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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)

Tomorrow's FA

60 Minutes is linked twice.:Jay8g [V•T•E] 07:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Dank, any thoughts? Schwede66 08:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Fixed, I'll go through all of the July blurbs now checking for the same problem. Thx (and thx to Jenny too, who also just posted about this)! - Dank (push to talk) 13:55, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

Dick Schoof

• In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with independent politician Dick Schoof (pictured) serving as the prime minister.

The subject is not a politician; he's a career civil servant. And he's not an independent agent as the idea is that he's a neutral caretaker or placeholder who will implement the program agreed by the coalition. See Who is Dick Schoof?, for example. So, a more accurate headline would be:

• In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with non-party civil servant Dick Schoof (pictured) serving as the prime minister.

Andrew🐉(talk) 06:50, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

His article clearly states he's a "civil servant and politician", so describing him as a politician is not inaccurate. Regardless of that, * In the Netherlands, a new cabinet is sworn in, with Dick Schoof (pictured) serving as the prime minister. might be a better way of stating a fact. Bazza 7 (talk) 08:29, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done As suggested, I've removed the words "independent politician" from the hook. Problem gone (if ever there was one). Schwede66 08:36, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(July 5, tomorrow)

• Twelve original video games, alongside several ports and other spin-offs - I suggest the link in blurb to flight-simulation should be piped instead to Flight simulation video game rather than the professional type.

The List was promoted in 2013. The Flight simulation video game article was moved to that name in 2023 (per section Title? on Talk:Flight simulation video game).

Likewise, the link at "design" should probably be piped to Video game design, another article that did not exist at the time of FL promotion.

Ping Giants2008 as scheduler. (FL nominator is not active.) If agreed, article lede could also have those two links updated? JennyOz (talk) 12:47, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Monday's FL

(July 8)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

• As can be seen in the picture and as is said in the article, the servant is not "on horseback" as the blurb says but "attending the horse."— Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 13:08, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Tomorrow's POTD

• Cirsium palustre blurb - at "In the northern hemisphere these" we normally capitalise Earth's hemispheres as a proper name. (Northern Hemisphere) JennyOz (talk) 12:32, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
• In last line pls tweak typo in "was phottographed in" JennyOz (talk) 12:32, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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