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

Errors in In the news

  • Category 5 hurricanes: Hurricane Dean (pictured) passes south of Jamaica and makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian, forcing the evacuation of a million people in southeastern China.

The phase "Category 5 hurricanes" gives an impression that Typhoon Sepat is another hurricane, and is categorize into category 5. In fact, Typhoon Sepat is a "typhoon" not a "hurricane", and such categorization was not introduced to "typhoons". As Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale said, "The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is used only to describe hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line." PeterCX&Talk 14:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed it to say "tropical cyclones" instead of "Category 5 hurricanes". These entries should probably be split completely, though. --- RockMFR 18:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Aren't the terms synonmous other than geographical locale? IvoShandor 03:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sepat was not Cat. 5. --03:56, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Sepat (aka Egay) was Cat. 5 --Howard the Duck 04:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If I understand correctly, technically it was not as the scale is not officially applied to typhoons (see the Sepat talk page and the SSHS article) Nil Einne 10:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well it was you can compare as "Category 5 strength". --Howard the Duck 12:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
See this archived discussion and feel free to resurrect it. --Howard the Duck 04:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As someone with an interest in journalism you may also be interested to learn that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a news service. In The News's purpose is not to provide news bulletins, it is to point to encyclopedic background material regarding recent current events. Hence we don't rush to place an item in ITN until the respective articles are up to a standard above what one would expect from a news service. A lot of people don't realise this (probably due to the slight ambiguity in the name). If you're interested in writing news however, Wikinews was forked from Wikipedia for just such a purpose. --Monotonehell 09:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sepat was added on ITN on August 22. Sepat ceased to exist on August 20. By comparison, Dean wasn't even suggested at INT/C when it was added. Northamericanocentrism? LOL --Howard the Duck 12:03, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Error in Space Shuttle line: Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour is redundant. The shuttle is an orbiter. It is either called the Space Shuttle Endeavour (when used with the vehicle name, it is a proper name, and thus capitalized) or referred to by simply the noun, "shuttle" or "orbiter", (not proper name, not capitalized) but not both. Proper wording for the "In the news" section would be "Space Shuttle Endeavour". Ariel♥Gold 14:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm, check out this page.Tourskin 19:39, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As Tourskin points out, the SSO is but one part of the Space Shuttle. Unless Endeavour was still attached to the fuel tank and booster rockets, the wording is entirely accurate. 74.74.236.71 00:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, it's fixed now. Deflagro Contribs/Talk 22:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in Selected anniversaries/On this day

In tomorrows items, the Zanzibar item should have the link to Anglo-Zanzibar war in bold, not the one to just Zanzibar. Modest Genius talk 22:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article is still a little stubby and currently tagged with {{Unreferenced}}, and therefore does not quite qualify to be bolded under the criteria. If you would like, it can be removed completely, but the Zanzibar currently still has the gist of the conflict. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:52, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If that is a problem, then surely it shouldn't be on the list at all? Modest Genius talk 23:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Errors in Did you know?

Re the SST image - it should mention the fact that it is false-colour, and preferably give the assignments. The NASA site says 'Light with wavelengths of 24 microns is red; light of 8 microns is green; and light of 4.5 microns is blue'. Also, the phrase 'gas to be pushed out (green clouds)' is misleading, since the green is primarily due to warm dust. Modest Genius talk 23:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To me, the fact that it says the image is "infrared" is enough information for me to realize it is a false color image. But that might not be apparent to the casual viewer. What do others think?-Andrew c [talk] 17:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Me too, but I'm not sure the majority of readers have the necessary educational background to realise this. Modest Genius talk 21:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think most Wikipedia readers (not administrators or editors) would mispronounce "infrared" to rhyme with "impaired". But my philosophy (User:Art LaPella#"Encyclopedic" obscurity) isn't a Wikipedia consensus. Art LaPella 20:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]



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