Talk:June 19/Archive 1

Archive 1

Statue of Liberty

Entry for the arrival of Statue of Liberty to New York harbor must have been duplicated (June 17 and June 19) - one is supposed to be a fallacy while another is true. --PuzzletChung

Work

Removed:

• 1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.

The Adamson Act, the first Federal act regulating hours, was passed in 1916. The evolution of the 8-hour day is better explained in the article, but there is no significant event chronicled for 1912.

John Ford?

Is the "American software engineer" named John Ford listed here a legitimate notable person? The link goes to the film director of the same name. If the person is notable, a better link would be helpful. If no one offers an explanation or a better link, I'll take it out.Brettalan (talk) 02:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any article about this person, so I've removed the link. Favonian (talk) 07:42, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

wrong year?

Poppy Montgomery seems to be born 1975 not 1972 as said in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.6.154 (talk) 08:20, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

--65.27.190.233 (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Revision of Nationality

I notice the editing I did on this page has been reverted as the reason for the changes is unclear.

To clarify, I altered some of the references to nationality to match that listed in the subject's Wikipedia pages or in references such as IMDB or Encyclopedia Britannica. Specifically, those references to 'English' politicians, scientists, armed forces personnel, etc.

When referred to outside of a 'local' context (or in connection with a national sporting team) English, Welsh, Scottish and people from Northern Ireland should be referred to as British. This is in line with Wikipedia page English people#In the United Kingdom which clarifies the current situation and correct terminology. Robata (talk) 16:33, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon is noted as British on his wiki page. I have aligned the date page accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robata (talk • contribs) 15:25, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

May Whitty

Cited as British in http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/197080/may-whitty — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robata (talk • contribs) 15:30, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Douglas Haig

Listed as a British general on his Wikipedia page. Nationality has been changed in line with that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robata (talk • contribs) 15:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Removal of entries

In accordance with the guidelines, I've started weeding the Births and Deaths sections by removing entries for celebrities with 0-4 articles in other languages. Where possible, these have been transferred to the relevant Year in Topic articles. As well as making the lists more manageable, this will help with the globalization effort.Deb (talk) 20:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

"world sauntering day"

Even the one source for this (which does not support that it is "celebrate") puts quotation marks around "holiday". Nice idea - the French intellectual elite would call it boulevardisme - but not a thing. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 11:05, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

@Richardson mcphillips: Hmmm...then get the article to WP:AFD. If it is deleted, we can remove it here. Lectonar (talk) 11:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

but in the meantime any problem with removing it from here? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 11:30, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

It might seem a bit formalistic, but despite what WP:DOY says (....Holidays and observances, if notable enough for inclusion, should be the subject of a Wikipedia article), I always rather left those events/holidays with articles in the list, while removing those without article(s). That is far easier to maintain and follow than to start a discussion each and everytime one thinks an event is not notable enough despite having an article; and (you might have noticed), discussions hereabouts have not really a large crowd weighing in. Thanks for your work on all this, btw., and keep it up. Lectonar (talk) 11:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)