Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 2

message: How can this footrace be the longest in the world if it's shorter than a marathon? This looks like incorrect information to me. Gerritholl 10:34, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect information 

message: The lead letter of "Balancing the ticket" doesn't need to be capitalized. 68.81.231.127 13:46, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalo 

message: Please change incorrect translation/spelling in the Lisa Hora entry from "bold mountain" to "bald mountain". Also, move the quotation marks to go outside(around) the link. --Aramգուտանգ 13:29, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lysa Hora 

message: "...U.S. nuclear test from the 1962 named Sedan nuclear test..." (emphasis added)Of course it is named that.  That's its name.  Please change this to "...the 1962 Sedan nuclear test...".- Eric Herboso  02:41, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sedan nuclear test 

message: When the Anthony T. Rossi fact was shortened for the Main Page it ended up being a run-on sentence that doesn't make sense -- can someone please fix this?  Also, it seems to me the most-interesting part of the submitted DYK fact was cut out, and the least interesting part was left, so I would suggest this:
:...that Anthony T. Rossi, who invented a pasteurization process to pack pure chilled orange juice in glass bottles, founded Tropicana Products in Bradenton, Florida?</li>
If making a content change is undesirable, though, this would be good:
:...that Anthony T. Rossi, who operated a small grocery store where he began making gift boxes of Florida oranges, invented a pasteurization process to pack pure chilled orange juice in glass bottles?
I have fixed the item I believe. The major point was, from modest beginnings,  he founded Tropicana Products! I should have abbreviated it better earlier, and probably because we don't have an article for Tropicana, that major point was lost! Hope I got this right, as my browser has Saturday Night Fever. Could  anyone else look and tell if OK space wise and content wise now and post a reply?  Thanks. Vaoverland 00:04, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
:It looks much better to me, thanks! jhf 05:13, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Anthony T. Rossi]] fact incorrectly shortened, doesn't make sense 

message: Wilfredo Gómez was started at 03:22, 7 Sep 2002.  Surely, being 2 1/2 years old, it doesn't qualify for DYK? -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 14:43, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wilfredo Gomez is not new

message: That article is incorrectly named, I've left notes on the talk page, but don't have time to do the merge now.--nixie 01:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Broadfish tapeworm

message: *...Humber College's TVO series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university?
TVO should disambig to TVOntario:
*...Humber College's TVOntario series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university?
--Foobar 04:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Distinguished Artists]]

message: I know it'll get replaced by something else relatively quickly, but could someone edit the Benedict Arnold entry?
:that Benedict Arnold was an early American politician, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1829 despite being named after Benedict Arnold, who was revealed as a traitor two weeks before he was born?
I can see what it's trying to say, but what it actually suggests at the moment is that Benedict Arnold was plotting treachery in the womb. --194.73.130.132 08:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Run-on sentence

message: The "Did You Know" template says:
:...that Irish Count Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke fled to Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honored with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
However, O'Rourke didn't himself personally flee to Estonia, his family did about 80 years before he was born. Can someone change it to:
:...that Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honored with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
Thanks,
Seabhcán 15:54, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke]] 

message: Just a note that todays DYK item on Tony Lema refers to an article approximately 1 month old and therefore does not qualify for inclusion. -- Longhair | Talk 19:00, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tony Lema is not new

message: The current template reads "principals of bird flight" where it should read "principles of bird flight". — Ливай | ☺ 23:05, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo in the current template

message: Please, respect Wikipedia's official policy Naming conventions. The article's name should be "Infectious salmon anemia" instead of "Infectious Salmon Anemia" and "Spinifex people" instead of "Spinifex People". --Eleassar777 20:06, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming conventions

message: Is there any reason that DYK has not been updated for more than a day? — anon 14:31, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update? 

message: In the most recent entry of the section, we state that "the bite of the hematophagous assassin bug, which causes the rare South American parasitic infection known as Chagas disease (...)" (my bolding).  That is incorrect.  As the Chagas disease article shows, the disease occurs in all of the three American subcontinets (South, Central and North America — the latter being represented by incidence of the disease in Mexico and, more rarely, in southern parts of the US).  As the article states, the disease "occurs in the Americas", therefore, should be listed as an "American disease", instead of "South American disease", as it now states.  That ought to be corrected...  Regards, Redux 22:45, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, never mind.  It's already been replaced anyways...  Regards, Redux 13:47, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual error in Did you know template entry! 

message: I see the statement about Antonio Martorell on the DYK template has been removed from the article because it had no source (it said that he narrowly avoided boarding one of the trains bombed in London). Unless it's restored to the article it seems like a good idea to either use a different fact or remove the link from DYK. Andy Smith (talk) 21:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antonio Martorell 

message: Given a number of concurrent issues and some suggestions around, I think it would be best to extend the limit of 3 days/72 hours to 7 days/168 hours.  One major issue is the decision to put featured articles on the main page on the weekends, which puts articles nominated for DYK late in the week in a difficult, well actually impossible situation.  Another problem is issues with article quality, which could be helped by having a greater selection of articles available from which to choose for each DYK update, giving creators more time to perfect their work, and importantly allowing articles which have been nominated to improve through their prolonged publicity on the suggestions page.  Remember, the average reader is not unimpressed by a good encyclopedia article because it's stale at a week old :)  Responses?--Pharos 05:02, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing extension to pages up to 7 days old 

message: Although in principle extending the acceptance window for new articles is a good thing in terms of having more leeway to select interesting articles, I suspect it also introduces problems on identifying articles to select.
Back in the mists of time (around last December) the cutoff was 24hrs, and I suspect the DYK selection process was something along the lines of: someone took a look at Special:Newpages for the last 24hrs, picked half a dozen that had the largest byte count and selected the three articles that weren't text dumps or bulked out with a list.
However, now that Newpages extends to over 1000 articles in 24hours, and the DYK acceptance window gets wider, that approach isn't practical. As a result more reliance has to be placed on the list of suggestions. The downside there is that it looks like most of the suggestions are self-nominations. That means the DYK may not be doing all that it could to encourage new editors; you have to be reasonably experienced and quite bold to realise that you should be making self-nominations here.
What might help would be some tools to help filter Special:Newpages and highlight potentially interesting articles within the 72hr window. -- Solipsist 15:39, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Candidate tools

message: Quite an impressive display of our admins' intelligence - they managed to spell "principal" wrong while also making it a run-on, eh? 140.247.241.168 01:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Impressive

message: Someone please correct this typo. The fact that a redirect exists doesn't make it any better. RodC 04:26, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wimbeldon?

message: It's like Recent Changes Patrol but more uplifting; instead of vandalism by megalomaniacal miscreants we'll be looking for wondrous contributions by newbies and more experienced but modest Wikipedians.  Starting today, we can just split split the 24-hour UTC day into six lovely bite-sized 4-hour chunks.  When you're done looking through a time block, just write "Done" next to it and put your sig.--Pharos 08:57, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Pages Patrol