Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
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Errors in the summary of the featured article edit
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Errors with "In the news" edit
In the "Ongoing" section of In the news, the part where it says "War in Sudan (timeline)" should be changed to "Sudanese civil war (timeline)" in accordance with the page moves from 18 May and 26 May. Or at least change the links so that they don't need to redirect. Alisperic (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "Did you know ..." edit
Current DYK edit
There is a discussion at WT:DYK#Queue 5 on if Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud should run on the Main Page. I encourage editors to join the discussion. Z1720 (talk) 03:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
The "trial from hell" DYK states that "Matthew Charles Johnson and his co-accused hurled abuse at the judge and threw human excrement at a member of the jury". The Johnson article cites two sources for the trial, neither of which states that Johnson threw anything. Instead, the second source explicitly names another of the accused, Jason Paisley, as being responsible for the excrement throwing (neither source says it was human excrement for that matter, though that is a minor point). Can anyone explain to me how what appears to be a clear violation of WP:V and WP:BLP got onto the main page? AndyTheGrump (talk) 10:55, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @GMH Melbourne, PCN02WPS, and PrimalMustelid:.--Launchballer 11:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- I found this which says that the human excrement was thrown by someone else. I'm not sure how this made it through. SL93 (talk) 11:15, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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