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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 the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(October 18)

Monday's FL

(October 14, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

General discussion

Main Page Bias

I'm a little dismayed at the pro-Earth bias apparent on the Main Page today. Can we please feature some articles about extraterrestrial topics like astronomical phenomena, interstellar cultures, and Madonna? Aylad ['ɑɪlæd] 12:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Happy Earth Day!

meh i'll accept a little pro-earth bias on earth day. we have extra-terrestrials on main page all the time -- Ashish-g55 13:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Even worse is the complete lack of independent third party coverage in reliable sources. A Google search brings up only Earth-based sources created by people with a clear conflict of interest. The fact that off-Earth sources devote only two words to their coverage of the topic clearly show that it is non-notable. I would nominate it for deletion but I already know that the discussion will be completely overtaken by a bunch of meat-puppets all !voting keep. ;) Zunaid 13:35, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I knew it. I just knew that the smart-alecks would be out on this one... I should have been faster to get in here! Tony Fox (arf!) 20:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Meh. I've argued about Wikipedia's terracentrism before. It always falls on deaf ears.--Fyre2387 ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:11, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I'd vote to delete it. A. Vogon 21:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

[this is good] 137.22.11.102 (talk) 16:53, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Surely somebody could drum up some sources written by Xenu. Woogee (talk) 22:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, it seems somebody heard you. Fixman^{Praise me} 01:35, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Dang! If I'd caught it in time, I could have made some poor attempts at humor regarding anti-extraterrestrial pro-Terran propaganda in the form of arcade games. Oh, well. Aylad ['ɑɪlæd] 17:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Would iced asteroid suffice? Jackiespeel (talk) 15:47, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Today's Featured Picture

Maybe it's just me but I don't see a picture, only the blurb. I appologize if this is not the right place to report this, not overly proficient in Wikipedia 69.41.192.218 (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

It's just you. For your future knowledge, the correct place for reports such as this is WP:ERRORS.  f o x  13:30, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK

moved to WP:ERRORS by HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:15, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Errors section

Has a decision been taken to stop transcluding it to this page, or is it just an error itself? Peter jackson (talk) 09:37, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I just fixed it. An edit by 194.83.104.2 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) removed it amongst other things - Dumelow (talk) 09:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Please add a link to the Hindi Wikipedia to the main page

Please add the Hindi Wikipedia to the list of "languages" at the left side of the main page. Hindi now has more than 54,000 articles, according to our List of Wikipedias. Greek, which appears in this list, has fewer than 51,000 articles. Surely if Greek, with just 12 million native speakers and fewer articles than Hindi, appears on the main list, so should Hindi, which with 250-450 million native speakers (according to our list of languages by number of native speakers) is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. Marco polo (talk) 14:44, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

The place for discussion of this is Template talk:Wikipedialang. The current consensus seems to be that the Hindi wikipedia contains too many short article to be included - Dumelow (talk) 14:57, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Having reviewed this discussion, I agree with the consensus and withdraw my request. Marco polo (talk) 16:34, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Popular culture as the featured article

Moan, moan, moan. Wikipedia is dumbing down. The Simpsons is crap past season 8 anyway. Why is Wikipedia promoting Scientology? Why is Wikipedia promoting commercial interests? How much did Rupert Murdoch pay Jimmy Wales for this plug? Why aren't there more featured articles about black lesbian panda hunters? Etc. Bradley0110 (talk) 06:21, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

The rest of the world?!

Why do practically all of the articles have to do with America!? If that makes sense.. Monsieur le Duc LouisPhilippeCharles (talk) 13:27, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This complaint again? Read the archives. It's the natural outgrowth of the demographics of visitors here. The answer to the "problem" remains the same: WORK ON ARTICLES ON OTHER COUNTRIES! If the articles aren't here or aren't well done, they won't be on the front page. 199.90.28.195 (talk) 13:46, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Do you have to be so rude?! Monsieur le Duc LouisPhilippeCharles (talk) 14:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

The list of countries mentioned on the Main Page currently includes Greece, Sudan, Belgium, Panama, France, Austria, Ethiopia, Russia, the U.K., India, Germany, Albania, Canada, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Switzerland, Egypt, China, Japan, and Columbia, "various European countries"... and, yes, the United States. To counter a joking "Earth-centric" comment I made last week, there's even an extraterrestrial entity mentioned. If the IP's post was unnecessarily rude, it may have been because the original question was based on a questionable perception of the facts. The IP's point is quite relevant: you are welcome to work on articles about under-represented nations, thereby allowing them to appear on the Main Page more often. Aylad ['ɑɪlæd] 15:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)