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Could we change the lede image to file:Nemosia rourei 1872.jpg per the article and the reasons outlined in my edit summary there? JayCubby 04:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

No, your change to the article image has been reverted. Stephen 05:11, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

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What is main about this page? Should it not be called the Front page or Cover page instead?--ProperFraction (talk) 00:37, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if "Front" and "Cover" are any better. The page is not in front of nor covering anything, besides what's inside your monitor. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 02:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

A load of electronic bits I think!--ProperFraction (talk) 16:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Front page would cause a lot of disambiguation issues with Frontpage, and wiki is not paper. ffm 19:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Maybe "First Page"? --Howard the Duck 09:58, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't there some talk of moving it out of the WP:main namespace entirely? I can't find it under perenniel proposals. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 14:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Its never really been put forward as a serious proposal, but there has been many, many, short discussions on the topic, the three major ones that occured are in archives 87, 89 and 90.

All this is easily found in the information box at the top of the page btw :) ☯Ferdia O'Brien /_(C) 14:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

RFC at TFA/R

See Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/requests#Facilitating TFA suggestions, request to unprotect the TFA blurbs and let the community choose them. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

There is also an alternative proposal to keep the blurbs protected, but to open TFA requests to the community in a more structured way... as overseen by a TFA director. Wrad (talk) 22:16, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Ice on Mars presentation in front page

That's not strictly Main Page material but it is related to its presentation. First, it strikes me that it's slightly hard to find which is the main article of the sentence. Is it Mars or is it Phoenix. Since I've been using wikipedia for some time, it's obviously not Mars, that'd be an article on it. Perhaps it needs to be somehow more prominently shown. Secondly, shouldn't the main article about it be about a mission finding ice on Mars? It's an article about a craft. --Leladax (talk) 23:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, I meant to do this earlier, but was caught up with dealing with a load of other things. Anyway, I semi-protected this talk page due a sockpuppetry attack that spilled over from another article. This note is to inform people of that protection, and that since the protection is set to indefinite, any admin may choose to set the protection back to move=sysop after a few hours if they wish, though I do plan to lift my own protection of the page later anyway. Thanks. Acalamari 22:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Today's Featured Picture

Not technically an arror, so I'm posting here. As of this revision, the featured picture is a video. I'm not saying people are dumb and would think its a picture, but it somewhat implies that it always has to be a picture to be feautured. We could change the name to Today's Featured Media to include picture and picture. Just a comment. =) --DA PIE EATER (talk) 01:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was about to say the same, so it's pretty obvious that it should be either "media" or "video", can you change it since I cannot edit this page.--71.190.86.64 (talk) 03:48, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Your comments should really be made on Misplaced Pages talk:Featured pictures. "Today's featured picture" on the main page shows one of the many featured pictures that have been selected and promoted ... but is seems that they are nominating and promoting videos over there too like this one, this one, and that one. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Think of it as a "moving picture" (hence the word "movie"). howcheng {chat} 05:59, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Amarnath

I wonder what's so internationally important about the Amarnath news. Maquahuitl 04:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

"what's so internationally important" about most other news? most news have to start locally. a minority is international, e.g. UN summits. --131.227.208.101 (talk) 15:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I cannot currently help you. It was suggested on Misplaced Pages:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates#ITN Candidates for June 25, but it currently does not explain your concern. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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