Talk:Main Page/Archive 41

message: I think there should be a place where people put their comments of Wikipedia, not only the Main Page. A suggestion page should be set up and hyperlinked to the Main Page.
:You could try Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). It would make sense, though, for something better designed for the casual visitor rather than the accomplished editor. --Sum0 22:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments for wikipedia

message: The "Did You Know" has a figure of $500,000, but the article claims half a billion dollars, which is an error of three magnitudes.
Yermo 02:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud

message: Look at the photo of Blair and Bush shaking hands. There's a chick in a cowboy hat in the upper left corner. It's not there when you look at the image page. What's going on? Eixo 08:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Blair

message: Excuse me if this is off-topic, but I can't be the only one who finds this funny...
Crtrue 03:42, 2005 July 29 (UTC)
:I find it disturbing...........and slightly funny gkhan 08:44, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
:: It was suggested, on 01:21, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly one of these murals from Commons would be better. In particular a central crop from :Image:Derry_mural_9.jpg. These are of course politically loaded, so care needs to be taken. -- Solipsist 10:04, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I have put the map up.  The mural could go up at some point if an appropriate image could be found.  Cheers, smoddy 10:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hows about this.  -- Solipsist 10:32, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's alright, but it isn't very clear.  The brightness of the sky means that the building is very dark.  It doesn't really help the item that much. smoddy 10:44, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The only other thing I could think of doing with this one, would be to crop right down on the black and white mural. Trouble is, I don't think this lad in a gas mask is actually meant to be a member of the IRA. The BBC had a better mural to work with that actually showed three IRA members with rifles. -- Solipsist 11:16, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Humorous News/Image Juxtaposition 

message: Do we really want articles with a VFD tag appearing in Did You Know? dramatic 19:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Look, we don't want an edit war on the Main Page. Keep the status quo or change it back to Did You Know and keep it like that. --Member 00:28, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Optimus keyboard]] 

message: Might it not be considered tasteless to run this as a Featured Article while Belarus is allegedly persecuting Belarusian Poles? Lee M 02:34, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Hero of Belarus

message: Please contribute. Revolución 03:28, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: African COTW

message: What exactly has a Uganda Flag got to do with that news article (about the new Kuiper Belt objects)???? Supersaiyanplough|(talk) 05:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't have it now, but I imagine it was there for the article on Uganda, not for the article on the Kuiper Belt. Sometimes the pictures don't match the first article on the news page, though I suppose in principle they ought to...  --Fastfission 17:09, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uganda Flag? 

message: I've created :Template:C-uploaded to help us deal with images from the Commons with the greatest protection, and without having to find an available Commons admin.  We can just upload the image here, and slap this template on it.--Pharos 07:16, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons images

message: Hertfordshire puddingstone is a comglomerate rock
It should be conglomerate. rbonvall 16:08, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
:Fixed, thanks. violet/riga (t) 16:17, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo in ''Did you know...'' 

message: It looks like today or tomorrow the article count will hit a Double Number of the Beast=666 666.
:Right now it's at 66 55 66! What does that tell ya?!  gkhan 10:52, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
:Neutrality's going to win the Wikipedia:666,666th pool. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Beast Number 

message: Can someone fix the formatting on the ahmaddehjad news item?Borisblue 13:15, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: news formatting

message: Just rolled onto the page and saw we were at 666,666 articles. Article of the beast ;) AND 2/3 of the way to a million!! jengod 07:05, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
:I think it was Gray-headed Kite. Yay. jengod 07:09, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
::Sadness :-(  I had a nice article prepared, but I was asleep.  lots of issues  | leave me a message 01:38, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Whee!

message: The "In the news" section should mention that Michaëlle Jean has been chosen to be the next Governor General of Canada. --Mb1000 18:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news/Michaëlle Jean 

message: On the page (under the 'Other languages' image on the top right) there's a link to Main Page (table free) which actually redirects to Main Page (simple layout), it really should be fixed! :) Thanks, Joolz 19:37, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I dabbed the link, as I wasn't sure that "Simple layout" was any better than "Table free", and it makes that line a bit crowded. Thanks!  - BanyanTree 20:28, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers, that's what I was hoping for anyway :) -- Joolz 00:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table free 

message: It's August 5th and the main page is from August 3rd!!!!! -Rmpfu89 19:43, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
:No, it's not. (Do you really think all of us together wouldn't have noticed by now?) Try visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=purge. This forces all intermediate caches to update, hopefully including your browser's cache. JRM · Talk 19:53, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A little behind??? 

message: Is it just me, or does the picture accompanying today's featured article (Tooth enamel) look rather like the legs of a dancing show girl :P -- Solipsist 19:53, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what you look like so I couldn't possibly answer ;) -- Joolz 21:05, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dancing show girl

message: The new layout looks terrible in 800x600 resolution. The right column is bloated in width, with a lot of extra space at the bottom, while the left column is tall and thin. —Lowellian (talk) 08:39, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
*I reverted it now.  Perhaps someone else knows how to do this right.--Pharos 08:44, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New layout looks terrible in 800x600

message: MacGyverMagic recently pointed out on the Help Desk that recent changes to the Did you know template caused problems with section editting on any pages that included it. While this is a bug (Bugzilla:2128, which it was thought had been fixed), it's only occurring because of the use of HTML  headers, as opposed to the straight-forward wiki markup ===. So, the question is: Why does the Main Page use  in place of ===? 
There used to be a couple of advantages - actually side-effects of the same bug - such as the heading not being included in the TOC, but those have been fixed, and AFAIK the two markups should operate identically (except that they don't). Since the Main Page doesn't have a TOC or section edit links, I'm at a loss to see why they were used in the first place. The only thing I can see is that a couple of them are of the form  but since a) the software generates an anchor for every heading anyway, and b) the id could as easily be parked in the  tags just before, this doesn't seem necessary.
So, my suggestion is that all these s be turned into their equivalent wiki markup, which is far more likely to behave predictably in any and all circumstances. - IMSoP 13:35, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  &lt;h3> headers versus wiki-markup 

message: A penis photo has been substituted for the picure of the day. --agr 03:45, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Front page vandalized Aug 7, 2005 0344Z 

message: Image of penis. A red, white and blak nazi flag with svastika. And some two words about "niggers". The comments of the talk page are not visible unless you edit.
: Now ? You mean 11:54, 7 August 2005 UTC ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=next&oldid=20464757) And, where ? Please show us where, and a sysop can get rid of it. -- 199.71.174.100 20:07, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Now the Talk:Main Page is vandalized 

message: It's just a little thing, but it might lead to wrong ideas. In the Featured article presentation it reads: "The only success came on the opposite end of the Mediterranean, where English crusaders, on the way by ship to the Holy Land, fortuitously stopped and helped capture Lisbon in 1147."
I suggest something like: "The only success came outside of the Mediterranean, where English crusaders, on the way by ship to the Holy Land, fortuitously stopped and helped capture Lisbon in 1147."
::I suppose the point is that seen from the Holy land, Lisbon is on the other side of the Mediterranean. Sure, it isn't on the Mediterranean, but neither is Jerusalem. dab (ᛏ) 13:49, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: C'mon. The entire Iberian Peninsula should count as Mediterranean, eh ! -- 199.71.174.100 20:09, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I wouldn't consider Lisbon Mediterranean, but dab is right, it's close enough. ~~ N (t/c) 20:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lisbon is not in the mediterranean (Featured article) 

message: Since ABC World News Tonight is the name of a television series, according to the MoS, it should be in italics.  Dismas 09:07, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad formatting in "In the news" 

message: There is a section on today's In The News that contains a grammatical error. It reads 
*Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolves the Japanese House of Representatives and calls a snap election for September after rebel lawmakers from his Liberal Democratic Party vote down legislations regarding the privatization of Japan Post.
It should read legislation. Thanks! --Zantastik talk 18:58, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: worse than that- what iss this thing with the "lawmakers" - what the hell does that mean? Call them what they are - members of parliament! Jooler 19:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

text: What's problem ?  We embrace both British and American spellings here in Wikipedia. -- 199.71.174.100 01:28, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammatical error in ITN on front page 

message: The space shuttle photo appears directly to the right of the headline about the Brazilian bank robbery, instead of one level down, where it belongs.  It makes it look like the bankrobbers got away in a space shuttle!  Could we add a photo of the bank and move the shuttle photo down? --Jpbrenna 01:17, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Says "... Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is estimated to have lost $500,000 ..." but the main article says the sum is $500,000,000 !!  I would correct this, but I know not how..  Someone once told me how, but I forgot.  Too Old 02:37, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did you know item disagrees with main article 

message: @$#^$@ Wikipedia! You don't like fake pages I edited here! Why does Cyrius have to block me for that one? RyanCahn
:I think you answered your own question. -- Cyrius|✎ 07:45, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted Pages 

message: Please ask questions in Chinese, on the Chinese version of Wikipedia. -- Solipsist 14:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  13 

message: A few days ago, I saw a picture of the day, and was elated because I think it's a good idea.  I see that other people disagree, but I think we should include both the pic du jour and the new articles.  I enjoy them both.  Clarkefreak ∞ 22:01, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the picture of the day? 

message: The phrase is "a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the or the Ashoka Chakra", please get rid of the "or the". --Brian Z 04:19, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: PLEASE FIX typo in Flag of India Feature

message: In the anniversaries section, it took me some time figuring out what that "Solidarnosk" logo is... I don't think most readers will make the effort.
Could someone legend it and put it next to the related line (the Polish strike of 1980)? Or remove the picture altogether since it isn't informative at all as it is?Jules LT 07:19, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solidarnosk 

message: Shouldn't the ITN item on the quipu say "the knotted strands of an..."? ~~ N (t/c) 17:13, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

message: Although I'm sure this won't matter much in the long run, I would suggest changing the image on the main page corresponding to Helios Airways Flight 522 to something from the article itself, as the current photo has very little to do with the story.
-70.176.93.225 23:43, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helios Airways Flight 522 

message: "Did you know..." states that "Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised?" This is untrue. Liberia is a colony of 'returned slaves' from the US. It was set up by the American Colonization Society who deported African Americans there in 1820's. Seabhcán 11:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liberia is a colony 

message: Main Page says "Other Indexes" but I think the right word is Indices. Wikinerd 03:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See above Talk:Main Page#'Indexes'? Grr!. -- 199.71.174.100 03:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indexes 

message: The statistics special page that you get to by clicking on the number of articles states that the "Detailed Wikipedia article and user statistics" and the "Log analysis for the English-language Wikipedia, including most commonly accessed pages" are "automatic internal statistics", but they are not. At present they aren't being updated at all. It isn't possible to comment on this on the special page and my comment on Wikipedia talk:Statistics has received no response in almost a fortnight. Osomec 19:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The statistics special page needs amendment