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A1: Relative article quality along with the mix of topics already listed are often deciding factors in what gets posted. Any given day of the year can have a great many important or significant historical events. The problem is that there is generally only room on the Main Page to list about 5 events at a time, so not everything can be posted.
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Keep in mind that the quality requirements only apply to the selected bolded article, not the other links. Thus, an event may qualify for multiple dates in a year if there is an article written in a summary style and an article providing detailed content; if one of those pages have cleanup issues, the other page can be bolded as an alternate.
Another criterion is to maintain some variety of topics, and not exhibit, just for example, tech-centrism, or the belief that the world stops at the edge of the English-speaking world. Many days have a large pool of potential articles, so they will rotate in and out every year to give each one some Main Page exposure. In addition, an event is not posted if it is also the subject of this year's scheduled featured article or featured picture.
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Q4: Why is the birthday/death anniversary of [Insert name here] not listed?
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A6: There are two reasons that some holidays/observances have dates next to them:
Non-Gregorian-based holidays/observances are marked with the current year as a reminder to others that their dates do in fact vary from year to year.
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Today's featured article for January 8, 2025
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 8, 2025
A king is born? Elvis Aron Presley Born 8 January 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.167.157.72 (talk) 12:59, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, the article has a ((refimprove)) tag on it, and per the rules that makes it ineligible for inclusion. —howcheng {chat} 16:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kim Jong-un's birthday is neither an official or unofficial holiday in North Korea. His birth date is not made public and is not celebrated. Should we take it off the list? Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 06:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
He took office on January 8, 1978, he wasn't elected on this date as it currently states. posty (talk) 21:05, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Eposty: Thanks. Next time, please go to WP:ERRORS, where it will be taken care of much more quickly. —howcheng {chat} 18:22, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Previously posted on Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors but in wrong section and Correction/rewriting still need. Hope someone will see this and fix.
1972 – Following the country's defeat by India in the previous year's war, new Pakistani president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure. - Some part of this line is misleading. consider following three things:
2) Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the liberation war in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 to the fall of Dacca (Dhaka) on 16 December 1971.
But from this DYK, i getting this idea that there was a war in 1971 (Indo-Pakistani War of 1971) and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested in that war, and after india won that war, he was released from prison in response to international pressure. This is misleading somewhat. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested because of Bangladesh Liberation War, not because of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It's true india won Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (which started 3 December 1971) but we are ignoring Bangladesh Liberation War (which started 26 March 1971) for which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested where Bangladesh won.
I am requesting to rewrite this part: "Following the country's defeat by India in the previous year's war". Please don't mix Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 & Bangladesh Liberation War as same war. My suggestion is rewrite this part as "Following the country's defeat by Bangladesh in [[Pakistani Instrument of Surrender|the previous year's war]]" or "Following the country's defeat in [[Pakistani Instrument of Surrender|the previous year's war]]". --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 17:52, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]