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Errors in the summary of Today's featured article on the Main Page

Okay, this April-fools charade has got to stop. This is an encyclopedia, not MAD magazine. No excuses can be made for this blatant vandalism and destruction of what this encyclopedia ought to be all about. How is it any different when someone replaces normal content with obscenities, nonsense, or extremely biased opinions? HUCK2012 E. Novachek (talk) 15:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

"A manufacturer is requested to increase production by over 300,000 in one week following the launch of two Turkish missiles at a former oil giant."What is this?yousaf465' The "shower of diamonds" link goes to 2008 TC3, but that page says nothing about diamonds themselves. I don't know if the link is bad or the page is not up-to-date. Thanks. —Goodtimber (walk/talk) 00:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Check the date. :) --Boznia 00:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough it's April 1st, but suggesting a world leader has been murdered is a bit much isn't it? 86.22.78.112 (talk) 00:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I have to agree at being shocked into thinking the PM of Ireland was publicly murdered, especially given the violence in Northern Ireland last month. Surely this should be reworded, April 1 or not. -- Grant.Alpaugh 01:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Wording

Wouldn't "Seen naked in public" be a less grammatically awkward way of saying what you're trying to say? The phrase "publically naked" strikes me as incorrect. -- Grant.Alpaugh 13:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Shower of Diamonds, Turkish Missiles, etc.

Diamonds are not mentioned at all in the linked article 2008_TC3. Also, the missiles gag is neither funny nor appropriate. Why do we want people who visit the main page to think that Turkey is launching missiles at people? Makeemlighter (talk) 01:56, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

• And don't tell me to check the date. I know it's April 1. But that's really not an excuse for an Encyclopedia to mislead people. Makeemlighter (talk) 01:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Y SO SERIOUS DUDE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.59.12.246 (talk) 04:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

A meteor shower looks like a shower of diamonds to the layman. Kimchi.sg (talk) 02:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

So? Did NASA actually report a shower of diamonds? No, they reported a meteoroid. That means it's an error. Also, I just noticed that this isn't even news. What's it doing in ITN anyway? Makeemlighter (talk) 02:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Read the article. There were diamonds. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:09, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The bit about diamonds wasn't added until 07.43 UTC, well after it was reported here - Dumelow (talk) 14:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Errors in Picture of the Day/Today's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct the regular version.

Errors in Did you know?

Protection

Something's wrong with cascading protection. DYK Images on the main page are not being automatically protected. There was problems with the previous group. I tested and protected the image on this group. There's a thread at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Main_page_cascading_protection_not_working. Royalbroil 12:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Everything

Everything is too old for nomination. Simply south (talk) 09:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

On any other day, yes, but April Fool's DYK is an exception to the usual 5 day rule, allowing material that has been written or expanded within the last year to be displayed. This is not the first year that the usual rule has been waived. --Bencherlite^Talk 09:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Are you referring to the article or all the items? <grin> Kimchi.sg (talk) 10:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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