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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"

• Solar storms article: not good enough quality for the main page, too many citations needed and the fact used in the blurb about unusual southerly and northerly doesn't seem to be verified either.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:51, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

  Tagging on to mention that the image should really be changed - Bell Hill, Dorset is certainly subpar, any other location would be better.  Frzzl  talk; contribs  15:35, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

  Assuming you're referring to the article at Bell Hill, Dorset, I don't see much wrong with that - at least it's fully referenced, unlike the main bolded article here, which seems to be getting worse rather than better - now a fully unreferenced section. And subsidiary links aren't held to the same quality concerns as bold links anyway. Disappointing that no action has been taken on this more than five hours later, I would just pull it myself but would probably be deemed WP:INVOLVED by now. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 15:44, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

  Withdrawing complaint now, as the article is finally OK. But the improvement should have happened before posting, not way later.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Next DYK

• ... that when the Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper Bajroqi Miⱨnat switched to the Latin script, it did not use capital letters, following Jewish writing rules?

I would recommend rewording to "...it initially did not use capital letters..." "Initially" appears in the corresponding text in the article, and without that qualifier, it's a bit weird to read this and then click the article and see a Latin-script example with capital letters all over. -Elmer Clark (talk) 15:29, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Good shout. I was also a little confused by this at first when I was checking the hook, until I saw the "initially" in the article prose. But it's definitely good to include it in the hook too.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Monday's FL

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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.

Tomorrow's POTD

• 12 May Carpocoris purpureipennis blurb - "shield bug" is a redirect, pls pipe to Pentatomoidea. JennyOz (talk) 04:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

And maybe link "pronotum" to Prothorax and "scutellum" to Scutellum (insect anatomy)? JennyOz (talk) 04:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Also... maybe explain these images are of nymphs. The adults look very different, especially in relation to colours described in blurb. Could add sentence at bottom something like: 'These images show top and bottom views of C. purpureipennis nymphs.'? JennyOz (talk) 04:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for the report... I think normally someone casts eyes on and copyedits my submissions to POTD before they go live, but that hasn't happened with this one and I didn't give this one a full check. I'll try to do better next time :)  — Amakuru (talk) 16:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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