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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)

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The Børsen fire blurb should probably link "catches fire" to 2024 Børsen fire. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The fire article has fewer details than the main article. Stephen 04:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Can't we link it without bolding it? Also, the article has the details now Aaron Liu (talk) 11:05, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The first bullet is "The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire." This can be updated, since there is now an article about the fire (2024 Børsen fire) and we also now know that its spire fell. A rewrite:

• The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire.

Another:

• The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire, which topples its iconic spire.

Not very familiar with source editing, wanted to point this out. Qwaabza (talk) 01:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The details of what damage was done is best left to reading the article. Stephen 04:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Re: link Which page to bold is best determined at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Børsen, where there is already discussion on this.—Bagumba (talk) 07:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

There is more discussion here and ERRORS is usually the page about changing blurbs. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Bagumba. If consensus forms at ITNC to change the bolded link, I'd be happy to make the change. You may want to comment at ITNC and ping anyone who has only commented here. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:42, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

There are only two comments at ITNC though, both of which were made after both initial comments here. Anyways I'm gonna post a link to this discussion at ITNC. It's my understanding that blurb discussions after posting almost always happen here instead.

Just saw that there's a lot before the parts I saw. Still, I feel like this discussion is more on topic, while the one at ITNC talks about a lot of stuff including the image. 16:32, 17 April 2024 (UTC) Aaron Liu (talk) 16:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

• Anyhow, can we please get consensus to at least just link "catches fire"? Aaron Liu (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

  Moot, article merged. Aaron Liu (talk) 17:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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