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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 "Did you know ..."

We must play this!

... that the creators of Poetry for Neanderthals faced difficulties during its release because they needed a way to manufacture inflatable clubs?

The rule of the game is that you must use words with just one sound and so we should do this. Ug!

They had a way to make the clubs – send a wish to the land of the Chin who make them all. And this is what they did. They just had to send more than one wish to fill the need. Duh!

Here is an ALT:

• ALT – In a new crude game, "all of your small wrongs can ... end up with a smack round the head"? (Source)

'drew🐉(talk) 06:26, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I get your thoughts on this one, but I'm scared that the ALT might sound too much like fluff :) is there an ALT that makes one sound on each word but keeps the same fact? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 06:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

For what it's worth, we could just stick with what we've got, as I think it's not too bad. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 06:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

You do not get it. The hook is wrong. They had a way and they used it. 'drew🐉(talk) 06:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It says they faced difficulties, it doesn't say they were completely unable to manufacture the clubs. That's correct, and I suggest we leave it as it is. Also, it's a little ironic, Andrew, that after this, you're now advocating for an unattributed quote as part of the hook ☺  — Amakuru (talk) 08:54, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

That was just off the top of my head. I plan to pick up a copy to bring to the next meet. We shall see who has the most hard head! See here how it goes... 'drew🐉(talk) 10:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Is a four-year-old game really "new"? And I'm not sure newness is "a definite fact that is unlikely to change", since even if it is still new, it eventually will stop being new.

In any case, I'll admit to feeling surprised that the original hook doesn't involve the No! Stick or the central monosyllabic mechanic. But that's a preference, not an error. I agree that difficulty is not the same as inability.

More tangentially, while I get and appreciate the bit, calling China "land of the Chin" reads... weirdly. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 09:26, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

•  Not done this is not an error. RoySmith (talk) 10:08, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(September 6)

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(September 2, today)

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