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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

Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show

Someone tagged this article for advertising. I personally don't see any major issues, but its worth a discussion, seeing as this is on the main page as of writing. Bremps... 21:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Without commenting on its merits, there really should be some sort of bot that automatically posts here if an article on the main page is tagged for any reason.--Launchballer 21:29, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't look that bad, tp be honest. Secretlondon (talk) 22:01, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 28, today)

Monday's FL

(July 1)

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

ITN picture

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I feel given the impact and coverage of the story it would be more appropriate to have a picture of Jo Cox rather than Sidney Crosby, which has been up a few days and is for a story about to fall off the main page. yorkshiresky (talk) 14:09, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

The main page requires free photos and none have been found. It's discussed at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#.5BPosted.5D 2016 Birstall shooting. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:20, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

[edit conflict] I don't see any images of her, whether in her article or at Commons (File:Jo Cox-Ladru 1952.jpg is someone else), that are eligible; the only pictures in her article are an image of a library and a non-free portrait, which due to its copyright status is not permitted to appear on the Main Page. If we had a usable picture of her, I'd readily move it to the Main Page. Nyttend (talk) 14:21, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Maybe there's some free images of Russians beating the crap out of England fans? Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 12:57, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Cavs Headline

Maybe it would be good to include that Cleveland won their first ever championship in the news item mentioning their win? 71.183.244.136 (talk) 23:03, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

When it was discussed at WP:ITNC consensus was that particular fact was trivial and not necessary to mention. If you have additional comments to make, and would like to see it added, perhaps you could discuss it there with others. --Jayron32 23:13, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Ancient history

The History page for this page starts with (that is, the most recent change listed is)

(cur | prev) 10:03, 26 December 2015‎ Materialscientist (talk | contribs)‎ . . (6,470 bytes) (-48)‎ . . (Undid revision 696846306 by Shirt58 (talk)) (thank)

Oh, really? --Thnidu (talk) 00:45, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

That's because the page is relatively stable; it's the templates that are edited.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:48, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Click here for a more complete explanation. Art LaPella (talk) 04:07, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Promotion of Same Article Two Days Running?

Is it customary to promote an article on the front page twice in as many days? Mortara case was just the front page Featured Article yesterday. Now it is being promoted in OTD. Just wondering. -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:02, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

The Mortara case is still listed at the end of today's featured article. There are several other candidates eligible for OTD, as listed here at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 23. Hopefully one can be switched in. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 03:08, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:53, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

"Wiktionary" missing from left panel's "In other projects"?

On the Main Page's leftmost side, between "Print/export" and "Languages", it has an "In other projects" section listing almost all of Wikipedia's sister projects, except for MediaWiki and Wiktionary. (However, those two are included at the bottom of the Main Page under "Wikipedia's sister projects", with all the others.)

I think I understand why MediaWiki is not listed on the left panel's "In other projects", but why is Wiktionary not listed there, even though it also has a "Main Page"?

Just curious, I'm not really suggesting any changes. Thank you:) Zeniff (talk) 07:56, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

I think those links are handled on Wikidata, so you could add it over there. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 10:55, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia languages: Basque Wikipedia has 250.000 articles

Hi everyone. I'm a basque wikipedian and I just saw on the panel "Wikipedia languages" that Basque Wikipedia (Euskara) is listed on the "More than 50,000 articles" section· I'm congratulated to tell you that yesterday Basque Wikipedia completed its 250.000 article so I think it should be now on the "More than 250,000 articles" section. Thanks. Euskaldunaa (talk) 11:37, 24 June 2016 (UTC)