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The Today's featured picture section is a little narrower than the rest of the sections. Who can fix this please? ~ RayLast « Talk!» 20:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Alright, I found what the problem is. It can be viewed from different angles. It's either that the featured picture section is narrower, or that the featured articles, did you know, news, and on this day are too wide. I would say the latter. This is the code that is currently being used:
-------------------------Today's featured article, Did you know------------------------> {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;" |class="MainPageBG" style="width:55%; border:1px solid #cef2e0; background:#f5fffa; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"| {|width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5fffa;" ...
Notice the | {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;" | instead of | {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px 0px;" |
That makes the upper section wider. You could either edit it to be 0px, which I suggest, or changing the featured picture's section to be -8px instead of 0px. The last option would make the featured content to be wider (4px to each side) than the rest of the content. The result can be viewed in my Main Page sandbox.
There you have it. The dirty work is done. Someone please fix it? ~ RayLast « Talk!» 13:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I think I nailed it for both Firefox and IE. Please check it out and let me know. If you find it good enough please fix the Main Page! ~ RayLast « Talk!» 20:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Implemented on Main Page now. Perhaps you'd also like to tackle the problem of the right edge not going all the way to the right margin when the caption is too short (as is the case with today's FP)? howcheng { chat} 21:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
In the first item, the sentence reads, "...a main shopping street Cyprus' divided capital of Nicosia."
In any dictionary you care to reference, whether it's the O.E.D. or Webster's, the rule dealing with the formation of the possessive in English states "add an apostrophe and the letter 's' to singular nouns and names". A few exceptions are commonly made for Biblical and mythological names (Jesus' or Zeus'), but the vast majority of words in English should be handled accordingly. This rule reflects the way the genitive case in English changed between the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare (Chaucer's 'my lordes warre' became 'my lord's war'), and the way most people pronounce the possessive even today.
I realise that a so-called 'convention' has crept into the copy-editing protocols of many publications that eliminates the final 's' for the possessive of singular nouns ending in 's'. This lunacy has infected even such august rags as Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. To me, the lone apostrophe just doesn't 'read' correctly, because it doesn't reflect how one actually says the word in question!
All I can say is: there's no justification for the perpetuation of ignorance, whatever the source. If all the periodicals in the English-speaking world were to adopt this bogus practice (and I'm happy to say, not all of them have), it still doesn't make it right. Cbrodersen ( talk) 14:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you should all check the OED more often on other topics, too, such as the pronunciation guide for "aluminium", and you'll see how wrong Americans have been saying it all these years..... With respect to the usage of the 's termination, may I point out that it is a general rule, and, as such, is affected by a number of exceptions. Again, if you check either OED or Collins Dictionary in their entirety, maybe you'll get to see that, in fact, nouns ended in s only need to have an apostrophe added in order to denote posession, and only in the case of persons' names can an "s" be, optionally, added after the punctuation sign. So, enough of gratuitously insulting the rest of us, thank you very much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.37.39.161 ( talk • contribs) 19:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Why don't we ever have featured sounds or video? I know this isn't Commons, but isn't it a bit biased just to have pictures? We could call it 'featured media' instead and have the occasional audio or even video file. We could also just have a featured audio/video as well as an image (perhaps only every few days or so).
The only objection I can imagine is that images can be viewed from the main page whereas audio cannot, and the OGG file is much less accessible to most people. I would counter that it would raise awareness about the non 2D-visual-only forms of media and get more people downloading the OGG patch. If enough people want to listen to our audio we might even see the major media players start making it a standard. Richard001 ( talk) 00:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
There are currently 7 featured videos in the queue for POTD. I might as well point to my recent Signpost piece (the FP and FS sections are the relevant bits). MER-C 12:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
It is obvious the torch relay is going to be disrupted everywhere it goes so maybe the locations should be dropped altogether in the line. Simply south ( talk) 15:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
This just in: Silvio Berlusconi's won a third term in the Italian general elections. I'll be adding this snippet right now.-- Alasdair 20:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey is it just my computer but sometimes, in the search box, the line has a small horizontal bar extending to the right of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainboqer ( talk • contribs) 23:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm currently using Firefox 3 Beta 5 and it is almost impossible to click the Persian language link on the bottom of the main page in the Wikipedia languages section (More than 20,000 articles). The text uncontrollably shifts left and right with the rapid switching of the positions of Norsk and Persian. This is likely a problem with the right to left reading of Persian and some weird problem that I believe only applies to Firefox 3 Beta 5 since Internet Explorer and Firefox 2 allow clicking of Persian. 128.227.143.178 ( talk) 16:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Does it strike anyone as a bit odd that on the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the assassin--not Abe Lincoln--is pictured? I realise that most visitors to the Main Page will be more familiar with Lincoln's image than Boothe's, but this makes it look like Wikipedia supports the assassination. Webbbbbbber ( talk) 01:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The sheer cluelessness of this comment is unbelievable. I can't believe we actually changed the Main Page because someone said that a picture of John Wilkes Booth means that we support the assassination of Lincoln, and are likely to favor James Earl Ray over Martin Luther King Jr. Since when did we start pandering to commentators who call us racists? Webbbbbbber, why aren't you expressing your outrage that the replacement picture of Edward IV relating to the Wars of the Roses is a gross example of Wikipedia's obvious hatred for the House of Lancaster? Sheesh. - Banyan Tree 09:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there some one person that had the main influence on the design on this main page. I'm asking because I'm trying to find someone that wants to design a new homepage for en.wikiquote. -- Steinn inn 23:52, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I found something wrong in "In the news" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.135.244 ( talk) 00:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
is wikihow and wikipedia related? Also why cant i post messages in topics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winkytinky ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC) nvm i found out how to lol its different but are yall related? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winkytinky ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
One of the worst tram disasters in europe. http://www.novinky.cz/clanek/137461-v-ostrave-se-celne-stretly-tramvaje-tri-lide-zemreli.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 17:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I am sorry to put it here but i would like to ask someone to put the czech car pile up on main news. Thanks http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=czech+crash+pile+up&spell=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 17:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
It is so serious. 900 people need psychological help http://www.novinky.cz/clanek/137882-policie-odlozila-vyslech-zraneneho-ridice-ostravske-tramvaje.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 15:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Since when did Wikipedia become a memorial service? What a pathetic and transparent choice of FA. Joy.discovery.invention ( talk) 00:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
You know I kinda think its useless when people ask theses questions "Why is Bulbasaur on the main page".."why is Halo on the main page". Because their featured articles! -- Coasttocoast ( talk) 01:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm a bit curious as to why the shooter's name isn't mentioned. We do have an article about him. -- Maxa megalon 2000 03:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
As I said on Talk:Virginia Tech massacre, it is not our job to worry about people who want herostratian fame or to practice Damnatio memoriae. Raul654 ( talk) 04:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Also: National Instant Criminal Background Check System is overlinked. indopug ( talk) 07:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
On the main Wikipedia page for the airline crash the number of fatalities has been updated to 42, apparently because two more bodies were discovered this morning. Shouldn't the Wikipedia Main Page In the News section be updated accordingly? Kr5t ( talk) 17:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
According to Alexa, WP is currently the 7th most visited website in the world. -- Camptown ( talk) 21:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Today's featured article about Emma Goldman claims she and Alexander Birkman together planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick. Can't find that allegation in the Goldman, Birkman or Frick articles. Is there a reference for this? 222.153.73.194 ( talk) 01:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Just as an add: Put some more stuff about anarchy, but not just "anarchist assassins" The last articles have been about senseless BS, focused on western culture. Where's the great diversity of Wikipedia? Iulian28ti ( talk) 08:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
In the "on this day" section the following appears:
But is this really the first mass uprising against the Nazis? What about the Zamość Uprising, which started in 1942? selfworm Talk) 03:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
This is not the name of the alliance, but the name of Berlusconi party. In the alliance there are Lega Nord and Movimento per l'Autonomia, too. Paolotacchi ( talk) 11:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Please tell me, oh Wikigods.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.19.13.168 ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The Columbine Highschool massacre was today, and that's not worth on this day?? '''[[User:KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">K</span>]][[User talk:KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">C</span>]][[Special:Contributions/KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">109</span>]]''' ( talk) 03:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC).
I didn't see anyone whining yet so I thought I would be the first. This is worse than the time Newtonmas was up on Dec 25 :/ So Awesome ( talk) 03:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the New Section tag in discussion pages new itself? Or have I never noticed it before. - 24.149.198.53 ( talk) 11:17, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
"French physiologist Louis Pasteur (pictured) and physiologist Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization." Surely it should be "French physiologists Louis Pasteur (pictured) and Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization". the second "physiologist" is kind of unneeded. Ironholds ( talk) 12:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
We have to know that the children are on line now and the computer is grooming the chilren.Some of the messages are just monkey talk..My pleasure to chat...Raven_123
What's the difference between Culture and culture ?
One has an uppercase beginning; the similarities: they both have nothing to do with the main page and should not be here. 79.66.118.148 ( talk) 06:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
All the news is set in present sense, this makes reading it confusing. To be gramatically correct it should be in past tense. Can someone please fix this up.
I wish to address this complain to those responsible with the daily featured article. I absolutely disagree with the display of this kind of materials on the main page. Keep in mind that censorship has nothing to do and does not harm liberty and democracy. Anybody shares my opinion? Planck ( talk) 23:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I see each section of the main page like FA, FP, DYK, ITN have there individual archives. But is the whole of main page not archived? DYK is updated every 6 hours. So for each day we should have minimum 4 versions of the main page. Is this done? -- gppande «talk» 13:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't DYK fall under trivia? Trivia sections are disencouraged, aren't they? Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please 14:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} In the section "Did you know..." under Sheenboro, Quebec there is a spacing error, " trading post onthe Ottawa River" - "onthe" is glueing together. -- Rudolf Pohl ( talk) 10:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if this has been brought up before, but having looked for info on TFA earlier, I thought it would be useful if Today's Featured Article?, Did You Know?, etc etc were hyperlinked to the various pages about these sections. Making it easier to get 'into' Wikipedia (rather than merely browsing articles) can't be a bad thing, can it? MickO'Bants ( talk) 17:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Fellow editors. Two days ago, a discussion took place on WP:ERRORS about the punctuation of the top line of the Selected anniversaries section of the Main Page. It transpired during this discussion ( see diff) that there is a general inconsistency with regards to the punctuation used in that line. On seeing one of the pages where several days' anniversaries can be viewed (more specifically, the page for April), it became perfectly clear that there is no standard, and that the usage of punctuation is completely haphazard and unregulated. Although the proper anniversaries are quite straight-forward, following the simple guidelines of the Anniversaries page and the Manual of Style, the top line (listing holidays and observances) is more complex. Either commas or semicolons are used as separators, and semicolons, full stops, or nothing at all can be found at the end of the line; one can find all of their combinations with relatively little effort. On the Main Page, it is unacceptable to still have such deficiencies, and even if this is not something obvious when one only sees an isolated version of the page, it becomes so when one starts comparing different versions thereof. For the sake of professionalism, clarity, and good style, I suggest adopting a specific style for the top line of the section.
Here follows my proposal, copied from the above linked to conversation in ERRORS (there's no reason to repeat myself if I still believe the same things, don't you think?):
What is your opinion on this? Waltham, The Duke of 23:10, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Over the weekend, I am planning to run through the 366 templates to attach a documentation template on all of them, so I might as well do an audit. So let me verify the changes:
Thanks Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Really quite a nice main page under [8]
DarkestMoonlight ( talk) 13:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I thought the established procedure (from what I have observed in the past - I don't know of any formal declarations of such) when Today's Featured Picture was a video was to make the image on the Main Page a still from the video, with appropriate links to the full video. With today's method of embedding the actual video, while I can get the video to play eventually, the first thing I see when I come to the Main Page is an empty white square - not all that interesting or inviting. -- 128.104.112.85 ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't see the point of linking the word 'rivet' on the front page. It bears no useful meaning in context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racooon ( talk) 08:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
With recent events the "In the News" section should include Sean Bell and the acquital of the NYPD officers involved. Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 14:42, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is it Great Friday? This is the English wikipedia so shouldn't it be Good Friday as that is what English speakers call it. Great Friday is what it is called in other languages.
Have a nice one, what ever it's called. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.184.251 ( talk) 17:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to include an RSS feed link on the main page so that user can customize the contents? 198.62.10.11 ( talk) 12:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
This should be removed from the main page because it is a clever rewrite of another page. [11] This is essentially a copyright violation, no matter how well disguised, and article should be a synthesis of various articles and their conclusions, not a half-baked rewrite of an entire web page. Maybe I'm wrong and the other web page is copied from Wikipedia. I don't know. However, this should be immediately removed from the main page. I would do it myself, put apparently anyone can't edit the main page. -- Blechnic ( talk) 06:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The final result is nearly announced on
London Elects and I believe placing the winner on the Main Page section's In the news would be okay.
xeryus (
talk)
22:51, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Well it was the biggest story in the UK today (3rd May) and the biggest political event here since the last general election. Non-UK readers may not appreciate that in the UK it is a bit more signifcant than just a municipal election. From the UK point of view ignoring it in ITN is rather like ignoring an Elephant in the room.( Goldmanuk ( talk) 00:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC))
Well that just demonstrates my point that some "local" elections have implications that are newsworthy on a national and international level. That was exactly the case with Boris Johnson's remarkable win. I think it was certainly at least as newsworthy in the Anglophone world as say the Nepalese assembly elections. ( Goldmanuk ( talk) 20:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC))
In the section where it says "Today's featured article" why not put featured lists in there too? If you don't want to because theres not enough content in a list, why not put an article like List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season since its not just a table. It looks like an article, yet it will never be on the front page? -- 70.134.94.54 ( talk) 02:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
The news section is usually several days delayed or even bears odd news that are not "in the news" elsewhere. I love Wikipedia, but the news section is far from indicative of Wikipedia's quality. Wikipedia should decide how this section could be made more attractive for editors. 85.178.38.152 ( talk) 06:45, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Whose picture has spent more time on ITN, Nancy Pelosi or Fernando Lugo? :-) -- 199.71.174.100 ( talk) 05:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Dating! Wouldn't you think that news item lines would begin with the date the event happened? Besides giving salient information, this might also help to point up items that have become overripe and are begging for removal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.160.20.30 ( talk) 15:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
The margin-top in the first <table> on the Main Page is causing some quite unseemly whitespace in Firefox when logged out. Removing margin-top entirely causes too little whitespace. Perhaps some CSS gurus could take a look? A screenshot of the problem is available here (though the screenshot does not include the recently-re-added donation banner and anon tip). -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
okay, that picture has been there forever, somebody please change it, it's drivin' me crazy! (Well, not literally of course, but you get the point) [ LukeTheSpook | [ t c r 04:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
86.44.28.186 ( talk) 17:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
How much longer is Fernando Lugo going to be the picture. How long?-- 208.102.189.190 ( talk) 17:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
How about Image:Danica Patrick by David Shankbone.jpg? Corvus cornix talk 20:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Even my love of all things lug-related is being tested. Lugnuts ( talk) 19:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Please post your suggestions for new ITN pics at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. -- PFHLai ( talk) 20:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to change the Main Page section backgrounds to clear. It's extremely tough to read in Black Wikipedia as Black Wikipedia automatically changes all text to light green. -- Gp75motorsports REV LIMITER 18:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
(undent) It's accessible in Special:Preferences under Gadgets, User interface gadgets - "Use a black background with green text on the Monobook skin". Confusing Manifestation( Say hi!) 04:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Why there is a thin white line running under the globe in the logo? Vinni3 ( talk) 20:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
It's something that has been noted before—I don't recall what the issue is that it cannot be corrected, as on [14] et al.
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The Today's featured picture section is a little narrower than the rest of the sections. Who can fix this please? ~ RayLast « Talk!» 20:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Alright, I found what the problem is. It can be viewed from different angles. It's either that the featured picture section is narrower, or that the featured articles, did you know, news, and on this day are too wide. I would say the latter. This is the code that is currently being used:
-------------------------Today's featured article, Did you know------------------------> {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;" |class="MainPageBG" style="width:55%; border:1px solid #cef2e0; background:#f5fffa; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"| {|width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#f5fffa;" ...
Notice the | {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;" | instead of | {|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px 0px;" |
That makes the upper section wider. You could either edit it to be 0px, which I suggest, or changing the featured picture's section to be -8px instead of 0px. The last option would make the featured content to be wider (4px to each side) than the rest of the content. The result can be viewed in my Main Page sandbox.
There you have it. The dirty work is done. Someone please fix it? ~ RayLast « Talk!» 13:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I think I nailed it for both Firefox and IE. Please check it out and let me know. If you find it good enough please fix the Main Page! ~ RayLast « Talk!» 20:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Implemented on Main Page now. Perhaps you'd also like to tackle the problem of the right edge not going all the way to the right margin when the caption is too short (as is the case with today's FP)? howcheng { chat} 21:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
In the first item, the sentence reads, "...a main shopping street Cyprus' divided capital of Nicosia."
In any dictionary you care to reference, whether it's the O.E.D. or Webster's, the rule dealing with the formation of the possessive in English states "add an apostrophe and the letter 's' to singular nouns and names". A few exceptions are commonly made for Biblical and mythological names (Jesus' or Zeus'), but the vast majority of words in English should be handled accordingly. This rule reflects the way the genitive case in English changed between the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare (Chaucer's 'my lordes warre' became 'my lord's war'), and the way most people pronounce the possessive even today.
I realise that a so-called 'convention' has crept into the copy-editing protocols of many publications that eliminates the final 's' for the possessive of singular nouns ending in 's'. This lunacy has infected even such august rags as Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. To me, the lone apostrophe just doesn't 'read' correctly, because it doesn't reflect how one actually says the word in question!
All I can say is: there's no justification for the perpetuation of ignorance, whatever the source. If all the periodicals in the English-speaking world were to adopt this bogus practice (and I'm happy to say, not all of them have), it still doesn't make it right. Cbrodersen ( talk) 14:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you should all check the OED more often on other topics, too, such as the pronunciation guide for "aluminium", and you'll see how wrong Americans have been saying it all these years..... With respect to the usage of the 's termination, may I point out that it is a general rule, and, as such, is affected by a number of exceptions. Again, if you check either OED or Collins Dictionary in their entirety, maybe you'll get to see that, in fact, nouns ended in s only need to have an apostrophe added in order to denote posession, and only in the case of persons' names can an "s" be, optionally, added after the punctuation sign. So, enough of gratuitously insulting the rest of us, thank you very much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.37.39.161 ( talk • contribs) 19:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Why don't we ever have featured sounds or video? I know this isn't Commons, but isn't it a bit biased just to have pictures? We could call it 'featured media' instead and have the occasional audio or even video file. We could also just have a featured audio/video as well as an image (perhaps only every few days or so).
The only objection I can imagine is that images can be viewed from the main page whereas audio cannot, and the OGG file is much less accessible to most people. I would counter that it would raise awareness about the non 2D-visual-only forms of media and get more people downloading the OGG patch. If enough people want to listen to our audio we might even see the major media players start making it a standard. Richard001 ( talk) 00:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
There are currently 7 featured videos in the queue for POTD. I might as well point to my recent Signpost piece (the FP and FS sections are the relevant bits). MER-C 12:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
It is obvious the torch relay is going to be disrupted everywhere it goes so maybe the locations should be dropped altogether in the line. Simply south ( talk) 15:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
This just in: Silvio Berlusconi's won a third term in the Italian general elections. I'll be adding this snippet right now.-- Alasdair 20:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey is it just my computer but sometimes, in the search box, the line has a small horizontal bar extending to the right of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainboqer ( talk • contribs) 23:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm currently using Firefox 3 Beta 5 and it is almost impossible to click the Persian language link on the bottom of the main page in the Wikipedia languages section (More than 20,000 articles). The text uncontrollably shifts left and right with the rapid switching of the positions of Norsk and Persian. This is likely a problem with the right to left reading of Persian and some weird problem that I believe only applies to Firefox 3 Beta 5 since Internet Explorer and Firefox 2 allow clicking of Persian. 128.227.143.178 ( talk) 16:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Does it strike anyone as a bit odd that on the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the assassin--not Abe Lincoln--is pictured? I realise that most visitors to the Main Page will be more familiar with Lincoln's image than Boothe's, but this makes it look like Wikipedia supports the assassination. Webbbbbbber ( talk) 01:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The sheer cluelessness of this comment is unbelievable. I can't believe we actually changed the Main Page because someone said that a picture of John Wilkes Booth means that we support the assassination of Lincoln, and are likely to favor James Earl Ray over Martin Luther King Jr. Since when did we start pandering to commentators who call us racists? Webbbbbbber, why aren't you expressing your outrage that the replacement picture of Edward IV relating to the Wars of the Roses is a gross example of Wikipedia's obvious hatred for the House of Lancaster? Sheesh. - Banyan Tree 09:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there some one person that had the main influence on the design on this main page. I'm asking because I'm trying to find someone that wants to design a new homepage for en.wikiquote. -- Steinn inn 23:52, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I found something wrong in "In the news" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.135.244 ( talk) 00:08, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
is wikihow and wikipedia related? Also why cant i post messages in topics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winkytinky ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC) nvm i found out how to lol its different but are yall related? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winkytinky ( talk • contribs) 04:04, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
One of the worst tram disasters in europe. http://www.novinky.cz/clanek/137461-v-ostrave-se-celne-stretly-tramvaje-tri-lide-zemreli.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 17:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I am sorry to put it here but i would like to ask someone to put the czech car pile up on main news. Thanks http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=czech+crash+pile+up&spell=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 17:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
It is so serious. 900 people need psychological help http://www.novinky.cz/clanek/137882-policie-odlozila-vyslech-zraneneho-ridice-ostravske-tramvaje.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.71.211.66 ( talk) 15:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Since when did Wikipedia become a memorial service? What a pathetic and transparent choice of FA. Joy.discovery.invention ( talk) 00:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
You know I kinda think its useless when people ask theses questions "Why is Bulbasaur on the main page".."why is Halo on the main page". Because their featured articles! -- Coasttocoast ( talk) 01:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm a bit curious as to why the shooter's name isn't mentioned. We do have an article about him. -- Maxa megalon 2000 03:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
As I said on Talk:Virginia Tech massacre, it is not our job to worry about people who want herostratian fame or to practice Damnatio memoriae. Raul654 ( talk) 04:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Also: National Instant Criminal Background Check System is overlinked. indopug ( talk) 07:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
On the main Wikipedia page for the airline crash the number of fatalities has been updated to 42, apparently because two more bodies were discovered this morning. Shouldn't the Wikipedia Main Page In the News section be updated accordingly? Kr5t ( talk) 17:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
According to Alexa, WP is currently the 7th most visited website in the world. -- Camptown ( talk) 21:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Today's featured article about Emma Goldman claims she and Alexander Birkman together planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick. Can't find that allegation in the Goldman, Birkman or Frick articles. Is there a reference for this? 222.153.73.194 ( talk) 01:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Just as an add: Put some more stuff about anarchy, but not just "anarchist assassins" The last articles have been about senseless BS, focused on western culture. Where's the great diversity of Wikipedia? Iulian28ti ( talk) 08:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
In the "on this day" section the following appears:
But is this really the first mass uprising against the Nazis? What about the Zamość Uprising, which started in 1942? selfworm Talk) 03:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
This is not the name of the alliance, but the name of Berlusconi party. In the alliance there are Lega Nord and Movimento per l'Autonomia, too. Paolotacchi ( talk) 11:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Please tell me, oh Wikigods.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.19.13.168 ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The Columbine Highschool massacre was today, and that's not worth on this day?? '''[[User:KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">K</span>]][[User talk:KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">C</span>]][[Special:Contributions/KC109|<span style="background:black;color:red">109</span>]]''' ( talk) 03:25, 20 April 2008 (UTC).
I didn't see anyone whining yet so I thought I would be the first. This is worse than the time Newtonmas was up on Dec 25 :/ So Awesome ( talk) 03:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Is the New Section tag in discussion pages new itself? Or have I never noticed it before. - 24.149.198.53 ( talk) 11:17, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
"French physiologist Louis Pasteur (pictured) and physiologist Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization." Surely it should be "French physiologists Louis Pasteur (pictured) and Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization". the second "physiologist" is kind of unneeded. Ironholds ( talk) 12:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
We have to know that the children are on line now and the computer is grooming the chilren.Some of the messages are just monkey talk..My pleasure to chat...Raven_123
What's the difference between Culture and culture ?
One has an uppercase beginning; the similarities: they both have nothing to do with the main page and should not be here. 79.66.118.148 ( talk) 06:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
All the news is set in present sense, this makes reading it confusing. To be gramatically correct it should be in past tense. Can someone please fix this up.
I wish to address this complain to those responsible with the daily featured article. I absolutely disagree with the display of this kind of materials on the main page. Keep in mind that censorship has nothing to do and does not harm liberty and democracy. Anybody shares my opinion? Planck ( talk) 23:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I see each section of the main page like FA, FP, DYK, ITN have there individual archives. But is the whole of main page not archived? DYK is updated every 6 hours. So for each day we should have minimum 4 versions of the main page. Is this done? -- gppande «talk» 13:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't DYK fall under trivia? Trivia sections are disencouraged, aren't they? Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please 14:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} In the section "Did you know..." under Sheenboro, Quebec there is a spacing error, " trading post onthe Ottawa River" - "onthe" is glueing together. -- Rudolf Pohl ( talk) 10:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if this has been brought up before, but having looked for info on TFA earlier, I thought it would be useful if Today's Featured Article?, Did You Know?, etc etc were hyperlinked to the various pages about these sections. Making it easier to get 'into' Wikipedia (rather than merely browsing articles) can't be a bad thing, can it? MickO'Bants ( talk) 17:36, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Fellow editors. Two days ago, a discussion took place on WP:ERRORS about the punctuation of the top line of the Selected anniversaries section of the Main Page. It transpired during this discussion ( see diff) that there is a general inconsistency with regards to the punctuation used in that line. On seeing one of the pages where several days' anniversaries can be viewed (more specifically, the page for April), it became perfectly clear that there is no standard, and that the usage of punctuation is completely haphazard and unregulated. Although the proper anniversaries are quite straight-forward, following the simple guidelines of the Anniversaries page and the Manual of Style, the top line (listing holidays and observances) is more complex. Either commas or semicolons are used as separators, and semicolons, full stops, or nothing at all can be found at the end of the line; one can find all of their combinations with relatively little effort. On the Main Page, it is unacceptable to still have such deficiencies, and even if this is not something obvious when one only sees an isolated version of the page, it becomes so when one starts comparing different versions thereof. For the sake of professionalism, clarity, and good style, I suggest adopting a specific style for the top line of the section.
Here follows my proposal, copied from the above linked to conversation in ERRORS (there's no reason to repeat myself if I still believe the same things, don't you think?):
What is your opinion on this? Waltham, The Duke of 23:10, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Over the weekend, I am planning to run through the 366 templates to attach a documentation template on all of them, so I might as well do an audit. So let me verify the changes:
Thanks Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Really quite a nice main page under [8]
DarkestMoonlight ( talk) 13:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I thought the established procedure (from what I have observed in the past - I don't know of any formal declarations of such) when Today's Featured Picture was a video was to make the image on the Main Page a still from the video, with appropriate links to the full video. With today's method of embedding the actual video, while I can get the video to play eventually, the first thing I see when I come to the Main Page is an empty white square - not all that interesting or inviting. -- 128.104.112.85 ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't see the point of linking the word 'rivet' on the front page. It bears no useful meaning in context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racooon ( talk) 08:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
With recent events the "In the News" section should include Sean Bell and the acquital of the NYPD officers involved. Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 14:42, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Why is it Great Friday? This is the English wikipedia so shouldn't it be Good Friday as that is what English speakers call it. Great Friday is what it is called in other languages.
Have a nice one, what ever it's called. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.184.251 ( talk) 17:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to include an RSS feed link on the main page so that user can customize the contents? 198.62.10.11 ( talk) 12:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
This should be removed from the main page because it is a clever rewrite of another page. [11] This is essentially a copyright violation, no matter how well disguised, and article should be a synthesis of various articles and their conclusions, not a half-baked rewrite of an entire web page. Maybe I'm wrong and the other web page is copied from Wikipedia. I don't know. However, this should be immediately removed from the main page. I would do it myself, put apparently anyone can't edit the main page. -- Blechnic ( talk) 06:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The final result is nearly announced on
London Elects and I believe placing the winner on the Main Page section's In the news would be okay.
xeryus (
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22:51, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Well it was the biggest story in the UK today (3rd May) and the biggest political event here since the last general election. Non-UK readers may not appreciate that in the UK it is a bit more signifcant than just a municipal election. From the UK point of view ignoring it in ITN is rather like ignoring an Elephant in the room.( Goldmanuk ( talk) 00:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC))
Well that just demonstrates my point that some "local" elections have implications that are newsworthy on a national and international level. That was exactly the case with Boris Johnson's remarkable win. I think it was certainly at least as newsworthy in the Anglophone world as say the Nepalese assembly elections. ( Goldmanuk ( talk) 20:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC))
In the section where it says "Today's featured article" why not put featured lists in there too? If you don't want to because theres not enough content in a list, why not put an article like List of storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season since its not just a table. It looks like an article, yet it will never be on the front page? -- 70.134.94.54 ( talk) 02:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
The news section is usually several days delayed or even bears odd news that are not "in the news" elsewhere. I love Wikipedia, but the news section is far from indicative of Wikipedia's quality. Wikipedia should decide how this section could be made more attractive for editors. 85.178.38.152 ( talk) 06:45, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Whose picture has spent more time on ITN, Nancy Pelosi or Fernando Lugo? :-) -- 199.71.174.100 ( talk) 05:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Dating! Wouldn't you think that news item lines would begin with the date the event happened? Besides giving salient information, this might also help to point up items that have become overripe and are begging for removal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.160.20.30 ( talk) 15:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
The margin-top in the first <table> on the Main Page is causing some quite unseemly whitespace in Firefox when logged out. Removing margin-top entirely causes too little whitespace. Perhaps some CSS gurus could take a look? A screenshot of the problem is available here (though the screenshot does not include the recently-re-added donation banner and anon tip). -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
okay, that picture has been there forever, somebody please change it, it's drivin' me crazy! (Well, not literally of course, but you get the point) [ LukeTheSpook | [ t c r 04:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
86.44.28.186 ( talk) 17:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
How much longer is Fernando Lugo going to be the picture. How long?-- 208.102.189.190 ( talk) 17:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
How about Image:Danica Patrick by David Shankbone.jpg? Corvus cornix talk 20:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Even my love of all things lug-related is being tested. Lugnuts ( talk) 19:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Please post your suggestions for new ITN pics at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. -- PFHLai ( talk) 20:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to change the Main Page section backgrounds to clear. It's extremely tough to read in Black Wikipedia as Black Wikipedia automatically changes all text to light green. -- Gp75motorsports REV LIMITER 18:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
(undent) It's accessible in Special:Preferences under Gadgets, User interface gadgets - "Use a black background with green text on the Monobook skin". Confusing Manifestation( Say hi!) 04:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Why there is a thin white line running under the globe in the logo? Vinni3 ( talk) 20:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
It's something that has been noted before—I don't recall what the issue is that it cannot be corrected, as on [14] et al.