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

Do be careful when adding entries to the selected anniversary page and their corresponding 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.


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[edit] 50th year anniversary of the LEGO brick

Today, January 28, is the 50th year anniversary of the LEGO brick and thus Google have changed its front page. I don't know if we should mention it? Snailwalker | talk 10:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Better late than never but I'd favour adding it in. It's pretty significant. ++Lar: t/c 21:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Earth Hour

Hi. How about for March 29, it says something like: "Earth Hour (8-9 PM local time, various cities around the world)"? I think it's rather significant, as many cities in many countries around the world are taking part in it. Is it noteworthy enough, or is there something in the rules that prevents this? Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 20:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 1: Nunavut

What the hell is this: "Jean Chrétien forced the Northwest Territories to carve all of its inhabitants into two pieces". The territory Northwest Territories were divided into Nunavut in the east and the Northwest Territories in the west. None of the inhabitants were 'carved' in two pieces. Also, Chretien didn't force the issue. A large majority of the Nunavut population voted in favour of the issue, then Parliament passed the act. Can someone fix this to be more accurate? − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 01:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

The references to Chrétien have been removed since the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was signed prior to his term. However, please suggest another word to replace "carve" so that it still complies with WT:AFMP. Happy April Fools' Day. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I caught on to the April Fools soon after I posted this. The other ones like Gmail being used for "1000 megabytes of storage for spam" didn't even register. Ha ha! − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 04:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Defensive Shield

2002 – Operation Defensive Shield: Approximately 200 Palestinians fled advancing Israeli forces into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, starting a month-long standoff.


Does this really need to be in the selected anniversaries section? The sentence itself is EXTREMELY biased IMO towards the al qaeda palestinians. If it must be there, then I demand it be cleaned up thouroughly, something like this;


2002 – Operation Defensive Shield: Due to mounting unprovoked attacks against Israel, Israeli armed forces, advancing into Bethlehem, are ordered to arrest the Al-Qaeda operatives, resulting in a month long standoff at the Church of the Nativity.


The part where the palestians are supposedly fleeing our advance makes Israel sound like the perpetrator when infact we were simply defending our homeland.Hebrewpridehebrewpower (talk) 11:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

No, your edit is far more POV. The original simply says what's happening, yours active takes the side of the Israelis. J Milburn (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Probably too late but . .

The Battle of Manners Street is an interesting and little known chapter in the annals of New Zealand's history. 69.137.246.61 (talk) 06:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, it happened today, 65 years ago.69.137.246.61 (talk) 06:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Annual list

I can't load Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/All. Neither can User:The Duke of Waltham. Can anyone? Perhaps the list can be repaired. If the reason we can't load the file is because the file is too big, then the instructions should be changed, because demanding an impossible task can't help people to improve Wikipedia. Art LaPella (talk) 19:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

We may have to open an issue on Bugzilla. The page itself has not changed since 2006[1], but MediaWiki may have changed as such that it cannot handle the tranclusion of all 366 of the templates, and all the other templates it uses. I tried to purge it, but is still does not work.
What alternatives can be used? There are only two I can think of: One is to check all 12 archive pages (Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January, etc.). The other is too check the What links here of the suggested bolded article, filtering the namespace to just "Wikipedia", and checking out each "Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries" subpage listed (example) Which alternative should it be? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I've never studied this file before, but if the page is unchanged since 2006, then does that mean obedience to the instruction has been impossible since 2006, and nobody noticed because nobody really reads all that blah blah blah anyway? If so, then perhaps choosing one of two more complicated procedures would only further ensure that nobody reads all the blah blah blah in the future, and perhaps we should just remove that instruction unless it can be fixed. Art LaPella (talk) 04:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)