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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

Please change "Described as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century by Time, Matt Groening created and designed Bart..." to "Described as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century by Time, Bart was created and designed by Matt Groening..." or otherwise clarify that Bart, not Groening, is the "person" recognized by Time. Perception312 (talk) 02:21, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Came her for exactly this; the language as written is clearly wrong as it obviously puts Groening on Time's list. A simple grammatical error such as this should be corrected quickly (to clarify, if needed, as it stands, Groening is the subject of the verb/participle "described" as he is the subject of the subsequent verbs "created and designed") ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Seems a fairly obvious error and two editors have reported it above. @TFA coordinators FYI, I hope this is OK... Not sure if this now exceeds the character count a little, I haven't checked that, but the above edit was the most straightforward way to resolve this. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

Sal Maida

Regarding this lead, that Sal Maida (pictured) may not have a Wikipedia page?, I don't like this lead at all, the article was published several years before the subject got a Wikipedia page and them not having a page isn't true today. "May not" well, they clearly do now given that it exists. I don't think the hook should be a fact that is obviously not true today. It's also an off hand, quirky remark by the article's author that really isn't interesting now that they do have a Wikipedia page. jolielover♥talk 18:19, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

This is the April Fools set, and I don't think this one even counts as that because the article obviously exists. I regret approving it and not thinking of this earlier. SL93 (talk) 18:21, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

A number of that April Fools' set have hooks that have been made to "fit" silly hooks by lowercasing words, which is somewhat weak. The "America keeps coming back" hook is linked to an article that is barely a stub and appears to be about a common sentence that a few politicians have uttered. Oh well. Black Kite (talk) 18:39, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

If I saw the Sal Maida link, my response would be 'where would the link go'. As it happens, there are two hooks in prep 4 that could be substituted (the Freni/squid hooks, see WT:DYK#April Fool's set for context).--Launchballer 19:57, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

That makes sense. SL93 (talk) 20:00, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Alien Mus

As discussed at Template:Did you know nominations/Alien Mus this was pulled by RoySmith after this complaint here by Fram as We're not running a hook just to make fun of somebody's name. TSventon (talk) 19:16, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Launchballer I hope you at the very least discussed this with one of the above usernames before re-promoting it. SL93 (talk) 19:38, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

There appeared to be a consensus at the nomination for this to run (hence @AirshipJungleman29: reapproving it for that purpose).--Launchballer 19:57, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I hope you're not suggesting that us non-Westerners need to run hooks past people who don't understand how Indonesian names work so that they can decide if we should be offended, SL93. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:19, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I hope you realize you're being a total jerk, AirshipJungleman29. I'm just trying to avoid drama and gain proper consensus. SL93 (talk) 20:28, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I think the drama started when Fram accused the Indonesian nominator of enforcing Eurocentrism, SL93. As far as I can see, five editors at the nomination supported running the hook (alongside Launchballer who promoted it), against two (both western, IIRC) editors who decided that it was offensive to non-Westerners, and didn't provide any justification other than something along the lines of "referring to people by their first names is "making fun"". Personally, I'd like Fram to apologise to Jeromi Mikhael for their completely unwarranted WP:ASPERSIONS. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:54, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

So we´re not making fun of the name, and at the same time the name is so funny for Enwiki readers that we run it for April Fools´ Day? Right... Fram (talk) 21:11, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

WP:DYKAPRIL: "April Fools Did You Know items should present some trivia that can be presented in a manner that is possibly unbelievable to the reader. This can be done through words or names that mean two different things, shortened names, unbelievable facts, unrelated facts, etc." Let me know where it says April Fools' hooks should be "so funny", Fram. Do you find all the other hooks in the set uproariously hilarious, by the way? Or is it just this one that has to be construed as "so funny"? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:46, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Would we ever have run "that Indonesians elected Johnson as a represenrative, twice" as a hook? No, that would never have been promoted. The only reason this one was promoted was because of the "funny" name. When I complained, this was not in April Fools, and I considered this hook as in very bad taste. Fram (talk) 05:06, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Hundreds of Beavers

Not really an error, but Jackie Chan doesn't need to be given a link, considering he's "one of the most recognizable and influential film personalities in the world", according to that article's lede. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 07:29, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

Anne Woods (gurner)

• ... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the title 28 times?

The title in question was for gurning, not for being the ugliest woman, as the hook implies. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 00:33, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

@Amakuru, SL93, NegativeMP1, Cielquiparle, Edwardx, and Launchballer: courtesy ping ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 00:44, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

• ... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the women's world gurning title 28 times? SL93 (talk) 02:06, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

  Sounds good to me. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 02:21, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

  This should be piped to Gurn per WP:MPNOREDIRECT. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:40, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

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