Talk:Main Page/Archive 28

message: The US Election Irregularities page has been popping on and off the front page for hours now. While I write this it's been removed. Is it going to go back up? What's going on? Personally, I think it deserves the coverage, it's a solid article.
:I agree Pedant 04:16, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
:I second this --Howrealisreal 19:28, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree as well --Quintin3265 22:29, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Election Controversy: On the Front Page or Not?

message: Arafat is not "Boston Red Sox Logo"... --205.189.150.1 00:25, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hahaha, yeah, I just noticed that, I was just about to post this myself. - Bloodshedder 01:39, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, after screenshotting and before logging in. Oops! (That page is publicly editable, BTW, which is why I, a lowly n00b, was able to fix it, though I wanted to leave it.) Suntiger 03:54, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arafat's picture 

message: whats up w the font on the dixville story? Sam [Spade] 01:08, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news 

message: Hi guys, This morning a controversial dutch filmmaker(Theo van Gogh) has been murdered in Amsterdam. He was attacked by a man and a woman, and stabbed to death. The man has been arrested, still looking for the woman. See this article on cnn: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/02/netherlands.filmmaker.reut/index.html
I don't know if it is important enough, thought I'd notify you guys
nice combination of jacques plante and clint benedict
What's up with the pro-John Kerry ASCII art? Is Wikipedia offering an endorsement, or was the main page HA><ORED? --Feitclub 13:13, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)
:Option number three, simple vandalism. Don't give the vandals more credit than they deserve. -- Cyrius|✎ 13:56, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: In the news 

message: Something's odd about the picture for the featured article at the moment, it's not very baroque at all. Lisiate 23:02, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed (not by me) Gwimpey 23:12, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks to however did so, I see the article has now changed anyway. Lisiate 00:24, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article picture 

message: The current featured article para begins: "The Lord Chancellor, is one of the most senior and important functionaries in the government of the United Kingdom." It could really do with losing that dreadful comma, please. :) 
Oh and while I'm at it, the reference to "Tony Blair's ministry" does not, I think, work in UK English. Tony hasn't got a ministry! (No jokes please.) But I'd defer to the view of a person with some UK constitutional knowledge here. 82.35.17.203 00:59, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord Chancellor 

message: There must be a link on the main page to some low-bandwidth-friendly version of the page; preferably no-tables and no-text (which can have links to the intermediate variants), for wireless users. Readding a link to the no-tables version, which is as close as we come to that ideal; it in turn has a prominent link to the text-only version (which has none of the first four sections at all).  +sj+ 22:23, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: added your note to the Wikipedia:Technical FAQ , as a start for wireless users. Ancheta Wis 11:23, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to low-bandwidth Main 

message: I want to ask if there is anyway to filter out those Wikipedia copy offs like BrainyEncyclopedia in a google search?  --Voidvector 08:29, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
they are annoying! I usually repeat the search with a characteristic phrase of the WP article text excluded. dab 15:09, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google search 

message: Can anyone tell me definitively whether a child's parent has to be left-handed to be left handed?  I have a child that seems to be preferring her left hand and neither parent is left handed.
:There's a hereditary component to it, but there must be more than one gene involved. It's quite possible for a left-handed child to have both parent right-handed. Don't blame the milkman just yet.-gadfium 23:44, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Left-handed child

message: Could someone please link the word encyclopedia on the main page? Walden 01:09, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
:If you click Wikipedia, it has a link to encyclopedia. I think that people decided that there would have been too many links in the first sentence and that it would have been tiring to the eye. You can actually edit the welcome template, which might get reverted, however. Ancheta Wis 07:13, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Main page link for "encyclopedia"

message: The "Anti-French sentiment" link (pipeline with "Anti-French violence") should be removed and made plain text. Currently. "Anti-French sentiment" redirects to "Anti-French sentiment in the United States". I think it's highly misleading to have a link in an African news story go to a US-specific article. Dale Arnett 16:04, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Côte d'Ivoire story: "Anti-French sentiment" 

message: The main page of :simple: and its talk page seem to have been redirected to en:. Does anybody know why this is and – if not intentional – how to fix it? --Eddi 17:36, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The main page seems to be back to :simple:, but the talk page still redirects here. --Sum0 18:04, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The main page was still redirected here (that or it was revandalized after Sum0 checked).  I hacked the URL a little to get there without redirect, and reverted away the redirects.  I also left a note encouraging an admin there to protect the main page. Jwrosenzweig 22:53, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where has [[:simple:]] gone? 

message: Did you know...
From Wikipedia's newest articles:
...that in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on 1 January 1940?
:the text of this suns across the image of a freeway. Sam [Spade] 17:52, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  formatting error 

message: I am getting the chance to edit in a computer store on a 24"-diagonal LCD monitor, basically a personal wide-screen TV, 1920x1200 pixels, about 2.3 A-size pages, or about 2/3 of a C-size engineering drawing. The Main Page is awesome at this width. The .jpg files which I have previously downloaded show up beautifully at this width, what with the fast connection and all.
:Can we get a picture? Sounds cool! - Ta bu shi da yu 04:38, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wide screen Wikipedia 

message: There's a factual error on the front page. Actually, Eid ul-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, not the last day of Ramadan. Eid ul-Fitr falls on first Syawal, not on the 29th or the 30th of Ramadan (depending on the length of the month). __earth 01:25, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
:It may also be worthy of note that there were two Eid ul-Fitrs this year: one marked by Saudi and the world (13 November); the other marked by ISNA and North America (14 November). Ostensibly, this was because ISNA felt they could not possibly sight the moon early enough for Eid to be on 13 November. My guess is that the author had a North American-centric view, but I would like to point out that ~ 90-95% or more of Muslims would have fasted and ended their fast with Saudi Arabia. 207.112.45.96 02:36, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Eid ul-Fitr

message: Should we have a link to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page on the main page? Wondering simply, -- Infrogmation 17:12, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good! I'm glad it's there now. -- Infrogmation 23:59, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commons