Talk:Main Page/Archive 55

message: Where on the Main Page is mention of Mozart's birthday?  Was it an oversight? MathStatWoman
:Wikipedia runs on Coordinated Universal Time, which is 5 hours ahead of East coast US time and 8 hours ahead of West coast US time. Mozart's birthday was yesterday on Wikipedia, and yes, it did appear on the main page. — Scm83x talk  00:58, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mozart

message: Relax folks, Alexa had a colocation move and consequent glitches: "JANUARY   27,  2006 - Posted By Geoffrey Mack: Uh, Oh, Wait. Hold on. Hmmm... Just a quick update on our data center move. The machines are in place, powered up and working... kind of. The network configuration is different, some would say better, and it has had some unanticipated consequences." --Ancheta Wis 02:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alexa is back. ! The site says we are at 16 as of 11:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexa page rank: 821- due to colocation move 

message: Seeing as how today is the twentieth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, I'd politely suggest changing the image on anniversaries to one of the disaster. Palm_Dogg 06:01, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense, but should we do that every year? — Hillel 06:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1986 - NASA Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its tenth mission.Can we change the wording? It did not technically explode. -- Chupon 08:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The picture should at least be moved near the mention of the anniversary.  It's really small and at first I didn't know what it was.  It was placed next to the Diet of Worms and I first thought it might somebody's idea of a joke as it looked sorta like a picture of some white worms in a jar!  But then once I clicked on it I knew exactly what it was.  I remember the day it happened and seeing it over and over again on television. H2O 09:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Would someone please help and type in "(pictured)" at the end of the 1986 anniversary ? Enlarging the image a bit would be great, too. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 10:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've made the picture slightly larger, added "(picured)", and changed "exploded" to "disintegrated".  Do people like it now? Canderson7 (talk) 13:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes that's good, thanks. -- Chupon 21:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text:  Yeap.  Thanks, Canderson7. -- 199.71.174.100 05:55, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenger explosion 

message: I am just curious: can we put a Nazi symbol on the front page of Wikipedia?
For most people in China and some Asian countries, the Imperial Japanese Navy flag on the front page is a Nazi symbol.--Jinhuili 18:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the factually accurate image for the Imperial Japanese Navy and, since the article is on the main page, the article will not endorse Nazi activity and will have a neutral point of view. For that reason it is surely fine to have this image on the front page - it is the correct historical image. Martin Hinks 18:15, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My question is: Can we put this Nazi symbol  on the front page on the Jewish New Year's day? Today is Chinese New Year's Day. Happy New Year! --Jinhuili 18:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Nah, that will anger the Jewish. Funnybunny 22:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

text: That's a very unfortunate coincidence and I'll assume that it's no more than a coincidence. Otherwise, Martin's analysis is correct. Marskell 18:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: (Son of a bitch!) Theoretically people are supposed to look ahead in the queue and warn me about these kinds of coincidences. Obviously that didn't happen in this case. Raul654 19:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it matters, Chinese New Year is actually tomorrow UTC time.--Pharos 19:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I hope that was a coincidence. Nice job wikipedia!--Muchosucko 20:07, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh come on, it's been listed as the Featured Article for today for over a week.  While I agree that this is a major case of poor timing, you can't blame Wikipedia if none of us caught it either. Palm_Dogg 21:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we put a Nazi symbol on the front page of Wikipedia? 

message: Could we have the following on the main page?  Saturn is in opposition (180 degrees from the sun) now.  The view of Saturn's rings is about 19 to 20 degrees, and quite a sight to behold.  A telescope or even binoculars with just 30 times magnification gives a great view.  MathStatWoman 01:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You could suggest this as a Did You Know candidate at Template_talk:Did_you_know. Martin Hinks 11:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Saturn

message: Could an admin please edit Wikipedia:Today's second feature/January 29, 2006 to link the word "jetpack" to jet pack? I have already made the change to Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 29, 2006. Thanks, TacoDeposit 16:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks, BanyanTree 16:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 29 Picture of the day 

message: "A roof collapse in Poland kills at least 60 people, with over 100 people still trapped awaiting rescue."
You are not in these people's heads. Although they probably are "awaiting rescue", it is wrong to put words in their heads. We are not in these people's POV. I think this should be reworded. Bsd987 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed "awaiting rescue", which just dodges the assumption about what they are thinking. Thanks, - BanyanTree 17:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

text: This is NPOV taken to an absurd extreme. --Nelson Ricardo 21:54, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And I take pride in that!!! Although, I did say "being extremely picky".... Bsd987 22:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Being extremely picky

message: I suggest:
"A roof collapse in Poland kills at least 66 people, leaving 141 injured." 83.22.113.227 20:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article itself would have to be updated with this information before we update the ITN blurb. Thanks, BanyanTree 20:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The article has been updated. Lukasz.w 21:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated. - BanyanTree 22:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Roof collapse news needs updating

message: I have a slight concern here. Since September 7, 2004, we've had Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, Mary II, Anne, George III and Victoria on the main page.
As an English historian myself, I'm delighted that so many of the British monarch articles have reached featured standard (in fact, seven more british monarchs have achieved this honour. Bravo!) But is not the main page article supposed to showcase the diversity of Wikipedia, as well as the quality? In other words, we've reached double digits in little more than a year, enough British monarchs for a while? Eixo 01:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to one particularly good writer, we have a disproportionally large number of featured articles on british monarchs, which is why you tend to see them more often than you'd expect. Raul654 04:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's impressive. And he's 17!? I wish someone would do the same with the medieval monarchs, some of which are quite frankly depressing. Eixo 14:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or the Chinese dynasties, or the Japanese emperors, or or or!   freshgavin TALK    01:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] 

message: When you scroll over the picture of the president of finland, it says flag of Finland. schyler 01:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unmessedup. -Splashtalk 02:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news mess up... again. 

message: No biggie, but the (more...) at the end of the Charles I main page description links to a disambiguation page of Charles I and not to the main article at Charles I of England. --Ataricodfish 03:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charles I (more...) 

message: I don't think this really belongs on the Main Page discussion page, but I'm not sure where else to put it, so here goes:
I think the "Personal Appeal from Jimmy Wales" that appears at the top of every page to a non-logged-in-user should be taken down. It is downright anti-Wikipedia to have any one person speak for the project as a whole, even just to ask for donations. While Wikipedia might not exist without Mr. Wales, that doesn't mean that every page should link to a page with a picture of him on it. The whole idea of Wikipedia is that there is no "owner" per se - it is a collaborative site, with all contributions considered equal. As such, an appeal for donations should be from all Wikipedians, not just one (and especially not one who makes edits like this).
--User:Alex S, 04:19, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that this wording has now been changed, but no comment has been added here. What is going on? When I tried to view the source of this page, it didn't give any indication as to where the "donation appeal" tag is added from, or where it can be discussed. Could it be made clearer on Wikipedia pages who edits the layout _outside_ the editable parts of the page (including the top area and the side bar area). Thanks. 194.200.237.219 10:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point in theory, but the fact is that when a generic appeal was replaced with a personal appeal during the last fund raising drive the daily rate of donations doubled or trebled, and wikipedia needs the money. 62.31.55.223 19:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is MediaWiki:Anonnotice, but it can only be edited by administrators. --Spangineer (háblame) 05:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimmy Wales' Personal Appeal 

message: Whilst I fully accept that there is a limited amount of space in the Selected Anniversaries, I was mildly surprised to note that 30th Januray 2006 was not marked as the date of the State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965. This event is notable as it remains one of the very few State Funerals for non-Royal people. DAAdshead 13:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winston Churchill 

message: There's a major vandalism effort in progress on main-page article Dixie (song). Someone please protect this page!!! altmany 00:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major vandalism in progress 

message: There were some identical id= statements in the Main Page.  I fixed them, in this diff.  If it horribly breaks something, I'm the one to blame, I suppose.  JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing validation 

message: According to CNN sources Coretta Scott King, wife of former civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr.,  passed away this morning (Tuesday January 31, 2006). 
Would you add a proper entry for this on the main page, which highlights news, as well as the wiki news page?
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/king.obit.ap/index.html
:I think there's a rule for the "In the News" section that you aren't supposed to announce people who died of natural causes (the only exception that I can remember was the pope) Raul654 13:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a wikipedia:featured article. Raul654 22:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coretta Scott King 

message: In the (today this happened) seciton of the main page, there is a reference to the space shuttle columbia disaster. All the other events are signified by the country involved, but this blurb seems to say that the US doesn't need to be mentioned. Shouldn't it be rewritten on the terms, the US space program, NASA, .......... Just a thought. Theuedimaster 05:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "The NASA Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th and final mission. (Mission insignia shown) This was the second total loss of a Space Shuttle." Hmm, this sounds awkward. Why does "second total loss of a Space Shuttle" link to the article on the disaster? That's not what I would expect; maybe link "disintegrated"? Anyways, "Mission insignia shown" needs to have a period and be moved to the end of the paragraph. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 05:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Nasa Columbia Disaster 

message: Can someone add Bush's State of the Union? That should be seen as a current event, right? Kazuhite 06:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The ITN folks normally try to spread the ITN wealth around the world and the Alito confirmation is already up.  IMO, the SC confirmation is a lot more important that another SOTU photo op. - BanyanTree 15:03, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Current Event?

message: Why does my Rumorpedia article keep being deleted, I am a fan of Wiki's and just want my article to describe why I set up Rumorpedia and I'm not doing anyone any harm?   Who is to say that my subject matter is any less important that other subject matter?  I am not happy! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Visualize (talk • contribs) .
:Hi Visualize, your repeatedly deleted article (1) does not assert notability and (2) is an advertisement.  See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion for the former and Wikipedia:Spam for the latter. If you make your tone encyclopedic, it's possible that it would be sent to WP:AFD for people to argue over its notability but as there are no hits for "Rumorpedia" on Google, I am 99% sure it will be deleted again.  The safest bet is to worry about your own website and let somebody else write the article about it in due course.  Cheers, BanyanTree 17:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rumorpedia 

message: What's up with the featured article? It's 10 past midnight and the new one still isn't up. I spent the whole day waiting for this. --BadSeed 00:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you proposing a Featured Article of the Hour?   freshgavin TALK    01:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be still thy evil tongue, heathen! Raul654 02:47, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want new article! 

message: why have two different sites that both define words when you can cross reference them? I auctually have better luck looking up unfamiliar words on wikipedia
-jak from south carolina
*Wiktionary is still in its infancy but fulfills an entirely different purpose. Its unlikely you'll find origins of words, and the same word in foreign languages, or find foreign words on wikipedia. Granted their are some, but wiktionary is still relatively new.(It is however 19th most used dictionary on the web). 12.220.94.199 02:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge wikipedia and wiktionary 

message: Moved from Wikipedia talk:Community Portal
Samuel Alito isn't the 96th Justice, he is the 110th I believe. Someone should change that quickly, it's a really blatant messup and it looks stupid. --Robsomebody 02:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to his article he is the "the Court's 110th Justice", so my guess is that he is the 96th person to be appointed as an associate justice and the 110 number includes those appointed to be Chief Justices. I don't know enough to change it either way. Evil Monkey - Hello 03:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Evil monkey beat me to it. Raul654 19:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article might be incorrect too, a few news sources online say he is the 110th associate justice. --Robsomebody 19:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: ...is anyone going to change it? Do some research, it is on the front page, which should be setting a good example for Wikipedia. I might be wrong, but I think I'm right. Here's a source I found: [] --Robsomebody 01:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: CNN says 100th justice (not associate) see this. BrokenSegue 23:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article doesn't say anything about a '96th associate justice'. I searched online and found a handful of results of a 96th associate justice, most of which were wikipedia articles. Clearly more research on the matter needs to be done, regardless of what I or others think, especially since this is on the front page. --Robsomebody 00:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There have been 17 chief justices (3 of which were promoted from assoc justice. So 110-(17-3)=96. Okay? I'm looing for another (external) source right now. BrokenSegue 00:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Front Page Mistake 

message: Please use the Sandbox if you'd like to fiddle around with the wiki markup.   freshgavin TALK    04:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Test 

message: Why is this company called British? The news flash states: Royal Dutch Shell break the record for the highest ever annual profit for a British company with a total of £13.12bn.. According to the Royal Dutch Shell article, its corporate headquarters are in The Hague and it is tax resident in the Netherlands. --Rsmelt 11:08, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The company is British (or rather English) - for tax reasons. It was an off the shelf company incorporated in 2002 as Forthdeal Limited, (registered number 04366849). The rules changed to mean it was advantageous for RDS to be an English company before a certain deadline, so they simply bought a company registered here before the deadline and changed its name to Royal Dutch Shell. DavidFarmbrough 12:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: It also has its main listing in the UK, and I believe the order of location of shareholdings is 1) the U.S. 2) the UK 3) the Netherlands. Merchbow 15:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Dutch Shell 

message: "...was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland, for whom the city of Yonkers, New York is named" This needs correction in line with the Adriaen van der Donck article, to say 'after whom the city....was named'. It wasn't named for him. DavidFarmbrough 12:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And how does Yonkers derive from van der Donck? --Rsmelt 14:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Read Yonkers, New York.  "Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer (etymologically, "young gentleman"; in effect, "Squire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" was directly derived." -- Plutor 15:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adriaen van der Donck 

message: There's a spelling error on the front page:
 ..Shell break the record for the highest ever annual...
should be
 ..Shell broke the record for the highest ever annual...
~ Cheers —This user has left wikipedia 13:58 2006-02-02
: Actually, keeping in line with the tense of the rest of the news, it should be breaks. -- Plutor 15:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. It should be "breaks". Merchbow 15:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I already re-wrote the sentence altogether anyway. I even managed to use a semicolon. -Splashtalk 17:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Oh, those Brits and their funny treatment of collective(ish) nouns. --Nelson Ricardo 22:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shell Grammar 

message: It's really not the biggest news out there. --Mb1000 20:16, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have something else, you know where to suggest it... -Splashtalk 20:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

text: It's not that big a headline if you don't care about the complete oblivion of the earth's natural resources.   freshgavin TALK    04:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is how much Shell made this year really THAT big a headline? 

message: Are the figures for Shell's profit given actually correct? I read in my newspaper (Frankfurter Rundschau of Fri 3) the following numbers: 25,3 billion US$ (21,3 billion euros). Can somebody please double-check that?
Furthermore, in connection with this and with respect to the oil price high it might be worthwhile mentioning in the same paragraph that Exxon-Mobil reported an even higher profit of 36.1 billion US$ earlier this week.
TomR 22:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 13.2bn is certainly correct; this is what is reported in the media and is presumably taken straight out of their actual documents. The conversions rely, I presume on whichever currency conversion service is used. At present, http://www.xe.com agrees spot on with the dollar and euro values. -Splashtalk 23:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shell figures and Exxon addition 

message: Just a statistical tidbit: the English Wikipedia now has more articles than the 2000 population of Detroit (951,270)! Happy editing! --- Dralwik|Have a Chat  My "Great Project"
:Does this mean we're pulling in some editors from Windsor now? Who knows, someday Wikipedia may attract editors from all across the Great Lakes region. I know it's a mad dream, but Buffalo, anyone?--Pharos 03:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll believe that only when they discover the internet.   freshgavin TALK    04:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of articles vs. Detroit 

message: As the cartoons of Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy are currently at the top of the page, it might be a good idea to link to Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (no images) from the main page to  prevent offending Muslim readers. —Ruud 03:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not censored - Wikipedia may contain content that some readers consider objectionable or offensive - Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not Raul654 03:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  As per the overwhelming (85 to 8) consensus among editors on the relevant page, the better article is the one with pictures included. Linking to the inferior version makes no sense, bypasses the entire process we've gone through of developing a consensus, and I totally oppose Rudd's suggestion. Nor do I support maintaining the fork of this article. Babajobu 03:53, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

text: No, that'd be making a decision for all based on a desire to avoid offending one group. The fork shouldn't even exist, imo — I am tempted to speedy it, but if it survives the night it should probably go to AfD. -Splashtalk 03:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with splash. While I normally avoid VFD/AFD like the plague, this seems like the exception that proves the rule. Raul654 03:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Perhaps it could be speedied under CSD A8 as a blatant copyright infingement, as none of the creators of the original article are given credit? Babajobu 04:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's stretching things a bit, since it'd be easy enough to add a link giving them credit. -Splashtalk 04:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I already tagged is as CSD. There must be some kind of rule against forks, I'd reckon. —Ruud 04:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Anyways, It might be quicker just to as User:Gregstephens to have it deleted on authors request. —Ruud 04:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not that there's a specific rule against forks, per se -- it's just (1) they're almost always a bad idea, and (2) we've already fought this battle so very many times over. (see also penis, vagina, autofellatio, abu ghraib, 'etc) The "some people might be offended by the contents of this article" argumenet really doesn't carry much weight around here, especially not to justify the existance of a forked article. Raul654 04:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Now Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (no images) has been deleted/changed into a redirect. The downside of that being that anyone using that link (they are all over the place), expecting no images, instead gets the illustrated article. Kind of misleading and definetely not putting out any fires --Rsmelt 07:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy 

message: Shays Rebellion points to a redirect. Think of the millions of page requests that can be saved by changing it to Shays' Rebellion. Piet 08:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed; thanks. -Splashtalk 12:14, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shays Rebellion 

message: Can I add a hypertext link for the word "Encyclopedia" on the front page? --Nick Dillinger 08:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the idea is that people are supposed to follow the Wikipedia link, and then follow the encyclopedia link in that article. And you need to ask an admin to edit the main page, as it is protected from editing by others. Hopefully an admin will respond to your question. Carcharoth 14:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually a bit of an attempt to direct readers.  One could write "Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" in order to provide as much information as possible, but you risk just confusing people with too many options.  Limiting the links to a definition of Wikipedia that includes how it differs from a traditional encyclopedia and an introduction on how to edit seems like a reasonable compromise. - BanyanTree 16:41, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think that you're pushing the slippery slope argument too far.  hypertexing the words free, that, anyone, can and edit kind of takes it too far, but since wikipedia is an encyclopedia, adding that encyclopedia link on the front page does make alot of sense.  --Nick Dillinger 21:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, probably a bit of an overstatement with the "the" and "that".  ;)  I would still mildly disagree.  People have a sense of what an encylopedia is.  Far fewer know what Wikipedia is.  Pretty much all the links in the header have to do with definitions, FAQs, navigation, and categorization - lots of meta data, in other words.  The four central templates are the only ones that mainly link to articles. Encyclopedia just seems a little out of place if you look at the kinds of links with which it is grouped.  I wouldn't be particularly fussed if someone did link to it, and it may even be in one of the new designs under consideration, but it seems like the odd link out.  - BanyanTree 21:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encyclopedia 

message: Why is this not capitalized on the front page ("al-Salam Boccaccio 98")? Capitalization does not exist in Arabic, so either the enitre title should be lower case or it should use English capitalization conventions (i.e. "Al-Salam Boccaccio 98"). 24.63.125.223 20:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, my experience is that there's a convention for capitalization of Arabic phrases in English, and "al-Salam Boccaccio 98" follows that convention. --Dhartung | Talk 20:25, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can you provide a source? Even if there is such a convention, it is overwhelmingly ignored (see the English-language pages of Al-Jazeera ( http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage ), Al-Ahram ( http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/ ), etc.). In fact, the Shipping Company's own site ( http://www.elsalammaritime.com/ ) uses "El Salam." 24.63.125.223 20:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Google "al Qaeda", for starters. But I agree we should follow the Naming conventions policy insofar as it covers these instances (it's a bit vague on this particular point), since it represents extant editor consensus. --Dhartung | Talk 07:29, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The relevant page on Wikipedia are the proposed guidelines at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic). - BanyanTree 21:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 

message: Emperor Meiji did not take the title Meiji when he became emperor. Meiji isn't even a title, it is a name. When he became emperor the era was named Meiji. After he died he was renamed Meiji Tenno (Emperor Meiji), a posthumous name, which is how he is known today. Neither his name nor his title was Meiji while he was alive.-Jefu 23:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then Meiji period#The Meiji Restoration and the Emperor should be revised accordingly by someone familiar with the topic. --199.71.174.100 01:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.-Jefu 02:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emperor Meiji 

message: It's pretty big on 800x600. Don't know if you worry about that resolution, but I thought I'd say it. --Grocer 01:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I shrunk it to the more standard "In the News" width of 110px. Is that better? It seems barely legible now. -Splashtalk 01:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye, I suppose it's a trade-off either way. The text looks reasonable now though, yes. Quick work! --Grocer 01:15, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news picture - map of Red Sea 

message: why arent the indian language pages working.or is that my browser is not supporting.i am using opera. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.141.29.35 (talk • contribs) 05:54, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You may not have the proper fonts installed. --Nelson Ricardo 19:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Indian language pages

message: Would it be possible to add a link to the multilingual portal to the Main Page? I would suggest adding it to Template:Wikipedialang, at the front of the list at the end of that template, so the full list would then be:
Multilingual portal·
Complete list·
Multilingual coordination·
Start a Wikipedia in another language
If there is a policy not to link to the multilingual portal, I haven't been able to find it. I'm not sure why there would be such a policy, but there seems to be a distinct lack of links to this portal from the English Wikipedia. Maybe a lack of visibility? Carcharoth 10:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why there would need to be a link to it. New users will access that page by default and those who skip it will be able to find all the language information they need easily enough.   freshgavin TALK    14:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I kind of see your point. But if it is a case of not needing a link like that, why have links to anything at all? Even if you follow the links currently in the language section, it is difficult to find anything linking to that multilingual portal. I would surmise that many users enter Wikipedia from results returned through a search engine, and those will be into one of the language areas, not to the multilingual portal (which appears second or third on a Google search for 'Wikipedia'). I am saying that many users may not even be _aware_ of the existence of this multilingual portal. How long has it been since the switch-over occurred into the language areas? If linking to the multilingual portal from the Main Page is for some reason not needed, then maybe I should add it to as many "interlanguage" pages as I can find, at least on the English Wikipedia. Maybe it will help if I say that this whole thing started when I idly thought to myself: "Surely there must be a link to that nice multilingual portal from the English Wikipedia..." I really struggled to find a link to it, so I came here to suggest linking it from the main page. Carcharoth 15:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's simply not a normal procedure for a page to link to its own entry portal, and I still don't think it necessary to link to the page at all.   freshgavin TALK    02:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you will find that all the pages you click on, on the Main Page, have a link leading back to the Main Page (it's the Wikipedia logo). Maybe I should suggest that the multilingual portal link goes "outside the box", somewhere in the mediawiki space, along with the Wikipedia logo, or in the navigation bar on the side of the page. Consider it a link to the "meta-home page" if you will. That addresses the point that you raised. What about the points that I raised, including my premise that many people on the English Wikipedia may be unaware of the existence of this page? What I would like to do is go to www.wikipedia.org and click a "What Links here?" button. But of course I can't. But I will raise a question on one of the village pump desks about this. Carcharoth 08:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

text: You should probably bring it up there. Concerning people being unaware of its existance, I don't believe that's a problem. Concerning not being able to check "What links here?", well there are many pages that don't let you do that, in fact most (all?) of the Special pages don't.   freshgavin TALK    08:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Thanks for discussing this. It's been a great help to get some other views on this. Carcharoth 09:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multilingual portal link needed on the Main Page? 

message: Should "Danish Embassy" be "Danish embassy"? --Grocer 16:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it appears not to mention embassy afterwords.  --  user:zanimum
It's the general consulate -- can someone change?  Lotsofissues 12:57, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

text: What do you want it changed to? Is it still the Norwegian embassy? Is it the Danish general consulate in Syria but the consulate in Lebanon? It's probably more helpful to give a specific suggestion. — Knowledge Seeker দ 17:31, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: In the news typo

message: I've found some information on the celtic harp origins and every time I post on the site someone takes down my factual information. The celtic harp shape, was invented in scotland rather than Ireland and someone does not like this. I've tried to change this several times but someone always puts the irish referance first and deletes the older scottish one. As Im getting my material from a reliable source, could this page be locked down to prevent others from concealing the truth.
Any questions look at;
http://www.clarsach.net/Bill_Taylor/traditional.htm
I have asked both experts from the Scottish National Museum and Irelands Trinity college and they agree with my findings.
User:Celtic harper 16:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at your contributions, I don't see you being reverted. Your most recent edit is the last at Harp.  If you have a problem try solving it at Talk:Harp and if that doesn't work ask the user who is reverting you about it on his/her user talk.  - BanyanTree 18:20, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Celtic Harp

message: Why don't the two columns of the table on the main page have the same width? The left column occupies 55% of the space vs. 45% for the right column. Wouldn't it be better to make it 50%/50%, making the table more symmetrical? RexNL 18:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Column width