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Birmingham Quran manuscript

@Crisco 1492: Birmingham Quran manuscript is now promoted. Do think that the pic has the chance to appear on the main page. Mhhossein (talk) 12:54, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

• Yes, it will. Generally there is an 18 month delay, but something like this could (and probably will) be scheduled for date relevance earlier. Eid al-Adha will be in late September, and that would be a decent date to run this. Not because of the verses shown, but because of the Quran's importance in Islam. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:13, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492: WOW! That's a brilliant idea. Yes, Quran is very important to Muslims. سپاسگزارم. Mhhossein (talk) 18:36, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Chris Woodrich: Eid al-Adha will be on 23 September and I just meant to remind you that. Btw, Can I have a suggestion for the caption? Mhhossein (talk) 11:49, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

• Yep. Another editor added the tomb (I'm assuming for Eid as well). I've opened up the template at Template:POTD/2015-09-23 if you want to add a blurb. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

protected version of POTD

Why enwiki creates additionally protected version of POTD with subst? I think Cascading protection is enough for normal POTH page. There is no need to create additionally protected version. --Mavrikant (talk) 16:46, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Different layout. —howcheng {chat} 17:21, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

@Howcheng: Are you sure there is no anything special? We(trwiki) are gonna delete all protected versions and use normal versions on main page. --Mavrikant (talk) 15:13, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

If we could go with one template, we would have done it. We also wanted to make sure that the regular POTD was editable by anyone. —howcheng {chat} 15:49, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Suggested POTD for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

As per my promise a couple years ago, I am bringing this planned POTD for community discussion.

27 January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and in commemoration of the date I was hoping to run this image from near Nordhausen. The image is stark, shocking, and a firm reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. However, owing to its disturbing subject matter, before running the image I would like a community consensus established. The planned blurb is as follows:

Picture of the day

During The Holocaust, approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Other victims of Nazi crimes included Romanis, ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet POWs, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled.

This photograph shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by the Gestapo in the yard of the Boelcke Barracks, a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp located in the south-east of the town of Nordhausen. Numbers at the camp, which was used for sick and dying inmates from January 1945, rose from a few hundred to more than six thousand by the end of the war; up to a hundred inmates died every day.Photograph: James E. Myers

This discussion will be open for two weeks; if no consensus is met by that time, it will be extended another week. Once consensus has been reached, or three weeks has passed, I will close the discussion. Please write "support" or "oppose" with your reasoning.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

We are an educational organization. Sometimes, that means pushing our main page readers comfort zone a bit. Now, I'm not saying we should just go "WP:NOTCENSORED!" and throw everything on the main page, but an encyclopedic image documenting the Holocaust on Holocaust Rememberance day, I think is well within our remit. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

• Support Images like this need to be seen.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support the rule against censorship applies here and based on the context of the subject making the picture highly relevant I doubt that anyone would claim that that it was being proposed for shock value.--67.68.23.129 (talk) 02:50, 28 December 2015 (UTC)