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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"

Is the number of fatalities in the crash 8 or 9? The short description here says 9 but the article it links to says 8. With Love from Cassie Schebel (talk) 16:10, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

The article text says (and I've added a running count in brackets): The Bell 212 utility helicopter was carrying the president of Iran Ebrahim Raisi (1), foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (2), governor-general of Iran's East Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati (3), and the representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem (4). Raisi's head of security (5) and three members of flight crew were also killed in the crash (8). This aligns with reporting from CNN, with the imam referred to being Ale-Hashem. As such, I suggest that the article is correct and what's on the main page is incorrect. I shall change the ITN number to eight. Schwede66 18:18, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

In the caption: "her 1917 story The Underside formed"; change to "her 1917 short story "The Underside" formed" (wording, italics to quotation marks) per:

• Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 648. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

Edit: This is for {{Template:POTD/2024-05-20}}. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DocWatson42 (talk • contribs)

Partially  Done. I've added the word "short" but short stories are not shown in italic font as per MOS:NOITALIC, DocWatson42. Schwede66 03:48, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Pardon me–I meant "change the italics to quotation marks", but was trying to be brief on the (mistaken) assumption that that was clear enough. :-/ —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Based on MOS:MINORWORK. —DocWatson42 (talk) 03:57, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I read your (somewhat cryptic) instructions as "apply italics to the quotation marks as well". Schwede66 03:59, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry. :-( On reexamining it, I really just meant to list the two changes. —DocWatson42 (talk) 13:10, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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