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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

Possibly...

... that Carrie Swain was possibly the first woman entertainer to perform in blackface?

Per WP:DYKHOOK, hooks "should include a definite fact...". The word "possibly" makes it quite clear that this is not definite. See The Masque of Blackness for an earlier counterexample. Andrew🐉(talk) 11:38, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Courtesy pings to @4meter4, Dahn, PrimalMustelid, and RoySmith – without comment on this interpretation of the "definite fact" clause, pulled due to the counterexample that seems to check out. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 11:43, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Works for me. We should just have a blanket rule against running "first" hooks. RoySmith (talk) 13:36, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree. There are more interesting things to say about this woman. Valereee (talk) 13:53, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Andrew Davidson, Theleekycauldron, and Valereee So, was this hook pulled? What happened to it? If it was pulled what can be done now? It should be re-opened at hook review. Regardless, I think this was a bad decision as it is not a fact likely to change given the age and subject matter. The cited policy in context reads "definite fact that is unlikely to change". We could have been cautious and said one of the earliest women to perform in blackface, but that's not actually what the source said, which was she was likely the first. 4meter4 (talk) 18:35, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

I think that hook fails verification and have made edits to the article and posted an explanation and quote on the article talk page. Levivich (talk) 20:18, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, 4m4, it was pulled for failing verification. Valereee (talk) 20:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Beatified

The word “beatified” ought to be linked in the Great Genna Martyrdom hook. Anyone unfamiliar with the Catholic church’s treatment of saints will be confused. Zanahary (talk) 16:39, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Done. RoySmith (talk) 16:49, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 14)

Monday's FL

(June 10, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Tomorrow's POTD

• 10 June - at "is a shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined" the two links are the same.

Could perhaps pipe a link to "supersonic" ie Supersonic speed? JennyOz (talk) 15:00, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Duplicate link removed. I'm neutral on the supersonic link. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:04, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

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