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Yeah, sorry. Just noticed that, too. Schwede66 19:46, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Those Wolverines certainly must have one cunning PR person to have got themselves into virtually every set of DYKs for, what, a week? More? Awien (talk) 14:17, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK is prone to runs of various topics if a motivated editor or two expands a series of articles in rapid succession. I've done it with hockey players myself. We've seen runs of species articles, actors, geography, etc. Resolute 14:21, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not trying to make a big deal of it, just that it was enough to be noticeable. Awien (talk) 14:59, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ties in with the 'main page US centricism' discussion immediately above :) Jackiespeel (talk) 09:40, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FRIEND'S/FRIENDS' - note placement of apostrophe

On the Main Page, it says "Friends'". The page to which it links says, "Friend's". Which is correct: FRIEND'S or FRIENDS' ?

Editors should note that this refers to the "On this day" entry for "Friends' Day in Argentina and other Latin American countries". I'd suggest that consistent use of "Friend's" in the article makes that the correct form. But I don't understand Spanish, so cannot check the sources. Anyone? HiLo48 (talk) 10:58, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Friends' Day would be Día de Los Amigos. However, the article says it is Día del Amigo. Therefore, it should be Friend's Day.--WaltCip (talk) 12:58, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Fixed. --Jayron32 14:01, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Day of the friend (friend's) - not, day of the friendS (friends')? CopperSquare 07:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 20 July 2013

Sea of Tranquillity : should be Sea of Tranquility Doprendek (talk) 22:06, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. This kind of request is meant to go to WP:ERRORS. Hut 8.5 23:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 21 July 2013

Could the separate article Belgian National Day be put on the page, rather than the simple "National Day" link, which just provides a list of national days, as at the moment? Many thanks! Brigade Piron (talk) 08:57, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that it is a stub so it can't be linked prominently (boldfaced) at the Main Page... –HTD 12:05, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Royalty on the main page

As there 'will be a lot of it about' - don't complain, it will pass in a few days. Jackiespeel (talk) 09:16, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

But it's an irresistible urge to complain... --WaltCip (talk) 16:59, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If only Americans had royalty... –HTD 17:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm from New Zealand, actually; a Commonwealth nation.--WaltCip (talk) 17:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't referring to you, just the fact that royals+Americans would've been a lethal mix... –HTD 19:05, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's a boy. Now the paparazzi can take down their ladders.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Americans had royalty, right up to 1776! Mjroots (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Right up to 1963/68. 87.113.216.108 (talk) 20:49, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And unsurprisingly, someone bitched about it a few sections up when a Kennedy appeared on the main page. Resolute 21:20, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bah. The Kennedy family is much less significant that 19th century pre-Indonesian Chinese literature, because a person automatically loses ten significance points for being American and gains ten for being from an oppressed nation. (But seriously, there's been several items to do with Indonesia on the Main Page this week.)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.28.82.250 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(reset) Trying to be ahead of the discussion - and I was including the Belgian monarchy in my comment (and will refer some of the replies to Emperor Norton). Jackiespeel (talk) 21:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just for everyone's amusement, there's now a discussion ranting about UK royalty at WT:ITN#UK country bias and procedure, incidentally by the same person who insists that the US Senate is a parliament in itself. –HTD 13:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, both countries get more coverage than they should, but the UK-bias is way odder because its much smaller. By sheer numbers, a certain US-tilt in the most polished articles is predictable and perfectly reasonable. But I quite often come on here and see two or three items somewhere relating to some obscure noble from 200 years ago or some British naval milestone, and I'm not sure how that happens to be.
  • "Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to a son, third in the line of succession to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms."
  • "British cyclist Chris Froome wins the Tour de France."

A man rides 2,000 miles through some of the toughest terrain France has to offer, battling 219 of the finest cyclists in the world. After three weeks of pain and suffering, he achieves the unthinkable - a second consecutive yellow jersey victory for a British rider, and a first for an African rider, on the 100th running of one of the greatest sporting events on the planet.

A foetus squeezes itself through a fallopian tube. It gets three times as much space on the front page of Wikipedia. (I know it looks like twice as much above - only twice! - but the picture placing makes it three times on the front page at time of typing.)

For the record, I'm not in any way outraged or pissed off. I think it's hilarious. --81.152.113.134 (talk) 22:16, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"A foetus squeezes itself through a fallopian tube." That would be news. AlexTiefling (talk) 22:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't aware of this fascinating complication of the royal birth. It's probably going to be the first royal in the Guinness Book of World Records!
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