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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Today's FA

"It erupted into a full-scale mutiny that included 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent territories, bringing supplies and finance." The latter clause is a fragment. Suggest changing to "It erupted into a full-scale mutiny that included 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent territories, who brought supplies and finance." --Paul_012 (talk) 08:43, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

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Errors with "In the news"

Impeachment charge

The term "incitement of insurrection" should not be wikilinked to Sedition unless there RSs can show this is the prevailing legal interpretation of the impeachment charge. Otherwise the link should be changed to Incitement. AnonQuixote (talk) 20:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

A few preliminary sources:

• BBC: "The House of Representatives accused Mr Trump of encouraging violence with his false claims of election fraud."
• Washington Post: "Thus, the House said, Trump violated the 14th Amendment by inciting violence against the government." The same article contrasts the charge against Trump with potential sedition/seditious conspiracy charges against some of the rioters.

So far I haven't found anything to support the sedition interpretation.

Another alternative is to link to each term independently: "incitement of insurrection". AnonQuixote (talk) 20:57, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

I have replaced it with a link just to insurrection. I didn't think incitement really needed linking, as that's a fairly standard English word and we don't want link bloat, but if others disagree we can reconsider.  — Amakuru (talk) 06:52, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

• The phrase "seditious acts" is in the article of impeachment itself. The word sedition is defined as "incitement to rebellion." Why are we splitting hairs here? GreatCaesarsGhost 13:11, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• Francis Reynolds (Royal Navy officer) - appears to either be the same person as Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie or the two have been conflated. --RaiderAspect (talk) 07:16, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

  I have put a note about this over at WT:DYK, and that's a very good spot thank you. The two pages should certainly be merged, and perhaps have their histories merged too. In the mean time, I'm not sure we need to pull it from the main page, the new article is much longer and more comprehensive than the original, but I've asked the question anyway.  — Amakuru (talk) 08:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

  That's a really good spot. Perhaps a new DYK criterion: check the article hasn't already been created under a different title!! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:55, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

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Today's OTD

• Afonso V of Portugal - unref section and plenty else needing citations. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:30, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Replaced with Wang Jingchong (Five Dynasties) (d.950) for now. Last used in 2018. --PFHLai (talk) 06:11, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
    • Cool, could you explain (to me and our readers) how I verify the date of death using those two links? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:35, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
      • The source states that Wang set himself and his family on fire (景崇已與家人自焚矣), on the day Guisi (癸巳) in the twelfth month (十二月) of the second year (二年) of the Qianyou (乾祐) era. A comparison with this table indicates that this fell during the reign of Emperor Yin (隱帝) of the Later Han dynasty (後漢). Inputting these details into the calendar converter produces the output 西元950年1月15日, or 15 January 950. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 14:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
        • Could you add (if you haven't done so already) that highly complex interpretation route so the date can be verified by the other 99.9% of our readers please? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:22, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• Rungholt - the article says throughout that this may or may not have happened on either 15 or 16 January 1632, so it's probably not up to Misplaced Pages to proclaim that it's one of those two days. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:55, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

  Removed from OTD. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 14:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

• Internet Engineering Task Force - not seeing the date in the source provided and about a dozen citations needed. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:56, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

• Richard Goodwin Keats - too much of it unreferenced. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:04, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Day-after-tomorrow's OTD

• Pope Gregory XI - is "effectively" needed here? The article makes no such "distinction". The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:55, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
• United Nations Security Council - the source verifying this date is dead. These really need to be checked. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:52, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
• Patrice Lumumba - ironically given the subject above, the article states (a) the complicity allegedly included Belgium, the US and the UN, so why they've been left out of the blurb I know not but (b) the assertions appear to have been made in a book which Misplaced Pages does not currently seem to consider notable. Genuine question: are these allegations main-page-worthy? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
• Mount Nyiragongo - the damage and number of homeless is unreferenced, a basic requirement. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

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Today's POTD

• Loie Fuller - no need to link major geographical locations like "Paris". The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:38, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

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