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Errors in "Did you know ..."

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The title for kausheya was changed to remove the disambiguation so the wikilink needs fixed. SL93 (talk) 03:28, 9 March 2022 (UTC)  Erledigt — Maile (talk) 03:41, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

• ... that the David Attenborough–narrated curious if this should be a hyphen instead of an ndash. Therapyisgood (talk) 16:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

  MOS:SUFFIXDASH (penultimate example) says it should be a dash. Bazza (talk) 16:58, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

  I'm not keen on this at all, it doesn't seem to aid readability to me, but as noted it is what the MOS says. I did consider rewording to eliminate the issue, to

  • ... that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?

  but I'd probably get told off if I did that, so will leave it alone.  — Amakuru (talk) 17:01, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

  @Amakuru: Rewording would certainly make it more natural than the current forced wording. A few scrolls further up to MOS:HYPHEN will reveal the recommendation "...it is often possible to avoid multi-word hyphenated modifiers by rewording (a four-CD soundtrack album may be easier to read as a soundtrack album of four CDs)." I think you should go ahead; your suggestion also has the bonus of putting the bold-linked article first. Bazza (talk) 17:12, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

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• 1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi that established his reputation, premiered at La Scala in Milan.

Only, I suggest to bold the link to Nabucco, not Verdi. The work is the more precise and more unusual information. The opera article is great, and I'll propose it for GA, next step. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:48, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, I’m sympathetic to your suggestion but there are many uncited paragraphs in the opera article. Schwede66 17:54, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Plots don't need cites. Some minor ones I commented out. I also asked for help on Project opera. Sadly the principal author Viva Verdi, died. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I had gone through and placed a few (5?) citation needed tags and you may note that I didn’t tag the plot section. Schwede66 18:03, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I went and dealt with them, and think those marked were not "many", so thought you meant more. Please check again, Schwede66. I dropped the sentence about how many operas Verdi wrote, but couldn't help thinking that's it's a bit like like blue sky, and not relevant to this one. Commented out for now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:30, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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