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Errors in the summary of today's or tomorrow's featured article

TFA today

• I became curious by the "US 25 was a highway in ..." in the opening. What is its fate? After switching between the blurp, U.S. Route 25 in Michigan, and U.S. Route 25 I could deduct that the designation was withdrawn only, the physical is still there, for a part of US 25. Maybe the blurb could be made more clear and incomplete by retaining the "in Michigan" part from article title since it changes the meaning. Also, does "from the state" mean "from the Michigan state part", "from the state highway", or "in the state"? (Personally I'd expect a notion like "because of new, parallel I-75" here). Then I discovered that the U.S. Route 25 in Ohio sequence shared its fate, me wondering why that is a cut split in articles and whether Michigan itself is relevant. I understand some (more) questions I could ask at the article talkpage, but this trigger more of a puzzle than a description to me. -DePiep (talk) 04:23, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

• Is that an error? The final two sentences of the blurb say "On September 26, 1973, the entire designation was removed from the state. The final routing of the highway is still maintained by the state under eight different designations, some unsigned." So it is clear th article is about the designation of a road, not whether the carriageway physically exists or not. That said, it could be clearer that the featured article is only about the route in one US state, and it still exists and runs from Georgia to Kentucky.
  A small point (well, two of them) but why is it "US Highway 25" and "US 25", but "U.S. Route 25"? MOS:US requires consistency in use of stops in the abbreviation. 213.205.198.193 (talk) 05:39, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Well, "was a highway" versus "final [i.e., current?] routing of the highway is ..." are talking about the same highway, past and current. And: blurb title omitting "in Michigan" surely distracts, into misleading the reader. "from the State" is unclear, what does it mean? Sure factiods are there, for researchers to deduct. - DePiep (talk) 05:59, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

I agree with DePiep. The whole blurb is misleading,implying that US 25 only existed in michigan. And the bolded title must correspond to the actual target not an Easter egg. Plus the U.S. / US discrepancy in the article itself. I'll have a go at resolving these when I get to a computer.  — Amakuru (talk) 07:12, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

OK, I've amended the opening sentence of the TFA blurb to say:

• U.S. Highway 25 in the state of Michigan (U.S. 25) was a highway that ran northeasterly from the Ohio state line near Toledo through Monroe and Detroit to Port Huron.

Not perfect maybe, but an improvement on what I think was a misleading sentence before. If anyone has a better suggestion, please make it. THanks  — Amakuru (talk) 08:04, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Would someone please remove the dots from the name and abbreviation for the highway? Of the 48 states with US Highways, all of them us "US" followed by the number for the abbreviation, and 47, but not Michigan, use the dots in the full name. CMOS 16 and CMOS 17 do not use the dots in the name of a US Highway, which is why Michigan does not. {{jct}}, the standard template outputs US 25, and the infobox uses "US Highway 25" (note, Michigan does not call its highways "routes", even if the name is "U.S. Route 25 in Michigan" to follow the naming convention at WP:USSH.) Imzadi 1979 → 17:21, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

 Done. I don't really like this situation though, and I suggest it be resolved at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads. It doesn't make sense for one state to be out of kilter with the others.  — Amakuru (talk) 19:46, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

I see this has been discussed already at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways), where there appears to be the beginnings of a consensus to remove the stops. The current inconsistent situation is unfortunate. 213.205.198.171 (talk) 21:26, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Errors in today's or tomorrow's featured picture

POTD tomorrow

• This image is an cartoon by... — Should be a cartoon. Modulus12 (talk) 20:41, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
  •  Done --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:44, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

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