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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 "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• "... that William F. Fiedler was the only American fighter pilot to become a flying ace in the P-39 Airacobra?"

@Toadboy123, Generalissima, AirshipJungleman29, and RoySmith: what about George Welch (pilot)? Clearly an American fighter pilot and a flying ace, and became a flying ace when he made his 5th (and 6th and 7th) kill with an Airocobra. Fram (talk) 11:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah Fram, as I understand it, Fiedler made all his kills in the Airocobra, which is how I read the hook, but yes you are correct that it could be read another way. Perhaps change "in" to "using only"? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yet another example of why "first", "only", etc should be avoided in hooks. RoySmith (talk) 13:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

There weren't any alternative hooks in the nom that I could switch to, and I don't have much confidence that AirshipJungleman29's suggestion will stand up to scrutiny any better than the original. So I decided to play it safe and pulled it. RoySmith (talk) 13:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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