Talk:Main Page/Archive 58

message: I'm very new to this posting business and apologise if this has already been covered or is in the wrong place!
I've been searching wiki pages forever trying to find out if it's possible to add a Wiki search box to the toolbar in one's browser.  IF this exists, perhaps it would be something to mention on the Main page so that people would know that this is possible and know where to look for the information.  I'm sure it's probably mentioned in some obviuos place, but I've been frustrated in my attempts to find it and there are no links from the main page that seem like the obvious choice to click when looking for such information.
(If this isn't possible, perhaps someone clever might consider implementing it?  I know I end up turning to Wiki more and more these days and often use my Google search box as a wiki search box by typing 'wiki xxxxx'.)  
Thanks much--and again, sorry if I'm making noise in the wrong places! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.51.49 (talk • contribs) 
:: If you download Mozilla Firefox you can have a wiki search (amongst many others).  There's also one here by the look of things.  Jellypuzzle | Talk 14:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested addition to mainpage 

message: Hi!
Why are here no InterWiki-Links to other Mainpages? (Like :de:Hauptseite)
--84.176.3.145 14:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: there are. sorted by number of articles. dab (ᛏ) 14:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is very nice to sort the Interwiki-links by number, but wy isnt there a normal interwikifield also . I wantet to copy the list into another main page in armenic. I found the Links after reading this discussion. Im not able to find the links in the view of page. Please add a normal Interwikifield immidiatly its been used hardly. yours ++Scooterman 15:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  InterWiki 

message: The information presented in the front page is incorrect.  Exception is made in case where the mother's life is at risk . FWBOarticle
: Seems to be fixed already (not by me). -- PFHLai 18:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Dakoda Abortion news need correction

message: I don't get it, Wikipedia started working fast again last night, but now it's slow. It's really killing the incentive to edit when I have to wait so long for it to open. I don't think it's a problem with my local server, because every other website works fine. Please fix this really annoying speed problem. JackO'Lantern 17:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You may want to try the Village Pump instead of Talk:Main Page. -- PFHLai 18:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia speed

message: Wikipedia makes me mad! Why can't we edit or change featured articles!!! Ugh! So much for the website of the people BY THE PEOPLE and for the people! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mizuphd (talk • contribs) 21:18, 2006 February 23 (UTC).
: Don't be mad. Only the lead paragraph of a featured article is protected from editing because it's on the Main Page. This protection is meant to prevent vandalism. You can still edit the feature article itself. You just can't change what's on the MainPage by yourself unless you are an administrator.  -- PFHLai 01:43, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why can't we edit or change featured articles!!! Ugh!!

message: === Reference to bomb ===
Perhaps you could change the phrase bomb attack to link to Al Askari Mosque bombing instead of bomb and move the bolding from Al Askari Mosque to bomb attack? Thanks in advance. joturner 00:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Re-wikified as suggested. Thanks. -- PFHLai 01:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

text: It was indeed misleading. I've re-written that headline on ITN into two simple sentences. I hope it's okay now. -- PFHLai 01:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Al Askari Mosque bombing 

message: Perhaps you could change the phrase bomb attack to link to Al Askari Mosque bombing instead of bomb and move the bolding from Al Askari Mosque to bomb attack? Thanks in advance. joturner 00:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Re-wikified as suggested. Thanks. -- PFHLai 01:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to [[bomb]] 

message: The Headline "Over 100 bullet-riddled bodies, including 3 journalists, are found by the Iraqi Police the morning following the bomb attack in Samarra, Iraq that badly damaged the Al Askari Mosque (pictured), one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam." is tremendously misleading. It implies that 100+ bodies were found in one place, when in fact it was several separate incidents, which are suspected reprisals for the bombing. How about this:
"Over 100 civilians are killed in Iraq in several incidents suspected to be reprisals for yesterday's bomb attack in Samarra, Iraq, that badly damaged the Al Askari Mosque (pictured), one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam."
Also, the link should go to the page about the bombing, not the mosque.-Matthew Cieplak (talk) (edits) 01:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was indeed misleading. I've re-written that headline on ITN into two simple sentences. I hope it's okay now. -- PFHLai 01:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading headline 

message: Why about the Mexican flag?
Gdatta 01:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the problem ? -- PFHLai 04:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Featured articles for an explanation on why the articles are chosen, Gdatta. κаллэмакс 12:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mexican flag

message: Most English speakers know this organization as Doctors Without Borders.  Would it be a good idea to put this in parentheses after the French name?  Thanks.  --Nelson Ricardo 00:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny, the adverts for this organisation in the UK use "Médecins Sans Frontières" rather than "Doctors without Borders", and I vaguely recall an ad in Australia using the same name — though most of the charity ads kind of blur together after a while. I assume by "Most English speakers" you refer solely to the U.S.? If so, the difference is already noted in the lead paragraph of the article. GeeJo (t) (c) • 05:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, being American I am pretty much US-centric.  C'est la vie.  --Nelson Ricardo 18:16, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Confirm in UK its known as "Médecins Sans Frontières" or occasionally MSF only very rarely "Doctors Without Borders" Pickle 23:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature Article 

message: The picture going along with todays featured article seems to be... lacking. Its just a few people standing around. A more appropriate picture may be the orginizations logo, or a more obvious and interesting picture of a member of the group actually doing something.
:Yeah, why not use the logo? And on another point, I think it should be mentioned somewhere in the lead that it's also known in english as "Doctors without borders". I didn't know they were the same organization untill I read the article. Borisblue 12:18, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea they should have mentioned that --T-rex 06:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Médecins Sans Frontières picture 

message: I'm not sure how it should go because I didn't read up on the story or anything but the wording about the Irish Republicans is wrong. schyler 01:10, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure why this complaint was retracted but the idea that this riot was "staged" is not borne out by the facts: a demonstration was staged, and the riot happened because of a variety of factors, including police reaction and large numbers of people spontaneously joining the demonstration.XmarkX 12:08, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Inthe News

message: Shouldn't World Trade Center bombing be bolded and not Ramzi Yousef? --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 05:49, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Either way, it's okay. Neither page is a stub, and both contain the date. It depends on which page the wikieditor-in-charge wants to feature. The former link was bolded, i.e. the page was featured, in 2004, the latter in 2005 and this year. Perhaps the former will be bolded again in 2007.... -- PFHLai 09:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected anniversaries 

message: I happened to notice that all links are now underlined. I personally find this very annoying and it makes pages with a lot of links hard to read. Think maybe we could reverse it? Jezpuh 12:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can set links to be either underlined or not in your preferences. --Cherry blossom tree 12:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underline? 

message: The trapped miners in the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster in Mexico are presumed dead after rescuers encounter toxic levels of natural gas that halt search efforts. joturner 04:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The trapped miners in the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster in Mexico are presumed dead after rescuers encounter toxic levels of natural gas that halt search efforts.
-- joturner 13:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It says so now. (I didn't fix it.) -- PFHLai 06:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mine Disaster Headline 

message: Today's feature article description for February 26, 2006 says "This would be one of the causes for the declaration of Brazilian independence by Peter I of Brazil in 1823". The declaration of independence happened in 1822, not 1823. The article was already fixed by the time I got there, but the front page still has this.
-- MauricioC 13:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  —David Levy 15:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today's feature article description for February 26, 2006 

message: It's not correct to use the name Bonaparte for Napoleon with reference to 1814. He was just Napoleon at that point; the Powers had even let him keep the title of Emperor after his abdication. A better link would be Napoleon I. --Cam 19:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected anniversaries: Napoleon 

message: The sails of the Sydney Opera House are spherical surfaces, not hyperboloid. The roof of the Sydney Myer Music Bowl (located in Melbourne, not Sydney)has a hyperboloid roof.Norm Tered
: This old DYK item is no longer on the MainPage.  Please see Talk:Hyperboloid structure#The Sydney Opera House does not look hyperboloid at all in this picture. -- PFHLai 07:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did you know? 

message: Should we make it bigger?  You can't tell too well what it's showing, and it looks sloppy, I think. Clarkefreak ∞ 02:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The image in question is no longer on the MainPage. Anyway, we usally display images at about 100px wide. We don't have that much space available on ITN. One can always click on the "thumbnail" to bring out the actual image file for a better look. -- PFHLai 07:56, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In cases like this, it may be advantageous to make an agressively cropped copy of the picture so that the main motive remains large enough in the thumbnail. Zocky | picture popups 11:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Riot Picture? 

message: On the main page, in the olympic article reference, the word "Defenseman" is mis-spelled as "Defenceman".
*Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "defenceman" is the English spelling of the word and "defenseman" is the American spelling of the word. EdGl 04:23, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeap, that's correct. Please see Defenceman (ice hockey). --PFHLai 07:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Defensemen" yields 613,000 google results and "Defencemen" yields 129,000. Why is wikipedia biased towards the least popular version? Anti north-americanism against words now? That's silly. That's like saying "Theatre" just to spite people. And I don't think that using a wikipedia article as a reference is valid in this case. I'll take up my spelling crusade in the article itself, since it won't be on the main page for long. --Jeff 14:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have outlined my reasoning for this change at Talk:Defenceman_%28ice_hockey%29. --Jeff 14:35, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Jeff, you may want to check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling). 'Defenceman' with a 'C' is perfectly fine in Canada, the other North American country, just north of the United States. It's not out of spite, btw. It's just the way things are. -- PFHLai 15:57, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  mis-spelling of "Defenseman" 

message: Under DYK, "Deep in the Heart of Texas" should be surrounded by quotations and not italicized per Manual of Style for titles.  I would appreciate an admin making quick work of this problem. Thanks so much! — Scm83x talk  07:01, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed as requested. Thank you for pointing this out. -- PFHLai 07:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[Deep in the Heart of Texas]]" italics in DYK 

message: She wont 'definatly' become the next Prime Minister as currently cited on the main page.  She's very *likely* to be after P.J. Patterson steps down.
P.J.steps down (since she becomes the new leader of her party), fresh general-government elections will have to be called, and thats---- where she could lose becoming Prime Minister if her party does not win the *most* constituencies/seats in Parliament.  In order for a new carbinet to be selected in Jamaica fresh general elections will have to be called. See Westminster System. CaribDigita 12:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Except that a fresh general election is not expected to be called, and instead the Governor General is expected to name her the next PM. Anyway, I've changed "will become" to "set to become" to make things sound like 'definat'. (This is a *cute* spelling, btw. ;-) ) -- PFHLai 15:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a toss up.  She has remained quiet on whether or not she is going to hold snap elections. As seen in the caption on the Gleaner , and as far as the Governor-general, the G.G. can only do what P.J. or she says.  The Governors-general is purely a ceremonial role in the Caribbean these days.  They- just like the Queen of England wield no power in the Caribbean states these days.  I don't know what I was thinking writing "definite" that way.  hehe There's one for the books.  I was in a rush heading to work that's all I can say. CaribDigita 19:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Jamaica Portia article reads erroneously 

message: You know, Gore actually won for popular vote, but Bush for the electorial vote. Now that we have ways to judge the popular vote, I think it should go by that. What do you think? Dragon Expert 19:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The vote 

message: Everyone's been so caught up in the frenzy about the millionth article that they forgot how close we were to one million users. Well, today (February 28, 2006) at 2:02 UTC, we passed the mark with the creation of User:Romulus32. [] the creation log with this user. Jfingers88 03:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly so, but I value people more than just pure quantity of information. If we have over a million users, no matter if half are sockpuppets, we are still reaching many thousands of people. Jfingers88 14:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting to see how many are post the imposition of the "account to start a new page" and sprotection, if those figures are available... --Kiand 18:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1,000,000th user 

message: for multilingual Users or because of domains with the same language it should be possible to seek topics domain-independant, i.e.
there should be also the possibility to seek all subdomains for a topic, in case, its a rare topic not everywhere available. so please add 'seek in all countries' to the menu or make it the standard setting
:Wikipedia is segregated by language, not country.  Not too many people know more than three of four languages.  --Nelson Ricardo 17:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean linking to other language versions of the same article? We have that already in the form of interwiki links. For example on Neil Armstrong check out the "In other languages" section of the left-hand menu bar. Evil Monkey - Hello 19:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Not a bad idea: Why don't you bring it up at the Village pump?  freshgavinΓΛĿЌ  02:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I think you mean is it possible to search ALL language domains for a topic. I don't think this is possible with the Wikipedia search and I agree that this would be nice to see on the multilingual portal www.wikipedia.org, but I know that it is possible to do this kind of search when you do a Google search restricted to the domain "wikipedia.org". That works for me. I also saw discussion of something that might also be of interest (an interwiki checker tool) here and here. Hope that helps. Carcharoth 11:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikipedia.org Portal 

message: Why Mărţişor in Romania and Martenitsa in Bulgaria are mentioned among selected anniversaries, while Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian Maslenitsa (which is the same) is not? Why Russian anniversaries are always ignored? --Ghirla -трёп- 16:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I posted a question on Talk:Maslenitsa weeks ago asking for the 2006 date.   No one replied. We are not ignoring Russian anniversaries, but people familiar with Russian anniversaries ignore me. Please, someone, add the dates to the article.  Is it the same as Mărţişor and Martenitsa ? -- PFHLai 21:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your explanation. Maslenitsa lasts all this week, from Monday to Sunday, so it's not too late to announce it tomorrow ;) --Ghirla -трёп- 10:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Check the MainPage on 'Forgiveness Sunday'. Okay ? :-) BTW, I find it interesting that without Ash Wednesday in Eastern Christianity, ash is still involved on the last day before the Great Lent.  What a coincidence! -- PFHLai 15:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who selects anniversaries? 

message: *50 article only to reach 1M --Zayani 23:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: less than one hour and 999,950 article

message: It took just over 5 years for Wikipedia to reach a million articles. If extrapolation continues this same way, it should have 2 million articles in mid-2011, 3 million articles in mid-2015, and so on. This is what my vote on the new Wikipedia:Ten-million pool is based on. Any bad thinking this involves?? Georgia guy 23:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is growing at a rate that's closer to exponential than linear. Of course, we may start running out of encyclopedic subjects eventually. —Cuiviénen (Cuivië) 23:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

text: As another wikipedian once said, once we've gotten all of the encyclopedic content, we can get the less encyclopedic content. We can relax notability rules a little - that should work. Eventually, Wikipedia might become not just an encyclopedia for encyclopedic topics, but rather a knowledge deposit for everything - even more minor things. -Jetman123 03:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean like h2g2? GeeJo (t) (c) • 13:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:ENC. Set your sights to 1 million Featured Articles first. Hell, set them at 10,000 Featured Articles. How many of this million articles are stubs? How many should be merged into list articles? 62.202.115.72 14:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

text: >x<ino 12:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Million articles 

message: Today's Featured Article has a stray quote mark before the word 'Mukuntuweap. I Googled the word, and I didn't find anyone else who uses that quote mark for any sense of the word Mukuntuweap. Art LaPella 01:35, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it.  Thanks for pointing this out. -Aude (talk | contribs) 04:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mukuntuweap

message: Where is the Kenya located - which continent? Kenya is located in the continent of South Africa.
What are the land climate and vegetation like in Kenya? The land is fairly hilly bt the information i collected but i am not sure.
: this page is for questions and remarks about the main page only, if you have other questions try the reference desk or better yet just look up the information via the search box, searching for Kenya should tell you enough. Boneyard 11:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: RESEARCH

message: Friends,
This is listed an important date in March 2 history, but the article on the Manfesto (and the English translation of it linked therein) say the Manifesto was issued March 3. I can't troubleshoot this, but if anybody has a minute, I think it would be nice to clear it up. 64.157.37.247 03:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On Alexander II of Russia#Emancipation of the serfs, the last sentence says On 1861 March 3, the sixth anniversary of his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published. But then the sixth anniversary of his accession should be on March 2. I'm now rather confused and don't know what and how to fix. I'm removing the anniversary from the MainPage for now. Thanks to 64.157.37.247 for pointing this out. -- PFHLai 20:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Emancipation Manifesto

message: The current featured article should link "Navajo Formation" to Navajo sandstone, shouldn't it? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navajo sandstone 

message: I think the main page should be coloured differently and look cooler. I would prefer some red in it. Does any one else feel the same way? Earl Gray 09:30, 3 March 2006
:Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Main Page. --PFHLai 22:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideas for the Main Page

message: I'm sure the image we have of Menzies Campbell is more suitable than the flag of the United Kingdom. --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 02:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please show us one.  It must not copyrighted by someone else. It cannot be a fairuse image. And it must display well at 100px wide. -- PFHLai 13:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the news 

message: In the third Did You Know question, deadlist should be spelled "deadliest". Art LaPella 06:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing out. I've fixed it. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:31, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reesor Siding 1963 Strike