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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

• "that a Long Island TV station sued a columnist for satirizing its signal ...". I was confused how you can possibly satirize an electromagnetic signal. It turns out that what was meant was "the weakness of its signal", but the article uses "receivability". I considered "poor reception", but that might be misinterpreted as what people thought of it. JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:12, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

"... that the creator of what is considered the world's first escape room attributed his idea to playing the online Flash game Crimson Room?"

@LewisMCYoutube, Juxlos, and History6042: The article uses the very WP:WEASELly "has been said to have incited the creation of the first real escape room event hosted by Japanese magazine SCRAP" - and is given five different citations bundled when an inline for this would be ideal. Was this the first escape room specifically made by SCRAP? That's the way it's worded. I believe SCRAP's first escape room reasonably could be good for this hook but "what is considered the world's first" is faulty because the enwp article Escape room has dates for a room in Spain as far back as 2003, before Crimson Room's release in 2004. Departure– (talk) 01:31, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Going to add that the Spanish escape room has no inline citations in the article but at its own article Négone, as orange tagged as it may be, does source a 2003 date, but it's behind a paywall so I can't verify at this very second. Departure– (talk) 01:35, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Yet another problematic "first" hook. SL93 (talk) 01:36, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

 Pulled. I'm surprised this wasn't discussed at WT:DYK as part of promoting it. Schwede66 04:15, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Schwede66 I queued the set, but I was only aware of the bit about "Such hooks require sourcing that discusses the set in some detail; a throwaway comment in an article about the subject is not sufficient." While I didn't see it added anywhere, I did see the long discussion about it. In this case, there are several such workable sources. I was not aware of "Additionally, queuers are encouraged to bring superlative hooks to Wikipedia talk:Did you know for further discussion even if they appear watertight." I wonder what else I missed from not being glued to the DYK talk page because I'm certainly not going to read the same guidelines/policies every single time that I do something. SL93 (talk) 07:46, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

• ... that the first defendants indicted for the crime of apartheid have not yet faced trial?: this is my error, as I approved the hook, but it should be a crime of apartheid (that is, a crime committed on behalf of the Apartheid state), not the crime. The crime itself was murder. Ping to Buidhe as nominator and main editor. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 11:29, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

•  Done. Black Kite (talk) 11:42, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

UndercoverClassicist and Black Kite I'm afraid you are both mistaken. The article is very clear that it's about the first time someone was charged with the crime of apartheid, not the first time someone was charged for crimes committed on behalf of the South African government under apartheid rule. The defendants were additionally charged with murder. (t · c) buidhe 16:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Oops — yes, it is — I jumped in too hastily there after rereading the lead. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 16:51, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Kindly replace the silhouette with File:Jack jouett silhouette.svg. We are in 2025, not 1995 and don't need heavy JPEG artificing. Oh, and it takes up less space than the JPEG! JayCubby 00:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

   Done Schwede66 04:21, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

There's an extraneous semicolon after Martyrs Day in Uganda. Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:04, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

 Fixed Schwede66 04:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

• Not an error as such, but why are we using the image slot today to illustrate someone who we don't actually have a proper image of? We have good images of the Duke of Windsor and of the ships involved in the fourth hook. Black Kite (talk) 10:27, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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