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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)

Tomorrow's FA

• When she became its leader, she evaded capture by the authorities making her a heroine for the Other Backward Classes.

Missing a second comma after "authorities." As it is, it reads like the authorities made her a heroine, and that was what allowed her to evade capture. -Elmer Clark (talk) 02:45, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• In the section for 1944, the link for Bambi is Bambi (i.e. the film) not Bambi (character). Aydoh8^[contribs] 01:47, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

•  Fixed the link. Schwede66 02:45, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

• 1974 – On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amidst the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign his office.

— "His office" is redundant and sounds odd. Also, second allusion to vacating the "office" unnec. ('Amid' would be more common in U.S. usage than 'amidst.') – Sca (talk) 01:59, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

•  Fixed both items. Schwede66 02:45, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(August 9, today)

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Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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why is some british guy there on veterans day? shouldn't it be something veterans day related? gah 98.15.216.208 (talk) 15:26, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Raul654 gets accused of being biased in favor of the United States more often than Adolf Hitler gets accused of being an anti-semite. I guess he wanted a day off from that... or perhaps there were no FA-quality articles that fit the holiday. *shrugs* Happy Veterans Day, everyone, and thanks to Raul654 for always doing a dang good job. 168.9.120.8 (talk) 15:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

It is. Happy Remembrance Day. Maybe you think only Americans fight wars? Dragons flight (talk) 16:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

most of wikipedia's readers are from america anyway. 98.15.216.208 (talk) 16:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

What the hell are you basing that on? J Milburn (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I do not know about readership, (indeed, I do not think it is possible to know), but according to this chart, nearly 48% of the English Wikipedia's contributors come from locations other than the US. I would assume that this largely reflects the readership percentages. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I suspect there would be a higher proportion of readers who do not speak English as a first language than there are contributors who do not speak English as a first language, but I admit I am shocked more than half of our contributors are American. J Milburn (talk) 17:49, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The USA accounts for ~65% of all people who speak English as their first language. Dragons flight (talk) 19:42, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The last time I looked at the Alexa rankings, the largest group of visitors came from the US, around 25%. The second largest group was either Germany or Japan, and came in around 10%. I believe the UK comes in around 5th or 6th with only a few percentage points. - auburnpilot talk 19:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

25% hardly qualifies as "most of wikipedia's readers are from america". --199.71.174.100 (talk) 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

To be fair, those stats are for all Wikipedias, not just the English one. J Milburn (talk) 20:09, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Alexa rankings are a highly flawed statistic anyway especially when your talking about something across such a diverse geographical range, www.wikipedia.org recently stopped using them to decide which wikipedia languages should be on top (which it was decided should be based on the most popular) and turned to own statistics and IIRC, this changed the result a fair bit. See Meta:Talk:Www.wikipedia.org template for details. We don't however have visitor geographical location statistics per wikipedia AFAIK and indeed I'm not even sure if the foundation would allow something like that Nil Einne (talk) 15:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Veterans day is ONLY in US...pretty much entire commonwealth has remembrance day hence a british soldier (seeing at it marks the end of world war 1). I have seen a lot of US related articles that get posted on their related day and yes ppl do complain about US-Bias but it always resorts to fact that wiki will also feature other country's article if one is available. I was actually happy for the fact that finally something other that US gets posted and then i see this conversation. Seriously you guys really make wikipedia look like USpedia sometimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashishg55 (talk • contribs) 23:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Why does everybody constantly complain about the United States? It's very irritating. I remember people complaining about having 9/11 on as the featured article 76.77.225.169 (talk) 03:18, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Everybody doesn't. I count one in this thread. Algebraist 03:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Because there was no heavy Rwanda emphasis on April 6? etc. Everybody constantly complains because there IS something wrong.EamonnPKeane (talk) 01:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Typo

There is a typo on this page. "52-storey" should be "52-story". I would help, but I am only a regular user (and a real noob too) so I can't do anything to help. Jonathan321 (talk) 16:23, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Storey is correct British English. We allow either British or American spellings. Dragons flight (talk) 16:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it should use Australian English since the article concerned is BankWest Tower which is in Australia. The article itself uses 'story' but the correct Australian English spelling is 'storey' as per MacquarieNet.

In any case, sticking to the two major varieties of English will cause no issue, regardless of the specifics of the article or WP:Spelling. Anyway, the variations amongst C'wealth countries (maybe except Canada) are all just versions of "English" English after accounting for region-specific words. 118.90.54.71 (talk) 12:41, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

However those difference should be reflected in articles with strong national ties to a topic per WP:ENGVAR. And per engvar, we don't stick to the two 'major' varieties of English. American English is just a version of English too, it isn't a different language, even if there are more differences to many other versions of English Nil Einne (talk) 06:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Change Indian spacecraft to ISRO spacecraft

It makes more sense to call it an ISRO spacecraft. I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations (talk) 01:16, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

This is true actually, if it had been a Nasa mission we would have described it as such, rather than as an American mission. Modest Genius ^talk 01:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Try WP:ERRORS. --74.14.19.8 (talk) 07:25, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Also, the probe did not land on the moon - it 'impacted'. Suggest changing the text to reflect this.220.110.178.109 (talk) 03:46, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Try WP:ERRORS. --76.64.76.189 (talk) 19:04, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

IP adress

A friend of mine got banned from wikipedia just a few weeks ago because of a shared Ip adress, probably. Now I wonder, do I share my IP adress with any other users, is there anyone over here who could check that for me? I would love to know that, see, because it would really bother me losing my editing rights all of a sudden. Thanks in advance, 217.121.96.159 (talk) 18:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

 CheckUser is not for fishing - JPG-GR (talk) 19:18, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Um he/she isn't requesting a checkuser I don't think. We already know his/her IP, we just have to work out if it is shared. To the anon, this isn't the right place, as the message at the top says, try Wikipedia:Help desk. However far better, ask your ISP since they are the ones who control your IP allocation Nil Einne (talk) 22:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Just create an account, then you'll only be held responsible for your own actions. --212.71.160.50 (talk) 20:52, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Have a read of WP:WHY, which discusses how to avoid this Modest Genius ^talk 01:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

A WHOIS seems to suggest that your IP address is dynamically allocated by an ISP - I suggest creating an account. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 19:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

That sucks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.208.107.163 (talk) 20:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Not really, just ask an Admin to unblock. 20:32, 18 November 2008 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xx.IvoryTusks.xx (talk • contribs)

Who was that "friend of your"? What was his account name? Maybe you were a vandal yourself and came back with a changed IP, hoping to get away with it? I'd say, do the requested IP-check, it could well be that he is an actual vandal. First, view this IP's posts. J.B. (talk) 14:07, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

And who is this "J.B." fellow? He's "active under a IP adress (sic) for years already" and just recently created an account? Maybe he's the same vandal himself, registering the account to come here and make accusations in order to deflect suspicion from himself! We should Checkuser him too! And that 128.104 guy looks suspicious as well. Let's dig through his garbage, just in case. - Sarcasm aside, please cut the paranoia. There's a reason why Wikipedia:Assume good faith is an official behavioral guideline. Unless you have convincing evidence of wrongdoing (and not just paranoid suppositions), there's no reason to cast aspersions on a public talk page. -- 128.104.112.72 (talk) 16:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has nothing to do with the Main Page. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 19:01, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Changing G-20 to G-20

For the purposes of avoiding a disambiguation page, shouldn't G-20 be changed to G-20? 58.96.70.254 (talk) 01:51, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

• Definitely. 198.189.249.13 (talk) 14:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Try WP:ERRORS. --76.64.76.189 (talk) 16:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 06:02, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Incomings

Given the situation of the donations not reaching the goal of 6 million dollars in the usual period of time, do you think it's fair to have adds in the main page and the bottom of article pages? Comments are welcome. _└^Nitro4ce_┘^┌_t^┐  18:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

IMO, this is a good start and will greatly improve the situation. I hope they do so. But in the other hand I think that the key is to also integrate the encyclopedia with other services so it can recover the popularity it used to have some years ago. Canolucas (talk) 18:13, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Given the controvesy over the size of the ads, this will be controversal. YOWUZA Talk 2 me! 18:15, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I calculate that at the current donation rate of 60 cents a second (averaged over 7 days) it will take a little under 9 weeks to reach 6million... 87.194.177.211 (talk) 08:36, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit please

On this Day... "1820... west of the western coast" needs to be changed. Annatto (talk) 06:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)