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Errors in Did you know ...

Current DYK

• Isle of Dogs's is incorrect, as plural possessive is indicated by a single terminal apostrophe, Isle of Dogs'. Otherwise it would be pronounced as "dogses", although that might please Tolkien fans. --pmj (talk) 00:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

  Pmj, agree, changed --valereee (talk) 01:29, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Errors in the summary of the featured list

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General discussion

Advertising

More and more I see the Main Page of Wikipedia being used for the advertising of especially video games and singers/albums. (I have read "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Main_Page#I_think_that_the_articles_listed_on_the_Main_Page_are_awful_and_much_more_important_articles_should_be_there_instead._Isn%27t_the_Main_Page_biased_towards_certain_topics?_What_can_be_done_about_it?". There is a difference between bias due to interests and blatant advertising.) RISadler (talk)

Well, I am not seeing any advertising on the current mainpage. There is a difference between mentioning or showing a thing and advertising for it. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:05, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Marvel's Spider-Man is a currently available game. Same can be said of Red Dead Redemption II that was heavily featured on the Main Page, either as Featured Article or in the Did You Know. RISadler (talk)

If so, then why are you advertising them by mentioning them here? MPS1992 (talk) 14:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Hahahahahaha! RISadler (talk)

Has really nothing happened worldwide since the 9th, which was seven days ago, that justifies the mentioning of the same Academy Award winner? RISadler (talk)

No, nothing at all. If anything had happened, it would have been mentioned at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates so that you could comment or assist in making ready a suitable article. MPS1992 (talk) 14:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

My bad then, it seems. RISadler (talk)

Encyclopedic?

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but is the below entry really suitable for WP's main page? I can't imagine how anyone would gain any knowledge from it, and frankly I have a hard time believing most people can even understand what it means:

• that when the developers of Superhot noticed Grace Bruxner's "cool frog game", they were "like 'hmmm... what if..... money?????'"

I guess I'm asking, what criteria is there for inclusion, and how did this pass muster? This seems like a meme which is more suitable for some other site ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 14:25, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

The blurbs in the DYK section are chosen to be interesting, which some people mistakenly believe is a synonym for "weird". It's a feature, not a bug of the way DYK blurbs are written. --Jayron32 15:21, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I've reported it as an error, and suggested an improvement. Bazza (talk) 15:23, 17 February 2020 (UTC)