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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 with "In the news"

Should probably not say "airstrikes" when referring to United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites since aircraft only struck two of the sites and the other was struck by missiles (not normally considered an airstrike). UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:29, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Good point. Could you provide some alternatives?

• "missile and airstrikes" - wordy but accurate
• "missile and bombstrikes" - wordy but accurate
• "The United States attacks three nuclear facilities in Iran" - less wordy, more vague, but accurate

Others? - Fuzheado | Talk 22:49, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I've changed it to just say strikes since that's what the article title is, and it covers both the aorstrikes and other strikes.  — Amakuru (talk) 23:00, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Good idea. I've added "military strikes" for cross-linguistic clarity, especially useful for machine or human translation. - Fuzheado | Talk 23:11, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

• The phrase "carries out military strikes" contains a lot of words but conveys very little notable details. It basically sanitizes what is happening verging on bias. I suggest changing to simply "bombs" which at least conveys the mode of attack and is much more economical with words. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 02:56, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

• I've restored the previous discussion and pinged everyone via edit summary but overlooked Amakuru. Schwede66 03:48, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

"... that the TV show Ancient Aliens speculated that the CIA caused Hillary Clinton to lose the 2016 U.S. presidential election in order to foil UFO disclosure?"

Ancient Aliens has been widely criticized since its inception for not being a reliable discussion on anything halfway factual, being full of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. I'm not quite sure why we're including their usual spew of unreliable information on the main page as if it was a significant viewpoint, especially since it seems to be only Ancient Aliens discussing this theory and nobody else, judging by the article, and the theory spun by Ancient Aliens was not discussed in any significant manner beyond acknowledgement that Ancient Aliens did in fact talk about this. Even ignoring the fact this is an unreliable source, this is giving heavy WP:UNDUE weight onto one particular viewpoint, which doesn't quite seem wise given this subject's real-world significance.

Do let me know if I'm doing something wrong here since I'm admittedly not too familiar with this process, but this is equivalent to putting an opinion from an unreliable source on the main page, and I'd highly suggest it be pulled, especially given the lack of an ALT hook in the original nomination. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 05:44, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 27)

Monday's FL

(June 23, today)

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.

Tomorrow's POTD

I seem to have messed up the formatting of the protected version somehow. Please fix it to show the correct row formatting. Jay8g [V•T•E] 01:28, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Jay8g, could you please check whether I've done this right? There's every chance that I mucked something up. Schwede66 02:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm still struggling with the intricacies of the different POTD templates (hence how I messed it up in the first place!), but I think it looks right now, other than the image somehow being smaller (which I'm not sure how to fix). Thanks! Jay8g [V•T•E] 02:51, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

I've made it larger but without any clue how the image size is normally chosen. Schwede66 03:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

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