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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 India became the first team to win the T20 World Cup undefeated throughout the 2024 tournament?

  This doesn't sound like it's worded correctly. It sounds like it's saying India is the first team to win the 2024 World Cup undefeated, which would be entirely unremarkable since the tournament only has one winner and presumably it was India. I assume it's supposed to refer to them being the first to win any edition of this tournament undefeated.  — Amakuru (talk) 05:52, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

  Changed to "... that in the 2024 tournament, India became the first team to win the T20 World Cup without losing a game" which I think is better? Black Kite (talk) 09:17, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

• ...Do You Know that the Richmond Tunnel is a syphon?

No, i didn’t think so. Qwirkle (talk) 16:45, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, it isn't. A search revealed "No, the Richmond Tunnel itself is not a siphon. While the tunnel carries water under New York Harbor, a deeper tunnel referred to as a "siphon" was built as a backup and to allow for dredging of the Anchorage Channel. The original siphons, shallower than the Richmond Tunnel, were eventually decommissioned when the new siphon was completed." Pinging nominator Epicgenius. SL93 (talk) 18:10, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Nonsense. When water goes down an enclosure and up again, that is a syphon. If you have smaller pipes doing this, they are often explicitly called syphons, yeah, but the larger tunnel is every bit as much a syphon. Almost every aqueduct system includes syphons, although the Romans, who we often mistakenly think of as the ur-aqueducteurs, used them only as a last resort.

Is “a search reveals” the new euphemism for “AI bullshit?” Qwirkle (talk) 18:22, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

• "As a supplement and backup to the Richmond Tunnel, the new siphon will allow the two original Narrows Siphons, completed in 1916 and 1925 and maintained as backup to the Richmond Tunnel, to be officially decommissioned." - Out of the Archives: Narrows Siphon | Flickr
• "The Richmond Tunnel is the primary supplier for water on Staten Island, and the new, deeper tunnel, called a siphon, is meant as a backup." - Construction Flowing on New Staten Island Water Siphon
• Is "Qwirkle" a way to say asshole? SL93 (talk) 18:28, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

  all right, could both of you please take it down a notch? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:35, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

  I was about to say what leek said. If this is an issue, we could go with "smaller siphons". Or I guess we can use one of the alts, but I don't think the original hook is incorrect per se. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

@theleekycauldron, I think what needs to be taken more than a few notches is the level of nonsense on the Main Page, and the sloppy standards of “research” that lead to it. Notice that the examples SL gives above don’t support his initial statement? Qwirkle (talk) 18:42, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

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