Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors

Error reports

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Main Page error reports

To report an error you have noticed on the current Main Page or tomorrow's Main Page please add it to the appropriate section below. Errors can be fixed faster when a correction is offered, so please be specific. You can do this by pressing the [edit] button to the right of the appropriate section's heading. Also, please sign your post using four tildes (~~~~)

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Errors in the summary of Today's featured article on the Main Page

the link for Panic of 1907 redirects to Panic at the Disco... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.4.193 (talk) 20:32, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Errors in Selected anniversaries/On this day

Marine Barracks Main Page summary says that 241 Marines were killed. This total actually includes Marines and US Army personnel supporting their mission. 138.162.128.54 (talk) 03:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

It also includes 18 U.S. Navy personnel, according to the article. So I made it 241 U.S. servicemen. Art LaPella (talk) 06:07, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

The Smurfs

Shouldn't the Smurfs be in bold, instead of Peyo? The anniversary is that the first time the Smurfs were seen, not that Peyo made them appear, right? --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 09:08, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

If you read it in edit mode, it says "''[[The Smurfs]]''<!--Not bolded, tagged for cleanup, {{refimprove}}-->." Art LaPella (talk) 13:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

See also the second paragraph of Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#I think that the articles listed on the Main Page are awful. Isn't the Main Page biased towards certain topics? What can be done about it?. In the Smurfs example, it is a compromise between those who strictly follow the guidelines that only the bolded articles on the Main Page should be well written articles, and those who like seeing the 50th, 100th, etc. anniversary of something. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:31, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Errors in Picture of the Day/Today's featured picture

Reporters: please first correct the regular version.

Follow-up and old items

This holding area is for items that require follow-up (for example, a general point that needs to be raised elsewhere), or for items that haven't been dealt with but where the topic under discussion is no longer on the Main Page. The items listed here should eventually be moved to a suitable location elsewhere, such as:

• Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article
• Template talk:In the news
• Wikipedia talk:Did you know
• Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries
• Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day

Any other problems

Please report other problems on Talk:Main Page.