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The card used for the 1887 punched card patent illustration is incorrect. The patent itself doesn't seem to specify the number of columns, but the cards first in use based upon that patent had 22 columns, and used round holes, rather than the 80 column rectangular hole cards shown in the illustration. The card illustrated is one which was common from the mid 1920's onward. It seems that people might well infer that the particular card illustrated was the one in use in 1887, which is incorrect. No illustration would probably be better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.62.103.226 (talk • contribs) 05:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC).[reply]
Wikipedia's English Main page has the wrong date for the Falklands War battle known as Bluff Cove. The year is completely wrong. In the "On this day..." section, it states that the battle took place in 1959. The Falklands War took place 23 years later, in 1982. Please correct it.
BTW. I note that this change was made to the venus item immediately before your change. I am happy with either of the later two versions... but hopefully it won't be controversial either way.
Included: Laki (6th appearance, last in 2010); Punched card (6th appearance, last in 2008); Thomas Blamey (5th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); PHP (5th appearance, last in 2010); MV Pasha Bulker (first appearance)
It's still rather promotional, especially in the descriptions of past years. It reads like it belongs on the World Oceans Day web site. —howcheng {chat}23:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Howcheng: Improved on it. It really should be okay now. Could you please check (read) it? If you still find problems please be more specific so that they can be corrected (if you don't fix them yourself). Note that it doesn't have to be perfect to get featured - I will try to improve on it over the next few days if it gets featured. --Fixuture (talk) 01:49, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Fixuture: No, it doesn't have to be perfect, but it's not even in a good enough state. The 2015 section is still lacking references for most of it, and the ones you've been adding are all from the UN, so that's worth a ((primary sources)) tag. I appreciate the effort you've made to get it this far, but I think it's going to have to wait another year. —howcheng {chat}08:32, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Howcheng: Alright. Thank you for your constructive assistance. It feels quite frustrating that I'm apparently alone at sufficiently improving and nominating this item. It's too late for it getting featured today anyways. It would be nice if you could give some feedback again once I did some more improvements so that it at least can be featured next year. As a sidenote: people can't be expected to even find this place; it's basically hidden for most users of the site even if they are potential participants in the nomination and improvement of selected anniversaries. This needs to change somehow. --Fixuture (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Howcheng, For tomorrow we have 1887 – German-American statistician... There seems to be an error in the Punched card target article. The only mention of June 8 is for 1889 (not 1887). Then, also "The card shown in U.S. Patent 395,781 of June 8 was printed" but that has the wrong month. The ref says patent date was January (not June) 8, 1889. The other blue link Herman Hollerith article and its different ref have the correct date ie January 8, 1889 and no mention of anything in a June. The relevant patent refs are 395781, 395781, 395781 and 395782. All are dated January 8, 1889. I see the note on the staging page about Hollerith also appearing on January 8 - I think it's actually the same punch card patent? I hope I haven't got wrong end of stick. Thanks for taking a look. JennyOz (talk) 07:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]