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Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

"Rivera has become regarded as one of the best closers in baseball history, and he has achieved his success by primarily throwing one pitch—a sharp-breaking cut fastball that has been called an all-time great pitch."

I suppose it would a bit over the top to claim that this sentence is ungrammatical, but it is unnecessarily awkward and poorly constructed.

Rivera is already regarded as one of the best closers in baseball history. Moreover, he has achieved success with what is fundamentally a single pitch: a sharp-breaking cut fastball that overpowers hitters like none other.

Spventi (talk) 06:24, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I re-worded it a little, but the whole thing is meaningless to me since I know nothing (and have no desire to know anything) about baseball! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in In the news

Template:ITN-Update Shouldn't the 'Isner v Mahut' link in the tennis story link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_Championships rather than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_tennis_match_records ? Matt Adore (talk) 23:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The words 'Isner v Mahut' don't appear on the Main Page, so did you mean at the end of the sentence where it says longest match in tennis history? We wouldn't link that to Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships because the bolded link defeats already links there. Art LaPella (talk) 00:51, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day

The way the Shuttle-Mir item is phrased, it sounds like the picture should show the shuttle docked to Mir - it does not, depicting Mir alone. I wish we could use File:Atlantis Docked to Mir.jpg, which is a much better illustration. However, while the 'no fair use on the main page' policy still exists, I suggest 'the Russian space station Mir (pictured) and Space Shuttle Atlantis docked together' or similar. Modest Genius talk 00:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tbh, I don't think the current wording is particularly ambiguous as to what the image is referring to. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's a picture of the original Globe Theatre. -- tariqabjotu 20:50, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reporters: please first correct today's or tomorrow's regular version.
The obvious error is that today's featured picture does not exist. Would an admin please create Template:POTD protected/2010-06-30 with the content: 

{{subst:POTD row
|image=Cortinarius archeri.jpg
|size=250
|rowsize=160
|title=''[[Cortinarius archeri]]''
|texttitle=''Cortinarius archeri''
|caption='''''[[Cortinarius archeri]]''''' is a [[truffle (fungus)|truffle]]-like species of [[mushroom]] found in [[southern Australia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[California]] in the United States. It is common in [[eucalypt]] or [[mixed forests]] and is [[mycorrhizal]], forms a close relationship with the roots of eucalypts or closely related trees. Although considered solitary, the mushroom can commonly be found in groups of two or three. The species has no [[common name]].
|credit=Photo: [[User:Noodle snacks|Noodle snacks]]
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day June 2010]]
==See also==
*[[Template:POTD{{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|POTD protected||_protected}}/2010-06-30]]</noinclude>

Thanks, Intelligentsock 01:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in Did you know?


Great Black Wasp not Great Black Waſp Tiddy (talk) 03:42, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Actually, some sources capitalize it and some don't, thus I'm not sure that it should be in capitals. Materialscientist (talk) 03:44, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, as to the archaism of the long s, it has no place on the main page. RyanGerbil10(Four more years!) 03:46, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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