Wikipedia talk:Selected Articles on the Main Page

message: I have just put a lot of work into a fairly comprehensive new article on animal cognition (I've also totally rewritten animal intelligence and animal mind, which were disastrous).  It still needs some crisping up with specific facts and references, which I shall be doing over the next few weeks as I'm preparing some lectures on the subject.  However, it might be worth a mention in New articles - I do think it is a big improvement on anything we've had in that sort of area before. seglea 08:22, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -- Viajero 11:21, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Animal cognition

message: I have just added trivia to the article about poet Olavo Bilac. I believe it deserves a place in "New Articles" for a moment. It has been edited and complimented by other Wikipedians. Thanks Doidimais Brasil 18:44, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)
:Done. -- Viajero 22:30, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Olavo Bilac

message: Hello, please change the V1 flying bomb item text from "V1 rocket" to "V1 missile" -- the public is misled enough about this distinction already; no need to make it worse... (a rocket necessarily has to be equipped with a rocket engine).  In this day and age, when people often hear of guided missiles in media reports, it is only fitting to try and educate people a little more about those destructive contraptions, so why not begin with the beginning  ?  --Wernher 00:02, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. --mav 03:49, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  V1 was no rocket, please change 

message: May I just congratulate the person or people who put together the current set of featured articles (Knot - Poker - V1 rocket - Homer Simpson - Tea - Synapse).  I had at least a passing interest in all of them, as well as half the anniversaries.  I'm still here, reading and editing, 2 hours after I meant to go to bed! HappyDog 02:54, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations 

message: Suggested article for the main page: MER-B (Opportunity / Mars Exploration Rover Mission) Nephelin 14:41, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -- Viajero 17:05, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The eagle has landed 

message: (not sure if I'm in the right place...) September Dossier should be changed to Hutton Inquiry (more appropriate link). Fabiform 17:03, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually September Dossier had a certain right to be there under anniversaries... last week was the anniversary of the Dossier playing a significant part sub-part in Bush's State of the Union address. Hutton Inquiry is there as a current event. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:49, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: September dossier

message: Can someone add a few lines to this page explaining the inclusion criteria for Featured Articles? Thanks. -- Viajero 23:13, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a stab at it.  It wasn't my idea to put "featured articles" on the main page, so hopefully someone else will be along to clarify anything I might have missed. --Minesweeper 01:30, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  inclusion criteria Featured Articles 

message: I'd like to suggest Eleanor Holm for the recent deaths on the main page. Jeronimo 07:47, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. --Minesweeper 01:30, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eleanor Holm 

message: Google News has keywords which are in the news listed on the main page. ocassionally we can compare and add some from there. I understand that we have to wait for an article to be created before featuring it. - Hemanshu 10:19, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for people who maintain the "In the news" links 

message: I've completed a laborious (if slightly loose) translation from Catalan (and reworking into more encyclopedic style) of Catalan mythology about witches. I think it's pretty darn cool, myself. First time in a month or so that I'm self-nominating for "new articles". Take a look, I'm pretty sure this one makes the grade. -- Jmabel 07:04, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Nice article, but loooong title (we don't have much real estate on the Main page) so I had to tweak it to make it fit. -- Viajero 21:39, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Catalan mythology about witches

message: I have just written a medium-length article about the infamous Canadian politician Colin Thatcher, who is said to have brutally bludgeoned and shot his estranged wife to death in 1983.  Thatcher has always maintained his innocence and has maintained a high profile in the Canadian media with frequent court appeals, an autobiography, and further criminal charges while in prison (all so far dismissed). He's been in the spotlight the past few months after a jury found him eligible for early parole, and he could be released as early as this year. —Psychonaut 19:36, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Colin Thatcher

message: Peter Beattie is In the News (here in the antipodes anyway). Adam 06:22, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: added. Viajero 11:33, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Peter Beattie

message: Yup, it's that day again. Could someone please put Friday the 13th on the main page's Featured Articles list? -- ChrisO 23:48, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Friday the 13th

message: Shirley Strickland died earlier today. I'd like to suggest her for recent deaths on the front page. Jeronimo 08:28, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shirley Strickland 

message: I was clicking a link after I noticed a reference to Joey Bishop was blue, and clicked out of interest because I had seen it red before. I checked the article history and, to my surprise, the article was brand-new! I remembering being surprised when I first saw we didn't have an article on Joey Bishop. Things like this serve as reminders that Wikipedia isn't quite as complete as you think. Until I created it yesterday, for instance, Wikipedia had no article on garter snakes. When I first made Linda Tripp links, Linda Tripp's name came up red. And to this very day at Septuagenarian, Dr. Joyce Brothers sits empty. So the next time you think to yourself, "Wikipedia's become exhausted", think again! Wiwaxia 07:43, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joey Bishop