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1 How to contribute to the project  





2 Purpose of the staging area  





3 Reporting errors  





4 Steps for suggesting new listings  





5 Selected anniversaries criteria  





6 Criteria for images  





7 "On this day" guidelines  



7.1  When guidelines conflict  







8 Queue  



8.1  Today  





8.2  Tomorrow  







9 Resources for finding new suggestions  



9.1  Wikidata queries  







10 Tools to help with swapping hooks  





11 Notes  














Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries






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    This set of pages serves as a queue of selected anniversaries which populate the section of the Main Page each day. These pages are also used to help facilitate and coordinate updates to this queue. The selected anniversaries are taken from events in history on each day of the year and holidays/observances from current lunar-based calendars including Jewish, Islamic, and others.

    How to contribute to the project

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    Editors can contribute to the Selected anniversaries project in three main ways:

    1. Identify entries on the project pages that are currently 'ineligible' in the 'staging area' (see next section) and make improvements so that they become eligible. The reason for the entries being ineligible may be, for example, due to criteria 4-6 listed below. Make improvements to the selected article (the boldfaced link in the entry) to resolve the issue(s), then post a message on the project talk page for that day noting the improvements made and that the entry is ready to be considered to move to the 'eligible' section. An administrator or regular editor working on the project will come along to review the improvements and move it to the 'eligible' section in due course.[nb 1]
    2. Make suggestions for new entries to be included in the project pages (see 'Steps for suggesting new listings' below).
    3. Anticipate upcoming anniversaries that are significant or notable (e.g., due to a centenary) and may be particularly worthwhile including in the "On this day" section of the Main Page on that date. Post a message on the project talk page with the suggestions to inform other editors working on the project and complete steps 1 or 2 above to ensure an entry is available for an administrator to use for the "On this day" section on that date.

    Purpose of the staging area

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    A list of events and images can be viewed by expanding the 'staging area' on the project page for each day, for example Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 1 (the staging area is not visible when transcluded onto another page, including the Main Page, due to <noinclude></noinclude> tags). Some of these items (the 'eligible' section) are rotated in and out from year to year to form the group that is chosen for the "On this day" section on the Main Page for that day of the year. Other items are listed as 'ineligible' because the event and/or its selected article (boldfaced link) do not pass the selected anniversaries criteria (see below). Making improvements (as described in the section above) so that these entries become eligible is one of the valuable ways editors can contribute to the project.

    Reporting errors

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    To report an error you noticed on the current main pageortomorrow's main page, please add it to the appropriate section on Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. For other dates, please start a new discussion at Wikipedia Talk:Selected anniversaries.

    Admins: If the need arises to remove visible items from a page while it is on the Main Page, please move the items into the 'staging area' if possible, instead of outright deleting them, so they can prospectively be used again in the future.

    Steps for suggesting new listings

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    Be bold while improving this queue but please make sure you follow the selected anniversaries criteria below. Important: although anniversary listings on individual date articles are written in present tense, these selected anniversary listings should be written in past tense to help distinguish them from current events in "In the news" when displayed on the Main Page. A single sentence for each entry is preferable and the link to the selected article should be boldfaced.

    1. If you want to add an item to yesterday's, today's, or tomorrow's listings, you need to be an administrator because those pages are protected. If you're not an administrator, add them to the talk page, such as Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 24.
    2. For unprotected days, go ahead and add them directly to the project page, such as Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 26, either in the visible section or in the staging area. If you replace a visible entry, be sure you return the one you removed to the staging area collapsible box.
    3. If you are not sure what to do or how to best phrase the blurb, make your suggestion on that day's talk page.

    Selected anniversaries criteria

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    The criteria for inclusion in the selected anniversaries project pages are subjective due to the fact that any given day of the year can have a great many historical events worthy of listing; relative article quality along with the mix of topics already listed are considered when building OTD sets for each day. Criteria for eligibility are at least:

    1. The event needs to be of moderate to great historical significance (relative to the other historical events that occurred on the same day of the year). It must be important enough to be included in the selected article (boldfaced item) and should also be the most, or one of the most, important events associated with that article. Furthermore, the event should have occurred on the day in question in the calendar in use at the time (per MOS:JG). The date of the event should be determined by the local time, or UTC if local time is not applicable (e.g., not on Earth).
    2. Selected articles (boldfaced items) should comply with the criteria for inclusion listed on Wikipedia:Days of the year.
    3. The selected article (boldfaced item) needs to be updated to clearly state the event or day of the celebration/observance or birth/death, as well as the exact day it occurred/occurs. This is especially true for non-Gregorian-based holidays and observances whose date differs each year. The date mustbecited to a reliable source with an inline citation, since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. The only exceptions are recurring holidays that appear on a given day of the week, such as the first Monday of the month. In those cases, the rule itself must be cited, but the actual date for the current year need not be (see WP:CALC).
    4. The selected article (boldfaced item) must not be a stub and must be a relatively complete and well-formatted article, free from 'yellow'-level or more severe article issue tags (alternatively, many {{citation needed}} tags relative to the article's length may disqualify it in lieu of a banner-sized maintenance tag). In other words, it should be a good example of Wikipedia content (but it does not need to be a good article or a featured article).
    5. As of February 2017, we now feature at least one birth and death of a notable person, listed underneath the regular blurbs. This number may be increased if space permits. The criteria for inclusion are:
      1. The article needs to be listed in the BirthsorDeaths section of its corresponding day-of-the-year article (e.g., January 1 § Births), and therefore comply with the criteria for inclusion listed on WP:DOY § Births and deaths.
      2. The article is subject to the same quality requirements as those featured in the blurbs.
      3. People who are listed on their dates of birth may not also be listed on their death dates, and vice versa. Furthermore, if the person is featured (boldfaced item) as a regular blurb on any day, they may not be chosen for birth/death listings (with exceptions, as per below).
    6. As much as possible, the array of topics should include a variety of years (e.g., not just limited to the 20th/21st centuries), geographical areas (e.g., more than just the English-speaking world), and subjects (e.g., not too many articles on war or technology).

    Ideally, any particular selected article should only be included as a boldfaced item once in the project pages. To help make sure articles are not selected (boldfaced item) more than once, check the links to that article and examine all the pages listed that begin with Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/. There is no limit to the number of times an article can be incidentally linked in the project pages (this includes all the non-boldfaced links). Exceptions can be made when any given day is short for eligible articles and the only suitable article already is featured on a different day. In those cases, those articles still should not be selected more than once in the year (i.e., if an article is eligible for inclusion on multiple days, then it should only make one OTD appearance per year). This rule does not apply to holidays/observances, because the same holiday may be celebrated on different dates in different countries, and country articles, because they may be the boldfaced item for holidays such as an Independence Day if the nation's observance doesn't have its own article.

    Please note, entries are written in the past tense, preferably in a single sentence.

    Criteria for images

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    Images associated with the events can be listed on the project pages for each day. The following criteria apply to images:

    1. Images in landscape orientation are usually set to be 150px wide (120px for portrait-oriented images). Because the image is so small, the subject should be easily distinguished at that size. Judicious cropping may also be employed to highlight a specific aspect of the image (see {{m-cropped}}).
    2. For design purposes, if there is choice between an image of a person facing left and a person facing right, pick the face-left one because it draws the reader's attention toward the associated text, rather than away from it.
    3. Only free images (PD, GFDL, CC etc.) can appear on the Main Page. Non-free images are not permitted.

    Image code: {{main page image|File:Example.svg|This is an example}} (see Template:Main page image for complete documentation).

    "On this day" guidelines

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    The visible section of the selected anniversaries pages automatically rotates onto the Main Page each day to populate the "On this day" section. There is maintenance needed before each page appears which follow these guidelines:

    When guidelines conflict

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    Generally speaking, please apply the guidelines in the following order to determine which items to include:

    1. Give precedence to significant anniversaries (multiples of 100 get the top priority, followed by multiples of 50, while 25 and 10 can be considered equal)
    2. Maintain chronological diversity
    3. Maintain geographic diversity
    4. Maintain topic diversity
    5. Avoid using similar blurbs that are within ±3 days

    However, there are times when several of these will come into conflict with each other. For example, on one day in one year, we might have three items that are having their 70th, 75th, and 80th anniversaries respectively, which conflicts with the guideline for chronological diversity. In these cases, please use your best judgement as to how to balance them. So in this hypothetical scenario, maybe one of the three items also featured last year, so you could leave that one out this year. Or maybe two of items are battles in the same war (or two are in the same country), so you could omit the one that appeared more recently. Unfortunately, there is no algorithm that will guarantee that we always have an ideal set of blurbs, so a compromise will have to be made somewhere. As long as you make a carefully considered decision, it will be fine.

    Queue

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    Today

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    Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/today links to a page showing today's selected anniversaries.

    On this day...

    July 24: Pioneer DayinUtah, United States (1847)

    Konstantinos Karamanlis
    Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • John William Finn (b. 1909)
  • Ada Baker (d. 1949)
  • James Chadwick (d. 1974)
  • More anniversaries:
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  • By email
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    Tomorrow

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    On this day...

    July 25: National Day of Galicia, Saint James's Day

    Pratibha Patil
    Pratibha Patil
  • Enriqueta Legorreta (b. 1914)
  • Nestor Makhno (d. 1934)
  • Beji Caid Essebsi (d. 2019)
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  • July 26
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    Resources for finding new suggestions

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    Wikidata queries

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    All queries use 28 November but the date can be modified when the page opens:

    The following return only articles assessed as FAs or GAs:

    Tools to help with swapping hooks

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    Notes

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    1. ^ If you have carefully reviewed the entry against all of the criteria below then you can move the entry to the 'eligible' section with a clear edit summary for others to review noting the improvements made.
  • ^ See, for example, [1] and [2].
  • ^ As per this post on WP:ERRORS.
  • ^ As per this example.

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