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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 "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

Shi Jingtang: Almost the entire article is cited to the near contemporary Old History of the Five Dynasties (974) and the slightly later Zizhi Tongjian (1084). Modern scholarship must be used, I doubt the article can be improved in time. Happy to look at any suggested replacement - Dumelow (talk) 08:10, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society

The presence of Boyle, Wilkins and Wren is not mentioned in the article. I've rescued the dead link at the end of the paragraph on its founding but it supports only the last sentence, I've tagged the rest as citations needed. Disappointing for a Good Article - Dumelow (talk) 08:17, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

There is a separate article at Gresham College and the formation of the Royal Society that deals with this in more detail. But the sourcing is equally inadequate but it does list the 12 original members. Schwede66 20:11, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Gregorio Perfecto birth date not cited - Dumelow (talk) 08:23, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

I've had a look and can't find anything authoritative. What I did see is that the first volume of Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the bios in there contain birth dates. Volume II, which deals with the period where Perfecto was a judge, isn't on Google Books. Schwede66 20:00, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Monday's FL

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"American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the games with five", I couldn't find this stated in the source cited. I don't doubt that its true but it should be verifiable - Dumelow (talk) 07:36, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

I've placed a failed verification tag in the article; maybe that'll get some action. Schwede66 18:00, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Tomorrow's POTD

I have (belatedly) made a proper copyedit of this POTD's blurb and layout. Could an admin please copy it over to the protected version? Thanks — RAVENPVFF · talk · 00:30, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Done - Dumelow (talk) 08:26, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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