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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 Hannah Sharts played soccer for the UCLA Bruins over twenty years after her mother fought to create the team? This seems to be completely wrong. The team had existed for a long time already, what Sharts' mother fought for was to make it a Division I team. Fram (talk) 10:09, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the source says "Michele transferred to UCLA and joined the school's club program ... But Michele and her UCLA teammates wanted more. They wanted to play at the highest collegiate level."[1] Even their club sport team is referred to as the Bruins.[2] Perhaps reword to something like "... fought to create the NCAA team". The article needs updating too. —Bagumba (talk) 10:42, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Pinging DYK folks: @24Anonymous, DaniloDaysOfOurLives, JuniperChill, and Ganesha811. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

I'm terribly sorry, I'm a bit new to the college soccer sphere and I'm afraid I misinterpreted the articles. I do like the "... fought to create the NCAA team" correction posed by @Bagumba. I will re-read the sources and update the page accordingly too. 24Anonymous (talk) 14:45, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Added "NCAA".—Bagumba (talk) 06:08, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Do we have a source that states that the team wasn't NCAA (but lower divisions) before this? It's not clear to me whether wanting to be a Division I team means that they weren't NCAA at all. Fram (talk) 08:19, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

This one used in the article looks to cover it. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:18, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

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There's a grammar problem.

"It grows with square stems to 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches) in height"

should probably be either

"It grows with square stems from 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches) in height"

or simply

"It grows with square stems 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches) in height"

ShoneBrooks (talk) 04:21, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

But ShoneBrooks, if what's meant is that after the process of growth, its height ranges from 5 to 20 cm, then it's OK as is. And indeed the article Lamium purpureum tells us that it "grows with square stems to 5–20 centimetres (2–8 in), rarely 40 cm, in height". I'll agree that what's proposed can be misread; so how about something like "With square stems, it reaches 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches) in height"? -- Hoary (talk) [an interloper in both main page and in botanical matters] 06:53, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

I read the meaning in the same way as Hoary -- some teachers/style guides would advocate for commas around the adverbial phrase (It grows, with square stems, to 5 to 20 centimetres...). However, as we have to 50 to 20 centimetres, there's no ambiguity, so others, particularly in the UK, would avoid the commas (as it's doing the same job as e.g. it grows quickly to 50 to 20 centimetres). A separate tweak might be to go for to between 5 and 20 centimetres, which would avoid the repetition of "to" and perhaps make it more obvious that the first "to" isn't a mistake. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 09:15, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, with the additional insight, either option makes sense; "It grows with square stems between 5 to 20 (2 to 8 inches) in height," or "With square stems, it reaches 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches) in height." Both seem fine. A simpler construct might be, "Its square stems grow to a height of 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 inches)." -ShoneBrooks (talk) 13:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

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