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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"

• Why are we using ‘wins’ instead of ‘is elected’ in the blurb on the US election (we used the same wording back in 2016 as well)? Such wordings are typically used for show elections in authoritarian countries.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:22, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

  I wasn't sure exactly which wording was most accurate so I looked back at Biden's ITN, where we used "wins" and went with that. I wasn't sure how accurate it was to describe him as having been elected, when at this point it's just that major news orgs are calling the race. Sam Walton (talk) 11:28, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

  FWIW, "wins" was used previously for Biden.[1] —Bagumba (talk) 12:11, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

  At this time, "wins" is more correct than "elected" as he is only elected in early January when the electoral college votes are certified. --Masem (t) 13:19, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

• Valeriana: The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico.

  @Stephen: I had removed this word "dubbed" from the hook when I restored it, as it doesn't seem applicable to the scenario at hand. The article doesn't use that word anywhere, and from what I can gather the meaning is "to call by a distinctive title, epithet, or nickname". But this isn't any of those things, the city has simply been named Valeriana. The hook is supposed to reflect the article so I'm not sure why you changed this.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:57, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

  From the ITNC nom for this, the issue is that there was probably a true name for the city in Mayan, but that hasn't been identified yet, so the researchers called it Valeriana for the time being. That's why "dubbed" is reasonable here. Masem (t) 13:31, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

• US Senate Donald Trump (pictured) wins the United States presidential election and Republicans take control of the Senate.: The bolded presidential election link doesn't cover the Senate results. 2024 United States Senate elections should be included, but that page does not have updated sourced prose on the results. Recommend pulling the Senate results from the blurb until that page is improved.—Bagumba (talk) 12:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

  Strictly speaking, the Republicans won't "take control of the Senate" until 3 January 2025. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 17:55, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Next DYK

• ... that the lyrics of Gigi Perez's "Sailor Song" were criticized by far-right conservative Christian communities?

Two sources describing the critics. The Official Chart Company uses that language "Given its central queer love story, the release of Sailor Song drew criticism from some far-right, conservative Christian groups online for the line "I don't believe in God, but you're my saviour." [2] but Billboard says the critics were "religious tiktokers" [3]. I don't think objecting to that quote makes you far right, and isn't this really plagiarism? It's certainly a quote. Secretlondon (talk) 14:34, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Launchballer, Mrfoogles, MaranoFan, AirshipJungleman29, and Crisco 1492: Courtesy notifiction to nom participants. —Bagumba (talk) 16:08, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

I think that while not all religious tiktokers are far-right, some certainly are. Objecting to someone essentially just saying they're an atheist is somewhat questionable, in my opinion. I agree with the other on the copyright basis and I think that the source is reliable for this on the factual basis. Mrfoogles (talk) 17:06, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Per WP:LIMITED, I wouldn't regard this as plagiarism. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

• Precisely. I can't readily think of a ready way to express the concept succinctly without using those words, at least without changing the meaning.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:17, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

What they both said.--Launchballer 16:28, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• '1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships were intercepted by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of the HMS Alexander.' Usage of 'the HMS' is normally deprecated. —Simon Harley (Talk). 09:32, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Sam Walton (talk) 11:26, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• Terribly sorry about this, but I may have made a slight whoopsie a few hours ago and used the recently-staged hook for Starship Troopers for tomorrow's OTD, not realising that Starship Troopers is tomorrow's featured article (and ofc it's now protected so yeah I gotta ask here instead of fixing it) Anyone mind swapping it out for me? Thanks 😅 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 00:11, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Replaced with Magic Johnson. (I've also added another item, given the length of the MP tomorrow) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:53, 6 November 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

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin held dual nationality so should be described as British-American rather than British-born American. Stronach (talk) 11:29, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

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