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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 "Did you know ..."

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Henries

• ... that Henry Kailimai and his Hawaiian Quintet were hired by Henry Ford to serve as official musicians for the Ford Motor Company?

@Kimikel, Johnson524, Nineteen Ninety-Four guy, and RoySmith: small nitpick, but they don't seem to have been "official musicians for the Ford Motor Company" exactly. The city council journal (reliable source?) describes them only as "[Henry] Ford's resident musicians", while Ukelele doesn't mention anything of the kind. Both sources do say that they played at lots of FMC events, though. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 07:17, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

I remember looking at the sources to verify the hook, but don't remember exactly what I found. It might have been Ukulele Magazine where it says "They regularly played ... at Ford company events" and later talks about the "Ford Motor Company Music Department", which sounds official to me. RoySmith (talk) 13:02, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

I had about the same thinking as RoySmith on this one, if there's an issue I apologize. Cheers! Johnson524 14:15, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(October 4)

Monday's FL

(October 7)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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TFA Statistics

I've created this page. I hope it's alright... but no other article links to it and I think this has to replace the 2014 statistics page, which is incomplete.--MJ for U (talk) 17:22, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for this. However, I floated the idea a while ago of adding page view numbers to WP:TFAREC, to avoid people having to duplicate the work involved in setting up a table of TFAs, and you've reminded me that I didn't follow this up. I still think that combining the two is the best way forward, although this isn't really something for talk:Main Page as opposed to, say WT:TFA. Bencherlite^Talk 17:30, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

As per previous years, I've archived the 2014 statistics to their own subpage, and moved your 2015 start to the main WP:TFASTATS link - just in case you or other editors were wondering what was going on with the links in your first post! Bencherlite^Talk 17:39, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

In the news picture

It would, for me, be preferable to have a "Je Suis Charlie" image on 'in the news', rather than the plane which crashed last week. Any possibility? --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:47, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

An extensive discussion on that was held at WP:ITN/C. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:54, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

...the outcome of which was basically "not a chance".--WaltCip (talk) 14:34, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually the discussion has been reopened. APL (talk) 16:53, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

What even is a "je suis charlie"?184.159.128.154 (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

See Je suis Charlie. Art LaPella (talk) 17:12, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Main Page images

One word - much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Nude painting - no comment.

Why? 128.127.29.19 (talk)

Yeah. I demand nuder ones!!! –HTD 17:00, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Why what? As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia it's not censored. So there will be nude images, Naturism, Spoilers on Wikipedia. I'm sorry if you felt uncomfortable after seeing that picture.--Chamith (talk) 17:02, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

"Much wailing and gnashing of teeth" is six words.--WaltCip (talk) 17:29, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Is this a haiku?-RHM22 (talk) 18:25, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I think some of you are missing the anon's point. "One word - much wailing and gnashing of teeth" refers to the long running complaint session after the article Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties appeared on the main page. This contrasts to the complete silence about The Pearl and the Wave being pictured. Not to mention the lack of complaints about various acts of violence (battles, murders, etc) that regularly appear with little or no comment. But arrange 4 little letters in a particular manner and apparently civilization is coming to an end. --Khajidha (talk) 18:54, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Not complaining (except, perhaps, there could be the occasional nude male to balance things out) - just noticing 'not accounting for what causes complaint' (could add the recent 'rather medical on the non-squawking side).

Much Wailing (whether or not on the Marsh) - traditional phrase. 128.127.29.19 (talk) 18:43, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

• I've been looking for male nudes that have good enough quality for the MP. Sadly, our photographs of David are below the minimum resolution for FP. Though we do have the FP Wrestlers, which is due to hit the MP in a few months. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

No comment from me thus far since I've complained about a similar MP image choice before and don't anticipate receiving any more sympathy now than I did then. But since it's been brought up... yes, I understand WP:CENSOR but I fail to see how inclusion of nude paintings or photographs on the main page reflects the principles of user choice and least astonishment ([1]). Some of us out there don't want to see those images and can choose not to view articles where they are likely to be present, but putting them on the MP takes away that choice. WP:CENSOR states that content relevant to an article's topic should not be removed solely on the basis of "being objectionable", but I don't see how it precludes giving consideration to the fact that some users find certain types of content objectionable when making content decisions for the main page (even if many others don't share those views). Jonhall (talk) 21:08, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I am not astonished that an encyclopedia has reproductions of notable paintings. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 21:21, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Neither am I. But if a certain painting can reasonably be thought to be objectionable to some users, why am I forced to see it when accessing Wikipedia unless I use an image blocker or bypass the main page? I'm didn't search for it. How is that promoting user choice with regards to potentially objectionable content? Jonhall (talk) 21:42, 13 January 2015 (UTC)