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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

Talbot H. Green

The hook on the main page claims Green used a "false identity". I cannot find such a claim in the article or in the source used at Template:Did you know nominations/Talbot H. Green. The law at the time allowed people to change their name and to use different names. Green appears to have used an alias to get away from his former name. But that was not a "fake name", it was a perfectly lawful new name, or we could say "alias". The hook might be okay if it said "alias". Moonraker (talk) 23:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

Certainly not an error per se, but in the fourth hook, I suggest changing "portion" to "part" just for some elegant variation from the hook directly above. Primergrey (talk) 22:42, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Shouldn't that hook say in China?--Launchballer 22:45, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, are you asking me? Primergrey (talk) 22:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm asking whoever mans this page.--Launchballer 23:01, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I actually thought about that, Launchballer, and decided it was clear enough without it to dispense with the extra wordiness. No objection if others disagree. Valereee (talk) 23:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't seem to make sense as written... Plans to shoot portions of the film were cancelled? That sounds like they didn't shoot any of it.  — Amakuru (talk) 23:11, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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