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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 "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Photo caption: The name of the ship should be italicized. Also, I'm unsure whether the Mainz is the ship in the foreground of the photo, or the one seen in the distance, but maybe that's just me. —⁠71.105.243.101 (talk) 02:00, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
  • I second the first point, and the second point makes sense to me. —DocWatson42 (talk) 02:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

     Fixed – Schwede66 02:30, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

• 1169 – Battle of the Blacks. - This battle occurred 21–23 August 1169. JennyOz (talk) 05:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

• When I wrote the hook, I only included information that happened on the first day and stated at the end: "starting the Battle of the Blacks". There have been other hooks run on OTD of battles that have lasted multiple days, and the hooks specify what specifically happened in the battle on the day that it appears at OTD. If I have made a mistake please comment below. Z1720 (talk) 05:44, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

  @Z1720: I think the confusion is that the article says the battle was 21–23 August, but this is running on 28 August, after that span. Some date is not right if this was really to have started the battle. Also, your edit summary says Swapping hooks; + Battle of the Blacks; Shulamith Firestone to ineligible—perhaps this wasn't meant to run, but instead be placed under "Ineligible" (but the dates still seem off)—Bagumba (talk) 06:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

• I took another look and saw that I was mistaken. I pulled the hook and put in another one. The entries I pulled from Wikidata for Aug 28 had this battle listed and I missed the dates at the top of the article. The edit summary was not incorrect of my intentions. Z1720 (talk) 06:16, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(September 20)

Monday's FL

(September 16)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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