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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 "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• ... that after Liam and Noel Gallagher's band Oasis announced "the most controversial band reunion since the Sex Pistols' 1996 Filthy Lucre Tour", Noel's daughter Anaïs Gallagher criticised some fans for ageism and sexism?

Ugly hook, and where is the quote from? Secretlondon (talk) 23:50, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

@Secretlondon: The quote is from the fifth sentence of the third paragraph of "Initial announcement and reactions", while its source is in the sentence. How would you word the hook?--Launchballer 01:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

There are three bolded highlights in this hook. What is the article(s) that users are supposed to be focusing on: All three, or just one? Why is this specific quote included at all? Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 02:39, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

It's a multi-hook, which I suppose is like casting a wide net to catch all possible fish. All three bolded articles in this one hook are the target articles. Bremps... 03:06, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Add "Victory Day in the Maldives" near "Culture Day in Japan". MAL MALDIVE (talk) 03:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(November 8)

Monday's FL

(November 4)

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.

Today's POTD

In the description of the featured picture for Diwali, we should wikilink the mythical city Ayodhya (Ramayana) instead of the actual city Ayodhya. The reason is explained in the second paragraph of the article Ayodhya (Ramayana):

“ The historicity of this legendary city is of concern to the Ayodhya dispute. According to one theory, it is same as the present-day Ayodhya city. According to another theory, it is a fictional city, and the present-day Ayodhya (originally called Saketa) was renamed after it around the 4th or 5th century, during the Gupta period. ”

Also see the section Ayodhya_(Ramayana)#Historicity. --Lekhak93 (talk) 09:03, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

US-related things on the front page today.

3/5 images are of Americans today. 5/7 of Did you know items are on US-centric things. Today's Featured article is on an American. Amazingly, only one piece of On this day... is American. They still got the picture though. --85.210.107.124 (talk) 20:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I conclude from this that we should all redouble our efforts to create or improve articles that are not about American topics, and to take photographs or create images of things that are not American. Start today! What do you have to lose? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:53, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I picked the Ambrose Burnside picture because of his awesome facial hair. :) —howcheng {chat} 21:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Chen Guangbiao is hardly American

• Neither is POTD (which was deliberately selected for Australia Day). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

There's this one day in OTD this year that had 3 US and 2 UK and 0 ROTW blurbs. –HTD 03:34, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

There's actually one day that has all US-related blurbs (because everything else is ineligible). —howcheng {chat} 04:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Not even a British or Irish topic? For shame! :P –HTD 15:59, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Watch the "Featured Article" and "In This Day in News". Those a predominately neutral topics, set on European events on the first page. All I hear is European unrest and cricket/football stats.

I have yet to see any American topics covered on this shitboard.Dirt290 (talk) 17:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a TFA nomination

In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck (film) has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. Bencherlite^Talk 12:33, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

A battle took place

Not sure if this appropriate, but I was almost looking for the article title to be "A battle took place", but somehow I'm thinking that the article title should actually be in the intro paragraph...could someone update that? Hires an editor (talk) 02:00, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

It wouldn't easy to integrate the article title; usually, per MOS:BOLDTITLE, this isn't exactly best practice as done here, and I believe there is precedent for not bolding the article title/link in TFA blurbs not too long ago. Maybe poke a TFA delegate about this? Cloudchased (talk) 04:18, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

There are lots of examples for not precisely using the article title in the TFA blurb: 1, 2 examples from last month alone. It seemed the least stilted way of introducing it on the main page, which is why I wrote the blurb like this in the first place. Bencherlite^Talk 08:47, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Luis Aragonés

His death should really be mentioned, I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ParkinsonProject (talk • contribs)

This is being discussed at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates. Edgepedia (talk) 07:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Five pictures of five white males on the main page today

no other pics to choose from? where are the birdies and old churches when we need them? --76.64.180.9 (talk) 14:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

• Five pictures of five white males? Most of these seem to be individual portraits. *serious answer* The last DYK set had a car, and tomorrow's POTD is a French commune. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:21, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Not to mention, I don't think there's a single MENTION of a woman on the entire page (unless you count the angel embracing the boy scout... Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
    • Li Na is in ITN, but you're correct that it's a very male MP right now. The next DYK set will have a woman riding a horse as the picture, and Pamela L. Gay as a hook. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:30, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
  • If people want to help rebalance the main page, they can nominate new articles from yesterday's #ArtAndFeminism event for the Did You Know section Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:36, 2 February 2014 (UTC)