User:Guy Macon/Simple Main Page

Note: This proposed main page replacement is intended to not include all 23 links in the sidebar at the left side of your screen, but we may decide to keep a few by adding them to the main section.

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 * Wikinews-logo-51px.png [//en.wikinews.org/ Wikinews] – Free-content news.
 * Wikiquote-logo-51px.png [//en.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote] – Collection of quotations.
 * Wikisource logo 35px.png [//en.wikisource.org/ Wikisource] – Free-content library.
 * Wikispecies-logo-35px.png [//species.wikimedia.org/ Wikispecies] – Directory of species.
 * Wikiversity-logo-41px.png [//en.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity] – Free learning materials and activities.
 * Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg [//en.wikivoyage.org/ Wikivoyage] – Free travel guide.
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...Or we could do something along the lines of [ http://www.arngren.net/ ] or possibly [ http://heaven.internetarchaeology.org/heaven.html#bottom] (note: you have to use the up and down arrows to see it all -- no newfangled "scroll bars" here!). It's clearly what a lot of people want our main page to look like... :( --Guy Macon (talk) 18:25, 27 June 2016 (UTC)