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Image:Terualsiege.jpg is a "scene during the Siege of Teruel, Spain, April 1 1938". It really has no business being on a March 28 selected anniversary. Not only is the date inaccurate, but the March 28 event took place in Madrid, not Teruel. It is wrong to show images that are "close enough" but not fully accurate. So I am removing Image:Terualsiege.jpg completely from the metapage. Use it for April 1.

Also, I am replacing it with the 3-mile island image. Kingturtle 09:58, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Semicolon

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Page is protected, but the first line needs a semicolon, between the Earth Hour and the Teachers' Day factoids. —johndburger 00:28, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 16:20, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 05:28, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 08:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 10:10, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

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2017 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 07:56, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 03:02, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 16:17, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Istanbul, not Constantinople

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The item about the "renaming" of Istanbul really ought never to have appeared here. The summary is blatantly misleading (there was no changing of the name of the city in 1930 or indeed at any other time; it had been called Istanbul since time immemorial; the only thing that may have happened in 1930 was that Turkish authorities asked people to start using the Turkish name in foreign languages). Also, there is only extremely slim evidence that any of this happened on this specific day in 1930, and no sourcing whatsoever about what exactly supposedly happened on that day. Of the two sources cited for the relevant sentence in the Names of Istanbul article, one doesn't mention this date at all, and the other is a blatantly unreliable junk piece from National Geographic (with factual howlers about all sorts of other issues, like "Ancient Greeks … called it Lygos", or, even worse: "… after the Greeks and Romans were forced out by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in about 1299". Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Future Perfect at Sunrise: Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 21:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 21:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Magellan's circumnavigation

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It's the 500th anniversary of Magellan reaching the Philippines. I know you guys have Marcos fetishes, but hear me out. On March 28 was Magellan's first encounter in what would become Filipinos. Article looks great, but has 5 citation needed tags, but not about this specific event. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Howard the Duck: The article says he reached the Philippines on 16 March. We should have featured it that day. Other good options would be 1 November, when he sailed through the Strait or 20 September when they left Spain. —howcheng {chat} 06:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Howcheng: It reached the Philippines on March 16, but haven't encountered natives by March 28. This was the first contact between the cultures... unless you consider sand and some trees as culture. Howard the Duck (talk) 12:50, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Howard the Duck: I get that, but opinions are going to vary about which is the more significant date, and one the rules is that the date that the article gets featured on should be one of the most important ones to the subject. That's why I think the departure date or the date when they traversed the Strait (since that's named after him now) are better. —howcheng {chat} 16:06, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Howcheng: Surely the 500th anniversary of the first encounter of what would later become Filipinos is more significant than a routine presidential inauguration, isn't it?
Either way, another person has told me First Mass in the Philippines fits the bill. I suppose the Battle of Mactan does as well. Both articles are not yet up to par, but can be fixed up. Howard the Duck (talk) 16:16, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like the 16th is more significant because that's when they became the first known people to sail across the Pacific. Anyway, both of those articles would be fantastic additions. —howcheng {chat} 06:08, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Howcheng: Again, we missed the boat (literally) on this one. Very disappointing! Any of these three are 500x more significant than an inconsequential inauguration that was posted more than once. Howard the Duck (talk) 13:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

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—howcheng {chat} 04:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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