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Errors in Today's featured article

I could be wrong, but I am 99% sure that there's an error in the lead text used on the main page for today's Featured Article.

"...most popular products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near ubiquity in the desktop computer market."

I am ALMOST totally positive that it should be "near-ubiquity" rather than "near ubiquity." The article itself will shortly be edited to reflect this.

Thanks.

Tom Lillis 06:49, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there's a difference with or without the hyphen there. Any grammar guru around ? -- PFHLai 12:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

I believe there is a subject/verb agreement error in the headline "Italy defeat France....". I think is should read "Italy defeats France...."

It doesn't need the 's'. violet/riga (t) 22:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
To Britons, no. However, unlike pretty much every other British/American English difference, the method by which y'all do plurals makes no sense to us Yanks. I would say we should err towards the American system, as it's the only situation in which there is a legitimate situation of a fight over "correcting" it. Are the Brits as annoyed when they see "Italy defeats France"? --Golbez 22:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm... perhaps it should be "defeats". According to the MoS, if there is a disagreement like this, one should defer to the original author. As far as I can tell, this is the first edit of the final outcome. It says "defeats". "Beat" still doesn't fix the addressed issue. Thoughts? --LV 23:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Errors in Did you know?

I see a non-fully-filled template here, with parenthesese and stuff. LukeSurl 20:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

But I don't now. Wierd. LukeSurl 20:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Missing Hyphen

As an adjective, 12th century in the last item should have a hyphen between 12th and century. joturner 00:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Texan helium

..that Texas produces the most helium in the United States, all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo?
Is "won" the right word? Sounds very weird to me. Try "all of which comes from the" or "all of which originates from the"
I agree. Copying over my comments from Talk:Main Page.--Nscheffey 06:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Is the past tense verb for "to extract a gas from a field" really "won"? Even if it is, isn't that a rather obscure terminology? --Nscheffey 04:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The more I look at it, I think the whole sentence is awkward and possibly incorrect. According to helium:
After the "Helium Acts Amendments of 1960" (Public Law 86–777), the U.S. Bureau of Mines arranged for five private plants to recover helium from natural gas. For this helium conservation program, the Bureau built a 425-mile pipeline from Bushton, Kansas to connect those plants with the government's partially depleted Cliffside gas field, near Amarillo, Texas. This helium-nitrogen mixture was injected and stored in the Cliffside gas field until needed, when it then was further purified.
This suggests the majority of helium is from Kansas, doesn't it? Surely there is a better DYK blurb one could make for Geography of Texas. --Nscheffey 04:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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