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Whole Lotta Darwin?

Just a query. Is the appearance of Charles Darwin in every section of today's Main Page except "In The News" intentional? -- saberwyn 00:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Almost certainly. As you'll have noticed, it's his 200th birthday. Algebraist 00:27, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Here is the discussion on the timing of today's featured article. Algebraist 00:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Shiny. Thanks :) -- saberwyn 00:36, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's also Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday and he gets shafted. Redsox00002 (talk) 01:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He's mentioned once in OTD and twice in DYK. If you had a relevant TFA choice, you should've posted it to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests at the appropriate time (weeks ago). Algebraist 01:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I stand corrected, but it is still 5:3 in favor of Darwin.Redsox00002 (talk) 01:37, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is your suggestion to put licoln's name twice randomly on main page to make it even? The way i see it both were given importance and there is no reason for them to appear exactly the same number of times. there were featured items available for Darwin, hence they were used. if u have suggestion to improve current items then please provide them rather than complaining about ratio. Ashishg55 (talk) 01:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Insert picture of Wikipe-tan huggling Darwin and lonely Lincoln off in the corner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 05:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He needs the love; over at the ever understated and equitable Conservapedia, he appears on the main page in a split-image alongside Adolf Hitler. Joe 08:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I love the way Conservapedia manages to give the impression that racism from the likes of Hitler and (allegedly) Darwin is a bad thing... but as I recall some of the things they said about Obama during last year's campaign... "understated and equitable," indeed. 168.9.120.8 (talk) 13:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - this'll start a bunfight. It could be argued that in the grand scheme of things, Darwin is way more important - his discoveries have a worldwide importance and effect, while ol Abe really only affected the US. 86.155.202.152 (talk) 13:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to say the same thing. Darwin is far more significant in the longrun and worldwide. J Milburn (talk) 09:53, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Abraham Lincoln was known worldwide. Count Tolstoy described how peasants in remote regions of the Russian Empire had heard of him. Lincoln's influence has never waned.[1] The problem is that his article is not a Featured Article, and therefore was not eligible to appear on the main page. Kablammo (talk) 19:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Darwin's discoveries affected the world, and the way we see the world. Abe Lincoln's actions didn't have a worlwide effect - sure, he was heard of by the Russian peasants but his actions didn't affect them. That's the big difference between Abe and Chazza. 86.155.202.152 (talk) 21:01, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Read the link. The acknowledgment of the importance of one in no way diminishes the importance of the other. I originally suggested the 12 February TFA and believe it was a good choice for Darwin's birthday, but we should not denigrate the influence of Lincoln. Marx and Nehru didn't. Kablammo (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

300 is the featured article?

THIS IS MADNESS! 82.18.145.216 (talk) 08:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, I think you'll find that THIS IS WIKIPEDIA! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:36, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Madness is here. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:49, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately as a disambig it's not entitled to FA but Insanity is and the German wikipedia already has an FA on De:Wahnsinn. IIRC the German wikipedia has fairly strict standards so it should provide an excellent reference to help to bring our article to FA status, hint hint. Of course if all you plan to do is replace pages with 'fuck' then I guess we know where the real insanity lies Nil Einne (talk) 15:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the house of fun! --Dweller (talk) 09:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

THIS IS SPARTA! Duh. 168.9.120.8 (talk) 13:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, that's here. Seriously, try searching. :D  GARDEN  21:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POD

I guess can't have it all, but as a common daisy, the featured pic doesn't seem Valentine Day oriented. Julia Rossi (talk) 06:22, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? There's no reason why you have to spend a lot of money to give someone flowers for valentines day Nil Einne (talk) 06:27, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nil, where is your whimsy? It's digiflora: a digital daisy costs the same as a digi-rose. haha – anyway I wonder if I'm in a different time zone and something more commercially attuned is upcoming, :) Julia Rossi (talk) 06:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, there was no suitable FP for Valentine's, so I picked a flower. howcheng {chat} 01:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I still think you guys are making a much ado about nothing :-P What about all the poor kids who want to give a flower to someone for valentines day and don't want to steal flowers from someone's garden and those who dislike the commercialisation of valentines day and prefer to keep it simply or ... Everyone else is telling them they need to send a rose, preferably red, for valentines day, and preferably contribute to the environmentally damaging commercial flower industry, why can't we tell them a daisy is fine too? Nil Einne (talk) 10:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is that thing on top of the page

It says something like "<centralnotice-template-plain_text_election_notice>". What is that? Is it supposed to be like that or is it a mistake? --71.190.87.35 (talk) 02:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bug. Devs are working on this. Cenarium (talk) 02:52, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's gone. Cenarium (talk) 02:54, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

What are your thoughts on multiple articles of the day? Perhaps 'This Morning's Article' or something along those lines. (talk) 10:48, 14 February 2009 (UTC-5)

Having more than one featured article per planetary rotation is likely to be rejected just on principle; but one additional thing to bear in mind is that because Wikipedia is a global website, using "This Morning" would be wrong for half the world. If the "morning" article was displayed from midnight to noon, Americans would see "This Morning's Article" from between 5 and 7 in the evening, and it would have switched to "This Afternoon's" before many had even got up. --86.159.223.93 (talk) 11:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One could argue that problem already exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.98.42 (talk) 22:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many things could be argued. Do you intend to make such an argument? Algebraist 22:23, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We had an Obama/McCain double-bill FA shortly before the US election. It was a good way to handle that particular situation without preferring one over the other, but IMHO should be used sparingly. --144.53.226.17 (talk) 03:43, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai

Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai is a political wing of Kongu Vellalar Gounders. Its formed on 16 February, 2009 in Karumathampatty, Coimbatore. The party represents around 1.5 crore of People in and around the districts of Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode, Namakkal, Karur, Salem, Nilgiris.

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