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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 "On this day"

Today's OTD

The items on here probably be needed to be changed since they have been here for two consecutive years. I've been trying to swap hooks, but my time is here and there shaky.

--Birdienest81talk 09:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• Agreed, but with only 11 hours to go I think this would be best done after the end of the day. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:10, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

I swapped items for the June 24 listing, but aside from the Lionel Messi birthday, I haven't been able to swap birthdays and death days.

I'd like to recommend swapping in Grover Cleveland for deaths and Jean-Baptiste de Boyer for births. I tried to do it myself but the page was protected. In solidarity, QuicoleJR (talk) 20:17, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• Swaps were completed earlier today. @QuicoleJR: Cleveland was OTD on June 2 so its ineligible for this date this year. Boyer's birthday is 1704: since it is not a significant birthday (doesn't end in a 5 or 10) I am resistant to swap it in as I didn't choose the birth/deaths this year. Z1720 (talk) 21:10, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

  Okay, understood. I'm fine with the current set, I was just trying to help whoever started this section. In solidarity, QuicoleJR (talk) 21:32, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Monday's FL

(June 29)

Wednesday's FL

(June 24, tomorrow)

Friday's FL

(June 26)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Ellipsis

In the did you know heading there is a space before the ellipsis (making "Did you know ..."). It was added in 2019 but I can't seem to find a discussion about this. The space honestly looks quite strange to me, I don't really know why, but I think it looked better without it. MOS:... doesn't appear to tell us what to do in this situation as it tells us how to deal with removing text from quotations. The DYK heading isn't really a quotation but instead is telling us that "more is coming soon". We actually have an ellipsis like this in the featured article section, "Full article...", which does not have a space. So I would like to propose removing the space.

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Did you know ...

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Did you know...

Panamitsu (talk) 04:37, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

I feel exactly opposite. The version with the space looks better to me and I would recomend changing the one in the TFA section.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:27, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

MOS:ELLIPSIS seems to suggest that there should be a space before an ellipsis, so I would agree that there should be a space in "Full article..." in TFA. The version with the space also harmonizes better with DYK hooks, where the ellipsis has a space after. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 00:06, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

That I suspect will cost one character towards the 1,025 character blurb limit, and while that isn't much, is it actually necessary? It also will make the blurb more often occupy one more line, I think. Wehwalt (talk) 01:09, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Previous discussion and later previous discussion Art LaPella (talk) 03:29, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

My opinion hasn't changed since that 2011 discussion. Having a space before a terminal ellipsis looks very strange to me; it only makes sense to space it when indicating an omission in a quote. However I suspect this is an ENGVAR difference, and it's such a minor thing that I don't think it's worth arguing about. Modest Genius ^talk 11:12, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Then let's increase the blurb limit to 1,026 :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:21, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

There's a case for saying that "know ..." means more words follow, whereas "know..." means more letters follow (making a word such as "knowledge"). So, "pi = 3.14..." means pi has more digits, but "pi = 3.14 ..." suggests that pi is exactly 3.14 and I'm also going to lie to you about other constants. Certes (talk) 13:15, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

That's an important point that I hadn't really thought about but completely agree with now that you bring it up. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 13:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

More clickbait DYKs

"DYK ... Hadley Williams left London for London, then returned to London" – really? This is the type of hook you'd expect on April Fools, yet these are now commonplace. This doesn't impart useful information about the subject other than confusion unless one is already aware of these locales. Is that also really the most interesting thing the nominator could think of for this subject? Opencooper (talk) 00:32, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

I agree. I get that it's difficult to construct an interesting blurb for what's a bit of a bland subject (read the article), but the current entry is meaningless and unencyclopaedic. At least add a bit more to make it less so: * ... that doctor Hadley Williams (pictured) left one London to go to college in another before returning to play a round in the first?, or something similar. Bazza 7 (talk) 08:46, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Pinging those involved in the nomination for their comments. @Crisco 1492, @BeanieFan11, @Darth Stabro — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:18, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

• The original nomination also had a hook about his family's personal nine-hole golf course. The Londons hook was preferred by the reviewer, and it would appear the prep promoter.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:06, 22 June 2026 (UTC)