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Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

In The Left Hand of Darkness summary, "science fiction" is linked only on its fourth occurrence. If it's going to be linked, I think it should be on its first occurrence. Thanks. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, per WP:BTW "as a rule of thumb editors should only link the term's first occurrence in the text of the article". Brandmeister^talk 08:24, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

• Science fiction is fairly well-known and so doesn't need linking. It would be more to the point to link the specific sub-genre – feminist science fiction. Andrew D. (talk) 09:30, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

• Good idea. Brandmeister^talk 09:36, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

I've linked both sf at first mention & feminist science fiction. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:12, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

• It's a shame the blurb uses "seminal", if anyone can think of an ungendered synonym? As another aside, is there a reason why the apparently free image of Le Guin isn't being used? It's making the main page rather unbalanced, as noted below by The Rambling Man. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:12, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
  • I'll remove "seminal"; it's not needed. On the image question, pinging Chris and David Levy. - Dank (push to talk) 12:36, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
    • Image added. —David Levy 19:21, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
  • I'm sure you know the adjective "seminal" comes from the Latin for a seed: you know, an embryonic plant - a small thing that can grow into something much larger, like a small book that has an enormous impact. Are seeds inherently gendered? But if you are concerned about the gendered nature of seeds, I suppose you could use " infuential" instead - if you are able to overlook that word being derived from astrology.

Errors in In the news

Peshmerga should not be capitalized, per the article. Primergrey (talk) 13:39, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Errors in the current Did you know...

• Why isn't the quote in the headache vine item in quotation marks? Or does it only affect men? Stephen 04:25, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Bryan Garner says:

One … he. This expression, though historically condemned as inferior to one … one, actually predominates in AmE usage. […] But its future probably isn't bright: one … he bothers strict grammarians as being less than fully grammatical, and it bothers other readers as being sexist."

I might add that "One...he" is sufficiently rare in BrE to be read as a simple mistake. Per MOS:COMMONALITY one might change it to...:

cause one to feel as if one's head is "exploding" ... making one forget all about one's headache?

...but better still would be using the quote that's actually in the article:

cause one to feel as if one's head is "exploding ... such that the initial headache was quickly forgotten"

jnestorius^(talk) 09:24, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

• I agree that this vine hook ties itself in knots. How about:

"... that fumes from the headache vine (pictured) are so pungent that the sufferer forgets their headache?"

Andrew D. (talk) 09:40, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

I've gone with a longer version that hopefully fixes the gender problem; given how unbalanced the page is at the moment, a radically shorter hook is not ideal. The extended quotation is also a bit tricky because of the tenses; "exploding ... such that the initial headache [is] quickly forgotten" would be ok if anyone prefers it? Espresso Addict (talk) 11:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

The main page is terribly lopsided today as the TFA has no image, suggest one of the OTD hooks is pulled; if the 1983 hook remains, can we also just tweak the target to "bombings" to avoid the redirect? Thanks!! The Rambling Man (talk) 06:06, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Fixed redirect. I've removed an old news item to improve the balance. Not sure why the free picture of Le Guin isn't being used for the TFA. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:05, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

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