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Errors in the summary of the featured article
Errors with "In the news"
@Bagumba, Amakuru, Schwede66, and Stephen: Sorry I missed this discussion. It seems that in 2015 the decision was made to take the casual reader to the least EGGy page rather than the page with content regarding the winning team. It seems that in biography pages we stand at no consensus and on the main page a 2015 discussion is considered to be a consensus. The season page actually has the roster of the people who won the championship. I personally like to be able to see the people who we are actually talking about rather than the history of the franchise, but things are not going to change around here.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- @TonyTheTiger: I suggest taking this up at WT:ITN. This isn't an obvious error and had already been on ERRORs for almost day.[1] —Bagumba (talk) 05:37, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- A discussion 10 years ago between two editors seems to have set the precedence that we must now abide by. Stephen 07:37, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
Errors in "Did you know ..."
The last entry is grammatically incorrect and/or a typo; it should say "him" instead of "his" per Template:Did you know nominations/Luka Dončić–Anthony Davis trade. Please fix it, thank you. Left guide (talk) 06:36, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Pinging Newyorkbrad, who changed it.[2] —Bagumba (talk) 09:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Is that an English variant issue? "His" is painful to my ears. Schwede66 09:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- The change is consistent with how I would say it, but if anyone disagrees you can change it back; I wouldnt have changed something on the main page if I'd thought there would be any disagreement. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 10:36, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Me too, but en-gb speaker here. Maybe this is okay in the us. Secretlondon (talk) 11:19, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- I use American English, and I second the complaints here. It is very unnatural, and I am surprised someone changed the hook. GGOTCC (talk) 11:32, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- ... that the mammal species found at the second-highest known altitude may be either the puna mouse or the eastern puna mouse? which are found at 6,046-metre: or the yak, found at 6100m, or the Large-eared pika, found at 6130m. Or the Bharal, also recorded at 6100m. Perhaps others my short search didn't reveal. But in any case it doesn't seem like the claim in the hook is correct. Fram (talk) 09:45, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- This is an irritating hook as it doesn't say which/where the second highest known altitude is. I presume it's a specific location but it's not telling us that. Secretlondon (talk) 11:21, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Actually looking at the articles it is talking about second-highest elevation range, not absolute elevation as claimed in the hook. This is a misunderstanding of the claim. Secretlondon (talk) 11:29, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Even the source says "elevational range limit" ie a range. People don't understand what they are writing. Secretlondon (talk) 11:30, 11 April 2025 (UTC)