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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)

Today's FA

• please change the link target for "Achaea" to "Principality of Achaea", to conform with the link to the kingdom of jerusalem, as pointed out by fac nominator Borsoka in this discussion. dying (talk) 22:59, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

•  Done as requested. Schwede66 00:07, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

  • thanks, Schwede66. dying (talk) 00:10, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

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• ... that when launched in 1896, the freighter Sir William Siemens (pictured) and her sister ships were the largest vessels on the Great Lakes?

This claim is not found in the article, which says that Siemens was "one of the largest ships on the Great Lakes at the time of her construction" (my emphasis), not at the time of launch as the hook says. Neither of these claims are stated directly in the cited source; the hook seems to be put together from several bits of info in the source, namely that (a) Siemens sister ship, Coralia, which launched five months earlier, was "longer than any other ship on the lakes" (though at what time is not stated); (b) the three sister ships were built to identical specifications; and (c) a ship longer than the three of them was launched at a later date than the Siemens, the implication being that this was the first ship to surpass Coralia, and therefore Siemens, in length. I feel like this is pushing the boundaries of synthesis for a Main Page appearance. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 01:13, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

Galilean moons

"1610 – Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night."

Galilean moons says "he was able to see celestial bodies more distinctly than was previously possible. This allowed Galileo to observe in either December 1609 or January 1610 what came to be known as the Galilean moons" and only that he wrote a letter containing the discovery on 7 January. The moon articles vary; Io states 7 January (and distinguished on 8 January), Europa 8 January, Ganymede 7 January and Callisto just "January" - Dumelow (talk) 07:37, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Note that this January 7 OTD has not been updated since the 2022 post. It might be easiest just to swap this out and place in the ineligible section with explanation.—Bagumba (talk) 08:31, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

The articles now say Io and Europa on 8 January, and Ganymede and Callisto on 7 January. Nevertheless I've kept it in and removed another one instead, so that we don't have three from the 20th century. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 23:16, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

if we're not certain of the date, it should probably be removed regardless though...  — Amakuru (talk) 23:35, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

Pope Innocent III

"1198 – Lotario de Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome."

The articles linked don't seem to be certain on his name, neither has "Lotario de Conti". The Innocent III article uses both "Lotario dei Conti di Segni" and "Lotario de' Conti" while the election article uses just "Lotario dei Conti di Segni" - Dumelow (talk) 07:35, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

"1972 – Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure."

The sentence is the article is not supported by a citation (the next sentence is cited to a December 1971 news article) - Dumelow (talk) 07:41, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Not a topic expert here, but I think we might have the date wrong. It looks like Mujib flew from Pakistan to England after his release. NYT says he arrived in London at about 6:30 AM on January 8. This piece from the Daily Sun places Mujib out of prison for a dinner with Bhutto on 7 January before his flight. I'd also love a second opinion smell test on the YouTube sources used in that article. Copyvio? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 08:29, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(January 10)

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(January 6, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

Helena Hill Weed

Birth and death years, stated only in the lead and infobox are uncited (I checked the references at the end of the first sentence in the lead) - Dumelow (talk) 07:51, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

I've added a reference for her year of death and age at death. Those two data points correspond with the given year of birth. I'd say that's good enough. Schwede66 00:15, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

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