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"Sedentenland--" should be "Sudetenland"
"the day before German troos marched across the border." Missing a P there. -- Golfhaus 01:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
This is the second time in a week (Heraldry of Canada) that the main page has featured something that I was looking at only a few days ago. Freaky. LOL. CalgaryWikifan 00:19, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "In the news" section mention the new computer worm going around? See
this page for more information.
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Mb1000
01:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I think a 7.2 magnitude earthquake is worth putting on the front page. Although there isn't a 2005 Miyagi Earthquake page at the time, I (or someone else) could possibly copy the article from Wikinews into a new article. - Nameneko 03:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I kept counting, recounting and double checking to find out why there are 42 wikipedias listed in the category 1000-10,000 at m:List of Wikipedias, but only 41 on the Main Page - then I found the one that is missing - Macedonian. Any particular reason? Codex Sinaiticus 06:50, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Why did we have featured graphic for a day and then go back to 'did you know?'
The main page contains images of a penis, both flaccid and erect. While there is nothing wrong with images of the human anatomy, this looks like the handiwork of a malicious poster / hack.
The swedish wikipedia will soon have 100000+ articles (it's at 97000 or so right now. I am not familiar with the growth rate of sv to be able to say a specific date, but I assume it is soon). At that point we will have four wikis with 100000+ articles (well, five if you count english). Shouldn't we revisit the topic of the division of the sizes of the wikipedias in the "other languages" section? German has more than 200000 and it feels a little strange to be still groupingit with the other 50Ks. So, {1k, 10k, 50k, 100k} or {1k, 10k, 100k} or {10k, 50k, 100k}, or what? Any other ones? gkhan 12:43, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
Just pointing out that the Did You Know section claims that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest video game developer in North America, whereas it's actually the largest indie video game developer, and is substantially smaller than any of the major commercial game developers. Kupos 02:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Should there be an 's' in 'innings' ?
I don't think so. How about [[innings|inning]] ? -- 199.71.174.100 07:10, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
There are two minor errors in Selected Anniversaries today. Can someone with sysop powers take a look at Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/August 18 and fix them, please ? Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 07:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Today's anniversary section seems to link the establishment of the first temple of Venus to the Vinalia, but the Vinalia article has this to say: "On the same day likewise fell the dedication of a temple to Venus; whence some authors have fallen into a mistake, that these Vinalia were sacred to Venus." Maybe I'm missing something (it's past 1am), but that sounds like a contradiction to me - if the Vinalia aren't related to Venus, then they shouldn't be mentioned here, should they? Or is the article wrong -- Schnee ( cheeks clone) 23:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
There is some language in this header attempting to distinguish WP:HD from WP:RD for the novice user. Still, many questions end up in the wrong place. If whoever is in charge of the header template has a moment to take a look at Wikipedia:Ask a question, they may find some alternative language to distinguish between those sometimes confusing pagenames. Or perhaps, even substituting any explanation at all with direction towards a link to WP:AQ. Thanks for your attention and your comments. hydnjo talk 00:46, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
There is an error in the section "In the news": in the entry about Sergei Krikalev it mentions a picture in the right that does not exist. Apparently no one remembered to remove it when removing the picture it refered to. Can an administrator, a bureaucrat or anyone else high in the Wikipedian Ladder of Power fix it now? Thanks in advance. -- Bill the Greek 07:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Is the main page dynamic or do new links have to be be manually inserted? Any way to add dynamic external content to the main page??
The name lives on in the well-known global computer programming language, which appropriately is a classic example of a structured language that encourages clear thinking and planning and that is suitable for a whole range of subject applications.
On the current version of Did You Know?, there's a link in the story about the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan that mentions hyrdroelctric power. Oops! Dralwik 17:50, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Died from coma is like saying 'he went to jail for a parole violation'. It's not inaccurate but it's uninformative. I don't know who can edit it but can we add a little more, like 'died from a coma caused by a fall' Vicarious 20:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
'died from a coma caused by a fall caused by a loss of balance cause by a brain tumor'? [NB I agree the "coma" line is awful] -- Dtcdthingy 20:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Not sure why the second feature has just stopped working (redirect transclusion problem?) but I've temporarily reverted to the old system (bypassing the redirect). The problem can still be seen at User:Violetriga/inprogress. violet/riga (t) 10:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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I think someone should put on the front page that Mo Mowlam has died because she was as great British stateswomen.-- TracyRenee 12:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
moved from Wikipedia:Free encyclopedia talk.
Can someone please delink this page from the front page? This is positioned as an introduction but this quote was not meant for the job. Jimbo covered a number of issues including speaking about "the case of proprietary file formats...". It's also dry and unpolished. lots of issues | leave me a message 12:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
"It uses a fission bomb as a trigger, to ignite a fusion explosion..." should not have a comma. ~~ N ( t/ c) 13:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
It would be very spiffy to have an RSS/Atom feed for the daily Featured Article and In the News, not to mention the anniversaries, etc. It would serve as a means to bring interested users back to the site more often, as well as be a handy feature. I realize there's an email list for the Featured Article, but this would be more comprehensive as well as fitting into the aggregator world. What do y'all think? -- RobertDaeley 17:34, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
This has been suggested about 2 million times before. The answer is always the same - we don't have RSS feeds because of their bandwidth-hungry nature and tendancy to all hit at the same time. →Raul654 19:27, August 20, 2005 (UTC) Also, while we don't have an official feed, other people have employed screenscraping to generate their own RSS feeds. →Raul654 19:28, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
The link in anniversaries is to the disambig page. Can someone change the link to target Santa Fe, New Mexico? Algebraist 01:02, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Can somebody confirm whether or not the Featured article blur should start with "the Anschluss" instead of just "Anschluss"? Circeus 04:54, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 50,000 articles
Deutsch (German) · Español (Spanish) · Français (French) · Italiano (Italian) · 日本語 (Japanese) · Nederlands (Dutch) · Polski (Polish) · Português (Portuguese) · Svenska (Swedish)
Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 10,000 articles
Български (Bulgarian) · Català (Catalan) · Česká (Czech) · Dansk (Danish) · Eesti (Estonian) · Esperanto · Suomi (Finnish) · עברית (Hebrew) · Magyar (Hungarian) · Bahasa Indonesia
Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with over 1,000 articles
Afrikaans · العربية (Arabic) · Asturianu (Asturian) · Bân-lâm-gú (Min Nan) · Беларуская (Belarusian) · Bosanski (Bosnian) · Cymraeg (Welsh) · Ελληνικά (Greek) · Euskara (Basque) · فارسی (Persian)
Looking at the 3 categories, Category 2 is the same as Category 3 in description. Shouldn't Category 3 read as: Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with less than 1,000 articles? PM Poon 05:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Subsequently == Later
Consequently == So
I can't read Wikipedia because every page has to say SUBSEQUENT or CONSEQUENT in every paragraph.
Where is the 'tips for writers' section?
I would suggest we also, please, stop, using, so, many, commas, and, please, please, stop, using, furthermore, moreover, however, additionally, so, often, and, with, so, m, a, n, y, , c, o, m, m, a, s.
It is really rather quite a bit annoying actually.
Stalking Cat now lives in the State of Washington Too Old 00:20, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
The link text '1952 Helsinki games' links to 1956_Summer_Olympics, should be 1952_Summer_Olympics.
Why is DYK? so far offset from the bottom of in the news?-- nixie 00:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a space (i.e. US $200,000)? Or why not say 200,000 US Dollar fund drive instead? I think it would look better. Citizen Premier 02:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear Friends:
Near the bottom of the Main Page is a listing of some of the editions of Wikipedia in other languages grouped into categories such as: "Over 50,000 articles," "Over 10,000 articles," and the like. Well, the German edition is getting close to 300,000 articles and there are editions in at least 2 other languages (French and Japanese) that are well over 100,000 articles.
I notice the Portuguese edition already has a category for editions with over 100,000 articles. I think it would be good to highlight how extensive the various editions of Wikipedia have become and show that by having more categories. How about a 250,000 and a 100,000 catgory for a start?
Just a thought.
Cheers,
John Hill
This is regarding the 'Did you know' entry claiming that the Vijayanagara empire was the last great Hindu kingdom in South India. I am not sure how solid this claim is.
While the Vijayanagara empire was truly a great one, it was followed by the Maratha kingdom in Thanjavur (1675 CE to circa 1800s CE), whose rulers were of no mean achievement. Many elements of South Indian culture, notably Carnatic Music, developed during this rule. Although Wikipedia does not have an article on the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom, some details are available at [1] . (The above source is the Sarasvati Mahal Library, which was (incidentally) started by the Thanjavur Maratha rulers, and which still functions as a reputed collection of many rare manuscripts.)
This claim depends on where exactly your borderline for a great kingdom is.
Please discuss this further, or correct the claim. Thanks. Gajamukhu 06:40, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Should "Seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong" be "Seven-time Tour de France..."? Fang Aili 12:36, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
DYK has a couple of typos: "... that men who practice snake charming often also use thier skills as form of pest control?" "Thier" should be "Their", and there should be an "a" between "as" and "form": " "... that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?" BrianSmithson 13:07, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Snake charmers are not an effective form of pest control. though many can handle snakes, they are not really effective at catching the really dangerous snakes. Snake man Romulus Whitaker and many others like the legendary Bill Haust have constantly tried to undervalue the snake charmer as someone who can catch snakes. only a few people in india are traditional snake catchers. most notably the tribes of irulas (I will add an article on them). They are the original professional snake catchers and have been accepted by all herpetologists as such.
Thus, I find the word pest control way out of context in the main page's DYK. It's ok to have the line in the article, but to put it as the main focus for the article is plain wrong. Idleguy 14:05, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
L'Équipe is a general sports paper, not just cycling.
I have just realized how nice RSS can be. Not only to be updated about current news, but also to be informed about interesting updates on other sites. Why is there no RSS feed for the updates on the main page? I would love to get updates about new featured articles or other interesting suggestions of things to read. - Nikolas
Any reason why the Israeli flag was replaced with the one from Niger? It was the Israeli earlier this morning (USA Pacific morning, that is)... I saw the Niger one later on and can't figure out why.
Thanks!
-- Sebastian Kessel 21:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Forget It, I should learn to read
-- Sebastian Kessel 21:30, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'd just like to point out that there has been a TV programme in Danish TV about Autism some days ago. Does anyone know whether this is the reason for the selection of today's Featured Article?
-- Mathew 20:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
In Soviet Russia, your mind reads Wikipedia! -- Ryan Norton T | @ | C 01:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
The front page under selected anniverseries currenty claims that the White House became white after smoke damage was painted over. This is an urban legend according to Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/language/colors/whithous.htm Filur 00:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
I think the "Selected anniversaries" feature should be removed from the front page. It's not really interesting and there are a lot of other things you could replace it with, that would be alot more interesting. It could for example be replaced by a science section, or what about a section dedicated to the community portal. That would be alot more interesting for the wikipedia users.
In the links to other wikipedias at the bottom of the page, Macedonian and Talega have the name of the language in English spelling, followed by the name in the other language. This is opposite the order of the other links. DDerby 13:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Right now there's a picture of Florida, probably in regard to the hurricane warning due to Tropical Storm Katrina, but there is no corresponding blurb. Shouldn't there be a mention? -- TheMidnighters 21:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Either the Did you know... is stressing that it's really uncommon, or it's a typo. -- Norvy (talk) 00:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Just coincidence that all the featured articles lately have started with the letter A? -- 24.78.34.179 01:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I've created a page titled Wikipedia:Wikiportal Browse and I think it should be linked in the main page. How about changing the {{ Categorybrowsebar}} to:
Culture | Geography | History | Life | Mathematics | Science | Society | Technology
Browse Wikipedia · Browse Portals · Article overviews · Alphabetical index · Other indexes
I'd do it myself but the template is protected. Comment by User:Trevor macinnis
There is no need to show Euros as well as Dollars on the fundraising report. If we must have it, can we also have British pounds, the second most used currency in the English speaking world? And what about Canada and Australia etc? And Japan, which has an important currency and provides lots of traffic. No, just go back to how it was. Wikipedia's budget is in US dollars, so that is the relevant currency. CalJW 02:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
To avoid stepping on any big toes, why not give the amount in Norwegian kroner? -- Eddi (Talk) 02:58, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
The euro amount was not added by one of the fundraising coordinators - just an en.wiki contributor [2]. — Dan | Talk 05:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
It currently reads:
You should have it read:
That provides much more insight about the gravity of the situation. And here is the proof: The Most Intense Hurricanes in the United States 1851-2004 with [3]. "The pressure dropped to 915 mb at 6 am. " and the last storm with that level or lower was Hurricane Camille in 1969 at 909. Hurricane Katrina is now the second most intense named hurricane since 1851 in the United States. 71.32.199.15 09:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
http://www.weather.com/index.html katrina has winds now of at least 160 mph and rapdily growing
I don't like the connection between the LIFE hyperlink and Portal:Personal life, because it confuses the reader. When one sees the name of the hyperlink ("LIFE") without looking at the tooltip that says "Portal:Personal life" or at the status bar of the Web browser, one might probably think that the LIFE hyperlink directs to a page that has to do with life in general, not just human life.
My proposal is to do one of following things:
2004-12-29T22:45Z 03:00, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Is John Brogden, randy ex-leader of Australia's main opposition party, more important than the imminent destruction of New Orleans? Brogden's big smiling mug and a large chunk of text seems to have undue prominence. - Ashley Pomeroy 09:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
It says now on my television that Hurricane Katrina is now a Category 3 Hurricane, should the front page now be updated then? ( Jamandell (d69) 15:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC))
Why is Pat "the only good government is a Xtian government" Robertson's apology still listed under recent/breaking news? It's been five days now. -- Jay (Histrion) 20:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Today's Main Page shows the 2nd Battle of Bull Run occuring in 1863. It needs to be corrected to 1862. Johnwrobertsjr 00:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
zOMG Menstrual cycle. R e dwolf24 ( talk) 03:14, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Oh my god! An ovary on the main page! How dare Wikipedia put such utter SMUT on the main page for everyone to see! →Raul654 04:15, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
What naughtiness ? I thought that image was a picture of bloody Katrina on some satellite image .... (See ITN.) -- 199.71.174.100 04:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
The ITN blurb on Katrina reads: "Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana coast with heavy rain and wind, forcing the evacuation of the city of New Orleans."
Shouldn't it be: "Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana coast with heavy rain and wind, forcing the evacuation of the city of New Orleans." I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring up this kind of stuff, so if it isn't, please be kind enough to point me so I can go to the correct place in the future. -- Tito xd 04:08, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
the words "menstrual cycle" in big bold letters while eating dinner. Thanks, Wikipedia! -- 69.234.223.139 06:12, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Horses win the Kentucky Derby, not African-Americans. Perhaps the word "jockey" should be inserted? -- Locarno 13:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
An Australian politician is currently accussed of making "racial remarks". What he said was that another politician's East Asian wife was a mail order bride. Many mail order brides are white. Jumping to the conclusion that the remark is racial is clearly pov - it leaves one in little doubt that the writer of the sentence is a person of left-liberal politically correct persuasion. Fine in the New York Times perhaps, but if Wikipedia wants to be credible as a neutral source, one shouldn't be able to tell. 82.35.34.11 20:28, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
In the opening blurb on the front page, there are links on the words Wikipedia and anyone can edit. Any comments if I add a link on the word free to point to a relevant article? A bit of effort uncovered Gratis versus Libre, which in my opinion does a good job of explaining what we mean by "free". (Warning: if no one responds, I'll assume the silence means that everyone consents & be bold & make the change.) -- llywrch 23:25, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Please change that to "at the". Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 03:42, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Young was a polygamist, but his wives were not. I have already corrected the article, but somebody should correct this main page's quote of the article.
Shouldn't that be "Iron Maiden are a heavy metal band..."? British English normally treats groups such as bands, sports teams etc. as plurals. See American and British English differences#Grammar. sjorford (?!) 08:05, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Clarification on the treatment of collective noun as plural in British English is helpful for us non-American or British users of Wikipedia. But Filipino's use of English language is basically founded upon American English though. Thanks a lot for the information anyway. {edz]
66.167.137.83 13:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC): The founding of Solidarity seems worth highlighting on the main page; most of the Polish newspapers on the Newseum front page collection highlight the event, some ( JPEGs: [4], [5], [6]) quite dramatically.
with fr: and sv:, as well as de: and ja:, past the 100,000 article threshold, we could consider going back to the "decimal" system and list >100,000 wikis in a separate category. dab (ᛏ) 14:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
There's a discrepancy on the bit about the stampede in Iraq, main pages says 600 article says over 800. -- Kennyisinvisible 18:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Of whose liturgical year is Sept 1 the beginning? Not the Christians - or at least, not the Catholics, as far as I know. The blurb links to the Christian liturgical year, though. =\ -- User:Jenmoa 02:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Uzbekistan also celebrates it Independence day on September 1st. Suso 13:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
"recieved" should be "received". -- Sophitus 01:56, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
Why are WikiPortals (or at least a link to WikiPortals) listed on the Main Page? They are supposed to be a jumping off point for readers and editors, but they seem somewhat obscure. I noticed that the tableless Main Page has a list. [[User:JonMoore|— —Jo nMo ore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 03:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
dear sir,
i am a QA Testing profesional.. i want to take training on QA. SO Plz. suggest from where i will be better to be train in India only
std::hash_map is better for most purposes Ryan Norton T | @ | C]] 10:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
1) Is that land cultivation increase only in Saudi Arabia? That construction seems to imply that it is land elsewhere when SA only appears at the end of the sentence.
2) "In these, travellers pass..."
-- Syrthiss 13:15, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
it should read ...the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports"?" In these travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat"." -- Jasongetsdown 15:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
In the news on the right panel is several days old. How is this updated? Kyle Andrew Brown 16:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
Copyedit: shouldn't "table free" be "table-free" on the main page? -- Homer Jay 01:23, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
I think we can replace the John Brogden piece with something else, it's kind of old news now, any suggestions? -- Brendanfox 11:38, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
I didn't see anything about it on the news, and I've tried several different sites. -- Kennyisinvisible 03:20, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Rehnquist's proper title was Chief Justice of the United States, not, as given on the Main Page, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. LeoO3 03:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
The writing style for the caption of the picture of the day appears to be somewhat clumsy. Please forgive me if I am slow, but what does the writer of this article intend to convey when this exquisite blossum is described as an optical illusion? Any clarification will be useful.
REQUEST to Administrators of Wikipedia: Religion as a main category at the Main Page. -- GalaazV 00:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
See History of Wikipedia for more on the evolution of the Main Page. Ancheta Wis 13:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I strongly support adding Religion as a main category. Here are my justifications:
-- Mm35173 21:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Doesn't make clear who Darryl White's hero was.-- 165.247.214.14 02:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Why is there no link from this Main Page to other languages' Main Page?
Hurricane Katrina is not the top news, yet Rehnqvist's death is. Shouldnt it be the other way round? Katrina is an event of global interest. Rehnquists death means nothing outside the US.-- Ezeu 17:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm American and I cringe at today's featured article. Yes, I realize featured articles are chosen for quality, but we are certainly going to get complaints about Wikipedia being American-centric when we start featuring unimportant politicians. Nelson Ricardo 00:17, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
I think is a very poor choice for a feature article. She made news only because she won narrowly in a Republican district against a democrat war veteran. There is nothing extraordinary or interesting about her.
Ridiculous choice for a feature article! GO USA! I presume this screws my chances of ever getting a feature article - tant pis! (that's in Freedom - oops! - I mean French) Pmaguire 01:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I even live in this district, and this is the most obscure and bizarre main topic I've seen on here. I know it was national news and all, but jeez. I thought the only time people cared about Cincinnati was when we riot. -- 68.170.114.89 03:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
A pointless choice for a featured article. What next? Someone's well-written article on their pet rock collection?
I don't mean to seem critical--I imagine the article is well-written and I'm glad it exists. But as an American I'm embarrassed that it is the featured article. When I looked at the main page this morning it felt like I was reading "USA Today". Eric 04:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
September 1 was the Zambezi river. Tomorrow is Hong Kong, the day after is Władysław Sikorski. Apparently your conern is that there should be no US articles in the featured articles. 05:17, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
It seems like we are always getting the same response "An article need only be well written to be featured" but I think it is possible to have an article both well written and about something interesting, is it not? If it is not interesting to read, what is the point in featuring it? Of course I can nominate an article about the most interesting thing that I think should be on the first page, but this misses the point, as I can not nominate everything on the first page. So this is an open letter to people who choose what appears on the first page, today's choice was not a good choice in my opinion and it seems like there are a few other people who think so for various reasons. That is it.
My point is not at all that the article was a US subject, but that it was about such an insignificant US person. If the featured article concerned Donald Rumsfeld or Condoleezza Rice, for example, or some other person that I personally find utterly obnoxious, at least I would recognise their significance as front page material. Maybe I'll write an article about my neighbour who has just been elected to the administrative council of our apartment block — it was a close fight between himself and this other guy who lives on the fourth floor who is bald and has really bad breath ... (to be continued). — Pmaguire 09:07, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Actually I don’t even think it’s a very good article, simply because there should be at least some correspondence between the significance of a subject and the length of its article. The article on what’s-her-face is actually longer than the one on the United Kingdom. An random surfer coming to Wikipedia looking for information on this particular person would quickly be dissuaded by the sheer length of the article, and go look somewhere else. Right now I can’t see how the article would appeal to anyone outside her fan club, aren’t there any restraining mechanisms to avoid articles on obscure subjects running on forever? Eixo 15:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I also want to add that whoever is picking today's articles might be a little too biased towards british sports scene... I really don't care about the youngest soccer player in british history or the cricket player who made this many hat tricks and doubt they are of interest to general wikipedia followers.
If England win the Ashes I expect cricket will be back on the Main Page - this time in the top right hand corner, not the bottom right. Even non-cricket-playing countries like Norway and Japan have been looking at buying rights to the fifth Test. It's probably the best ever Test match series - the two top teams in the world battling for every run and wicket. Richie Benaud has rated it as better than the 1981 series, with only the 1960/1 Australia-West Indies series coming close. Great stuff - I hope to see Michael Vaughan lift the urn sometime Sunday or Monday, jguk 18:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
why haven't the urdu language been added?
Why does a Cricket topic appear in every other did you know article? That is the only "sport" that ever appears in the did you know.
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"Sedentenland--" should be "Sudetenland"
"the day before German troos marched across the border." Missing a P there. -- Golfhaus 01:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
This is the second time in a week (Heraldry of Canada) that the main page has featured something that I was looking at only a few days ago. Freaky. LOL. CalgaryWikifan 00:19, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't the "In the news" section mention the new computer worm going around? See
this page for more information.
--
Mb1000
01:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I think a 7.2 magnitude earthquake is worth putting on the front page. Although there isn't a 2005 Miyagi Earthquake page at the time, I (or someone else) could possibly copy the article from Wikinews into a new article. - Nameneko 03:28, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I kept counting, recounting and double checking to find out why there are 42 wikipedias listed in the category 1000-10,000 at m:List of Wikipedias, but only 41 on the Main Page - then I found the one that is missing - Macedonian. Any particular reason? Codex Sinaiticus 06:50, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Why did we have featured graphic for a day and then go back to 'did you know?'
The main page contains images of a penis, both flaccid and erect. While there is nothing wrong with images of the human anatomy, this looks like the handiwork of a malicious poster / hack.
The swedish wikipedia will soon have 100000+ articles (it's at 97000 or so right now. I am not familiar with the growth rate of sv to be able to say a specific date, but I assume it is soon). At that point we will have four wikis with 100000+ articles (well, five if you count english). Shouldn't we revisit the topic of the division of the sizes of the wikipedias in the "other languages" section? German has more than 200000 and it feels a little strange to be still groupingit with the other 50Ks. So, {1k, 10k, 50k, 100k} or {1k, 10k, 100k} or {10k, 50k, 100k}, or what? Any other ones? gkhan 12:43, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
Just pointing out that the Did You Know section claims that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest video game developer in North America, whereas it's actually the largest indie video game developer, and is substantially smaller than any of the major commercial game developers. Kupos 02:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Should there be an 's' in 'innings' ?
I don't think so. How about [[innings|inning]] ? -- 199.71.174.100 07:10, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
There are two minor errors in Selected Anniversaries today. Can someone with sysop powers take a look at Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/August 18 and fix them, please ? Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 07:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Today's anniversary section seems to link the establishment of the first temple of Venus to the Vinalia, but the Vinalia article has this to say: "On the same day likewise fell the dedication of a temple to Venus; whence some authors have fallen into a mistake, that these Vinalia were sacred to Venus." Maybe I'm missing something (it's past 1am), but that sounds like a contradiction to me - if the Vinalia aren't related to Venus, then they shouldn't be mentioned here, should they? Or is the article wrong -- Schnee ( cheeks clone) 23:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
There is some language in this header attempting to distinguish WP:HD from WP:RD for the novice user. Still, many questions end up in the wrong place. If whoever is in charge of the header template has a moment to take a look at Wikipedia:Ask a question, they may find some alternative language to distinguish between those sometimes confusing pagenames. Or perhaps, even substituting any explanation at all with direction towards a link to WP:AQ. Thanks for your attention and your comments. hydnjo talk 00:46, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
There is an error in the section "In the news": in the entry about Sergei Krikalev it mentions a picture in the right that does not exist. Apparently no one remembered to remove it when removing the picture it refered to. Can an administrator, a bureaucrat or anyone else high in the Wikipedian Ladder of Power fix it now? Thanks in advance. -- Bill the Greek 07:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Is the main page dynamic or do new links have to be be manually inserted? Any way to add dynamic external content to the main page??
The name lives on in the well-known global computer programming language, which appropriately is a classic example of a structured language that encourages clear thinking and planning and that is suitable for a whole range of subject applications.
On the current version of Did You Know?, there's a link in the story about the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan that mentions hyrdroelctric power. Oops! Dralwik 17:50, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Died from coma is like saying 'he went to jail for a parole violation'. It's not inaccurate but it's uninformative. I don't know who can edit it but can we add a little more, like 'died from a coma caused by a fall' Vicarious 20:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
'died from a coma caused by a fall caused by a loss of balance cause by a brain tumor'? [NB I agree the "coma" line is awful] -- Dtcdthingy 20:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Not sure why the second feature has just stopped working (redirect transclusion problem?) but I've temporarily reverted to the old system (bypassing the redirect). The problem can still be seen at User:Violetriga/inprogress. violet/riga (t) 10:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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I think someone should put on the front page that Mo Mowlam has died because she was as great British stateswomen.-- TracyRenee 12:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
moved from Wikipedia:Free encyclopedia talk.
Can someone please delink this page from the front page? This is positioned as an introduction but this quote was not meant for the job. Jimbo covered a number of issues including speaking about "the case of proprietary file formats...". It's also dry and unpolished. lots of issues | leave me a message 12:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
"It uses a fission bomb as a trigger, to ignite a fusion explosion..." should not have a comma. ~~ N ( t/ c) 13:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
It would be very spiffy to have an RSS/Atom feed for the daily Featured Article and In the News, not to mention the anniversaries, etc. It would serve as a means to bring interested users back to the site more often, as well as be a handy feature. I realize there's an email list for the Featured Article, but this would be more comprehensive as well as fitting into the aggregator world. What do y'all think? -- RobertDaeley 17:34, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
This has been suggested about 2 million times before. The answer is always the same - we don't have RSS feeds because of their bandwidth-hungry nature and tendancy to all hit at the same time. →Raul654 19:27, August 20, 2005 (UTC) Also, while we don't have an official feed, other people have employed screenscraping to generate their own RSS feeds. →Raul654 19:28, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
The link in anniversaries is to the disambig page. Can someone change the link to target Santa Fe, New Mexico? Algebraist 01:02, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Can somebody confirm whether or not the Featured article blur should start with "the Anschluss" instead of just "Anschluss"? Circeus 04:54, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
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Looking at the 3 categories, Category 2 is the same as Category 3 in description. Shouldn't Category 3 read as: Wikipedia encyclopedia languages with less than 1,000 articles? PM Poon 05:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Subsequently == Later
Consequently == So
I can't read Wikipedia because every page has to say SUBSEQUENT or CONSEQUENT in every paragraph.
Where is the 'tips for writers' section?
I would suggest we also, please, stop, using, so, many, commas, and, please, please, stop, using, furthermore, moreover, however, additionally, so, often, and, with, so, m, a, n, y, , c, o, m, m, a, s.
It is really rather quite a bit annoying actually.
Stalking Cat now lives in the State of Washington Too Old 00:20, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
The link text '1952 Helsinki games' links to 1956_Summer_Olympics, should be 1952_Summer_Olympics.
Why is DYK? so far offset from the bottom of in the news?-- nixie 00:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a space (i.e. US $200,000)? Or why not say 200,000 US Dollar fund drive instead? I think it would look better. Citizen Premier 02:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear Friends:
Near the bottom of the Main Page is a listing of some of the editions of Wikipedia in other languages grouped into categories such as: "Over 50,000 articles," "Over 10,000 articles," and the like. Well, the German edition is getting close to 300,000 articles and there are editions in at least 2 other languages (French and Japanese) that are well over 100,000 articles.
I notice the Portuguese edition already has a category for editions with over 100,000 articles. I think it would be good to highlight how extensive the various editions of Wikipedia have become and show that by having more categories. How about a 250,000 and a 100,000 catgory for a start?
Just a thought.
Cheers,
John Hill
This is regarding the 'Did you know' entry claiming that the Vijayanagara empire was the last great Hindu kingdom in South India. I am not sure how solid this claim is.
While the Vijayanagara empire was truly a great one, it was followed by the Maratha kingdom in Thanjavur (1675 CE to circa 1800s CE), whose rulers were of no mean achievement. Many elements of South Indian culture, notably Carnatic Music, developed during this rule. Although Wikipedia does not have an article on the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom, some details are available at [1] . (The above source is the Sarasvati Mahal Library, which was (incidentally) started by the Thanjavur Maratha rulers, and which still functions as a reputed collection of many rare manuscripts.)
This claim depends on where exactly your borderline for a great kingdom is.
Please discuss this further, or correct the claim. Thanks. Gajamukhu 06:40, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Should "Seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong" be "Seven-time Tour de France..."? Fang Aili 12:36, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
DYK has a couple of typos: "... that men who practice snake charming often also use thier skills as form of pest control?" "Thier" should be "Their", and there should be an "a" between "as" and "form": " "... that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?" BrianSmithson 13:07, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Snake charmers are not an effective form of pest control. though many can handle snakes, they are not really effective at catching the really dangerous snakes. Snake man Romulus Whitaker and many others like the legendary Bill Haust have constantly tried to undervalue the snake charmer as someone who can catch snakes. only a few people in india are traditional snake catchers. most notably the tribes of irulas (I will add an article on them). They are the original professional snake catchers and have been accepted by all herpetologists as such.
Thus, I find the word pest control way out of context in the main page's DYK. It's ok to have the line in the article, but to put it as the main focus for the article is plain wrong. Idleguy 14:05, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
L'Équipe is a general sports paper, not just cycling.
I have just realized how nice RSS can be. Not only to be updated about current news, but also to be informed about interesting updates on other sites. Why is there no RSS feed for the updates on the main page? I would love to get updates about new featured articles or other interesting suggestions of things to read. - Nikolas
Any reason why the Israeli flag was replaced with the one from Niger? It was the Israeli earlier this morning (USA Pacific morning, that is)... I saw the Niger one later on and can't figure out why.
Thanks!
-- Sebastian Kessel 21:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Forget It, I should learn to read
-- Sebastian Kessel 21:30, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'd just like to point out that there has been a TV programme in Danish TV about Autism some days ago. Does anyone know whether this is the reason for the selection of today's Featured Article?
-- Mathew 20:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
In Soviet Russia, your mind reads Wikipedia! -- Ryan Norton T | @ | C 01:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
The front page under selected anniverseries currenty claims that the White House became white after smoke damage was painted over. This is an urban legend according to Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/language/colors/whithous.htm Filur 00:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
I think the "Selected anniversaries" feature should be removed from the front page. It's not really interesting and there are a lot of other things you could replace it with, that would be alot more interesting. It could for example be replaced by a science section, or what about a section dedicated to the community portal. That would be alot more interesting for the wikipedia users.
In the links to other wikipedias at the bottom of the page, Macedonian and Talega have the name of the language in English spelling, followed by the name in the other language. This is opposite the order of the other links. DDerby 13:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Right now there's a picture of Florida, probably in regard to the hurricane warning due to Tropical Storm Katrina, but there is no corresponding blurb. Shouldn't there be a mention? -- TheMidnighters 21:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Either the Did you know... is stressing that it's really uncommon, or it's a typo. -- Norvy (talk) 00:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Just coincidence that all the featured articles lately have started with the letter A? -- 24.78.34.179 01:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I've created a page titled Wikipedia:Wikiportal Browse and I think it should be linked in the main page. How about changing the {{ Categorybrowsebar}} to:
Culture | Geography | History | Life | Mathematics | Science | Society | Technology
Browse Wikipedia · Browse Portals · Article overviews · Alphabetical index · Other indexes
I'd do it myself but the template is protected. Comment by User:Trevor macinnis
There is no need to show Euros as well as Dollars on the fundraising report. If we must have it, can we also have British pounds, the second most used currency in the English speaking world? And what about Canada and Australia etc? And Japan, which has an important currency and provides lots of traffic. No, just go back to how it was. Wikipedia's budget is in US dollars, so that is the relevant currency. CalJW 02:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
To avoid stepping on any big toes, why not give the amount in Norwegian kroner? -- Eddi (Talk) 02:58, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
The euro amount was not added by one of the fundraising coordinators - just an en.wiki contributor [2]. — Dan | Talk 05:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
It currently reads:
You should have it read:
That provides much more insight about the gravity of the situation. And here is the proof: The Most Intense Hurricanes in the United States 1851-2004 with [3]. "The pressure dropped to 915 mb at 6 am. " and the last storm with that level or lower was Hurricane Camille in 1969 at 909. Hurricane Katrina is now the second most intense named hurricane since 1851 in the United States. 71.32.199.15 09:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
http://www.weather.com/index.html katrina has winds now of at least 160 mph and rapdily growing
I don't like the connection between the LIFE hyperlink and Portal:Personal life, because it confuses the reader. When one sees the name of the hyperlink ("LIFE") without looking at the tooltip that says "Portal:Personal life" or at the status bar of the Web browser, one might probably think that the LIFE hyperlink directs to a page that has to do with life in general, not just human life.
My proposal is to do one of following things:
2004-12-29T22:45Z 03:00, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Is John Brogden, randy ex-leader of Australia's main opposition party, more important than the imminent destruction of New Orleans? Brogden's big smiling mug and a large chunk of text seems to have undue prominence. - Ashley Pomeroy 09:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
It says now on my television that Hurricane Katrina is now a Category 3 Hurricane, should the front page now be updated then? ( Jamandell (d69) 15:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC))
Why is Pat "the only good government is a Xtian government" Robertson's apology still listed under recent/breaking news? It's been five days now. -- Jay (Histrion) 20:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Today's Main Page shows the 2nd Battle of Bull Run occuring in 1863. It needs to be corrected to 1862. Johnwrobertsjr 00:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
zOMG Menstrual cycle. R e dwolf24 ( talk) 03:14, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Oh my god! An ovary on the main page! How dare Wikipedia put such utter SMUT on the main page for everyone to see! →Raul654 04:15, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
What naughtiness ? I thought that image was a picture of bloody Katrina on some satellite image .... (See ITN.) -- 199.71.174.100 04:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
The ITN blurb on Katrina reads: "Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana coast with heavy rain and wind, forcing the evacuation of the city of New Orleans."
Shouldn't it be: "Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana coast with heavy rain and wind, forcing the evacuation of the city of New Orleans." I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring up this kind of stuff, so if it isn't, please be kind enough to point me so I can go to the correct place in the future. -- Tito xd 04:08, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
the words "menstrual cycle" in big bold letters while eating dinner. Thanks, Wikipedia! -- 69.234.223.139 06:12, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Horses win the Kentucky Derby, not African-Americans. Perhaps the word "jockey" should be inserted? -- Locarno 13:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
An Australian politician is currently accussed of making "racial remarks". What he said was that another politician's East Asian wife was a mail order bride. Many mail order brides are white. Jumping to the conclusion that the remark is racial is clearly pov - it leaves one in little doubt that the writer of the sentence is a person of left-liberal politically correct persuasion. Fine in the New York Times perhaps, but if Wikipedia wants to be credible as a neutral source, one shouldn't be able to tell. 82.35.34.11 20:28, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
In the opening blurb on the front page, there are links on the words Wikipedia and anyone can edit. Any comments if I add a link on the word free to point to a relevant article? A bit of effort uncovered Gratis versus Libre, which in my opinion does a good job of explaining what we mean by "free". (Warning: if no one responds, I'll assume the silence means that everyone consents & be bold & make the change.) -- llywrch 23:25, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Please change that to "at the". Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 03:42, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Young was a polygamist, but his wives were not. I have already corrected the article, but somebody should correct this main page's quote of the article.
Shouldn't that be "Iron Maiden are a heavy metal band..."? British English normally treats groups such as bands, sports teams etc. as plurals. See American and British English differences#Grammar. sjorford (?!) 08:05, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Clarification on the treatment of collective noun as plural in British English is helpful for us non-American or British users of Wikipedia. But Filipino's use of English language is basically founded upon American English though. Thanks a lot for the information anyway. {edz]
66.167.137.83 13:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC): The founding of Solidarity seems worth highlighting on the main page; most of the Polish newspapers on the Newseum front page collection highlight the event, some ( JPEGs: [4], [5], [6]) quite dramatically.
with fr: and sv:, as well as de: and ja:, past the 100,000 article threshold, we could consider going back to the "decimal" system and list >100,000 wikis in a separate category. dab (ᛏ) 14:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
There's a discrepancy on the bit about the stampede in Iraq, main pages says 600 article says over 800. -- Kennyisinvisible 18:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Of whose liturgical year is Sept 1 the beginning? Not the Christians - or at least, not the Catholics, as far as I know. The blurb links to the Christian liturgical year, though. =\ -- User:Jenmoa 02:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Uzbekistan also celebrates it Independence day on September 1st. Suso 13:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
"recieved" should be "received". -- Sophitus 01:56, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
Why are WikiPortals (or at least a link to WikiPortals) listed on the Main Page? They are supposed to be a jumping off point for readers and editors, but they seem somewhat obscure. I noticed that the tableless Main Page has a list. [[User:JonMoore|— —Jo nMo ore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 03:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
dear sir,
i am a QA Testing profesional.. i want to take training on QA. SO Plz. suggest from where i will be better to be train in India only
std::hash_map is better for most purposes Ryan Norton T | @ | C]] 10:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
1) Is that land cultivation increase only in Saudi Arabia? That construction seems to imply that it is land elsewhere when SA only appears at the end of the sentence.
2) "In these, travellers pass..."
-- Syrthiss 13:15, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
it should read ...the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports"?" In these travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat"." -- Jasongetsdown 15:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
In the news on the right panel is several days old. How is this updated? Kyle Andrew Brown 16:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
Copyedit: shouldn't "table free" be "table-free" on the main page? -- Homer Jay 01:23, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
I think we can replace the John Brogden piece with something else, it's kind of old news now, any suggestions? -- Brendanfox 11:38, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
I didn't see anything about it on the news, and I've tried several different sites. -- Kennyisinvisible 03:20, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Rehnquist's proper title was Chief Justice of the United States, not, as given on the Main Page, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. LeoO3 03:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
The writing style for the caption of the picture of the day appears to be somewhat clumsy. Please forgive me if I am slow, but what does the writer of this article intend to convey when this exquisite blossum is described as an optical illusion? Any clarification will be useful.
REQUEST to Administrators of Wikipedia: Religion as a main category at the Main Page. -- GalaazV 00:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
See History of Wikipedia for more on the evolution of the Main Page. Ancheta Wis 13:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I strongly support adding Religion as a main category. Here are my justifications:
-- Mm35173 21:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Doesn't make clear who Darryl White's hero was.-- 165.247.214.14 02:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Why is there no link from this Main Page to other languages' Main Page?
Hurricane Katrina is not the top news, yet Rehnqvist's death is. Shouldnt it be the other way round? Katrina is an event of global interest. Rehnquists death means nothing outside the US.-- Ezeu 17:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm American and I cringe at today's featured article. Yes, I realize featured articles are chosen for quality, but we are certainly going to get complaints about Wikipedia being American-centric when we start featuring unimportant politicians. Nelson Ricardo 00:17, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
I think is a very poor choice for a feature article. She made news only because she won narrowly in a Republican district against a democrat war veteran. There is nothing extraordinary or interesting about her.
Ridiculous choice for a feature article! GO USA! I presume this screws my chances of ever getting a feature article - tant pis! (that's in Freedom - oops! - I mean French) Pmaguire 01:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I even live in this district, and this is the most obscure and bizarre main topic I've seen on here. I know it was national news and all, but jeez. I thought the only time people cared about Cincinnati was when we riot. -- 68.170.114.89 03:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
A pointless choice for a featured article. What next? Someone's well-written article on their pet rock collection?
I don't mean to seem critical--I imagine the article is well-written and I'm glad it exists. But as an American I'm embarrassed that it is the featured article. When I looked at the main page this morning it felt like I was reading "USA Today". Eric 04:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
September 1 was the Zambezi river. Tomorrow is Hong Kong, the day after is Władysław Sikorski. Apparently your conern is that there should be no US articles in the featured articles. 05:17, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
It seems like we are always getting the same response "An article need only be well written to be featured" but I think it is possible to have an article both well written and about something interesting, is it not? If it is not interesting to read, what is the point in featuring it? Of course I can nominate an article about the most interesting thing that I think should be on the first page, but this misses the point, as I can not nominate everything on the first page. So this is an open letter to people who choose what appears on the first page, today's choice was not a good choice in my opinion and it seems like there are a few other people who think so for various reasons. That is it.
My point is not at all that the article was a US subject, but that it was about such an insignificant US person. If the featured article concerned Donald Rumsfeld or Condoleezza Rice, for example, or some other person that I personally find utterly obnoxious, at least I would recognise their significance as front page material. Maybe I'll write an article about my neighbour who has just been elected to the administrative council of our apartment block — it was a close fight between himself and this other guy who lives on the fourth floor who is bald and has really bad breath ... (to be continued). — Pmaguire 09:07, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Actually I don’t even think it’s a very good article, simply because there should be at least some correspondence between the significance of a subject and the length of its article. The article on what’s-her-face is actually longer than the one on the United Kingdom. An random surfer coming to Wikipedia looking for information on this particular person would quickly be dissuaded by the sheer length of the article, and go look somewhere else. Right now I can’t see how the article would appeal to anyone outside her fan club, aren’t there any restraining mechanisms to avoid articles on obscure subjects running on forever? Eixo 15:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I also want to add that whoever is picking today's articles might be a little too biased towards british sports scene... I really don't care about the youngest soccer player in british history or the cricket player who made this many hat tricks and doubt they are of interest to general wikipedia followers.
If England win the Ashes I expect cricket will be back on the Main Page - this time in the top right hand corner, not the bottom right. Even non-cricket-playing countries like Norway and Japan have been looking at buying rights to the fifth Test. It's probably the best ever Test match series - the two top teams in the world battling for every run and wicket. Richie Benaud has rated it as better than the 1981 series, with only the 1960/1 Australia-West Indies series coming close. Great stuff - I hope to see Michael Vaughan lift the urn sometime Sunday or Monday, jguk 18:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
why haven't the urdu language been added?
Why does a Cricket topic appear in every other did you know article? That is the only "sport" that ever appears in the did you know.