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Today's FA

I made this account (and expect to be banned) but whoever thinks there should be graphic medical images on the front page of Wikipedia is a jackass. Thank you, good bye. Oneinabillionbadedits (talk) 03:24, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the positive reception. The people who take care of the front page do a good job. GamerPro64 04:04, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

In fact, I came here to see if anyone was talking about this. I wasn't going to start something if no one had, but here we are. WP:CENSORMAIN is not as fringe of an idea as you are implying it is and actually makes a lot of sense for the thirteenth-most visited website on the internet (taken from the article Wikipedia). Obviously images like this should be in the encyclopedia, but to put them on the homepage of a website used by kindergarteners and grad students alike is a bit much, and serves no clear benefit for the encyclopedia's sake. (The essay makes all of these points much better than I could.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 04:29, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

It is a bit outrageous. I understand the point of Wikipeida not being censored, but this isn't nudity, or something like that, it's a graphic image. It's even more outrageous because the second photo in the article is completely non-offensive but gets the point across. -- Rockstone^{[Send me a message!]} 04:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I think GamerPro64 has it right, but must this discussion be split in two? See Talk:Main Page#Buruli ulcers at the bottom of this page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 05:03, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I've now commented there. (I was viewing this through WP:ERRORS, and did not know of the existence of the other conversation.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 05:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I came here to make the same comment. Iokerapid (talk) 05:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I totally agree with Oneinabillionbadedits, while wikipedia shouldn't be censored, it is still a website that is used in many situtations where pictures like that are unacceptable to be shown. If someone were to go to the actual page about this infectious disease, it would be on them, but the main page? I mean, i used this website since i was like 8, if i saw that image then i would've been scared. I believe this line of reasoning to be extremely obvious and I cannot fathom how somebody would suggest such a graphic image for the front page in good faith (apart for some ideological tirade against censorship, which don't get me wrong censorship is not a good thing, but this is just plain stupid), I'm not sure how FAs are chosen, but I do think this needs to be looked into, according to a quick google search, wikipedia gets 255 million visits per day, thats a lot, this has potentially been shown to a lot of people that shouldn't have been exposed to such content. 2204happy (talk) 05:32, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

The matter has been discussed at Talk:Main Page#Buruli ulcers. That discussion has not concluded but the image has been changed. The corresponding blurb text is now wrong and so an error has been introduced. Tsk. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:36, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. As it was plain to see that this was actually going to happen, could we not have been better prepared? At the very least the blurb needs updating to replace "examples pictured" with "biopsy images pictured". The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:39, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

General observation: Some of the choices for FA promotion have been really strange & obscure, today's being a prime example. – Sca (talk) 13:20, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Tomorrow's FA

Missing word in the blurb: "The Marciana Library in Venice is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one the world's most significant collections..." -Elmer Clark (talk) 04:31, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Done, thanks. Stephen 04:43, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Dirty War - littered with missing citations. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:57, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Replaced with tuberculosis which is in much better shape - Dumelow (talk) 07:20, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

• Exxon Valdez oil spill - that volume was not spilled on this day. It was spilled over several days, so it should reflect that the spillage started OTD. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:58, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
  • changed to "began to spill". --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:09, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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