Wikipedia talk:Editing the main page

message: Its a help page after all, does not belong to wiki namespace
*Move --Cool Cat Talk 00:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: I was rather disturbed earlier today to find on the MainPage, specifically on selected anniversaries for July 26, an item about somebody being arrested for masturbation in an adult theatre in 1991. ( Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_26_selected_anniversaries&oldid=4849052 .) I have removed it right away.
I think Wikipedia should adopt some policy to prohibit various taboos on the MainPage.  We have many other wonderful pages to choose.  Why not use a little more common sense ?  While the 'naughty' pages are available to all, and I give credit to those resourceful little brats with no classes to attend during the summer and know enough about computers to find the pages, I have to say that leaving items like masturbation on the MainPage is not that appropriate.  It makes us look bad, especially in the eyes of a parent.
-- PFHLai 07:07, 2004 Jul 26 (UTC)
:This has actually been discussed before (to death) when Gay bathhouse was nominated as a featured article. I think the ad-hoc policy was pretty much exactly what you just said - we don't censor out content, but (for fear of censorware and alike) we shouldn't "push" it on people by putting it on the main page. The understanding is that if you go to penis, don't be surprised if you find an explicit photo; the main page is not some place you'd expect to find explicit content, so we shouldn't be putting it there. →Raul654 07:13, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
But that article isn't explicit content.  RickK 18:58, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
:And it wasn't "somebody." As I immediately suspected from the description, it was Pee Wee Herman. It made front-page news--well, perhaps it wasn't the front page, let me check. OK, not quite. The Boston Globe put it on page 8, and this is how they carried it:
::PEE-WEE HERMAN ARRESTED IN FLA.
::Author: Associated Press Date: 07/28/1991  Page: 8 Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
::SARASOTA, Fla. -- Children's television star Pee-wee Herman was arrested for allegedly exposing himself inside an adult theater, authorities said yesterday. Pee-wee Herman, whose real name is Paul Reubens, was arrested Friday night after undercover detectives raided the South Trail Cinema in a sting operation, a Sarasota County Sheriff's affidavit said. Reubens, 38, was charged with exposure of a sexual organ and released from the county jail after posting a $219 bond.
:I think I would say that putting the word "masturbation" on the main page was inappropriate. Indeed, it's inappropriate on the July 26 page unless someone can cite a source that phrases it that way. The Pee Wee Herman article says "allegedly exposing himself" as does the AP article, and I think that's good enough; no need to add a plausible but unsubstaniated interpretation. And I think I would agree that the events that are only page 8 news in the real world probably shouldn't be main-page material for us.
:But I don't think "adopting some policy" is helpful. It's not a frequent problem and we have the watchful eyes of editors such as PFHLai to take care of it when it does arise. If we don't have common sense, no policy we write is going to give us common sense.  Bye now, I'm off to change "masturbation" to "allegedly exposing himself" on the July 26 page.Dpbsmith 21:20, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common sense on MainPage, please. 

message: The featured image of the day Template:Pic of the day is not mentioned on this page, and it should be. I can't wrap my head around the html/tables on this page right now to add it myself. —Pengo 02:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pic of the day 

message: I've noticed that unlike this page says, the Community Portal is only semi-protected. This should be undated on this page. Harryboyles 04:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Portal protection status