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Errors in the summary of the featured article
Errors with "In the news"
- Flooding following a dam collapse in Borno State, Nigeria, leaves at least 30 people dead. I think the bigger story here is that 400,000+ are displaced, no? That fact is cited in Borno State flooding. Therapyisgood (talk) 14:06, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
Errors in "Did you know ..."
Errors in "On this day"
Errors in the summary of the featured list
(September 20)
(September 16, today)
Errors in the summary of the featured picture
General discussion
Video as main page image for April 13 TFA
Czar asked here if it was OK to switch out a pic of a game cover for the April 13 TFA with another image; I agreed, not realizing the replacement image would be a video. I don't know any rea
son why this would be a bad idea, but since I haven't seen it done I thought I'd ask here, just in case. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:15, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
- Videos turn up at DYK, OTD and TFP more frequently than they appear elsewhere on the main page, but that mainly reflects availability. This seems like a good opportunity to run one at TFA, particularly given the relative scarcity of free-licensed pictures (of the static or motion variety) in the subject area. —David Levy 02:29, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
- I do think the cover is quite attractive, but from a purely EV perspective the video is of greater encyclopedic use. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:11, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
- Is there a way the thumbnail can be fixed? Looking at it on firefox, it's just a grey play button with a few colorful pixels to the right of the button. ApLundell (talk) 17:25, 6 April 2017 (UTC)