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Errors in In the news

Template:ITN-Update

• Guatemalan landslide now over 130 dead, not 70 Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 13:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Updated ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 19:02, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• "a nor'easter" should be "a nor'easter". Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (pitch) 18:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Fixed ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 19:02, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Errors in the current or next Did you know...

• ... that Ali al-Nimr used a BlackBerry to encourage protests, underwent an unfair trial, and may soon be crucified and beheaded? - If you actually take the effort to look this up, you'll find that, depsite many press reports, there will not be a crucifixion. It will be a beheading and public display of the body, see here for instance. Also, the term "unfair trial" is seriously NPOV. It probably was, but it that something we can say on the main page? 131.251.254.154 (talk) 09:42, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

No crucifiction, eh? What a relief. How about "complete travesty of justice" or "display of mindless medieval barbarism"? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 10:10, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, but we have standards to uphold here. 131.251.254.154 (talk) 10:21, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, who needs ethics when we've got standards. 20.133.0.13 (talk) 13:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

An encyclopaedia is not a tabloid; perhaps tumblr would be a better outlet for yellow journalism. GRAPPLE ^X 13:35, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

You think use of the word "unfair" in the context constitites "tabloid journalism"? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 13:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

And I quote, "How about "complete travesty of justice" or "display of mindless medieval barbarism"?". GRAPPLE ^X 13:57, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

And your view on the word "unfair"? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 14:18, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Remove 1:10 radio-controlled off-road buggy

1:10 radio-controlled off-road buggy is too poorly formed to be on the Main Page. 203.173.186.163 (talk) 17:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

{{sofixit}} – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:29, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

That is kind of the point... DYK features recently created or overhauled articles that could use some improvements. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 18:30, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

You wouldn't guess that from the section's title. "Do You Know" gives no clue that the articles are new and may be of a lesser standard than expected. Maybe this could be improved in the 2015 main page redesign? Bazza (talk) 09:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

It's actually 2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship which is on the main page at DYK right now, and I agree, it's awful and despite the idea that DYK should be used to highlight articles that "could use some improvements", I don't think this can really be improved. I agree with the IP that this shouldn't be on the main page, but the DYK process doesn't pay attention to article quality at all. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:02, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

This is one of many problems with the Main Page as a whole. The sections give no real indication of what they actually are. To a reader who is not familiar with the details of each of these little projects a "Today's featured article" would just be an article that we have chosen to feature today, "In the news" would be a news ticker, "Did you know" would be a list of random trivia, and "On this day" would be anything that occurred on this day in history. --Khajidha (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

2009 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship is just as bad. The Main Page should link to the better articles. 203.173.186.163 (talk) 19:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the last or next featured list

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