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Errors in the summary of the featured article
Today's main page image has a caption that reads (emphasis mine): "Electroshock weapons, common instruments of non-scarring torture" One can have physical scars, and psychological scars. Some material on the latter can be found on Wikipedia via the "emotional scar" redirect to psychological trauma. Some on-topic sources: "moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars"[1] "frightening regime that left deep psychological scars"[2] "psychological scars of downturns"[3] "psychological scarring from living in poverty or resource instability"[4] "survivors often suffering multiple traumas and psychological scarring"[5] "recent shocks to the world economy [...] such psychological scarring"[6] "days after the tsunami [...] psychological scarring"[7] Because of its nonspecificity, the caption implies that electroshock weapons do not cause psychological scars. I doubt anyone will be able to find a reliable source for that claim. Additionally, Taser safety issues alone show us that such weapons can also cause physical scars (and deaths). --Talky Muser (talk) 17:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Buidhe, do you have some thoughts on this? Wehwalt (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think this needs a change. Many reliable sources use the term "non-scarring torture" without apparent ambiguity. I think readers will expect descriptions of psychological scarring to be either explicitly labeled with psychological, closely following a use with that label, or present in a context where it's obvious that the psychological version is meant (like a breakup song). Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- "non-scarring" is a common term found in sources to describe tortures that typically do not leave physical scars, often in service of plausible deniability. It does not imply that such torture is less harmful. Obviously, some methods may or may not leave scars since there is a lot of variation in how scars are formed. (t · c) buidhe 18:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- All right, fair enough. Thanks for giving it some thought. --Talky Muser (talk) 19:38, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Errors with "In the news"
Errors in "Did you know ..."
Client Hints
Scare quotes on harmful, which is already neutral with attribution to Mozilla Corp. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 09:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's a fair point, the way I framed it, "harmful" was a quote from mozilla, but the hook works without quotes around harmful as well. Sohom (talk) 15:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "On this day"
Errors in the summary of the featured list
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