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This featured article link is either not working or someone (or a technical bug) has deleted the article entirely - the FA link leads to a deleted page. Bwithh 00:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The "Olympia" in USS Olympia should be in italics as the name of a ship according to the Manual of Style. Could someone fix this? Dismas| (talk) 00:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
This is not exactly about the main page, but it is about {{ browsebar}} which is intimately related to the question of usability of Wikipedia. I would appreciate comments on the discussion I started at Template talk:Browsebar#Is this bar useful?. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 16:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Categories · Glossaries · Lists · Overviews · Portals · Questions · Reference · Site news · A-Z Index
Arts | Biography | Culture | Geography | History | Mathematics | Philosophy | Science | Society | [[Portal:Technology|That is, discussion is underway to remove links from the above bar, as well as remove the bar itself from many of its current locations. We need lots of feedback on this issue, to make sure we aren't about to remove something that gets a lot of use. What we really need to know, is: do you ever use the above browsebar? And if so, how often do you use it and what do you use it for? Please CLICK HERE to tell us. -- Go for it! 23:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Perth is not the "only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district." Burke Lakefront Airport is in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. You've got to be careful with words like "only." -- Mwalcoff 02:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Not to mention London City Airport, tiny STOL-airport, but still served 2M people in one of europe's most important financial districts... Andreala 03:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Perth airport is not in the CBD. Depending on traffic, it could take 20-30 minutes or more to get from the airport to the city. Okay, so it's a lot nearer than Heathrow to London's CBD, but don't expect to walk from the plane and onto St George's Terrace!
Tram should probably be linked, eh?
Also, this page is huge, is it going to be archived? Ziggur 04:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Currently, the Main Page says "that /.../ Department of /.../ was the first /.../ departartment in the world". Could someone fix the departartment, please? -- Oop 07:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The pic of the day looks good enough to eat, even if they are "actually false berries".
-- TecBrat 00:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I've been told that the current projects link in the Sister Projects section is to an out-of date page. Is there any way to find out whether the Wikimedia Foundation plan to update that page anytime soon? Is there a better link to use in the meantime? Carcharoth 08:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
ITN says "basque flag pictured", but flag of Iraq appears.
Since when did Uncyclopedia give Wikipedia permission to blatantly steal the main page design? I better have a good explanation for this... -- Lugiatm ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Seems that the before the after original request was archived, so I'll mention it again: some of the headers on the new main page seem to have Arial and Helvetica hardcoded as font. I prefer browsing Wikipedia in Verdana because I find it much more legible (mainly due to its large x-height and punch size which seem to really benefit its screen readability). Could these hardcoded fonts please be set to "sans-serif" instead so that I can choose the font in my browser? -- Michiel Sikma 22:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Nice New look. ( Hpetwe 01:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC))
Hi can you all, anyone that reads this add xx_boy_crazy_xx@hotmail.com please? thank you
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Then why can't anyone edit the Main Page? -- Zondor 03:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Canberra is unusual amongst Australian capital cities... How many Australian capital cities are there? I think it should just say Australian cities? ::Supergolden:: 10:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Couple of questions; why is the article called "King James I of England," when James was a Scot, born in Scotland, and King in official capacity of Scotland well before England? Secondly I don't really think it should be, "The first British Monarch ..." As the concept of Britain, and a permanent union of the crowns isn't until 1707. Isn't it far more accurate to say that Queen Anne is in fact the first "British" Monarch?
I would suggest instead, "King James VI of Scotland becomes King of England, and Ireland, unifiying the crowns of the Three Kingdoms for the first time." Or something to that effect.
Kaenei 10:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
How was "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" removed from the Main Page? Not that I want it there, but just wondering how. -- WB 13:13, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone might want to update the Queen of the North headline in the news section. The ferry didn't hit a rock, apparently -- it hit an island. Buchanan-H e rmit™.. CONTRIBS.. SPEAK! 16:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Does he? To me that sounds like he's going to die. Like he's on death row. But according to all the sources it's not been decided yet. So he COULD die or not. I think this should be changed to something a little less ambiguous like..."Afghan citizen Abdul Rahman could potentially be executed..." User:domfeargrieve User talk:domfeargrieve 19:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
(In the Jackson 5 section.) Should this be "phenomena"? PeteVerdon 00:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone else think that it would be better to use a circular version of this logo (with the left and right segments removed) in the sister projects section? Each image is limited to a width of 35 pixels (with the heights varying greatly), and this causes the current version to be so small that it's virtually unrecognizable at higher resolutions. The actual Wikinews site uses just such a variant as their favicon.ico file (the icon that appears in the address bar) for the same reason, so this is far from unprecedented. — David Levy 01:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
It says it operated a missile defense and training, while the article only says training and U-boat defense, and I seriously question whether there was missile defence research done during WWI. say1988 01:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. The only missiles available during WW-I were of the Monty Python variety. Of course, there were bombards and the like. My big question is how to find the full article that this little talking point on the main page seems to make reference to. I would rather correct the underlying article (for example: Seacliff Missile Defence) than the main page.
I know it's the weekend, and I know Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors, but is it really such a good idea from a PR standpoint to have a boldface four-letter word on the main page? (granted, below the scroll line, but still ...) Daniel Case 03:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Crocodile attacks says: "The Saltwater and Nile Crocodiles are the most dangerous, killing hundreds of people each year in parts of South-East Asia and Africa... Since 1990, at least a dozen people from western countries have been killed by crocodiles"
The DYK shortens it to: "a dozen people have been killed by crocodiles in the last decade".
Excellent summary. Arvindn 03:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The DYK text was an accurate summary of the article until a few hours ago, when User:Stbalbach added that hundred of people in Africa and Asia were killed by crocodiles each year. That is unsourced, although I have no reason to doubt it. I don't want to add an unsourced factoid to the front page, so I'll just remove the crocodile DYK entirely.- gadfium 05:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Re Jackson 5, the plural of "phenomenon" should not be "phenomenons", right? Even if it's a quotation, it makes us look illiterate. Kosebamse 10:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The very article of Annunciation talks about the eastern equivalent of Theotokos and the equivalent "celebration" of 25 march -- 161.76.99.106 11:49, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Encyclopedia is the American English word where as encyclopaedia is the eglish word, Why does wikipedia spell it in the American way when this is the English encyclopaedia not the American English.-- Matthew Fenton 12:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
the bird sings in the tall oak tree and takes one from me tall oak tree tall oak tree takes one for me.
It should read "The Jackson Five was" not "The Jackson 5 were." The Jackson 5 is the collective, singular name of the group (a group is one entity) and the verb "were" does not properly follow. If you look at the article, it uses the "was" and it makes much more sense gramatically. Please change "were" to "was" in the first sentence, and wherever else necessary. - Paulus89 13:32, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I notice that Belarusian presidential election just fell out of the news section. Things are happening there right now (Saturday) of much greater importance than, say, some ferry in British Columbia. Maybe it should come back up? Eixo 16:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
In the old page they were down the left hand side under Toolbox, but now they have disappeared. I cannot find any mention of this in the redesign proposal. How do I find links to other language editions? Do I have to guess the language domain name by trial and error??? Tamino 17:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
At present we have:
Although grammatically correct as a sentence, the punctuation looks funny in what is, after all, a title. It might look better if we omit the comma and period thus:
I realize that quite a lot of discussion went into the new look. I just find this punctuation a little jarring, somehow. ProhibitOnions 19:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Keep punctuation, per David Levy's comments. Carcharoth 00:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree to change it. I've noticed the inconsistent grammar before -- Joewithajay 11:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I guess another solution would be to make a sentence of the third line. I still like the old "we are working on" idea, so maybe "We are working on 6,857,740 articles in this English version." although that might be too long. The other suggestion I made above works nicely as a sentence too - "This English version has 6,857,740 articles.". Thoughts? BigBlueFish 14:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I thought that wikipedia was supposed to be an un-biased site. However, today's picture dealing with illegal drugs seems only to glorify them and does not mention any of the risks or dangers. I realize that the people who are pressing to legalize drugs have an opinion and want to spread their agenda, but the front page of wikipedia is not the place for it!!! Rmisiak 20:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The problem here seems to be that, although the picture is a featured picture, the article hashish is of a low standard, and has various tags slapped on it. Maybe the people doing picture of the day need to consider where they source the accompanying text from? Carcharoth 21:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't be concerned with harming an "impressionable readership", but concerned with censorship for something factual. People do claim they gain insights, true or not, it's often claimed. As a factual source, I see no reason why this information should be omitted. -- Joewithajay 11:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious why its considered fair use to use a screen shot of Charles Taylor here, when normally we're told in other articles you can't do that unless you're actually talking about the TV program. For instance, in an article which mentions the specific TV address, it could be fairuse to have a pic of that address. But the main page is talking about recent events, unconnected the the TV address (the picture description doesn't even give a date). I'm not really opposed to the image's use here, I'm just getting ever more confused by the inconsistency of fairuse rational. -- Rob 21:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The links in "Traffic for all Wikimedia sites: daily, monthly, yearly" no longer work because they now always return with "The connection has timed out: The server at noc.wikimedia.org is taking too long to respond.". Can a friendly admin either fix these links, or remove them please?
(OK, this isn't about the Main Page per se, but Special:Statistics has no talk page, and it's linked very prominently from the top of the Main Page, so I thought this was as good a place as any to mention the issue.) GeorgeStepanek\ talk 22:18, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The Abdul Rahman aricle section on the main page should actually mention that he is Christian. -- Shanedidona 23:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Today's POTD links to Arowana not Asian Arowana, the article that actually contains the image. Would an admin fix this? Thanks in advance. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 00:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed this today, never really thought of it before, but why is there no previous or recently featured pictures. There are for featured articles, On this day, archives for did you know and links for the news block. It just seems weird to me that there sn't for the featured picture. Is there a reason this was never added? say1988
As the The 1707 Act of Union says, the 'Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN'. Today may be the anniversary of the passing of the act by one of parliaments, but it is not the anniversary of the union itself. Could someone please remove or amend this item. StockholmSyndrome 09:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I want to add my Name here please, SHIMOZ,B —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.218.194.97 ( talk • contribs)
During the main page redesign process, a great deal of discussion occurred regarding this statement's wording. It was decided that references to the "English version" (and similar phrases) should be avoided. Such a term can imply that a single collection of articles has been (or is being) translated into multiple languages (an "English version," a "German version," et cetera).
It also was pointed out that the use of "English" in this context can be misinterpreted to mean "of or pertaining to England."
For these two reasons, the statement in the Wikipedia languages section refers to "the English language Wikipedia." — David Levy 15:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Abdul Rahman is no longer threatened with execution for converting to Christianity. The News entry should be updated to reflect this. PeteVerdon 17:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
"Nigeria agrees to release former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to face war crime charges in Sierra Leone." - front page news info
"On March 25, 2006, Nigeria agreed to extradite Taylor to face war crimes charges in Liberia." - article introduction.
Which is the correct information? The front page and the article have conflicting information. Bsd987 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
It's been said a couple of times already in sections marked "heading font", but there's been no response so far. The newly styled H2 elements in the new page layout are among the only page elements that can't be overridden in a user style. That's because they have hardcoded CSS markup rather than being individually named CSS IDs whose markup is defined in monobook.css. This is a serious problem that should be taken care of right away (actually, it should have been taken care of before the new page layout was implemented). -- Yath 20:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
This is related to the request for a complete code cleanup that is needed here. -- Quiddity 22:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
How do people get their own wiki? Cheesia
Please see Talk:North Berwick Harbour for why this is almost certainly an inaccurate statement. Could an administrator please alter it while it's in dispute. Thanks. Anne 15:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Furthermore, it's worth noting that this is another example of how scholarly standards are sometimes not very rigorously applied at Wikipedia. The author of the article made a leap from his source in asserting that "Pagan lore holds that on Halloween 1590, Satan himself attended a coven on the Auld Kirk Green", and then whoever wrote that DYK section made a further very odd leap in asserting that Satan "worshipped" there. Who would Satan have been worshipping?! Anne 15:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
A thought: 3/27/06 J16:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)~~W
I have a suggestion:
Perhaps you could add some type of feature that would come up with a list if an incorrectly spelled word is typed into your search.
For example, if I type in "hohobo oil", the search comes back "no results found".
If you added a line where the user could add that to a list of "commonly misspelled/mistyped words/phrases, then then the user could link that misspelled word/phrase to the correct word/phrase after they revised their search.
So, to continue my example, after figuring out that the correct spelling is "jojoba oil", I could add or "link" "hohobo oil" to jojoba oil, so then if someone else ever does a search for jojoba oil but spells/types it as hohobo oil, a page will come up asking "is this what you were looking for?" with the correct spelling.
I would be willing to help in any way possible!
I think that, if done effectively, this would increase the ease of use and broaden the audience of users, basically, make it simpler and easier to find something on Wikipedia!
Avid User
"Abdul Rahman, a Christian in Afghanistan, is acquitted of apostasy from Islam, sparing him from a possible death sentence." This is not true. He was not acquitted at all; his case was "returned to prosecuters" as inadequately prepared (which isn't even "case dismissed"). He remains in custody and could be subject to a second trial. All of these terms have specific meanings ("acquitted" for example means "affirmatively found to be innocent or not guilty [or not proven guilty, in some legal systems] by a jury, judge or tribunal".) —This unsigned comment was added by Smccandlish ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC).
Why does the main page feature an article about frogs, while the image is a toad? See toad for the image. —This unsigned comment was added by 134.58.253.131 ( talk • contribs) 18:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC).
shouldn't the featured article be protected? its being attacked by vandals currently
"...that the Westfield Brandon is one of only five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group?"
5 shopping malls seems quite alot, and doesnt warrent the word 'only' (in my opinion). how about removiving it? Dave 20:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't know about where you live, but in the U.S. cities have multiple malls, so since Florida is the 4th (I think) most populated state in the U.S. five shopping malls isn't really that much. Tennis Dynamite 21:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Since the redesign came into effect, it seems like there's been a lot of tweaking here and there of the Main Page design, especially in the last week. Despite the community having reached a consensus, the page looks fairly different to what everyone voted on (see the difference). Okay, I realise it's not radical. I also realise that WP is not a democracy, and that any new redesign takes a while to settle in. But I do feel like there needs to be a level of consistency, especially now we're in the Alexa top 20. The main page is being seen by millions of people daily, and it looks almost amateurish when the name of the website flicks between being bold and unbold, text appears and disappears, etc.
Basically, what I'm asking is: when can we expect the main page to settle on one style that everyone is happy with? Nuge( talk) 23:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Please change the wording of this item to "...Native American, believed to be Cherokee chief Oconostota, holding a skull?" to make it clear that Oconostota isn't the skull. Gazpacho 02:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
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This featured article link is either not working or someone (or a technical bug) has deleted the article entirely - the FA link leads to a deleted page. Bwithh 00:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The "Olympia" in USS Olympia should be in italics as the name of a ship according to the Manual of Style. Could someone fix this? Dismas| (talk) 00:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
This is not exactly about the main page, but it is about {{ browsebar}} which is intimately related to the question of usability of Wikipedia. I would appreciate comments on the discussion I started at Template talk:Browsebar#Is this bar useful?. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 16:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Categories · Glossaries · Lists · Overviews · Portals · Questions · Reference · Site news · A-Z Index
Arts | Biography | Culture | Geography | History | Mathematics | Philosophy | Science | Society | [[Portal:Technology|That is, discussion is underway to remove links from the above bar, as well as remove the bar itself from many of its current locations. We need lots of feedback on this issue, to make sure we aren't about to remove something that gets a lot of use. What we really need to know, is: do you ever use the above browsebar? And if so, how often do you use it and what do you use it for? Please CLICK HERE to tell us. -- Go for it! 23:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Perth is not the "only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district." Burke Lakefront Airport is in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. You've got to be careful with words like "only." -- Mwalcoff 02:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Not to mention London City Airport, tiny STOL-airport, but still served 2M people in one of europe's most important financial districts... Andreala 03:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Perth airport is not in the CBD. Depending on traffic, it could take 20-30 minutes or more to get from the airport to the city. Okay, so it's a lot nearer than Heathrow to London's CBD, but don't expect to walk from the plane and onto St George's Terrace!
Tram should probably be linked, eh?
Also, this page is huge, is it going to be archived? Ziggur 04:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Currently, the Main Page says "that /.../ Department of /.../ was the first /.../ departartment in the world". Could someone fix the departartment, please? -- Oop 07:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The pic of the day looks good enough to eat, even if they are "actually false berries".
-- TecBrat 00:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I've been told that the current projects link in the Sister Projects section is to an out-of date page. Is there any way to find out whether the Wikimedia Foundation plan to update that page anytime soon? Is there a better link to use in the meantime? Carcharoth 08:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
ITN says "basque flag pictured", but flag of Iraq appears.
Since when did Uncyclopedia give Wikipedia permission to blatantly steal the main page design? I better have a good explanation for this... -- Lugiatm ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Seems that the before the after original request was archived, so I'll mention it again: some of the headers on the new main page seem to have Arial and Helvetica hardcoded as font. I prefer browsing Wikipedia in Verdana because I find it much more legible (mainly due to its large x-height and punch size which seem to really benefit its screen readability). Could these hardcoded fonts please be set to "sans-serif" instead so that I can choose the font in my browser? -- Michiel Sikma 22:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Nice New look. ( Hpetwe 01:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC))
Hi can you all, anyone that reads this add xx_boy_crazy_xx@hotmail.com please? thank you
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Then why can't anyone edit the Main Page? -- Zondor 03:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Canberra is unusual amongst Australian capital cities... How many Australian capital cities are there? I think it should just say Australian cities? ::Supergolden:: 10:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Couple of questions; why is the article called "King James I of England," when James was a Scot, born in Scotland, and King in official capacity of Scotland well before England? Secondly I don't really think it should be, "The first British Monarch ..." As the concept of Britain, and a permanent union of the crowns isn't until 1707. Isn't it far more accurate to say that Queen Anne is in fact the first "British" Monarch?
I would suggest instead, "King James VI of Scotland becomes King of England, and Ireland, unifiying the crowns of the Three Kingdoms for the first time." Or something to that effect.
Kaenei 10:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
How was "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" removed from the Main Page? Not that I want it there, but just wondering how. -- WB 13:13, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Someone might want to update the Queen of the North headline in the news section. The ferry didn't hit a rock, apparently -- it hit an island. Buchanan-H e rmit™.. CONTRIBS.. SPEAK! 16:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Does he? To me that sounds like he's going to die. Like he's on death row. But according to all the sources it's not been decided yet. So he COULD die or not. I think this should be changed to something a little less ambiguous like..."Afghan citizen Abdul Rahman could potentially be executed..." User:domfeargrieve User talk:domfeargrieve 19:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
(In the Jackson 5 section.) Should this be "phenomena"? PeteVerdon 00:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone else think that it would be better to use a circular version of this logo (with the left and right segments removed) in the sister projects section? Each image is limited to a width of 35 pixels (with the heights varying greatly), and this causes the current version to be so small that it's virtually unrecognizable at higher resolutions. The actual Wikinews site uses just such a variant as their favicon.ico file (the icon that appears in the address bar) for the same reason, so this is far from unprecedented. — David Levy 01:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
It says it operated a missile defense and training, while the article only says training and U-boat defense, and I seriously question whether there was missile defence research done during WWI. say1988 01:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. The only missiles available during WW-I were of the Monty Python variety. Of course, there were bombards and the like. My big question is how to find the full article that this little talking point on the main page seems to make reference to. I would rather correct the underlying article (for example: Seacliff Missile Defence) than the main page.
I know it's the weekend, and I know Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors, but is it really such a good idea from a PR standpoint to have a boldface four-letter word on the main page? (granted, below the scroll line, but still ...) Daniel Case 03:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Crocodile attacks says: "The Saltwater and Nile Crocodiles are the most dangerous, killing hundreds of people each year in parts of South-East Asia and Africa... Since 1990, at least a dozen people from western countries have been killed by crocodiles"
The DYK shortens it to: "a dozen people have been killed by crocodiles in the last decade".
Excellent summary. Arvindn 03:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The DYK text was an accurate summary of the article until a few hours ago, when User:Stbalbach added that hundred of people in Africa and Asia were killed by crocodiles each year. That is unsourced, although I have no reason to doubt it. I don't want to add an unsourced factoid to the front page, so I'll just remove the crocodile DYK entirely.- gadfium 05:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Re Jackson 5, the plural of "phenomenon" should not be "phenomenons", right? Even if it's a quotation, it makes us look illiterate. Kosebamse 10:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The very article of Annunciation talks about the eastern equivalent of Theotokos and the equivalent "celebration" of 25 march -- 161.76.99.106 11:49, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Encyclopedia is the American English word where as encyclopaedia is the eglish word, Why does wikipedia spell it in the American way when this is the English encyclopaedia not the American English.-- Matthew Fenton 12:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
the bird sings in the tall oak tree and takes one from me tall oak tree tall oak tree takes one for me.
It should read "The Jackson Five was" not "The Jackson 5 were." The Jackson 5 is the collective, singular name of the group (a group is one entity) and the verb "were" does not properly follow. If you look at the article, it uses the "was" and it makes much more sense gramatically. Please change "were" to "was" in the first sentence, and wherever else necessary. - Paulus89 13:32, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I notice that Belarusian presidential election just fell out of the news section. Things are happening there right now (Saturday) of much greater importance than, say, some ferry in British Columbia. Maybe it should come back up? Eixo 16:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
In the old page they were down the left hand side under Toolbox, but now they have disappeared. I cannot find any mention of this in the redesign proposal. How do I find links to other language editions? Do I have to guess the language domain name by trial and error??? Tamino 17:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
At present we have:
Although grammatically correct as a sentence, the punctuation looks funny in what is, after all, a title. It might look better if we omit the comma and period thus:
I realize that quite a lot of discussion went into the new look. I just find this punctuation a little jarring, somehow. ProhibitOnions 19:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Keep punctuation, per David Levy's comments. Carcharoth 00:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree to change it. I've noticed the inconsistent grammar before -- Joewithajay 11:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I guess another solution would be to make a sentence of the third line. I still like the old "we are working on" idea, so maybe "We are working on 6,857,740 articles in this English version." although that might be too long. The other suggestion I made above works nicely as a sentence too - "This English version has 6,857,740 articles.". Thoughts? BigBlueFish 14:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I thought that wikipedia was supposed to be an un-biased site. However, today's picture dealing with illegal drugs seems only to glorify them and does not mention any of the risks or dangers. I realize that the people who are pressing to legalize drugs have an opinion and want to spread their agenda, but the front page of wikipedia is not the place for it!!! Rmisiak 20:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The problem here seems to be that, although the picture is a featured picture, the article hashish is of a low standard, and has various tags slapped on it. Maybe the people doing picture of the day need to consider where they source the accompanying text from? Carcharoth 21:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't be concerned with harming an "impressionable readership", but concerned with censorship for something factual. People do claim they gain insights, true or not, it's often claimed. As a factual source, I see no reason why this information should be omitted. -- Joewithajay 11:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious why its considered fair use to use a screen shot of Charles Taylor here, when normally we're told in other articles you can't do that unless you're actually talking about the TV program. For instance, in an article which mentions the specific TV address, it could be fairuse to have a pic of that address. But the main page is talking about recent events, unconnected the the TV address (the picture description doesn't even give a date). I'm not really opposed to the image's use here, I'm just getting ever more confused by the inconsistency of fairuse rational. -- Rob 21:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The links in "Traffic for all Wikimedia sites: daily, monthly, yearly" no longer work because they now always return with "The connection has timed out: The server at noc.wikimedia.org is taking too long to respond.". Can a friendly admin either fix these links, or remove them please?
(OK, this isn't about the Main Page per se, but Special:Statistics has no talk page, and it's linked very prominently from the top of the Main Page, so I thought this was as good a place as any to mention the issue.) GeorgeStepanek\ talk 22:18, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The Abdul Rahman aricle section on the main page should actually mention that he is Christian. -- Shanedidona 23:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Today's POTD links to Arowana not Asian Arowana, the article that actually contains the image. Would an admin fix this? Thanks in advance. -- PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 00:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed this today, never really thought of it before, but why is there no previous or recently featured pictures. There are for featured articles, On this day, archives for did you know and links for the news block. It just seems weird to me that there sn't for the featured picture. Is there a reason this was never added? say1988
As the The 1707 Act of Union says, the 'Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN'. Today may be the anniversary of the passing of the act by one of parliaments, but it is not the anniversary of the union itself. Could someone please remove or amend this item. StockholmSyndrome 09:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I want to add my Name here please, SHIMOZ,B —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.218.194.97 ( talk • contribs)
During the main page redesign process, a great deal of discussion occurred regarding this statement's wording. It was decided that references to the "English version" (and similar phrases) should be avoided. Such a term can imply that a single collection of articles has been (or is being) translated into multiple languages (an "English version," a "German version," et cetera).
It also was pointed out that the use of "English" in this context can be misinterpreted to mean "of or pertaining to England."
For these two reasons, the statement in the Wikipedia languages section refers to "the English language Wikipedia." — David Levy 15:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Abdul Rahman is no longer threatened with execution for converting to Christianity. The News entry should be updated to reflect this. PeteVerdon 17:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
"Nigeria agrees to release former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to face war crime charges in Sierra Leone." - front page news info
"On March 25, 2006, Nigeria agreed to extradite Taylor to face war crimes charges in Liberia." - article introduction.
Which is the correct information? The front page and the article have conflicting information. Bsd987 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
It's been said a couple of times already in sections marked "heading font", but there's been no response so far. The newly styled H2 elements in the new page layout are among the only page elements that can't be overridden in a user style. That's because they have hardcoded CSS markup rather than being individually named CSS IDs whose markup is defined in monobook.css. This is a serious problem that should be taken care of right away (actually, it should have been taken care of before the new page layout was implemented). -- Yath 20:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
This is related to the request for a complete code cleanup that is needed here. -- Quiddity 22:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
How do people get their own wiki? Cheesia
Please see Talk:North Berwick Harbour for why this is almost certainly an inaccurate statement. Could an administrator please alter it while it's in dispute. Thanks. Anne 15:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Furthermore, it's worth noting that this is another example of how scholarly standards are sometimes not very rigorously applied at Wikipedia. The author of the article made a leap from his source in asserting that "Pagan lore holds that on Halloween 1590, Satan himself attended a coven on the Auld Kirk Green", and then whoever wrote that DYK section made a further very odd leap in asserting that Satan "worshipped" there. Who would Satan have been worshipping?! Anne 15:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
A thought: 3/27/06 J16:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)~~W
I have a suggestion:
Perhaps you could add some type of feature that would come up with a list if an incorrectly spelled word is typed into your search.
For example, if I type in "hohobo oil", the search comes back "no results found".
If you added a line where the user could add that to a list of "commonly misspelled/mistyped words/phrases, then then the user could link that misspelled word/phrase to the correct word/phrase after they revised their search.
So, to continue my example, after figuring out that the correct spelling is "jojoba oil", I could add or "link" "hohobo oil" to jojoba oil, so then if someone else ever does a search for jojoba oil but spells/types it as hohobo oil, a page will come up asking "is this what you were looking for?" with the correct spelling.
I would be willing to help in any way possible!
I think that, if done effectively, this would increase the ease of use and broaden the audience of users, basically, make it simpler and easier to find something on Wikipedia!
Avid User
"Abdul Rahman, a Christian in Afghanistan, is acquitted of apostasy from Islam, sparing him from a possible death sentence." This is not true. He was not acquitted at all; his case was "returned to prosecuters" as inadequately prepared (which isn't even "case dismissed"). He remains in custody and could be subject to a second trial. All of these terms have specific meanings ("acquitted" for example means "affirmatively found to be innocent or not guilty [or not proven guilty, in some legal systems] by a jury, judge or tribunal".) —This unsigned comment was added by Smccandlish ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC).
Why does the main page feature an article about frogs, while the image is a toad? See toad for the image. —This unsigned comment was added by 134.58.253.131 ( talk • contribs) 18:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC).
shouldn't the featured article be protected? its being attacked by vandals currently
"...that the Westfield Brandon is one of only five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group?"
5 shopping malls seems quite alot, and doesnt warrent the word 'only' (in my opinion). how about removiving it? Dave 20:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't know about where you live, but in the U.S. cities have multiple malls, so since Florida is the 4th (I think) most populated state in the U.S. five shopping malls isn't really that much. Tennis Dynamite 21:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Since the redesign came into effect, it seems like there's been a lot of tweaking here and there of the Main Page design, especially in the last week. Despite the community having reached a consensus, the page looks fairly different to what everyone voted on (see the difference). Okay, I realise it's not radical. I also realise that WP is not a democracy, and that any new redesign takes a while to settle in. But I do feel like there needs to be a level of consistency, especially now we're in the Alexa top 20. The main page is being seen by millions of people daily, and it looks almost amateurish when the name of the website flicks between being bold and unbold, text appears and disappears, etc.
Basically, what I'm asking is: when can we expect the main page to settle on one style that everyone is happy with? Nuge( talk) 23:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Please change the wording of this item to "...Native American, believed to be Cherokee chief Oconostota, holding a skull?" to make it clear that Oconostota isn't the skull. Gazpacho 02:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)