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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

Anna Russell Cole

I’m afraid I don’t agree that ... that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women? is an interesting hook. This fact tells us that a benefactor gave money to a university. That sounds likely.

Even the way the sentence is structured—Anna Russell Cole (who?) a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University (Oh, okay! donated $10,000 to endow the office of dean of women? The reader begins with no knowledge of or context for who this person is, then learns she was a benefactor, then learns she did what someone must do in order to be called a benefactor.

It’s not unusual, to say the least—it has to be true, give or take the detail provided on where her donation went (which, if interesting, could be emphasized as such with a better hook—but I don’t see any indication from the article’s treatment of the fact that it is unusual or interesting. It’s one of many donations she made). ꧁Zanahary꧂ 06:17, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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