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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 with "In the news"

• Can we remove the link to president of Taiwan? It's the least important, and both of the other articles link to it fairly prominently. The article itself is fairly general and does not provide essential context for readers of the Main Page. It only gives a WP:SEA OF BLUE. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 23:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

  I'd support that. I'd support removing all of the "Job of Country" links we have in ITN, but this one in particular causes the maximal SOB issue. These link removals are sometimes controversial, so I'm hoping another admin will agree this one (or all of them) is best removed. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 23:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

  MOS:SEAOFBLUE only suggests not putting links together to avoid appearing like a single link. Given there's a few words and a bold link in the middle, that's not the case here. Other opinions may vary. Stephen 23:57, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

  Agree with Stephen; this isn’t a case of SOB. The Ecuador item suffers from SOB, though. Schwede66 00:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

  Just lost that one for balance in any case. Stephen 00:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• ... that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress, Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?

  Please change "spit" to "spat". gnu57 01:14, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 17, today)

Monday's FL

(May 20)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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