A fact from State visits to the United States appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 December 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The article says, with sources: "At state dinners in which the principal visitor is only a chief of government, the Chief of Protocol of the United States will greet the visitor instead. They will then be escorted into the Entrance Hall and presented to the president." But the embedded video shows Matteo Renzi, a head of government and not of state, being greeted at the portico by the president. What accounts for the contradiction? I would guess either the sources are outdated and that distinction was dropped at some point, with heads of government now getting equivalent treatment, or perhaps protocol here has long been more flexible or inconsistent than we currently say. Either way, the article should not make a statement flatly contradicted by the very video it uses to illustrate the point. Beorhtwulf (talk) 04:59, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
