Talk:Main Page/Archive 97

message: I mean what about when your doing a project and a section pops up that you don't want to see? That's just wrong. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.7.112.220 (talk) 15:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors.  See also our content disclaimer.  ShadowHalo 15:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Sometimes, the bad stuffs are added by vandals. Please help remove them when you see them. Thanks. --74.13.130.186 18:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In at least one instance a teacher got his/her kids to use wikipedia for some reason and then complained about the 'bad stuff'. But ironically, it turned out the vandalism 'bad stuff' originated from his/her kids. Nil Einne 18:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  why is there bad stuff here some kids look here 

message: *Template talk:Did you know clearly explains that rewrites and major article expansion are eligible for the "Did You Know" section while most templates say "Did you know mentions and links to new articles" and "From Wikipedia's newest articles:" which make no mention of rewrites or article expansion. 128.227.51.234 15:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An article which has undergone such an expansion that it's beyond recognition is, in essence, a "new article". --kingboyk 15:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The article Flag of Sweden is eligible for DYK since it was greatly expanded and totally rewritten since April 8. Camptown 14:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea I just read that on Template talk:Did you know which clearly explains it while other pages clearly say "Did you know mentions and links to new articles" and "From Wikipedia's newest articles:" which make no mention of rewrites or article expansion. Other than that I still do not agree with the abnormal piping to the article. 128.227.51.234 14:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article used to be crap a week ago, And we are talking about a major makeover [ Camptown 14:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh you didn't answer anything from my reply. 128.227.51.234 14:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "From Wikipedia's newest articles" may need to be 'updated' and re-worded. This is beyond the scope of WP:ERRORS. Please consider starting a new section on Talk:Main Page regarding this issue. --74.14.18.181 14:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Stub expansion and link piping are both common practice; not an error. Savidan 14:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the point is that the intro "from wikipedia's newest articles" is perhaps not true when talking about stub expansion (although the alternative view is that expanded stubs are new articles). Whatever the case, this is probably best discussed in DYK not here as it's a DYK specific issue Nil Einne 22:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I've brought this issue up in Wikipedia talk:Did you know#"Newest" articles. I would again encourage editors to continue the discussion there Nil Einne 07:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYK and "newest articles" 

message: Could anyone please tell me how to join the science wikiproject?  It would be appreciated thanks. --Susan Walton 17:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Science and add your signature to the list.  ShadowHalo 18:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you --Susan Walton 23:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiprojects 

message: In today's OTD: "1943 - World War II: Germany announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre."
Cute. A bigger case of the pot calling the kettle black I ain't never heard of.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.104.131.76 (talk • contribs).
: Poles don't have the same history of being despised as the Jews. Vranak
:: Mass murder is mass murder. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.104.131.76 (talk) 06:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cute 

message: A lot of sites, particularly reference.com and answers.com duplicate wikipedia's articles exactly. Isn't this some sort of copyright infringement? --HadzTalk 17:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not if they meet some requierments. See Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks for details.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 17:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It frustrates me when I'm doing research and looking for a site other than Wikipedia for information and find all these other sites copying. /rant. shijeru 20:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do Google searches with "-wikipedia" at the end.  It will be harder if a said site steals from Wikipedia without attribution. hbdragon88 00:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Or there's an easier way if you use Mozilla Firefox (and you should :P) - if you hate WP mirrors showing up in Google search results, get the Customize Google extension, then use meta:Mirror filter to add a list of Wikipedia's mirrors (like Answers.com) to the exclusion filter. This means that whenever you Google something within Firefox, CustomizeGoogle will automatically remove results from any of Wikipedia's  mirrors. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I use Opera, actually.  I deleted my userpage (but I think I removed the Opera userbox long before that), so you wouldn't know that.  If I wanted to, I could go into the search.ini file and simply set a keyword "gw" or something to append "-wikipedia".  I already have "g" for nromal Google and "w" for adding "site:en.wikipedia.org" set up.  I just don't do non-Wikipedia searches enough to warrant that addition, though. hbdragon88 06:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All of other sites use Wikipedia's content 

message: The article illustration image on the main page, :Image:Pm1234 Cauchy.png, should probably be replaced with its vector version, :Image:Pm1234 Cauchy.svg. Vector images scale much better than raster ones. <TT>Crotalus horridus <SMALL>(TALK • CONTRIBS)</SMALL></TT> 00:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whee!  Done now.  ShadowHalo 04:06, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main page article image 

message: I hope this isn't too much of a general question, but is there anyway one can set up an rss feed so that the featured article3s show up, or maybe the quotes, from Quotepedia? Maest 19:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if such a mechanism is in place already, but one can write a simple perl script to do this.--Scheibenzahl 20:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Syndication for details. howcheng  {chat} 23:59, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSS Feed 

message: Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:11, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Virginia Tech massacre]] on ITN 

message: iam an iranain and i write artticle in fa.wikipedia.org.
i can not write english good so i say my idea:why did you remove link to fa.wikipedia.org from main page of en.wikipedia.org thank--213.207.253.146 21:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We include only Wikipedias that have over 25,000 articles in order to prevent the Main Page from becoming overcrowded with a long list of every Wikipedia. The Farsi Wikipedia, though fast-growing, has not yet reached that threshold. As soon as it does, it will be added. —Cuiviénen 21:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

text: As far as I am aware, the academic world considers the two terms interchangeable. Realistically, "Persian" would be the Western-adopted version from Greek and "Parsi" or "Farsi" the "correct" version. See Persian language#Nomenclature. —Cuiviénen 22:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Pls see Talk:Main Page/Archive 83#The 10k's and Talk:Main Page/Archive 83#Provide a way to get to all the Wikipedias. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 21:51, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  iranian wiki 

message: Give me a break; where's the frickin' proof. And the article itself condradicts the headline!!!  READ: "Using a combination of the previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, Barman found strong evidence for water absorption in the atmosphere of the planet."
New theoretical models???  HELL-frickin'-O!!!!!  
And "strong evidence" does not constitute a discovery, unless you're dealing with super sloppy standards, and a low bar for proof. Maybe the operative word "strong" should have read "kinda strong" or maybe "deeply-felt" or "smacking". But is it really, "unmistakeable," "decisive," or "persistent." 
Hey, maybe somebody needs funding, give it to them; but don't say things are true unless they absolutely are beyond a reasonable doubt.  PLEASE!!!!
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" [Carl Sagan]  --Charlesrkiss 03:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please join the discussion at Talk:HD 209458 b #Water vapor discovery question.  If the line on ITN needs to be re-phrased, please post a new line at WP:ERRORS or WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 04:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Unless it was changed, you also seem to have missed part of the headline - it reads "...water vapor in its atmosphere", not "water".  —AySz88\^-^ 04:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And it should actually be rather surprising that we've never detected water vapor in the atmosphere of extrasolar planets, not the other way around; every planet in our system that has an atmosphere has at least some water vapor in it. Saturn, IIRC, has a higher percentage than Earth. —Cuiviénen 05:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't care about the above discussion, however I think someone should point out Charlesrkiss's less than civil comments. There's no need to use less than savoury language to get a view point across & doing so only shows that you can't find a better word  & must resort to swearing. Anyway, just my 2 cents. Spawn Man 05:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What swearing?  "Frickin" is to "    ing" as "darned" is to "damned".  "Hell" may be considered verboten by some Christian groups, but is perfectly acceptable among Catholics and probably most non-Christians.  70.23.169.146 10:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a theory. In about 100 years, everyone will be speaking English, and in about 101 years, everyone will be speaking German. At least the Übermensch! :)--Scheibenzahl 19:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Ah! The IP speaks. ;) Thansk for the reply, but the second part of my comment was hypothetical whilst the first was directly relating to the above comments. So no, he/she did not swear, but in my hypothetical explaination I was giving that person did. Thanks, :) Spawn Man 11:47, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Exactly. The story is that they now (hopefully) have a better idea of how to detect water on other planets. Detecting stuff like this is not easy, you know. It's difficult enough detecting the planets themselves! Carcharoth 02:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "... is discovered to contain water "  (???)    ....uh, yeah, right. 

message: Maybe the ITN section should be renamed to "In the Olds". What's the point of it if it lists events from three weeks ago as current? 89.172.155.225 01:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, right.  It's "In The News", not "Currently In The News".  If ITN is not current enough for you, please consider helping out and update wikiarticles with recent news materials.  Only those articles that are well updated can be used on ITN. Thanks. --PFHLai 06:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Please go to WP:ITN/C to post suggestions for ITN. Thanks. --PFHLai 06:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In the Olds" 

message: Kk, quick question. Why does User:Wikipedia redirect to the main page? 71.154.153.209 07:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Wikipedia is wikipedia, whose's page is the main page. Or something. Maybe... Nil Einne 07:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Schobeiri would be the one to ask.  (S)he was the one who redirected it.  ShadowHalo 08:09, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There actually was someone who registered that username and made a few edits before being blocked (obviously).  After that time, the page was created and deleted several times  before Schobeiri decided it would be best to have a redirect there. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

text: maybe a better redirect would be the Community Portal? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.155.136.77 (talk) 04:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  User:Wikipedia ??? 

message: Could put that in holidays and observances.
DandyDan2007 17:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget Emancipation Day in Washington, too. --199.71.174.100 19:06, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Patriots Day is already added. Just added Emancipation Day for next year. --PFHLai 05:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patriots Day in Massachusetts today 

message: Is the discovery of extra-solar water vapor on this planet really news-worthy anymore?  It's been on for a really long time. EDIT-Forgot to sign. --Geoffron 19:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it's not news-worthy.--Katherine Kaiquser 00:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you know of wikiarticles better updated with more recent news materials, please post them at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --PFHLai 05:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: It certainly is newsworthy, otherwise it would have been removed or not inserted in the first place. The only way for valid In The News items to be otherwise "removed" from the main page is for them to be pushed off the bottom of the list as newer items are added to the top. In The News isn't magic, it relies on people suggesting new items at WP:ITN/C. Recently there have been very few candidates for inclusion. As mentioned above, if you'd like to help out, please do. --Monotonehell 10:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HD 209458 b 

message: The Louis Vitton Cup is beginning this evening in Valancia, Spain. Perhaps someone should feature the America's Cup article as this is the third biggest sporting event in the world. Thank you. --Conner5553 12:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: America's Cup is not a featured article.  ShadowHalo 13:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe for ITN? --Howard the Duck 14:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The "Louis Vuitton Cup" article may become a featured article if someone (Conner5553 & friends?) can substantially expand and improve this article. Happy editing. :-) --PFHLai 15:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Idea for a feature article 

message: Instead of on the front page saying a school shooting, put the name of the gunman now that he's formally been identified. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.98.125.108 (talk • contribs).
: Suggestions for ITN are best discussed at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --PFHLai 18:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virginia Tech massacre 

message: I am a member but I forgot my user name,  i wish to continue to contribute content to this section of Yahoo but I cannot sign in.  Please help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.11.12.188 (talk • contribs).
: If you remember what you've previously edited, you may want to go back to those articles and check the edit history. 
: Please feel free to start a new account. You are also welcome to edit in Wikipedia (not Yahoo) as an anonymous contributor. If you need further help, you may want to go to Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance). Good luck. --PFHLai 19:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  forgotten username 

message: This should be added to the news section.  --Kalmia 03:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A request has already been made to WP:ITN/C.  However, the relevant article, Itchō Itō, has scant information. - BanyanTree 04:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayor of Nagasaki dies after being shot 

message: Salicylism syndrome results from mild chronic intoxication of salicylates (e.g. aspirin, diflunisal etc.). It is characterized by headache, dizziness, ringing of the ears (tinnitus), difficulty in hearing, dimness of vision, mental confusion, lassitude, drowsiness, sweating, thirst, hyperventilation, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. 
Timoy Pacis, RPh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.161.158.242 (talk) 04:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears identical to that described by Salicylate sensitivity and I have redirect Salicylism and Salicylism syndrome as such. - BanyanTree 04:47, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salicylism 

message: It's outdated. It currently points to m:Help:How_to_start_a_new_Wikipedia, which itself states to be obsolete. I'd like someone to change it to m:Meta:Language proposal policy since that is currently the correct policy. -The preceding signed comment was added by Nazgjunk (talk • contrib) 07:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Thanks for the note. - BanyanTree 08:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Start a Wikipedia in another language" link 

message: Just a question:  where would a discussion about putting this current event on the main page take place?  Here or in the article concerning the federal ban itself?  I think it's important enough to warrant inclusion on the main page.--Swattie 16:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can use WP:ITN/C. --Howard the Duck 16:30, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supre Court Decision in Partial-Birth Abortion Ban 

message: The US Marine Corps featured Article 17 April.  This article reads like a schoolboy scrapbook.  Too much padding and obscure detail whilst missing key points.  Much of the detail could be packed off to separate pages eg badges of rank.  More pertinent information required eg the Corps problems with homosexuality, narcottics, war crimes and poor training so readers can benefit from Wikipedias ability to be up to date.Everef 21:30, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As stated in the banner at the top of the page, "This page is for discussing the Wikipedia page 'Main Page'."  If you have comments about an article, please discuss it at that article's talk page.  ShadowHalo 22:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The point is the standard for Feature Articles main page, has deteriorated considerably and the selection criteria seems to be nothing but 'is it good enough'. Why is the Wii on the front page? Are people really that uninformed about an electronics product that was released within the last year?--Dacium 02:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I have had no inclination to find out about it at all up until now, but, thanks to the FA, I know more today than I did yesterday. Bazza 12:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The only real criterion for a page to be the TFA is that it be a featured article. The whole point is to show off Wikipedia's best written articles, not the most interesting.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text:  Dacium, if any of the featured article candidates is not up to your standards, please voice your opinion there, and please be encouraged to edit them to your satisfaction. This is a wiki. --PFHLai 18:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  They are up to standard, what I am saying that the main page shouldn't simply be a featured article. It should be an article about something of considerable encyclopedic value. Wii Information can be found anywhere easily. Information that is sources from books etc. is hard to find online. WP:Featured_articles, certain sections (namly Computers and video games) get to much attention. Consider all of world history and look how many history articles are featured... what 100 articles from all of world history, while video games have just about as many? Its really quite sad, but I guess that is the nature of a computer based encyclopedia, but it is surely the reason why academics don't take this site seriously, because you come to it and its featured article is Final Fantasy or Wii...--Dacium 21:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is easier for people to write about what they like than to force people to work on something they don't. aka Systematic bias. The Placebo Effect 21:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text:  Look on the bright side: Wikipedia is pretty strong in fields that are not traditionally academic fields, and at the same time, we have many FAs on academic topics.  I don't think Wikipedia is set up to cater to academics, but for the general public, or anyone who has internet access.  Let's not worry about the few closed-minded academics up in the ivory tower.  If you really think it's a problem, please be encouraged to work on articles in academic topics and get more of them featured.  We'll read them, too. :-) --PFHLai 01:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured Articles 

message: Today's the day, after all... :) Oh, and apparently it was recognized by the City of San Diego in 2005: .  Mdiamante 23:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia does not have any information on National High Five Day. So there isn't a wikiarticle on this to put on MainPage. This also seems to be too minor, imo. --PFHLai 15:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No [[National High Five Day]] mention? 

message: Hi I've recently been usurped, and my contributions weren't copied.  I was wondering if an admin or beurocrat could fix this.  NOTE: My discussion page was copied, but not my contributions (EDIT: Well they were sent to User:Kkrouni, not Kkrouni usurped).  (I was Sony trademark vs dell trademark before)--Kkrouni (usurped) 23:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, Kkrouni! Just so you know, this isn't the place to post this. Try Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations. ffm ✎talk 00:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  My contributions weren't copied 

message: :moved to WP:ERRORS by ffm ✎talk on 13:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, no it isn't.  Corvus cornix 20:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was, its just since been removed. Check the history at Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 22:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did You Know - Laki eruption 

message: How come when looking at the Main Page's history, the view is different then on other pages and there is no log button (though it's still accessible at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Main_Page ? --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 19:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This occurs because of some CSS designed to hide the word Main Page from the title. Apparently, this also hides other parts as well. ffm ✎talk 21:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Log button not available 

message: To all people who edit Wikipedia, what do you think is the best featured article? Hadz
: Hadz, you'll get a better response at WP:VP. --74.14.19.53 22:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mini survery 

message: Is there this article in ITN? Russian to US tunnel.  , cause it would be nice, request? premisson to create? It will be called TKM-World Link. -- Pseudoanonymous 02:24, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ordinarily I'd suggest you make a suggestion at WP:ITN/C. But this one is a bit too much pie in the sky for now. There'd need to be a verifiable announcement from the authorities that it definitely was going ahead before it could be considered. Also the article has very little information. Not really ITN material. --Monotonehell 09:37, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supertunnel 

message: Since the use of Parser Functions is now encouraged, I am requesting that the FA section's code be changed to:  and the On this day section's code be changed to: . Thanks, ~ Magnus animum (aka Steptrip) 22:51, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Main Page still uses the default magic word variables of the MediaWiki system: }, }, and . If these were actual templates, I might agree with you. But AFAIK, they take either about the same, or even less, processing time. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I seemed to see, everywhere I turned, the sentence "This template is depricated please use m:ParserFunctions instead, but I didn't know that the same rule applied for Magic Words. ~ Magnus animum (aka Steptrip) 23:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Magic words beat ParserFunctions at any time. Usually, they're server variables, or variables declared in LocalSettings.php, so they do not have to pass through the parser, as ParserFunctions do. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 07:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New coding format 

message: the main page image for Dhaka has no source. it's from world66, a user generated site, but on that site, it has no authorship information, so our usage of it breaks the CC-BY license. bogdan 15:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have replaced it with :Image:Dhakarushhour (54).JPG. the wub "?!" 15:53, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Nice catch, bogdan. Quick fixing, wub. Good job !  :-) --PFHLai 19:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I'm not used to editing the Main Page so was triple checking everything! Is it protected? Yep. Is it still protected? Yep. It's still protected right? ;-) And yes, thanks for pointing it out bogdan. the wub "?!" 22:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dhaka picture 

message: HEELLLPPPP!!!!! SOMEONE'S REPLACED THE ENTIRE MAIN PAGE! SOMEBODY PLEASE (pardon my language) DAMN HIM FOR ETERNITY! --Ryanasaurus0077 10:07, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow... Who unprotected the Main Page? All things considered I think maybe it wasn't the best idea... Piet | Talk 10:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's fixed now. --60.228.55.167 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I hope the admins know about this
:How do we tell them? Now back to normal but unprotected. Sentinel75 10:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Did Stephen Colbert tell his fans to vandalize Wikipedia again? --293.xx.xxx.xx 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All is fixed now. --60.228.55.167 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think we are under attack 

message: ::No admins around???? Are they asleep? Madhava 1947 (talk) 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, I'll keep watch over the page and revert any vandals. Karrmann 10:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just reverted it back to an unvandalised state. Meh. Idiot vandals. Darkmind1970 10:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Admins!!

message: where is "Adolf Hitler is born" under "on this day" 65.1.27.111 04:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't do birthdays on the WP front page (unless it's a nice round number, like Leonhard Euler's 300th last Sunday) Otherwise, all the birthdays we would have to put on would dominate "on this day". Borisblue 05:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: See April 20#Births. --74.14.18.233 11:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the guidelines for selected anniversaries/"on this day", births and deaths can only be used on centennials, etc. Hitler is only 118 years old. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: How did I know that would happen? It did take longer then I thought it would, though. --LuigiManiac 17:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is Madness! 

message: I was wondering if someone who had athority here could put somthing about how this is a reliable site on a page here becasue teachers say that this is not reliable.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chessmaster3 (talk • contribs).
:Your teacher has a point, if he or she is saying that you shouldn't cite it in papers.  See Criticism of Wikipedia. - BanyanTree 12:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And indeed, this is NOT a reliable site... It might refer to reliable sources, but this is NOT a reliable SITE. Oh my God! - irrªtiºnal 16:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: It's an encyclopedia. You shouldn't be citing encyclopedias at all. The Wikipedia is very helpful for giving you a general idea about a topic and for pointing towards reliable sources, though. The References section at the bottom of many articles is great. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 17:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to disagree. Wikipedia is of course different to other 'pedias because it's not paper. The depth that Wikipedia goes into on many subjects, with individual articles on the early lives of historical figures, hundreds of elections, books, songs, concepts within concepts, famous sketches from TV shows, etc., not to mention the WikiProjects co-ordinating work on specialist subjects, makes the coverage seem anything but general in my view. --AdamSommerton 22:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Uhh, why does that mean that you should suddenly be citing it? It has a lot of depth, therefore it is reliable? I didn't say the coverage was general, I said it shouldn't be used as a reference. No teacher/professor/instructor above high school level would accept an encyclopedia as a source, and many high school ones won't either.  -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 07:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Anyone seen the vandalism in this guys contribs? Ironic :) 81.77.73.180 19:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Which guy?--74.13.127.204 07:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is no more unreliable, and probably less, than any other mass media outlet: television, newspapers, books, magazines, radio. Usually you get information from one person or group, but since Wikipedia is written by anyone it's more trustworthy, not less as some might think. That's my two cents anyway. --AdamSommerton 11:46, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To play devil's advocate, a lot of the content in this encyclopedia is reliable. You just have to know how to use it and know that citing it may not be the best thing to do. Overall, though, it have good content that is for the most part, reliable, but should be taken as if it were actually not reliable. Be skeptical about what you read here! └Jared┘┌talk┐  12:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home Page Question 

message: For the article count, why is it 1,750,344 and not 1.750.344? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.170.51.155 (talk) 21:52, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Manual of Style for Wikipedia tells us to use commas, as this follows the common practice in the English language. timrem 22:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For more detail on why, see Decimal separator. —Cuiviénen 04:06, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commas or dots for numbers? 

message: Congratulations, everyone, on having over 1¾ million articles! Keep up the good work; we're almost to 2 million! Does anyone know what article 1,750,000 was? 68.162.53.85 03:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't keep track of these things...do we?--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 03:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We used to. Maybe on the 2-millionth article... --Howard the Duck 07:07, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: While the number is large, and the quantity of subjects is something to behold. The fact that many of those articles are poor stubs, newspaper style reports or not near FA status is more of a concern. Quality over quantity! --Monotonehell 09:02, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milestone 

message: I like the current look of the main page. It's classy and elegant, and not at all flashy. However, some may consider it a bit boring (actually, so do I...). It's interesting to note that the English wikipedia is one of the simpler main pages, like the German and French main pages. However, some other languages, like the Indonesian are more colorful (and more friendly), and full of icons. The Italian Wikipedia is downright shiny. I read somewhere on this talk page that the main page is periodically revamped. When will this happen again? How can I get involved? I suppose it could be tedious and time-consuming, but probably a lot of fun. Thoughts? Goldfritter 09:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Use some of the Wikipedia:Main_Page_alternatives as your personal main page. ffm ✎talk 11:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow. That's a nice and simple way to put someone down. =/ . I don't want to customise my Wikipedia. I want to improve everyone's Wikipedia. I go back to my previous question: Is the main page going to get redone in the foreseeable future? Or should I leave it alone? Goldfritter 12:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was redone a few months ago, so I don't see it being redone in the near future, may be in 2008. IMHO the Main Page is fine enough, I don't like flashly pages, since it distracts attention away from  the content. --Howard the Duck 12:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To Howard: thanks. To FireFoxMan: sorry - that was uncalled for. I realise that you're just trying to help. Goldfritter 13:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "A few months ago" is actually "over a year ago" now. If there is enough support for it being redone, i could see it happening, but be warned that people only like incremental changes. —Cuiviénen 12:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And thanks, again. Where would people go to show their support? To be honest, I think that we should wait a few more months, but if it could happen now, that would also be cool. Goldfritter 13:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: (reindent)Check out some of the links in Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ#Is there some way to make the Main Page look better?  I'm certainly not going to reopen months of discussion over multiple options requiring six archives back when the user base was much smaller, but that's just me.  As I recall, consensus opinion back then explicitly stated their distaste of Italian Wikipedia's design, so it may be worth checking out details before proposing it as a template. Cheers,  - BanyanTree 19:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Gradient overload. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 07:32, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Please note that it's impossible to cater to all fonts and screen sizes.  What looks fine on your monitor may look unbalanced on another, or vice versa.  When MainPage appears to be out of balance, with a big void on one side, please let admins know at WP:ERRORS. Sometimes an old DYK or ITN item can be pruned to reduce the difference in length between the two sides. Thanks. --PFHLai 12:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look of the Main Page 

message: Out of interest, what are we going to do when the number of archives of the main page talk reaches 100? It will do so in a few weeks - do we expand the box, add a page or... what? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 15:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just expand the box to include 101 through 110--VectorPotentialTalk 16:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually if you look at the code for the box, it's already there. It just has to be uncommented or something Nil Einne 17:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I added the next line in after we were on archive 94 or so, IIRC. ffm ✎talk 00:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  What do you expect ? The same thing we did for the 1 000 000-th article ? :-) --74.14.18.233 11:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Party like it's 1999! Vanderdecken: don't worry the issue is at hand. But the question to ask is when will long be too long? When will the archive box outgrow this talk page? --Monotonehell 13:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess we will just have to archive the archives! We will just have to put a link to Archives 1-100 or 1-50 at the top, and the rest will stay like it is. ffm ✎talk 13:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about keeping it simple like what I've just done? Feel free to revert, I'm just being bold. --Monotonehell 09:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: YOUR BOLDNESS SHALL NOT BE TOLERATED... uh... personally, I like it with the archives showing, regardless of how long it is. We can always shrink the font size. GracenotesT § 21:58, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I continue to be bold *chest forward*! ;) I like it with them showing also, but we're talking long term here when the list becomes very large. I'm unsure if smaller font sizes are a good idea, depending on people's monitor/resolutions, but why not give it a try and see what you can do with it? (be bold yourself) --Monotonehell 10:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Instead of nano-fonts, perhaps we can use a mini-scrollbar. Just a thought. --PFHLai 20:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  We tried a scroll bar recently with the TOC, it was not well received to say the least. :( --Monotonehell 11:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text:  May as well try it... we'll see if there are any complaints. GracenotesT § 13:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive 100 

message: ...that Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
Yeah now I'm wondering how i can sleep tonight. --Fertuno 16:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no requirement for a cricket article in every single DYK. However DYK, as with all things we feature on the main page are strongly dependent on what contributors contribute. In the case of DYKs in particlar, it is fairly common that we get a rush of newly created/improved articles in one particular topic when a contributor decides to work towards them. This happened a month or two ago with Eurovision songs for example. For balance reasons, there should generally not be more then one DYK on one particular topic per refresh. Therefore, when we get a load of nominations for one topic, you will usually see one for every DYK until it runs out. For some topics and areas, cricket, India, the US, Australia for example, there are a lot of contributors interested in these subjects so we tend to get a lot of DYKs in these areas anyway. Nil Einne 18:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I was being a little facetious, of course.  It just seems like there's been quite a lot of cricket lately.... HiramShadraski 22:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be surprised if Brian Lara makes it to ITN, lol. --Howard the Duck 06:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do you know... 

message: i dont know what im doing
or what this wikipedia thing does.
would someone like to explain?
i thought it was a encylopedia
when all it looks like is a place to "post" comments of some sort...
makes me wonder if the stuff i read off this so called "encyclopedia" is even true...
i dont understand....
Oh so andrea 12:46, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia Nil Einne 13:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Oh so andrea, you are here on Talk:Main Page where we discuss the contents on Main Page of this encyclopedia. Every encyclopedic article in Wikipedia has such a discussion page for contributors of each page to discuss how to improve the article.  Please visit Wikipedia:Community Portal to find out more about contributing to Wikipedia.  There are links to various help pages and other resources. If you need assistance, please type  on User Talk:Oh so andrea, your own user talkpage for communicating with other contributors. Hope this helps. --PFHLai 13:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  encyclopedia...or just a hoax? 

message: Is this happening only to me?  Currently on my computer the text of TFA doesn't wrap at all; instead it rolls right through the In the News block and continues on one line...I have to scroll horizontally through several screens to see it all.  
This may be my old software (IE 5 on Mac OS9) but I don't think so — it's only happening with the TFA, and only in the last few days — maybe something from that vandal attack mentioned above?  DYK and OtD also "overflow" their frames for me, but they wrap and are legible.  I'm running the default skin btw.  —Turangalila talk 14:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken frame? 

message: Just giving you guys a heads up. JHMM13 19:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where?--74.13.128.93 03:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't see any problems right now. In future, please post a note at WP:ERRORS (above) for such problems with MainPage templates. Response is usually quicker there. Thanks. --PFHLai 13:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today's Featured Picture template messed up 

message: It's one of the biggest discoveries of the century and it doesn't even get mentioned on the main page.... wow.... 01:17, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For suggestions on "In the news", please post a message on WP:ITN/C. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, Gliese 581 c should be listed in Portal: current events. To get mentioned on the main page, the relevant articles in wikipedia must first be updated. Wow, what? Start working! When you are done with the updating, please post a message on WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --74.13.128.93 03:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's on ITN now. --PFHLai 12:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't Gliese 581 c be listed in current events? 

message: :Moved to Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance). --13:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  help us in our project of Wikipedia in ancient greek 

message: The (more...) link at the end of the Featured Article is gone.  Was this intentional?  It now looks like the opening paragraph is the sum total of the article. 129.22.194.137 15:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe it was removed since you can now click the title to get to the article (although having "(more...)" might be a better idea). --Howard the Duck 17:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Humm...looking through the templates, it wasn't in yesterday's either, nor any of the upcoming ones. Can't find an explanation anywhere, though.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: This is how it used to be, until a number of people (including me) pointed out that this led people inexperienced with Wikipedia (such as myself when I first visited) to think that the first paragraph was all there was, and not know where to click for the rest of the article. The 'more' was added, and I have not seen anyone complain about it since (although some did complain that it was unnecessary at the time it was proposed). So why has it vanished now? It is not intuitive that the first word should be a link to the article, if you are not experienced in wikiways. Skittle 22:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I am not sure if it is an error or it is done deliberately because the last one to have the more link was the April 22 FA. Every one since then, including the new ones added to this month's queue that have yet to appear, do not have it. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is no accident. Sine we added it, I've never been particularly fond of it. It makes scheduling them easier and less error prone. IMO, it didn't add much and was redundant. Raul654 00:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know you've never been fond of it, but it's only redundant to people who are familiar with Wikipedia. The main page is aimed at new and inexperienced users especially, surely? I've searched, but I can't find the removal discussed anywhere. 217.43.138.193 10:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Without the "more" it looks like the summary is the whole article. You could read the summary, think "nice article", and then move on without realising there was more to read. Clicking on the first word, or the bolded word, is not intuitive. I think the "more..." bit should be restored. Carcharoth 13:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with every point in Carcharoth's argument, and add that even as an experienced user, I find the "more" helpful as a reminder that the article is merely a summary. I didn't even know for the first few months I was on Wikipedia that the feature wasn't just the first few paragraphs of the article. New users in particular will not be aware that by definition, a Wikipedia featured article is extensive. Lawikitejana 21:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add my name to the list of people advocating the restoration of the "more" link (or something similar).  As stated above, this is an important indication that text visible on the main page isn't the entire article (something not obvious to all readers).  —David Levy 03:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Count me in as well. Please, sir, I want some "(more...)" at the end of TFA templates on MainPage, even if Oliver Twist is not a featured article (yet). I click that link at the end more often than I click the first one. --PFHLai 12:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to more 

message: The "anyone can edit" portion of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" on the Main Page links to Wikipedia:Introduction. While Wikipedia:Introduction appears to be a normal page, it in fact is a sandbox where people are encouraged to edit the page with what ever content they choose. It doesn't seem appropriate to provide a Main page link directly to a posting such as this or an advertisement for their company. -- Jreferee 15:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure I understand your objection. You seem to be complaining that anyone can edit the page with whatever content they choose, and so the page might contain something inappropriate. How is this different from any other (unprotected) page on the wiki? – Gurch 10:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think Jreferee wants that 'sandbox' at Wikipedia:Introduction raked clean more often/regularly.  'Inappropriate' content will be removed quickly, as in any other unprotected wikipage. --PFHLai 12:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 

message: Often, when an article about a subject such as Scooby Doo is featured, there's no free images which can illustrate the topic, and fair use images aren't allowed. Nevertheless, the page feels unbalanced without an image in the top left since every other section has one. Therefore, what about using :Image:Featured article star.svg? It's not perfect by any means, but at least it keeps the main page feeling balanced. I've created a test here, demonstrating how it could work. Laïka 16:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since :Image:Featured article star.svg is the logo for "Today's featured article" (see Wikipedia:Featured_articles), your proposal make sense and I agree with your proposal. You might want to run your proposal by Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/requests. -- Jreferee 16:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How about a pic of a Great Dane that looks like Scooby Doo? --Howard the Duck 16:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: When there's absolutely no way around it, Raul (the FA director) regularly allows fair use images.  --  Zanimum 17:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Or not, I see. I thought you were referring to an upcoming FA, but I see it's already happened.  --  Zanimum 17:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what's being discussed is a Main Page policy.  Fair Use seems increasingly unpopular among the higher ups, but AFAIK it isn't a bar to FA status.  On the Main Page, though, FU images are verboten. —Turangalila talk 19:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't think it would be good because it would make the readers think that the Star has something to do with Scooby doo itself. Just an opinion. Tourskin 05:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured articles without a suitable pic 

message: Again, why are there " " marks for Operation "Law and Order". These are unnecessary and seem to be mocking the name a violation of NPOV. I know its not exactly critical, but taking sides in the Iraq war is a serious violation of NPOV. Tourskin 21:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Quotation marks removed.  The irony doesn't really need to be highlighted. - BanyanTree 05:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  A few days ago, there was a request at WP:ERRORS and also at ITN/C to have "L&O" italicised. I looked up the article and saw that "L&O" was indeed in italics there, so I made the change on ITN. I have no clue how the italicizing became double inverted commas or why "L&O" is no longer in italics in the article. Very strange..... --PFHLai 22:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotation marks 2 

message: Persian Wikipedia has reached 20000 article, would you please update your main page?--Pejman47 00:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If I remember correctly, it's still 5,000 short.  ShadowHalo 00:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: you are right, I thought your threshold was 20000. (It seems you had changed it some times ago)--Pejman47 01:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Hmm... there are only 9 (nine) admins at the Persian Wikipedia   ;D Camptown 20:30, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persian Wikipedia 

message: It really seems to me that the front page features a disproportionally large number of articles relating to the game of cricket, people who play cricket, and things done by fans of cricket. Living in the western part of the United States, I don't even know if it's possible for me to view a cricket match, yet somehow (thanks to Wikipedia) I know more about the sport than would generally be considered healthy for someone from the colonies. What say we ratchet it down a bit and let some other subjects float up into the spotlight for a while? VictorTyne 09:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a factor of systemic bias. There's a lot of editors involved in cricket related articles and a major competition is currently being held. As a result a lot of cricket related items are put forward for main page inclusion. There's also a lot of these cricket related suggestions that get rejected. If you would like to see more other topics in ITN for example, you can help by finding suitable articles on Wikipedia, having a look at the criteria and submitting some. --Monotonehell 10:01, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The CWC's championship match is today so that'll explain it. --Howard the Duck 11:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a specific request Raul654 16:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Much Cricket 

message: There's been an earthquake in England, at 8:18 am this morning, at least 4.3. While it may be piddly in terms of recent earthquakes this is ENGLAND - we don't get them!!!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070428/tuk-earthquake-shakes-southern-england-45dbed5.html Lady BlahDeBlah 10:29, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We do get numerous every week but can't be felt, I have no idea why this has to do with the main page or in the News. AxG ҈ ►talk 10:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The item has been suggested for inclusion into In The News here Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates but it needs to be brought up to a standard so we can work out if it's on international interest or importance first. The article to get up to standard is here 2007 Kent earthquake. Please help if you can. --Monotonehell 11:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earthquake in the UK 

message: Spanish Wikipedia has reached 200,000 article, would you please update your main page? Dazissimo 17:01, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The next tier is "more than 250,000 articles."  The Spanish Wikipedia is up to 228,216 articles.  —David Levy 17:05, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the second time this has happened. Moving goal posts! I wonder if any of the language Wikipedias will be unfortunate enough to have this prize moved away from them at just the speed they are growing at... (yes, I know, quality, not quantity). Carcharoth 00:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you will see the goal constantly moved. The whole idea is there are not more than there already are on the main page. To keep this many there is a constant increase in the goals.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dacium (talk • contribs) 01:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Wikipedia 

message: Should be included in the Bronze Soldier part. Christopher Connor 00:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the suggestion. A link to 2007 Estonian unrest is now on ITN as suggested.  Please post future suggestions for ITN at WP:ITN/C. Thanks. --PFHLai 05:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

text: It's now off Mainpage due to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 Estonian unrest. --PFHLai 08:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorporate [[2007 Estonian unrest]] 

message: Today 5 of the 7 suspected bomb plotters were jailed for life on terrorism charges. The article currently covering this is Operation Crevice. What the consensus putting this in the 'in the news' list? Jamie 15:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The place to ask would be WP:ITN/C.  ShadowHalo 15:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Bomb plotters sentenced to life 

message: I've noticed a small defect on the POTD. A dust spot IMO. I removed it as the POTD is locked I uploaded the edited picture at . Ericd 22:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see any difference between that and :Image:Catoptrophorus semipalmatus edit.jpg. Maybe it got uploaded over the old pic by now? Carcharoth 00:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

text: No ! Compar both pictures at full res. You will notice a small spot on the neck. Ericd 00:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. Yes! Well-spotted. This is not really the right place to get the correct image uploaded though. Maybe ask over at Wikipedia talk:Featured pictures? Carcharoth 00:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thread started here. Carcharoth 00:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of the day : Willet 

message: I don't want people to think that wiki is just brushing this under the carpet... God forbid.
-G
:Jeez, man. Before you accuse people of having political motives behind everything they do, stop and think for a moment. It could be an accident. It could be an oversight. Or it could just be that the world doesn't revolve around the USA, and that Wikipedia is trying to represent a more global, cosmopolitan, multi-cultural attitude. Seriously, it's an inappropriate way to express your political views, by setting yourself up on some pedestal and accusing others of evils without assuming good faith. Chill, dude. LordAmeth 23:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which works by contributions from anyone. Your pet story hasn't appeared firstly because Wikipedia is an enyclopedia, not a news service. If you're interested in breaking news  why not report it at  wikinews which is our sister project for just that. Secondly, if this news turns into something that an encyclopedia should have an article on, as was the case last year volunteers will create an article. There's no centralised control at Wikipedia that is responsible for brushing anything under the carpet. If an article is written about a subject it's firstly because someone cares enough to contribute it and secondly because it's a topic worth documenting by an encyclopedia (not a news service). --Monotonehell 23:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with that is most people don't even know about Wikinews. I never knew about any of WP's sister projects until I actually became an established editor. Even then, I still don't edit a lot anywhere else except for here. Therefore, one should take this into consideration when dealing with inexperienced people. Please try not to bite the anons.--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 23:53, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if people are not aware of wikinews (which is linked to on the main page in ITN), they should be aware that this is an encyclopaedia not a news site. Besides that, I would suggest anyone who has visited the wikipedia main page more then say 5 times in several weeks and is aware of world events should know that we don't always mention undoutedly important events for a variety of reasons Nil Einne 07:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

text: This is a wiki. Go to Portal:Current events and start typing, G. --74.13.124.59 00:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

text: G, you are probably looking for Portal:Current events or Wikinews. Please go there to post news headlines. Not every news story gets mentioned on the main page. Please see Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page. --74.13.124.59 07:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No mention of the mass immigrant demonstration currently going on in the U.S?

message: moved to Foucault Pendulum vector diagrams Nil Einne 20:53, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong diagram 

message: Someone redirected this to Mainpage-url and it's been vandalised, it's fixed now but can sum1 protect it.--User:Rock2e  Talk - Contribs  20:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The link to the page unredirected is here and is still unprotected.--User:Rock2e  Talk - Contribs  20:34, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  some admin decided to break it, I guess they were bored or something – Gurch 20:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Page link in sidebar 

message: This is not as simple as about a protest against a government. This is popular opinion on one hand, but also a powerful military threatening - in public - a government. This is about a country that after a 1960 military coup (one of many), passed in 1961 into their constitution that the military have political power through a security council. i.e. a more descriptive heading would have all three heads involved, public opinion, the military threatening the government, and the government. --Leladax 23:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please draft a new headline and post your suggestion at WP:ITN/C. --74.14.17.57 03:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turkey's news read a bit uninformed 

message: Is there a forum where all the users of wikipedia can chat generally (not rude things!)or just "hang out" if not i think there should be a link on the main page discussing general things on wikipedia and other user privilages. This might then encourage more users to join wikipedia and other projects. Wiki.user 20:51, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Try WP:CHAT or WP:VP. --74.13.126.166 21:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Registered Users 

message: I was looking at the main page and it made me wonder, how do I delete my account? -- 05:25, 2007 May 5 (UTC)
: JohnOw, it's odd that looking at MainPage would give you such an idea.....  Too much wikistress ? 
: I'm afraid Wikipedia accounts cannot be deleted, as edits you've made will always be attributed to you / your account. (See m:Right to vanish.)  Maybe it would be easier to just take a wikibreak and come back whenever. 
: Hope this helps. --PFHLai 06:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete my own account 

message: In DYK, Philadelphian is spelled wrong.  DandyDan2007 07:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Admins can work on this faster if this was posted at WP:ERRORS. --Howard the Duck 11:15, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philadelphian spelled wrong in DYK 

message: I clicked tomorrow's main page on the discussion page for the Main Page, and the featured article for tomorrow, is the same as for today, fix it!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brent Ward (talk • contribs) 20:28, 5 May 2007  (UTC) 
:It's not. Try purging your cache (Ctrl-F5). —Cuiviénen 22:54, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tomorrows main page