Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/January 12

message: why is this page protected? Surely we could add more significant points to this then what is there. For example, I'd like to see:
* 1737 - John Hancock, a leader of the American Revolution and the the largest and first signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was born on this day.
* 1932 - on this day, Hattie Ophelia Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
* 1876 - Jack London, an American novelist, was born in San Francisco.
* 1991 - Congress OK's US military action against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.
* 1915 - The US Congress establishes the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. 
* 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the world's first x-ray picture.
* 1879 - Seeking control over Zululand, this day marks the beginning of Zulu War in eastern South Africa.
I'd rather see some of these items instead of some of the less important items that are there. Also, why only five points? --Maniwar (talk) 17:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This template is protected because it is scheduled to always appear on the main page, see Wikipedia:Protection policy#Uses. Your suggestions may be considered in 2008, but the articles in question will have to meet Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries#Criteria for listing items on this set of pages. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: :This was moved from WP:ERRORS. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All in the Family 

message: :This was moved from Talk: Main Page. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 00:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As note in the header, you should post error reports to the special location at the top. More importantly as noted in the error report section, the main page always defers to articles. Our article currently calls it the "Coming-of-Age Day" albeit unsourced. If you feel this is inaccurate, you should discuss or change it in the article. Once you have consensus make an error report Nil Einne (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

text: If you further break up 成人, you'll get "grown" & "person", and you'll get the sense of "coming of age". Perhaps we should use "Seijin shiki" on OTD instead of this "English translation", though. --74.13.127.204 (talk) 12:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't break it up. It's a compound. If you broke it up, then it would be "Sei Hito" not "Seijin", as the name of the day. moocowsruletalk to moo 00:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Break it up, and take 成 as a verb.  成人 means "adult" -- an adult is a person (人) who is done growing up (成).  成人の日 is not a celebration of adulthood (and it's not "Adults' Day" nor "Day of Adults"), but the celebration of attaining adulthood, or Coming of age.  Now "un-break" to get back to 成人の日, then convert the meaning into English, instead of "translating" character by character, you'll get "Coming-of-Age Day". --74.14.23.163 (talk) 07:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But that's not what it literally means. It LITERALLY means "Day of Adults". If it's called "SEIJIN Shiki" then it should be "ADULT-ceremony". It's not called "SEI HITO shiki", it's called "SEIJIN shiki". You can't create another meaning for SEIJIN. moocowsruletalk to moo 02:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 成人 is rarely used by itself to mean adult. Look for it on ja and you'll be redirected to 成年, which goes to Coming of age on en. That article mentions use 成人 as a verb (成人する and 成人になる) meaning to reach adulthood or to come of age. Bnynms (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Seijin shiki|"Coming-of-Age Day"]] in [[Japan]]. 

message: *Omitted: Joseph Smith, University of the Philippines College of Law, Cryonics, 2010 Haiti earthquake (ineligible—maintenance, as well as POTD for 2012)
*Included: Mission Santa Clara de Asís (first appearance), Kenesaw Mountain Landis (first appearance), Led Zeppelin (album) (first appearance—blurb used to be for Led Zeppelin, but that's now on December 4)
*Repeats: Vistula–Oder Offensive (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total), Zanzibar Revolution (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total)
--howcheng  {chat} 22:28, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2012 notes 

message: *Omitted: Mission Santa Clara de Asís; Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Zanzibar Revolution; Led Zeppelin (album)
*Included: Joseph Smith (7th appearance, last in 2011); Lynmouth Lifeboat Station (first appearance); Super Bowl III (first appearance); C/2006 P1 (first appearance)
*Repeats: Vistula–Oder Offensive (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 00:53, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2013 notes 

message: *Omitted: Public holidays in Turkmenistan (ineligible—maintenance); Joseph Smith; Lynmouth Lifeboat Station; Vistula–Oder Offensive; Super Bowl III; C/2006 P1
*Included: Bayinnaung (first appearance); Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2nd appearance, last in 2012); University of the Philippines College of Law (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Zanzibar Revolution (5th appearance as blurb, last in 2012); 2010 Haiti earthquake (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible)
—howcheng  {chat} 07:30, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  2014 notes 

message: * Reculver previously appeared on 13 April in 2014: that anniversary is now deleted, and a different article concerning Reculver's demolished church appears here instead. Nortonius (talk) 17:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  2015 notes 

message: *Omitted: Bayinnaung; Joseph Smith; National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty; Vistula–Oder Offensive; Super Bowl III
*Included: St Mary's Church, Reculver (first appearance); Lynmouth Lifeboat Station (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Kenesaw Mountain Landis (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Cryonics (6th appearance, last in 2011); C/2006 P1 (2nd appearance, last in 2013)
—howcheng  {chat} 10:40, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016 notes 

message: Do you think you might remove the full stop in "St. Mary's Church" in the image caption please, Howcheng? I missed it earlier, and have been a bit distracted today. Thanks. Nortonius (talk) 22:37, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: . —howcheng  {chat} 16:39, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  A minor thing, but ... 

message: *Omitted: St Mary's Church, Reculver; Lynmouth Lifeboat Station; Kenesaw Mountain Landis
*Included: Bayinnaung (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Mission Santa Clara de Asís (3rd appearance, last in 2014); University of the Philippines College of Law (4th appearance, last in 2014)
*Repeats: Cryonics (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total; 50th anniversary); C/2006 P1 (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 10th anniversary)
—howcheng  {chat} 08:23, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 notes 

message: *Moved to Ineligible: Joseph Smith (maintenance); Vistula–Oder Offensive (maintenance)
*Omitted: Mission Santa Clara de Asís; University of the Philippines College of Law (ineligible—maintenance); C/2006 P1
*Included: National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Kenesaw Mountain Landis (3rd appearance, last in 2016); 2010 Haiti earthquake (3rd appearance, last in 2014); John Winthrop (first appearance); Étienne Lenoir (first appearance); Nikolai Podgorny (first appearance)
*Repeats: Bayinnaung (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Cryonics (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 04:17, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As a note, the OTD says Landis was elected "as the league's first commissioner." He was commissioner of both major leagues, and, in fact, all of Organized Baseball, that is, both the major and minor leagues. I would suggest saying in future, "as baseball's first commissioner" or "as Organized Baseball's first commissioner".--Wehwalt (talk) 08:12, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2018 notes 

message: *  "Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, ..." The cited statement in the article asserts something less strong than that (emphasis added): "his realm was certainly the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia[ref] and "probably the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia."[ref]. So the sources do not assert that it was the largest in SE Asian history. I'm sure there are other contenders for "largest in SE Asia". HaEr48 (talk) 17:10, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bayinnaung]] 

message: *Deleted: Joseph Smith (moved to December 23); Nigerian Civil War (moved to January 14)
*Omitted: National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (ineligible—maintenance); Kenesaw Mountain Landis; Cryonics; 2010 Haiti earthquake; John Winthrop; Étienne Lenoir; Nikolai Podgorny
*Included: Mission Santa Clara de Asís (4th appearance, last in 2017); Lynmouth Lifeboat Station (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Led Zeppelin (album) (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 50th anniversary); C/2006 P1 (4th appearance, last in 2017); John Singer Sargent (first appearance); Hermann Göring (2nd appearance, last in 2004; previously appeared on May 9); Daniel Bensaïd (first appearance)
*Repeats: Bayinnaung (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  2019 notes 

message: *Deleted: Public holidays in Turkmenistan (no "Memorial Day" listed in article)
*Moved to Ineligible: Super Bowl III (maintenance); John Winthrop (maintenance)
*Omitted: Bayinnaung; Lynmouth Lifeboat Station; Led Zeppelin (album); C/2006 P1 (McNaught); John Singer Sargent; Hermann Göring; Daniel Bensaïd
*Included: National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (4th appearance, last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible; 125th anniversary); University of the Philippines College of Law (5th appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); Zanzibar Revolution (6th appearance as blurb, last in 2014); 2010 Haiti earthquake (4th appearance, last in 2018; 10th anniversary); Rosalba Carriera (first appearance); Laura Adams Armer (first appearance); Princess Patricia of Connaught (first appearance)
*Repeats: Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)
—howcheng  {chat} 17:10, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 notes 

message: *Moved to Ineligible: Kenesaw Mountain Landis (date not in article)
*Rescued from Ineligible (unused): John Winthrop
*Omitted: Mission Santa Clara de Asís (ineligible—maintenance); National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty; University of the Philippines College of Law (ineligible—maintenance); Zanzibar Revolution; 2010 Haiti earthquake; Rosalba Carriera; Laura Adams Armer; Princess Patricia of Connaught
*Included: Basiliscus (7th appearance, last in 2019; moved from January 9); St Mary's Church, Reculver (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Oswald Boelcke/Max Immelmann (Boelcke: first appearance; Immelman: 2nd, last in 2018; moved from June 18); Cryonics (9th appearance, last in 2018); C/2006 P1 (McNaught) (5th appearance, last in 2019); Godscall Paleologue (first appearance); Spyridon Louis (first appearance); Olga Ladyzhenskaya (first appearance)
—howcheng  {chat} 07:52, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 notes 

message: *New articles (unused): Priscilla Susan Bury
*Omitted: Basiliscus; St Mary's Church, Reculver; Oswald Boelcke/Max Immelmann; Cryonics; C/2006 P1 (McNaught); Godscall Paleologue; Spyridon Louis; Olga Ladyzhenskaya
*Included: Bayinnaung (6th appearance, last in 2019); Mission Santa Clara de Asís (6th appearance, last in 2020; rescued from Ineligible); Minnie Pit Disaster (first appearance); Zanzibar Revolution (13th appearance, last in 2020); Massoud Ali-Mohammadi (first appearance); Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (first appearance); Étienne Lenoir (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 200th birthday); Austin Chapman (first appearance)
—howcheng  {chat} 07:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 notes