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Battle of Dunsinane 27 July

I wanted to check if my comment about updating the description of the battle involving Siward, Earl of Northumbria to include a link to the Battle of Dunsinane had been seen? I suggested this in Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 27.

I realise it may be too late to change now, but if there was an issue with the suggestion I would be interested to know, if only to avoid making the same mistake again. CSJJ104 (talk) 18:16, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

@CSJJ104 Wow. I’m surprised that no one reads these talk pages at all. 81 views on this one in the past 30 days. Project On this day is super dead, which is pretty insane considering it’s a core part of the Wikipedia main page. Alexysun (talk) 07:22, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Add a link to OTD to the bottom of the main page section?

At the bottom of the OTD box on the main page, there's some links that say Archive ▪ By email ▪ List of days of the year. Any interest in adding a 4th link ▪ About, to make OTD a little easier to find? Inspired by this question at the Teahouse. cc Alexysun. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Hi Novem, thank you for trying to increase the reach of my suggestion, though I realized that this talk page isn't very active. (111 views in the last 30 days). Would bringing this to the Village Pump be a better option? Alexysun (talk) 23:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

It's a bit strange that this talk page is so inactive, because I'm sure someone must be maintaining the OTD entries on the main page. Perhaps we can do some wiki-archaeology and figure out who in this project is doing the main page updates nowadays, and ping them.

Cross-posting this to one of the village pumps is also fine if you want to do that. Feel free. Maybe drop a {{Please see}} template there. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae: Maintenance of OTD is sporadic, usually by one or two editors at a time. Sometimes some dates do not have their hooks rotated. I am not against this suggestion. Z1720 (talk) 23:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Seems like there's no objections after a week, so I added it.  Done –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:45, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Serial killers

(Copying this from the talk page for Selected Anniversaries on 15 September, since the issue concerns the Selected Anniversaries page in general): I don't think that every individual murder by a serial killer is so important as to be included among the 'selected anniversaries' alongside major battles, inventions etc. And by overemphasising them, we are granting these sickos the 'fame' that many of them, being grandiose narcissists, have reportedly been eager to achieve. Looking at the page for 15 September, you get the impression that it is enough to kill two women in a shop to have your name and 'glorious achievement' listed alongside those of the inventor of the locomotive or of Mehmed The Conqueror. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

I note the same situation today: some idiot has killed an antiques dealer and immediately earns a mention on Wikipedia's front page alongside a Roman emperor, a hurricane, the founding of Covent Garden and an aeroplane crash.--62.73.72.3 (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)