Talk:March 28

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March 28: Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 845 – According to a Legendary Norse saga, Viking raiders under Ragnar Lodbrok captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom. 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of the Russian Empire. 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan (pictured) was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent". 2005 – The Sumatra earthquake hit Indonesia, killing approximately 1,300 people. More events: March 27 – March 28 – March 29 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 01:11, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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[edit] Computer games on this page

Let me make my position quite clear - this page is for events of global significance, which does include cultural significance as well as political and environmental. However, that cultural significance needs to be very significant indeed. So while the release of a game such as Space Invaders or Pac-Man constitutes a major cultural landmark, if a game isn't making normal news headlines (not games news, news news) across the planet there is no way it warrants an entry here. Average Earthman 11:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Strongly agree - there is no way that the edit alluded to is any way globally significant. Martin Hinks 12:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of everyone

I'd suggest if you want to include every single person born on March 28th you create a category. A list comprised largely of people almost nobody has heard of will be little used. We're not creating something to show off how much data we can collect, we're trying to write something that people will actually find useful. Average Earthman 23:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comments to me suggest that my suggestion wasn't actually that popular. Since I'm complaining there are more important people not on the list than some who are, if removing people is unpopular, I guess I'd better add the people I think are more deserving of being on here. Average Earthman 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The Great Alaska Earthquake (Good Friday Earthquake) happened on March 27, NOT March 28!

I don't want to step on any toes by deleting the reference, but if someone who is a toe-stepper could please handle this, I'd appreciate the correction! It's already listed correctly on March 27, by the way...

Add Peter J. Thomson's,Secession's singer,death.

Or at least thats what her wife said on youtube 6 hours ago.

Gotta confirm its really her,though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.64.208 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia's ten millionth article

When I raised whether we should claim our achievement of the ten millionth article on March 31 2008 at WP: Village Pump, I was informed that the ten millionth article (in the Hungarian Wikipedia) was actually created several days before then. According to:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/10M_articles

the date was March 28, so should this be seen as one of the anniversaries here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I would say that that is an inherently notable event considering it's kind of why we're all here. The only caveat is that the listing needs to link to an existing article on the English Wikipedia that supports the event. I haven't read Wikipedia lately, but perhaps the info from the press release could go in there for support. (Mufka reads press release) Actually, it looks like it occurred on March 27. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 19:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)