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- "Paleobiota" should be lowercased, as it is usually not a proper noun (cf. the category Category:Cenozoic paleobiotas and other similar ones). Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:08, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
Fixed – Schwede66 15:25, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
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: parentheses should be in italics as well. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 15:26, 21 March 2025 (UTC)- Fixed It would be good if you could check for those formatting issues, Launchballer, including spaced question marks after italics, when you promote to queue. Schwede66 16:00, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't queue that set, @SL93: did (I only did some last-minute redirect bypassing), but sure.--Launchballer 16:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for not looking properly (I’m editing via mobile at the moment, which makes things more clumsy). Schwede66 16:54, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Schwede66 I'm actually going to take your comment with little more than a grain of salt because this is my first time making such a mistake, and because I clearly am not the only person who made the mistake. I would only apologize if it was more than a formatting error, such as something that made the hook completely ineligible. SL93 (talk) 18:02, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Pinging AirshipJungleman29 who introduced the error upon promotion. Not to blame them because I honestly don't care, but to make things clear. SL93 (talk)
- Sorry for not looking properly (I’m editing via mobile at the moment, which makes things more clumsy). Schwede66 16:54, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't queue that set, @SL93: did (I only did some last-minute redirect bypassing), but sure.--Launchballer 16:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- The caption "
Ginkgo adiantoides with fall color
" appears to fail MOS:SEASON - SchroCat (talk) 15:30, 21 March 2025 (UTC)- How so? It's referring to the season as a season, rather than as a shorthand for "August through October" or similar. jlwoodwa (talk) 15:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, I can’t spot the issue either. Schwede66 16:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Because "fall" is an Americanism not necessarily understood by most of the world; many will not equate it to mean "autumn", as that's the name many will know it by. Just to reiterate, "Avoid using seasons to refer to a particular time of year, as they are often unduly ambiguous" is there for a reason. (And grammatically, "Ginkgo adiantoides with fall color" is a poor piece of writing that isn't immediately clear for all). - SchroCat (talk) 16:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Would you prefer a wikilinked version like "Ginkgo adiantoides with autumn leaf colors"? 216.58.25.209 (talk) 16:41, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- "Autumn" is as much a SEASONS fail as "fall", for the same reason. - SchroCat (talk) 16:59, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I'm fine with autumn being a more widely understood word than fall, but when describing the color changes a leaf undergoes at the end of the growing season, autumn is exactly the right word. That's not what WP:SEASON is saying. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I’ve implemented the IP's suggestion and suggest that the wikilink overcomes the MOS issue. Schwede66 17:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- "Autumn" is as much a SEASONS fail as "fall", for the same reason. - SchroCat (talk) 16:59, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I still don't see how it's "unduly ambiguous" here. jlwoodwa (talk) 17:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Would you prefer a wikilinked version like "Ginkgo adiantoides with autumn leaf colors"? 216.58.25.209 (talk) 16:41, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Because "fall" is an Americanism not necessarily understood by most of the world; many will not equate it to mean "autumn", as that's the name many will know it by. Just to reiterate, "Avoid using seasons to refer to a particular time of year, as they are often unduly ambiguous" is there for a reason. (And grammatically, "Ginkgo adiantoides with fall color" is a poor piece of writing that isn't immediately clear for all). - SchroCat (talk) 16:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, I can’t spot the issue either. Schwede66 16:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- How so? It's referring to the season as a season, rather than as a shorthand for "August through October" or similar. jlwoodwa (talk) 15:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- "...that brothers Carl, Martin, and Dick Zoll all played exactly one NFL game for the Green Bay Packers?" should read "each played" to clarify that they did not play together in the same game. — AjaxSmack 16:26, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I think that the hook would say "together" if they played the same game together. SL93 (talk) 18:04, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the hook for Sacred Heart Church is accurate: Pontifical College Josephinum is one of two pontifical universities in the United States, together with Catholic University of America; PCJ is the only pontifical seminary in the US, which would probably be the simplest way to fix this. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 18:46, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Also if you look at the reference given (https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/4122] it says the only pontifical university in the western hemisphere, which is clearly not the case. I think we should pull this. Secretlondon (talk) 19:17, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
Errors in "On this day"
Errors in the summary of the featured list
(March 21, today)
- Kindly replace the portrait of Powell with File:John Powell with his Score (cropped, denoised).jpg, which is denoised, as the name suggests. JayCubby 14:49, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
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General discussion
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Does today's feature article have a page with an obscene title? What if children click on the main page? An editor from Mars (talk) 04:07, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is WP:NOTCENSORED. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 04:10, 21 March 2025 (UTC)