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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 "On this day"

Today's OTD

• 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts for constitutional purposes and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit.

Two suggestions for this hook:

1. "for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts" feels clunky to me, I would suggest "to include Indigenous Australians in population counts"

2. I would also change "and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit" to "and to allow the federal government to make special laws affecting them in states" (much closer to the article's wording). As this section points out, although the intention of the change may have been exclusively to benefit them, that was not part of the wording of the law and not always how it's been applied. And as it also mentions, the government already had this power in territories. And thirdly, the referendum simply gave the government the power to enact such laws rather than directly forcing the creation of any like the current wording implies.

-Elmer Clark (talk) 17:09, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 31)

Monday's FL

(May 27, today)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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Today's POTD

• "Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to man's efforts ...". I think there needs to be an "as" before "symbolic". JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

  Fixed. Also changed it to British English "ploughing". The mix of language varieties in the target article should be fixed up. Schwede66 23:57, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

Text & pic

As a recovering journalist, I feel compelled by my inner editor to reiterate an observation made a year or so ago: The immovability of the 'In the News' photo, but the changing stack of text shorts, leads to faulty juxtapositing and unintended humor. In today's case, John Atta Mills looks like he's mightily pleased by the Israeli incursion into Gaza.

Sca (talk) 19:12, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Please see the main page FAQ. Thanks, Puchiko (Talk-email) 19:21, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Understood, but the policy is the problem. It ought to be possible to link the relevant text and the image. Sca (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

For a brief period the phrase "(Pictured)" was bolded. That helped a good deal, but it was deemed too distracting and they stopped doing that after a day or two. APL (talk) 21:39, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Is it really impossible to caption the ITN image? I don't know about every picture, but there's an area of white space below the current image where you could easily fit "New President of Ghana" or similar in Wikipedia's smallest standard font. --86.169.77.161 (talk) 00:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The space is there, but alignment of the caption is a problem - unless we have the image |thumb|ed, which doesn't fit with the visual style of the whole page and looks sloppy. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 19:15, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

At least John Atta Mills is easy to please. Today he's happy about Gazprom cutting off supplies to Ukraine. Sca (talk) 20:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

When the story listed first is one that would tend to draw a frown, we should recast the headline to focus on the Ghana's VP-elect, who is decidedly dourer ("dour" feels like it should be an exception to the principles of constructions of comparatives, but a check of my dictionary suggests it is not). 68.248.233.189 (talk) 00:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

As I read it it should be pronounced much like Dürer and roughly rhyme with "lurer" (as dour rhymes - less closely - with "lure"), so I don't see why it should.

But this is Talk:Main Page, so I better get back to the main page before somewhat bites me for posting in the wrong place. What does John Atta Mills think about this? --86.169.77.161 (talk) 00:05, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

John Atta Mills just loves the way Scottish words roll off the tongue!

It does seem that John Mahama customarily exhibits a bit more gravitas, but then we don't know; on occasion he may be just as jovial as President Mills.

Instead, how about doing away with the daily mugshot and substituting either a big smiley face or a frowny one, as the lead short warrants?

Sca (talk) 20:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Pelosi!

How sadistic must Mills be; he now delights in an earthquake. Adding to the smiley face/frowny face schema, if something really good happens, we might append the celebratory File:2007SOU Bush Cheney Pelosi.jpg; as discussions here have borne out again and again, we can never have too much Nancy Pelosi on the main page. 68.248.234.185 (talk) 23:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Lugo!

...or Fernando Lugo. Lovelac7 04:34, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

(unindent) Hahaha. I was just thinking about the Lugo / Mills analogy when I found this discussion. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

This is ridiculous - what is so wrong with putting an image next to its text (and to avoid doing so for the last couple /oldest items for formatting reasons)? This is already suggested practice for images in articles. Why is the Main Page, our most public page, an exception? This is really making Wikipedia look stupid - Now the guy looks like he is happy that 15 people died in an earthquake. --mav (talk) 14:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Bring back Lugo! Lugnuts (talk) 17:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Maybe we could find a picture of someone, anyone, scowling and/or looking sad. Yeah, Lugo would be fine. BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 18:38, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Will somebody freaking change the pic? He's been up there for like 6 weeks already.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gplpark92 (talk • contribs) 01:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

If you don't like the picture, suggest a replacement at WP:ITN/C. If you don't have a replacement in mind, go look for one. Stop the tiresome complaining. --74.13.127.204 (talk) 12:37, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Now we don't know whether he's happy because 8 people have died in Fiji or because he's won a Golden Globe. --81.157.142.106 (talk) 23:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Atta Mills reminds of Demi Lovato's toothy grins. –Howard the Duck 06:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

How long is that picture of the Ghanaian president going to be up?

Seems a little long, don't you think? Are we just celebrating extra hard because someone in Africa was elected peacefully without the deaths of thousands or without giving their people the choice of voting for them or death? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.80.179.67 (talk) 17:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

If you can find a good FREE image of the 2009 Fiji floods or the 66th Golden Globe Awards, feel free to link it here and I'm sure an admin will do their best to update the page with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.71.185.224 (talk) 18:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

If you don't like the picture, suggest a replacement at WP:ITN/C. If you don't have a replacement in mind, go look for one. Be constructive without the sarcasm. --74.13.131.105 (talk) 18:19, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Now Danny Boyle is happy that 200 people were killed in a ship capsize. It helps that his story is in his line of sight, lol. 79.71.35.66 (talk) 22:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Give it two days, he'll be celebrating "1 million people in Bahrain die from Hydrogen Bomb Syndrome, a sexually transmitted disease that turns people into unstable nuclear weapons" or something equally appropriate soon enough. --81.157.142.106 (talk) 23:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Animation on DYK

Am I the only person who finds the animation very distracting? It's not even particularly clear what is happening. J Milburn (talk) 22:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

There's animation? Yes, I'd find it annoying if I didn't have such things disabled in my browser. Eeekster (talk) 04:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

You're so cool. How can I be more like you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.72.226 (talk) 15:42, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

"Coming-of-Age Day" in Japan.

Copied to Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/January 12. --00:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Overlinking on the main page

There are a lot of unnecessary wikilinks on the main page - Europe, Africa, World War I, France, Paris, writer. They distract attention from the important links and they violate WP:OVERLINK. ("It is generally not appropriate to link ... terms whose meaning ... would be understood by almost all readers; items that would be familiar to most readers, such as the names of major geographic features and locations." Colonies Chris (talk) 12:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

I believe this has been discussed before. But historically, there has been liberal use of linking on the Main Page. After all, it is the very first page most people first visit when the use Wikipedia, especially new users, and it kind of like advertises to them all these great articles we have for them to read and edit. Also, the important links on those Main Page sections are always in bold. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 12:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

The Main Page and portals contain more links, as their role is to present the content of Wikipedia to readers. WP:OVERLINK applies to articles only. However, even in the TFA, the link to World War I is appropriate. Cenarium (Talk) 14:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

On this day image

Not an error, so not posting there. The current flag is slightly misleading, as it appears to be Hungary's (the item it refers to is now bottom of the pile). Can it usefully be replaced by File:Alex K Kingdom of Hungary.svg? --Dweller (talk) 12:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done howcheng {chat} 17:35, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Commons:File:III Andras Thuroczy.jpg would be a more interesting image to use on OTD. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 21:06, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Am I the only one who thinks that a speedy deletion is totally unfair? I just typed out a huge article about my biological mom because I couldn't find any information on her, and without warning, or even a chance to fix it, Wikipedia deleted it. So, now none of my family can add information to that page so I can know everything about her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FizzDoc300 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

See our guidelines on notability. If you would like to have the deleted text for posting elsewhere (try a blog, maybe?), an administrator would probably provide it, but it is not appropriate for Wikipedia. --NE2 03:23, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

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