Talk:List of historical anniversaries

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  • Style guide for individual anniversary pages

/Example - This page was moved out of the main namespace. Originally it was "Historical anniversaries/Example".

Note about use of 'this day in history'-type data sources:

Do be careful when adding entries to day, year and subject articles. Many of the events listed on the day pages come from data obtained from other similar lists on the Internet. I have found that most of those lists contain many inaccurate and flat-out wrong data. Last year I was able to expand and fix about half of all the day pages and found that my major data source (OnThisDay.com) was at least subtly wrong or had spurious events that could not be confirmed 1/5 - 1/3 of the time. I therefore spent a few hours on every day page I worked on checking facts and then updating the corresponding year and subject articles.

  • My guess is that most, if not the great majority, of these 'day in history'-type website lists swap data back and forth via rewrites that are not checked for accuracy. In time errors must creep in - just like a huge game of telephone.
  • Some entries on these websites seem to totally confuse Julian and Gregorian dates (even converting Julian dates to Gregorian for dates that happened before the Gregorian Calendar was adopted!).
  • Other websites seem to have added events to specific days when the exact day the event actually happened on is not known at all (most of these guesses are placed on the 1st and the 15th of months on these websites).

In short, please check any fact obtained from these type of websites and also check any fact on our own day pages before updating its corresponding year or subject article. --mav 03:54, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

In the context of anniversaries, converting Julian dates to Gregorian dates for events that happened before the Gregorian Calendar was adopted as the correct thing to do. In the UK, the first anniversary of something that happened on 2 September 1752 was 13 September 1753. In the context of when things actually happened, though, the dates shouldn't be converted. Perhaps we should stop calling these "anniversary" pages and call them pages of historical events. -- Oliver P. 11:41, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Great page, but the 4-month wide table is wider than my screen and requires scrolling right unless I reduce my default font size (just for this page). The next time someone gets an urge to reformat this page, please consider reducing the table to a 3-month width. --loh (2001-06-26)

Is it ok now? --Koyaanis Qatsi

Wow, that was quick; thanks! I figured it was too tedious to edit only for that, so I wasn't expecting an immediate response. --loh

No problem. It was something quick to do while scanning search results on "euphemism."  :-) --Koyaanis Qatsi

How about adding 'Holidays' to the template? This is already included for some individual pages. This could include major religious festivals (including saints' feast days) as well as secular ones. For saints in particular, it would be useful to link to the saints' biographies, and in certain cases link to discussion of how saints' days have become major secular events. St Valentine comes immediately to mind.

I'd also like to have a place to put "not recognized" holidays as well, such as Wikipedia Day, Pi Day and Zamenhof Day. Any idea of how to go about doing this? --Chuck Smith

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[edit] Formatting

Why are the widths of the Sunday cells in the second column (Feb, etc...) wider then the widths of the other day cells? It makes Feb look squished against Mar and Jan look seperated. I added borders for debugging. Robert Lee

I did a little debugging and still cannot see what is causing the first day of each week in the 2nd month column to be wider then other days. I even tried forcing the cells to a fixed width. No go. They are also not right-aligned. If the pedia messing with the HTML source? Robert Lee
For some reason, there were nbsp tags put before (29) in Feb. Will remove them.

[edit] Calendar Reform

Interestin info and links to this subject at this URL;

http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calendar-reform.html

I can imagine how the name of this page came about, but at this moment it is a bit confusing; at least to a non-native speaker of the English language. Wouldn't it be better to change the name to something like "365 days of the year"? cf. the it: link right now, which is a completely different setup which fits more to the actual title of this article.... Rob Hooft 15:44, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Less condensed version

I'd like to propose getting rid of the "less condensed format" of the calendar. I can't see what possible purpose it serves, and it makes the page much bigger, and doesn't look very good anyway. It's not laid out like a "real" calendar, since the 1st is always in the first column, and so it's not like it's a helpful reference. Anyone who wants to find a particular date should not have any difficulty using the condensed version. Thoughts? -- VV 21:19, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Since there have been no comments on behalf of keeping the less condensed version in over two weeks, I've gone ahead and axed it. -- VV 21:40, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
That's OK for now, but I plan on creating a real calendar. In fact I've already done it for every day. See January 15. --mav 01:15, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I'm skeptical of this approach; one would have to replace all 365+ of them every year, no? -- VV 02:05, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Nope. Just 12:

Template:Calendar exists now as well. --mav 03:04, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the Year for my rant about that. -- Oliver P. 11:35, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] List of dates?

"This is a partial list of historical anniversaries." No it isn't. It's a complete list of dates. There's not a single mention of a historical anniversary anywhere on the page. Shall we move it to List of dates...? -- Oliver P. 11:35, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

whoa. huge mistake on my part. sorry! this can be deleted... Lockeownzj00 05:35, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Shigeru Miyamoto

I think that the entry about Shigeru Miyamoto (sept. 25) is a little bit out of place as something important or to be considered as relevant compared to historical entries.

-- october 1 2005 - 20:20 pm

[edit] Politzky

[edit] Politzky Ancestors

[edit] Adding external link to each page?

Please excuse a query from a newbie, but is there any easy way I can a link to our 'Today in New Zealand History' to each anniversay day (like the BBC and others have)? The site is run by professional historians working for the Minsitry for Culture and Heritage so the information is reliable.

Many thanks,

Jamie Mackay 21:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

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