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Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

Tomorrow's FA is a bit of a mess: was the Lince a programme, or a tank? Unrelated pronouns abound. The Lince did not receive Patton tanks during an assistance programme. Is "the program" in the fourth sentence the same program as that in the first sentence or in the second? Why is this European themed article using US English (program, focused, canceled, armor), with apparently no effort to use VNE? Kevin McE (talk) 11:15, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed your program issue, in terms of the language used, that is a question for the article's authors and not WP:ERRORS. Woody (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but its still an awful mess: a programme cannot replace tanks, the Lince programme did not receive tanks from military assistance programmes. Had it ever been made (was it ever made? The extract is unclear) it would have been the tank, not the development programme, that would have complemented AMX 30Es. "The vehicle's size": what vehicle? Last I checked, Spain was in Europe, so in what way were the M60s "retired from Europe" if used in Spain? Is this really a Main Page worthy example of clarity and cohesive writing, even ignoring its apparent indifference to ENGVAR? Kevin McE (talk) 16:04, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 27, 2010. P. S. Burton (talk) 16:22, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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In the 1918 hook, wouldn't it be better written as either "...became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons" or as "became the first female member of parliament elected to the British..." because in the current woman is used as an adjective, which isn't a very common practice (at least in America, I'm not sure about in Ireland/Britain). D C 07:24, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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...should have the word "Stimulus" decapitalized. C628 (talk) 03:31, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure. The article uses it as a proper name (the Stimulus). Materialscientist (talk) 03:40, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I figured that the word isn't a proper noun in this case, since it's basically a placeholder, and the article refers to it more as "the stimulus" than "The Stimulus," though it's not consistent. C628 (talk) 03:48, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]