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This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
The WIkipedia language section in the Main page does not mention about the language telugu though it features more than 46 000 articles, the highest in Indian languages. Please add this language in the main page under the category "More than 20 000" articles.
To add to the above, the section "languages" on the left side of the main page (Vertical section)does not feature "Telugu" though it has the larget number of featured articles in any Indian Language.
06:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)PVK Vijaykumarpvk ( talk) 06:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)PVK
What does "depth" mean in this context? Jackiespeel ( talk) 16:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks - one of those occasions when the meaning is 'not the obvious one' Jackiespeel ( talk) 14:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Really you got to be callin folks idiots? I thought this was a professional forum. Cork is what you put in a bottle(or your kisser to stop it from yammering) well known to the English as any school kid can tell you it.
It happened near Ireland but it says British Isles. Explain! Cork is not in Britain! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.203.12.240 ( talk) 18:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
(unindent) The article doesn't use biggest spill in Ireland for xx years as the only sources I have found have used biggest spillage in the British Isles since Sea Empress at Milford Haven in 1996 (although some say 1999 with Sea Empress which is clearly wrong). If someone can find a reliable source with the years since the last big Irish spill then that would be fine. However the Irish Coast Guard has said that the spill is likely to wash up in Wales as well so that makes it international. I have no real opinion on which wording is better although "Great Britain and Ireland" made the tagline feel overly cumbersome (at least to me) - Dumelow ( talk) 22:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Well as the spill occured off the coast of Ireland I think Ireland sould be first. Why should Britain come first? It does not make sense-- SWOO ( talk) 10:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
If everyone is going to kick up a fuss to the point we use inaccurate and clumsy terms, can we not just find a better story to go in there? What happens if a bit of the oil hits the Isle of Mann? Or somehow the Channel Islands? The story would get a increasingly long just to avoid using the term wikipedia itself uses for the island chain. No, if people really find it so offensive, we are best off removing the news piece and just not having any stories that affect UK and Ireland in future. If they can't play nice with the toys, they go back in the box. -- Narson ~ Talk • 10:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand why the country most affected by the incident is again listed after the country second-most affected. Qqqqqq ( talk) 12:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The simple solution is to say Ireland (or Eire) as the coast off Cork is too far away from GB to justify a mention. Darrenhusted ( talk) 12:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
"Great Britain and Ireland" is right. 2 Reasons.
The top story, about the stimulus package being signed, should say "pictured" after Barack Obama, and not after "into law", because it's not the stimulus package that's pictured, but the President.— Godheval T C W 18:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Since the picture is of him signing it, can't (pictured) go after the word signs? Dark verdant ( talk) 11:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
File:Ger Inf Russia 1941 HDSN9902655.JPEG, currently used on the main page, has been nominated for deletion on Commons. I leave this to someone else to deal with, if anything needs doing, as I am going to sleep. J Milburn ( talk) 01:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
What is this mobile wikipedia banner, how does it work, and what is mobile wikipedia?-- Ipatrol ( talk) 02:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a query. Is the appearance of Charles Darwin in every section of today's Main Page except "In The News" intentional? -- saberwyn 00:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey - this'll start a bunfight. It could be argued that in the grand scheme of things, Darwin is way more important - his discoveries have a worldwide importance and effect, while ol Abe really only affected the US. 86.155.202.152 ( talk) 13:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Really? I think Darwin was weird, but everyone always thinks he believed in macro-evolution when he believed in micro-evolution, in fact he tried to disprove macro-evolution toward the end of his life! BennyK95
As a suggestion to this Lincoln vs. Darwin fight, a seperate Wikipedia for the United States should be created. I mean, I think it's just the opinions of two seperate hemispheres in which fight over who should've been the star of the main page.
Darwin is probably unknown to half the American population, but a star in the UK, and he contributed much in a world-wide sense. Lincoln, on the other hand, is probably known by almost all the American population, but by only 3% of the British population, yet he was a major factor in which helped America to come out of its turtleshell, thus to burst out onto the international scene; then, who actually truly did contribute more? Why couldn't multiple anniversaries be featured? Just wondering ...
Il
Studioso 07:17, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Could someone change 'Devon' to help non-natives of England? 82.24.160.83 ( talk) 02:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
I have a suggestion for tommorows featured article, it should be the pirate bay trial, after all it is an important current event.
Me three-- 76.126.99.143 ( talk) 12:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Since the featured article is on a highly visible area of Wikipedia, I suggest that all future featured articles should be automatically semi-protected to combat IP vandalism on these highly informative articles. If one would look at the history tab of the current featured article, there is a massive amount of IP vandalism. This should reduce vandalism on future featured articles. -- Vinni3 ( talk) 21:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
The title page claims Marx and Engels were "theorists". In what sense? Communism isn't a scientific theory in any sense of the word since any specific predictions it makes have been largely falsified and any predictions it makes that haven't been falisfied are vague and ambiguous. Among economists not controlled by communist governments it has been a dead model of economic behavior for several decades now, so shouldn't it read more like proponents or philosophers of communism? 24.8.102.238 ( talk) 19:54, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
I am somewhat puzzled as to why some Greek-Americans have their names written in Greek. Is this what wikipedia does with German-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Russian Americans, etc? Kostantino888Z ( talk) 04:31, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Wow, one of my favorite bands is today's FA. Way to go Wikipedia! :) AmiDaniel ( talk) 04:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys lets right a code to enable sharing wiki pages easily in social networks. Encyclopedia , youtube and newspapers do it.
Why shouldn't the Wiki do it ??! It will implement it eventually . Let's do it know. Please bare my ignorance , if this is not the place to discuss this issue, tell me where to go. ( Borhan0 ( talk) 06:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC))
In the news
Tamil Tigers launch a kamikaze-style suicide attack on Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing two people and injuring over 50 more.
2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo
Might it be a good idea to make sure there are no links to possibly non-neutral articles on the main page? It could seem like someone with permission to edit the main page has a definite bias here. 213.48.46.141 ( talk) 15:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Is it by chance or someone's playing too much Quake? -- AaThinker ( talk) 21:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
The total number of FAs, GAs, and FLs recently passed 10,000! See WP:GA. Should this accomplishment be listed on the main page? If not, the number of WP:FAs is getting close to 2,500, which is a good milestone to celebrate! Reywas92 Talk 19:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
There are a few obvious display problems on the mobile version of the Main Page. I just fixed one of them in the "Other areas" section, but I'm not sure what's going on with the bar in between the left and right columns. Any ideas? --- RockMFR 20:32, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
There is a mention of early 20th-century battleships in ITN, DYK, and the featured article is about an early 20th-century battleship! The wikipedia community exhibits a clear pro-early-20th-century-battleship bias which gives a visitor to the main page the idea that early 20th-century battleships had a disproportionate influence on human knowledge. Please try to think of other things more important to humanity to put on a pedestal on the main page. Antimatter-- talk-- 01:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
There are reasons for this. A) WP:TFA, WP:DYK and WP:ITN are all separate entities. B) The 22nd was the anniversary of the return of the Great White Fleet, of which Connecticut was the flagship. C) Minas Gerais was nominated at DYK eight days ago; blame coincidence. Same with Haruna. D) A wreck of a somewhat important ship was found; blame the discoverers, not ITN. :) Last reason: E) above all, blame pure coincidence. — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 22:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
as per Talk:Main_Page/Archive_132#More_ITN_picture_silliness
are we implementing an indicator ? if so which one ? i think (P) or something similar
Machete97 ( talk) 13:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Assistance requested at Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates. A President just has been assassinated and there is an ongoing coup d'etat... -- Candlewicke S T # :) 10:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Put more pictures on the first page please. -Jeremy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.144.167 ( talk) 20:07, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Why, on main page's language list, the Simple English Wikipedia is on the top? -- Fixman Praise me 00:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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Per headline; "more..." at the bottom of the FA should link to Hurricane Linda (1997) not Hurricane Linda.
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-- Rogerb67 ( talk) 11:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Suppose a bank expects to raise ¥250 million in new deposits by offering it depositors an interest rate of 7% (including demand deposits from firms total 75%, and demand deposits from individuals total 25%, and the following estimates have the same proportions). Management estimates that if the bank offers a 7.5% interest rate, it can raise ¥500 million in new deposit money. At 8%, ¥750 million is expected to flow in, while a posted deposit rate of 8.5 percent will bring in a projected ¥1 billion. Finally, if the bank promises an estimated 9%, management projects that ¥1.25 billion in new funds will appear. Meanwhile, assume that new deposit money will bring a yield of 10%. Suppose that interest and non-interest costs spent to attract the demand deposits from firms total 5% of the amount of these deposits, while demand deposits from individuals cost the bank 10% of funds raised in interest and non-interest expenses. Suppose reserve requirements and uncollected balances reduce the amount of money actually available to the bank for investing in interest-bearing assets by 30% for demand deposits from firms, 20% for demand deposit from individuals. Given these facts, what deposit interest rate should the bank offer its customers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.166.50.40 ( talk) 14:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I had no idea, until I looked at In the News Feb. 25, that Emporer Hadrian wore glasses! Sca ( talk) 16:41, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder - is the video of the Gold-whiskered Barbet (today in DYK) the first one we've ever featured on the Main Page (outside the featured media section)?-- Eloquence * 02:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
(←) Nope. We also have .ogv §hep Talk 23:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
The picture of the day is stunning, but the article itself has in no way been developed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.192.200 ( talk) 09:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Fair point, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.192.200 ( talk) 10:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Props to whoever chose and thumbnailed the photo of Omar al-Bashir in the ITN section. The tiny thumbnail makes him look like he has glowing devil eyes. This made my day! 168.9.120.8 ( talk) 14:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I am a bit disturbed by having that item about North Korea's so-called elections on the Main Page in ITN. It is well and good that that section should have news about elections in various countries in the world besides the major English-speaking nations and Russia, France, Germany etc.; however in most of those cases there was some real difference of opinion being contested, even if there were questions about vote-rigging and political intimidation like in Zimbabwe. Those are newsworthy regardless of outcome.
However, when the entire population of a totalitarian state with one-party rule is dragooned to the polls to give a veneer of popular legitimacy to 687 uncontested names, who then join a body whose role is to rubber stamp decisions taken a long time ago, Wikipedia should not dignify it with the term "election". It was newsworthy for being postponed; nothing more. Daniel Case ( talk) 04:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Has anyone thought of having at the bottom of the link to the featured article a link to the category saying something like "Other topics in this field include XYZ" etc. Just a thought. Maybe we could try it. -- 84.45.219.185 ( talk) 10:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The part on "on this day" about a battle between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire there is a wikilink to Carthage, which is the city. you want to link to the Carthaginian Empire for the country.-- SelfQ ( talk) 18:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Can someone delete the white background for file:Kepler Space Telescope.jpg ? -- DFS454 ( talk) 17:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I know it's only going to be up for another hour, but can I say - mainly for future reference - that the layout of today's TFP section is horrible. The big bold link at the top gives undue precedence to itself, and the blue link in the corner of the picture is distracting (and not overly visually attractive). I would rathe ruse the {{ Panorama}} template, thumbnail the image to a small size, or simply show the detail with an attractive link to the main panorama. Just my 2p. Dendodge Talk Contribs 22:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Why are the top four stories about shootings, see [7]? Is this just a reflection of the times, that we highlight violence that exists, or are we downplaying financial, entertainment, and political news?
Why are Winnenden school shooting and 2009 Alabama spree killing listed under the same bullet in the news section of the Main Page? There doesn't appear to be any relation between the two incidents. -- 64.180.12.97 ( talk) 03:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Why is there no direct link to the Dunblane Massacre wikipedia page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.61.125 ( talk) 13:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
DUCK AND COVER - of people can't access this movie, without downloading something first. I thought it was just me, but from talking to my colleagues it's clear that none of us can run these movies on Wikipedia - although we use Wikipedia every day. Most of us access Wikipedia from work, where we are barred from downloading new applications onto our PCs. You are only annoying us by including video pieces that we can't run. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 10:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC) comments moved from Errors page -- Dweller ( talk) 10:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Dweller - to avoid timewasting dispute, I will accept your edit in moving my comment down here. However, with respect, I was drawing attention to a fundamental error in the mode of production of the picture, not commenting on its content. In effect, you have applied subjective judgment to what I said by denying that it is an error. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 11:07, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Privyet, Russian speakers. I dropped out of this discussion because I felt it had become a discussion between people reinforcing each other's prejudices. To follow my earlier analogy, a group of Russian speakers were reassuring each other that the Russian text was perfectly clear to anyone who took time to learn Russian or just get a translation. Nekulturny, I'm afraid.
Bazza and an earlier anonymous writer understand the real issue. The issue is NOT about whether there is a technical solution to see the videos. The issue is NOT how to teach people to get that technical solution. The issue is certainly NOT about blaming users who fail to get that solution.
The issue IS reality. The reality is that the majority of Wikipedia users do not have that technical solution available to them. The Duck and Cover piece on the Main Page was irritating to them, since it made no sense without seeing the video. They did not see the Picture of the Day. They did not even see a picture - only a meaningless gray blur.
There is little point in continuing a discussion about how and why they can't see the video. If the vast majority of people can't see a video, it is pointless to refer to it on the Main Page of Wikipedia. As Bazza says, including videos on the main page is, for most people, a waste of screen space. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 18:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
It should say Nicolas Sarkozy in the text, not Nicholas Sarkozy. SiameseTurtle ( talk) 00:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
The article has a much better top image now ( File:Lazare.JPG), with him and his medals. Would look much better on the main page. I would do it but I am not clear on the temporary uploading and protecting of the local copy of the image, it's normally done by a bot, presume I just manually do it, tag it with {{C-uploaded}} and protect it? Mfield ( talk) 18:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
What just happened to the picture? It had been this: ( File:Lazare.JPG), now it's this: ( File:LazarePonticelli.jpg). The new one looks terrible, it's low res, and it doesn't have the medals. Worse, it looks like the old one has been deleted even. What's the justification? Licensedlunacy ( talk) 19:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC) GAH! the actual page we're linking to used the ( File:Lazare.JPG), and so it's broken too. It doesn't look good in the slightest to have the featured article start with a big broken link to a picture. Licensedlunacy ( talk) 19:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" is (first and foremost) a painting by Rembrandt, please!
The artist is mentioned but only in small sized letters like an after-thought.
This is an inappropriate way to cite the author of the work which you at Wiki regard as one of the finest images on Wikipedia. The right way to describe this image is to state its name, then its author, then its date (if known), before any detailed discussion of its subject.
Amandajm ( talk) 08:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Bernard Madoff was taken away by aliens in a space ship after pleading guilty? Sorry I just had to... Normally the misalignment complaints are so boring but this one was actually funny (at least to me). And incidentally in case it isn't obvious I'm not actually complaining since if anything it's a good thing :-) Nil Einne ( talk) 16:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Are we suggesting that swallows migrate? Daniel Case ( talk) 02:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a widescreen monitor. It is difficult to read text when the sentences are spread so wide. Is it possible for Wikipedia to have a two-column (or multicolumn) text for better readability? 117.199.18.225 ( talk) 04:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 130 | Archive 131 | Archive 132 | Archive 133 | Archive 134 | Archive 135 | → | Archive 140 |
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
The WIkipedia language section in the Main page does not mention about the language telugu though it features more than 46 000 articles, the highest in Indian languages. Please add this language in the main page under the category "More than 20 000" articles.
To add to the above, the section "languages" on the left side of the main page (Vertical section)does not feature "Telugu" though it has the larget number of featured articles in any Indian Language.
06:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)PVK Vijaykumarpvk ( talk) 06:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)PVK
What does "depth" mean in this context? Jackiespeel ( talk) 16:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks - one of those occasions when the meaning is 'not the obvious one' Jackiespeel ( talk) 14:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Really you got to be callin folks idiots? I thought this was a professional forum. Cork is what you put in a bottle(or your kisser to stop it from yammering) well known to the English as any school kid can tell you it.
It happened near Ireland but it says British Isles. Explain! Cork is not in Britain! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.203.12.240 ( talk) 18:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
(unindent) The article doesn't use biggest spill in Ireland for xx years as the only sources I have found have used biggest spillage in the British Isles since Sea Empress at Milford Haven in 1996 (although some say 1999 with Sea Empress which is clearly wrong). If someone can find a reliable source with the years since the last big Irish spill then that would be fine. However the Irish Coast Guard has said that the spill is likely to wash up in Wales as well so that makes it international. I have no real opinion on which wording is better although "Great Britain and Ireland" made the tagline feel overly cumbersome (at least to me) - Dumelow ( talk) 22:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Well as the spill occured off the coast of Ireland I think Ireland sould be first. Why should Britain come first? It does not make sense-- SWOO ( talk) 10:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
If everyone is going to kick up a fuss to the point we use inaccurate and clumsy terms, can we not just find a better story to go in there? What happens if a bit of the oil hits the Isle of Mann? Or somehow the Channel Islands? The story would get a increasingly long just to avoid using the term wikipedia itself uses for the island chain. No, if people really find it so offensive, we are best off removing the news piece and just not having any stories that affect UK and Ireland in future. If they can't play nice with the toys, they go back in the box. -- Narson ~ Talk • 10:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand why the country most affected by the incident is again listed after the country second-most affected. Qqqqqq ( talk) 12:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The simple solution is to say Ireland (or Eire) as the coast off Cork is too far away from GB to justify a mention. Darrenhusted ( talk) 12:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
"Great Britain and Ireland" is right. 2 Reasons.
The top story, about the stimulus package being signed, should say "pictured" after Barack Obama, and not after "into law", because it's not the stimulus package that's pictured, but the President.— Godheval T C W 18:39, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Since the picture is of him signing it, can't (pictured) go after the word signs? Dark verdant ( talk) 11:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
File:Ger Inf Russia 1941 HDSN9902655.JPEG, currently used on the main page, has been nominated for deletion on Commons. I leave this to someone else to deal with, if anything needs doing, as I am going to sleep. J Milburn ( talk) 01:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
What is this mobile wikipedia banner, how does it work, and what is mobile wikipedia?-- Ipatrol ( talk) 02:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a query. Is the appearance of Charles Darwin in every section of today's Main Page except "In The News" intentional? -- saberwyn 00:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey - this'll start a bunfight. It could be argued that in the grand scheme of things, Darwin is way more important - his discoveries have a worldwide importance and effect, while ol Abe really only affected the US. 86.155.202.152 ( talk) 13:34, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Really? I think Darwin was weird, but everyone always thinks he believed in macro-evolution when he believed in micro-evolution, in fact he tried to disprove macro-evolution toward the end of his life! BennyK95
As a suggestion to this Lincoln vs. Darwin fight, a seperate Wikipedia for the United States should be created. I mean, I think it's just the opinions of two seperate hemispheres in which fight over who should've been the star of the main page.
Darwin is probably unknown to half the American population, but a star in the UK, and he contributed much in a world-wide sense. Lincoln, on the other hand, is probably known by almost all the American population, but by only 3% of the British population, yet he was a major factor in which helped America to come out of its turtleshell, thus to burst out onto the international scene; then, who actually truly did contribute more? Why couldn't multiple anniversaries be featured? Just wondering ...
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Studioso 07:17, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Could someone change 'Devon' to help non-natives of England? 82.24.160.83 ( talk) 02:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
I have a suggestion for tommorows featured article, it should be the pirate bay trial, after all it is an important current event.
Me three-- 76.126.99.143 ( talk) 12:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Since the featured article is on a highly visible area of Wikipedia, I suggest that all future featured articles should be automatically semi-protected to combat IP vandalism on these highly informative articles. If one would look at the history tab of the current featured article, there is a massive amount of IP vandalism. This should reduce vandalism on future featured articles. -- Vinni3 ( talk) 21:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
The title page claims Marx and Engels were "theorists". In what sense? Communism isn't a scientific theory in any sense of the word since any specific predictions it makes have been largely falsified and any predictions it makes that haven't been falisfied are vague and ambiguous. Among economists not controlled by communist governments it has been a dead model of economic behavior for several decades now, so shouldn't it read more like proponents or philosophers of communism? 24.8.102.238 ( talk) 19:54, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
I am somewhat puzzled as to why some Greek-Americans have their names written in Greek. Is this what wikipedia does with German-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Russian Americans, etc? Kostantino888Z ( talk) 04:31, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Wow, one of my favorite bands is today's FA. Way to go Wikipedia! :) AmiDaniel ( talk) 04:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys lets right a code to enable sharing wiki pages easily in social networks. Encyclopedia , youtube and newspapers do it.
Why shouldn't the Wiki do it ??! It will implement it eventually . Let's do it know. Please bare my ignorance , if this is not the place to discuss this issue, tell me where to go. ( Borhan0 ( talk) 06:43, 24 February 2009 (UTC))
In the news
Tamil Tigers launch a kamikaze-style suicide attack on Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing two people and injuring over 50 more.
2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo
Might it be a good idea to make sure there are no links to possibly non-neutral articles on the main page? It could seem like someone with permission to edit the main page has a definite bias here. 213.48.46.141 ( talk) 15:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Is it by chance or someone's playing too much Quake? -- AaThinker ( talk) 21:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
The total number of FAs, GAs, and FLs recently passed 10,000! See WP:GA. Should this accomplishment be listed on the main page? If not, the number of WP:FAs is getting close to 2,500, which is a good milestone to celebrate! Reywas92 Talk 19:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
There are a few obvious display problems on the mobile version of the Main Page. I just fixed one of them in the "Other areas" section, but I'm not sure what's going on with the bar in between the left and right columns. Any ideas? --- RockMFR 20:32, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
There is a mention of early 20th-century battleships in ITN, DYK, and the featured article is about an early 20th-century battleship! The wikipedia community exhibits a clear pro-early-20th-century-battleship bias which gives a visitor to the main page the idea that early 20th-century battleships had a disproportionate influence on human knowledge. Please try to think of other things more important to humanity to put on a pedestal on the main page. Antimatter-- talk-- 01:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
There are reasons for this. A) WP:TFA, WP:DYK and WP:ITN are all separate entities. B) The 22nd was the anniversary of the return of the Great White Fleet, of which Connecticut was the flagship. C) Minas Gerais was nominated at DYK eight days ago; blame coincidence. Same with Haruna. D) A wreck of a somewhat important ship was found; blame the discoverers, not ITN. :) Last reason: E) above all, blame pure coincidence. — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 22:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
as per Talk:Main_Page/Archive_132#More_ITN_picture_silliness
are we implementing an indicator ? if so which one ? i think (P) or something similar
Machete97 ( talk) 13:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Assistance requested at Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates. A President just has been assassinated and there is an ongoing coup d'etat... -- Candlewicke S T # :) 10:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Put more pictures on the first page please. -Jeremy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.144.167 ( talk) 20:07, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Why, on main page's language list, the Simple English Wikipedia is on the top? -- Fixman Praise me 00:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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-- Rogerb67 ( talk) 11:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Suppose a bank expects to raise ¥250 million in new deposits by offering it depositors an interest rate of 7% (including demand deposits from firms total 75%, and demand deposits from individuals total 25%, and the following estimates have the same proportions). Management estimates that if the bank offers a 7.5% interest rate, it can raise ¥500 million in new deposit money. At 8%, ¥750 million is expected to flow in, while a posted deposit rate of 8.5 percent will bring in a projected ¥1 billion. Finally, if the bank promises an estimated 9%, management projects that ¥1.25 billion in new funds will appear. Meanwhile, assume that new deposit money will bring a yield of 10%. Suppose that interest and non-interest costs spent to attract the demand deposits from firms total 5% of the amount of these deposits, while demand deposits from individuals cost the bank 10% of funds raised in interest and non-interest expenses. Suppose reserve requirements and uncollected balances reduce the amount of money actually available to the bank for investing in interest-bearing assets by 30% for demand deposits from firms, 20% for demand deposit from individuals. Given these facts, what deposit interest rate should the bank offer its customers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.166.50.40 ( talk) 14:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I had no idea, until I looked at In the News Feb. 25, that Emporer Hadrian wore glasses! Sca ( talk) 16:41, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder - is the video of the Gold-whiskered Barbet (today in DYK) the first one we've ever featured on the Main Page (outside the featured media section)?-- Eloquence * 02:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
(←) Nope. We also have .ogv §hep Talk 23:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
The picture of the day is stunning, but the article itself has in no way been developed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.192.200 ( talk) 09:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Fair point, thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.94.192.200 ( talk) 10:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Props to whoever chose and thumbnailed the photo of Omar al-Bashir in the ITN section. The tiny thumbnail makes him look like he has glowing devil eyes. This made my day! 168.9.120.8 ( talk) 14:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I am a bit disturbed by having that item about North Korea's so-called elections on the Main Page in ITN. It is well and good that that section should have news about elections in various countries in the world besides the major English-speaking nations and Russia, France, Germany etc.; however in most of those cases there was some real difference of opinion being contested, even if there were questions about vote-rigging and political intimidation like in Zimbabwe. Those are newsworthy regardless of outcome.
However, when the entire population of a totalitarian state with one-party rule is dragooned to the polls to give a veneer of popular legitimacy to 687 uncontested names, who then join a body whose role is to rubber stamp decisions taken a long time ago, Wikipedia should not dignify it with the term "election". It was newsworthy for being postponed; nothing more. Daniel Case ( talk) 04:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Has anyone thought of having at the bottom of the link to the featured article a link to the category saying something like "Other topics in this field include XYZ" etc. Just a thought. Maybe we could try it. -- 84.45.219.185 ( talk) 10:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The part on "on this day" about a battle between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire there is a wikilink to Carthage, which is the city. you want to link to the Carthaginian Empire for the country.-- SelfQ ( talk) 18:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Can someone delete the white background for file:Kepler Space Telescope.jpg ? -- DFS454 ( talk) 17:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I know it's only going to be up for another hour, but can I say - mainly for future reference - that the layout of today's TFP section is horrible. The big bold link at the top gives undue precedence to itself, and the blue link in the corner of the picture is distracting (and not overly visually attractive). I would rathe ruse the {{ Panorama}} template, thumbnail the image to a small size, or simply show the detail with an attractive link to the main panorama. Just my 2p. Dendodge Talk Contribs 22:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Why are the top four stories about shootings, see [7]? Is this just a reflection of the times, that we highlight violence that exists, or are we downplaying financial, entertainment, and political news?
Why are Winnenden school shooting and 2009 Alabama spree killing listed under the same bullet in the news section of the Main Page? There doesn't appear to be any relation between the two incidents. -- 64.180.12.97 ( talk) 03:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Why is there no direct link to the Dunblane Massacre wikipedia page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.61.125 ( talk) 13:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
DUCK AND COVER - of people can't access this movie, without downloading something first. I thought it was just me, but from talking to my colleagues it's clear that none of us can run these movies on Wikipedia - although we use Wikipedia every day. Most of us access Wikipedia from work, where we are barred from downloading new applications onto our PCs. You are only annoying us by including video pieces that we can't run. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 10:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC) comments moved from Errors page -- Dweller ( talk) 10:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Dweller - to avoid timewasting dispute, I will accept your edit in moving my comment down here. However, with respect, I was drawing attention to a fundamental error in the mode of production of the picture, not commenting on its content. In effect, you have applied subjective judgment to what I said by denying that it is an error. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 11:07, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Privyet, Russian speakers. I dropped out of this discussion because I felt it had become a discussion between people reinforcing each other's prejudices. To follow my earlier analogy, a group of Russian speakers were reassuring each other that the Russian text was perfectly clear to anyone who took time to learn Russian or just get a translation. Nekulturny, I'm afraid.
Bazza and an earlier anonymous writer understand the real issue. The issue is NOT about whether there is a technical solution to see the videos. The issue is NOT how to teach people to get that technical solution. The issue is certainly NOT about blaming users who fail to get that solution.
The issue IS reality. The reality is that the majority of Wikipedia users do not have that technical solution available to them. The Duck and Cover piece on the Main Page was irritating to them, since it made no sense without seeing the video. They did not see the Picture of the Day. They did not even see a picture - only a meaningless gray blur.
There is little point in continuing a discussion about how and why they can't see the video. If the vast majority of people can't see a video, it is pointless to refer to it on the Main Page of Wikipedia. As Bazza says, including videos on the main page is, for most people, a waste of screen space. Michael of Lucan ( talk) 18:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
It should say Nicolas Sarkozy in the text, not Nicholas Sarkozy. SiameseTurtle ( talk) 00:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
The article has a much better top image now ( File:Lazare.JPG), with him and his medals. Would look much better on the main page. I would do it but I am not clear on the temporary uploading and protecting of the local copy of the image, it's normally done by a bot, presume I just manually do it, tag it with {{C-uploaded}} and protect it? Mfield ( talk) 18:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
What just happened to the picture? It had been this: ( File:Lazare.JPG), now it's this: ( File:LazarePonticelli.jpg). The new one looks terrible, it's low res, and it doesn't have the medals. Worse, it looks like the old one has been deleted even. What's the justification? Licensedlunacy ( talk) 19:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC) GAH! the actual page we're linking to used the ( File:Lazare.JPG), and so it's broken too. It doesn't look good in the slightest to have the featured article start with a big broken link to a picture. Licensedlunacy ( talk) 19:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" is (first and foremost) a painting by Rembrandt, please!
The artist is mentioned but only in small sized letters like an after-thought.
This is an inappropriate way to cite the author of the work which you at Wiki regard as one of the finest images on Wikipedia. The right way to describe this image is to state its name, then its author, then its date (if known), before any detailed discussion of its subject.
Amandajm ( talk) 08:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Bernard Madoff was taken away by aliens in a space ship after pleading guilty? Sorry I just had to... Normally the misalignment complaints are so boring but this one was actually funny (at least to me). And incidentally in case it isn't obvious I'm not actually complaining since if anything it's a good thing :-) Nil Einne ( talk) 16:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Are we suggesting that swallows migrate? Daniel Case ( talk) 02:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
I have a widescreen monitor. It is difficult to read text when the sentences are spread so wide. Is it possible for Wikipedia to have a two-column (or multicolumn) text for better readability? 117.199.18.225 ( talk) 04:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)