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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

• We should use DMY date format rather than MDY, to match the format of the article featured. GiantSnowman 08:33, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

  But that article uses mdy format!? Schwede66 09:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

  It doesn't anymore - MDY is not the Italian format, I have changed to DMY. All the related articles are already DMY. GiantSnowman 09:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

• Cyclone Chido Update the death toll to 140. HurricaneEdgar 15:02, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

   Done Schwede66 16:35, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(December 27)

Monday's FL

(December 23, 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.

General discussion

Why so grim?

This may be just a problem of today's version, but I cannot help noticing that the Main Page is very grim. All In the news blurbs are about death: terrorist attacks and an accident. The featured article is war-related. 3 out of 8 hooks in DYK are about violence: the Holocaust, a war, and a drug cartel standoff. All On this day blurbs are about violence: an assassination, warfare, a serial killer, and a terrorist attack. And just when I was about to catch a breath looking at Today's featured picture, I read in the text next to it that this guy too was murdered. Surely violence is not all that has ever happened and not all that is happening now, right? Surtsicna (talk) 23:04, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Ah, thank heavens for Die Göttin der Vernunft in DYK. And, of course, for the thoroughly invigorating Brexit in Ongoing. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: You can nominate or discuss articles for ITN, DYK, TFA and OTD if you feel the current selection is inappropriate. Isa (talk) 03:36, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Isa. I wanted to discuss it at ITN but then I noticed the rest of the Main Page was not much better in this regard. Yesterday it was at the most extreme. Today the issue is mostly with ITN and OTD, so I guess would make sense to bring this up there. Surtsicna (talk) 14:55, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

ligma

Ligma is a fictional disease associated with a death hoax orchestrated by Instagram user ninja_hater that claimed Fortnite streamer Ninja had passed away after contracting the disease. The intention of this joke was to prompt concerned fans to ask what Ligma is, to which participants in the hoax would respond with "ligma balls" ("lick my balls"), a joke setup similar to Deez Nuts and Updog .

harriet tumban

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman by Squyer, NPG, c1885.jpg Tubman c. 1885 Born Araminta Ross c. January 29,1822[1] Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S. Died March 10, 1913 (aged 90–91) Auburn, New York, U.S. Resting place Fort Hill Cemetery Auburn, New York, U.S. Residence Auburn, New York, U.S. Other names Minty, Moses Occupation Civil War Scout, Spy, Honorary General, Nurse, Suffragist, Civil Rights Activist Spouse(s) John Tubman (m. 1844; div. 1851) Nelson Davis (m. 1869; died 1888) Children Gertie (adopted) Parent(s) Harriet Greene Ross Ben Ross Relatives Modesty (grandmother) Linah (sister) Mariah Ritty (sister) Soph (sister) Robert (brother) Ben (brother) Rachel (sister) Henry (brother) Moses (brother) Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c.  January 29, 1822[1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the United States Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage.

Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. She was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work. Tubman met the abolitionist John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of courage and freedom