Template talk:POTD protected

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Links to other featured content?

Can we include links to featured lists, portals, and sounds? -- Jeandré, 2007-02-14t09:38z

{{editprotected}} These links would be inappropriate for the way this template is used on the main page. There is already a link to Wikipedia:Featured content on the main page. CMummert · talk 20:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um

Why is this template currently a picture of a mandlebrot set? Marasmusine 20:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What the hell

{{editprotected}} I reserved this day for the featured picture of Highway 401 months ago, why has it been replaced without any sort of notice to me?! Secondly, who the fuck moved it to 2011 and a different day? This is fucking bullshit. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 01:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought they went up in first in, first out order, but I've disabled the editprotected template because you haven't actually requested an edit. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation

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In Template:POTD protected/2010-11-16, Rotunda should link to Rotunda (architecture) and not rotunda, which is a disambiguation page. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:40, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disabling as it looks like you did this yourself]. This particular template has now moved on to another POTD. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 06:06, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake

" in flight off the coast the Tasman Peninsula" should beither " in flight off the coast of the Tasman Peninsula" or " in flight off the Tasman Peninsula." Thank you. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 22:08, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 29 September 2020

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Please replace <noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day]]</noinclude> with

<noinclude>[[Category:POTD display templates]]</noinclude>

to categorize the template into the new template category. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:38, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done added to /doc page — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:51, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrybak: by the way, these types of category are more usually named in the format Category:Wikipedia POTD templates — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:52, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MSGJ, I was following the convention <abbreviation> templates of another Main Page related template category—Category:DYK templates. As far as I know, TFA and ITN don't have template categories. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:56, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia In the news :) I didn't know about DYK - they must be an anomaly — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Auto-panning?

Is there any way to add custom Javascript to this template to cause a wide side-scroll picture to pan slowly by itself? That would have been cool to see in today's picture, for example:

Because the picture has muted shades similar to the scroll bar (at least on my Chrome browser) it is easy to miss the fact that it's scrollable at all.

The Javascript is simple — I've done it on my own websites — but I have no idea how I'd do it in a Wikipedia template. ~Anachronist (talk) 06:59, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 29 May 2023

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As per recommendations about template {{Documentation}}, please remove the newline before the tag <noinclude>. That is, replace the whole code of the template with:

{{POTD protected/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}}}<noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>

This would make whitespace management around {{POTD protected}} easier, and make workarounds such as Special:Diff/1157564384 unnecessary. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:23, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]