Talk:Main Page

2010

Does there necessarily need to be a link to all the different events for the test exchange? Many of the events don't even have tests, so those links should really be deleted from the main page... but it's annoying and inconvenient to have to continually change the main page if new events get test put up. A link to the '09 test exchange would also be useful since there are so many events in common with this year. The tests can be very useful and should be put in an obvious place to be used. Justdroobles 18:34, 2 April 2010 (CEST)

On a seperate note, Egg-O-Naut is spelled wrong on the "Best of 2009" links at the bottem of the page. Haven chuck 23:06, 2 April 2010 (CEST)

The point of having everything linked is to make navigation easier, it's not absolutly necessary, but I think it makes things easier. There are links to the 2009 test exchange on the 2010 test exchange. To haven chuck, it shall be fixed (that part of the main page was robot's doing btw :P)Starpug 11:43, 3 April 2010 (CEST)

Can someone add a link on the main page to the pentathlon test on the test exchange. Haven chuck 02:56, 3 May 2010 (CEST)

Added Robotman09 02:58, 3 May 2010 (CEST)

2013

Could someone resize the two lower tables in the middle column to fit with the top one? Yao (talk) 15:59, 5 January 2013 (CST)

Random low priority thing, but i noticed in the middle center box, under general competition the line is solid as opposed to dotted, as the rest of the box's pattern goes...if that could be turned to dotted...it looks more streamlined :) EDIT: actually random inconsistencies happen across the page...if they can be fixed, great :) Knittingfrenzy18 (talk) 13:28, 10 January 2013 (CST)

Could somebody put National Tournament Winners in the nationals table? Thanks. Cytokid101 (talk) 12:02, 4 July 2013 (CDT)

2016

Should the events list be updated to reflect the 2016-2017 events, or does that need to wait until each of the event pages have been updated for the 2016-2017 season? Thanks. Verdigris (talk) 4:22, 20 August 2016 (EST)

I'm currently going off of the rollover schedule from last year, where the Main Page was updated just after forum rollover completed, and event pages got updated during the week or so before. However, the changes will first be added to Main Page Testing (so if you want to help with that by changing that page, fine by me; school starting gave me a bit less time for rollover editing than I thought). --Unome (talk) 15:47, 20 August 2016 (CDT)

2017

For Roller Coaster there isn't a link for Images, is there supposed to be one? Froggie (talk)

It will be added whenever the Image Gallery gets updated. --Unome (talk) 17:21, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

2018

Preparing for Competition and Starting A Science Olympiad Team are orphaned – why not link them here? (or just the Category:General Competition pages in general)--UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

That's something we're considering. If you have ideas for what this might look like, you can play with the Main Page Testing page or create a sandbox for yourself. My personal thought was to do something with the General Navigation box, but I wasn't sure what current competitors would find most useful to go there. EastStroudsburg13 (talk) 17:06, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Just outta curiosity, is there supposed to be a category for the ©Main page? I noticed it was uncategorized and was wondering.Things2do (talk) 01:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Why would there be a category for the Main Page? --Unome (talk) 15:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

2020

Is anyone going to update the events/etc. on here? Dxu46 (talk) 11:40, 4 September 2019 (UTC)This This is the final year of boomilever, then it will be blocks for 2 more years. In my opinion, boomilever is better.

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