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• What is a "chess polymath"? Someone who's expert at both e4 and d4 openings? I know that's what it says in the target article, but still.... --Trovatore (talk) 00:17, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  @4meter4, Narutolovehinata5, PrimalMustelid, and Casliber: Ping to you as nominator, reviewer, prep and queue promoters, respectively. Schwede66 00:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• As under discussion at Talk:Joseph Redding, the statement that he "won a landmark decision before the United States Supreme Court" appears to be in error. He was the attorney for Kagama, and Kagama lost the case (at the Supreme Court anyway; he did ultimately prevail in the trial court). Can be verified at United States v. Kagama, or from any of the numerous sources that discuss this landmark case, e.g. [1], [2]. Suggest "argued" in place of "won" (an anon has already made this change in the article). -- Visviva (talk) 06:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• I went with "chess expert" and "argued". I hope this is enough to resolve the issues. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that Kooraban National Park provides a habitat for more than twenty endangered animal species, including koalas? A few problems with this one. First, the source says "Twenty species listed as vulnerable under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 have been recorded in the park". According to our article Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, vulnerable and endangered are two different things. Anyways I don't know if the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 controls these things in NSW given the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW). Perhaps adding "in 2011" to the hook in the beginning of the hook, changing "provides" to "provided" and changing endangered to vulnerable would fix. Therapyisgood (talk) 00:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  @Cremastra, Nyanardsan, and PrimalMustelid: Courtesy notification from the nom. —Bagumba (talk) 01:48, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  If you want to change it, that's fine, but I think "endangered" can mean "threatened broadly"—whether the IUCN classes it as "vulnerable" or "endangered" or "threatened", it's still, in the general colloquial sense of the word, "endangered". Cremastra (talk) 12:43, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• The hook is as of 2011 too, at least mention that. The whole thing is out of date by more than a decade. Therapyisgood (talk) 13:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Sure, there's no problem with mentioning that. Admins...? Cremastra (talk) 11:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I went with "has provided" and "vulnerable" to address the above issues. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above two need correcting (certainly the first one is quite an embarassment), but I have mu doubts about

• "... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers?"

as well. This is apparently based on the remark[3] "The girls also have tackled bowling and gymnastics, Linda McCarthy said.", which isn't really stating that all four did both of these sports, but is in any case taking something unremarkable (a hobby they had as kids) and turning it into something noteworthy for the main page. The Jenny McCarthy article, linked from the main page blurb, doesn't even mention this fact, as it has no importance at all. Fram (talk) 15:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

courtesy pings @TonyTheTiger, TenPoundHammer, and PrimalMustelid: as nominator, reviewer, and promoter respectively; the issues seem quite serious and the hook should be pulled if they are not resolved. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:50, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quality check error on my part. I read the source and I guess misinterpreted it. What do you suggest? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pull it? Cremastra (talk) 19:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not opposed. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:34, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pulled – Schwede66 19:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK is taking itself a bit too seriously. The Jenny McCarthy hook is not the main hook. It could have been unlinked.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A DYK about a link is pointless—it doesn't highlight a specific article. Besides, the sourcing was suspect regardless of the article. Cremastra (talk) 01:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode "c"?'

A digital highway... Fram (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done, thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Malaga was as muslim as the rest of cities conquered by muslims. It was founded about 770 BC by the Phoenicians. No muslim cities in the iberian peninsula, just south european cities ruled at the time by goths likely, and occupied by muslims and liberated by christians, all of them. Most of the population was muslim after hundreds of years of occupation?. Ok, but that doesn't make a city muslim, but it was a european city invaded like the rest of them all over what muslim invaders called Al-andalus. Of course if it was liberated by christian forces it was because was ruled by the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada, which would be destroyed few time after. It's just wrong to call muslim to an european city because it was invaded. You could call muslim city a city invaded by the crusaders for a limited period of time, as you know, for example. As a suggestion you could say Malaga was the most important of remaining ports of the Emirate. I'd add No european country like today know them existed at the time and spain was one of the first to be created as a whole entity few after that time, so it wouldn't be correct to call Malaga a spanish city like to any other european city belonging to a modern european state, in my no expert opinion.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.34.178.61 (talk) 01:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since the city of Mālaqa was Muslim (it appears to have been founded by them, but the article is vague on that point), I don't see why it can't be called a Muslim city. And "Liberation" vs "invasion" is just looking at the same thing from different sides; I think any "liberation" is by definition an "invasion". Cremastra (talk) 19:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• 1643 - first siege of Wardour Castle - at "surrender of the Royalist garrison", "Royalist" should be piped to the more specific link Cavalier (per siege article)? JennyOz (talk) 11:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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