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• ... that a critic described GNX, after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar's "greatest work" yet? why do we need the quotes? Therapyisgood (talk) 02:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance for free to children who had been orphaned during World War II? The source reads "After World War II, she taught dance at orphanages for children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis and directed her own ballet school in Paris", with no mention of cost, or lack thereof. Pinging User:Spiderpig662, User:4meter4. Sincerely, Dilettante 04:03, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks, Dilettante! fixed :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:08, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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• In blurb first sentence at "to study human movement under simulator lunar gravity conditions" the word "simulator" should be 'simulated'. JennyOz (talk) 11:41, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

  Done, ta. Stephen 02:02, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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Bug in campaign text generator script

For visitors with a German IP address, the campaign text is ungrammatical for (at least) the last two campaign days. It says "1 day days" or "0 day days" when it should say just "1 day" or "0 days". Perhaps it's just a missing slash. (There seem to be several alternative texts, so it is not always easy to reproduce this bug. I saw it yesterday. When it reappeared today, I made a screenshot. This is the full text: "Dear readers: I hope we’re not disturbing you. It is that time of year when we ask for your support. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We're sustained by donations averaging about €20. Now we are asking you in Germany to help out. If everyone currently reading this were to contribute a small amount, our fundraising campaign would be over in an hour. Our fundraising appeal is displayed over 7 million times a day, but currently only 421.327 people have donated. Today only 0 day days are left to reach our goal. So if you find Misplaced Pages useful, please take a minute out of your day this Thursday to donate and give something back to Misplaced Pages. Thank you!") --217.226.80.235 (talk) 11:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Also, 421.347 should be 421,347 in English (note comma). Art LaPella (talk) 15:03, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I think the decimal in 421.347 is correct for Germany. If we had fractional people it might read "421.347,45"--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:32, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

"... nur 421.347 Leute haben gegeben ..." (or something like that) would be correct for Germany, but my point was it's 421,347 in English. Or maybe rewrite to avoid that ambiguity. Art LaPella (talk) 16:33, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Germans can use English as well. I don't think it's as clear cut as you suggest whether the decimal mark should always be the dot. While it's true that the dot is most common by far in English; amongst second language speakers in places where the comma is used, there's AFAIK no clear cut consensus on what should be standard when the audience is primarily other second language speakers from the same country. There's a reason why our article barely mentions languages, Canada is basically one of the few places where the usage clearly varies by language. Having said that, I would agree that since we don't have a decimal mark, simply avoiding the usage of either the comman or space for digit groupin by using a space may be better. Nil Einne (talk) 16:12, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

If there were 0 days days left yesterday, then it's ended ended by now. Art LaPella (talk) 22:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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2016 has arrived! Is the draft still 2015 redesign or is it now 2016? -TheNewbster

Making the Privacy Policy link more prominent on our main page

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Making the Privacy Policy link more prominent on our main page.Nocturnalnow (talk) 03:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Putting an RFC on this matter was suggested at Jimbo's talk page. Some discussion is there concerning this idea. Nocturnalnow (talk) 03:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

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