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[edit] Leads

Update/replace:

• Left top (main lead)
• Left bottom
• Right top
• Right bottom
• Automatic lead manager

Former:

• Main
• Alternate main

Contents 1 Leads 2 Archives 3 Other 4 Concerning bias on front page leads 5 Most popular not updated - URGENT!

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[edit] Archives

Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3, Archive 4, Archive 5, Archive 6, Archive 7, Archive 8, Archive 9, Archive 10, Archive 11, Archive 12, Archive 13, Archive 14, Archive 15, Archive 16, Archive 17, Archive 18, Archive 19, Archive 20, Archive 21, Archive 22

[edit] Other

• General talk → Wikinews:Water cooler
• Admin attention needed → WN:ALERT

[edit] Concerning bias on front page leads

Right now four of the leads have the {{VOA}} template on them. This should concern everyone.

VOA is fully funded by the United States Government. They are the personification of the administration's POV; I have looked at these stories and am not as confident as I would like to be that there is an active effort to question their content and what purpose is served in presenting the facts in this way. There is not yet a bot running to automatically import these articles yet so many are going up. Has someone set their home page to VOA? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 01:11, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

SOFIXIT. :P Cirt (talk) 01:17, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Most popular not updated - URGENT!

I think one or two people have noticed the most-popular article list isn't getting updated. Now it's 5 days stale. Is there anything we can substitute into this area of the main page until it gets going again? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Cute puppy

Hrm, perhaps a picture of a cute puppy? :P Cirt (talk) 11:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh look at the cute puppy. :) Its got my vote. On a serious note, we could replace it with the wikinews this time last year/3 years ago template. Bawolff ☺☻ 12:38, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. changed to {{main historical}} Bawolff ☺☻ 12:58, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

For comparision, i have also created {{Main puppy}} based on Cirt's suggestion as an alternate to {{main historical}}. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Puppies made the main page for an hour --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 01:59, 31 October 2009 (UTC)