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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 "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

• 1278 Siege of Algeciras (1278–1279) - year should be 1279? Article ibox has "July 1278 – 5 August 1279" and prose has "On 5 August 1278, the Castilian troops arrived at the outskirts of Algeciras."..."Alfonso X was forced to sign a new truce with the Marinids later in 1279." JennyOz (talk) 07:15, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

  The more fundamental problem is that 5 August 1279 is listed in the infobox only. It's not in the prose and neither is it referenced. I've moved the item to the ineligible list and replaced it with another hook. Schwede66 09:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks Schwede but now needs new pic. JennyOz (talk) 09:43, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

  Oops. I should shut the laptop down; my brain is suspended in snot. It shows. Fixed it. Schwede66 10:10, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

• 1816 - "at the Admiralty" should be dabbed to Admiralty (United Kingdom)? JennyOz (talk) 07:15, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

   Fixed – Schwede66 09:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks. JennyOz (talk) 09:43, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(August 9)

Monday's FL

(August 5, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Main page general discussion

Champions league

Surely if the F.A. cup is featured then the champions league should be too as it is a far bigger tournament User talk:Plokt

cheers

Sport in Belfast

The article supporting the reference that 59% of Belfast adults participate in sport, later mentions that it considers walking to be "sport". I don't think that walking is considered "sport" in the U.S. Is this an English dialect thing? Is "sport" in Ireland the same as "exercise" in the U.S.? —BozoTheScary 21:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Where on the main page is this mentioned? --74.14.17.26 04:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

It used to be in the Did you know. ShadowHalo 04:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

So, this should be on the DYK article's talk page? --74.13.131.228 14:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

No, it should be at WP:ERRORS. ShadowHalo 17:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Or both. --74.13.129.114 04:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

1,800,000

Does anybody know which was the 1,800,000th article? --Camptown 18:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

You never know since all these articles being made may be deleted. And why does everyone want to know what the article was? AxG ^{@ ►talk} 19:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Morbid curiosity. Ouro (blah blah) 12:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

In the news

Honk if you are tired of seeing the blurb about Paul Wolfowitz on the In the news section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaff (talk • contribs)

Honk if you're tired of people complaining about ITN instead of making suggestions for it. —Cuiviénen 22:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you for pointing me in the direction to request another candidate...—Gaff ^ταλκ 17:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Beep! ffm ✎talk 01:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Honk --mav 01:36, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Yaahh-ha-ha-ha-hooey!! ShadowHalo 02:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

2007 Ankara bombing and Captured US soldiers in May 2007 have been left unattended on WP:ITN/C for days. Honk if you're tired of admins (e.g. these 4 above) complaining about people complaining about ITN instead of using suggestions posted at WP:ITN/C. --74.14.19.205 13:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

One of the articles still doesn't/barely meets ITN update level. The other clearly doesn't and is also in proseline. Rather then honking at admins, why don't you take the time to work one of the articles up to ITN standard? (I would suggest Ankara since I'm not sure the US soldier body thing is likely to merit sufficient update or for that matter international interest for ITN. It may have met both when the original story was revealed but that's too old now. Basically it missed the boat) Admins are just doing their job and only putting articles on ITN that qualify. It's not their fault editors are too busy honking and not doing any work on the articles which they want in ITN Nil Einne 15:37, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Honk if you appreciate timely responses and constructive suggestions from admins at WP:ITN/C. --74.13.128.98 04:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Ultimately the fact remains that neither of these articles was up to the standard required so there was no loss. If editors don't bother to work on articles once they think they are up to ITN standard then IMHO it's their loss and I don't feel sorry for them if they aren't told early on that in fact the article is not ITN standard. If these articles had been up to ITN standard but hadn't been put on to ITN for several days, then perhaps there is an issue. But if the article is not up to ITN standard (or doesn't meet the international interest component) then IMHO while unfortunate, there's no net loss to wikipedia. Remember ITN is just to highlight articles. If an editor comes here with the goal to get articles on ITN then perhaps it's best if they learn early on that wikipedia is not wikinews and ITN is just to highlight articles not to have all the latest news. N.B. Remember admins only put articles on ITN. Non admins such as me and you are welcome to familiarise themselves with the criteria and comment on whether an article meets the criteria in their opinion Nil Einne 16:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Honk! :) SSBM Pro 01:53, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Burp. --Howard the Duck 02:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

HONK ON WHEELS, sadly nobody cares--User:Rock2e ^{Talk - Contribs} 11:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Please delete it. I hope.

Nice to meet you. I say Railroad acting in a Japanese version. Because the translation software is used, the sentence is strange. Please forgive me. In and a Japanese version, the version of the article named Junko Furuta including the link to this English version article was deleted. The reason is a thing of violations of privacy. Then, could you delete this article though it is asking? It did not correspond though it wrote in Discussion of the article. Please continue your favors toward the deletion. 　　--124.210.245.64 09:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)(Railroad)

Discussed at Junko Furuta Nil Einne 16:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

IRC:s

Why dont the IRC:s comply with Macintosh or is this problem occurring with my comp. only? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.250.110.93 (talk • contribs) 20:36, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Typo

There is a spelling error on the Did You Know quote for Lucretia Maria Davidson: it should be 'lengths' not 'length'. Can someone fix this? Algabal 08:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. --Heron 10:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Next time, report errors at #Main page error reports above. --74.14.19.79 13:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Red bias

A red background on the Simeon I seal image, the red Golden Gate Bridge, a red keffiyeh, and a red flag on the Cutty Sark - only one image escapes the hue. What are we pushing today? Communism? The Labour party? The Red Sox? violet/riga (t) 09:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

No, the colour red. --Heron 09:57, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I vote that we're promoting Wales since red is the national color. ShadowHalo 10:57, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

What's black and white and red all over? --3M163//Complete Geek 12:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

An embarrassed zebra. Unfortunately, the newspaper punchline depends on homophony and does not work in print.  :-) Nricardo 15:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

You gotta be kidding! --Smokizzy ^{Review Me! (Please!)} 16:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Forget about red - there are current three items about English ships! - BanyanTree 23:55, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Cutty Sark, Black Swan Project - what's the third? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 01:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Irish general election

Regarding the following text:

In the Irish general election, Fianna Fáil under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern win the most seats, but their Progressive Democrat coalition partners collapse.

Could this be changed to:

In the Irish general election, Fianna Fáil under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern wins a plurality, but its Progressive Democrat coalition partners collapse.

Reasoning: a plurality is the term used to describe the situation where a party takes the largest share but not the majority of votes. Secondly, Fianna Fáil is a singular noun.--Damac 14:56, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I was under the impression that collective nouns are treated as plural in Irish English. ShadowHalo 15:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

They sort of are. What's relevant is that the possessive pronoun for Fianna Fail when referring to them as a group of parliamentarians would be "their", not "its". The rules for British English (and thus Irish English) collective nouns are complex. —Cuiviénen 15:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

We try to avoid the word "plurality" as it is not as universally understood as "the most seats". violet/riga (t) 15:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought the consensus was we should use it but with appropriate links? Nil Einne 16:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

FF has been referred to here as "it" on 25 and 26 May 2007.

On 4 May 2007, In the News pointed out that: "The Labour Party performs poorly in local and regional elections in the UK". There are many other examples of parties being treated as singular nouns and I've yet to find one treated as a plural.

Interestingly, in the Fianna Fáil article, the party is referred to in the singular. There might be a tendency to treat collective nouns as plurals in Hiberno-English, but then again, we would never write something like "Bertie Ahern does be holding clinics in Drumcondra of a Saturday afternoon" in an encylopaedia.--Damac 16:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm British (not Irish) and involved in politics, and I would say the plural and singular are equally acceptable here and almost interchangable when referring to political parties (although sometimes one might use one or the other with emphasis to stress unity or individuality). I, personally, prefer to use the plural.

However, the current use of the present simple (as opposed to the the present perfect) isn't really standard usage. It is acceptable in news headlines but wouldn't be in keeping with a formal register that one might expect from an encyclopedia; although, I guess In The News items are news headlines.

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 23:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Insofar as ITN is news, the present has been adopted as a universal standard by Wikipedia. The same rules that would normally prefer the use of present perfect for formality apply in American English as well, and as far as I know, in all forms of English. —Cuiviénen 23:57, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Bs01

Is it just me, or are other people having a hard time on Bs01? It dosen't accept my password

--Melman the cat 11:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

PICTURES

Can i use some pictures from wikimedia commons for my small webside about plants and animals? thank you--Nikolaosp 11:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Images on commons are basically free by the GFDL. "The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially." The full license is at WP:GFDL. --Wafulz 13:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

--Thank you!!----Nikolaosp 15:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Not all images at the Commons are licensed under the GFDL. Make sure that your use of these images is compliant with the licenses. You don't need to do anything to use a public domain image, but for example, anything licensed under {{cc-by-2.0}} should be included with attribution of the author and some recognition that the image is licensed under the CC Attribution 2.0 license. ShadowHalo 00:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Note however that as all commons images should be freely licensed allowing re-use, commercial or non-commercial you should be able to use them, you just have to obey the license. For a website some of the requirements for e.g. GFDL (including full license) which may be a technical hinderance to re-use in some instances of printed material are unlikely to be a problem. P.S. Forgot to mention there is one exception you should know of on the commons. We currently allow pictures e.g. screenshots on the commons which are otherwise freely licensed but with one of more of the wikimedia logos. As the wikimedia logos are not freely licensed, these images are similarly not freely licensed. This is unlikely to be an issue for plants and animals though) Nil Einne 03:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Auto Focus on Search Text Box?

What would it take to get this on the main page? For those who don't know what I'm talking about, I'd like to see something where when the main page loads, if you start typing, it automatically goes into the search box... Anyone? 72.69.127.101 15:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

But then you wouldn't be able to scroll down to the rest of the page. That's obviously not a problem at Google.com, but with a page this long users expect to be able to scroll down. --Maxamegalon2000 16:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Yup, this has been proposed before, and it was not done due to the scrolling problem. --- RockMFR 16:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Good point... I never really pay too much attention to the main page (guess I should), so I never considered that... Nevermind then. :) 72.69.127.101 17:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

For those who are thinking of testing it like me, note you can scroll with the mouse wheel but not the keyboard Nil Einne 03:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

The current DYK picture...

...is of a bird of prey yet the DYK fact refers explicitly to a waterbird. Sabine's Sunbird talk 06:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I too added the comment on the error report page. Surprised that there has not been a response yet for the main page ! Shyamal 06:47, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I changed it to a bird feather since I am not sure of these things. But feel free to get a more appropriate pic. Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 06:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

This is a good fix. Thanks. Shyamal 07:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)