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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

• 1970 – To say that "Jonathan Jackson kidnapped Harold Haley" doesn't even come close to describing an attack on a courtroom in the midst of a trial, the taking of hostages, and the death of Judge Haley and 3 other people. Abductive (reasoning) 06:09, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

  Would you like to make a specific suggestion how to reword it, Abductive? Schwede66 06:18, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

  Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, including Jackson's brother George, resulting in the death of judge Harold Haley. Abductive (reasoning) 06:39, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

  I've reworded roughly along these lines, although avoiding mention of George (already covered by the Soledad Brothers link) and including mention of the three others who died.  — Amakuru (talk) 08:06, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• I just pushed out a substantial improvement to the article Wren Building. Since the 330th anniversary of this building's foundation being laid is tomorrow, I would appreciate it running as one of the blurbs. Below is my proposed blurb.

• 1695 – The foundation for what is now known as Wren Building, the oldest surviving college building in the United States, is laid in a ceremony at Middle Plantation, Virginia.

Please ping me if you have any questions. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:17, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Pinging Ikhouvanjou14, who worked on the 2025 refresh. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:24, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

should change "is" to "was", otherwise no problem Pbritti. Ikhouvanjou14 (talk) 22:19, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Too right. Done. Schwede66 23:05, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

• 1991 entry: "an error in exchanging the guys on the highest stock of the mast". Is "stock" the right word here? I couldn't find this usage in a dictionary. It is not used in the target article, which talks only of replacing a "main cable". So that might be better terminology to use in any case. JMCHutchinson (talk) 19:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

  The "main cable" is a guy-wire. "Stock" refers to the hardware mounted on telecommunications masts, like antennas and microwave dishes. Schwede66 22:01, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done I've dealt with both the items above: added the Wren Building and copy-edited the Warsaw radio mast item. Schwede66 22:07, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(August 8, today)

Monday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

The text says "The summer form (prorsa) has black wings, while the winter form (levana) – adapted for diapause – has red wings", and later "This map, in the prorsa form, was photographed..." -- but the picture shows a red-and-white winged butterfly. Suspect it is a levana form, not a prorsa form. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.86.3.5 (talk) 15:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

I know almost nothing about butterflies, but I think the caption is correct -- this is the levana form, and it looks quite different (note that the "spots" are darker than the rest of the wing). Whether the description ought to be updated, I'll leave to the experts -- specialists' ideas of colour, shape etc don't always exactly match how those terms are used in everyday speech, and of course there's the lighting of the photo and so on to consider. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 16:51, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

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