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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"

• SpaceX Starship - it is incorrect to say this was the first launch of Starship: it was its first fully-integrated launch (i.e. Starship and Booster) and the first one intended to reach space, but the Starship vehicle itself has flown several times previously as outlined in the high-altitude flights section of the Starship article. The entry should still be included, but needs to be qualified as the current wording is very misleading. 2A02:C7F:2CE3:4700:F4E1:539D:24BE:6186 (talk) 17:54, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
• Yemen Stempede Change "stampede" to "crowd crush" per recent move. "At least 90 people are killed and 322 others are injured in a stampede in Sanaa, Yemen." --> "At least 90 people are killed and 322 others are injured in a crowd crush in Sanaa, Yemen."— Preceding unsigned comment added by Spy-cicle (talk • contribs) 18:01, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  Done—Bagumba (talk) 18:23, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

• SpaceX Starship - the most powerful rocket ever, the text currently on the main page, sounds a bit too WP:HYPE to me. Any interest in changing this to the most powerful rocket to date? Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:31, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
• SpaceX Starship - is first launched. Is the word first needed here? Could possibly be removed. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:31, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

  I agree with both points, especially the removal of the word "first" from both the blurb and the image caption. It is not correct to call this the first launch of the Starship (see IP comment above), and this is not the main point of the story. Note that the posted blurb was not one of those proposed in the ITN discussion, so it has no pre-established consensus.

  To be specific, the suggestion is to replace the current blurb with the following: [[SpaceX Starship]], the most powerful rocket to date, is '''[[SpaceX Starship orbital test flight|launched]]''' ''(pictured)'' from Texas and explodes almost four minutes into the flight. The image caption could simply read "Launch of SpaceX Starship" unless anyone has a better suggestion. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 06:44, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

• SpaceX Starship The word "exploded" suggests it blew up accidentally/unintentionally, when it was a self destruct that was triggered deliberately due to a malfunction. Suggest "SpaceX Starship, the most powerful rocket ever, is first launched (pictured) from Texas and is deliberately destroyed almost four minutes into the flight after a malfunction." 331dot (talk) 08:05, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Monday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

i feel that it would be more appropriate to set the dir parameter in the {{wide image}} template to "rtl" because i believe the scroll is meant to be read from right to left. (the article on the lantingji xu displays the scroll in this manner.) also, i think it might help to set the fourth parameter to "650px" (instead of "550px") in order to not cut off the last of the four large characters, but i am not sure if there is another reason why that width was chosen.

on a completely different note, i think the capitalization should be removed from "Even". dying (talk) 01:52, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Tomorrow's POTD

• 23 April Duchess Anna Amalia Library - German literature is linked twice. Also, maybe add "This photo is from the Rococo hall."? JennyOz (talk) 05:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

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