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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)

Today's FA

Possible non-free image on today's FA?

I am concerned that the image on today's FA (Donkey Kong Country) is non-free. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donkey_Kong_Country_Logo.webp) The logo uses stars as the hole of the "O" letter and the word "country" is stylised. The logo is for a copyrighted video game and a similar image was taken off the page a few days or weeks ago for another computer game (mario party DS i believe?) so I feel this is yet another error. Looking at the commons upload this was imported off the logopedia FANDOM wiki which seems to disregard copyright and hosts many copyrighted logos on their site, so I also suspect the Commons upload is mislabeled. Apologies if any formatting is inappropriate, haven't edited in a while. ♡Draco Centauros♡ (talk) 14:34, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• I tend to agree that this is likely to cross the TOO.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:49, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Yep. I'd honestly start a discussion on Commons about the status of said image but worried it will interfere with the TFA or my discussion be mistaken for vandalism as I have not contributed there yet. Maybe time for an audit of Logopedia imported images over there? ♡Draco Centauros♡ (talk) 14:57, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you"... The article is much less certain that this was an accurate representation of Khrushchev's actual quote, it states: The phrase was received very negatively by contemporary Western audiences, but modern translators have suggested the phrase was mistranslated. and Some authors suggest that an alternative translation is "We shall be present at your funeral". or, from the New York Times: But it turns out that’s not what he said, not in Russian, anyway. Khrushchev’s actual declaration was “We will outlast you” — prematurely boastful, perhaps, but not quite the declaration of hostilities most Americans heard, thanks to his interpreter’s mistake. ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 10:25, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Agreed, I have amended it a little (adding "was translated into English.."). Not quite as snappy now but hopefully still makes sense. Open to better phrasings - Dumelow (talk) 12:30, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

East Indiamen

• Re the Bay of Bengal item: the Indian Army wasn't formed until 1895, almost a century after those events. Technically the recruits were bound for the presidency armies, though that term probably isn't widely understood. I therefore recommend piping it like this: 'the army of the East India Company'. Modest Genius ^talk 15:53, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Agreed and changed. I went with "armies of the East India Company" and replaced "East Indiamen" with "ships" to avoid repetition - Dumelow (talk) 18:33, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• [...] two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jersualem... is it necessary to include the ethnicity of the two individuals in the OTD excerpt? I know that pro-Palestinian sentiments were the likely motivator, but then the excerpt should convey that as opposed to implying a relationship between terrorism and their ethnicity itself. It strikes me as similar to throwing in the word "Black" or "Muslim" in a headline involving a person who comes from that ethnic background, in order to exacerbate prejudices. It implies that being Black or Muslim - or in this case being Palestinian - is causally related to committing the crime in question, which is racist. For the purposes of OTD, perhaps it should say "two men who were allegedly affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" or if not that, simply "two terrorists" or "two men from Jerusalem". 199.212.64.69 (talk) 19:17, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 22)

Monday's FL

(November 18, today)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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