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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 two European missionaries stationed in a Catholic church (pictured) were beheaded by Chinese Red Army soldiers led by Mao Zedong in 1935?

What does being "stationed in a church" mean? They weren't living in the church, they weren't parish priests, they were missionaries working at a leper colony and stationed in "the Franciscan residence next to the church" to quote the article. Fram (talk) 13:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

• ... that Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is planned to be the first main entry since 2013 in the series Professor Layton, despite it being its developer's most popular media franchise?

But Layton's Mystery Journey, from 2017, says right at the start "It is the seventh main entry in the Professor Layton series". And the main article Professor Layton also calls it "The seventh entry in the main Layton series" and labels the new article (at DYK) "The eighth entry in the main Layton series".

And is it their "most popular media franchise?"? Well, the source used to confirm this is from 2013[1]. Inazuma Eleven had 8 million units sold by 2016, but has since had 2 new games. More importantly, while Layton was said to be at 15 million, Yo-kai Watch is another franchise of the company which has seen many releases since 2013, and our article states that it is at 17 million sold copies, plus movies, toys, ... Fram (talk) 13:55, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

The article seems to differentiate between "main series" games, and "spin off" games. This is a main series game, whereas the 2017 one was a spin off. Is "main entry" supposed to refer to main series? Secretlondon (talk) 14:03, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I noted this on WT:DYK as a not too interesting hook that relied on a technicality, but didn't catch the popular franchise bit was outdated too. Not sold on the original hook idea either, some thinking needed (Template:Did you know nominations/Professor Layton and the New World of Steam). CMD (talk) 14:06, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

It should be well known that other Wikipedia articles are not reliable sources: while Layton's Mystery Journey's states "it is the seventh main entry", this fact is not cited in the article, as far as I can tell. Would adding "then" into the hook (i.e. "its developer's then-most popular...") solve any remaining concerns? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

No, but if your DYK hook and article don't align with our main articles on the subject, it doesn't look too good. Anyway, Gamespot says "Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is the first mainline game since 2017's Layton's Mystery Journey". Fram (talk) 14:54, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Putting aside what other Wikipedia articles say, this hook the first main entry since 2013 and the related text in the article the last main-series game before New World of Steam was announced was Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (released 2013) and the last spin-off was Layton's Mystery Journey (released 2017) fails verification against the cited sources:

• From Ref #2
  • what many would refer to as another proper Professor Layton title -- "what many would refer to" does not mean "is"; the qualification in the source didn't make it into the article or the hook
  • [the previous game, "Layton's Mystery Journey"] was always going to be more of a spinoff from the main story -- doesn't mean "is a spinoff"; again, it's qualified ("always going to be more of")
• From Ref #3: The last time we heard from the puzzle-solving lad was in 2017 with Layton's Mystery Journey on the Nintendo 3DS, making this the first entry in five years and the first time Layton has appeared on the Switch. -- Ref #3 says nothing about "main" vs. "spinoff"

So it seems we took a source (ref #2) that says "what many would refer to as [the first main entry]" and used it to support "the first main entry," which is not what the source is saying. The other source (ref #3) contradicts that reading because it doesn't distinguish between "main" and "spinoff", and yet it's used as a cite for "last spin-off" in the article.

Also as Fram points out, the 2013 "most popular" source is outdated. Ref #3, dated 2023, meanwhile, says "an incredibly popular series" but not most popular.

I've edited the article to fix the above. Levivich (talk) 15:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Not an error, but O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (with nothing added) means the hymn, and there are two cantatas by Bach with this name, and only the well-informed will know by "chorale cantata" that this is O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, and not O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60. I suggest to add , BWV 20, as coded or in brackets (BWV 20). (Why we show this piece not on the First Sunday after Trinity which the blurb mentions, but on the Tuesday after the Second Sunday after Trinity, remains a mystery to me.) Lilypond new by DanCherek, recommeded short listening ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Crikey, it seems Gerda still has that bug where she sees "Tuesday after the Second Sundary after Trinity" and the rest of us see "June 11". Someone should really sort that out for her. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:40, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 14)

Monday's FL

(June 17)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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