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Errors in the Main Page summary of Today's featured article

Is it not evident that this encyclopedia has transmuted from an 'encyclopedia' into a medium for promotion?

Errors in In the news

Errors in Selected anniversaries/On this day

Bose-Einstein Condensate

I don't know if this is up to the level of correcting, but it's factually in error. Today's OTD mentions the Bose-Einstein Condensate and says "Bose-Einstein Condensate (pictured)". That's misleading: the picture is not actually showing what BEC looks like, but rather, a graph depicting a variable (velocity) over time, which reveals that BEC has formed. The lay reader would mistakenly believe that BEC looks like colorful humps. Unfortunately, I don't know of a brief and accurate way to reference the picture. Wikipedia typically handles things like this by clarifying what is being pictured. My best suggestion is to change it to something like "evidence of formation pictured", though someone may have a better idea. MrVoluntarist 15:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in Did you know?

"Hill of Ash"

1. The picture is obviously _not_ of the Hill of Ash, so (pictured) is inaccurate. 2. The rollover caption on the picture reads "Look at me!" Please can someone fix? Thanks, 132.244.246.25 08:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture does not match what is described in the DYK factoid. Its actually treasures from the "Hill of Ash", NOT the actual "Hill of Ash" as stated itself. --Eqdoktor 08:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have much experience with pictures, but I changed the caption from "Look at me!" to "From the Hill of Ash". Art LaPella 14:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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