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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Tomorrow's FA

• The country links (France, Germany, Lebanon, and probably England for consistency) should be unlinked per Main Page convention against linking countries. Jay8g [V•T•E] 05:51, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

   Done. I've also unlinked Europe too, since that also seems to be well within the usual OVERLINK umbrella as a country would be. Courtesy ping to @TFA coordinators , I hope this will be seen as uncontroversial. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 13:52, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

• ... that the box of Burgle Bros 2 transforms into a two-layer game board (pictured)?

Figure I'll ask here for a sanity check before I send this to c:COM:DR... I love Burgle Bros and this is a cool image hook, but isn't File:Burgle Bros 2 two layer box.jpg a derivative work of the copyrighted boardgame artwork? Likewise File:Burgle Bros. mid game.jpg, used in the article. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 06:18, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Kindly replace the current image of Jeanette with file:USS Jeannette NH 52199.tiff. JayCubby 12:40, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

  The replacement image looks less sharp to me than the current one, which is File:USS Jeannette;h52199.jpg. I assume some of the background "noise" has been removed, but this seems to be at the expense of the clarity of the ship itself, so personally I'd be inclined to leave the current one as is. As an aside, if anyone does go ahead with this, the replacement image must be protected first.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:47, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

  @Amakuru -- good catch. A fair number of the NHHC's recent images were taken out-of-focus. Looks like I missed this one. JayCubby 14:45, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

Flag Day (United States) is orange tagged (refimprove) and should probably be pulled. If not, at least unbold "in the United States". Jay8g [V•T•E] 05:51, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

nuked Schwede66 06:55, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(June 20)

Monday's FL

(June 16)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Featured Article Today

This is a minor issue, but the featured article about Harvey Milk, while interesting, is the subject of a film to be released shortly. Unfortunately, after reading the abridged version on the front page I now know what happens in the film. Stupid, I know, but I'd rather not know the ending to films I'm interested in seeing before they come out. In future, perhaps you could wait until after film releases before providing more information. I'm aware that Milk is an established name, but he is not known in England. 78.86.151.128 ([[User

Please see WP:SPOILER Modest Genius ^talk 19:56, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, why the hell didn't Wikipedia get into a time machine, go back to 1929, and kill Harvey Milk's parents so that he wouldn't spoil the plot of the movie about his life by living it?

Does Wikipedia even care about its readers? --86.168.108.98 (talk) 23:34, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Such a time machine would better serve Wikipedia if it can be used to prevent vandalism and other dumb edits on this talk page. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 02:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Did the information serve an encyclopedic purpose? If the film has not yet been released ought a detailed synopsis be included? Especially if the article itself isn't even about the film but the man within? --➨Candlewicke  ^{:) Sign/Talk} 12:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

If the film was a fictional story, I might agree. But when you are dealing with a film based on the real life of a notable person from the past, with hundreds of articles and references written about him, I do not see how it is "a spoiler" that needs to be censored from the Main Page. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Nobody forced you to read the article. At least, I hope not. Grandmasterka 02:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

For what it's worth. let me suggest that the screenwriter and director probably intended the film to be seen by folks broadly familiar with Milk's life, and that the film's characterizations probably cannot be fully appreciated if you don't know the history.--Pharos (talk) 17:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

This is one of the more bizzare spoiler complaints I've come across. Let's just hope we don't feature Jesus Christ on the main page. I'm sure there are a lot of people who haven't finished his biographies Nil Einne (talk) 10:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

How is the choser of the featured article supposed to know that there is a film coming out about someone. I've never heard of the guy nor knew about a film. Dark verdant (talk) 16:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Well if it's an up to date FA and a film with decent notability the FA itself will probably say. And actually the FA in question does say Nil Einne (talk) 17:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hiding TFA

How do I hide the "Featured Article Today" section? I just don't want to look at it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.166.91 (talk) 20:18, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Try out some of the versions on Main Page/Alternatives; if you find one you like, bookmark it. Modest Genius ^talk 21:08, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Wear a jockstrap. It won't hide the section but it will hide the dirty, embarrassing, ungodly feelings you get by looking at it. --86.168.108.98 (talk) 23:36, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't bend the obscure meaning of the above statement. It might have more to do with the film discussed above than any severe allergy to the aforementioned ungodly closeted homosexual desires... --➨Candlewicke  ^{:) Sign/Talk} 12:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Albania ITN

I don't want to sound like a whinger, nor am I complaining or saying anything is wrong about this. I am merely pointing out that there are three items concerning Albania in to-day's (11.28) ITN. Thank you for your attention. 70.16.16.109 (talk) 01:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Where? I don't see anything about Albania on ITN right now. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 02:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Begging y'all's pardon. I meant OTD. 70.16.16.109 (talk) 15:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

It's not that bad. I remembered a few months ago an admin had to add a manga item just to offset the 4 U.S. items. –Howard the Duck 17:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Monitor poll

Polling to figure out who is using what monitor resolution; this way we can factor that into future redesign attempts, as we know stuff shows up differently depending on aspect ratio. Poll is here. Also, we're trying to reach mostly readers; vote on whether or not you'd be ok with using MediaWiki:Sitenotice to notify people of the poll's existence. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 01:29, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

This is silly. The user's browser can be obtained by the site itself - I suggest you contact Wikimedia for some statistics. This poll will only include people who know who to edit, who found the poll, and can be bothered to write in it. --Teggles (talk) 03:31, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

This is nothing to do with their browser, it's the resolution and aspect ratio of their screen, which cannot be obtained from the user agent. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 12:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Which is also irrelevant to wikipedia, what's needed is the size of their browser window. Modest Genius ^talk 17:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

In my experience, many people who always browse full-screen can't be easily made to understand that other people don't. It's some sort of weird force of habit thing. You can explain all day the various reasons for browsing windowed, but in the end they still come away thinking that you're talking about some bizarre exceptional circumstances, and a few odd-balls who don't know how to maximize their window. 24.2.176.64 (talk) 17:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

The resolution of the user's screen cannot be obtained from the browser ID string (I assume you mean User-Agent), but it can easily be obtained using Javascript's screen.width and screen.height variables. When I said the user's browser, I meant their resolution, which can be easily obtained by the website itself. This poll will be incredibly inaccurate. --Teggles (talk) 12:05, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Terror attacks in Mumbai

Resolved

The In the News section describes these attacks as "Terror attacks" - which they obviously are- but doesn't that contravene WP:WTA? NoCal100 (talk) 01:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Pls suggest alternative wording at WP:ERRORS. --74.14.20.24 (talk) 03:18, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion: "Attacks" instead of "Terror attacks". --Teggles (talk) 12:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Pls suggest alternative wording at WP:ERRORS (or WP:ITN/C.) Posting here doesn't always get you the attention of the right admins. --74.14.20.24 (talk) 13:16, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Done. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 10:18, 2 December 2008 (UTC)