A fact from Johann Poppe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 November 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight (pictured)?
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I've bowed to the strong feeling that articles on other wikipedias should not be simply presented as piped links, but articles on those buildings are highly unlikely to ever be written on en.wikipedia; here the information really belongs in this article, under the architect. But it is useful for those who can make use of it to know that a full article exists on another wikipedia. I think this article's circumstances illustrate the lack of wisdom of having external (in this case interwiki) links appear in such a similar colour to wikilinks. If they were not blue, it would be obvious that anyone clicking on tehm would be going off en.wikipedia. The abbreviation de. is not clear to many English speakers and makes IMO more puzzling clutter than a clearly colour-distinguished external link. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:56, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
