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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)

Errors with "In the news"

The Børsen fire blurb should probably link "catches fire" to 2024 Børsen fire. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The fire article has fewer details than the main article. Stephen 04:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Can't we link it without bolding it? Also, the article has the details now Aaron Liu (talk) 11:05, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The first bullet is "The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire." This can be updated, since there is now an article about the fire (2024 Børsen fire) and we also now know that its spire fell. A rewrite:

• The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire.

Another:

• The historic Børsen (pictured) in Copenhagen, Denmark, catches fire, which topples its iconic spire.

Not very familiar with source editing, wanted to point this out. Qwaabza (talk) 01:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The details of what damage was done is best left to reading the article. Stephen 04:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Re: link Which page to bold is best determined at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Børsen, where there is already discussion on this.—Bagumba (talk) 07:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

There is more discussion here and ERRORS is usually the page about changing blurbs. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Bagumba. If consensus forms at ITNC to change the bolded link, I'd be happy to make the change. You may want to comment at ITNC and ping anyone who has only commented here. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:42, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

There are only two comments at ITNC though, both of which were made after both initial comments here. Anyways I'm gonna post a link to this discussion at ITNC. It's my understanding that blurb discussions after posting almost always happen here instead.

Just saw that there's a lot before the parts I saw. Still, I feel like this discussion is more on topic, while the one at ITNC talks about a lot of stuff including the image. 16:32, 17 April 2024 (UTC) Aaron Liu (talk) 16:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

• Anyhow, can we please get consensus to at least just link "catches fire"? Aaron Liu (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

  Moot, article merged. Aaron Liu (talk) 17:45, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(April 19, tomorrow)

Monday's FL

(April 22)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Add a few links to help newcomers with editing

For as much as Wikipedia relies on volunteer work, the main page is surprisingly absent of anything that would help newcomers learn to edit and contribute. This is why I an suggesting adding a second column to the "Other areas of wikipedia" section and add the following help pages: Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, Help:Your first article, Wikipedia:Writing better articles, Help:Editing, and Wikipedia:Why create an account —JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 15:38, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

The left sidebar on every desktop page already includes a "contribute" subsection that links to Help:Introduction as "Learn to edit", and a multi-column approach would look awful on mobile - that would really be advocating a new section aligned vertically, similar to how mobile view stacks sections rather than uses columns. The main page is aimed at readers. Editors are rare. Would-be editors who decide to read the documentation rather than just dive right in are even rarer. And would-be editors who want to read the documentation first, but need to be directly prompted to do so with a Main Page link rather than digging up the info themselves, seem to me to be an insanely rare case. I don't think it'd be that fruitful a use of main page space, which should probably cut more things out (IMO) rather than add more links. SnowFire (talk) 18:21, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

The Main Page is deliberately designed to be useful to readers, not editors, because the vast majority of users never make an edit. That's weakened slightly in recent years e.g. adding links to 'nominate an article' and the teahouse, but it's nevertheless the underlying design philosophy. The MP isn't really the place for helping new editors - the sidebar does some of that, as do the welcome templates for new users. Most people accessing the MP are looking for encyclopaedia content, not how to start their own article etc. Modest Genius ^talk 13:07, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Did you know ... that

Is there a reason "that" is repeated eight times; wouldn't it be easier to retitle the section "Did you know that ..." instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5cc:8300:a7f0:d576:4211:3f12:c0b2 (talk) 04:25, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

That comes with the bullet-point.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.189.58.95 (talk) 17:52, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure that it did say "Did you know that..." in the past but this was changed for some reason. Probably in the DYK archives somewhere. Pawnkingthree (talk) 00:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

There was a discussion about that last year. Armadillopteryx 00:24, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, that's what I was vaguely recalling... so not implemented then. Thanks. Pawnkingthree (talk) 00:26, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

"a discussion about that last year" ... well played. Anyway I'm not quite sure I understand how it would uproot anything exactly, but I guess it doesn't make any sense to rehash the same thing twice over. I don't know how to formally withdraw the request like the last one was or even if I ever properly formally requested something in the first place, but anyone should feel free to dot the Is and cross the Ts on whatever forms are needed to end this inquiry if desired. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:91CE:D324:F0BC:EE54 (talk)

edit request: please add a hatnote

Maybe add

Due to technical restrictions, titles like # redirect here. For # and a disambiguation of similar-looking symbols, see number sign.

or

Due to technical restrictions, titles like # redirect here. For the # symbol, see number sign.

Not to be confused with the sharp sign ♯, the Viewdata square ⌗, the equal and parallel to symbol ⋕, the Looped square ⌘, the Chinese character Well-field system 井, or the game Tic-tac-toe's grid. For uses of number signs within Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Number sign.

or

"#" redirects here. For #, see number sign. For ♯, see Sharp (music). For ⌗, see Viewdata square. For ⋕, see Parallel (geometry) § Symbol. For ⌘, see Looped square. For 井, see Well-field system. For the similar-looking game, see tic-tac-toe. For uses of number signs within Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Number sign.

Thanks. 96.244.220.178 (talk) 05:21, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Do you mean on the Main Page itself? While it's true that # does redirect here, the Main Page isn't an article, and a hatnote would look rather jarring and out of place. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 14:08, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

 Not done Sorry no, while we would do that on articles - it would be to intrusive and take up too much high-end screen space on the Main Page. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:14, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Belle Delphine GIF

I can't imagine anyone would object to this being on the main page. -- Veggies (talk) 03:22, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

The DYK gif really seems wrong for wp; there must be a policy that covers this. What a poor decision. Maneesh (talk) 04:50, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

How did this get here? horny jail bonk Holidayruin (talk) 05:04, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Zero idea why anyone thought the front page needed a gif of a woman imitating an expression from Japanese porn cartoons. What's the next Did You Know, a diatribe on the rise and fall of sales of scatological porn? It's not that culturally significant and it's not even an interesting factoid, it's just saying what kind of porn she sells. 166.182.80.87 (talk) 05:43, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Remove image. What the fuck is this? This image is WP:GRATUITOUS offensive material that has no place on the Wikipedia's main page. Also, has anyone considered the BLP implications of placing this image on the front page? JBchrch talk 06:14, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

To be honest, I am more concerned by the fact that it was put on top of a hook about the Pope. Normally we avoid the two being next to each other in a set The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:25, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

And directly next to the on this day section where the trans day of remembrance is today DogsRNice (talk) 06:28, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

To avoid having competing threads, please discuss at WT:DYK. - Wikmoz (talk) 06:23, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

@Wikmoz: I disagree. The gif is in the jurisdiction of the Main Page since it currently appears in there, instead in the Did You Know? nom page. And the fact that this page has more viewership compared to the DYK talkpage. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 06:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Many more editors are involved in the thread on WT:DYK. I assume interested editors will see this thread and follow the link. But you may be right regarding page watchers. Honestly, no strong preference for one page over another but we should definitely avoid having the same conversation in parallel. - Wikmoz (talk) 06:38, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

@Wikmoz and Jeromi Mikhael: I have now notified WT:DYK of this discussion [1]. That will take care of it. JBchrch talk 06:43, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Pull it. This was extremely poor decision making on my part as a promoter, and I take full responsibility for what I did. NOTCENSORED, yes—tasteful and informative, no. Just hunting for attention. I don't care if consensus decides that NOTCENSORED means this has to stay up—I still say pull it. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 06:54, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Convert GIF to JPG

Does the image really need to be in GIF? Some phones don't render GIFs properly. My dad's phone, for example, renders the gif as a still image, and it only displays her smiling. A lot of readers would be confused with this and it would probably be better if we convert the image to a JPG. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:23, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

think there might be other issues with your dad seeing the porn gif mate 166.182.80.87 (talk) 05:41, 20 November 2021 (UTC)