Talk:Main Page/Archive 64

message: Why have all the clickable words become underlined?`It is very annoying I think!
Cyrruss 08:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Has it? When I first started using wikipedia they were underlined, but for the vast majority of the time the wikilinks aren't underlined at all.  -- Run!  14:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to vary day by day; it's some kind of quirk with Wikipedia's web code.  It'll go back to not-underlined soon. Redquark 15:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For me, it's underlined when I log in, but not underlined when I'm logged off.  Ocasionally, I will log on and it will remain not-underlined but since I'm so used to it being underlined I just log off, close the browser, occasionally clear all my history, and then restart the browser... that always gets it back to being underline while logged on.  I guess I'm the oddball here, but I prefer it underlined (I'm just used to it is all). -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 17:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underlined links 

message: ten German nuclear scientists were detained and secretly microphoned at a house in England
How does one "microphone" someone?  Were these scientists secretly struck about the head with a large foam-covered microphone?  "Microphone" is a noun not a verb... and I doubt it can even exist as "microphoned".  Thankfully the above text does not appear to be present in the body of the article... it is surprising to see it on the main page.
:I've changed: "secretly microphoned" -> "wiretapped". - UtherSRG (talk) 11:08, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the current features of the English language is that you can verb any noun, as in she birthed the baby. I first noted this tendency about 1990. Oh, wait, I just remembered the phrase married and babied, about 1975-80. --Ancheta Wis 01:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The NFL (National Football League) uses the term "Mic'ed up" to refer to a player or coach wearing a microphone during a (American Football, not Soccer) football game.  So, there is precedence for the use of a form of "microphone" as a verb. In our (American English) vernacular any noun can be verbed as this editor and a previous just did to "verb".  As for Secretly "Microphoning" someone, we might say "Bugged" instead. (This editor knows nothing of the Operation Epsilon topic, but stumbled upon this Talk Page.
--TecBrat 22:56, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Epsilon 

message: Something which has been bugging me ever since I've first seen the main page: isnt it possible to list the article with the picture next to the picture. Its mighty confusing, even for regular users (I still find myself occasionally surprised, and then remind myself of the fact that its not necessarily adjacent). The fact that its a recurring complaint by anons (meaning simple readers) means that its confusing to a larger audience as well. 
Should be hard to implement methinks?
Cheers, The Minister of War (Peace) 11:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean the "In the news" and "On this day" sections? I agree. Carcharoth 12:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Why is today's featured article "The New England Patriots," when today is:
1) Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball's 30 teams; and 2) The day that the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship will be decided.
I am a diehard Patriots fan, but this seems kind of silly, especially since the Patriots did not even play in the most recent Super Bowl.  I would rather have seen the Boston Red Sox as today's feature, or maybe even the Boston Marathon, which will be run two weeks from today on April 17.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.204.134.1 (talk • contribs) 
:The daily featured articles are normally not chosen to reflect specific dates or events and the fact that the Patriots were featured today is almost certainly a coincidence.  The date an article is chosen to be featured is either requested by a user, or chosen randomly by our Featured Article director a few days before the actual date.  Usually, the only deciding factor other than a request by a user is how many days have passed since this specific category (in this case, Sports) has been featured as long as a related topic isn't already on the mainpage (such as Flag of Mexico being featured on the day Mexico holds national elections); exceptions may occur.  Also, featured articles must meet a certain quality and standard before they can be called featured and thus be eligible to become today's featured article.  Neither Boston Red Sox nor the Boston Marathon has yet achieved this title, so they can not be featured on the main page until they do.  They only baseball related featured article is baseball itself, and this article has been previously featured (and thus cannot be featured again for some time); even so, featuring a baseball related article would probably coincide with baseball being in the news or a big topic and thus violates the previous policy.  That's basically the gist of it, though there are many other variables involved I'm sure. -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 15:35, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone get a better picture of the Patriots? The current one may look good in normal size but when smaller it looks like a bunch of world leaders meeting for some economic summit somewhere (Davos?). --One Salient Oversight 00:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New England Patriots at TFA? 

message: I feel that the bolding of the title and slogan looks very childish and over-the-top. It looks a bit like a persons first go at programming HTML, using all of the ways of formatting text as he can. What do other people think? --Celestianpower háblame 14:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I think the same applies to the italics as well.  With the links in those lines, it looks very messy indeed.  Sam Korn (smoddy) 14:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, sorry. I forgot to remove those when I was editing. --Celestianpower háblame 15:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree that the text looks better (and more professional) without the bolding, and the italicized second line was even worse.  ("Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." is one sentence, so it's illogical to use inconsistent styling.)  —David Levy 15:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Personally, I liked the bolding. It made the title stand out more. -EdGl 20:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bolding 

message: "that the Autumn of Nations, which begun in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War?" - Kind of anal, but it should read "began" rather than "begun" -Elmer Clark 22:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  —David Levy 22:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar error at DYK

message: The first sentence of today's featured article has incorrect grammar.  It reads "The history of Limerick, the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland and a major cultural and industrial centre, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on "King's Island" (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and received its charter in 1197."  Stripping out adjectives, appositives, and such this becomes "The history of Limerick stretches back to its establishment and received its charter in 1197."  The easiest fix would be just to remove the word "received," though that's still sylistically sub-par. LWizard @ 00:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, thanks. —Spangineer[es] (háblame) 02:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar error (a different one) at TFA

message: The In the News section states: 
:"A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) guilty for the deaths in the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui's trial now enters the death penalty phase, where he may be sentenced to execution."
That seems like quite an exaggeration. It sounds as though Moussaoui is responsible for the deaths of all those who were killed on 9|11. In addition, the part about the death penalty phase to me sounds a bit redundant. Clearly, the death penalty phase involves execution. Perhaps it would be more accurate and concise to say...
:"A jury finds Zacarias Moussaoui (pictured) partially liable for the deaths in the September 11 attacks, making him eligible for the death penalty."
joturner 02:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zacarias Moussaoui In the News 

message: what timezone is the main page displaying? according to my watch, it is only the 3rd.Joeyramoney 02:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It displays UTC, which is currently on April 4. joturner 02:34, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  date? 

message: The opening of the 39th parliament has Governor-General....this is incorrect...there is no hyphen.  I realize it redirects but this should still be corrected.  KsprayDad 13:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Governor General at ITN

message: Um, it became extinct in 1930 because of Spanish missionaries? My knowledge of American history is imperfect, but hadn't California already been admitted to the union by then? Surely it therefore became extinct because no-one in the US made any attempt to preserve it..? AND- can someone explain to me what this means- "...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?". Maybe a bit more QC-ing for the main page could be in order. Badgerpatrol 15:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was a POV misreading of a source text. I changed the article text to a more NPOV handling, though it's too late for DYK. In any case the DYK articles are often written by one person (I should know, I hit it regularly!) and thus don't get much editorial input. But being featured in DYK gives editors a chance to find it more quickly. --Dhartung | Talk 22:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Mutsun language]] at DYK

message: I think "emergency" should link to the meaning of the term "Emergency," not "The Emergency." If they are talking about "The Emergency," They should say "...famine, and The Emergency." instead of "...famine, and emergency." Dragon Expert 15:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, leave it as is.  "The Emergency" is the name of the emergency that occurred in Ireland, so it's ok. —Spangineer[es] (háblame) 16:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  In this case, should "the" be shown ? Or even specifiy when ? --199.71.174.100 17:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong redirect at TFA? 

message: Recently, Esperanto Wikipedia decided to not uppercase anymore the surnames in people articles (e.g.: John LENNON). Please feel free to check if interwiki links to Esperanto Wikipedia are working good, since the most of the aforementioned pages are being moved to new title articles (e.g.: John Lennon). Mxcatania 16:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't Main Page related, it should probably be posted on the Village Pump. If you think about it, it makes more sense to go through the Esperanto Wikipedia's 40,000 articles for cognates in the English Wikipedia, because nearly 100% of your 40,000 articles will have them, whereas fewer than 4% of articles here will have Esperanto Wikipedia cognates. I'm not sure if this is something that could be done by a bot or perhaps some other wikipedia tool like AWB. --Dhartung | Talk 22:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Esperanto Wikipedia issue on surnames 

message: Sorry, but I don't know where to ask this. I looked through the FAQ's and everything! Anyway, I made a new article today that I'm very proud of. John Chain. I wanted to know if it could go on the main page in the Did You Know box? How do we do this sort of thing? Thanks! Sarah crane 18:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi :) Look up to the right. There's a link to suggest an entry. --Monotonehell 19:46, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did you know? 

message: It seems that the picture of the day's text is aligned to the vertical middle of its container. This seems to be illogical, and, most importantly, inconsistent with the rest of the main page's design. I'm not exactly sure how the templates work, but would it be a good idea to have the text content of that table or div align to the top rather than to the middle? I think it would look better that way. --Michiel Sikma 21:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see what you're getting at, and it is different to the rest of the templates, but personally I prefer it the way it is. Although it could do with a slightly larger space between the picture and the text – Gurch 21:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally don't like it. Maybe some other people could give their opinion? --Michiel Sikma 11:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vertical alignment of text in POTD 

message: Is there a spot for fun facts on the home page? At 1:02:03AM later today, the clock will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 and I think that's cool enough to get a spot on the home page. In about 3 hours as of this writing UTC will read that time. Europe will have to wait another month because they swap the month and day. Here is a news story about it: 
:This would only be appropriate if there were a Wikipedia article on such oddities, then it could be in Selected Anniversaries or DYK (but only within 5 days of creation). --Dhartung | Talk 22:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For most of the world, that will happen on 4 May 2006 not 5 April.  I'm sure there is an article somewhere explaining why you Americans (and some others???) use a silly date... ;). --Midnighttonight 08:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe because we're leaders not followers :-P.  Just kidding, don't go off on me because of that (unless you're also joking).  As far as I know, all my cousins and family in Colombia use the US version, not sure if Latin America does it formally or not. -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 08:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's all sweet.  Although one has to wonder why and how different countries went for different methods.  Did you have a February 30 this year?  --Midnighttonight 08:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably cultural evolution... I'm unoficially on the World Calendar, so technically, yes! :-P-- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 08:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The article about funny date formats is at Calendar date, and the American style is referred to as "Middle endian" format. You may have to be a computer programmer to get the joke.-gadfium 08:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cool digital oddity 

message: Can someone Wikify "tomboy" in the featured article. --130.184.211.35 00:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tomboy 

message: Ummm? KayEss | talk 06:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hairshirt. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Cheers Knowledge Seeker. Probably should have been linked then. Looked like a prank. KayEss | talk 02:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I linked it after reading you posted your first comment. Thanks for pointing it out. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Moore's hair shirt 

message: Minor thing -- Today's "Did You Know?" section refers to a "baseball match," but baseball contests are known as "games," not "matches." -- Mwalcoff 07:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baseball ''game'' 

message: I study Architecture and i am preparing my final project. The topic is Nomadic Architecture. I would love to see what people have to say about Nomadism and the answers would be very important and very helpful for me.
Thank you very much!!
: HI! :) This is not the place to ask questions. Have a look at the link at the top of the page that says "For questions, find out where to ask them." Good luck! --Monotonehell 13:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomadism 

message: Where did the term "Onion Snow" come from as a reference to the last snow of the winter season?  (I live in PA - maybe this is a local thing?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.236.197.226 (talk • contribs) 
:It would be better to ask this at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Angela. 17:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Snow of the Season 

message: Why do the Wikinews stories not have direct links to those stories? Clicking the Wikinews link takes you to the list of stories and I never seem to be able to find the story I am looking for.
I think the bullet should link directly to the Wikinews story. Whaddaythink?
Cyferx 16:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The In the news section on the Main Page lists some current events that may be of interest to readers but it doesn't necessarily mean that there is a Wikinews story. I agree however, that if there is an interwiki link to be had, then displaying it seems appropriate. hydnjo talk 17:53, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the news is for encyclopedia articles about recent news(as I understand it). However a link to wikinews wouldn't hurt. Some stories also link with template:wikinews on the article, but I think a n:blah style link would be good too. Bawolff 22:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've left a note at the Wikinews water cooler (like WP's village pump) about this suggestion.  --hydnjo talk 00:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikinews Links 

message: Well, why is it? —This unsigned comment was added by JohnOw (talk • contribs) 16:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a large page (122kb currently) with 7 templates. However, it doesn't seem very slow to me. Angela. 17:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Wikipaedia's Talk:Main Page the slowest page in the history of t'internet? 

message: In the third Did You Know item, "agressive" should be "aggressive". Art LaPella 19:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for spotting that. i just went and fixed it.--Alhutch 19:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspelling 

message: WTC Cross has been moved to World Trade Center cross, so the DYK's piped link should be fixed to avoid an unneeded redirect. Staxringold 21:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "WTC pecuiliarly shaped worshipped piece of scrap metal" I suppose would not be as poetic. — WCityMike (T | C) 21:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed link. -Aude (talk | contribs) 21:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK note

message: : ...This in turn lead to More's execution at the Tower of London.
Shouldn't this be past tense ?  Instead of 'lead', should it be 'led' ? -- 199.71.174.100 21:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. I think the problem was someone thinking lead the verb was pronounced like lead the element. — Ilyanep (Talk) 23:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption to Today's featured picture 

message: Apollo 17 may have been the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program, but there were five more flights using Apollo hardware that were arguably
part of the Apollo program: Skylab 1-4 (the laboratory plus three manned flights in 1973-74) and finally the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. So it would be more accurate
to simply say that Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program.
-- Karn 04:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apollo 17 was not the last Apollo mission 

message: Gems should be linked to Gemstones, not to the disambiguation page JanSuchy 08:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've fixed it.-gadfium 09:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gems link 

message: Today's main page has an article about AI that Wikinews does not seem to have. Why & how ? Thanks. DLL, --193.56.241.75 14:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia and Wikinews are seperate projects, and those who contribute to one don't necessarily contribute to the other. As a result, an article not on Wikipedia might escape the notice of those on Wikinews, and vice versa. Lord Bob 14:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  News : Amnesty : can't find 

message: I accidentally cleared the page when I was trying to add a comment last time.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.157.84.24 (talk • contribs) . (in regards to this edit)
:Ahh, the joys of wikipedia! No worries, then. - Drrngrvy 03:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi 

message: Like a page with articles that are empty, etc?
Pece Kocovski 09:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: wikipedia:Requested articles Raul654 09:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a page where there are articles that people want? 

message: Is there any thing going on with having Wikipedia digitally published?  Possibly a DVD set or so?
:I think it was the German language WP that decided to go ahead with this idea. But WP is so dynamic that there would be little point in freezing a copy and publishing it. --Monotonehell 17:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0.  hydnjo talk 19:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See also An attempt at a Wikipedia CD. Carcharoth 17:27, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digitally published wikipedia 

message: The "Anna Marly" Did You Know item should start with the word "that", like the other items. Art LaPella 19:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. —Spangineer[es] (háblame) 19:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing "that"

message: There should be a period at the end of the Palestinian Authority news item. zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Sam Korn (smoddy) 20:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Period

message: I'm not sure where this feedback should go, but the random article link goes to a 404 for me now (just started happening about 3 minutes ago). Steve 02:37, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's back up, thanks for the report.  hydnjo talk 02:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random article link broken 

message: Could someone add the missing space (ha!) to 2001: A Space Odyssey? Thanks. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 04:27, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done and disambiguated the link to point to 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel). Pepsidrinka 04:32, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did you know 

message: It seems ironic that the "The encyclopedia anyone can edit" starts off with a completely blocked page. I for one would like to crrect some formatting minor discrepancies, but, alas can't. --Tbeatty 15:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Protection_policy.  The Main Page is highly visible and is protected against vandalism. Now, what exactly would you like to correct?  You can make suggestions here on the talk page.  If reasonable, an admin can go ahead and make the changes. -Aude (talk | contribs) 16:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be too dangerous to unblock it in case any malicious users came and wrecked the main page. It would ruin Wikipedia's image if the Main Page was constantly changing between decent and indecent. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 07:29, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry kid. We got tired of having huge penises replace the content of the Main Page. --mav 18:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Main Page blocked? 

message: The go-go's that are linked were not around in 1964.  (Dr. Who Spoofs)
-Robbrown
:It's now linked properly.  Thanks for pointing out the error. -Aude (talk | contribs) 18:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Go-Gos error 

message: The article on Handel's Messiah clearly states that its premiere was on April 13, and not April 8.  I just checked another source and confirmed the 13.  It looks like Wikipedia is jumping the gun about five days or so.  MusicMaker5376 23:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL -- Guess I should have caught that sometime before 8 minutes before it changed....  MusicMaker5376 00:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The wrong date on the article was corrected in July 2004 , but the event stayed on the Sel. Anniv. template till today. You won't see the same mistake on MainPage next year. Thank you for pointing this out.  -- PFHLai 01:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit strange no one noticed this a year ago.  Was it featured back then? -- SmthManly / ManlyTalk / ManlyContribs 01:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unfortunately, yes. -- PFHLai 02:46, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Messiah'' 

message: hey, how can i put the colored boxes around text like on the main page of this site? you, for like news etc.
By using table markup, like this.
You should use colored boxes sparingly though.-gadfium 00:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Use "view source" on the Main Page, or check with "edit this page" on any other page, to learn how anything is done :-)  -Quiddity 03:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do you put the colored boxes around text, like on Main page? 

message: In the last Did You Know item, "cracked down" is an intransitive verb. It could be corrected by substituting "quashed" or a similar transitive verb, instead of "cracked down". Art LaPella 00:50, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're correct. I revised it; thank you. (For others reading, the change is in the selected anniversaries section.) — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

text: And thank you for providing a specific change to be made. It is appreciated. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar error

message: It might be useful to have a random article link, that went to a non-fiction page. Of course this maybe out of the current softwares capability.
:You know, if you press alt-x or click on Random article on the navigation bar, you get sent to a random page? Not sure what you mean by a non-fiction page, though. Hyenaste
::I was thinking last night that it might be useful for articles to be marked fiction or non-fiction. But that would lead to edit wars. For example most religions could be considered fiction by some and yet they are classified as reference historically in libraries. So maybe not a good idea. ;) --Monotonehell 09:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it wrong for me to want to watch the edit wars in :Category:Non-fictional religions? ;P -Quiddity 10:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: and, "most religions could be considered fiction"?!? ;) *coughs* -Quiddity 01:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes okay... all religions are considered fiction. :) Happy now LOL --Monotonehell 04:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

text: All the articles are suppose to be non-fiction, even if they’re about a work of fiction. Unfortunately a lot of articles, especially with Star Wars and Star Trek, just have a one sentence declaimer and then go on in a fictional context. Seano1 01:35, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly! Ive read a fair few fan written articles (sci-fi and religious texts alike) that read like the whole article is fact. That's what made me think that the article should be tagged as a fictional article. But as I said, edit wars would ensue. --Monotonehell 04:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about three tags, 'fiction', 'non-fiction', and 'religion', the last of which meaning 'some (significant?) set of people believe this to be true'?  There would still be edit wars, I suppose... Steve Pucci | talk 19:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL Yes, yes there would. --Monotonehell 14:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random Article - Non Fiction