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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

• No real issues but some of the blurbs would be helped by some wikilinks. ... that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack? should link Richard Garwin as him being a physicist is probably germane.

... that the trowel and gavel used at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Southern Railway Building were previously used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol?. I'd link George Washington and U.S. Capitol since the blurb as it currently stands presupposes a knowledge of US history and government that is generally not assumed. Sincerely, Dilettante 00:14, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, nominator of Southern Railway Building here. I opted for the generally minimalistic linking philosophy that I've perceived to be preferred at DYK. While I considered the suggested links to be mostly self-evident, I admit my American bias and would not object to them being added to the hook. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 03:31, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

• In the Spider (musician) blurb, Alternative music is a disambiguation page. Should the link point to a specific article? Linking a dab page from the main page seems a bit odd.:Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:35, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

  @Jay8g, unlinked. @Launchballer, would you like to suggest a more useful link than that to the set index page alternative music? (As an aside, perhaps that page should be marked as a disambiguation page?) —Kusma (talk) 09:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Why is this the sixth consecutive article of mine to end up either here or at WT:DYK... anyway, I suggest alternative rock#alt-pop, as alt-pop is what NME describe her stuff as.--Launchballer 09:34, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done Schwede66 09:48, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 24)

Monday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

The text of today's POTD (May 21) has an extra "has" in the sentence: "The snail has has two distinct sexes...". Maybe remove one "has" from the WL to Dioecy? Harris7 (talk) 10:14, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Done, thanks! —Kusma (talk) 12:27, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Any other Main Page errors

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