Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 27, 2024

Questions re blurb

Hi Schrocat, just checking a few things...

born 1888–1892 - article has first possible year as 1887
I've tweaked it back to the sources, which say '88 - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
does this blurb link to [[regurgitation (digestion)]] instead of [[professional regurgitation|controlled regurgitation]], per article, on purpose?
The blurb was lifted from the first blurb and then reworked a little, so that's where the link came from. I suspect the article (and some of the others) was not present at the time. Now linked - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Water spouting appears twice.
Is that a problem? We list all the parts of his act up front, then highlight the one he was best known for. - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And, is "water spouting" in those quotes rather than linked to Water spouting intentional?
As above (and now linked) - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Re being a human flamethrower - article has "Ali became a "human flamethrower", spewing the accelerant in a long stream over the sacrificial prop, setting it ablaze." so when the kero was expelled from his mouth it was alight? Is that different to Fire breathing (circus act)?
I've swallowed fire once, but not done the reverse, so I have no idea on this! - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry so many questions. These older FAs, whose authors aren't around to help clarify, are often trickier. JennyOz (talk) 01:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JennyOz, Thanks for your work on this (again!) I've done a few tweaks, but I can't help with the final question - that's out of my area of knowledge, and I don't have any sources on this, so I don't know if he was just fire-breathing, or whether there was a twist to it. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all that SchroCat,

There's still an 1887 in article (at first line of Background) but its ref is Daily Express which WP:RSP has as "generally unreliable" (though maybe it was less tabloidy in 1937?). Whatever you reckon should/should not be done is fine.

I've changed the blurb's redirect re Umbriel. (I also changed it on Katy Perry's (26 Oct) blurb and asked for an admin on Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 2024 to do same for (25 Oct) tomorrow's protected Fusō-class battleships - seemed silly to ask you to ask them so I saved the middleman.

(Bet you'll be glad when October's over!) JennyOz (talk) 09:58, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the changes to the other blurbs - I've been advising the admin in question about the poor practice in changing an article title while it's the TFA. I don't think they realised the knock-on effects and issues it would cause. I've taken out the Express reference. It's always been a slightly dubious paper, and I'll go with the cautious approach in not having one of the first references in a MP article being to something on the RSN list. (I'm actually sort of enjoying it, surprisingly!) Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 10:50, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Actually, seeing how aggressive and inflexible some can be when faced with a reasonable request for someone to take care, some of the enjoyment dissipates! Let's hope such attitudes are not a regular occurrence!) - SchroCat (talk) 14:55, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]