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Errors in the summary of the featured article
[edit]Errors with "In the news"
[edit]Errors in "Did you know ..."
[edit]- ... that Yang Pao'an refused to forsake the Chinese Communist Party, reportedly even after a telephone call with Chiang Kai-shek?
The word "reportedly" is a red flag per MOS:WEASEL and MOS:DOUBT. The article's version of the story starts, "According to the People's Daily..." That's a clearer attribution but People's Daily is an official organ of the CCP and so is not reliable on the subject of its martyrs and Chiang Kai-Shek. See the similar WP:XINHUA which explains that "For subjects where the Chinese government may be a stakeholder, the consensus is almost unanimous that Xinhua cannot be trusted to cover them accurately..."
Note also that the People's Daily story was not a contemporary account but was published in 2021, ninety years after the event.
So, this doesn't seem to be a definite fact as required by WP:DYKHOOK.
Andrew🐉(talk) 07:32, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- Just going to mention that, at the very least, the telephone call has been reported since at least 1981. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:59, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's still 50 years after the event. What's the historical source for the story? Andrew🐉(talk) 12:26, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "On this day"
[edit]- 'F-13' Superfortress — The F-13 was simply a photo-recon version of the ubiquitous B-29, and only a few were produced. Suggest change to "B-29 photo variant." – Sca (talk) 14:37, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Errors in the summary of the featured list
[edit]Errors in the summary of the featured picture
[edit]In the description of the featured picture for Diwali, we should wikilink the mythical city Ayodhya (Ramayana) instead of the actual city Ayodhya. The reason is explained in the second paragraph of the article Ayodhya (Ramayana):
| “ | The historicity of this legendary city is of concern to the Ayodhya dispute. According to one theory, it is same as the present-day Ayodhya city. According to another theory, it is a fictional city, and the present-day Ayodhya (originally called Saketa) was renamed after it around the 4th or 5th century, during the Gupta period. | ” |
Also see the section Ayodhya_(Ramayana)#Historicity. --Lekhak93 (talk) 09:03, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
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