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- Regarding the Peru president blurb, "impeached" should be changed to "removed from office"- those are two different acts. 331dot (talk) 09:16, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Errors in "Did you know ..."
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- ... that "Gegrüßet seist du, Königin", a German version of the Latin hymn "Salve Regina" was taken to the U.S. by emigrants and became popular in the U.S. in the film Sister Act?
- Doesn't feel grammatically correct to me. Should be something like "became popular in the U.S. after featuring in the film Sister Act?" - Dumelow (talk) 09:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- Well it was missing a comma, which I've fixed, so that's the grammatical part at least. Flow-wise, I'd favor something like was popularized there by over became popular in the U.S. in, but also think it wouldn't be a huge deal to leave as-is (well, as-copy-edited). -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 09:13, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- (ec) Well, it became popular enough by the emigrants to be featured in the film and what's popular is an English version, to make it harder. Whatever wording, I see now that it also needs a comma after Regina. - Thanks for that comma. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- Doesn't feel grammatically correct to me. Should be something like "became popular in the U.S. after featuring in the film Sister Act?" - Dumelow (talk) 09:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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- 1979 – The Kuomintang dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the party's rule in 2000.
The bit about 2000 is uncited. Article is orange tagged for lack of page references. There are some big chunks of the article uncited - Dumelow (talk) 08:03, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth not cited - Dumelow (talk) 08:05, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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- 9 Dec Divine Comedy - "(who guides him in the final cantos of Heaven." - pls add a closing parenthesis. JennyOz (talk) 07:17, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
"This oil-on-canvas painting, titled Dante and Virgil and completed by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1850, depicts Dante with Virgil observing two damned souls in eternal combat in Hell. Capocchio, an alchemist and heretic, is being bitten on the neck by the trickster Gianni Schicchi, who had used fraud to claim another man's inheritance. The painting now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris."
None of this is cited. Nothing after 1850 appears in the article or the image description page at Commons - Dumelow (talk) 07:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
General discussion
Request for comments: Do we need a second box for hooks on the Main Page?
- The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
The issue to !vote on: Should we retain the existing DYK box as it stands on the Main Page, with its quirky hooks "interesting to a broad audience", but add a second box containing factual hooks for specialist articles?
Note: this issue to vote on is solely about whether we want a second box or not, and the discussion is about why we may or may not want a second box for WP's improvement. At this stage, it is not about logistics such as whether we have enough reviewers, or where the templates should be listed for review and prep, or Main Page overall design.
History: This issue was triggered by difficulties on Template:Did you know nominations/Talia Or (and previously many other similar difficulties on previous nomination templates). In the hope of resolving the difficulties which were stalling the progress of certain DYK nominations, a discussion and Rfc was opened at: Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Request for comment: The need to update Wikipedia:DYK#gen3. The difficulty was that some reviewers felt that DYK hooks should all have quirky or intriguing elements aimed at a "general audience" (however one defines that). But some nominators and reviewers felt that sometimes a factual hook was the only type suitable for a particular article, even if that article contained potential quirky-hook material. It has been impossible to reach a compromise, and that is why the idea of an extra hook box arose, and why the Rfc has been opened here. Please see the "Possible reasons for adding another hook box" section below, for more information. Storye book (talk) 13:49, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
!voting
(Please !vote Yes or No, for or against an extra hook box, or for Other if you have a more complex view. Please keep comments brief so that the voting can be seen clearly. There is a discussion section for your longer comments, below.)
- No - A longer explanation will be written below in the Discussion section. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:46, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No, let's not make the Main Page even more convoluted. Also see discussion. —Kusma (talk) 15:10, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No. I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of people to mix different types of hook. Bazza (talk) 15:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - this sounds like putting very mundane information onto the main page. The idea of DYK is to get people to click the suitable article. We achieve no clicks on non-hooky items. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:25, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - A second box would serve unclear purpose (especially if it were effectively just replicating the DYK process/format) and needlessly dichotomize content as either "serious" or "fun(ny)"/"hooky". —Collint c 15:55, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - I'm actually unbothered by "boring" or less quirky hooks mixed in with silly ones. If there's nothing funny to say about something, then it's quite okay to just state something important or interesting. --Jayron32 17:02, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No. If DYK wants to modify the types of blurbs it runs, that's fine with me and something to be discussed within the project. FWIW I don't like quirky blurbs, because they're often misleading or confusing. I would prefer all blurbs to be factual statements, expressed in terms understandable by non-expert readers. Whatever DYK blurbs are run, I don't see any benefit to separating them into two sections on the Main Page. That's an unnecessary complication which would only confuse readers and make more work for admins & DYK queue prep, for no discernable benefit. Modest Genius talk 17:38, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - blurbs should never be so bland they need to be shoveled into a separate section. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:54, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yes - you nailed it. Therapyisgood (talk) 07:17, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - per Sarek of Vulcan's reasoning. It isn't that hard to find something interesting to say about an article. And if there really isn't anything better than the "singer sang song" level of comment, then don't bother taking it to DYK. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 20:40, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- No - I agree with above "no" comments. I also believe that adding an extra box would just make the main page more confusing to readers who are not familiar with Wikipedia policy. I agree with Modest Genius that if the type of blurbs being run are an issue this is a discussion that should discussed within the DYK process. Also, what is "hooky" or interesting varies from reader-to-reader, and I have seen other editors like Modest Genius who dislike the quirky blurbs. Aoba47 (talk) 16:00, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
- No There's a wealth of good reasoning below, but at the end of the day I'm most sympathetic to it being not needed. The main page is the introduction point. Simplicity as a design choice is well attested in the web design world and it makes it easier to navigate the main page. --WhoIs 127.0.0.1 ping/loopback 12:39, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Possible reasons for adding another hook box
(Note: this is not about criticising the policy and contents of the existing hook box. It is about whether we should add another box for articles which are peer-reviewed in exactly the same manner, but with a different type of hook)
- Some specialist articles deserve factual hooks in specialist terminology which represent their contents or a main point of the article, such as "Scientist John Doe discovered Foo", or "This botanical species has been discovered to be related to that botanical species".
- Hook-examples like the above, in specialist terminology, are important features of specialist journals, and in the right place they can elicit great excitement from the readers of such journals. But those people read WP too; sometimes looking for a first-stop glance at a subject peripheral to their own, to see if widening their view can shed more light on their work. Serious newspapers and magazine journalists constantly check online (including WP) for developments in academic and other specialist fields. We do have another audience, besides whatever concept we may have of a "general audience".
- Our Main Page represents what we want the public face of WP to be. The current fun and quirky hook box represents our user-friendly side. But we do also have a serious academic side, and our articles do also serve specialist groups of readers such as those interested in baseball or railway systems.
- The existing featured-article box is fine for featured articles, but it does not serve the need for the public airing of our newest specialist articles, which we can be proud of, too, however obscure their terminology.
- "Specialist" can include any article whose special-interest hook is not designed to capture the casual browser. For example, Jargonese articles/hooks on baseball and computer games can be included, where only that terminology puts the point across precisely.
- Even if a new Our newest specialist articles (or however-named) box were to be added, specialist article nominations and their hooks could of course still be featured in the existing DYK box. This request for a second box is only for those articles for which a quirky hook is deemed inappropriate by the nominator.
- The additional hook box would not need to compromise space or cause slower uploading. It could be, for example, a scroll box. (The scroll box idea is just to suggest that an extra box could be done; how it is actually done is not at issue at this point). Storye book (talk) 13:49, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- I just do not see the point of having two separate article sections on the Main Page, one for "quirky" hooks and another for specialist information. Any desire to promote specialist articles on Wikipedia already have their own avenues, mainly DYK, but theoretically even other Main Page sections such as TFA/ITN/OTD and so on. Such a section would feel very redundant to DYK, which was always intended to promote topics that may not necessarily be familiar to our general readership. In addition, the comments above imply that specialist topics such as baseball, railways, computer stuff, and so on can never be interesting to a broad audience. If there is a desire to promote specialist topics on Wikipedia, what's preventing an editor for simply writing a hook about that specialist topic that still appeals to a broad audience? A specialist topic doesn't need to limit its audience. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:46, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- You say, "the comments above imply that specialist topics such as baseball, railways, computer stuff, and so on can never be interesting to a broad audience". That is not the case, my friend. What I actually said was, "specialist article nominations and their hooks could of course still be featured in the existing DYK box. This request for a second box is only for those articles for which a quirky hook is deemed inappropriate by the nominator". Storye book (talk) 17:15, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- If a nominator does not want a hook that is interesting to a broad audience, and one is impossible, the nomination should be closed. A hook doesn't necessarily have to be quirky, but the rules currently state that a hook must be interesting to a broad audience. Barring a change relaxing or dropping that rule (and based on currents trends in the WT:DYK discussion, I frankly don't see a consensus for that happening anytime soon), a nomination can be rejected if no suitable hook is possible. If the nominator rejects all hook options, that's also a reason for closure since no consensus on a hook can be reached. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:09, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- That puts nominators of specialist articles with informational (non-quirky) hooks in a situation where they have nowhere to go. They have no compromise/re-write of guidelines to permit their hook, and they have no other place for their hook to be aired. So they have to close their nomination, or it gets closed anyway. That is why we are here, asking for another box. No-one wants the hassle of another Main Page box, including me. But there is nowhere else to go. Storye book (talk) 18:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- The solution is very simple: write a broadly interesting hook about a specialist topic. Editors have been able to do that for years no problem, so I don't see how it's impossible. I can understand if writing broadly interesting hooks about a field are impossible, but that's rarely the case. In most cases, a broadly appealing fact about a subject can be found if you know where to look. Even if one particular subject doesn't have a broadly appealing hook possible, that doesn't disqualify others in that field from having such hooks if it's possible. I don't see why there's an insistence on an "informational (non-quirky)" hook even when a broadly appealing hook is possible. For example, take the article Mami Kawada. Anime music is a very specialist topic and one that is niche. Yet the article was able to run on DYK with a non-specialist hook:
... that Mami Kawada's music career began after she was discovered by her music teacher?
It didn't have a hook that went... that Mami Kawada performed the opening themes to the anime Shakugan no Shana?
because, despite being a specialist topic, a broad interest hook was still possible. Instead of insisting on a specialist hook, why not just simply follow existing guidelines and write a hook that is broadly appealing? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:56, 15 November 2022 (UTC)- While I agree with your general point, you picked a horrible example of a non-specialist hook. That hook should have been tossed in the trash. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 20:43, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- The solution is very simple: write a broadly interesting hook about a specialist topic. Editors have been able to do that for years no problem, so I don't see how it's impossible. I can understand if writing broadly interesting hooks about a field are impossible, but that's rarely the case. In most cases, a broadly appealing fact about a subject can be found if you know where to look. Even if one particular subject doesn't have a broadly appealing hook possible, that doesn't disqualify others in that field from having such hooks if it's possible. I don't see why there's an insistence on an "informational (non-quirky)" hook even when a broadly appealing hook is possible. For example, take the article Mami Kawada. Anime music is a very specialist topic and one that is niche. Yet the article was able to run on DYK with a non-specialist hook:
- That puts nominators of specialist articles with informational (non-quirky) hooks in a situation where they have nowhere to go. They have no compromise/re-write of guidelines to permit their hook, and they have no other place for their hook to be aired. So they have to close their nomination, or it gets closed anyway. That is why we are here, asking for another box. No-one wants the hassle of another Main Page box, including me. But there is nowhere else to go. Storye book (talk) 18:32, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- If a nominator does not want a hook that is interesting to a broad audience, and one is impossible, the nomination should be closed. A hook doesn't necessarily have to be quirky, but the rules currently state that a hook must be interesting to a broad audience. Barring a change relaxing or dropping that rule (and based on currents trends in the WT:DYK discussion, I frankly don't see a consensus for that happening anytime soon), a nomination can be rejected if no suitable hook is possible. If the nominator rejects all hook options, that's also a reason for closure since no consensus on a hook can be reached. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:09, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Back in the day we had subject-specific portals that could have subject-specific and specialist DYKs. Specialist content should be targeted at specialists, not given to all random strangers. —Kusma (talk) 15:08, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Kusma:. You say "Specialist content should be targeted at specialists". How do you suggest that we do that, if not with hooks on the Main Page? Storye book (talk) 16:56, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Bazza 7: You say, "I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of people to mix different types of hook". Do you mean that we could have two types of hook - quirky and factual - in he existing DYK box? Or do you mean that a single hook can contain quirkiness and factual information at the same time? Whichever is your meaning, I agree with your comment, and that is the type of compromise that we were looking for. We have been told that it's not going to happen. That is why we are here. Storye book (talk) 17:05, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Storye book I originally meant the former, but am happy to adopt your other interpetation of what I wrote as well! Thanks. Bazza (talk) 09:13, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Jayron32: You say, "I'm actually unbothered by "boring" or less quirky hooks mixed in with silly ones. If there's nothing funny to say about something, then it's quite okay to just state something important or interesting". You are, of course, right. However we have been told that such a compromise is out of the question. That is why we are here. Storye book (talk) 17:17, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not terribly sure what person told you that, but sometimes people are wrong. --Jayron32 17:22, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- There have been several statements to the effect that a compromise is not going to happen, or about what would happen if there were a no-change decision. One, by Theleekycauldron, on the Talia Or nom template, said " It seems that a compromise on a hook that satisfies both the nominator and the consensus of current guidelines is not obtainable at the moment". (The context was that the nominator wanted a factual hook, and the guidelines were perceived to demand a hook "interesting to a broad audience" which was in turn perceived to mean a quirky or intriguing hook). There have been a few statements by other people in the same vein, some saying that if a hook cannot be made "interesting to a broad audience" as described above, then the nomination should be closed. There have been suggestions that in exceptional circumstances a nomination with a factual hook should be referred to IAR, but I don't know what that is. There is a page WP:IAR which is called "ignore all rules", but it contains no formal process. On a DYK nom page it would have no sway. Storye book (talk) 17:48, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Look, I don't know what to say. When I'm named Emperor of Wikipedia, I'll make sure all of the hooks, boring or quirky, get posted to DYK. Until that point comes, however, I'm not sure what I can do for you. --Jayron32 19:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, Jayron32. And thank you, everyone here, for voting as you have, so far, and for saying what you have said. This discussion - so far - has clarified for me what has happened with DYK and why we are here in this discussion today.
- Until this year, of course there had always been problems and brief spats on DYK templates, but on the whole it worked. Quirky and intriguing hooks aimed at the broad audience were passed, gave pleasure on the Main Page, and brought attention to new articles - all fine by all. And besides that, informational hooks were passed without tears or hostility, and achieved the same thing on the Main Page. It was like a sort of Paradise lost. Then a small group of reviewers took the guidelines literally and in narrow sense of "only quirky hooks will be passed, and nothing else", then they took issue with a small subset of nominators who wanted non-quirky, informational hooks for readers who may not be broad-audience-classified. Such nominations were the subject of a great deal of pressure to give in to the quirkiness requirement, and when nominators resisted, rejection was intimated. This caused a great deal of unhappiness on both sides. A formal discussion was raised, but all that did was to clarify to all that no compromise was going to happen, and that rejection from the DYK process was what our informational-hook nominators could expect.
- Before, the system worked. Now it is broken. Running away to create another Main Page Box is not going to work, because some comments by voters on this page suggest going back to the old pre Paradise-lost days, when we were permitted both sorts of hooks - but those days are gone.
- I am not permitted to close down any discussions, myself, as far as I am aware. But what I can do, is to stand up and say to those whose refusal to compromise is going to block the informational-hook nominators from the DYK process - please compromise. You no doubt have been doing your best for WP, but what you have actually done is to stall and antagonise many DYK templates this year, your actions have resulted in two Rfc discussions which have got nowhere, and while you sit triumphing in your castle of quirky-hookness, there are nominators out there who will be permanently left out of the chance to air their articles for the public. Who cares how many clicks an informational hook gets? What matters for some articles and some nominators, and ultimately WP in that case, is quality clicks, not only random browsing clicks by general-audience people who, faced with an article that they did not expect, may immediately close their browser window. I'm clearly not going to see a good result here, and neither are nominators of articles which certain reviewers have deemed good enough for WP but not good enough for hooks.
- In summary, there used to be inclusivity regarding both points of view in the DYK nom process. Now there is none, and one point of view is to be rejected from the system. I have tried and failed to regain that inclusivity by creating two Rfc's. For goodness' sake. All that is needed is to correct "interesting to a broad audience" to "interesting" in the DYK guidelines, and be a little more inclusive on DYK templates, and the problem is solved without any harm to WP. Storye book (talk) 21:38, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- This is not a great summary of the situation. The broadness criteria has been asked for and implemented for much longer than this year. Quirkiness is not a requirement, and is only sought out for one of the eight hooks; even then sets are sometimes run without a quirky hook. DYK continues to work and function up to this very day, with the main issue being constant delays in prep building and in queue transferring, which points to an issue of there being too many hooks per current manpower rather than too few. CMD (talk) 04:16, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- I was using "quirky" according to its dictionary definition; a quick google gives us "having or characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits or aspects", i.e. not necessarily silly. I take that definition to mean the aspect used in the "broad audience" hooks to grab a casual browser's attention. Yes the broadness criteria did work for a long time, as I have said above. Pity that didn't last. DYK is functioning well in general, but no longer working as to certain aspects of inclusivity, as I have explained. And arguments on DYK templates about inclusivity have often, at least temporarily, taken valuable promoters and prep builders away from their primary work. Storye book (talk) 10:59, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- This is not a great summary of the situation. The broadness criteria has been asked for and implemented for much longer than this year. Quirkiness is not a requirement, and is only sought out for one of the eight hooks; even then sets are sometimes run without a quirky hook. DYK continues to work and function up to this very day, with the main issue being constant delays in prep building and in queue transferring, which points to an issue of there being too many hooks per current manpower rather than too few. CMD (talk) 04:16, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- Look, I don't know what to say. When I'm named Emperor of Wikipedia, I'll make sure all of the hooks, boring or quirky, get posted to DYK. Until that point comes, however, I'm not sure what I can do for you. --Jayron32 19:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- I don't see how or why a hook can't be factual and broadly interesting to an audience at the same time. I mean, if a hook wasn't factual, it wouldn't have been allowed to run in the first place (hooks regularly get pulled for being inaccurate, for example). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 17:59, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, of course the quirky/intriguing hooks have to be true. By factual, I meant as opposed to quirky. So long as they are true, it should be possible to make them either quirky/intriguing, or simply informational. If we could have a formal compromise, written into the guidelines, then we wouldn't need to be here, asking for a separate box. Storye book (talk) 18:18, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- There have been several statements to the effect that a compromise is not going to happen, or about what would happen if there were a no-change decision. One, by Theleekycauldron, on the Talia Or nom template, said " It seems that a compromise on a hook that satisfies both the nominator and the consensus of current guidelines is not obtainable at the moment". (The context was that the nominator wanted a factual hook, and the guidelines were perceived to demand a hook "interesting to a broad audience" which was in turn perceived to mean a quirky or intriguing hook). There have been a few statements by other people in the same vein, some saying that if a hook cannot be made "interesting to a broad audience" as described above, then the nomination should be closed. There have been suggestions that in exceptional circumstances a nomination with a factual hook should be referred to IAR, but I don't know what that is. There is a page WP:IAR which is called "ignore all rules", but it contains no formal process. On a DYK nom page it would have no sway. Storye book (talk) 17:48, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not terribly sure what person told you that, but sometimes people are wrong. --Jayron32 17:22, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Modest Genius: You say, "If DYK wants to modify the types of blurbs it runs, that's fine with me and something to be discussed within the project". You are, of course, right. However it has been discussed innumerable times on the DYK templates, and formally in the discussion linked above (see the History paragraph). And it has become clear that no compromise is going to happen. If you are a DYK nominator wanting a factual hook for your specialist article, then without such a compromise regarding the guidelines, you are going to have to withdraw your DYK nomination. That is the current situation. I don't want the hassle of an extra box any more than all the "no" voters above. I want a compromise so that we can have both wholly factual and wholly quirky/intriguing hooks in the same Main Page DYK box, as we have had for years. But it was made clear that it was not going to happen, which is why we are here. Storye book (talk) 18:18, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Why have you proposed something if you don't think it's a good idea? That seems like a WP:POINTy waste of time. Also, those linked discussions are very TLDR and lack a closing rationale, so I can't work out who (if anyone) has decided that hooks cannot be factual. Modest Genius talk 12:49, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- Why did I start this Rfc? Please read the list of reasons above, headed "Possible reasons for adding another hook box". It's one of those things that you do because you have to, not because you want to. That's why. And I did say that I was considering doing this, in the other Rfc discussion, because I was worried that it might not be permissible. But I was given to understand that it was OK to do this. As for who, I'm uncomfortable naming names because everyone has a right to their opinion, but I suggest that you read through the other Rfc discussion, linked in the History paragraph, above. Storye book (talk) 13:56, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- Why have you proposed something if you don't think it's a good idea? That seems like a WP:POINTy waste of time. Also, those linked discussions are very TLDR and lack a closing rationale, so I can't work out who (if anyone) has decided that hooks cannot be factual. Modest Genius talk 12:49, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- I know Story book means well, but I can't help thinking that what's being proposed is that we supplement the current "Did You Know?" section with a new "Why on Earth Would Anybody Care?" section. EEng 00:37, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- It's a little confusing to me that we're using "quirky" to mean interesting. @Storye book and Jayron32: quirky has a narrowly and specifically defined meaning in DYK terminology: it refers to the silly hook, of which there is exactly one in every set, at the bottom. The bottom hook should be quirky; the first seven simply currently need to be broadly interesting. Template:Did you know nominations/Claudia Riner is interesting, but not quirky. The first hook proposed at Template:Did you know nominations/Pronunciation of GIF is quirky. They're not the same term. Could we please note that down? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:41, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have explained my meaning above. Storye book (talk) 11:00, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
Discussion ended?
Thank you, everyone, for taking part. I believe that this discussion has now ended, and that the consensus is clear. I would like to get this discussion closed now, by removing the Rfc template above, by bringing in a closer to close it for us, or both (or of course anyone is welcome to close it down for me). I am writing my intention here so that if you have objections to the closure, you have the chance to say so. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
The Roaring Lion
Amakuru, what we all overlooked in our Errors discussion about this POTD candidate was that it had gone through three previous deletion discussions on Commons. Long story short, the conclusion for The Roaring Lion was that PD-US also applies because it had been on the cover of Life magazine in 1945, with copyright not having been renewed by the publisher. Hence, we can safely run it. Adam Cuerden, this POTD got pulled and if you've got an opening somewhere, please help yourself to this one. Schwede66 09:16, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Schwede66: OK, I guess so then. I've looked at those discussions and I have to say I can't really see what the justification is for keeping them. The "keep" !votes look like emotive "please don't delete this, it's very useful and unlikely anyone will challenge it" rather than actually grounded in the letter of Commons or Wikipedia policy on copyrights. But then again I'm no expert either, so perhaps those guys are right. At the very least, before any putative main-page run, it ought to have a licence note for the US put on the page, so it's clear under what interpretation they're saying it's valid. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 09:28, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- I'm literally not seeing any sign of any of this. Which day was it? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 13:28, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- That's because any trace of it had been nuked! Sorry, I did not realise that, Adam Cuerden. I've restored it to Template:POTD/2023-11-30. Schwede66 18:48, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Schwede66 and Amakuru: Did it actually run at all before being swapped out, and, if so, for how long? I feel that 24 hours on the main page is the minimum for a FP, so if it got swapped out partway through I'd like to rerun what it was swapped with. Presuming we're agreed it's fine, and it hasn't just run, I'll probably slot it in to the 9 December gap. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 21:02, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Adam Cuerden: yes, it ran for almost half the day actually. I did the swap at 11:44, with what's now Template:POTD/2022-12-01, the red-bellied piranha, filling the remaining 12:16 of that day. The thing is, issues had been raised with the image the previous day and it was swapped over between the 30th and the 1st, but then nobody followed up, which I assume had been the intention, given the consensus at the time that the Churchill image wasn't satisfying PD-US. So if you want to give them both equal airtime on the second run day, then you can just flip those 11:44 and 12:16 values around. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 21:59, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- Little awkward, but should be doable. Not actually an admin, though, so might just put both in for February or so Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 23:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- Ok, here's what I suggest we do:
- Adam, move The Roaring Lion template to when you want it to appear.
- Once done, we'll move this discussion to the template's talk page.
- We'll then move the Pygocentrus nattereri over the top of The Roaring Lion.
- Once it's run for half a day on the chosen day, an admin reverts to The Roaring Lion.
- We'll then copy The Roaring Lion to the unprotected version, too.
- We can appoint an admin who will be online at the correct point in time (that won't be me; it'll be just after midnight when the revert needs to occur).
- That way, both items will have had two half-days on the Main Page. In the archive, Pygocentrus nattereri appears as having run on 1 December 2022, and The Roaring Lion will show on the chosen day. We should probably leave notes on the talk pages of the archive versions that points to this discussion so that nobody is confused should they choose to look at the templates' histories. How does that sound? Schwede66 00:45, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- Pretty good. Probably wise not to do it too soon, though, as it's not that odd to think someone might have viewed it before noon that day, after noon the one we choose. I guess there's another option, but I'm not sure it's a good one: We do have the tech to randomly show one of X images on the main page, randomly choosing one to show. But having such disparate images might just make it confusing. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 21:52, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, for the record, if this happens again, it's better to use an image that has already run, as I do feel more than a day is much better than less than a day. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 22:46, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- "Probably wise not to do it too soon" – so would 30 November 2023 be fine, Adam Cuerden? Could also run this exactly one month later as that's the anniversary of the 1941 photo shoot. Schwede66 02:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- Makes sense. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 16:24, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- "Probably wise not to do it too soon" – so would 30 November 2023 be fine, Adam Cuerden? Could also run this exactly one month later as that's the anniversary of the 1941 photo shoot. Schwede66 02:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, for the record, if this happens again, it's better to use an image that has already run, as I do feel more than a day is much better than less than a day. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 22:46, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- Pretty good. Probably wise not to do it too soon, though, as it's not that odd to think someone might have viewed it before noon that day, after noon the one we choose. I guess there's another option, but I'm not sure it's a good one: We do have the tech to randomly show one of X images on the main page, randomly choosing one to show. But having such disparate images might just make it confusing. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 21:52, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
- Ok, here's what I suggest we do:
- Little awkward, but should be doable. Not actually an admin, though, so might just put both in for February or so Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 23:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Adam Cuerden: yes, it ran for almost half the day actually. I did the swap at 11:44, with what's now Template:POTD/2022-12-01, the red-bellied piranha, filling the remaining 12:16 of that day. The thing is, issues had been raised with the image the previous day and it was swapped over between the 30th and the 1st, but then nobody followed up, which I assume had been the intention, given the consensus at the time that the Churchill image wasn't satisfying PD-US. So if you want to give them both equal airtime on the second run day, then you can just flip those 11:44 and 12:16 values around. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 21:59, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Schwede66 and Amakuru: Did it actually run at all before being swapped out, and, if so, for how long? I feel that 24 hours on the main page is the minimum for a FP, so if it got swapped out partway through I'd like to rerun what it was swapped with. Presuming we're agreed it's fine, and it hasn't just run, I'll probably slot it in to the 9 December gap. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 21:02, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- That's because any trace of it had been nuked! Sorry, I did not realise that, Adam Cuerden. I've restored it to Template:POTD/2023-11-30. Schwede66 18:48, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
- I'm literally not seeing any sign of any of this. Which day was it? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 13:28, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Can we remove the outdated Wikipedia slogan "Anyone can edit"?
To the Wikipedia users and staff members, over the 20 years that Wikipedia has been around. I've noticed over the 20 years that there's been Wikipedia vandalism over the years and the title "Anyone can edit" is outdated, abused, misleading and taken advantage of. Can we change the slogan from "Anyone can edit" to "Users can edit"?
Unsigned visitors have sometimes been vandalizing Wikipedia articles as a prank and I want to protect the Wikipedia articles from unwanted vandalism. Also, we need to make it a requirement for people to log in their Wikipedia account to edit anything on all Wikipedia pages so we can better monitor the activities to make sure they are following the Wikipedia rules.
Let me know if you like my suggestion slogan "Users can edit" Because the current "Anyone can edit" slogan is now outdated and gives visitors the wrong idea that they can type in whatever fake words they want. Also, if you have a better slogan idea. Let me know, because we need to replace "Anyone can edit" slogan right away to prevent and discourage vandalism and misinformation to any Wikipedia articles. CrosswalkX (talk) 13:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- CrosswalkX As the slogan is not just for the Main Page, this is probably best discussed at the Village Pump. Requiring accounts to edit is a perennial proposal. 331dot (talk) 13:21, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- On the English WP, anyone can indeed edit, anonymously, if they like, and there are a significant number of beneficial IP edits. There is no requirement that anyone register an account. Edit filters and bots have gone a long way toward dealing with vandalism. That "anyone can edit" is a fundamental tenet of crowdsourcing, and a way of attracting new editors. You appear to be advocating for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, or at least is not reflective of how the project works. The "anyone can edit" is more often abused by POV-[pushers with agendas, who wish to advance their own views. Most of those have accounts. Acroterion (talk) 13:24, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- Exactly what you said Acroterion, that's why we need to change the outdated Slogan "Anyone can edit" Because there are POV pushers with agendas or pranksters, or unwanted unsigned users online who take advantage of Wikipedia and attack the Wikipedia pages and it's been happening too many times over the past 20 years, and I want the Wikipedia technicians to add online security like requiring people to be signed in Wikipedia to better protect Wikipedia articles.
- Can we have an online Wikipedia staff meeting to discuss about changing the Slogan "Anyone can edit"? I want to present a new slogan for the Wikipedia company and team with these ideas "Members only can edit", or "Respectful users can edit", "Privileged users can edit", "Wikipedia Users can edit"
- Also, I personally think there should be a requirement for all people and editors to sign in as Wikipedia members, then that way we can prevent most vandalism and track down who the Wikipedia users is on editing articles. This is not the 2000s anymore, this is the 2020s and it's time Wikipedia CEO and all the Wikipedia staff and user members to start having an online meeting and talking about making changes to Wikipedia including changing and replacing the outdated slogan "Anyone can edit" and in the future making it a requirement to require all users to login to edit Wikipedia articles so we can verify them and make sure they are not putting out fake information. And that they are editing correctly. Otherwise, we'll keep having the same problems we have now with POV pushers with agendas and pranksters targeting Wikipedia page articles. I'll make sure I talk to the correct contact staff members elsewhere about this issue. CrosswalkX (talk) 13:10, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- im against this, anyone including anon people too. ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ TALK 22:25, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- There is no staff of the kind you imagine, and nobody's going to do anything differently because a slogan has changed, or are so literal-minded to imagine that we accept abusive editors because of that. I don't think you understand the role of the community versus the WMF, or how the WMF operates. Wikipedia is not and never has been a free speech outlet - it's not owned by an autocratic billionaire. In any case, you're in the wrong place. Start a discussion at WP:VP if you want to pursue this, but not here. Acroterion (talk) 13:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia slogan "Anyone can edit" is both historical and correct, and a discussion at WP:VP will get the same type of comments. Please understand that what the slogan does not say or imply is that anyone's edit will stay, or that once "anyone" edits the edit won't be reverted, the editor bounced as a vandal, or anything promising that the edit will survive. There is a world of differences between 'can' and 'permanent'. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:20, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- There is no staff of the kind you imagine, and nobody's going to do anything differently because a slogan has changed, or are so literal-minded to imagine that we accept abusive editors because of that. I don't think you understand the role of the community versus the WMF, or how the WMF operates. Wikipedia is not and never has been a free speech outlet - it's not owned by an autocratic billionaire. In any case, you're in the wrong place. Start a discussion at WP:VP if you want to pursue this, but not here. Acroterion (talk) 13:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
- The slogan doesn't drive the site. We could change the slogan to "The Encyclopedia Only Cats Can Edit", but it wouldn't change the actual editing rules, or slow vandalism at all. ApLundell (talk) 01:44, 8 December 2022 (UTC)