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Suggested correction

The text:

1847 - Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, then part of Mexico.

...makes it sound like Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake Valley, then led them into Mexico. It might read better as:

1847 - Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, at that time still a part of Mexico.

I can't edit this source, but someone with more power ought to. :)
—ZorkFox (ষTalk) 00:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out. You may want to try WP:ERRORS the next time you find minor errors like that on MainPage. You'll get better service there. -- PFHLai 13:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lost City of the Incas

Moved from Talk:Main Page.

The "Lost City of the Incas" usually refers to Vilcabamba, not Macchu Picchu --Descendall 23:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"then thought to be the ..." would be most accurate. The name is associated with its history. --Dhartung | Talk 00:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Siege of Damascus

According to the article, the Siege of Damascus started on July 23, 1148. This date is also listed in A History of the Crusades (p 508) --Andibrunt (talk) 07:55, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
New articles (unused): Bandaranaike Airport attack; Lance Armstrong
Omitted: Battle of Harlaw; Detroit; Brigham Young; Treaty of Lausanne; HIV trial in Libya
Included: Albanian Revolt of 1910 (first appearance); Eiger (first appearance); Kitchen Debate (first appearance); Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay (first appearance); MV Arctic Sea (first appearance)

All articles making their OTD debuts! —howcheng {chat} 05:57, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was a mistake to include noncited assertion from Albanian Revolt of 1910 into this page, especially because it was explained on the talk page that this article has serious issues. One of the issues was that the text of could mislead potential readers that rebels managed to capture many towns including Shkoder, though the last section mentions that rebels did not manage to capture cities but only mountainous regions. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 14:10, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not have any maintenance tags on it. The "fact" is what's listed on the July 24 article. —howcheng {chat} 17:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries: The date must be a cited to a reliable source with an inline citation, since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. In this case the assertion from Albanian Revolt of 1910 is not cited. It even does not exist in the text of the article.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:34, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"On July 24, 1910, Ottoman forces entered the city of Scutari. During this period martial courts were put in action and summary executions took place. A large number of firearms were collected and many villages and properties were burned by the Ottoman army.[8]" I admit that I did not verify it against the source, however. Actually I just tried right now and that page is not included in the Google Books preview, so that would not have been possible anyway. —howcheng {chat} 02:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The assertion you added to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries is not sourced. The source you mention is used to support another assertion, the claim about villages burned by the Ottoman army. But even if the text you presented is supported by the same source (which is not), it is about the Ottoman reinforcement which managed to break trough the mountains under control of the rebels and enter Scutari to reinforce its Ottoman garrison. Then they went to villages on the mauntains and did what they did (burning houses and taking away arms from rebels). Point is that Ottoman forces did not capture the city of Shkodër because it was already under Ottoman control, not conquired by the rebels. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 06:21, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, how would reword it? —howcheng {chat} 09:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that rewording would not resolve the problem with unsourced assertion about events that actually did not happen (Ottomans capturing Shkoder in 1910).--Antidiskriminator (talk) 15:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Deleted: Lance Armstrong (moved to August 24)
Moved to Ineligible: Detroit (maintenance); Bandaranaike Airport attack (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Vive le Québec libre
New articles (unused): James Traficant
Omitted: Albanian Revolt of 1910 (ineligible—maintenance); Eiger; Kitchen Debate (ineligible—maintenance); Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay; MV Arctic Sea
Included: Battle of Harlaw (6th appearance, last in 2011); Treaty of Georgievsk (first appearance); Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (4th appearance, last in 2008; 70th anniversary); Bluenose II (first appearance; 50th anniversary); Economic liberalisation in India (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 09:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Machu Picchu (was POTD on July 6)
Omitted: Battle of Harlaw; Bombing of Hamburg in World War II; Bluenose II; Economic liberalisation in India
Included: Detroit (3rd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Treaty of Lausanne (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Vive le Québec libre (2nd appearance, last in 2009); James Traficant (first appearance)
Repeats: Treaty of Georgievsk (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Economic liberalisation in India (maintenance)
Omitted: Detroit; Treaty of Lausanne; Vive le Québec libre; James Traficant
Included: Battle of Harlaw (7th appearance, last in 2013); SS Eastland (first appearance; 100th anniversary); Kitchen Debate (2nd appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible); MV Arctic Sea (2nd appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: Treaty of Georgievsk (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:49, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Battle of Harlaw; SS Eastland; Kitchen Debate; MV Arctic Sea
Included: Brigham Young (6th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Machu Picchu (6th appearance, last in 2008); Bluenose II (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (5th appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Treaty of Georgievsk (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:58, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: SS Eastland (maintenance); Eiger (maintenance); Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (maintenance)
Omitted: Treaty of Georgievsk; Brigham Young; Machu Picchu (ineligible—maintenance); Bluenose II (ineligible—maintenance); Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Battle of Harlaw (8th appearance, last in 2015); Detroit (4th appearance, last in 2014); Albanian revolt of 1910 (2nd appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible); Vive le Québec libre (3rd appearance, last in 2014; 50th anniversary); Santiago de Compostela derailment (first appearance); Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (first appearance); Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (first appearance); Zelda Fitzgerald (first appearance)

2018 notes

New articles (ineligible): Bridgeton incident (maintenance)
Omitted: Treaty of Georgievsk (ineligible—maintenance); Vive le Québec libre; Santiago de Compostela derailment; Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid; Prince William, Duke of Gloucester; Zelda Fitzgerald
Included: Treaty of Lausanne (4th appearance, last in 2014); 1998 United States Capitol shooting incident (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Air Algérie Flight 5017 (first appearance); Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (first appearance); Martin Van Buren (first appearance); Kini Kapahu Wilson (first appearance)
Repeats: Detroit (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Albanian revolt of 1910 (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:48, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Howcheng:, I solved the problem you had inserted a tag about it in Bridgeton incident.Regards! Saff V. (talk) 06:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Moved to Ineligible: James Traficant (maintenance); Santiago de Compostela derailment (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Torrie Wilson
Omitted: Detroit (ineligible—maintenance); Treaty of Lausanne; 1998 United States Capitol shooting incident; Air Algérie Flight 5017; Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury; Martin Van Buren; Kini Kapahu Wilson
Included: Kitchen Debate (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 60th anniversary); Bridgeton incident (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); MV Arctic Sea (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Princess Charlotte of Prussia (first appearance); John William Finn (first appearance); Jennifer Lopez (first appearance; 50th birthday)
Repeats: Albanian revolt of 1910 (3rd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:31, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

New articles (unused): Robert Graves
Omitted: Albanian revolt of 1910; Kitchen Debate; Bridgeton incident (ineligible—maintenance); MV Arctic Sea; Princess Charlotte of Prussia; John William Finn; Jennifer Lopez
Included: Battle of Harlaw (8th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Treaty of Lausanne (5th appearance, last in 2018); Vive le Québec libre (4th appearance, last in 2017); Metapolitefsi (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Quietly Confident Quartet/Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (QCT: first appearance; Swimming: 3rd appearance, last in 2012); John Salusbury (poet) (first appearance); Bella Abzug (first appearance; 100th birthday); Marjorie Cameron (first appearance; 25th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 19:21, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Omitted: Treaty of Lausanne; Vive le Québec libre; Metapolitefsi; John Salusbury (poet); Bella Abzug; Marjorie Cameron
Included: Albanian revolt of 1910 (5th appearance, last in 2019); Kitchen Debate (4th appearance, last in 2019); Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Robert Graves (first appearance); Torrie Wilson (first appearance)
Repeats: Battle of Harlaw (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total); Quietly Confident Quartet/Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (both: 2nd consecutive appearance; QCT: 2 total; Swimming: 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:56, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Bridgeton incident
Omitted: Albanian revolt of 1910 (ineligible—maintenance); Kitchen Debate; Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid; Robert Graves; Torrie Wilson
Included: MV Arctic Sea (4th appearance, last in 2019); Air Algérie Flight 5017 (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Princess Charlotte of Prussia (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Martin Van Buren (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Marjorie Cameron (2nd appearance, last in 2020)
Repeats: Battle of Harlaw (3rd consecutive appearance, 10 total); Quietly Confident Quartet/Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (both: 3rd consecutive appearance; QCG: 3 total; event: 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:09, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2023 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Bridgeton incident
Omitted: MV Arctic Sea; Air Algérie Flight 5017; Princess Charlotte of Prussia; Martin Van Buren; Marjorie Cameron; Battle of Harlaw; Quietly Confident Quartet/Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Included: Mary, Queen of Scots (2nd appearance on July 24, last in 2010 (?); 14th appearance total, last in 2020); Battle of Maysalun (first appearance); Treaty of Lausanne (6th appearance, last in 2020); Vive le Québec libre (5th appearance, last in 2020); 1998 United States Capitol shooting (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (4th appearance, last in 2021); Simón Bolívar (9th appearance, last in 2010 (?)); Ada Baker (first appearance); Ingrid Sischy (first appearance)

Heart ^(talk) 23:12, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]