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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 with "In the news"

• In the Nobel economic item global inequality could benefit from a wikilink as one of the key terms. Brandmeister^talk 16:25, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

• The choice of the blurb is unfortunate. We usually use the wording in the statement of the Nobel Committee, which is 'for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity'. There's no notion of 'research on global inequality', and this is largely original research by The New York Times.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 08:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

China didn't make memento dollars in 1914; the image caption should say "1912 memento dollar" Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 17:18, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

 Done, thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:22, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

• Please remove the blank line between the title and the first item. The same problem needed correcting on the Oct. 12th DYK. JMCHutchinson (talk) 18:52, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

  @Jmchutchinson, I don't see a blank line in the Hooks section. Other whitespace does not get copied to the Main Page. For a recent example: if you mean the blank line as in this revision, it does not get copied to the DYK template by the bot. So this is not an error and does not need to be fixed. —Kusma (talk) 20:18, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Kusma, thanks for responding. I see a blank line there at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Tomorrow, which I presume will accurately depict the appearance of the main page tomorrow. I am using the default skin on a PC, using Firefox or Edge, and it is there regardless of the magnification that I set. I could not see a blank line in either of the example pages that you specified in your response. JMCHutchinson (talk) 20:44, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

• I've blanked the empty space for now to allow for an easier comparison of the lengths of the MP sections, though I agree with Kusma that this is not an error per se as the bot will not copy the blank space. I will raise a question at WT:DYK to see if there is a way to avoid having the blank space introduced in queue, as that will mitigate error reports.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:01, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(October 18, tomorrow)

Monday's FL

(October 21)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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