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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)

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Current DYK

Why did it have to be snakes!

• "that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) can be as short as 15 inches (38 cm)?". This is blatantly incorrect because of course they are very much shorter when they are young. The statement on which the hook is based is, "Salt marsh snakes grow to a total length (including tail) of 15–30 inches (38–76 cm)." So we don't even know whether they become adult (sexually mature) before reaching 15 in. I suggest to change the hook to "that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) can be as long as 30 inches (76 cm)?". JMCHutchinson (talk) 06:49, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

  Why don't we say that "adult salt marsh snakes" can be as short as 15 inches? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 07:59, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

• 15 inches seems long enough to be scary – my wife would be paralysed by fear. So describing this as "short" is POV. And, as the length seems quite arbitrary and ordinary, I reckon a completely different fact is required. Here's a suggestion. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:05, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Andrew Davidson: It's not describing the snake as "short", it's describing its minimum length ("as short as"). So there's no POV. Having said that, your suggestion below (which seems to have become separated from your comment) is a much more interesting. Bazza (talk) 09:13, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

• ALT1 "...that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) drink only rainwater?".

Seems a very good suggestion to me: much more interesting. JMCHutchinson (talk) 08:51, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done Someone needs to action this; a good alternative was found half a day ago. Schwede66 16:34, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Small world

• "... that Solo Per Due claims to be the smallest restaurant in the world and only serves meals for two?"

There are many claims of this sort – see Kuappi, which we ran at DYK with a similar claim just last year, for example – that also appeared at WP:ERRORS. And they will always be dubious because there are innumerable small eating establishments such as hole-in-the-wall, street vendors and takeaway places with limited seating. DYK is supposed to be for definite facts not promotional hype per WP:NOTPROMO. Andrew🐉(talk) 07:56, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Andrew, i was also unsure about whether or not this hook should run, and had raised my concern at wt:dyk here [perm]. dying (talk) 11:10, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

I'm on mobile now so can't handle it myself, but yeah, pull it. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 13:06, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Pulled.  Done BorgQueen (talk) 13:21, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Next DYK

• ...that the Spanish Inquisition sentenced Diego Mateo Zapata (pictured) to wear the sanbenito, receive 200 lashes, have his 600 books confiscated, and exile, despite his acquittal? "...and be exiled" instead of "...and exile" would continue the "to [verb] [nouns]" pattern that every other punishment in that list has. ("despite being acquitted" also personally sounds better to me than "despite his acquittal" for similar reasons, but that's admittedly more my own opinion than anything else.) 2603:8001:4542:28FB:58C5:89E:A4E2:D539 (talk) 21:14, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

   Done I was somewhat ambivalent on the second suggestion but went with it 'for completeness'. I don't mind if that part gets changed back, but the first suggestion is a definite improvement. Schwede66 21:26, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

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