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

Just a pre-emptive comment for the TFA on 12th September - if you think that the image changes every so often, you're right. The TFA is using {{random subpage}} to display one of five images, and a bot will be purging the main page every 15 minutes to keep the selection changing. If you want to see what happens and can't wait for the bot, purge the main page by clicking this link (after 00:00 UTC, of course) and look again! Bencherlite 22:56, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

This sentence is ungrammatical: "It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and barbarian invaders formed new kingdoms." It should read, "It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and when barbarian invaders formed new kingdoms." Or, "It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and with barbarian invaders forming new kingdoms." Autodidact1 (talk) 05:02, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

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• The painting Sunset at Montmajour (pictured) is shown to be a lost work of Vincent van Gogh. → "shown to be a lost" s.b. "a newly discovered" or "newly identified as". "Lost" presumes 1. its absence had been recorded, and 2. it is still missing, none of which seem to be true here. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 09:49, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
  • It's possibly a linguistic curiosity that "lost work" can apply to something that has just been found, but I don't think its an error. Various reputable sources have referred to the painting as "lost" in their reporting. Formerip (talk) 10:09, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
• "In tennis, Serena Williams wins the women's singles and Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles at US Open." Shouldn't "women's singles" and "men's singles" be bolded, or either "US Open"? Also, "the" should be in front of "US Open", and linking "tennis" seems unnecessary per WP:OVERLINK. Thanks. 204.111.20.10 (talk) 12:22, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
• "The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach (pictured) President" - I wonder if we could add the words in square brackets to the blurb. Adding "as its" would not take up any more lines and it would make it read more clearly. Neljack (talk) 00:19, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
• I noticed how overlinked the IOC blurb is:

  "The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach President and chooses Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympics."

  There are six links in the entire blurb. Of the 17 words, only 6 are not linked. The unlinked include two "the's", one conjunction and two common verbs; the linked include a 7-word formation in 3 consecutive links, including one easter egg. Suggest modify to

  "The 125th session of the International Olympic Committee awards the 2020 Summer Olympics to Tokyo and elects Thomas Bach as its president."

  It's a slight increase in length but cuts the number of peripheral links and avoids the Easter egg and the undesirable bunching of links. -- Ohc _{¿que pasa?} 08:06, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

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Is there an erroneous comma after 'Washington, D.C." in the hook? Careful With That Axe, Eugene 09:15, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

No, it's parenthetical. I can't find the relevant MOS entry, but this is correct, although it does look a bit odd due to the full stops in D.C.. Modest Genius 10:03, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Why on Earth would there need to be a comma there? That makes no sense at all. If anything, there should be one after 'New York city', though even that would be a bit iffy. 131.251.254.110 (talk) 12:04, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Because there's a comma after Washington, so one is needed after D.C. to balance the commas. See the second example at MOS:COMMA. Bencherlite 13:40, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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