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Errors with "In the news"

• A third party, the US government, says the Russian ship sank due to a Ukrainian attack ([1]). I think that the blurb should reflect that. The article does. 331dot (talk) 08:21, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
• Death toll rose 167 per the NDRRMC report on Tropical Storm Megi need update. (Inquirer News (NDRRMC)) HurricaneEdgar 02:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

  BBC also says 167. -- Sca (talk) 12:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• I'm curious why the Virginia Tech image is featured: it doesn't seem related to any of the text entries or listed people. Seems like it should be switched out for a more relevant image, or if it's intentional, be linkified to the relevant article? Andaphantie (talk) 01:56, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
  • Swapped out the image with a new, relevant image. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
• Whanganui campaign - widespread use of participant sources, ie battle details and casulaties are sourced to the diaries of British commanders who have a vested interest Bumbubookworm (talk) 21:19, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm not quite clear where else to source these casualty figures - nobody else AFAIK was in the business of recording the numbers at the time. Richard Keatinge (talk) 10:42, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia is supposed to be based mainly of secondary, independent sources, eg historians can check through eyewitness/participant accounts and decide who is likely to be telling the truth. Us Wikipedians are amateurs and it is not us to up to filter raw data/claims, we are supposed to report what the experts/RSes say. Casualty figures are always controversial and there is always a motivation for involved combatants/politicians to exaggerate or lie. Not saying that this person necessarily is, but we aren't in a position to weight raw inputs, so to speak Bumbubookworm (talk) 15:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(April 22)

Monday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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