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<div style=”position: fixed; visibility: hidden”><span style=”font-size: 0″>Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See [[WT:ERRORS]] and [[WP:SUBSCRIBE]]. – Dank ([[User talk:Dank|push to talk]]) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)</span></div>

<div style=”position: fixed; visibility: hidden”><span style=”font-size: 0″>Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See [[WT:ERRORS]] and [[WP:SUBSCRIBE]]. – Dank ([[User talk:Dank|push to talk]]) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)</span></div>

=== [[Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}|Today’s FA]] ===

=== [[Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/{{#time:F j, Y}}|Today’s FA]] ===

Angela Lansbury’s name should be under her photo like all of the other photos. The way the layout unfolds now, it look like the photo is of Dorian Gary. {{unsigned|BuffaloBob|19:37, 16 October 2025}}

:I realize there’s something of a drive to caption every picture, but given that the picture is right next to her name, is there really a risk of confusion?–[[User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt]] ([[User talk:Wehwalt|talk]]) 19:45, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

:”all of the other photos” Actually, none of the other photos, if you mean Main Page Featured Article photos when the person’s name is also the name of the article. Look through [[Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/September 2025|last month’s archive]] for example, specifically September 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, 14, 22, and 29. [[User:Art LaPella|Art LaPella]] ([[User talk:Art LaPella|talk]]) 19:58, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

=== [[Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/{{Tomorrow/long}}|Tomorrow’s FA]] ===

=== [[Wikipedia:Today’s featured article/{{Tomorrow/long}}|Tomorrow’s FA]] ===

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  • … that Hoàng Xuân Vinh won Vietnam’s first Olympic gold medal with a record-setting shot at the 2016 Games? Not an error per se, but a very silly claim. The “record” was the first and last time the event was held under those rules at the Olympics, the winner was sure to set an Olympic record and it can’t be broken. It’s technically true, but it makes the win sound even more impressive than it really was (winning Gold is more than sufficient). Fram (talk) 08:05, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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