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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

• ... that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings, a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece?

I think this should be amended to point out that most of these were former ruling families. Maybe "more that 100 members of current and former European royal families" instead? Sheila1988 (talk) 15:27, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Any thoughts, Therealscorp1an? Schwede66 16:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Next DYK

• ... that cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic (flag pictured) could potentially lead to accidental arrest due to mistaken suspicion of carrying a bomb?

This feels both awkwardly worded and like a somewhat misleading / exaggerated way to present something that the article mentions happening one time ever. Also, can an arrest really be called "accidental" just because the person was later cleared? I would reserve that wording for e.g. a situation where they arrested a different guy with the same name, etc. Overall I would suggest rewording the hook to:

... that a man cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic (flag pictured) was arrested due to mistaken reports that he was carrying a bomb?

-Elmer Clark (talk) 01:37, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@B3251, Chaotic Enby, and LunaEclipse: Courtesy notification from the nom. —Bagumba (talk) 01:44, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

If the reword is preferred by those organizing DYK, sure. I don't mind either way. B3251 (talk) 01:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

I think "mistaken" could even be removed to make it more intriguing (and still accurate). —Bagumba (talk) 02:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I've actioned this. Say if there is a need for further discussion. Schwede66 06:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Good idea, works for me! Thanks a lot! Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 15:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

• ... that Kooraban National Park provides a habitat for more than twenty endangered animal species, including koalas? A few problems with this one. First, the source says "Twenty species listed as vulnerable under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 have been recorded in the park". According to our article Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, vulnerable and endangered are two different things. Anyways I don't know if the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 controls these things in NSW given the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW). Perhaps adding "in 2011" to the hook in the beginning of the hook, changing "provides" to "provided" and changing endangered to vulnerable would fix. Therapyisgood (talk) 00:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Cremastra, Nyanardsan, and PrimalMustelid: Courtesy notification from the nom. —Bagumba (talk) 01:48, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  If you want to change it, that's fine, but I think "endangered" can mean "threatened broadly"—whether the IUCN classes it as "vulnerable" or "endangered" or "threatened", it's still, in the general colloquial sense of the word, "endangered". Cremastra (talk) 12:43, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• The image for Carnegie Hall has 2 captions? Second is not rendering but should be removed. JennyOz (talk) 07:28, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  Presumably meant to be WP:ALTTEXT. I've added |alt= —Bagumba (talk) 10:10, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  No, it was carry over image text for the next item. Removed. Stephen 10:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yeah. I should actually read the text. LOL.—Bagumba (talk) 10:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

• 1980, Iranian Embassy siege - the text makes it seem like the separatists were sieging the embassy, when in reality they occupied the embassy and the police/military were the ones doing the sieging. Kdroo (talk) 08:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Kdroo: Ravenpuff seems to have edited it in 2020. I've partially reverted it to "after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it". Feel free to suggest improved wording.—Bagumba (talk) 10:20, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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