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<div style="right:10px;display:none;" class="metadata topicon">'''{{CURRENTDATE}}'''</div>
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<p>'''This is the talk page for discussing changes to the Wikipedia Main Page:''' please read the information below to find the best place for your comment or question. For error reports, go [[WP:ERRORS|here]]. Thank you.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;background-color:#cef2e0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">Today's featured article</p>
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* Do you think today's featured article is '''awful?''' Instead of complaining see [[Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ#I think that today's featured article is awful. What can be done about it?|what you can do about it]].
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* "Today's Featured Article" is selected from [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|existing featured articles]]. To nominate one for the Main Page see '''[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]'''.
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* To report an error in today's featured article, leave a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
  
<div style="float: right; padding: .5em; margin-left: 2em; background-color: #f0f0ff; border: 1px solid #c6c9ff; white-space: nowrap; width:12em">
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<p style="margin:1em 0 0 0;background:#cef2e0;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">Did you know...</p>
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* "Did you know..." lists facts from '''new''' or '''[[WP:STUB|newly unstubbed]]''' articles. To nominate a fact for inclusion see '''[[Template talk:Did you know|Did you know]]'''.
* [[Talk:Main Page/intro|Introduction]]
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* To report an error in "Did you know...", leave a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
* [[Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page|In the news]]<br/><small>[[Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates|(suggest new entry)]]</small>
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* [[Template:Did you know|Did you know...]]<br/><small>[[Template talk:Did you know|(suggest new entry)]]</small>
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<p style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">In the news</p>
* [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]<br/><small>[[Wikipedia talk:Tomorrow's featured article|(suggest new entry)]]</small>
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* "In the news" items are listed as they are added &ndash; there is '''no''' [[Subjectivity|subjective order]].
* [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries|Anniversaries]]
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* To suggest a '''Wikipedia article''' that has been '''updated''' with new material, see '''[[Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page|the "In the news" page]]'''.
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* To report an error you've seen in "In the news", leave a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
  
'''[[Wikipedia:Editing the main page|find out more]]'''
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<p style="margin:1em 0 0 0;background:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">On this day...</p>
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* If an important event isn't mentioned in "On this day...", it ''may'' be because you haven't suggested it yet at '''[[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries|Selected anniversaries]]'''.
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* To report an error in "On this day...", leave a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
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<p style="margin:0;background-color:#e0cef2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #afa3bf;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">Today's featured picture</p>
'''Talk archives:'''
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*Today's featured picture is taken from the list of '''successful''' [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured pictures]], If you would like to nominate a picture to be featured see '''[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day|Picture of the Day]]'''.
 
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*To report an error with "Today's featured picture...", add a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
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<small>[[Talk:Main Page/Browse bar|Browse bar]]</small>
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<p style="margin:0;background-color:#cacaca;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #666666;color:#000000;padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.5em;">Main Page and beyond</p>
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* [[Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ|Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Main Page]]
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* Preview tomorrow's Main Page at [[Main Page/Tomorrow]]. To report an error on tomorrow's Main Page, leave a note at the '''[[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Error&nbsp;Report]]'''.
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* If you want to start a new article [[Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia|seek help here]].
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* If you see something wrong with a particular article, raise your concerns on '''that article's own [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|discussion page]]''', or [[Wikipedia:Introduction|fix it yourself]]. '''Do not talk about other articles here'''.
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* Wikipedia running slowly? Check the [http://www.thewritingpot.com/wikistatus/ server status].
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* '''If you have an opinion, comment, question or are looking for help regarding Wikipedia in general, find the place where your post will get the most attention [[Wikipedia:Questions|here]]'''.
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'''Otherwise'''; please read through this page to see if your comment has already been made by someone else before adding a new section by clicking the little + sign at the top of the page.
 
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Welcome to Wikipedia, where we complicatedly try to make things as complicated as possible by using complicated phrases that mere mortals could never comprehend.
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*'''For factual or reference questions, ask your mother.'''
 
*If you're missing a mother, ask your father.
 
*For general questions about "things", ask "Auntie Sue"...gnome same?
 
 
 
  
You crawl and you fall and you give and you take and you shake and you bake and you turn it into!
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<p style="font-size:140%;border:0px solid #000000;border-bottom-width:1px;">Main page discussion</p>
*Does it appear? If so, try [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=purge purging the cache], or find out about [[Wikipedia:Bypass your cache|browser caching]].
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*'''This page is for the discussion of technical issues with the main page's operations. See the help boxes above for possible better places for your post.'''
*New comments about the Main Page go '''at the bottom'''. ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Main_Page&action=edit&section=new Post a comment]''.
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*'''Please add new topics to the bottom of this page. If you press the plus sign to the right of the ''edit this page''  button it will automatically add a new section for your post.'''
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<p style="background:#eeddaa;">This template sometimes suffers from the  [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629 dreaded misplaced edit section button bug]. Fear ye not, there should be a fix in the next monobook patch. *Cross fingers*</p></noinclude>

Latest revision as of 04:40, 3 August 2017

This is the talk page for discussing changes to the Wikipedia Main Page: please read the information below to find the best place for your comment or question. For error reports, go here. Thank you.

Today's featured picture

  • Today's featured picture is taken from the list of successful featured pictures, If you would like to nominate a picture to be featured see Picture of the Day.
  • To report an error with "Today's featured picture...", add a note at the Error Report.

Main Page and beyond

Otherwise; please read through this page to see if your comment has already been made by someone else before adding a new section by clicking the little + sign at the top of the page.

Main page discussion

  • This page is for the discussion of technical issues with the main page's operations. See the help boxes above for possible better places for your post.
  • Please add new topics to the bottom of this page. If you press the plus sign to the right of the edit this page button it will automatically add a new section for your post.
  • Please sign your post with --~~~~. It will add the time and your name automatically.

This template sometimes suffers from the dreaded misplaced edit section button bug. Fear ye not, there should be a fix in the next monobook patch. *Cross fingers*