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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 in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(January 10, today)

• There are several redirects that should be bypassed per WP:MPNOREDIRECT. Jay8g [V•T•E] 01:17, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Monday's FL

(January 13)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

General discussion

Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009

It would appear as if this article is now blocked within Mainland China. Please fix the gallery errors if they are still present. Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 07:53, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Currently unblocked. ~AH1^(TCU) 08:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

On this Day

The entry about the Polish Committee of National Liberation should be qualified by the phrase, "Soviet-backed and -controlled." It was Stalin who decided that Poland should annex prewar German territory up to the Oder-Neisse Line — in "compensation" for Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939, under terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Sca (talk) 14:31, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it should, please.Willski72 (talk) 11:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Re Charles de Gaulle's comment, perhaps his original French phrase ("Vive le Quebec libre") should be used with an English translation given in brackets. (The French phrase was headline news in every major newspaper in Canada.)Guinness323 (talk) 15:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

eu:wp on interwikies?

Moved to Template talk:Wikipedialang#eu:wp on interwikies?

Tons?

"Did you know ... that with a total weight of over 100 tons ..."

It's amazing that this should appear on the main page. What tons, long, short, metric? JIMp _talk·cont 18:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Metric tons are spelt Tonnes so its definately imperial.Willski72 (talk) 19:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Not according to the US Department of Commerce. In USA, "With regard to the metric ton, this is the name to be used in the United States for the unit with symbol t and defined according to 1 t = 103 kg.".[1]

If you look at the actual article (Campo del Cielo), you'll find it's spelled tonnes there, with other units being in metric, so it's probably in metric ton(ne)s. I've made a note at the "Errors in Did you know?" section above. -- 128.104.112.87 (talk) 21:46, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the OP, ton should be linked to the relevant unit. Modest Genius ^talk 23:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

In Britain an imperial ton is spelt ton and a metric one is spelt tonne, but in America they're both ton. But America still uses imperial whereas Britain uses metric, who is right?????Willski72 (talk) 08:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Everyone! APL (talk) 13:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Nota bene: the US does not use imperial units in general, and it doesn't use the imperial ton. It uses its own units including a curiously small ton. Algebraist 14:48, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Yey!!!Willski72 (talk) 14:28, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

wiki addons

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/search?q=wiki&cat=all

are any of these anygood ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timeturn (talk • contribs) 21:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

You should ask this at the Village pump. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 02:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Links on the main page

The link Sea_dragon is a link to a disambiguation page. I don't think this is intended. Because of former encountered restrictions to unregistered users like me I won't even have a try on the main page to correct it just to discover I am not allowed to. 95.112.148.241 (talk) 20:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Where is said link? Also, you are correct to assume IPs cannot edit the main page.  GARDEN  says no to drama 20:31, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I've found it and corrected. Thanks,  GARDEN  says no to drama 20:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, but as it says at the top of this page, reports of errors on the main page should go to the 'Main Page Error Reports' section, editable by registered and unregistered users alike. Algebraist 20:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Once Wikipedia was free. Now you're suffocating with all those isnots and shouldnots and formal rules. Don't want to have to read the complete manual before making a small and obvious change. Wish I could have back the old times. 95.112.148.241 (talk) 21:03, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, unfortunately those times are past, and due to people doing things they perhaps shouldn't the rules you are degrading have been implemented. If you don't like them, feel free to ignore the site completely.  GARDEN  says no to drama 21:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry if I sound offensive (I probably am), you are taking possession of things anonymous people like me have contributed to. But if the owners of wikipedia decide that I shall go away. So, all, tell me what to do. 95.112.148.241 (talk) 21:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok then, if you insist : Continue to contribute to the encyclopedia and don't worry about your inability to directly edit the mainpage. APL (talk) 22:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

@ 95.112... we are not deciding for you to go away. If you do not wish to adhere to the rules and guidelines set out here you are not obliged to edit here. It's not our decision to simply tell you to stop (unless of course you do something blockable).  GARDEN  says no to drama 22:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello IP editor, thank you for pointing out the incorrect link. Someone has seen your friendly helpful post, and has corrected the information for you. It's a shame some editors here seem hostile, especially to someone who has taken the time to report something that man other editors missed. They're right that there is a notice board where these things can be reported, but I have some sympathy for your point - IPs (and new accounts) used to be able to make small corrections like this but now cannot, and the rules and regulations and patrolling and guidelines have grown to incredible size. People did put a helpful link at the top of the page, but the www is accessed using very many different devices nowadays, and those clear directions aren't always seen. (And, on some pages, they aren't very clear at all.) Kind regards, and again, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NotAnIP83:149:66:11 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

As a point of curiosity, when was the Main Page open to anonymous editing? APL (talk) 01:17, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

There were some in 2002-2003; the last ones I can find are at Special:Contributions/145.254.57.216. Unfortunately, diff viewing appears to be buggered for revisions that old, so it's not easy to see what the exact change was. Also, the last incident of IP vandalism is here. Unfortunately (again), old protection logs for the Main Page seem to be missing, so it's not clear exactly when after that it was protected. — Gavia immer (talk) 02:36, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

The Main Page wasn't completely protected until February 2005 - see this Signpost article. Before that, the actual Main Page was protected but the templates transcluded on it were editable by everyone. According to the Signpost article, the use of templates in the Main Page in February 2004 made it more open for non-admins to edit.

The old protection logs before December 2004 are at Wikipedia:Protection log. Archive 1 of that log shows that the Main Page was briefly unprotected then re-protected in March 2004. This might have been a mistake; in those days, the protection tab didn't have a confirmation screen, so admins would often accidentally protect or unprotect a page. The protection logs only go back to November 2003; the only way to check if a page was protected before that date is to go through the history of Wikipedia:Lists of protected pages (previously known as Wikipedia:Protected page), which was edited manually. Graham87 04:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Drini briefly unprotected the Main Page for April Fool's Day 2006, resulting in 208.96.80.103 changing a column by one pixel. Drini explained that he did it attract editors to featured article writing, so one can make of the legitimacy of the unprotection what they will. - BanyanTree 05:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool. I did try to find IP edits, but I couldn't find any. (Main page transclusions confuse me.) I'm somewhat amazed that the main page content was unprotected as recently as Dec,04. Thanks. APL (talk) 16:53, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

I would point out that if you are unable to find the error report section because the guidelines are too complicated or whatever, it is highly unlikely you would have been able to correct this error yourself even if the main page and templates were not protected since finding the precise template is not easy if you don't understand the syntax used and can't be bothered doing a bit of reading. So while your report is welcome, please understand that in reality even without protection you would still need to spend a bit of time to be able to correct an error like that, likely significantly more time then it would take to find the error report section. Nil Einne (talk) 17:26, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Universidade Severino Sombra

Universidade Severino Sombra (USS) or University Severino Sombra is a Brazilian University located in the city of Vassouras, in the State of Rio de Janeiro.