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Unnecessary end div

There's an unnecessary end div after the listings and before the footer template.. That div is breaking my layout on User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox2 and breaks others as well. I'm pretty sure it should be changed to an end li tag (after looking at other dates' templates, but I'm not sure why these all have an li either.. there was never an opening li tag). Could an admin please remove this or change it to li? Thanks! --Dudemanfellabra (talk) 20:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Hopefully that is the only one left that was missed. I gave the reason for the tag here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Year of Marion Barry's arrest

The year is given as 1990 in the article on Barry, but as 1991 here. I suspect the article is correct. 98.210.166.183 (talk) 05:17, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes

Due to the Stop Online Piracy Act protest blackout, there were no changes done this year, as Wikipedia would only be visible for a few hours. —howcheng {chat} 06:02, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Omitted: Emperor Huizong of Song; William Price (physician); Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Willie O'Ree; Marion Barry
• Included: History of Lima (4th appearance, last in 2010); Hawaiian Islands (2nd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Wesley College (Victoria) (first appearance); Unification of Germany (2nd appearance, last in 2010)
• Repeats: Operation Iskra (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 70th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Omitted: Paryaya (ineligible—maintenance); History of Lima; Hawaiian Islands; Wesley College (Victoria); Unification of Germany; Operation Iskra
• Included: Botany Bay (first appearance); William Price (physician) (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Twenty-One Demands (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Legionnaires' disease (first appearance; blurb previously featured Legionellosis (now a redirect) and is making its 7th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Jim Thorpe (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 06:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

2015 World Religion Day

• Can World Religion Day be added for 2015? Wiki-uk (talk) 13:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
  • It's kind of short. Can you flesh it out a bit more? Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 16:50, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Omitted: Botany Bay; William Price (physician); Legionnaires' disease; Jim Thorpe
• Included: World Religion Day (first appearance); Emperor Huizong of Song (3rd appearance, last in 2012); History of Lima (5th appearance, last in 2013); Willie O'Ree (6th appearance, last in 2012); Willie O'Ree; Marion Barry (3rd appearance, last in 2012; 25th anniversary)
• Repeats: Twenty-One Demands (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 100th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 11:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Botany Bay (maintenance)
• Omitted: Emperor Huizong of Song; History of Lima; Twenty-One Demands; Willie O'Ree
• Included: Hawaiian Islands (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Wesley College (Victoria) (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 150th anniversary); Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (3rd appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible); Operation Iskra (4th appearance, last in 2013)
• Repeats: Marion Barry (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 11:11, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Twenty-One Demands (maintenance)
• Omitted: Hawaiian Islands; Wesley College (Victoria); Operation Iskra; Marion Barry
• Included: History of Lima (6th appearance, last in 2015); Unification of Germany (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Willie O'Ree (7th appearance, last in 2015); Legionnaires' disease (2nd appearance, last in 2014)
• Repeats: Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:31, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Emperor Huizong of Song (maintenance)
• Omitted: History of Lima; Unification of Germany; Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (ineligible—maintenance); Legionnaires' disease
• Included: Wesley College (Victoria) (3rd appearance, last in 2016); William Price (physician) (4th appearance, last in 2014); Operation Iskra (5th appearance, last in 2016; 75th anniversary); Jim Thorpe (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Tamar of Georgia (first appearance); Elena Arizmendi Mejia (first appearance); Bruce Chatwin (first appearance)
• Repeats: Willie O'Ree (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total; 60th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 03:50, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (ineligible—maintenance); Wesley College (Victoria) (ineligible—maintenance); William Price (physician) (deleted—moved to January 13); Jim Thorpe; Tamar of Georgia; Elena Arizmendi Mejia; Bruce Chatwin
• Included: History of Lima (7th appearance, last in 2017); Unification of Germany (4th appearance, last in 2017); Marion Barry (5th appearance, last in 2016); Isabella Jagiellon (first appearance; 500th birthday); Aleksandra Ekster (first appearance); Goose Tatum (first appearance)
• Repeats: Operation Iskra (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total); Willie O'Ree (3rd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• New articles (ineligible): Damaris Cudworth Masham (year of birth not clear)
• Omitted: History of Lima; Unification of Germany; Operation Iskra; Willie O'Ree; Marion Barry; Aleksandra Ekster; Goose Tatum
• Included: Leo II (emperor) (first appearance); Elizabeth of York (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); HMS Supply (1759) (first appearance; blurb previously featured Botany Bay, which remains ineligible, and is making its 2nd appearance, last in 2014); Navvab Safavi (first appearance); Legionnaires' disease (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Jeanne Quinault (first appearance); N. T. Rama Rao (first appearance)
• Repeats: Isabella Jagiellon (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 21:13, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism in History of Lima

This is an old time vandalism that has made it to the Main Page. Please edit asap, it should say something like "Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands conquered for the Spanish crown". @Howcheng: Rastrojo _(D•ES) 00:48, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

The article has been fixed, but the blurb needs to be. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

 Done — 🦊 01:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

18 January

2021- Death of Dündar Ali Osman, 45th Head of Osmanoglu dynasty (b. 1930) Al-khataei (talk) 09:31, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

@Al-khataei: Sorry, but that article is ineligible due to the big orange maintenance tag. —howcheng {chat} 02:57, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

2021 notes

• New articles (unused): Jobst of Moravia
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Wesley College (Victoria)
• Omitted: Royal Thai Armed Forces (ineligible—maintenance); Leo II (emperor); Elizabeth of York; HMS Supply (1759); Navvab Safavi; Legionnaires' disease; Isabella Jagiellon; Jeanne Quinault; N. T. Rama Rao
• Included: History of Lima (8th appearance, last in 2019); William I, German Emperor (6th appearance, last in 2009; blurb previously featured Unification of Germany, which is currently ineligible; 150th anniversary); Twenty-One Demands (6th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Operation Iskra (7th appearance, last in 2019); César Cui (first appearance); Edward Bulwer-Lytton (first appearance); Philippe Starck (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 02:56, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

2022 notes

• New articles (ineligible): Battle of Hayes Pond (TFA for 2022)
• Omitted: William I, German Emperor; Twenty-One Demands; Operation Iskra; César Cui; Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Philippe Starck
• Included: Leo II (emperor) (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Wesley College (Victoria) (4th appearance, last in 2018); Willie O'Ree (10th appearance, last in 2019); Marion Barry (6th appearance, last in 2019); Jobst of Moravia (first appearance); Marthinus Nikolaas Ras (first appearance); Vinod Kambli (first appearance)
• Repeats: History of Lima (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:13, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Wesley College - multiple errors in blurb

Too late now, but the Wesley College (Victoria) article does not assert that the school is "one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment", and as such there is no citation for this statement. According to this source, Wesley has the third-largest enrolment in its state, which is drawing a bit of a long bow. Additionally, the statement that the school was established on 18 January is sourced to a dead link. This article from the school itself states that it was founded on 11 January. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 12:13, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

@Ivar the Boneful: Please make the appropriate changes in the article. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 07:32, 20 January 2022 (UTC)