Talk:Main Page/Archive 60

message: I would like to ask the Wikipedia staff a question, to give an idea that is...
Why don't you make Quzzes here in Wikipedia about various topics? It all can be arranged like in Encarta (for ideas see www.encarta.com). The quiz categories can be arranged, like, you know - history quiz, geography quiz, maths quiz etc. It would be really fun to make such a thing. Articles in Wikipedia can be the sources for quizzes... 
What do you think about that? Maybe more people would come to Wikipedia?
Boky 14:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean like Wikifun? GeeJo (t) (c) • 15:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quizzes 

message: The intro for the featured article uses "US" in place of "U.S." a few times.  According to the manual of style U.S. is the preferred usage.  Could an admin please change this?  Dismas|(talk) 00:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  Dismas|(talk) 02:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  US -> U.S. per MoS 

message: I realise that not every anniversary can be remembered, (If that's the right word) but today, (March 13th) is ten years to the day of the Dunblane School Massacre, in my own Scotland. Thought I'd suggest that perhaps, as it's ten years, it's worthy of a mention? A mere thought is all.
Kaenei 02:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly seems significant. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 02:28, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Dunblane massacre is on the MainPage now on the 10th anniversary. -- PFHLai 19:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A suprise exclusion? 

message: I'm surprised no one noticed yet, but there's an error in the featured article:
"He was a famous historian and naturalist; his 15 books including works on outdoor life, natural history, U.S. Western and political history, an autobiography and a host of other topics."
That should be written with a comma or 'include', and since it's 'include' in the full article, I guess it should be be that. Tell me if I'm wrong. ROY YOЯ 04:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I changed it to "include" now. Shanes 04:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article error 

message: Could there be a link to the main page new design from the main page so that everybody that doesn't visit the C.P. will know about it. At least for the last week considering that less than 1% of the total active WP community voted. Lincher 04:34, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See #So, what do you think of the Main Page election? above. - BanyanTree 17:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am so angry about this horrible new main page design. Linking on the discussion page was insufficient. I don't know how on earth an average wikipedian like myself, who loads the main page 20 times a day, so has a vested interest in this, could have known this 'election' was going on mgekelly 09:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main page redesign 

message: doesn't say which article (battle of hindenburg line) is pictured. is this standard for that sectioN?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aeosynth (talk • contribs) 04:46, 2006 March 13 (UTC).
: That's correct. The DYK image always goes with the top item in that section. -- PFHLai 19:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the 'Did you know' 

message: Before his presidency, Roosevelt served as a New York State assemblyman, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy.
Shouldn't the bolded "and" be added?
:Added.  Thanks, BanyanTree 18:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theodore Roosevelt error 

message: Shouldn't this link in the 1881 aniversary link to Nihilist movement rather than Nihilism ? -Robmods 16:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Thanks. I've re-wikified the link as suggested. -- PFHLai 19:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nihilist 

message: :(This discussion has nothing to do with Main Page. Moved to the talkpage of the Wikipedian who asked the questions.) -- PFHLai 21:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEED HELP ASAP!!!! 

message: The Japanese War Tuba link doesn't appear to go anywhere. --Serie 22:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it does to me. Must've been a database error. GeeJo (t) (c) • 23:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  War tuba? 

message: That is not a picture of him on the Main Page. Strange joke? --Scaife (Talk)  Don't forget Hanlon's Razor 02:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a mistake. The wrong pic is gone now. --PFHLai 22:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Slobodan Milosevic

message: Kingdom is spelled Kindgom. It's been fixed in the article but not on the main page. Osomec 03:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it's fixed on the MainPage. Thanks for pointing this out. -- PFHLai 21:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo in the featured article

message: On the main page, "cataracts" in the extract from the featured article links to cataracts of the eye, not Cataracts of the Nile. In the article itself, the link is correct. CJ Withers 03:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Link Error in Featured Article

message: As of 0800 GMT Tuesday, the "new" Venezuelan flag pictured on ITN is incorrect - it should have the coat of arms in the top left corner. Darcyj 08:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And the new heradically correct coat of arms should have the horsey running left. An older one had the horsey running right, cowardly running away from the enemy. DanielDemaret 10:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Venezuelan Flag 

message: Why isn't Einstein listed in the selected anniversaries ? He was born March 14, 1879. —This unsigned comment is by 83.203.63.171 (talk • contribs)  13:24, 2006 March 14 (UTC).
: Because we don't usually do birthdays. Sometimes, we do it for very notable historical figures on special occasions such as the 100th, 250th, 400th ... etc. birthday. -- PFHLai 21:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For a list of other people with the same birthday, please see March 14#Births. --PFHLai 22:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albert Einstein's Birthday ? 

message: Hello,
Add a column for the most recent additions to the encycolpedia. A running list updated daily or more frequently, based on the number of articles submitted.
regards
ila
:There's a whole page for new additions: Special:Newpages. You can access this and other special pages from the tool box on the left-hand side of your window. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And for a selection of the more interesting or well-written examples, there's Did you know. GeeJo (t) (c) • 16:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Page 

message: passed the 1000 articles. add them to main page.
and th.wikipedia passed 10K. update! 
: Thai WP just passed the 10,000 articles on 14 March 2006. I'm wondering if anyone can change that. Thank you. --Manop - TH 21:03, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated.  Congratulations to the Thai and Yiddish Wikipedians! - BanyanTree 22:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  new milestone for yi.wikipedia.org and th (Thai)

message: I'd thought that it was policy not to announce recent deaths in the "In the News" section unless there was something particularly newsworthy about the death itself. The only other death I can remember seeing in the box was the death of the previous Pope. Not really that fussed about it, just curious why Lennart Meri appears while the others in Recent Deaths don't. GeeJo (t) (c) • 16:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was against ITN guidelines. It's been removed from the MainPage. -- PFHLai 22:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm...no it hasn't been -Elmer Clark 01:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd removed the obituary from ITN, then I was accused of 'wheel warring'. I'm staying off ITN for now.  I hope my fellow admins can come to a conclusion soon. For those interested, please see Template talk:In the news#Lennart Meri. Feel free to voice your opinion on this over there. To obit., or not obit. That's the question on ITN today. -- PFHLai 02:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slow news day? 

message: dear Wikipedians and all others like: 
i think this site should have the word of the day, quote of the day (by people, not stock quotes), and the picture of the day. i think that would be a cool idea because then it would be more consistent with uncyclopedia. besides, not many people now days are very good with their vocab, and quotations are inspiring ways of talking to people. alright, tell me what you think.
User:Xinyu
:A word of the day would be more appropriate on our sister project Wiktionary, and quote of the day on Wikiquote.  As for picture of the day, the upcoming redesign will include it. Redquark 20:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: These days, a Picture of the day is featured on MainPage on weekends. -- PFHLai 20:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  word of the day, quote of the day, featured picture of the day  

message: Today is Einsteins birthday —This unsigned comment is by 84.173.5.84 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 2006 March 14(UTC).
:Please see above Talk:Main Page #Albert Einstein's Birthday ?. --PFHLai 22:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einstein 

message: i need help on info about copperheads
:Please see our Copperhead disambiguation page to choose which "Copperhead" you would like to know more about. Cheers, BanyanTree 00:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  i need help 

message: A deletion discussion is currently going on at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Click_and_Template:Titled-click which could result in some changes to the Main Page. Specifically, deletion of the templates would cause clicking on the icons for the sister projects to take you to the image description page for each icon rather than to the sister project in question as they do currently. Please see the discussion at the link above for pros and cons of deleting these templates. --CBDunkerson 02:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main page TFD discussion 

message: I would like the Hungarian Revolution of 15 March 1848 , be mentioned under the Anniversaries, until it's too late ie. it's 16 March.
Thank you -- bdamokos18:12,  March 15, 2006 (UTC)
: What relevant wikiarticles about the events in Hungary on 15 March 1848 should be featured ?  We don't feature stubs, or pages with problem tags such as  on MainPage.  1848 Hungarian Revolution redirects to Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas, but this page is tagged with , so we can't use this.  Lajos Kossuth makes not mention, and Lajos Batthyány is a stub. Any other suggestions ? Maybe someone should start a new article or re-write/clean up the aforementioned articles for 2007.... -- PFHLai 20:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for your explanation, I shall look into the Hungarian Wikipages and try to translate their articles on the subject--Dami 14:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hungarian Revolution of 1848 

message: There's a superfluous "a" in the sentence about British Rail's crazy flying machine. 
Also, should the "St George" bit refer to "on Victory Day" rather than "on the Victory Day"? PeteVerdon 18:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected.  Thanks, BanyanTree 19:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flying saucer error 

message: In did you know?, the caption of the picture of the Ribbon of Saint George says "Astra Palace", is that correct? Afonso Silva 19:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Forgetting to change the alt text of an image while updating text is one of the more common flubs. Thanks, BanyanTree 19:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption of Ribbon of Saint George picture

message: or whole Wikimedia system is crashing now? I cannot edit or save anything! AshishGtalk,  ,  (UTC).
:Obviously not, because you were able to save this :). – Gweit Gischguniwi 00:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  it has been slower and crashing more often recently, for me, on several machines, but not a serious issue, just monir irritation. moza 10:42, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it only me... 

message: Recognition for same-sex couples in the Czech Republic has been granted by their Parliament . Shall this make it into the Main News section? --Cumbiagermen 03:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are encouraged to post a news headline along with external newslinks on Current events. For the ITN section on MainPage, relevant wikiarticles need to be updated first. Once this is done, please post a suggested headline at Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates. Having said that, I have to say that this topic has been on ITN before (when the first few countries adopted same-sex marriage), it's unlikely to get on ITN again. -- PFHLai 05:22, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

text: If you really think this should be on ITN, you are welcome to present your case on the Candidates' page. -- PFHLai 20:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil Partnerships in Czech Republic 

message: "The remains of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milošević is flown to Serbia for burial" should say the remains ... are.
:Just about to mention this myself... it certainly does. Stealthychimp 11:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dang, somebody already got there :-) - MatthewDBA 11:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It still says "is". Kafziel 13:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Quick, somebody make me an admin so I can fix it! ;) Kafziel 13:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Thanks, BanyanTree 15:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ITN needs a grammar fix 

message: The current Second Malaysia Plan featured article has an image that is very hard to understand in low resolution. It looks abstract to me, and I didn't figure out that it was a tree until I saw the full-sized version. The :Image:Malaysiaparliament.jpg image (from the Politics of Malaysia page) would be much more useful for main page context on this article. -Harmil 16:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this is a policy, but images in the TFA section are usually chosen from those already on the featured article. Not much choice today, unfortunately. -- PFHLai 19:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article image 

message: I think some context could be provided by amending the text to read: "The Second Malaysia Plan was an economic development plan set out by the government of Malaysia between 1971 and 1975, with the goal of implementing the aims of the New Economic Policy." - Gobeirne 23:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but it's too late now. We now have a different featured article on MainPage. -- PFHLai 07:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Excuse me, Rob Church, can I help you ?  Try some dextromethorphan. Hope this helps. :-) -- PFHLai 15:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second Malaysia Plan - context please 

message: I have, for good reasons, renamed Abur to Old Permic script. I recommend changing Permian alphabet to Old Permic script on this page, or at least changing the link to that instead of the redirecting Abur. Evertype 09:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That item about Stephen of Perm is no longer on MainPage. Wish I had seen this earlier. -- PFHLai 15:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  On one of 2006-03-17's newest articles 

message: According to the Manual of Style, italics should be used for television show titles and double quotes should be used for episode titles.  Right now the DYK section says, "...award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light is..."  Could someone please fix this?  Dismas|(talk) 13:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected.  Thanks, BanyanTree 14:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And thank you!  Dismas|(talk) 17:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo in the current DYK listing on the main page 

message: In Anniversaries, californium should not be capitalized. --Cam 15:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Thanks, BanyanTree 16:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Californium 

message: As with the Winter Olympics Wikipedia included news on the happenings of each day in the headlines.
There should be a section in English wikipedia detailing the games.  --  User:Tim_teddybear
: 2 reasons why this likely wouldn't happen. The Commonwealth Games is less international, and more importantly the articles relating to the Games aren't being as actively updated. If you could put in more info the article 2006 Commonwealth Games, they'd be more likely to appear prominently on the front page.  --  Zanimum 17:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are simply too many of these competitions to keep them all on the mainpage. We settled for the Olympics, them being the most international event and occuring only once every 2 years (winter/summer). If we start including other, less international competitions, there's also Mediterranean Games, Balkan Games, Goodwill Games, etc, etc. We should get rid of the separate section and include any newsworthy results in the main body of ITN. Zocky | picture popups 17:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and I'm wondering why it has made it to the mainpage. Nickpowerz 17:58, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt the wikipages for Mediterranean Games, Balkan Games, Goodwill Games, .... will get updated well enough to deserve being featured on ITN. -- PFHLai 18:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it is a major international competition, with more than 1 in 3 of the world's nations competing?! Batmanand | Talk 19:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still not international as in "any country may appear". It's simply not the same level as Olympics. Remember, we don't normally do sports on the main page - we made an exception for Olympics, as opposed to setting a new rule. Zocky | picture popups 20:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commonwealth games 

message: I would like to see the Millennium Development Goals discussed on the front page. The plan to end world hunger is underway and agreed to by every nation on earth and I think Wikipedia could play an important role in bringing attention to the international agreement that will lift 600 million people out of hunger by 2015. The Borgen Project is a good source for more info. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.17.58.206 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 17 March 2006  (UTC)
:There is a short article at Millennium Development Goals. With some effort I'm sure it could be expanded to potentially featured article candidacy. --Quiddity 22:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Millennium Development Goals 

message: Last week's is up again instead of a new one. —Cuiviénen,  Saturday, 18 March 2006 @ 00:02 (UTC)
: And it's not . --199.71.174.100 00:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fixed. RexNL 00:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The link under American West is U.S. West, which redirects to some bell comany. American West itself redircets to the correct article for the situation. —This unsigned comment was added by Theunknown42 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Such as Western United States. -- 199.71.174.100 01:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Or better, American Old West. EdC 02:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, American Old West is indeed better.  Where are the admins when we need them ? -- 199.71.174.100 02:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully the rest of the cabal is out someplace with green beer.  Fixed. Thanks, BanyanTree 02:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured Picture 

message: Does anyone know what the timetable is for implementation of the new design, since it appears to have consensus?  Just wondering... it's still the old Main Page that is serving that role at this moment...  --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See discussion.  hydnjo talk 01:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: It looks like a Wikiportal now.--KrossTalk 04:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: [PS - expect a titanic revert war, followed by a wheel war, followed by 17 RFCs and 3 arbcom cases ;) ] Raul654 04:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: * LOL, hehehe... ;) - Mailer Diablo 05:19, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I think it is something to do with an "margin-right:0.9em" or something of that source. --LV (Dark Mark) 05:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You would have to change it in all of the Wikipedia:POTD row subpages, and make sure that people keep using this change in the future. If you do do this, please make sure to add color:#000 to all their style definitions so that people like me with custom skins can read the text. :) — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-19 06:07
Change is bad.  --NoPetrol 05:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Try pressing Ctrl-Shift-Reload to flush your cache, that might fix things.  And the main page voting has been going on for awhile.  --Cyde Weys 06:54, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Say what you will about the design, but saying it wasn't well advertised is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a valid criticism. It's been featured at the top of this page for weeks; it was mentioend multiple times in the signpost, at goings-on, on the announcements page, at the village pump, and on the community portal (among others). Several outside news sites even picked it up . Short of hiring people to write it in the sky, I don't see what more they could have done. Raul654 06:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They succeeded in advertising it. Now if only they could have succeeded in increasing its usability... — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-19 07:56
A small notice at the bottom of the Main Page itself, perhaps... anyhow, has anyone looked into the fact that the "Main Page" heading disappears for [ the Main Page's page history] too? It looks quite ugly, and it seems a line or two of JavaScript could fix it. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: That interests me, too. --Missmarple 16:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Category:Top 10 was created with virtually no discussion.  There's been talk of restructuring the portal hierarchy (which would necessitate modifying the list), so it would be premature to add new ones to the main page at this time.  (There's no consensus for which ones should be added, and we didn't want to tie this into the redesign.)  —David Levy 16:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The new [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft|Main Page]] 

message: Is it necessary for the Meta-Wiki subtitle to span 2 lines? The old template didn't and was the same width. Also, this same subtitle breaks into 3 lines at 800x600 resolution. fix per this dif. thanks. --Quiddity 10:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  —David Levy 14:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Subtitle breaks

message: Why is Wikitravel not listed as a sister project? It appears neither on the Wikipedia home page, nor on that of the other sister projects.  Zingi 15:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikitravel is not a sister project.  (It isn't affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.)  —David Levy 16:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikitravel

message: Problem - The text for "Image of the Day" overlaps the picture.  I'm using a 1024 x 768 monitor, and IE7.
Just to let you know Neilgravir 09:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of the Day 

message: The only country that lists today as its Father's Day on the Wikipedia article is Belgium.  If other countries celebrate this holiday on this day, they should probably be mentioned in the article.  The Jade Knight 09:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Scroll further down on that Father's Day page and read carefully, Jade Knight, then you'll see Portugal, Spain, Italy. Belgium got separated 'coz it has 2 Father's Days. --64.229.6.111 17:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see.  The Jade Knight 21:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father's Day