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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

• * ... that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?

  To my understanding, the normal meaning of Somewoman's Opera is that Somewoman composed that opera. There ist no indication in the article that she ever composed. How about some indication that she staged or directed Susanna, Hindemith's opera? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 02:01, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

  Referring to the source, she adapted Sancta from Hindemith's Sancta Susanna rather than staging it directly. It doesn't speak to the composition, but the reference to "naked nuns rollerskating on a movable half-pipe at the centre of the stage, a wall of crucified naked bodies and a lesbian priest saying mass" definitely sounds like some narrative modifications. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:07, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

  The possessive ("Somewoman's") is commonly used when talking about any person who had a major part in a creative work. The NYC Ballet is currently advertising "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker", even though Tschaikovsky wrote the music. This usage is also common when distinguishing between several people who have adapted a work, so "Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings" as opposed to "Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings". RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

  Sorry, I was on a bus for most of the day. I seem to need language education. For Nutcracker and Lord of the Ring, there's a famous title, but the hook has no title to credit Mr. Hindemith. "First opera" gives the impression of her creative work, but looking closer, it's rather some sort of adaptation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

• ... that a Ukrainian tax administrator began a program to open 60 ice rinks within five years?

In his role as president of the Ukrainian Ice Hockey association. Zzzz. Secretlondon (talk) 16:29, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Looks like you read the article! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:36, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes to see how it was being misleading. Secretlondon (talk) 16:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I think this is more misleading than quirky. The hook should say something like "in a previous position", or "had once". RoySmith (talk) 18:33, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, over half of his article is about his ice hockey career. Not only that, but the hook suggests that the program was successful, but only 12 rinks were completed within 5 years, so the program was a failure. I'd pull this. Black Kite (talk) 18:51, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I approved four other hooks on that page. Are any of those of any use?--Launchballer 19:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

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