Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/May 30

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Frequently asked questions

Q1: Why is [Insert event here], an event that is "more important and significant" than all the others that are currently listed, not posted?: A1: Relative article quality along with the mix of topics already listed are often deciding factors in what gets posted. Any given day of the year can have a great many important or significant historical events. The problem is that there is generally only room on the Main Page to list about 5 events at a time, so not everything can be posted.

As stated on Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page, the items and events posted on the Main Page are chosen based more on how well they are written, not based on how much important or significant their subjects are. It is easier for admins to select a well-written, cited, verifiable article over a poor one versus trying to determine objectively how much a subject is important or significant.

Keep in mind that the quality requirements only apply to the selected bolded article, not the other links. Thus, an event may qualify for multiple dates in a year if there is an article written in a summary style and an article providing detailed content; if one of those pages have cleanup issues, the other page can be bolded as an alternate.

Another criterion is to maintain some variety of topics, and not exhibit, just for example, tech-centrism, or the belief that the world stops at the edge of the English-speaking world. Many days have a large pool of potential articles, so they will rotate in and out every year to give each one some Main Page exposure. In addition, an event is not posted if it is also the subject of this year's scheduled featured article or featured picture.

Q2: There are way too many 20th-century events listed. Why aren't there more events from the 19th century and before?

A2: The short, basic reason is the systemic bias of Wikipedia. There are not enough good, well-written articles on 19th-century and earlier events for all 365 days in the year. Currently, a majority of users seem to be generally more interested in writing articles about recent events. If you would like to further help mitigate the systemic bias in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias.

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A3: This again is attributed to the systemic bias of Wikipedia. Many users are generally more interested in working on good, well-written articles pertaining to their home country. Since this is the English Wikipedia, there will be more English-speaking users, and thus more articles pertaining to English-speaking countries. And if there are more users who are from the United States, there will probably be more well-written articles about events based in the United States. Again, if you would like to further help mitigate the systemic bias in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias.

Q4: Why is the birthday/death anniversary of [Insert name here] not listed?

A4: There are only four slots available for birth and death anniversaries. As with the events, article quality and diversity in time period, geography, and reason for notability are all contributing factors in whether an article gets selected for inclusion.

Q5: Are the holidays/observances listed in any particular order?

A5: Yes, there is a specified order: International observances first, then alphabetically by where observed.

Q6: Some of the holidays/observances that are listed have dates in parentheses beside them. What do they mean?

A6: There are two reasons that some holidays/observances have dates next to them:

Non-Gregorian-based holidays/observances are marked with the current year as a reminder to others that their dates do in fact vary from year to year.
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2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Indianapolis 500 (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Kansas–Nebraska Act
New articles (unused): Vanport City, Oregon
Omitted: Joan of Arc; Christopher Marlowe; Arniston (East Indiaman); Lincoln Memorial; Biafra
Included: Treaty of Paris (1814) (first appearance); Pearl Hart (first appearance); May Thirtieth Movement (first appearance); Auckland Harbour Bridge (first appearance); Lod Airport massacre (2nd appearance as blurb, last in 2008; 5th consecutive appearance as observance)

—howcheng {chat} 16:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): 1911 Indianapolis 500/Indianapolis 500 (1911: was not featured before)
Omitted: Treaty of Paris (1814) (ineligible—maintenance); Pearl Hart; May Thirtieth Movement (ineligible—maintenance); Auckland Harbour Bridge; Lod Airport massacre
Included: Joan of Arc (11th appearance, last in 2011); Kansas–Nebraska Act (4th appearance, last in 2010); Treaty of London (1913) (3rd appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible; 100th anniversary); Buddhist crisis (2nd appearance, last in 2010; 50th anniversary); Goddess of Democracy (5th appearance, last in 2009)

—howcheng {chat} 21:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Added and deleted: Prince of Anhua rebellion (appears on May 12)
Omitted: Joan of Arc; Kansas–Nebraska Act; Treaty of London (1913); Buddhist crisis; Goddess of Democracy
Included: Christopher Marlowe (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Pearl Hart (2nd appearance, last in 2012); 1911 Indianapolis 500/Indianapolis 500 (1911: first appearance, Indy 500: 4th appearance, last in 2007); Rafael Trujillo (first appearance); May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake (2nd appearance, last in 2009)

—howcheng {chat} 06:44, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Auckland Harbour Bridge (maintenance)
Omitted: Christopher Marlowe; Pearl Hart; 1911 Indianapolis 500/Indianapolis 500; Rafael Trujillo; May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
Included: Joan of Arc (11th appearance, last in 2013); Arniston (East Indiaman) (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Vanport, Oregon (first appearance); Biafra (8th appearance, last in 2011); Natalee Holloway (first appearance; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:32, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Joan of Arc; Arniston (East Indiaman); Vanport, Oregon; Biafra (ineligible—maintenance); Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
Included: Jane Seymour (5th appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); Treaty of London (1913) (4th appearance, last in 2013); Buddhist crisis (3rd appearance, last in 2013); May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake (3rd appearance, last in 2014)

—howcheng {chat} 06:42, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Christopher Marlowe (maintenance); Indianapolis 500 (maintenance); Lincoln Memorial (maintenance); Rafael Trujillo (maintenance); Goddess of Democracy (maintenance)
New articles (ineligible): The Angry Brigade (maintenance)
Omitted: Jane Seymour (ineligible—maintenance); Treaty of London (1913) (ineligible—maintenance); May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
Included: Arniston (East Indiaman) (4th appearance, last in 2015); Pearl Hart (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Lod Airport massacre (3rd appearance as blurb, last in 2012); Disappearance of Natalee Holloway (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Georg von Peuerbach (first appearance); Wyndham Halswelle (first appearance); Mary H. Gray Clarke (first appearance)
Repeats: Buddhist crisis (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Lincoln Memorial
Omitted: Pearl Hart; Buddhist crisis; Lod Airport massacre (still included as observance); Disappearance of Natalee Holloway; Georg von Peuerbach; Wyndham Halswelle; Mary H. Gray Clarke
Included: Joan of Arc (12th appearance, last in 2015); Jane Seymour (6th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Vanport, Oregon (2nd appearance, last in 2015; 70th anniversary); May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake (4th appearance, last in 2016; 20th anniversary); Antonina Houbraken (first appearance); José de la Borda (first appearance); Albert Norden (first appearance)
Repeats: Arniston (East Indiaman) (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

New articles (ineligible): Agnès Varda (appeared on ITN on March 31, 2019)
New articles (unused): All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (moved from June 6); Airbus A300
Omitted: Jane Seymour; Arniston (East Indiaman); Vanport, Oregon; May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake; Antonina Houbraken; José de la Borda; Albert Norden
Included: Kansas–Nebraska Act (5th appearance, last in 2013); RMS Aquitania (first appearance); Buddhist crisis (5th appearance, last in 2017); Convention on Cluster Munitions (first appearance); Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (first appearance); Charles Dickinson (historical figure) (first appearance); Marie Fredriksson (first appearance)
Repeats: Joan of Arc (2nd consecutive appearance, 13 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Deleted: Airbus A300 (moved to May 23)
New articles (unused): Norris Bradbury
Omitted: Kansas–Nebraska Act; RMS Aquitania; Buddhist crisis; Convention on Cluster Munitions; Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty; Charles Dickinson (historical figure); Marie Fredriksson
Included: Pearl Hart (4th appearance, last in 2017); Auckland Harbour Bridge (2nd appearance, last in 2012; rescued from Ineligible); Disappearance of Natalee Holloway (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Ma Xifan (first appearance); Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle (first appearance); Agnès Varda (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Joan of Arc (3rd consecutive appearance, 14 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:34, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest removing Aquitania (forever)

"1914 – RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City." Problems: seems trivial - what's so special about the last of this class departing that day? It's one thing to see something about Titanic, but this is trivia. Perhaps if this was the last ever voyage of such a class, but still, this seems like further trivia. Ship sailed, nobody cared then, and nobody seems to be declaring this event as major today. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:50, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Darul Uloom Deoband in OTD

I guess it is worth to be mentioned on the OTD section of mainpage. I don't know how it works but this famous seminary where the Deobandi movement began turns 155 today. It was established on 30 May 1866. Can someone do it? Thanks. ─ The Aafī on Mobile ^{^(talk)} 06:59, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@AafiOnMobile: Unfortunately, the introduction for the article is tagged as being too long, which makes it ineligible for inclusion. —howcheng {chat} 07:41, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Arniston (East Indiaman) (maintenance)
Omitted: Joan of Arc; Pearl Hart; Auckland Harbour Bridge; Disappearance of Natalee Holloway; Ma Xifan; Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle; Agnès Varda
Included: Statehood Day (Croatia) (moved from June 25); Jane Seymour (7th appearance, last in 2018); RMS Aquitania (2nd appearance, last in 2019); All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (2nd appearance, last in 2018; moved from June 6); May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake (5th appearance, last in 2018); Voltaire (first appearance); Colin Blythe (first appearance); Norris Bradbury (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Albert Norden (maintenance)
Omitted: Jane Seymour; RMS Aquitania; All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake; Voltaire; Colin Blythe; Norris Bradbury
Included: Kansas–Nebraska Act (6th appearance, last in 2019); The Bartered Bride (first appearance); Lincoln Memorial (3rd appearance, last in 2011; 100th anniversary); Lod Airport massacre (4th appearance as blurb, last in 2017; 50th anniversary); Convention on Cluster Munitions (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Antonina Houbraken (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Wyndham Halswelle (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Marcel Bich (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 06:36, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

300 years Bach Thomaskantor

copied from Talk:May 30

Hi all, I reverted a recent change to May 30 made by @Gerda Arendt, and left a comment on her talk page. She has asked some questions which I have briefly answered, but thought I would ask here to try to get a wider range of thoughts. I hope a few of you can reply. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 04:56, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about one article. For quick context: 1723 - 300 years ago - is the year that Bach assumed the position of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which was consequential:

It's then that he began to compose a cantata cycle, cantatas for every event of liturgical calendar (to be followed by more such cycles)
All who followed him as Thomaskantor are known in relation to him, - Andreas Reize the 18th after Bach.
This first cantata of the first cycle was Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75.

I believe that this should show in OTD on 30 May (to counter rock slides and battles a bit), but am new to it. I was encouraged by Dumelow.

My suggestion was:

1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting his first new cantata, Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, in the St. Nicholas Church on the first Sunday after Trinity.

(refs:

Dürr, Alfred; Jones, Richard D. P. (2006). "Die Elendenden sollen essen". The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. Oxford University Press. pp. 381–387. ISBN 978-0-19-929776-4.
Wolff, Christoph (1991). Bach: Essays on his Life and Music. ISBN 9780674059269.)

Yes, we could just say that it's 300 years that this cantata was performed, but it seems to miss the impact - to me. Any help is welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:24, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, @Gerda Arendt, I've just realised that what I took to be a typo - OTD - is in fact a reference to On This Day. You may be better off raising your question here - Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/May_30. Kiwipete (talk) 09:24, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

see how new I am, - doing that

So here we are. My idea was to add Bach to OTD for 30 May 2023, because he assumed his position as Thomaskantor on that day 300 years ago, explained why above, first performance of first cantata of first cantata cycle. I am new and need help. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda Arendt, sorry I've just seen this. I'll be scheduling the OTDs for 30 May in the next 10 days or so. I'd be glad to include this one as we are generally a bit short of culture articles and it is a significant anniversary. The BWV 75 article looks good, though one minor gripe is that the last two sentences of the background section are uncited - Dumelow (talk) 13:59, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add the sources from the linked cantatas, Bach's early cantatas and Weimar cantata (Bach), and will try to make BWV 75 a FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I added refs two the section, please check. I'll go over the article beginning tomorrow. What's the next step for OTD?

Thanks, looks fine to me. Nothing more to do until someone (almost certainly me) gets round to updating the day's entries for this year. I'm currently up to 17 May so will take a week or so to get to 30 May, watchlist the page and give me a nudge if I forget to include BWV 75 when I refresh it - Dumelow (talk) 10:26, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]