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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 Mitchell Burns demonstrated how to extract natural shampoo from a "very phallic" plant on Christmas Day?" The article doesn't mention "extract natural shampoo", it says "demonstrating shampoo ginger" with a link to Zingiber zerumbet. The source given doesn't seem to indicate which plant it was though (searching for "zingiber" or "ginger" gave no results on that page). Hook-article-source should all three match of course. Fram (talk) 14:19, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
  • The species is identified specifically in the video, though Instagram being Instagram I'm having a heck of a time finding it to cite. Jishara, can you provide a reference that specifically identifies the plant? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:50, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

    Hi! I hope [this one] works (it says "himself wringing dry a ginger plant that produces a natural shampoo", but doesn't state it was at Christmas Day or that it was phallic.) I also can't find the reel, but I found [this edited repost]. If so, let me now and I'll edit them in. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 21:21, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Next DYK

• "... that Justin Hinds expected to become an accountant before becoming a Super Bowl–winning coach?" This may be correct, but the way it is presented in the article is far from it. "For the 2022 season, the Chicago Bears hired Hinds as an assistant defensive line coach, where he spent the next two seasons.[7][9] Without this opportunity, Hinds originally expected to become an accountant before discovering coaching." No, he had been a coach for 13 years already before the Chicago Bears opportunity came along. There is no indication that it was a choice between the Bears or being an accountant, the choice seems to have been after his playing career, to be either an accountant or a coach. Fram (talk) 14:27, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
  • This comment was removed as not an error, per the statement "this may be correct", then reverted with the rationale "The hook leads directly to a wrong statement. This shouldn't be on the main page if his isn't solved". I will not comment further, aside from reiterating from the header "If the error lies primarily in the content of an article linked from the Main Page, fix the problem there before reporting it here. Text on the Main Page generally defers to the articles with bolded links." — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:56, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

  This was removed, but the hook implicitly and the article explicitly makes it seem as if he would have become an accountant had he not received the Chicago Bears offer, which is weird as he was a professional coach by then for 13 years (and a pro player before this), and this Bears offer was simply a better offer, but not a new path or anything. The hook source to me reads as if he would have become an accountant if he hadn't become a coach; and after more than a decade of coaching, this path led him to the Super Bowl. Fram (talk) 14:57, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Pinging @Sxchen1110, APK, BeanieFan11, and Narutolovehinata5:.--Launchballer 18:41, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

If the article is changed to have the part saying "Hinds originally expected to become an accountant before discovering coaching" before the start of the paragraph on his coaching career, would the issue be solved? BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:09, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Monday's FL

(August 17)

Wednesday's FL

(August 12, today)

Friday's FL

(August 14)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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