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Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

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Under the banner "ON THIS DAY...." Line begining- 747BC... at the far end of the line is- "Livery Stable Blues" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spyglasses (talk • contribs) 06:47, 26 February 2017 UTC (UTC)

Yes, this is deliberate. It is an audio file of "Livery Stable Blues", the 1917 item. Jenks24 (talk) 12:19, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Errors in the current or next Did you know...

Current

• "... that a crude oil tanker and a sports stadium in Shahjahanpur were named after Jadunath Singh, a Param Vir Chakra recipient?" Sentence as it sounds suggests the tanker is in Shahjahanpur, a city hundreds of miles from the sea. Suggest rewording to "... that a sports stadium in Shahjahanpur and a crude oil tanker were named after Jadunath Singh, a Param Vir Chakra recipient?" DuncanHill (talk) 02:35, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

  Good suggestion, done. Stephen 02:50, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

"St James's Church St James's, Spanish Place" looks strange, it should probably be a piped link "St James's Church" --Ørjan (talk) 01:55, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

• Agreed and updated. Mackensen (talk) 02:34, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
  • Gotcha, that was the "regular" version. NOW it's updated. Art LaPella (talk) 05:41, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
• The picture looks very unnatural to me, as if it has been put through some "outlining" process. 86.141.248.162 (talk) 03:59, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

General discussion

New pages

Why has the new pages link been re-titled "Archive"? Deb (talk) 16:34, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

No answers yet? Maybe because nobody can find it. Click "Special pages" on the left, look for the "Recent changes and logs" heading, and it says "New pages", not "Archive". Art LaPella (talk) 01:10, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

I mean, the link at the bottom of the "Did you know?" section. Deb (talk) 10:43, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

It was changed from "Recently improved articles" to "Archive" by Maile66 with this edit. Hard to tell why, it may have been unintentional. Jenks24 (talk) 11:06, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll amend that. Deb (talk) 11:41, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Regarding [1], the opening sentence of Wikipedia:Recent additions says it isn't just for recently created articles. Main Page says "Archive" in three other sections so I guess it was intentional and not a typo. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:49, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

My apologies for my mistake. It absolutely was unintentional. — Maile (talk) 12:07, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Now it says "Recently created articles" but that is not entirely accurate, as many of the DYK articles are recently brought to GA status, and thus are not "recently created." Previously it was "Recently improved articles." This is not 100% accurate either, but I suppose it is more accurate in that a created article is an improvement over nothing. Thoughts? 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 14:43, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

"More new and improved articles" ? --JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 16:21, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

That ought to be (pickily) "new or improved". Bazza (talk) 10:20, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

No, no, it should be "newer or improved". "More new" makes no grammatical sense.--WaltCip (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

You're not understanding the use of more here correctly. Apparently, you understand it as Wiktionary:more#Adverb #3 but it's meant as Wiktionary:more#Determiner #1 --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 03:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Deshou. More + new and improved articles. Not hard to understand. Correctron (talk) 03:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Clearly it should be worded "An additional quantity of both new articles and improved articles may be found here" ApLundell (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK

There's a painting inspired by the compassion of George Washington, two people accused of treason who were pardoned by George Washington, and a Hawaiian politician named George Washington. Can anyone say "{{globalize/US}}"? KATMAKROFAN (talk) 16:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

I like this kind of coincidence but this one is not - Washington was born on 22 February. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 16:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

How many articles did YOU, @KATMAKROFAN:, contribute to the DYK process today? If zero, then you could have fixed the problem, but did not. If YOU want to see different topics on the main page, then YOU can fix the problem immediately if YOU simply write content to put on the main page from topics YOU want. --Jayron32 17:17, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

I think that this is just a misunderstanding. KATMAKROFAN simply didn't know about this nice WP:DYK way of reminding various anniversaries from less known perspectives. And this DYK set is an intelligent and inconspicuous way how to bring people to George Washington's anniversary :) I like it very much. Thanks to all who participated. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 17:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Sooo... What will we be putting on DYK for Nelson Mandela's birthday? --2600:387:9:5:0:0:0:A3 (talk) 04:35, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Frequently asked question. A more specific answer: We have a DYK archive, and neither Washington nor Mandela has been mentioned on DYK on his birthday for at least 5 years. For some reason the usual flippant but relevant answer was omitted from the FAQ: there was no Mandela DYK because you didn't submit one.Art LaPella (talk) 06:39, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

I think 'many people' will find the occasional themed front page interesting/amusing (apart from 'the usual discussion' in a month and a few days) - and will regard the ingenuity involved in arranging such things positively. 'Thematic overload' and 'seemingly accidental concatenation' are, however, probably best avoided/likely to generate much more discussion. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)