A fact from John Joseph Merlin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that John Joseph Merlin crashed into a mirror at Carlisle House while playing the violin on the roller skates that he had invented?
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As Belgium didn't exist until over a decade after his death is it worth mentioning it as his "birth country"? Or should his birth country be Liege? I'm serious here as in the future the political map might (heck, will) change again, imagine if in the future Europe would be one country would we have to write "Huy, Europe"? (I know, I know WP:CRYSTAL, but I just hate using non contemporary countries for contemporary births). --Hoang the Hoangest (talk) 02:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would serve everyone - essentially the audience - if the template was to be modified to include the name of the country and town (or place) at the time of the event and the name of the country and town (or place) at present. Googlewell (talk) 15:08, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
