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September 3, 2008	Articles for deletion	Speedily kept
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 7, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?

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Addition of the COI tag

@Alexceltare2 I do not understand were you are coming from. I agree that the article is not the most NPOV ever, but the {{COI}} is only meant for the cases where there has been only one specific contributor to the article and they have a clear established COI. The person listed at the top of the page has contributed to about 0.4% of the edits to the page and is hardly a major contributor. Sohom (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The COI tag is being misapplied in this case.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:14, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless, this does not give you the right to remove the tag since there is a clear bias in the article. Furthermore, you have still not clarified your WP:COI situation with Google. Most, if not all the good articles out there have a Controversy section and this article is clearly omitting one, especially at a time when Google is getting a lot of flak for its anti-competitive behaviours (banning AdBlocks, IP Protection, data harvesting, Topics API...just to name a few) and a lot of users are switching browsers as a boycott. I suggest that you and the fellow readers come up with a better tag until this issue is resolved. -Alexceltare2 (talk) 21:21, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexceltare2Feel free to use to {{NPOV}} tag if you want. From my perspective, it just seems like the article is not up-to-date with the latest coverage (and so maybe the {{update}} tag would be better in this scenario).

I don't understand what needs to be clarified regarding my "COI situation". As mentioned on my userpage, 4 years ago, I recieved a stipend as part of a Google sponsored 3 month student program to make code contributions (and only code contributions) to improve ProofreadPage. I don't think that has effect on my contributions here at all. I'm literally actively agreeing that the article is not NPOV and just pointing out that your usage of the {{COI}} tag was inappropriate. Sohom (talk) 21:41, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm satisfied with that. Alexceltare2 (talk) 00:58, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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typo "omputer scientist" => "computer scientist" Leoxiong (talk) 11:57, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. 13:38, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

"Turn Off the Lights extension" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Turn Off the Lights extension has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 17 § Turn Off the Lights extension until a consensus is reached. Schützenpanzer (Talk) 23:27, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chrome is being sold due to 'illegal monopoly'

A judge has come to order that Google will be 'forced' to sell Chrome for $20B USD, and that it may be done by August 2025. There are lots of sources confirming this, so please make sure to read, because I can not add that as it would be deemed 'unconstructive editing'. Thank you for understanding. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL ѕιη¢єяєℓу ƒяσм, ᗰOᗪ ᑕᖇEᗩTOᖇ 🏡 🗨 📝 04:11, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]