Talk:Main Page/Archive 84

message: Hi! The link to the Wikipedia in Spanish should be in "More than 100,000 articles" instead of "More than 20,000 articles". It has more than 170,000 articles. Thanks. --Kokoo 08:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone had mixed up Esperanto and Espanol. I've swiched the two, and both Wikipedia en español and Esperanto should now be listed in their right place. Thanks for spotting it! Shanes 10:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia en español 

message: How do you start a new category? xx
:Just edit the page, and add supercategories to it. Ideally, every category should form part of a tree, so :Category:Politicians from Turin would be categorised under :Category:Natives of Turin and :Category:Italian politicians, for example. In the future, you may find you get quicker/more helpful responses to such questions if you ask them on the Help Desk. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 16:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: Today's Featured Article says "Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer....." Was he not still a Russian when he died (despite working/living in several countries)?  Would it be better to change it (and the main article) to read "Igor Stravinsky, émigré Russian composer.....?. Moriori 22:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Today's FA

message: well, i think it would be a good idea if there was also a primary school and secondary school addition. To you get my idea? (I'm calling it primary and secondary school by Australian terms)
Pece Kocovski 02:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ... It's only a name. 80.41.251.238 13:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: ... See the Questions page on Wikiversity. 195.188.152.14 00:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  You know that there is a Wikiversity 

message: why all versions of the "Main Page" have been removedall of a sudden??
Synchronicity I 17:51, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The list in question did not contain anywhere near "all versions," and it's because of this misconception that it was removed.  Please see #Provide a way to get to all the Wikipedias.  —David Levy 17:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ALL LANGUAGE VERSIONS removed!!

message: Why isn't there a QotD section on the front page? Didn't there use to be one?
:Uhh I don't recall there ever being a QoTD section. Maybe you're thinking of WikiQuote? Nishkid64 00:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; in the two years I’ve been here, I have never seen such a section. — Knowledge Seeker দ 00:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: This was proposed during the recent (months ago) makeover, but not adopted. -- 64.229.205.116 15:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote of the Day 

message: Wikipedia is getting close to having 1,500,000 articles! What do you think the 1,500,000th article will be? Voortle 18:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We're 250 away. I'm going to F5 and look at the NewPages to see what it is. Nishkid64 18:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that idea. Most of the articles are speedy deleted, so it would be mighty hard to find which article will be #1,500,000. Nishkid64 18:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1,500,000 articles pretty soon 

message: I think I should just let you know that there is no longer a searching option on the main page.
User:David Levy removed it here. Is it supposed to be missing?--TomI edit my userpage too much, 18:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The searching menu item has been replaced with Contents as per previous discussions. There IS still a searching option in the side bar. Contents is a much more helpful list of ways of broseing WP content rather than a redundant seaching item. --Monotonehell 00:49, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also note that I recently added a Wikipedia:Searching link to the search results page.  —David Levy 04:21, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something missing 

message: Should we put up a main page banner for 1,500,000 articles?  I was thinking something like this:
The English-language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,500,000 articles!</font></font>
What do you think?  (We don't have too long to decide :-) —Mets501 (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As opposed to "The English-language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for their obsessive interest in television, music, movies, sports, anime, pokemon, and geography"?  Dragons flight 20:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's wrong with that? Nach0king 12:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text:  I like it, I would say go ahead. --WS 21:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Alright, so which was the 1.5 millionth article?  --Xyzzyplugh 21:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: We just hit 1.5Mi; I put up the banner. Feel free to modify. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry, I put up the duplicate banner. Thanks for removing it :-) --WS 21:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a problem :). Generally the main page isn't edited directly, but rather edited through templates. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: We're looking likely for Kfar Shmaryahu being 1.5m. haz (talk) e 21:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not conclusive yet though--the contest seems to be between Kanab Ambersnail, Hotel Torni, and the one you mentioned. We won't know for sure for some time, so let's just try to stay calm :D. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text:  A 1-sentence-stub is the 1.5 millionth article? That's a great  joke. --32X 21:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Articles are being deleted like crazy. The first "substantial" article created after 1.5m seems to be K. A. C. Creswell. haz (talk) e 21:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think the "winner" would be the 1.5 millionth, regardless of whether it's substantial or not.  We can always make the hotel or mulusk article substantial, after all.  --Xyzzyplugh 21:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Given that we delete about 1 article for every 3 that are created, it could easily be significantly earlier in the new pages log than one would otherwise expect from counting backward. Dragons flight 21:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We should follow the example of the millionth article, which picked the millionth article created, whether or not articles before it were deleted or not. See this discussion--TomI edit my userpage too much, 22:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I like it, but the only problem is that whenever I see that color banner I think that I have a new message on my talk page :P. Koweja 22:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm personally rooting for Kanab Ambersnail. --Czj 23:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, I agree that's the one with the most potential.  --  Zanimum 18:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was so sure I'd be the first to find #1,500,000. And then I just stopped F5'ing lol. Hotel Torni ftw. Nishkid64 00:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I definitely agree. I've changed it. —Mets501 (talk) 00:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it from "Thank you" to "Thanks". Thank you just doesn't sound right. Nishkid64 00:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Take a look at Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles. --WikiSlasher 01:22, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banner? 

message: i need to get some information on the facts regarding drug screening for methamphedamine and the duration it can be detected in you system (blood & urine)  thank you
:This page is for discussing the Main Page, you may find that you get a more accurate answer in a shorter time if you ask this question at the Science Reference Desk. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 21:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You are probably looking for methamphetamine. --WS 21:27, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say they should be after drug rehabilitation... — ceejayoz talk 02:43, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  drug screen info needed 

message: Please answer in 1 paragraph. (Its for my grade 9 science project and I need to know please. I will cite this page on my project (im not gonna plagiarize) :-) thanx. --Storkian 00:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the wrong place for questions like that. We don't do your homework for you. --Majorly (Talk) 22:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Try the reference desk, where you can make questions like this.--201.212.138.202 02:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whats the difference between a pigment and a dye? 

message: Just wondering. Which article was th 1,500,000th article on the English Wikipedia? Simply south 23:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See above... it's not certain yet, but it has been narrowed down to four or five possibilities. --Czj 23:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Who cares how many articles there are? It's quality articles we need, not tons of average ones. LuciferMorgan 18:34, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1,500,000 

message: is it just me or does the wikipuzzle globe have another piece on it so that it looks more complete?The Pink Panther 03:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the logo acts as a doomsday clock, counting the days until Jimbo launches his master plan to take over the world. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 06:45, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just you. Sorry.  was last edited in June 2005. —Cuiviénen 20:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ?

message: What was this article? Was there a reason it wasn't included, as Jordanhill Railway Station was?Freakin Duh.
:See above. Noone happened to catch it at the right time, so it's a case of rounding to the nearest one that remains fairly stable at that figure. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 06:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please calm down your tone. The banner's only been up for a little over a day, and it will be coming down shortly. In the mean time, you can try reading one or two of our other great articles besides the main page :P. AmiDaniel (talk) 12:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1,500,000 

message: A new low I guess, an obviously Photoshopped image on the front page - a picture that's supposed to represent a real place. In an encyclopedia. Very nice. 68.231.49.252
:Which one? — ceejayoz talk 04:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The user is most likely referring to :Image:Hills_south_west_of_Sanandaj_near_the_village_of_Kilaneh.jpg which at a glance might look photoshopped. JoshuaZ 04:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cool, doctored pictures 

message: This might be the wrong place for this, and I apologize if it is, but on the Featured Article I think it would be a lot better to have the Duke Chapel or at the very least the Emblem featured as the picture to go with the Featured Article for today rather than those science buildings.angie stevens 'shirley ' They're much more interesting to look at and represent Duke a lot better.
Suggestions:
100x100px
:Image:Duke shield.PNG
Mientkiewicz5508 03:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The third wouldn't work, as fair use images are prohibited while there's another option. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 09:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Not a bad idea, Mientkiewicz5508, but it's too late now. Next time, you may want leave a message on the talkpage of the FA template in question, or on The TFA director's usertalkpage. You may get a quicker response. --PFHLai 19:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Duke Picture

message: Why does the Emperor Penguin travel such distances as part of the mating instinct?  Why don't they stay near the sea so they can obtain food instead of starving themselves and remain with their mates?  69.40.184.248 03:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This page is for discussion of the Main Page only; you can make your question at the Reference Desk. Good luck!--cloviz 04:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emperor Penguin 

message: Is it just me or did the Duke picture get messed up? 
This is what it looks like for me: 
Image:DukeFA.PNG
Nishkid64 17:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me. --Majorly (Talk) 17:13, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Hmmm...strange. What's even weirder is that this is only happening in Firefox. It appears perfectly normal in Internet Explorer. Also, the picture was normal yesterday when I last went on Wikipedia. Nishkid64 17:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It works in my Firefox. Have you tried cleared your cache? --Majorly (Talk) 17:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I cleared my cache multiple times to no avail. I also went to the exact page for the FA, and the image looks the same (disfigured and all). Nishkid64 17:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that is weird. Have you checked the exact picture file? Otherwise, I'm all out of ideas :S --Majorly (Talk) 17:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I did. What's even stranger is that when I click that disfigured image, I'm linked to the proper LevineScienceResearchCtr.jpg image, and it looks all normal. I have no clue what happened. Nishkid64 17:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Haha, this is crazy. It has now changed to the Wikipedia black "W" (except it's 10x as huge and is distorted). Nishkid64 18:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: [Insert Twilight Zone Music] Looks perfectly fine to me in my Firefox as well. -- tariqabjotu 18:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks normal to me.--TomI edit my userpage too much, 18:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks pixelized in my Firefox window. Oh well. Could we please change the picture to something slightly more interesting? Like the Chapel perhaps? I mentioned this yesterday, but it hasn't been addressed yet. Boring science buildings aren't very representative of the University.
Mientkiewicz5508 20:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I see it fine in Firefox. Try clearing all your temporary Internet files, clearing your cache, and reloading. Prodego talk 20:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This frequently happens to me on various websites - the images "replace" one another. Most of the time, a hard refresh (CTRL+F5) works for me, as well as clearing the cache. Kalani [talk] 02:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duke Picture 

message: If IGN.COM's message boards are among one of the most popular on the internet, then what IS the most popular? Do we even know? And if so, will we need to start up an article about it? Or the website that hosts it? Zabrak 17:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to internet forum the largest forum is 2channel (which as you can see we have a quite substantial article on). http://www.big-boards.com/ is a site that ranks internet forums by size, but it doesn't seem to include Japanese sites so 2channel is not listed. the wub "?!" 18:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Please be reminded that this talkpage is intended for discussions on topics related to MainPage only. --PFHLai 19:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IGN.COM's message board is among the most popular? If that's the case then... 

message: The above 20 000 article group is not under alphabetical order. Could someone fix that? Thanks, --Vanka5 00:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I'm not sure how Danish and Czech got to the wrong place. —Cuiviénen 00:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I second that Quiddity-statement. --Monotonehell 06:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia languages 

message: When you mouse over the links, it gives the two letter prefix that the link goes to (e.g. Français shows "fr:").  However, there are two problems with this:
#It is not user friendly--mousing over a name in a foreign language does not give the English language equivalent for someone who is curious as to what the language is (especially important for Arabic, etc).  Instead, it gives a useless two letter abbreviation.
#Telugu bucks the trend, and instead of the two-letter abbreviation, gives the full name.
Either Telugu should be fixed, or all the mouseover texts should be changed. — Dark Shikari talk/contribs 02:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea!  Just wrap the language name in span tags, as I did here for French.  That should get the English word for the language and the interwiki prefix on mouseover. —Mets501 (talk) 03:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, 'tis not difficult to do at all. Lemme give it a shot .. will be up in a minute. AmiDaniel (talk) 05:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done Let me know if I screwed any up. AmiDaniel (talk) 06:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You screwed up. LOL ... Shouldn't Catala be Catalan? Would you consider using non-breaking spaces on the two word languages so they don't break over a line?   Just a thought. Great job by the way. --Monotonehell 06:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And done again :). AmiDaniel (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exxxxcelent... :) --Monotonehell 07:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sweet, good job =) — Dark Shikari talk/contribs 11:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language links at the bottom of the main page 

message: As of late we have recognized that as a community, we need to focus more on quality than on quantity. Yet we continue to prominantly list the number of articles on EN (at the top, left-hand corner of the main page) while hiding the less-impressive total of Featured Articles. At the very least, we should list the two figures side by side. We're doing just fine in terms of numbers of articles but badly in terms of F.A.'s Let's stop patting ourselves on the back and start listing the number of F.A.'s on the front page. --Zantastik talk 23:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I won't push it; community consensus is important, and furthermore, the main page really *is* for readers, not wikipedians. The former won't know anything about featured articles, but they will be impressed with how many articles we have. Still, of course, our focus as wikipedians needs to well-written articles (FA or not), not quantity. --Zantastik talk 01:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality/Quantity FA 

message: Ten articles of high importance and unspectacular quality should be placed onto the front page each week. Maybe replace DYK, lawl. OK that was mean Rampart 01:01, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:AID. There are also lots of collaborative projects for specific WikiProjects. DYK rocks! (I think) Nishkid64 01:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're both right. Articles on DYK are typically around a Start class on the Article grading scheme - they're "solid", but not necessarily the best we have to offer. DYK rocks in that articles featured in the section seem to attract a lot of good contributions without the crapstorm that hits every Featured Article on the Main Page. It also works to greatly boost the enthusiasm of new editors who've had their work picked out of Special:Newpages (which is happening a lot more often recently). GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 01:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but I'd just like to mention not all articles in DYK are start class. List of South America tropical cyclones was a list that I found in DYK that I nominated at WP:FLC. It ended up becoming featured unanimously. Tennis DyNamiTe (sign in) 02:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaborations on front page 

message: Any chance of a picture of Correa going up, someone who's just won an election, instead of Balkenende, who may well have lost his premiership in an election days ago?--Nema Fakei 12:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree but it'll help if you suggest this in a better place. As the info at the top suggests, you should start of here Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page before you end up here Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates Nil Einne 13:10, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: News Picture

message: Eh, what happened to the Wiki logo?  Who is that?
:Note that this occurred around 1:25-1:30 AM EST.  Wiki logo returned around 1:35 AM EST.
was that vandalism? --Darrendeng 10:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the... 

message: Any particular reason there isn't a link to (Wait! see below -- this isn't the link I meant) MediaWiki from the English Wikipedia Main Page, for example among Sister Projects?  Is it because they don't want people going there unless they've been around long enough to find it somehow? --Coppertwig 12:40, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The link "...a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:" gets you to the list of projects which then mentions Mediawiki at the end. Is that enough? --Monotonehell 14:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Mediawiki among sister projects? 

message: I propose to reduce the number of links on the main page to put more emphasis on the important topics, and to make the text easier to read. So only the links that are bold at the moment should stay (as plain links). At the moment, the page is really a mess. --Nina 13:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a little torn on this proposal. On one hand this is hypertext, on the other hand I agree it currently looks a little over linked. How do we decide what is "important" or not. I often click on links to get context for the main subject. --Monotonehell 14:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, things are over-linked compared to the rest of the Internet, but this shows how we cover every aspect of important topics.  --  Zanimum 17:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

text: As long as the other links besides the bolded ones are relevant to the main links, they should remain.  For example in taoday's FA (Jaws) 'Steven Spielberg' and 'Great White Shark' should remian linked, but perhaps 'Amity Island' should not be, as it is linked in the article itself as well.  Only the most relevant parts deserve links.  At least that's my two cents. Antimatter 21:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  But what if someone wants to learn about Amity Island, but thinks we don't have a seperate article on it, and gets discouraged, because they don't want to fish (no pun intended) through the article for little bits and pieces about the locale?  --  Zanimum 22:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose. When it is linked on the main page, that reduces data entry into the search box and makes it easier to browse for first time users, who are the ones you want to start reading the encyclopedia. Have you tried setting your options not to underline the links, and to merely leave them blue, but not underlined? Ancheta Wis 23:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reduction of links on the Main Page 

message: The entry about the Japan Diet refers to the Reichstag as an institution, which is wrong here, it should point to the Reichstag building article.
See "On this day"-box November29 1890
:Next time, post any Main Page errors at WP:ERRORS. Nishkid64 00:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wait, the Japanese Diet is a legislature and so was the Reichstag. There is no mistake. Nishkid64 00:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please correct 

message: Today's DYK has "...was destroyed no fewer than four times between ..." .  Is there any reason why this verbose phrasing is used instead of simply saying "...was destroyed four times between ..."?  Or is Wikipedia trying to take a position on the significance of this event? MrVoluntarist 18:13, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's possible that they meant "no fewer, but perhaps more", though "at least" would have been more appropriate in that case. GreenReaper 18:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Fixed. Please consider using WP:ERRORS for fixes like this in future. :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 18:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I did consider posting it in WP:ERRORS, but figured it wasn't appropriate for there since it's not so much an error, as a stylistic issue. MrVoluntarist 18:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, Errors is the place to go if you want something small looked at/changed quickly. This page is for either proposing changes to the page itself, rather than an entry on one of its templates, or for large, potentially controversial complaints such as the eroticism/pornography debate above. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professionalism and cutesieness 

message: <fun>
This can't be a coincidence!! We've got two abbey artilces in DYK, Corcomroe Abbey and Marmoutier Abbey. Also, the FA is History of erotic depictions, and we all know how abbots and nuns and monks are depicted in certain movies ;) Todor→Bozhinov 18:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We've received a disproportionate number of articles on churches and abbeys at DYK recently, oddly all by different contributors. I guess it's just an area Wikipedia is currently lacking in. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The joke aside, that may well be the case. I can tell you for sure there's a lot more to add about interesting Bulgarian Orthodox monasteries and churches, for example, because that's a sphere I'm interested in. And I'm personally fine with displaying abbey articles on the Main Page :) Todor→Bozhinov 21:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if you create a referenced new article of a fairly decent length about a monastery or church that has at least one fact about it that might be interesting to a general audience, feel free to submit it to the DYK suggestions page. Around 60-90% of submissions are self-noms, so don't be shy :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 18:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbey bias!111one 

message: Please can you explain why the catergorised search had been altered. Also, please check the User: AntiVandalBot because there have been a load of complaints about it's behaviour and has blocked 10 users reasonless. Yours sincerely Xersyd 16:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that Antivandalbot doesn't have the ability to block people, why exactly should we take anything else they claim seriously? GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 14:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Complaint

message: While the polonium poisoning themselves are still quite big news, the focus has now shifted from Litvinenko himself to Mario Scaramella and possibly Yegor Gaidar. Perhaps ITN could be rewriten to something like "Mario Scaramella, a contact of secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, has also tested positive for polonium." Laïka 20:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polonium 

message: Should we not have the spelling as Tsar instead of Czar Alexander I as that is the spelling of its Wikipedia page and is generally held as the correct usage  BritBoy 18:11, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: General held to be correct - care to cite a source on that? I believe both are sufficiently common as to be correct. Raul654 18:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't matter. --Ineffable3000 21:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar#Etymology_and_spelling BritBoy is right, and Czar should be changed to Tsar, and has already been. Preston 21:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Austerlitz 

message: NOT appropriate for the first page, please change it. Some kid might take a look at guys holding guns, and might think it's a minor step. Then tell their friends about it. Homicide, suicide, are all inexplicably linked to awful front page Wikipedia articles. Those kids might start to buy or steal guns, shoot each other while quail hunting, and then finally start leading armies of moral destruction. Take this article from the featured list, the front page. You'll slow the moral degradation in our country. falsedef 05:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point." WP:DISRUPT --Haizum 08:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Comments made on a talk page are not disruption (and are the reason why talk pages exist), and are neither intrusive nor change the content of articles or state of Wikipedia's content system WP:DISRUPT falsedef 09:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unnecessary repetition is disruption - I guess I'm guilty too. It's either that or simple vandalism via spamming. --Haizum    μολὼν λαβέ 11:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

text: The Battle of Waterloo is not "bad", but naked people are? I think that violence is a far worse thing to portray and/or glorify than sex. 4.247.62.107 16:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: War picture/article

message: NOT appropriate for the first page, please change it. Some kid might take a look at mountains, and might think it's a minor step. Then tell their friends about it. Erosion, diagenesis, earthquakes , are all inexplicably linked to awful front page Wikipedia articles. Those kids might start to buy or steal rocks and survey equipment, dig holes, and then finally start leading armies of moral destruction. Take this article from the featured list, the front page. You'll slow the moral degradation in our country. falsedef 05:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point." WP:DISRUPT --Haizum 08:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographic picture/article

message: NOT appropriate for the first page, please change it. Some kid might take a look at guys learning, and might think it's a minor step. Then tell their friends about it. Learning, free thought, empowerment, are all inexplicably linked to awful front page Wikipedia articles. Those kids might start to buy or steal books, and visit even more free thought websites. Take this article from the featured list, the front page. You'll slow the moral degradation in our country. falsedef 05:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point." WP:DISRUPT --Haizum 08:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Educational picture/article

message: Why is a picture of a woman's private part in the "Did you know"? This is ridiculous. BhaiSaab talk 00:00, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's called education. 58.178.23.191 00:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't see any such image. It was probably a case of vandalism that has been taken care off. Jeltz talk 01:06, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless you thought that :Image:Elden Mountain, USGS.jpg resembles a women's "private part". --May the Force be with you!  Shreshth91 08:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you really squint your eyes... Titoxd(?!?) 08:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

text: No, that wasn't it. The picture was there for 30-45 minutes and then I think some admin replaced it with text before that mountain picture came. BhaiSaab talk 21:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The only change on the mountain update was to add another entry for length. There were three changes to the one before that, but two were just fiddling with the image caption, rather than the image itself, and the third was a grammar fix. Both images were deleted after being c-uploaded, but I can tell you from looking at the deleted versions that at no point were they replaced by an offensive image. There were also no replacements made over the Commons versions of the two images. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 14:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are so many reports of various pictures which no one else seems to have seen. Sometimes it may be the case a wikimedia and/or user computer bug causes the wrong image. Sometimes it may be vandalism which was quickly picked up so no one else saw it and the admin who fixed it didn't say anything. Some cases it may simply be people who are mistaken and/or trolling. Personally I suggest we ignore reports which don't at least include a screenshot (although that's easy to fake). I'm somewhat doubtful that a picture of a vagina could be on the main page for 30-45 minutes without anyone else noticing so I would suspect it was either my first suggestion or my last Nil Einne 08:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 30-45 minutes could have been caused by his web browser cache. It could have really been there but obviously not for that long. Jeltz talk 23:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To me, if you say an image was there for 30-45 minutes it means it wasn't in the cache i.e. you've accounted for the cache. If I find something strange, I usually open a different browser to at least account for browser cache (it's easier then alternatives). This obviously doesn't account for ISP transparent proxies so I usually mention that I haven't accounted for them (I could tor but I don't bother) 14:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there a picture of a woman's private part...

message: I just want now how it's receaved the idea of forking because of some recent developments  with the way fair use rule is interpreted.If your not awhare of the isue see thies three link's to make an opinion.--Pixel ;-) 22:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the wrong place for posting this and I don't think that those links would help the uninitiated get any idea of the complex and problematic fair use. Jeltz talk 22:52, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And you think ther's a good place too post this?--Pixel ;-) 23:00, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Village pump is where you want to be. howcheng  {chat} 03:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fork wikipedia over fair use policy