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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

The DYK on Fang Yi'ai states "his wife Princess Gaoyang was forced to commit suicide after their failed rebellion". However, there is no mention of suicide in the linked article on Princess Gaoyang, which states: "They stormed the palace but were stopped and captured. Gaoyang and her husband were executed by hanging shortly after." The only mention of a suicide on her page is the category: "Forced suicides of Chinese people". Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed. Secretlondon (talk) 14:19, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

It wasn't even approved like that. Someone made up another hook as it looked hookier! Secretlondon (talk) 14:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

The hook that was approved in the DYK hook review is now on MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 16:15, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

The DYK on the Larmanjat guided rail system describes it as being "successfully demonstrated in England", but the demonstration system was actually built in France, according to the article itself. FourteenDays (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 14)

Monday's FL

(June 10)

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.

Tomorrow's POTD

• 9 June - in blurb at "This E. penia buttefly perching on a flower", pls tweak typo in "buttefly". JennyOz (talk) 13:02, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

•  Done, thank you. Black Kite (talk) 13:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

More ITN picture silliness

A bold but brutally effective military strategy.

The first impression you get from ITN at the moment is that the Sri Lankan army have captured Mullaitivu, which is apparently in the middle of the Mediterranean. At least to those of us who read left to right and up to down like virtually everyone else on the planet, and aren't familiar with en.wiki's stupid formatting policies. As can be seen from the current image, the Sri Lankans chose to surprise the French by landing on the poorly-defended western coast adjoining the Bay of Biscay. They then stormed through the southern French mainland, which let's face it, isn't the most difficult of military campaigns. After sampling the local wines they crossed the Mediterranean and captured the well-known Tamil Tiger stronghold of Corsica.

No, I agree, that wasn't at all funny. Either align that shit or caption it for god's sake. --81.157.142.106 (talk) 23:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

A rather enjoyable story I must say. They're probably behind all these recent avalanches in Afhghanistan, Scotland and Turkey too, an added effect of their stomping carelessly across Asia and Europe. Presumably one of the slightly more insane members of the army got lost in Belgium along the way too... I knew they were all connected! --➨♀♂Candlewicke _S^T _# :) 02:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

As it appears you are already aware, this issue is discussed in the FAQ and in a section above. Saying the same thing over and over again is not going to achieve anything. As I've mentioned before, if you do the work to come up with a solution that works and pleases everyone, you might get things changed. If not, you're just wasting your time by coming up with silly stories. Incidentally, I don't know why you aren't more concerned about the people who think that Edward III, his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer all lived at the Moscow State University because of yesterday's SA/OTD Nil Einne (talk) 00:07, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Er, Nil Einne, I agree with you that ITN formatting is that way for good reasons (lets just take every single previous discussion of this as already read, okay?), but 81.157.142.106 has a good point here - this particular combination of image and lead item is very bad. More to the general point, we know that people sometimes just assume that the lead item and image are related, so we ought to be careful not to confusion. All it takes is one moment to think about how people might mistakenly associate the image and lead item, and a willingness to reject images that might confuse people unduly. I realize that our new articles don't always have appropriate images to choose from, but we should still avoid confusion like this. — Gavia immer (talk) 07:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

81.157.142.106, stop being silly and get a wide screen monitor. The ITN pic will be next to the corresponding news item if the column is wide enough. Or look at the top of Portal: Current events. --74.13.127.206 (talk) 13:13, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

why dont we put the "(pictured)" before the text of the item so it is immediately obvious to those with narrow screens which is the pictured item Machete97 (talk) 17:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Because that will either result in us having to put pictured twice or people having to guess what precisely is being pictured or having to be unnecessarily verbose in all instances. (If you don't get what I'm talking about, pay a bit of attention to ITN or even just look at some of the current headlines. I don't know if we had a picture for the de-excommunication item but there are 6 people that could be pictured there. If we had pictured Benedict or that bishop we just put it besides their names, the same if we picture all 4 excommunees?) Nil Einne (talk) 17:49, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

(pictured) before the item, caption explaining it.Machete97 (talk) 10:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Where to put the caption? --74.13.129.119 (talk) 14:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Where do captions usually go ? Great example here with the map. Machete97 (talk) 15:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Where do captions usually go on the Main Page? Nowhere. And this is the problem. In the absence of captions, we use the text "(pictured)". See Nil Einne's post at 17:49, 26 January 2009 (UTC) for an explanation to why putting "(pictured)" before the item won't work. --74.13.129.119 (talk) 16:06, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I really don't understand the problem with the current situation, surely any new poeple to wikipedia are going to read the whole of the ITN section and see (pictured) next to the pictured article, and anyone who has been here longer will know that the picture is not always of the top article. I believe the problem is coming from people who are just too lazy to bother reading beyond the first article, yet can spend the time writing a big long argument demanding the picture be moved. If it is moved to be alongside the correct article the rest of the layout would look wrong as all four boxes use the same format of picture in the top right corner. It also seems to just be the ITN that gets the most complaints when DYK and OTD also do the same thing. Dark verdant (talk) 16:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

"surely any new poeple to wikipedia are going to read the whole of the ITN section"? dont think so. even if you do scan the thing for the (pictured) it takes a minute to find it (should maybe be in bold?) and if you aren't looking for it ie. a newcomer, it could appear that the Sri Lankans had invaded the Bay of Biscay and fought their way to the Mediterranean.

As per the post you mention, why not put (pictured) in bold at the start of the item, then elaborate in brackets and normal type at the end of it. this makes it easy to zone in on the pictured item, which leads you to read it, and with it a description of the picture.Machete97 (talk) 18:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like this will take up quite a bit of precious space. --PFHLai (talk) 21:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Not that I'm complaining about the "lack of space" on MainPage... --PFHLai (talk) 19:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough Machete97. I thnk someone had already mentioned that they did it bold at some time, can't remember who that was or when it happened. Also Nil Einne was explaing that you can't put (pictured) in front as it usually comes straight after the person or thing in the picture. An ITN sentence might mention more than one people or things so the (pictured) has got to go next to the correct one. Bold seems the best idea but if it has happened before and stopped there must have been a reason for it. Dark verdant (talk) 09:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If the space is a problem it could be just (P) or P or PICTURED or Pictured or something at the start of the item, with the description of the picture as it has always been, such as after the name of the person mentioned as it is right now. Whatever we do it should be the same on DYK and OTD. Machete97 (talk) 14:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea of (P) or P before the item, however will this just cause more complaints here demanding to know what it means.Dark verdant (talk) 16:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If you saw the (P) or whatever and didn't know what it meant, then read the item/compared it to the others/saw the picture it should become obvious - but chances are there will still be people who don't get it. Machete97 (talk) 11:23, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Making the (pictured) bold seems like a reasonable solution, at least temporarily; if it was stopped for a reason, as Dark verdant suggests, then we will soon discover what that reason was. On the other hand, the practice of bolding the aside might have just lapsed due to thoughtlessness. Let's try it, I say... 168.9.120.8 (talk) 14:59, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

From memory, we tried making the pictured bold something but some people felt it too distracting. As they say, you can't please everyone. Edit: Yes I was right, see /Archive 108#Suggestion - "pictured" ITN item highlight. There may be more discussions, you can use our new search box to find them like I found this one. Nil Einne (talk) 11:52, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

looks like they considered PICTURED too. i agree with what they are saying there - bolding whole chunks of text like that doesn't look very good - but i think it would be good to leave it as it is apart from a (P) (or whatever is agreed) at the start of the item, so a quick look down the left margin of ITN, OTD or DYK will tell you which is pictured. 82.110.112.201 (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I favor PICTURED. Not that distracting, unlike (pictured). –Howard the Duck 00:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Or like this. –Howard the Duck 12:48, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I like that idea, though not sure how it would make the main page look with that in DYK, ITN and OTD. Might be best to see an example of the whole main page like that. It may look wrong with random blocks of blue everywhere. Dark verdant (talk) 15:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK's first blurb always has a pic associated with it, so it'll only affect ITN and OTD, the two sections at the right. –Howard the Duck 06:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: I really thought the photo was some nebula or something related to astronomy, until I saw a discussion at Template talk:In the news. –Howard the Duck 06:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Pic juxtaposition

For a while it seemed we had solved this problem, but today Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir's picture appears opposite two unrelated items.

If we can't move the pic, how about keeping the pic-related item at the top until a new pic is selected?

Sca (talk) 15:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

There is still a section further up dedicated to this topic, why not add to that discussion instead of starting a new one. There have been various ideas on how to counter it. Dark verdant (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

So moved. --74.13.129.109 (talk) 16:19, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Items are arranged in order of date. Spencer^T♦C 01:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

This is all so fastidious and irrelevant. The picture relates to the entire section of In The News, not the first entry. If you can't wrap your head around this concept after the first couple views than there's something wrong with you. Yeah, sometimes it's funny to see. Who cares? Right now, to correct this problem, there is a picture of Japanese Kanji next to the top story about a Japanese fraud. It's a picture of letters! It's not even relevant enough to be in the actual article. It's as interesting as having a picture of the words "NO TREES" next to a story about deforestation. When you see a top story side by side with a picture that doesn't match, do you get all flustered? Do you faint? Do you get on the phone and warn all of your French friends that India is attacking them, only to be painfully embarrassed later? Get over the slight incongruently, because now you're adding irrelevant data to the front page. The ITN picture should be whatever article has the most intriguing picture. Otherwise you're going to mostly end up with so dull meaningless filler up there. 173.49.91.134 (talk) 16:45, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Clock

Has anyone noticed that the clock says it is Feb. 2, but that it is actually Feb. 1? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.204.157.117 (talk) 00:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia runs on UTC, and when you posted (as you can see by your auto sig) it was 00:31 2 Feb 09. 82.19.2.92 (talk) 02:25, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Please make seperate section headings if the issue you are raising is unrelated Nil Einne (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

And once again we find that, stunningly, the world doesn't revolve around the US. Sigh. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

There's no need to spin a simple misunderstanding into allegations of American arrogance. I've seen similar questions from people in other countries. —David Levy 13:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Well it depends. Most questions I've seen (including from Americans) ask what timezone wikipedia is in or something similar although I have seen some like this before (can't remember the nationality, didn't see important.) I would say not being aware that other timezones exist is rather ignorant (or arrogant depending on the reason) particularly on the internet but that's not exclusive to Americans (although from my experience outside wikipedia it's surprising how many Americans are not aware of UTC/GMT or the connection between their timezone to UTC, something I learnt at a relatively early age and which seems a fairly basic and important fact. The same may or may not be the same for people from other large countries, I can't say. More annoying of course is when people expect you to know what the heck the times in EST, PST etc are and don't provide a UTC/GMT or UTC+/- figure.). Nil Einne (talk) 14:13, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's almost as annoying as when people don't know the difference between UTC and GMT, but it's a situation with which I've learned to live. --Blake the bookbinder (talk) 18:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

For the record, here's links to UTC and GMT... 99.50.50.41 (talk) 23:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

But who doesn't know the difference between UTC or GMT (in other words, what does this have to do with anything)? If you were referring to my message, the reason I didn't bother to note the difference is because it was irrelevant to what I was saying. If you think it's necessary to mention irrelevant details in every post you make, then I suggest wikipedia is not the place for you. Actually the whole internet is not the place for you... Besides that, I question why understanding the difference between UTC or GMT is important. For a non-technical audience, whether you mean UT1 or UTC doesn't matter much at all. While it's helpful to be aware of the difference, it doesn't seem to me to be that important. I could get by fine if no one was aware of the difference provided they knew of at least one. It wouldn't effect the ability for them to work out what the time is elsewhere, nor would it effect my ability to know what time they're referring to without having to look up odd timezones that don't concern me. In other words, most people can work fine across timezones without knowing the difference. So all in all, I'm not seeing any reason why it's such a big issue for you that people don't know the difference between UTC or GMT. IMHO it might be better for you to learn to let it be that there are some people who don't consider what is often unimportant minutae dictate their lives. Sure if you do require 1 second accuracy, then yes, it can be a problem but most people don't Nil Einne (talk) 13:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I have apologized for my unhelpful post (see below). --Blake the bookbinder (talk) 18:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, 99.50.50.41, for doing what I should have done last night – which is to make an effort to educate rather than grandstand about how annoying it is that not everyone knows as much as I do. I apologise (or, apologize) for my unhelpful post. Having come to my senses I recognise (or, recognize) that, at it's best, Wikipedia is a global sharing of information that can bring people together (and, at it's worst, will drive them apart with sarcastic remarks about whole countries or cultures); therefore, my belated New Year's resolution is to make a real effort to see individuals as individuals instead of stereotypes, to try to non-judgmentally understand their worldview and, when I can, to patiently help guide them towards the information they need to make them good global citizens (rather than lump them by nationality and marvel at their ignorance). I know the world isn’t perfect and if I want it to change I’m going to have to roll up my sleeves, get out there and start changing it – myself. --Blake the bookbinder (talk) 07:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Meh, it'll never become policy. :P —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:31, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of educating people, since it's apparent your post is not a reply to my comment, is there any reason indented it under my post? If you're not aware of good indenting etiquette, try Wikipedia:Indentation Nil Einne (talk) 13:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes. I indented it under my own post because it was, in effect, both a follow on to my previous post and a reply to 99.50.50.41. You are correct, my second post was not a reply to your comment but I did have your comments (and the comments of a lot of others) on my mind while I was writing it. Cheers for the lead on the indentation page, I'll have a look at it. --Blake the bookbinder (talk) 18:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Did you know

It does not say "(Pictured)" next to "Wilkinson motorcycle" in the "Did you know..." section

Fixed. Thanks. - Mark 03:08, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Please make seperate section headings if the issue you are raising is unrelated Nil Einne (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Please make use of #Main Page error reports (WP:ERRORS) next time. --74.14.23.66 (talk) 12:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Christian holidays and their labelling

I have always found the manner in which the labelling of the Christian holidays is done is at best confusing and at worst wrong. Taking today's holiday (Candlemas) as an example, it is claimed that today this holiday is solely celebrated in Western Christianity, by which, I assume, this implies the Latin Rite, Ambrosian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, and the various Protestant traditions. However, this is wrong, as all Byzantine Rite Churches on the Gregorian Calendar (e.g. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in many parishes in North America or the Finnish Orthodox Church) or on the Revised Julian Calendar (mixed calendar) (e.g. the Orthodox Church of America and the (Orthodox) Church of Greece also celebrate this holiday today. For those churches on the Julian calendar, which includes most Slavic Orthodox Churches, such as the Church of Russia, celebrate the holiday on February 15th on the Gregorian Calendar, but on February 2nd on the Julian Calendar. The same would apply for those using the Coptic calendar (Coptic Rite), which would be on February 15th in most years (There are some difference about when the leap year occurs). Finally, in the Armenian Rite, on the Gregorian Calendar, Candlemas is on February 15th (40 days after Christmas/Epiphany was is celebrated on January 6th). Now for the small group of Armenians using the Julian calendar (I believe this is the case in Jerusalem), this would be February 28th! Of note, although I have never seen it happen, it is theoretically possible to celebrate the Latin Rite on the Julian calendar. This may be used by the Liturgy of St. Tikhon, which is a Latin Rite Liturgy in the Western Tradition. Thus, for them, Candlemas would be on February 15th! Thus, I would suggest the following scheme to be used:

1. For most fixed holidays (not depending on the date of Easter): February 2nd Candlemas (Christians using the Gregorian or Revised Julian Calendars). Then, February 15th Candlemas (or Presentation) (Christians using the Julian or Coptic Calendars).
2. For the variable holidays, which depend on the date of Easter: April 12th Easter (Christians using the Gregorian Calendar). April 19th Easter (Christians using the Julian, Revised Julian, and Coptic Calendars). Aside: There is a small issue with the Oriental Churches, which under certain circumstances use different date for Easter if it occurs on April 2nd.

Finally, for the saints, whose commemoration is dependent on the rite being used by the Church, then both the rite and calendar should be included. Thus, for example on January 25th (Gregorian Calendar), it is claimed that it is the feast day of Gregory of Nazianzus in Eastern Orthodoxy. This is only true for those Christians using the Byzantine Rite and the Gregorian or Revised Julian Calendars. For the remainder of Eastern Orthodox Christians, that day was the feast day of St. Tatiana. I would suggest that the feast days be mentioned as feast day of Name of Saint (Byzantine Rite using the Gregorian or Revised Julian Calendars). Woollymammoth (talk) 21:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Hm, we usually have a few holidays on OTD. I'm not familiar with religious holidays, but I'm worried about practicality. Something like "feast day of Name of Saint (Byzantine Rite using the Gregorian or Revised Julian Calendars)" for each and every saint commemoration could make the holidays way too long on days where there's even two saints. The browser I'm using now allots about 60 characters of readable prose per line for the OTD section, it'll probably be even less at home, where I use a laptop. Your example has 90 characters, and that's just one holiday. Having say, four lines of holidays alone doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the page.
I don't want any factual incorrections on the main page of course, so can you think of a less eloquent way of specifying the calendar and rite? Puchiko (Talk-email) 09:10, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

The Main Page usually defers to the terms used on the relevant articles. In this case, the infobox tables on Easter, Candlemas, and most of the other Christian holiday articles use the "Western/Eastern" notation. Therefore, I would recommend that you contact some of the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays who help organize the articles related to Holidays. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Remove the line of links

I've just been investigating page hits for the links from the main page, whilst doing so I noticed a couple of duplicates ... and before you know it came to the conclusion that this line of links Overview · Editing · Questions · Help Contents · Categories · Featured content · A–Z index is uneccessary. About,Help,contents, and featured content are already linked in the sidebar, the editing tutorial can be accessed from intro and about, that leaves questions,categories and a-z, which could be integrated into the side bar. This would bring the content up by one line - not much but an improvement for readers to get more 'meat' right away. LeeVJ (talk) 01:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

A long-term Main Page redesign discussion is currently ongoing. The current plan includes removing that line of links. If you have any other general suggestions about the formatting of the Main Page, it would be best to make them there. —Verrai 01:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the pointer will have a look .. but why isn't it being done the wiki way, it's faster and more organic than a whole proposal for a new look? LeeVJ (talk) 02:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

The main page is extremely high-profile, and whatever might be gained by editable Main Page would be lost in the ridiculous amount of vandalism it'd receive. ~user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 04:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I just meant the process for the main page redesign proposal is taking understandably longer than regular concensus built changes, hopefully it will be applied soon! LeeVJ (talk) 03:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture: Bugs and Birds bias

I have noticed a certain bias in the selection of featured photos in the wildlife realm. Not including today's picture (3rd Feb.) I have looked back at the featured pictures for January and of 8 pictures of flora and fauna there were: 3 birds, 3 insects, a cactus and a lizard/cameleon (didn't look too carefully.) This seems to be a long running bias in the selection of pictures. Remember there are other animals without wings and apart from those pesky humans. Comments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kayakboy (talk • contribs) 23:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

It's merely a matter of what our high quality photographs depict, and what editors most interested in the featured picture process are, themselves, most interested in. In this sense, it is an example of systematic bias. Remember also that birds and bugs are some of the easier wildlife to find when you go out wandering- plants and, at the right time of year, fungi are also abundant, but a lot of people find them boring. (We don't have any featured images of fungi, as far as I know.) We also have a lot of featured pictures of space topics, as NASA releases images into the public domain. The best way to counter something like this is to nominate pictures of other types- I'm sure there are plenty of images on our servers that could be featured with a little attention. J Milburn (talk) 23:07, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

And has anyone else noticed the recent trend of hot air balloon related pictures? Alphabet55 (talk) 02:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

To put it a different way, it's a lot easier to get a high quality photograph of a Paper Wasp or Red-eyed Tree Frog in a relatively natural environment then it is to do likewise for a Siberian tiger, Python molurus or Blue Whale. Also if I'm not mistaken images on TFP are basically shown mostly in order of promotion. This is unlike TFA where there is selection and an abundance of article so it is possible to reduce systemic bias by giving a lower priority to classes of articles repeatedly featured and a higher priority to classes of articles rarely seen. BTW, I did a very quick search and didn't find any fungi FP. So it's possible JM is right. According to Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi there is a decent web source for free pictures of fungi so you could be the first to guide a FP of a fungi to the main page, hint hint. Nil Einne (talk) 09:51, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Backlit mushroom.jpg is our only fungal FP, which can be found in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology (not in Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants because fungi are not plants). As for the birds/bugs bias, we had a whole lot of bird and bug FPs promoted in quick succession (starting the middle of Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs 12 and continuing into group 13, which is where we are now); I've actually been spacing them out to about 1 each per 8–10 days so that they aren't all clumped together. howcheng {chat} 17:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

@Alphabet55: Yes, two in the last month! Not only that, but we've had two photos related to polar expeditions in the last month as well. When will the bias end?! howcheng {chat} 18:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Another fungi picture we have is File:Haeckel Lichenes.jpg, so discount what I said earlier. We do have a lot of decent fungi photos, I'm considering nominating a batch for featured status to help bulk out the fungi portal. J Milburn (talk) 16:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

BIrds, insects and restorations are the FP staple and has been since I started closing nominations (coming up to two years). Fortunately for you I will promote another fungi pic today. I'd also like to advise against flooding FPC with fungi pics because you'll find that lots of similar-looking pictures => hardly any reviews => non-promotion. MER-C 03:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

How do you explain the blatant anti-cat bias in the featured pics? Ceiling Cat (talk) 04:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

What blatant anti-cat bias? --74.14.20.60 (talk) 05:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

There's a blatant anti-cat bias on the main page. There haven't been any cats on the main page is months (years?) This is despite the fact that there was widespread support for a daily kitten feature. Ceiling Cat (talk) 05:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

I want ducks on the Main Page everyday. Especially if they don't wear pants. –Howard the Duck 07:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Dartmoor Cross

The blurb states "Dartmoor crosses (example pictured) were probably used not for religious purposes". It would seem to me they were to help people, including pilgrims navigate safely from one abbey to another. It would follow then that going to an abbey would be a religious purpose, wouldn't it? CsikosLo (talk) 17:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I had the same thought. Perhaps "were not used for ceremonial purposes" would be more precise. A pilgrimage is a religious exercise, though not a ceremony. 168.9.120.8 (talk) 18:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia languages

Now that there are several laguages that are over the 500,000+ articles mark --six to be precise (Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, 日本語)-- shouldn't there be another breakdown on the Main Pages? Currently they are grouped at "More than 20,000", "...50,000", "...100,000", "...300,000"; shouldn't there now be "More than 500,000" also? Also, I am presuming the http://www.wikipedia.org page will automatically break down into another 1,000,000+ section when a language reaches this benchmark...? Hope this is the right place to raise one/both of these issues. Jimthing (talk) 22:20, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

This should be raised at Template talk:Wikipedialang, where they are constantly making and discussing adjustments to that template. As for the interlingual Main Page, it is governed by discussions at Meta-Wiki, not here on the English-language Wikipedia. —Verrai 02:11, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Girl with a Pearl Earring TFP

Thanks Wikipedia, I scroll down to TFP and nearly have a heart attack upon seeing the image. That's some scary......erm, stuff!! --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 08:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow, bit of a hyperbole, no? Well, it's done its job.  GARDEN  09:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)