Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year/Archive 2

message: Which would be a suitable name for the category for all pages? I thought of adding :Category:Days of the Year (still to be created). -- User:Docu
::category:Days would be better, IMO. Adding that to template:months would be the easiest thing to do. But what is the point? --mav 21:14, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah - OK then. --mav 05:16, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: In trawling through the day entries I've come across several births and deaths concerning animals. These usually relate to race horses but also include 'Dolly the Sheep' (first cloned sheep) and the like. Presumably the original intention - and maybe the current intention - is to have lists of people only. Otherwise where would it stop? Is there a guideline, written or un-written? Arcturus 16:27, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Births and deaths of assorted animals

message: Looks like PedanticallySpeaking has gone on a bit of bloating campaign on July 20, adding dozens of minor events, minor (i.e.; red-linked) birth/death entries, AND 29 images. A sampling of his additions:
*1910 - United States: The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri announces a campaign to ban films showing kissing between unrelated persons
*1916 - World War I: On the Eastern Front, there is heavy fighting near Riga between German and Russian forces.
*1920 - United States: Democratic presidential candidate James M. Cox denounces the campaign fundraising of the Republicans.
*1946 - Roman Catholic Church: Pope Pius XII denounces nationalization of industries.
*1972 - United States: Senator George McGovern of South Dakota asks Lawrence F. O'Brien to become his campaign manager in his campaign for president.
*1890 - Gonzalo Roig, Cuban composer (d. 1970)
*1890 - Richard Billinger, Austrian writer (d. 1965)
*1890 - Freeman H. Owens, American cinematographer
*1891 - Ralph Faukner, American actor and fight choreographer for films (d. 1987)
*1975 - Judy Evans Greer, American actress
*1975 - Jason Raize, American actor (The Lion King) (d. 2004)
*1976 - Florian Panzer, German actor
See this diff for the complete list. This is, to put it bluntly, overkill. --Calton | Talk 01:17, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: July 20

message: Currently, the talk page of each date-related article (January 1, February 14, for example) includes the "Selected anniversaries" template. The templates, which are now in the Wikipedia namespace, were once in the Template namespace (and some were once in the MediaWiki namespace). The links on the articles' talk pages, however, still link to the old locations (some link to the Template namespace, and some older pages link to the MediaWiki namespace). Anyone up to the task of fixing them?
I've made a template for fixing the talk pages: 
However, if you use this template, please be sure to use underscores instead of spaces (for instance, "March_3" instead of "March 3"). Otherwise, the above template won't work properly. --Ixfd64 06:49, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've spent the last few hours fixing them using cut and paste - I made a few mistakes which should be corrected now. I used    as the template parameter for most of them, and they all seemed to work out fine. My impetus for this was finding a comment on MediaWiki talk:December 16 selected anniversaries which would have been hard to find, as the MediaWiki page does not exist. Graham talk 12:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  new template for talk page + link updating 

message: One good thing about cleaning up July 20 is that I found another external link to go with the BBC one, this one from the New York Times for July 20:
* The New York Times: On This Day
* The New York Times: On This Day
Note the form of the end of the URL, being "2005MMDD.html"
I've started adding them whenever I edit a day page -- and I went on a bit of a blitz and added them to all of February. So far, the links have been good, but I'm a little worried what will happen on January 1 2006, given that the year is part of the URL. --Calton | Talk 00:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: given that putting 2004 in the url gives an almost identical page i doubt that much will happen ;) maybe if we keep such links we should have a bot to update them to point at the current years version. Plugwash 16:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New "This Day in History" link

message: the major events on a day should be nearer to the start. i find it crazy that i can go to say december 25 and not see a single mention of christmas until the 6th page after long lists of births and deaths? Plugwash 16:09, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It looks to me like this whole project needs a bit of dusting, as the template does not match any of the articles. Lets have opinions on the following topics, feel free to add more.  — PhilHibbs | talk 17:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  don't you think