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TFA today

• The song lent its name to Steagall's 2007 album: It's not an error, per se, but isn't it preferable to use title rather than name? --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 09:38, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
  • Disclaimer: I don't have a good feel for pop culture topics. How is the name of a song different from its title? - Dank (push to talk) 11:53, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
    • According to Merriam-Webster, the definitions of title include the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production and a similar distinguishing name of a musical composition or a work of art. So title is more precise than name.
      

I don't think the song being part of pop culture has any bearing on the word choice. Now that you mention it, though, I guess the proclivity of the hoi polloi to degrade the English language is displacing title from their vocabulary. --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 15:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

• You're ruining the memory of my favorite game show, Entitle That Tune. - Dank (push to talk) 15:25, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

• Surely you mean Identify That Tune. Speaking of which, have you seen the segment in which a contestant correctly identified the song without hearing any notes? --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 15:58, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

• I acknowledge there's no consensus to make the edit I half proposed but rather than delete this discussion, I am moving it to TFA Today for the benefit of anyone who might see this TFA now that it's on the Main Page and wonder as I did. --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 00:57, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Errors in In the news

Should there be a photograph of Chris Cornell there? The news doesn't mention him. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

He appears against "Recent deaths" in this section. —Bruce1ee^talk 08:54, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

So he does - apologies, I hadn't noticed that. Which perhaps says something about the use of the photograph in itself... Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:57, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Mark Colvin should have been removed some time ago from RD... The Rambling Man (talk) 12:00, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm confused. Did Chris Cornell collaborate with the Eurovision winner? 2600:387:9:5:0:0:0:7F (talk) 12:23, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

It's not the first time that the ITN photo is connected to an ITN item other than the topmost item. (It is the first ITN photo I've seen that is of someone or something included in Recent Deaths, for what it's worth.) --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 13:17, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

The discussion is on WP:ITN/C, under the Chris Cornell section. Black Kite (talk) 13:35, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

File:President Hassan Rouhani portrait 2016.jpg

Rouhani

Please change the photo to Hassan Rouhani. Thank you. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:02, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Displaying photo of an RD-only posting is graphically counter-intuitive and will confuse many readers. Strongly suggest photo of Rouhani instead. Sca (talk) 14:10, 20 May 2017 (UTC) ⇒

Go and read (and comment) on the discussion at ITN/C, please. Using Cornell was a decision which currently has general agreement on that page. It was also a compromise proposal, given that Cornell almost - but not quite - had support for a full blurb. Thanks, Black Kite (talk) 14:15, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Also, I have proposed rotating the image round to Rouhani in a day or so's time, when Cornell's death will be out of the news. Black Kite (talk) 14:17, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Nonsense. I will do what you ask but it is an embarrassment to Wikipedia. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:20, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Black Kite: Makes no sense whatever. Are you going to post a notice to readers to go to WP:ITN/C for an explanation of why a pic of a recently deceased U.S. musician is juxtaposed with a blurb about the reelection of the president of Iran? Ridiculous as journalism, graphics and information delivery. Sca (talk) 14:23, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

It took me a while to find the "(Pictured)" in the ITN, today. Has the pictured item ever been a recent death before? I read ITN start-to-finish a few times before it dawned on me. I was almost convinced that someone had put up the wrong picture, or someone had come up with a clever way to vandalize the main page.

Maybe it's my fault for never reading the recent deaths. ApLundell (talk) 14:24, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

No you were not the only one confused - I didn't think there was a Chris running for election in Iran, but my first thoughts and discovery have been removed from this page! Doesn't work, like the first time i mentioned it. Edmund Patrick – confer 14:34, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I guess on Wikipedia if you're an American white guy you get to be the exception to the rule that RDs cannot have images on ITN.70.171.33.201 (talk) 14:49, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

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