Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-01-23/Featured content

A request for comment has been initiated to discuss the structure of the leadership for the Featured Articles department at en:wiki. Featured articles/2012 RfC on FA leadership. If you could please insert a notice drawing attention to the event, it might help draw wider participation. Thank you. --Dianna (talk) 19:38, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Added to N&N Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:11, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

US-centric?
I don't agree with the anon's repeat performance this week in adding explicit references to the US all over the page. We're supposed to be intelligent editors (this is aimed at the en.WP community, not 10-year-old grade-school kids in the UK). By now, we're supposed to know where New England is and that Obama is the president of the US, not of Ireland. One might be more explicit in article space, by contrast. Tony  (talk)  13:02, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes but see what I mean - Albert Hoffman's nationality was given but Timothy Leary's wasn't. Why would that be?  The usual biased assumption of editors that everyone who reads it will know who Leary is but not who Hoffman is.  How ironic on a page where Muhammad Mahdi Karim talks about systemic bias - you go right ahead and dump a whole load of it on the very same page.


 * You just don't get it, do you? How alienating it is for readers from countries other than the US.  How arrogant it is of US editors to assume they don't need to provide the most basic information because, hey, everyone somehow will know it anyhow, right?  This is the third time I have raised this here and I have been, to use an Americanism, kissed off both times before, and my complaint treated as some sort of irritating nonsense.  But can't you see if in this, a PR exercise for Wikipedia which is focussing on the best of the project, you promote the US-centric 'don't give a fuck for the rest of the world, we're the default here so suck it' attitude, what signals does that send out? 86.138.46.69 (talk) 13:14, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Muhammad Mahdi Karim
I've long been a fan of his photographic work, and it's nice to see a little bit about the man behind the pictures as well. Thanks for an interesting read! Lankiveil (speak to me) 13:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC).
 * Thanks for the feedback! He indeed has several really nice pictures; the picture of the Kaaba in Masjid Al-Haram is impressive. Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:55, 30 January 2012 (UTC)