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Errors in the "In the news" section

"Twenty-one people are killed when a bus falls from a bridge in Venice, Italy."

The incident happened at Mestre, a town in the Province of Venice but that is located on the continent, not in the insular city. I propose the article to be amended into: "Twenty-one people are killed when a bus falls from a bridge in Mestre, Venice, Italy."

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 in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• The with in Fly with Me should not be capitalized, per MOS:TITLECAPS. —Matthew  / (talk) 05:32, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

   Done :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 06:24, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Next DYK

• Q4 - 4th hook "of a murder onboard a bus" - onboard should be two words. JennyOz (talk) 09:50, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
• 5th hook "that an old paper mill is being redeveloped into a residential area" - I can't access all sources but I get the idea that all the mill structures have been demolished, ie no mill buildings are being repurposed. If so, should hook say "that the site of an old paper mill is being redeveloped into a residential area"? JennyOz (talk) 09:50, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

  Both  Done. I went with "on a bus". I can access a few of the Alphington sources and couldn't see any suggestion that the mill structures are being repurposed. Pinging GMH Melbourne to make sure "the site of" works for them. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:39, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

• 2008: should be in past tense. Also: we could remove "crater" from the bolded link to avoid repetition and since the article title doesn't have the word as part of the crater's name. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 00:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

   Done Schwede66 00:30, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 29, tomorrow)

Monday's FL

(December 2)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Tomorrow's POTD

• Malformed credit line, and Australia can be delinked as conventional. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 00:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for the report.  Done – Schwede66 00:32, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Any other Main Page errors

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