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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 in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

"... that Adrien Nunez (pictured), despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than some NBA draft lottery picks while in college?"

• The source says that he is ranked higher than projected top-five NBA draft pick Jaden Ivey and North Carolina star Caleb Love..[1] That's singular—"projected top-five NBA draft pick Jaden Ivey". This doesn't support the hook's some and plural picks. It's one pick, and the hook is missing the source's projected. Jaden Ivey was not in the NBA at the time, and the comparison is to his pay in college, not in the NBA.
  
  Suggest change to "somea projected NBA draft lottery picks" @TonyTheTiger, BeanieFan11, SL93, and AirshipJungleman29: Courtesy ping to nom participants.—Bagumba (talk) 02:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Your change sounds good to me, but I'm saying that as someone who isn't all that knowledgeable about sports. SL93 (talk) 03:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Fixed—Bagumba (talk) 06:41, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(January 17)

Monday's FL

(January 13, tomorrow)

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.

Today's POTD

• I honestly doubt that John Henry Turpin meets the "up to scratch" bit of WP:POTD/G; it has six citation needed tags and an orange-banner uncited section. Definitely nowhere near GA, although that's far from a POTD requirement. charlotte ^👸♥ 02:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

I've removed all of the uncited information, although now I'd say it's too short for a GA. E_F⁵ 02:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

General discussion

HM Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday milestone

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I am surprised that the Main Page makes no mention of today's 90th birthday (21st April) of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who is Head of State of sixteen Commonwealth countries. Clearly the 90th birthday of such an eminent person as Her Majesty deserves a mention, and I am completely perplexed as to why it is not mentioned. Ds1994 (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Extraordinary omission, I agree! Has political correctness struck again? Or just editorial myopia? Shurely (sic) we should be told (ed.) --Bermicourt (talk) 18:27, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

It's only not mentioned because you didn't go through the steps to get it mentioned. WP:DYK, WP:OTD, WP:TFA, WP:OTD, and WP:TFP would have ALL been good venues to highlight the event, and yet you did absolutely nothing to prepare for it. You can't blame anyone else for not doing what you couldn't have been bothered to do yourself. In the future, if there is something you'd like to see featured on the main page of Wikipedia in some capacity, do the work necessary to make it so. Don't blame other people for not reading your mind and knowing what you want them to do. WP:SOFIXIT. --Jayron32 18:44, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Well, that's told us then. But it does not excuse the fact that those editors responsible for putting the main page together should have spotted such an eminent birthday on the 21st April. It does Wikipedia no good by its omission, and it certainly does Wikipedia no good for your acerbic and dictatorial admonition Jayron32. Perhaps you should learn some manners before posting such virulent rudeness on here.Ds1994 (talk) 19:12, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Well, lets look at it. Elizabeth II is a FA, but is not eligible to be TFA as it has appeared before. Neither OTD nor ITN usually posts birthdays, nor should they be expected to post an arbitrary number - and no offence, but Elizabeth does not deserve an exception. I am not aware of any featured pictures that could appear as TFP, and likewise, I am not aware of any qualifying articles for a DYK nomination. Resolute 19:23, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

The OTD rules say we only list birth and natural death notices on centennial anniversaries. So while impressively long-lived, 90 doesn't quite make it. —howcheng {chat} 15:42, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

So, you get to rudely barge in and demand that others should have already done some work that you didn't bother to do yourself, but no one is allowed to call you on your rudeness? You do know that no one else at Wikipedia is better than you, right? There is no editorial board, no central decision making process, right? It's a bunch of randos who do whatever they feel is necessary to make the Encyclopedia better on their own free time, and that you have the same rights to make the encyclopedia better on your own time? Demanding that people do work (or worse yet, chastising people for not doing work) that you can't be bothered to do yourself is the height of virulent rudeness. --Jayron32 19:40, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Why do you expect the editors to know everything? Perhaps you should have undertaken the effort to report the event?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:20, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Well, you certainly should have known, as the State of Georgia is named after King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. I suggest you clean out your own cupboard before questioning the integrity of others. This is my last contribution in this matter, as clearly none of you have any respect for Her Majesty The Queen, or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or any of the Commonwealth countries of which Her Majesty is Head of State. A truly pathetic omission on the part of Wikipedia, and a truly sad and pathetic response from individuals on this page who should know better, but don't. But then what do you expect from redneck American republicans? Thank you, and good bye.Ds1994 (talk) 21:36, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Cheers mate, from a lovely British editor who disagrees, not all of them are red-necks. Perhaps grow up a little and stop being hysterical and you may be taken more seriously. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:40, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

And people wonder why we're trying to secede. GRAPPLE ^X 22:02, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

My god you are insufferable. I almost would demand not to post the Queen's birthday out of spite now if this is the ilk of her supporters.--WaltCip (talk) 03:36, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

• When I started reading this, I thought it had to be a joke. Who talks like this? As far as milestones are concerned, an old lady reaching 90 is perhaps not quite so noteworthy. And to our tightly-wound moaner, as the noble Scots are wont to say, you’re all bum and parsley. freshacconci talk to me 23:22, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm trying to figure out a concrete relationship between George II and Elizabeth II's birthday. Let's see... If there was a king named George, then the queen named Elizabeth must have a birthday in April. Eureka!--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:32, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I think the birthday was mentioned through 'the usual news channels' so people would have been aware of it anyway.

As a compromise - perhaps a 'UK royal related entry of some sort' on the MP for such dates - and getting the article up to standard for April 2026. Jackiespeel (talk) 14:28, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I assume wishing other people long life (and other benefits) is within WP guidelines. Jackiespeel (talk) 09:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Any encyclopedic value? --70.48.151.163 (talk) 13:42, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

OK on individual user's talk page, but probably not on the main page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.151.163 (talk) 13:43, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

In part trying to find a positive summary to end the discussion and 'how to deal with such things in the future.' Jackiespeel (talk) 09:11, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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