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Errors with "In the news"

• A third party, the US government, says the Russian ship sank due to a Ukrainian attack ([1]). I think that the blurb should reflect that. The article does. 331dot (talk) 08:21, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
• Death toll rose 167 per the NDRRMC report on Tropical Storm Megi need update. (Inquirer News (NDRRMC)) HurricaneEdgar 02:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Today's OTD

• Yoda-like, the text for the Lateran Council is written. The final session was held of the Lateran Council, convened to rectify abuses [...] should really be The final session of the Lateran Council, convened to rectify abuses [...], was held in Rome. Beyond the obvious grammar issue, the location should at least be vaguely specified, at least for the vast majority of our readers who might have very little clue about such stuff. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:05, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

  @DYK admins: Anybody? This shouldn't be that hard to handle... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:21, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

   Done. Black Kite (talk) 14:23, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

• No mention of the Good Friday observance? User:WoodElf 14:33, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

  North Korea's day of the Sun is surely more important... Sheila1988 (talk) 19:16, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

  Agreed, why the omission. One of the most important days of the Christian calendar. 192.94.70.253 (talk) 19:19, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

  The omission is due to the presence of many "[citation needed]" tags on the article – if you can help improve it, we can feature it next year. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 22:42, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

• I'm curious why the Virginia Tech image is featured: it doesn't seem related to any of the text entries or listed people. Seems like it should be switched out for a more relevant image, or if it's intentional, be linkified to the relevant article? Andaphantie (talk) 01:56, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
  • Swapped out the image with a new, relevant image. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Tomorrow's OTD

• Whanganui campaign - widespread use of participant sources, ie battle details and casulaties are sourced to the diaries of British commanders who have a vested interest Bumbubookworm (talk) 21:19, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(April 22)

Monday's FL

(April 18)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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General discussion

Wikipedia:VPPRO#Proposal to change portal links on the Main Page

I have now implemented the portals-related parts of this RFC. If you see any technical issues with the implementation, let me know. Izno (talk) 20:48, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm so used to there being portals on the main page, it kinda looks weird. Cool guy (talk • contribs) • he/they 18:07, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, and empty. I wasn't involved in the portal removal discussion, but is there anything planned to go there? A good amount of screen real estate is wasted on the grey box. Perhaps there's some way of condensing the title/tag-line/article count to a single line? That would have the added benefit of more of the content boxes fitting on a single screen. --Inops (talk) 21:20, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

There was discussion in the RFC of adding the language selector there, but there is no technical implementation on the MediaWiki side to support an in-page selector. Perhaps Sdkb may wish to poke the relevant task. Izno (talk) 21:28, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

About time too. It should never have taken 16 years to see a slight change. It needs polishing up with design and layout too, but difficult to get consensus for any one design...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Main page subheadings

I would like to propose center-justifying the subheadings on the main page including Today's featured article, In the news, Did you know, On this day, etc. Since we just center-justified the title heading. I think it would look better if everything was centered. I would also like to know if this has been discussed before. Interstellarity (talk) 16:01, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Please see the sandbox to see what I am proposing. Interstellarity (talk) 19:13, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

I wasn't able to figure out how to code it in mobile, but if someone can do that, that would be great. Interstellarity (talk) 19:33, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Not a good idea to mix alignment in the main textual part of any page, in my opinion. And left-aligned text is easier to read for some people. Bazza (talk) 19:43, 15 April 2022 (UTC)