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Misplaced Pages is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Article milestones Date Process Result February 5, 2005 Peer review Reviewed March 9, 2005 Peer review Reviewed April 4, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted April 9, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 4, 2005 Featured article candidate Promoted April 1, 2006 Articles for deletion Speedily kept August 1, 2006 Featured article review Demoted September 15, 2006 Good article nominee Listed February 25, 2007 Peer review Reviewed August 12, 2008 Peer review Reviewed August 15, 2008 Good article reassessment Kept July 21, 2009 Peer review Reviewed July 26, 2012 Peer review Reviewed November 7, 2012 Featured article candidate Not promoted August 25, 2014 Guild of Copy Editors Copyedited September 5, 2014 Good article reassessment Delisted May 21, 2021 Peer review Reviewed February 4, 2023 Featured article candidate Not promoted March 12, 2023 Peer review Reviewed A fact from this article was featured on Misplaced Pages's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 15, 2005. This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of February 7, 2007. Current status: Former featured article

Misplaced Pages Reference Desk was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 February 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Misplaced Pages. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination: Deletion discussions: Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2022, see discussion. Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2019, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2017, see discussion. Delete (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2016, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2015, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 7 April 2014, see discussion. Tedium (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2014, see discussion. No consensus (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2011, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion. Speedy close (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion. Speedy keep, 6 September 2008, see discussion. Speedy close, 17 May 2007, see discussion. Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2006, see discussion.

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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Nicholson Baker (2008-04-09). "How I fell in love with Misplaced Pages ". The Guardian. "The 50 most-viewed Misplaced Pages articles in 2009 and 2008". The Telegraph (UK). 2009-08-17. Stephen McNeice (2013-05-14). "See how Misplaced Pages updates in real-time". Newstalk. David Stabler (2013-05-11). "Misplaced Pages a passion for Portland's Jason Moore". The Oregonian. Taleen Postian (2022-11-03). "Why So Much Hate on Misplaced Pages?". The Villanovan.

To-do list for Misplaced Pages: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-01-05 Long term goal: return to featured status Article structure has been significantly changed and needs fixing and further improvement. See if anything from Italian page can be used to improve this one. Consider implementing any suggestions made by the most recent peer review, including the automated peer-review suggestions. Implement suggestions made by the 2012 Peer Review. Improve/Add Citations Fix the problems that were found in the 2012 FAC Add demographic information from pew report Stylistic problems, specifically: ...the single-sentence paragraphs, the lack of flow within paragraphs, the broken connections between paragraphs, the weak large-scale architecture in the article, the huge number of references for a paltry amount of data, the lack of distinction between important and trivial facts. Record a new audio file once it reaches FA standard Other: Is it worth having an FAQ like other heavy traffic articles? E.g. "Why should Misplaced Pages have an article on itself?" The "sub-articles" that were split off from this article are badly in need of attention, as are several other related articles. The following all need work: Reliability of Misplaced Pages Criticism of Misplaced Pages Misplaced Pages in popular culture History of Misplaced Pages — this one in particular is missing information and should be reorganized Can we get the first three of these into a template somehow? Many other language Misplaced Pages articles of questionable notability, particularly the smallest ones. A thorough going through is needed, with non-notable articles being AFD material. Images: update graph in history section Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : Add information about how well the open model is working. The number of articles protected and its evolution in time. Even better, share of reads (hits) according to page protection status.

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This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 10 times. The weeks in which this happened: January 6 to 12, 2013 September 8 to 14, 2013 September 15 to 21, 2013 September 22 to 28, 2013 September 29 to October 5, 2013 October 6 to 12, 2013 January 19 to 25, 2014 February 16 to 22, 2014 February 23 to March 1, 2014 March 9 to 15, 2014 Section sizes Section size for Misplaced Pages (64 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 11,667 11,667 History 45 33,115 Nupedia 3,629 3,629 Launch and growth 14,014 14,014 Milestones 15,427 15,427 Openness 668 20,104 Restrictions 4,651 4,651 Review of changes 1,500 1,500 Vandalism 4,162 4,162 Disputes and edit warring 9,123 9,123 Policies and content 4,544 7,756 Content policies and guidelines 3,212 3,212 Governance 1,394 6,982 Administrators 2,595 2,595 Dispute resolution 1,027 2,993 Arbitration Committee 1,966 1,966 Community 8,805 14,858 Studies 3,356 3,356 Diversity 2,697 2,697 Language editions 13,887 15,888 English Misplaced Pages editor numbers 2,001 2,001 Reception 10,357 62,868 Accuracy of content 13,976 13,976 Discouragement in education 5,197 7,825 Medical information 2,628 2,628 Coverage of topics and systemic bias 6,653 13,080 Coverage of topics and bias 2,424 2,424 Systemic biases 4,003 4,003 Explicit content 6,902 6,902 Privacy 4,260 4,260 Sexism 6,468 6,468 Operation 16 34,358 Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate movements 9,295 9,295 Software operations and support 7,221 7,221 Automated editing 4,461 4,461 Hardware operations and support 5,397 5,397 Internal research and operational development 3,731 3,731 Internal news publications 1,847 1,847 The Misplaced Pages Library 2,390 2,390 Access to content 127 25,678 Content licensing 6,738 6,738 Methods of access 8,603 16,547 Mobile access 7,944 7,944 Chinese access 2,266 2,266 Cultural influence 68 50,819 Trusted source to combat fake news 1,496 1,496 Readership 3,404 7,799 COVID-19 pandemic 4,395 4,395 Cultural significance 10,737 21,408 Awards 3,969 3,969 Satire 6,702 6,702 Sister projects – Wikimedia 3,222 3,222 Publishing 4,490 4,490 Research use 12,336 12,336 Related projects 3,477 3,477 See also 678 678 Notes 26 26 References 19,070 21,354 Misplaced Pages-affiliated and primary sources 2,284 2,284 Further reading 6,242 16,114 Academic studies 4,849 4,849 Books 4,061 4,061 Book review–related articles 962 962 External links 1,140 1,140 Total 326,882 326,882

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 November 2024

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Sydney ham (talk) 03:02, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. CMD (talk) 03:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

"Wikipaedo" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wikipaedo has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 26 § Wikipaedo until a consensus is reached. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:49, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

"Wikiedia" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wikiedia has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 9 § Wikiedia until a consensus is reached. cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 12:46, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Inappropriate citations in bias subsection

The following sources referenced in the subsection on bias in Misplaced Pages are both completely innapropriate. I will be back to review if a rollback can be made, or if a deletion is better. please provide feedback before then.

Curently citation 192, is not a scholarly or professional source of any kind, nor is it an original work. It is a summary of proceedings which took place during a summit which included commercially and politically motivated speakers, covering a wide range of topics. the source referenced has been obscured making its primary text unverifiable, and, presents the misappropriation that it is actually a scientific publication buy obscurity behind a pay wall.

Currently citation 193, this is also not an original work, the cited source does not include any original research, and in fact cites the Misplaced Pages article it is used in as its source for the fact that it is used to cite in the Misplaced Pages article. this is a clear Misplaced Pages:Verifiability ABOUTSELF violation. Azeranth (talk) 10:45, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

References

1. Livingstone, Randall M. (November 23, 2010). "Let's Leave the Bias to the Mainstream Media: A Misplaced Pages Community Fighting for Information Neutrality". M/C Journal. 13 (6). doi:10.5204/mcj.315. ISSN 1441-2616. Archived from the original on November 21, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
2. Hube, Christoph (April 3, 2017). "Bias in Misplaced Pages". Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion – WWW '17 Companion. Republic and Canton of Geneva, CHE: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. pp. 717–721. doi:10.1145/3041021.3053375. ISBN 978-1-4503-4914-7. S2CID 10472970.

"Wiki encyclopedia" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Wiki encyclopedia has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 5 § Wiki encyclopedia until a consensus is reached. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 07:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Screenshot in Infobox

The screemshot in the infobox isn't aligned to centre on mobile view, it's a bit to the left. Sushidude21! (talk) 01:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Looks centered on my Android Pixel device. Johnjbarton (talk) 15:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

"VVikipedia" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect VVikipedia has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 7 § VVikipedia until a consensus is reached. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 18:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

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