye book also approved ALT1 (... that in 1982, historian Gordon S. Wood harshly criticized the book The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789, and in 2020 he recommended it to readers?). Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:41, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Hydrangeans. Storye book (talk) 07:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

"Three-fourths" looks wrong to me (first hook) - is it correct in Indian English? I would always say three-quarters, which is used in the article. However I can see this being confused with three quarters. Would 75% be better? — Voice of Clam (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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