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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"

"A series of solar storms impact Earth" -- the word "impact" should be "impacts", conjugated to go with "a series" Dotdotdotatsignapostrophe (talk) 14:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Nope. It's a collective plural.  — Amakuru (talk) 15:03, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I think this is American and British English grammatical differences Secretlondon (talk) 15:08, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

In protests, could we link New Caledonia for accessibility? Brandmeister^talk 16:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I’d regard that as MOS:OVERLINK, as I think of it as a country (which, admittedly, it technically is not). Schwede66 18:29, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

It's rather less known than, e.g., France or US for MOS:OVERLINK purpose, but anyway... Brandmeister^talk 18:36, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

The caption for the photograph says 'Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. But the photograph was taken AFTER the ceremony, at which point she was no longer called 'Meghan Markle'. 85.144.85.184 (talk) 17:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Amakuru, you’d know better than me whether that’s an issue. Schwede66 18:57, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 24)

Monday's FL

(May 20, tomorrow)

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list/May 20, 2024

 – * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

The blurb was modified yesterday in a way that made it clearer that the boldfaced link leads to the timeline (as opposed to the main season article), and while I like the new intro, the change did introduce a new minor issue. The blurb now states twice that eighteen systems formed overall during the season; I would like to propose the following change to rectify this (my specific recommendations emphasized):

“ Eighteen tropical cyclones formed during the 1993 Pacific hurricane season, an event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones over the Pacific Ocean north of the Equator and east of the International Date Line. Fifteen cyclones developed into named tropical storms, of which eleven became hurricanes and nine became major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale). The season officially began on May 15 in the Eastern Pacific proper (east of 140°W) and June 1 in the Central Pacific (140°W to the International Date Line), and ended on November 30. A total of eighteen tropical depressions formed; fifteen of these developed into named tropical storms, of which eleven became hurricanes and nine became major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale). The most impactful storm of the season was Hurricane Calvin (pictured), which made landfall near Manzanillo in the Mexican state of Colima as a Category 2 hurricane; it killed more than 30 people, mainly due to significant flooding, and damages amounted to $32 million. ”

Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 14:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

The current POTD depicts an oak acorn, and the description in part reads "This acorn of the species Quercus robur (the pedunculate oak) . . . ."

However, it looks to me like that of Quercus petraea (the sessile oak). The acorns of Q. robor are borne on stalks (or 'peduncles') hence the name, while those of Q. petraea sit (hence 'sessile') directly on the twigs. The two species are otherwise quite similar and easily confused, and both are found throughout Europe.

The picture's file — File:Quercus robur acorn - Keila.jpg — uses the filename and description box title Quercus robor but mentions no other distinguishing details (unless in the Finnish text). I think the File name is a mistake.

I suggest this needs to be looked at, and corrected if I am right. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.67.173 (talk) 14:05, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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