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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 ..."

Current DYK

"... that the Golden State Valkyries are the first expansion franchise in the WNBA since 2008?"

• "Expansion franchise" is an Americanism and will not be familiar to most people who don't follow US sports. There is no article named that either, although Expansion team is linked about half way through the article. Also, isn't this whole article a bit WP:CRYSTAL? Black Kite (talk) 08:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• I've linked it for the time being. We need to consider this a little more when reviewing nominations, though. Black Kite (talk) 08:46, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

As far as WP:CRYSTAL goes, that policy guides against collect[ing] unverifiable speculation, rumors, or presumptions but does not universally disallow articles about topics-in-development that are significantly covered and verifiable (e. g. the sentenceIt is appropriate to report discussion and arguments about the prospects for success of future proposals and projects or whether some development will occur, if discussion is properly referenced). I've looked over the list of five particularly egregious situations to avoid for WP:CRYSTAL, but I don't see how Golden State Valkyries fits any. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 08:48, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm not terribly convinced by either of these complaints, sorry BK... Re "expansion franchise", that is standard terminology in the world of US sport and this article is specifically about that subject. It's certainly a good call to link it, but per WP:TIES and other guidelines it's fine to write articles using a reasonable amount of game-specific jargon. I think this very point has come up at FAC before and it applies to association football articles I've written in the past too. If you have to cater for the lowest common denominator of understanding in every topic and explain every point in detail you're going to end up with badly written prose that doesn't serve the purpose of Wikipedia as well. As for CRYSTAL, it has been confirmed by the WNBA that this team has been added to the league, it's cited as such in reliable sources, and there is no undue speculation at all. If all articles on future events are to be banned, then things like Next United Kingdom general election and 2026 FIFA World Cup will have to go too... I don't think that's the intention of WP:CRYSTAL.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• 17 May Top line item Sanja Matsuri is orange issue tagged (original research, added Feb 2024) - it is therefore ineligible per No 4 of WP:OTDRULES? JennyOz (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Removed. Apart from anything else, it's undersourced for an article appearing on the Main Page anyway. Black Kite (talk) 08:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• 1954 In Brown v. Board of Education item, the link for landmark case would be better piped to List of landmark court decisions in the United States (on which Brown appears)? JennyOz (talk) 08:07, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• I've just removed the link completely. It's pointless when everyone is just going to click on the bolded link anyway. Black Kite (talk) 08:38, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 17, today)

Monday's FL

(May 20)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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