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Articles for improvement[edit]

current suggestions (with relevant date)
Please list articles here that need improvement before listing at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries.
Anyone may list an article, preferably discussing on the talk page (or here briefly) why it fails Selected_anniversaries_criteria.

May 2024 checks[edit]

I am re-setting up the May checks to help editors keep track of which dates have already been swapped. Thank you to PFHLai and others for keeping this project going. Please indicate below when you have completed a date. Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 19:18, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done by PFHLai.
 Done by PFHLai.
 Done by PFHLai.
 Done by PFHLai.
 Done by PFHLai.
 Done Z1720 (talk) 00:35, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Z1720 (talk) 01:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Z1720 (talk) 01:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done with a group effort. Z1720 (talk) 02:47, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requiem (Verdi)[edit]

As discussed with PFHLai, I'd like to see mentioning the 150th anniversary of Verdi's Requiem on 22 May OTD. I added it to day and year but not yet. The response was that it's not properly sourced. I added sources, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Is there a hook in the May 22 template already? If not, can you write one? Z1720 (talk) 15:40, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can't write it into the template because it is already protected, but here (as in the day and the year):

Question about reviews[edit]

I was previously aware that the inclusion of earlier dates as options for OTD were encouraged, and recently noticed that the date of death for Alfred the Great was included in the article. Presuming I am not mistaken that such proposals are welcome, and before adding it to the relevant template, I had wanted to check how these things are reviewed. Is it simply the case that any changes will be reviewed by before the template appears on the main page, or is there another process I may have missed? CSJJ104 (talk) 21:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CSJJ104: OTD setters should be reviewing articles they place in the template. This process usually happens a couple days before the date when the hooks are "swapped". I suggest editors add articles to the "eligible" list on the date of the event or the person's birth/death date if the article is properly cited (a citation at the end of every paragraph) and there are no orange banners. Z1720 (talk) 21:33, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining :) CSJJ104 (talk) 00:10, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Too many 1960's South Vietnam events[edit]

Could an effort be made to stop posting events from South Vietnam in the 1960s? Ngo Dinh Diem, the Buddhist crisis, the 1963 coup that led to his death, and other articles in that period have been posted multiple, multiple times on OTD. I seem to recall that OTD was supposed to try for a variety of topics, and I even more dimly recall mention that once an article was posted an effort was supposed to be made to not post it again. In any case OTD would be better off if 1960's South Vietnam was retired as a topic. Abductive (reasoning) 07:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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