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<div style="font-size: 120%; padding-top: 12px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold">Really, it is. If you post here, then either:</div> |
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'''This page is for discussing the [[{{PAGENAME}}]] ''only''.''' |
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'''This is not the place to ask general questions.''' |
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* You will innocently ask a question about, say, the Did you Know section, which does after all appear on the Main Page. You will be told your question "belongs" somewhere else. Possibly different places by different people. Nobody will be nice and re-post your question there for you, though; you'll have to do that yourself. |
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* You will ask a genuine question about the Main Page that could only be asked here. You will be pointed to archive 42, where the issue you raise was discussed to death two years ago. Every possible Main Page-related question has already been asked, and we expect you to read and memorize all 117 archives before saying anything. |
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{{center|'''If you do not visit this page on a regular basis, please review the following information:'''}} |
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* You will notice that there are multiple topics related to subject X present on the page, and complain about Wikipedia's pro-X bias. You will recieve a patient explanation of how Main Page content inevitably reflects contributors' backgrounds and interests to some degree, and then be told to go away. |
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*To find out more about where to ask questions or make comments on Wikipedia, see [[Wikipedia:Questions|Questions]]. |
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<div style="font-size: 120%; padding-top: 12px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold">So, don't post here. Go to one of these pages instead:</div> |
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*To find out more about the [[{{PAGENAME}}]], see the [[Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}} FAQ|{{PAGENAME}} FAQ]].<li>To report a problem, see the [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents|Administrators' Noticeboard]]. |
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*To suggest an item for "[[Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know|Did You Know]]", see [[Template_talk:Did_you_know|Did You Know Suggestions]]. |
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* To report a problem with the Main Page, see '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Main Page errors]]'''. |
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* To suggest an item for "''Did you know''", see '''[[Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know" suggestions]]'''. |
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* To add an anniversary to "''On this day''", see '''[[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries|Selected anniversaries]]'''. |
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* To find out more about the Main Page, see the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ|Main Page FAQ]]'''. |
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* To report some other problem, see the '''[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard|Administrators' noticeboard]]'''. |
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