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Errors in the summary of Today's featured article on the Main Page

• Chad is divided into three major geographical regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian savanna zone in the south.

The correct term is 'Sudanese', not 'Sudanian'.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.245.209 (talk • contribs)

As far as I can tell, "Sudanese" refers to the group of people and "Sudanian" refers to geographical regions. --- RockMFR 17:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• You say (on /Tomorrow) that the eyewall surrounds the eye of a cyclone twice. JoshuaArgent 23:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

• Officials from a UN-backed genocide tribunal detain Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving member of the Khmer Rouge regime under which up to three million Cambodians were killed or died due to mismanagement.

The odd unintended effect of having those two links next to each other, with the word tribunal unlinked, is to tie them together. "What UN-sponsored genocide?" we then find ourselves asking!! My recommendations: 1) just link "UN" to UN, not "UN-backed"; 2) find a link for tribunal to point at. Then the accidental association won't be as strong. Alternatively, link the whole phrase ("UN-backed genocide tribunal") to Khmer Rouge Tribunal, which is not currently linked from the blurb. Doops | talk 03:17, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

My suggestion would be to keep the UN-backed link as is and link genocide tribunal to Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Nil Einne 17:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Errors in Picture of the Day/Today's featured picture

For tomorrow's Jewish picture, a tallit is a prayer shawl, and several men in the picture are wearing the same uniform, therefore there is probably more than one tallit in the picture. If so the word "tallit" should either be "tallits" or some foreign plural - "tallitim"? If not it should be "a tallit". Similarly for kippot. Art LaPella 05:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Kippot already is plural. I've changed tallit for you. (Tomorrow's picture, so not protected yet.) Doops | talk 12:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up and old items

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• Wikipedia talk:Did you know
• Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries
• Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day

Any other problems

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