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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)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• 1876 – Götterdämmerung premiered, the last opera in the Ring cycle by Richard Wagner (pictured).

  That is not an error, and I am delighted to see it mentioned on the Main page! However, I think it could still be improved. Take what you like or ignore me.

  1. The image of Wagner is well-known and not related to the bolded work, and the work's lead image is more eye-catching: File:Max Brückner - Otto Henning - Richard Wagner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung - crop.jpg. It' not any depiction but by one of the stage designers for that original production. It also translates the German title, sort of.
  2. Ring cycle is an Easter egg, - cycle should also be in the pipe: Ring cycle.
  3. The given name of Wagner doesn't need to be repeated, if we retain his image, - it could be simply: Wagner's Ring cycle.
  4. Wagner would turn in his grave if he saw the piece described as an opera, while he carefully labelled it: "3. Tag des Bühnenfestspiels" (3rd day of the stage festival), which the article calls a cycle "four epic music dramas". Today we often are sloppy and say opera, but this information is about the first performance.

  My suggestion is not to tell readers that Götterdämmerung is the third part of whatever (which the first sentence of the lead gives them if they don't know it already), but get "festival" in differently:

  • 1876 – The premiere of Wagner's Götterdämmerung (final scene depicted) closed the first Bayreuth Festival.

  or (with the composer shown)

  • 1876 – The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

• I've actioned that and picked the second suggestion just because I'm going to bed now and don't want to have to wait around until the other image is protected. Note, Gerda, that I've copy-edited your hooks ever so slightly just in case somebody else would want to use the other hook – the parentheses are supposed to be italicised as well. Schwede66 09:24, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

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