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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)

Tomorrow's FA

Just a head's-up that I'm staying out of this one. Productive discussions are ongoing at WT:Today's featured article/April 2024#1984 world snooker championship. - Dank (push to talk) 00:21, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

I just want to be clear that, the rare times (like, 1 time out of 92 so far) that I say that I'm butting out, that doesn't mean that I'm expecting, or that anyone is expecting, for someone else to hop to attention and sort things out. I just want to make sure that I don't inadvertantly hold things up by not saying anything. I don't mean to embarrass anyone, but since I know people will be thinking "wtf is he talking about?" and start searching around, here's what I'm talking about: several points have been raised at the monthly talk page, including an objection to a description of an event that had 32 players: "[It] was the eighth consecutive World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible since the 1977 event. It featured 94 participants, of which 78 players competed ...". I'm not saying this is wrong, only that it might not be the most natural way to describe what happened to people who aren't familiar with snooker. I'd appreciate it if someone would take a look at this. - Dank (push to talk) 14:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• Could the bold in the final hook be limited to "a committee of Chinese compatriots"? Hameltion (talk | contribs) 03:33, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

  Agreed, it's current state is an eyesore, and perhaps a violation of WP:NPOV by taking the propagandistic name at face-value. wound theology◈ 06:27, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

  I looked at this when I promoted it. There's a (short) discussion of the issue at Template:Did you know nominations/Struggle Committee (Hong Kong) and I decided to give it a little latitude because it's in the quirky slot. But I won't object if another admin wants to change it. RoySmith (talk) 13:48, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Please hyphenate the compound modifier to read "damselfly-relative Okanagrion". Thanks. JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(April 26)

Monday's FL

(April 22)

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.

Tomorrow's POTD

• Walter White blurb - "racial segregation" and "public segregation in the United States" both link to same target article. JennyOz (talk) 04:27, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

   Fixed Schwede66 06:13, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

April 10 OTD

I just want to say I appreciate that the April 10 OTD has a couple of "lighter" items (The Great Gatsby being published and Beatles breaking up). It's nice to see that it's not all doom and gloom. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 16:05, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Jessintime. To some, the Beatles breaking up might have been the worst news of 1970. Appreciate your feedback, though. Schwede66 19:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Capitalisation: "Main Page" vs "Main page"

Hello. I haven't done an exhaustive search of the archives so I apologise if this has been asked before. I did find a question from 2004 suggesting that the "P" in "Main Page" should be decapitalised; although I support that suggestion, that is not what I wish to discuss here.

My issue is with the inconsistency of the capitalisation. Whereas in most places, including the page's title, it is referred to with the capital "P" ("Main Page"), the link on the sidebar has a lowercase "p" ("Main page").

Is there a reason for this difference? With my current knowledge of the situation, I would suggest decapitalising this title everywhere; or, at least, capitalising the title in the sidebar to maintain consistency.

Thank you for your consideration. – Alisperic (talk) 07:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

See also related discussion links at Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why is the Main Page in the main (article) namespace? —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:36, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your recommendation. I have had a closer look at all of these discussions but I have not been able to find a satisfying answer to the question I posed here about capitalisation and the sidebar. Alisperic (talk) 12:17, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

For previous attempt to capitalize the link in the sidebar, see MediaWiki talk:Mainpage-description. Page MediaWiki:Mainpage-description controls the text in the sidebar, as can be see from debug locale. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I get it. Thanks for your help. Alisperic (talk) 21:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)