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• Gabrielle d'Estrées - some referencing issues, and unattributed, unreferenced quote in the lead. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:20, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

SO, we have an opportunity to resolve some of these issues early in the day! A couple of hours in, and no responses from any admins. Let's get the party started! The Rambling Man (talk) 02:23, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• Passover Seder - "...is conducted throughout the world on the evening of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar (which falls in late March or April of the Gregorian calendar)." The date for 2017 is April 9 at sundown. -- Deborahjay (talk) 09:29, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• The article is not of sufficient quality for the main page. Stephen 09:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• How is that possible? The page shows no indication of insufficient quality. There seems to be some misunderstanding here. -- Deborahjay (talk) 09:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• The article has huge swathes of unreferenced text - whole paragraphs and sections. It cannot be linked from the Main Page like this. Black Kite (talk) 10:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• ...and there's no template indicating these "huge swathes of unreferenced text" -- why not? -- Deborahjay (talk) 10:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• Because no-one has ever added them. Unfortunately there are many thousands of articles like this, but that does not mean that the problems do not exist. Black Kite (talk) 10:45, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• No one, including yourself. So much for good faith in the contention that the "maintenance team," by rejecting mention of substandard articles, acts to encourage their improvement. -- Deborahjay (talk) 10:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• Many editors and admins look at upcoming OTD entries, and if they are sub-standard, we remove them and often tag them. If they are articles that need a small amount of improvement, or they are within our areas of knowledge, we often source them or otherwise improve them to a sufficient standard. If it had been me who removed this I would probably have added a single refimprove tag at the top of the article, but I didn't remove it. I was merely pointing out to you why it had been removed after the event. You can't expect people who are merely trying to keep Main Page content of a reasonable standard to try to fix everything that isn't in a short time period. Perhaps if you are someone who has the expertise to source the unreferenced parts of the article you could do it yourself? I see another editor (below) has made a start on it. Black Kite (talk) 14:03, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• I don't have time to inline cite everything, but I have added a general citation for the order of the Seder and the proceedings at each stage (A Passover Seder Companion and Analytic Introduction to the Haggadah). It verifies most of what's currently unreferenced (i.e. the Order of the Seder and Themes of the Seder sections) and if anyone wants to do the inline cites I would be very grateful. Smurrayinchester 11:05, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

• It's now generally tagged. I expect I could have added about twenty or thirty inline [citation needed] tags, so a general one will suffice for now. The usual emotional response to suggesting an article in this topic area is not up to scratch should be ignored really, we simply ought not to be posting sub-standard articles onto the main page. Please note, this is not an anti-Semitic approach, before that accusation is levelled at me once more. I'm happy to tag articles on any and all religions. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Errors in the current or next Did you know...

Current

• "... that Lynn Nottage interviewed residents of the poorest city in America while developing the play Sweat, which has been described as "the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era"?" This is a statement that requires more proper context. So the "poorest city in America" currently pipes to Reading, Pennsylvania. Googling "the poorest city in America" brings up all manner of results for what qualifies as being the poorest city - lowest median income, poverty rate, lowest land value, etc.. And I got all manner of candidates for "poorest city in America" based on this varying matrix: Macon, Mississippi; El Paso, Texas; Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas; Blackwater, Arizona, etc.. The blurb needs to either be amended to remove the easter egg or to clarify what is intended by "poorest city in America".--WaltCip (talk) 13:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
  • Actually the problem here is that the article says "one of the poorest cities" while the hook, for some reason, says it's the poorest, and the source says "She read in the Times that the Census Bureau had found Reading to be the poorest American city of its size, with a poverty rate of more than forty per cent." Let's just trim the poorest city stuff and go with the "first theatrical landmark of the Trump era" quote. Pinging BU Rob13 and Coffee as nominator and DYK approver. Bencherlite^Talk 13:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
    • Looks like the blurb has been amended, so we can consider this issue resolved.
      Resolved
      --WaltCip (talk) 13:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
      • I was the one who amended it (apologies for not making that clearer). Bencherlite^Talk 13:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the current or next featured list

Minor issues, but I think "American actress Shannen Doherty has appeared in numerous television programs and motion pictures." would be better as "American actress Shannen Doherty has appeared in numerous television programs and motion pictures." The Rambling Man (talk) 16:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I think the desire is to make the bold link the first link in the blurb, otherwise there's a risk (as has happened before) that people will click the first link and never make it to the intended featured list... The same rule is applied at TFA, although there's an additional reason there (about the edit-notice that is applied to the TFA) which doesn't apply at TFL. Bencherlite^Talk 16:04, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Very well, I suppose. I don't think that maxim's applied to DYK, ITN, OTD mind you. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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