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Under the Did You Know section:
...that the town of Moronvilliers was totally destroyed in WWI and was also a dite for French dry-nuclear testing?
Someone with the right privledges ought to change "dite" to "site."
--
138.16.21.127
22:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
if you look at ITN/DYK on the de: Hauptseite, you'll note that they align images with the paragraph they actually refer to; why shouldn't en: imitate this, it would make for a much less confusing Main Page. 130.60.142.65 16:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Isn't the "that not all Polish names end in -ski?" rather ignorant or insulting ? Robmods 17:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Why isn't Rosh Hashanah listed in the Selected Anniversaries? 62.194.65.250 20:30, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Actually, Rosh Hashanah was not listed in the Selected Anniversaries template on October 4 because I had posted it on October 3 and indicated that it "begins at sunset". (See Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 3.) Is this a problem ? I thought the feast was on the evening of October 3. No ? ... Come to think of it, what I did won't work well on the US West Coast. It was already October 4 by UTC time before their sunset, and the MainPage gets changed at midnight UTC. It works for local time in Israel, though. -- PFHLai 06:45, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't the news headline focus on all the Nobel Prizes rather than just the physics one?
Under "Tu’i Tonga Empire", "influencial" should be "influential". AnonMoos 23:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
You can fix the news image of Harriet Myers and Bush now, thank you very much. Kreachure 00:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
See below. R e dwolf24 ( talk) 00:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Some vandal has replaced the image of Miers with apparantly Teddy Roosevelt. -- Boycottthecaf 00:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I would like to know if Ramadan will be featured tomorrow, since Rosh Hashanah was not featured today. ( SeanMcG 02:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC))
Actually, Ramadan was on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4, as the festivities were supposed to start at sunset on October 4. Where the heck is the new moon ? -- PFHLai 06:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
On the newset articvle section, King of England is mentioned. There was no 'King of England 'at this time: George III was king of Great Britain, as the act of Union had united England and Scotland in 1707.
Can a sysop update the front page with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry result. Batmanand 14:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
No, asthma is not a disease of the respiratory system, it is a whole-body genetic disorder manifested in the respiratory system. Asthma manifests as a hyperactivity of the muscles of the lungs causing difficulty in breathing. Other manifestations of the same disorder are hyperactivity in general; "Attention Deficit Disorder"; "Hyperactive Deficit Disorder", and other such symptoms.
The disorder is best treated not by drugs but by teaching affected children relaxation techniques; muscle control; stress and anger management; and by no means last that they are not affected by disease but an inherited genetic anomaly.
It is important for such an influential journal to get this right. Were the matter posted on a normal editable page I would have simply edited it. That it is posted on an uneditable main page is unfortunate.
Asthma and its related disorders caused great suffering. We might rather seek to alleviate that suffering.
Gil
asthma= chronic REACTIVE airway DISORDER, it's exacerbated by many means ex: dust, chemicals in the air, excitability, smoke and etc. The bronchioles spasm out of control not allowing proper air exchange and they fill up with mucous causing edema (swelling) to the inner lining of the lung (thus treatment is necessary to relieve the spasm and dry the mucous to allow air passage)and can possibly cause suffocation and aventually death if not relieved. Yes it's concidered a disease. just my 0.02cnts and some experience.-- Charle301 16:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Asthma is a lung disease. When was the last time you saw a patient with severe asthmatic attack to the point of respiratory arrest and ask him/her to do "relaxation therapy"? You'd kill the patient. (preceding unsigned comment by Chongvictor ( talk · contribs) 04:20, 2005 October 13)
In the "Did you know..." section it says:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in the combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
it should be this:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in ((the)) combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
or, maybe, this:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun for the first time in the combat at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
(preceding unsigned comment by 80.58.9.44 ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 2005 October 5)
According to the main page 67 people have died in Mexico, according to Current Events and it's source 66 people have died in Mexico. (But I can't find where to correct this.)
(preceding unsigned comment by 62.101.38.241 ( talk · contribs) 09:33, 2005 October 6)
The Mandinka link in today's Did you know is actually to a disambiguation page. It should actually be to Mandinka people.
I'm assuming it was either a mistake or vandalism, but there isn't anything around the outside of the main page anymore, just the main content. Does anyone know what happened? -- Madison Gray 01:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
The main page uses the exact # of articles without apparently being updated all the time. Is there a way I can use the # in an article?
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} puts this in. Please do NOT use it in an article, however (if you want to put it on your user page, that's fine. But it is NEVER relevant in an article (not even the article on Wikipedia uses it). Ral 315 WS 21:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
OMG, Wikipedia's clear communist bias is apparent from today's main page, with with Che Gueverra, Sun Yat Sen, and Sochi, Russia all being highlghted on the main page! →Raul654 09:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
hello? I am used to anon losers shouting Commiepedia!! here, but seasoned Heroes of Wikilabour with 25370 edits? I must say... 83.77.221.225 10:07, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Naw, if this were commie, it would be wikipedia.com. This is .org. Wadsworth 19:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
"5 games to 3"? -- JWSchmidt 11:24, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
On Macintosh Internet Explorer, the "In the news" section is stretched waaaay off the edge of the screen, with a big empty space in the bbox, with the "Featured article" squeezed over in the left side. It didn't use to look like that. 67.34.202.170 17:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Quit true, quite true i had it checked out.
and why does it deserve a mention on the main page? -- 68.9.197.69 21:20, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
post info on cerebral palsy
had to work for a while to get to this page, but Is anyone else getting this message on any random page?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: linkprefix() in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Parser.php on line 1232
Wikipedia's slow, and there must be some error...--
WB
00:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
In today's entry, the phrase "which is currently spoken by less than 100 people," should read "which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people." Please fix this problem; I would if I could. -- Zantastik talk 09:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I know it always seems to be me, but can a sysop put up the Nobel Economics result 2005 ( http://nobelprize.org)? Thanks! Batmanand 12:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Someone please update the news section with Merkel becoming new Chancellor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news_section_on_the_Main_Page/Candidates
It has been waiting for hours now. Someone need to frequent that page on a regular basis if the news template has to be protected.
There is an error in the news. A coalition of SPD and CDU/CSU is not a "Jamaica Coalition" (this name applies to a coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party, due to the three parties' colours black, yellow and green). A coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is called a "Grand Coalition". -- 83.129.53.118 21:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I've heard that wikipedia is being used by radical islamists to communicate, that they post from public computers onto the talk pages... is that true?
-- 83.118.141.133 20:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
terror is very scary, no jokes should be made.
everyone, apart from Doops: thank you for the answer, very much.
-- 83.118.141.133 20:30, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
OMG how could we not see this! The Pokemon articles are CIPHER used by EVIL TERRORISTS to communicate !!
Angela Merkel will become Germany's new Chancellor, leading a "Jamaica coalition" between SPD and CDU/CSU.
this is wrong, surely? it should be a grand coalition. jamaica coalition would have to involve the FPD and the Greens.
YES, it is wrong! Jamaican coalition would be if the FDP (yellow) took part and the CDU (black) and the Greens (green), now it is only a black/red-coalition between CDU (black) and SPD (red). 212.144.10.67
wouldnt it be nice if people checked what they posted :rollseyes:
This is correct, a coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is a grand coalition. Also, please note that Angela Merkel will not certainly become Germany's next chancellor, as the parties have only agreed to START coalition talks --- nothing more.
erm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4325600.stm. as i said it would be nice if people checked....
Why 1954 anniversary is below 1962 anniversary on the current Main Page version? Cmapm 01:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The link to the Czech language Wikipedia should say "Česky", not "Česká". -- Hexagon1 12:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
according to the german website spiegel, it's more then 40,000 pouple.
I'm sorry, but what does a German news portal have to do with the correct spelling of the name of the Czech language in Czech? Please clarify. -- Hexagon1 04:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
It doesn't. I imagine that "Česká" was copy-pasted from "Česká Wikipedie" by somebody who didn't know what he was doing. I believe that this is the feminine adjective, meaning "something that is both Czech and feminine"; "Česky" would mean "in the Czech language", which would be better, but note that the 'native' article for the Czech language is entitled Čeština, so it may be better to use that. 08:00, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
I was under the impression that Čeština is the shortened noun form of the Czech language (the full being "Český Jazyk"), but "Česky" means "in Czech", so I think using that would be preferable. As for the Slovak wikipedia link, I presume it was taken from the main page, and no-one bothered to change it. -- Hexagon1 10:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
are photons present in all forms of light?
Sad truth. ;< - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Did You Know section: "that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull that other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?" "that" should be "than." - 68.42.189.219 21:57, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The Taprogge GmbH should not be linked from the main page: it's extremely one sided POV stuff. Interesting, but not up to featured article status by a long chalk. I've added a POV plate pending improvements. See the contibutor list and discussion page on that page. Mat-C 21:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The article is well written and informative, POV issues have been addressed. There are few criteria for dyk- and I see no reason why a company or person that does something unique should be barred from inclusion.-- nixie 02:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Please link to the correct condenser on the Did you know box. -- Marco ✉ 08:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Why in the selected anniversaries, oct 12th stand only in spain as Hispanidad Day? as far as i know october 12th is a holiday throught latinamerica, although can change offical denomination from country to country and from time to time, as Venezuela´s last change of denomination, but basically remains the same, the anniversary of Columbus arrival to America... (preceding unsigned comment by 200.28.7.65 ( talk · contribs) 17:58, 2005 October 12 (UTC))
Regarding Columbus, plesase: DO SOMETHING!!!!!! Argentino 19:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
"..produced over a 1,000 paintings.." should be "..produced over 1,000 paintings.." Ekem 00:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
...that Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by the Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965?
I don't think the highlighted 'the' should be there. Can someone with sysop powers fix that, please ? -- 199.71.174.100 01:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
I thought that FAs on the main page were protected. For some reason, they (and their images?) are not right now. Is it possible to do so? Ancheta Wis 02:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Place the categories like the Swedish Wikipedia's Main Page (in the middle). I'm using a Windows 98 computer right now and I can't see the dots used to separate "Wikipedia FAQs · Browse · A–Z · Portals · Ask a Question" (all i can see is an empty rectangle). I therefore suggest that you change the dot to "-".
It seems to me that when selecting images for the main page there should be a bias in favor of photographs and against flags and coats-of-arms, unless the news story, DYK article, or anniversary is specifically about the flag or coat of arms (e.g. "Somewhereville votes to adopt a new and controversial flag" or "DYK that the Coat of Arms of the Principality of Wales is based on the arms borne by the famous mediaeval Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great?" or "12th of Never: the flag of somewhereopolis (right) is officially banned in neighboring somewhereville"). All those cases are OK; what's silly, in my view, is illustrating an article about something or somebody or some news story with a flag. Today, for instance, there was an attack on Nalchik. Now the news event is the attack; so to illustrate it there should really be a photograph of the fighting. Failing that, we should give serious thought to illustrating the second or third story instead, with a picture of Pinter or the Chinese spacecraft.
Sometimes, when a news story involves an obscure location, a map could be a useful illustration as long as it actually shows the site involved; but by and large, I think preference should go to actual photographs. Same thing goes for DYK or Selected Anniversaries: maybe a national holiday merits a flag; but it's ridiculous to illustrate Canadian Thanksgiving with a flag of Canada or St. Lucia's day with a flag of Sweden. A nwe article on a Jamacian cricketer is illustrated with a photo of him or no picture at all; the Jamacian flag would be pointless. Doops | talk 21:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Kashmir Earthquake 2005 briefing in the "in the news" section should say Pakistan before India, just because of the larger majority of the disaster/casualties being on the Pakistani side. Thanks. a.n.o.n.y.m t 22:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
im korean, and im getting my firend who can speak enlish to write this for me. is there any way you can get korean as a language to read?
im korean, and im getting my firend who can speak enlish to write this for me. is there any way you can get korean as a language to read? (Kyung ho Park)
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but, what's up with all the lines being removed from under the links? The Wookieepedian 21:28, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or try "Print Preview" on Firefox 1.0.7 with the Main Page. It gives an error. Anyone else? -- WB 23:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Today's Today's featured article says the track Layla features an "unmistakable guitar figure, played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman". What is a guitar figure? Moriori 00:41, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Today's featured picture, "hippopotamus 's" should be "hippopotamus's". Art LaPella 02:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Is the use of copyrighted material (e.g. Image:LaylaCover.jpg) on the Main Page permitted by the Fair Use provisions? Fg2 06:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Just updated the 2005 Kashmir earthquake page with current official death toll.
"Local authorities reported the official death toll as 38,000 in Pakistan and 1,300 in India [2]"
Other sources now claim 40,000 have died (and rising) [3]
Main page should reflect this... Kamayoq 08:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Updated. -- PFHLai 18:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
The numbers continue to rise... Maj. Gen. Farooq Ahmed Khan, said on Pakistan's Geo television "Some people fear that the death toll could be 100,000 and they may be right." (16 Oct)
Kamayoq 22:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Dreyfuss was not arrested "in error" but as the result of a criminal conspiracy by elements of the French Army. Their motivation has been in dispute ever since. They were certainly anti-Semimitic, but some have argued that the entire affaire was an intelligence misdirection aimed at convincing the Germans that the new French "Famous 75" artillery piece was less effective and revolutionary than it actually was (Drefuss was an artillery officer).
Whatever the case, the term "error" is highly inappropriate.
68.231.217.37 10:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Selected Anniversaries, "the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest Jewish ghettos..." should be "...ghetto..." because the Warsaw Ghetto is also singular . Art LaPella 00:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
The line "Amid heavy security, the people of Iraq vote in a referendum on whether or not to ratify the proposed Iraqi constitution." should read "Amid heavy security, the people of Iraq vote in a referendum on whether to ratify the proposed Iraqi constitution." salt3d 04:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
We have a DYK item that mentions strap-on dildos and no over-protective parents and/or general prudes have run in here and shouted at us about how heathenistic and damned we are?
That doesn't make sense! There was a DYK item a month or so ago about the Human Menstral Cycle that created at least one amusing holier-than-thou thread! I'm let down.
I have to agree with CalJW 69.143.127.232 15:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC) I also agree--please remove the item from DYK. "Menstrual Cycle" is of a different ilk than this item. -- 63.160.95.13 15:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm with the above. I hate censoring, hate the idea of trolling around for decency, but thats just useless obvious info that no-one would really give a hoot about and will offend some. Did you know....the sky is blue?-- Narson 15:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh, get a grip all of you. It's not as if many of the DYK items are supremely useful to anyone; otherwise they'd be Featured Articles Senji 15:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
If people want to read about this sort of stuff, I'm sure they can find articles about it here and eleswhere. What I object to is such information being thrust upon them Cdyson37 | (Talk) 15:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
There's a nice flamewar brewing in the talk page for the Strap-on dildo article, if you like that sort of thing. -- DragonHawk 00:29, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Not sure that 'tradition' is the right word to be using there. Folklore, legend, myth....as its not really a custom for him to do it, as I don't imagine its something he does every year etc. -- Narson 15:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I am flabbergasted at the inclusion of you-know-what in the DYK section. o_O
I DID know that, but that's beside the point. KingTT 15:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Controversial and purient topics like this should not be displayed so prominently on a main page.
I disagree. You're expressing a very specific cultural POV. If we can't keep a NPOV on the main page, what hope for wikipedia at all? -- Khendon 17:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I enjoy the occasional pegging myself, but I also think it's inappropriate for the front page. A paper encyclopedia might have an article on anal sex, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to put Astroglide and butt-plugs on the cover. I think it should go. TotoBaggins
Forget those WikiPolicies. Use Common Sense ! Children visit Wikipedia.org, you know ?! Take it off the MainPage, please ! -- A concerned parent 18:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure NPOV should apply that rigorously to the main page... seeing as how we have to have some standards for selecting DYKs, non-offensiveness should be one of them. Don't get me wrong, I think people offended by sexual topics are silly, but there are a hell of a lot of them, and Wikipedia has a reputation to protect. BTW, I'm pretty sure the "concerned parent" is a troll who has done this before and should not be fed. ~~ N ( t/ c) 18:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I can't believe some of you actually support explicit discussion of sex on Wikipedia's very front page. The reason Wikipedia is not censored is because you have to know to look for objectionable material to get to it. When you put the objectionable material right on the front page, which people access from work and school, and grade school teachers refer their young students to, that kind of short circuits the whole process. I take it the defenders of the sexual material on the front page would not object on principle to the g**tse image being featured? Why don't we do that? It's a culturally significant image! What possible objection could you levy against it? Don't be culturally POV now! 148.104.5.2 18:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It really doesn't belong there at all; but if it stays it is incredibly necessary that the wording be changed to something like "a s-o d is a sex toy used for such sexual practices as...." The whole point of DYK is to entice people into reading articles on new subjects, to tickle their curiosity. And, hard as it may be for some people to believe, not everybody knows what a dildo is. (If someone burns with a desire to educate them on the subject, then I'm afraid he/she's lost sight of NPOV.) Readers should not be tricked into doing something they don't want to do; the blurb should make it transparently clear what sort of article they'll get to by clicking. So please fix the wording now. Thanks. Doops | talk 19:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Bushytails, you keep on referring to "harm." Of course reading the article is not going to harm anybody. That's not the point; I don't think anybody sensible claims that. The point is that some people are ostriches who don't want to read about some things; and it's their right not to. You can't force somebody to be open-minded. The traditional point made in defense of non-censorship of explicit articles is "you don't have to read it if you're offended by it"; and it's (in my view) a persuasive one; that's why I'm against censorship. Moving something like this onto the main page threatens this finely-balanced distinction. Doops | talk 19:54, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I think it's great that pro-sex material shows up on wiki. We shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies! If you have to specifically look for sex-related topics, what does that say about sex, that it needs to be hidden from view? Sex isn't some secret society, we all participate in it, so why is it taboo? Points to you, Bushytails. 209.167.86.34 20:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
By the way, as far as NPOV is concerned, it's a double standard to call the decision to remove something from the main page POV and not to so stigmatize the original decision to put it there. DYK articles aren't randomly chosen by the software; somebody decides to put them on the main page. Doops | talk 20:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm surprised that there has been no mention of H5N1, the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (bird flu) 'in the news'. The severity of this pandemic has increased rapidly. Lethal strains have in three European Countries in the last three days as well as 60 dead throughout Asia. I might also stress that the H5N1 page has a clean up notice on it.-- Alan Frize 19:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It's more than just a science / health news item. The bird flu is doing big damages to the agricultural industry and the related businesses, too. It's newsworthy for ITN. -- 199.71.174.100 13:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The header for the main page source says the page has been protected to prevent editing. Surely it has been protected not to prevent editing but to prevent vandalism. Can this be changed and if so should it? - orizon 23:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Favicon doesn't seem to be appearing on articles. Pages are random, but it has been disappearing pretty regularly in last few hours... -- WB 23:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
The logo images of the Mediawiki sister projects link to hi-res images of the logos. They should link to the projects' home pages. The logos shouldn't be linked for the benefit of people interested in the logo itself: they should be linked for the people who want a nice big target to click on to go to the project's home page. ktheory 01:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
WHAT THE...?
Bob Beamon's World Long Jump record was the longest unbroken track and field record in history. He did it on October 18th 1968. His world record stood for 23 years, and was named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century. This record surely deserves mention in the selected anniversaries. (Come on, it's my birthday today!)
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Archive 40 | ← | Archive 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | → | Archive 50 |
Under the Did You Know section:
...that the town of Moronvilliers was totally destroyed in WWI and was also a dite for French dry-nuclear testing?
Someone with the right privledges ought to change "dite" to "site."
--
138.16.21.127
22:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
if you look at ITN/DYK on the de: Hauptseite, you'll note that they align images with the paragraph they actually refer to; why shouldn't en: imitate this, it would make for a much less confusing Main Page. 130.60.142.65 16:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Isn't the "that not all Polish names end in -ski?" rather ignorant or insulting ? Robmods 17:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Why isn't Rosh Hashanah listed in the Selected Anniversaries? 62.194.65.250 20:30, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Actually, Rosh Hashanah was not listed in the Selected Anniversaries template on October 4 because I had posted it on October 3 and indicated that it "begins at sunset". (See Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 3.) Is this a problem ? I thought the feast was on the evening of October 3. No ? ... Come to think of it, what I did won't work well on the US West Coast. It was already October 4 by UTC time before their sunset, and the MainPage gets changed at midnight UTC. It works for local time in Israel, though. -- PFHLai 06:45, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Shouldn't the news headline focus on all the Nobel Prizes rather than just the physics one?
Under "Tu’i Tonga Empire", "influencial" should be "influential". AnonMoos 23:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
You can fix the news image of Harriet Myers and Bush now, thank you very much. Kreachure 00:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
See below. R e dwolf24 ( talk) 00:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Some vandal has replaced the image of Miers with apparantly Teddy Roosevelt. -- Boycottthecaf 00:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I would like to know if Ramadan will be featured tomorrow, since Rosh Hashanah was not featured today. ( SeanMcG 02:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC))
Actually, Ramadan was on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4, as the festivities were supposed to start at sunset on October 4. Where the heck is the new moon ? -- PFHLai 06:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
On the newset articvle section, King of England is mentioned. There was no 'King of England 'at this time: George III was king of Great Britain, as the act of Union had united England and Scotland in 1707.
Can a sysop update the front page with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry result. Batmanand 14:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
No, asthma is not a disease of the respiratory system, it is a whole-body genetic disorder manifested in the respiratory system. Asthma manifests as a hyperactivity of the muscles of the lungs causing difficulty in breathing. Other manifestations of the same disorder are hyperactivity in general; "Attention Deficit Disorder"; "Hyperactive Deficit Disorder", and other such symptoms.
The disorder is best treated not by drugs but by teaching affected children relaxation techniques; muscle control; stress and anger management; and by no means last that they are not affected by disease but an inherited genetic anomaly.
It is important for such an influential journal to get this right. Were the matter posted on a normal editable page I would have simply edited it. That it is posted on an uneditable main page is unfortunate.
Asthma and its related disorders caused great suffering. We might rather seek to alleviate that suffering.
Gil
asthma= chronic REACTIVE airway DISORDER, it's exacerbated by many means ex: dust, chemicals in the air, excitability, smoke and etc. The bronchioles spasm out of control not allowing proper air exchange and they fill up with mucous causing edema (swelling) to the inner lining of the lung (thus treatment is necessary to relieve the spasm and dry the mucous to allow air passage)and can possibly cause suffocation and aventually death if not relieved. Yes it's concidered a disease. just my 0.02cnts and some experience.-- Charle301 16:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Asthma is a lung disease. When was the last time you saw a patient with severe asthmatic attack to the point of respiratory arrest and ask him/her to do "relaxation therapy"? You'd kill the patient. (preceding unsigned comment by Chongvictor ( talk · contribs) 04:20, 2005 October 13)
In the "Did you know..." section it says:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in the combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
it should be this:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in ((the)) combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
or, maybe, this:
...that the British Army used the Gatling gun for the first time in the combat at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War?
(preceding unsigned comment by 80.58.9.44 ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 2005 October 5)
According to the main page 67 people have died in Mexico, according to Current Events and it's source 66 people have died in Mexico. (But I can't find where to correct this.)
(preceding unsigned comment by 62.101.38.241 ( talk · contribs) 09:33, 2005 October 6)
The Mandinka link in today's Did you know is actually to a disambiguation page. It should actually be to Mandinka people.
I'm assuming it was either a mistake or vandalism, but there isn't anything around the outside of the main page anymore, just the main content. Does anyone know what happened? -- Madison Gray 01:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
The main page uses the exact # of articles without apparently being updated all the time. Is there a way I can use the # in an article?
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} puts this in. Please do NOT use it in an article, however (if you want to put it on your user page, that's fine. But it is NEVER relevant in an article (not even the article on Wikipedia uses it). Ral 315 WS 21:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
OMG, Wikipedia's clear communist bias is apparent from today's main page, with with Che Gueverra, Sun Yat Sen, and Sochi, Russia all being highlghted on the main page! →Raul654 09:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
hello? I am used to anon losers shouting Commiepedia!! here, but seasoned Heroes of Wikilabour with 25370 edits? I must say... 83.77.221.225 10:07, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Naw, if this were commie, it would be wikipedia.com. This is .org. Wadsworth 19:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
"5 games to 3"? -- JWSchmidt 11:24, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
On Macintosh Internet Explorer, the "In the news" section is stretched waaaay off the edge of the screen, with a big empty space in the bbox, with the "Featured article" squeezed over in the left side. It didn't use to look like that. 67.34.202.170 17:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Quit true, quite true i had it checked out.
and why does it deserve a mention on the main page? -- 68.9.197.69 21:20, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
post info on cerebral palsy
had to work for a while to get to this page, but Is anyone else getting this message on any random page?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: linkprefix() in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Parser.php on line 1232
Wikipedia's slow, and there must be some error...--
WB
00:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
In today's entry, the phrase "which is currently spoken by less than 100 people," should read "which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people." Please fix this problem; I would if I could. -- Zantastik talk 09:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I know it always seems to be me, but can a sysop put up the Nobel Economics result 2005 ( http://nobelprize.org)? Thanks! Batmanand 12:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Someone please update the news section with Merkel becoming new Chancellor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news_section_on_the_Main_Page/Candidates
It has been waiting for hours now. Someone need to frequent that page on a regular basis if the news template has to be protected.
There is an error in the news. A coalition of SPD and CDU/CSU is not a "Jamaica Coalition" (this name applies to a coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party, due to the three parties' colours black, yellow and green). A coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is called a "Grand Coalition". -- 83.129.53.118 21:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I've heard that wikipedia is being used by radical islamists to communicate, that they post from public computers onto the talk pages... is that true?
-- 83.118.141.133 20:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
terror is very scary, no jokes should be made.
everyone, apart from Doops: thank you for the answer, very much.
-- 83.118.141.133 20:30, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
OMG how could we not see this! The Pokemon articles are CIPHER used by EVIL TERRORISTS to communicate !!
Angela Merkel will become Germany's new Chancellor, leading a "Jamaica coalition" between SPD and CDU/CSU.
this is wrong, surely? it should be a grand coalition. jamaica coalition would have to involve the FPD and the Greens.
YES, it is wrong! Jamaican coalition would be if the FDP (yellow) took part and the CDU (black) and the Greens (green), now it is only a black/red-coalition between CDU (black) and SPD (red). 212.144.10.67
wouldnt it be nice if people checked what they posted :rollseyes:
This is correct, a coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is a grand coalition. Also, please note that Angela Merkel will not certainly become Germany's next chancellor, as the parties have only agreed to START coalition talks --- nothing more.
erm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4325600.stm. as i said it would be nice if people checked....
Why 1954 anniversary is below 1962 anniversary on the current Main Page version? Cmapm 01:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The link to the Czech language Wikipedia should say "Česky", not "Česká". -- Hexagon1 12:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
according to the german website spiegel, it's more then 40,000 pouple.
I'm sorry, but what does a German news portal have to do with the correct spelling of the name of the Czech language in Czech? Please clarify. -- Hexagon1 04:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
It doesn't. I imagine that "Česká" was copy-pasted from "Česká Wikipedie" by somebody who didn't know what he was doing. I believe that this is the feminine adjective, meaning "something that is both Czech and feminine"; "Česky" would mean "in the Czech language", which would be better, but note that the 'native' article for the Czech language is entitled Čeština, so it may be better to use that. 08:00, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
I was under the impression that Čeština is the shortened noun form of the Czech language (the full being "Český Jazyk"), but "Česky" means "in Czech", so I think using that would be preferable. As for the Slovak wikipedia link, I presume it was taken from the main page, and no-one bothered to change it. -- Hexagon1 10:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
are photons present in all forms of light?
Sad truth. ;< - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Did You Know section: "that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull that other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?" "that" should be "than." - 68.42.189.219 21:57, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The Taprogge GmbH should not be linked from the main page: it's extremely one sided POV stuff. Interesting, but not up to featured article status by a long chalk. I've added a POV plate pending improvements. See the contibutor list and discussion page on that page. Mat-C 21:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The article is well written and informative, POV issues have been addressed. There are few criteria for dyk- and I see no reason why a company or person that does something unique should be barred from inclusion.-- nixie 02:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Please link to the correct condenser on the Did you know box. -- Marco ✉ 08:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Why in the selected anniversaries, oct 12th stand only in spain as Hispanidad Day? as far as i know october 12th is a holiday throught latinamerica, although can change offical denomination from country to country and from time to time, as Venezuela´s last change of denomination, but basically remains the same, the anniversary of Columbus arrival to America... (preceding unsigned comment by 200.28.7.65 ( talk · contribs) 17:58, 2005 October 12 (UTC))
Regarding Columbus, plesase: DO SOMETHING!!!!!! Argentino 19:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
"..produced over a 1,000 paintings.." should be "..produced over 1,000 paintings.." Ekem 00:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
...that Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by the Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965?
I don't think the highlighted 'the' should be there. Can someone with sysop powers fix that, please ? -- 199.71.174.100 01:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
I thought that FAs on the main page were protected. For some reason, they (and their images?) are not right now. Is it possible to do so? Ancheta Wis 02:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Place the categories like the Swedish Wikipedia's Main Page (in the middle). I'm using a Windows 98 computer right now and I can't see the dots used to separate "Wikipedia FAQs · Browse · A–Z · Portals · Ask a Question" (all i can see is an empty rectangle). I therefore suggest that you change the dot to "-".
It seems to me that when selecting images for the main page there should be a bias in favor of photographs and against flags and coats-of-arms, unless the news story, DYK article, or anniversary is specifically about the flag or coat of arms (e.g. "Somewhereville votes to adopt a new and controversial flag" or "DYK that the Coat of Arms of the Principality of Wales is based on the arms borne by the famous mediaeval Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great?" or "12th of Never: the flag of somewhereopolis (right) is officially banned in neighboring somewhereville"). All those cases are OK; what's silly, in my view, is illustrating an article about something or somebody or some news story with a flag. Today, for instance, there was an attack on Nalchik. Now the news event is the attack; so to illustrate it there should really be a photograph of the fighting. Failing that, we should give serious thought to illustrating the second or third story instead, with a picture of Pinter or the Chinese spacecraft.
Sometimes, when a news story involves an obscure location, a map could be a useful illustration as long as it actually shows the site involved; but by and large, I think preference should go to actual photographs. Same thing goes for DYK or Selected Anniversaries: maybe a national holiday merits a flag; but it's ridiculous to illustrate Canadian Thanksgiving with a flag of Canada or St. Lucia's day with a flag of Sweden. A nwe article on a Jamacian cricketer is illustrated with a photo of him or no picture at all; the Jamacian flag would be pointless. Doops | talk 21:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Kashmir Earthquake 2005 briefing in the "in the news" section should say Pakistan before India, just because of the larger majority of the disaster/casualties being on the Pakistani side. Thanks. a.n.o.n.y.m t 22:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
im korean, and im getting my firend who can speak enlish to write this for me. is there any way you can get korean as a language to read?
im korean, and im getting my firend who can speak enlish to write this for me. is there any way you can get korean as a language to read? (Kyung ho Park)
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but, what's up with all the lines being removed from under the links? The Wookieepedian 21:28, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or try "Print Preview" on Firefox 1.0.7 with the Main Page. It gives an error. Anyone else? -- WB 23:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Today's Today's featured article says the track Layla features an "unmistakable guitar figure, played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman". What is a guitar figure? Moriori 00:41, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Today's featured picture, "hippopotamus 's" should be "hippopotamus's". Art LaPella 02:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Is the use of copyrighted material (e.g. Image:LaylaCover.jpg) on the Main Page permitted by the Fair Use provisions? Fg2 06:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Just updated the 2005 Kashmir earthquake page with current official death toll.
"Local authorities reported the official death toll as 38,000 in Pakistan and 1,300 in India [2]"
Other sources now claim 40,000 have died (and rising) [3]
Main page should reflect this... Kamayoq 08:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Updated. -- PFHLai 18:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
The numbers continue to rise... Maj. Gen. Farooq Ahmed Khan, said on Pakistan's Geo television "Some people fear that the death toll could be 100,000 and they may be right." (16 Oct)
Kamayoq 22:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Dreyfuss was not arrested "in error" but as the result of a criminal conspiracy by elements of the French Army. Their motivation has been in dispute ever since. They were certainly anti-Semimitic, but some have argued that the entire affaire was an intelligence misdirection aimed at convincing the Germans that the new French "Famous 75" artillery piece was less effective and revolutionary than it actually was (Drefuss was an artillery officer).
Whatever the case, the term "error" is highly inappropriate.
68.231.217.37 10:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Under Selected Anniversaries, "the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest Jewish ghettos..." should be "...ghetto..." because the Warsaw Ghetto is also singular . Art LaPella 00:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
The line "Amid heavy security, the people of Iraq vote in a referendum on whether or not to ratify the proposed Iraqi constitution." should read "Amid heavy security, the people of Iraq vote in a referendum on whether to ratify the proposed Iraqi constitution." salt3d 04:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
We have a DYK item that mentions strap-on dildos and no over-protective parents and/or general prudes have run in here and shouted at us about how heathenistic and damned we are?
That doesn't make sense! There was a DYK item a month or so ago about the Human Menstral Cycle that created at least one amusing holier-than-thou thread! I'm let down.
I have to agree with CalJW 69.143.127.232 15:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC) I also agree--please remove the item from DYK. "Menstrual Cycle" is of a different ilk than this item. -- 63.160.95.13 15:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm with the above. I hate censoring, hate the idea of trolling around for decency, but thats just useless obvious info that no-one would really give a hoot about and will offend some. Did you know....the sky is blue?-- Narson 15:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh, get a grip all of you. It's not as if many of the DYK items are supremely useful to anyone; otherwise they'd be Featured Articles Senji 15:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
If people want to read about this sort of stuff, I'm sure they can find articles about it here and eleswhere. What I object to is such information being thrust upon them Cdyson37 | (Talk) 15:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
There's a nice flamewar brewing in the talk page for the Strap-on dildo article, if you like that sort of thing. -- DragonHawk 00:29, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Not sure that 'tradition' is the right word to be using there. Folklore, legend, myth....as its not really a custom for him to do it, as I don't imagine its something he does every year etc. -- Narson 15:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I am flabbergasted at the inclusion of you-know-what in the DYK section. o_O
I DID know that, but that's beside the point. KingTT 15:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Controversial and purient topics like this should not be displayed so prominently on a main page.
I disagree. You're expressing a very specific cultural POV. If we can't keep a NPOV on the main page, what hope for wikipedia at all? -- Khendon 17:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I enjoy the occasional pegging myself, but I also think it's inappropriate for the front page. A paper encyclopedia might have an article on anal sex, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to put Astroglide and butt-plugs on the cover. I think it should go. TotoBaggins
Forget those WikiPolicies. Use Common Sense ! Children visit Wikipedia.org, you know ?! Take it off the MainPage, please ! -- A concerned parent 18:27, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure NPOV should apply that rigorously to the main page... seeing as how we have to have some standards for selecting DYKs, non-offensiveness should be one of them. Don't get me wrong, I think people offended by sexual topics are silly, but there are a hell of a lot of them, and Wikipedia has a reputation to protect. BTW, I'm pretty sure the "concerned parent" is a troll who has done this before and should not be fed. ~~ N ( t/ c) 18:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I can't believe some of you actually support explicit discussion of sex on Wikipedia's very front page. The reason Wikipedia is not censored is because you have to know to look for objectionable material to get to it. When you put the objectionable material right on the front page, which people access from work and school, and grade school teachers refer their young students to, that kind of short circuits the whole process. I take it the defenders of the sexual material on the front page would not object on principle to the g**tse image being featured? Why don't we do that? It's a culturally significant image! What possible objection could you levy against it? Don't be culturally POV now! 148.104.5.2 18:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It really doesn't belong there at all; but if it stays it is incredibly necessary that the wording be changed to something like "a s-o d is a sex toy used for such sexual practices as...." The whole point of DYK is to entice people into reading articles on new subjects, to tickle their curiosity. And, hard as it may be for some people to believe, not everybody knows what a dildo is. (If someone burns with a desire to educate them on the subject, then I'm afraid he/she's lost sight of NPOV.) Readers should not be tricked into doing something they don't want to do; the blurb should make it transparently clear what sort of article they'll get to by clicking. So please fix the wording now. Thanks. Doops | talk 19:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Bushytails, you keep on referring to "harm." Of course reading the article is not going to harm anybody. That's not the point; I don't think anybody sensible claims that. The point is that some people are ostriches who don't want to read about some things; and it's their right not to. You can't force somebody to be open-minded. The traditional point made in defense of non-censorship of explicit articles is "you don't have to read it if you're offended by it"; and it's (in my view) a persuasive one; that's why I'm against censorship. Moving something like this onto the main page threatens this finely-balanced distinction. Doops | talk 19:54, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I think it's great that pro-sex material shows up on wiki. We shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies! If you have to specifically look for sex-related topics, what does that say about sex, that it needs to be hidden from view? Sex isn't some secret society, we all participate in it, so why is it taboo? Points to you, Bushytails. 209.167.86.34 20:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
By the way, as far as NPOV is concerned, it's a double standard to call the decision to remove something from the main page POV and not to so stigmatize the original decision to put it there. DYK articles aren't randomly chosen by the software; somebody decides to put them on the main page. Doops | talk 20:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm surprised that there has been no mention of H5N1, the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (bird flu) 'in the news'. The severity of this pandemic has increased rapidly. Lethal strains have in three European Countries in the last three days as well as 60 dead throughout Asia. I might also stress that the H5N1 page has a clean up notice on it.-- Alan Frize 19:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It's more than just a science / health news item. The bird flu is doing big damages to the agricultural industry and the related businesses, too. It's newsworthy for ITN. -- 199.71.174.100 13:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The header for the main page source says the page has been protected to prevent editing. Surely it has been protected not to prevent editing but to prevent vandalism. Can this be changed and if so should it? - orizon 23:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Favicon doesn't seem to be appearing on articles. Pages are random, but it has been disappearing pretty regularly in last few hours... -- WB 23:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
The logo images of the Mediawiki sister projects link to hi-res images of the logos. They should link to the projects' home pages. The logos shouldn't be linked for the benefit of people interested in the logo itself: they should be linked for the people who want a nice big target to click on to go to the project's home page. ktheory 01:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
WHAT THE...?
Bob Beamon's World Long Jump record was the longest unbroken track and field record in history. He did it on October 18th 1968. His world record stood for 23 years, and was named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century. This record surely deserves mention in the selected anniversaries. (Come on, it's my birthday today!)