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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.

Q3: This page seems to be biased toward events based in [Insert country or region here]. What can be done about it?

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.
National Days, Independence Days, and other holidays celebrating the nationhood of a country are generally marked by the year of the significant historic date being observed.

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Picture of the day for March 1, 2026

Don Lemon is an American television journalist most well known for being a host on CNN. Lemon anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News. He joined CNN in 2006, also as a correspondent and later achieved prominence as the presenter of Don Lemon Tonight from 2014 to 2022. He is currently a co-host of CNN This Morning alongside Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow. Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards.

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2012 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Articles of Confederation, Peace Corps
Omitted: Samuel de Champlain (ineligible—maintenance), Salem witch trials, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Samuel Stritch, Ungdomshuset
Included: Saint David's Day in Wales (rescued from Ineligible), Rio de Janeiro (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible), Henri Becquerel (first appearance), Hoover Dam (2nd appearance, last in 2004, previously was on April 20, Battle of Sio (first appearance), NATO phonetic alphabet (2nd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 05:58, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Ungdomshuset (maintenance)
Omitted: Rio de Janeiro; Henri Becquerel; Hoover Dam; Battle of Sio; NATO phonetic alphabet
Included: Articles of Confederation (2nd appearance, last in 2009); Muhammad Ali of Egypt (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Adwa (7th appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); International Monetary Fund (3rd appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible); American Airlines Flight 1 (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 08:23, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Samuel de Champlain
Omitted: Rio de Janeiro; Articles of Confederation; Muhammad Ali of Egypt; Battle of Adwa; International Monetary Fund; American Airlines Flight 1
Included: Roman triumph (first appearance); Battle of Toro (first appearance); Henri Becquerel (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Battle of Sio (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 70th anniversary); United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) (first appearance; 60th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 10:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason that Battle of Adwa is not here, or at least [[Adwa Day], howcheng?]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).? Simfan34 (talk) 16:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's out of rotation this year. If you look in the staging area, March 1 has a long list of eligible articles, so most of them are going to be excluded every year. I didn't know about the holiday, though, so the article about the battle gets to sneak in through the back door. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 17:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Roman triumph; Battle of Toro; Henri Becquerel; Battle of Sio; United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Rio de Janeiro (5th appearance, last in 2013; 450th anniversary); Samuel de Champlain (4th appearance, last in 2011); Yellowstone National Park (8th appearance, last in 2010); Klaus Fuchs (7th appearance, last in 2010); Compact disc (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 09:01, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Deleted: Roman triumph (date is legendary)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): United States Capitol shooting incident (1954); Peace Corps
Omitted: Rio de Janeiro (ineligible—maintenance); Samuel de Champlain; Yellowstone National Park; Klaus Fuchs; Compact disc
Included: Battle of Toro (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Salem witch trials (7th appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Adwa (8th appearance as blurb, last in 2013); Hoover Dam (3rd appearance, last in 2012; 80th anniversary); NATO phonetic alphabet (3rd appearance, last in 2012; 60th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 08:50, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed swap

I propose removing the 2014 fact about the murder and replacing it with "1815 - Georgetown University was chartered by Congress as the first Catholic institution of higher education in the United States." Ergo Sum 18:36, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ergo Sum: Georgetown University is already featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 23, so I would be reluctant to put a sub-article on a separate day. —howcheng {chat} 08:16, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Samuel de Champlain (maintenance); Articles of Confederation (maintenance); Muhammad Ali of Egypt (maintenance)
New articles (ineligible): Samuel Chase (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Toro; Salem witch trials (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Adwa (ineligible—maintenance); Hoover Dam; NATO phonetic alphabet
Included: Yellowstone National Park; Henri Becquerel; International Monetary Fund; Peace Corps; 2014 Kunming attack (first appearance); Glenn Miller (first appearance); Nick Griffin (first appearance); Lupita Nyong'o (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 08:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Moved to Ineligible: NATO phonetic alphabet (maintenance)
New articles (ineligible): 1991 uprisings in Iraq (maintenance)
Omitted: Henri Becquerel (ineligible—maintenance); International Monetary Fund (ineligible—maintenance); Peace Corps (ineligible—maintenance); Glenn Miller; Lupita Nyong'o
Included: National Pig Day (first appearance); Battle of Toro (3rd appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Warwick Armstrong (first appearance); Vladislaus II of Hungary (first appearance); Francesco Redi (first appearance)
Repeats: Yellowstone National Park (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total); 2014 Kunming attack (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Nick Griffin (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:03, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 suggestion

1869 - periodic table added (as suggestion), with image. Would be first appearance I assume, because was only recently added to March 1. 2019=150th anniversary. FA periodic table does not qualify for TFA on March 1 because it was TFA a year ago, unfortunately. -DePiep (talk) 16:21, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The image of the original periodic table overlaps partially the image of TFA. Use other OTD image? -DePiep (talk) 11:14, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Howcheng please take a look. -DePiep (talk) 21:35, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DePiep: I've swapped out the image for one of Warwick Armstrong. —David Levy 10:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Henri Becquerel
Omitted: Battle of Toro (ineligible—maintenance); Yellowstone National Park; Vladislaus II of Hungary; Francesco Redi; Nick Griffin
Included: Periodic table (first appearance; 150th anniversary); Battle of Adwa (11th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Samuel Stritch (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Roger North (biographer) (first appearance); Mercedes de Acosta (first appearance); Mustafa Barzani (first appearance)
Repeats: Warwick Armstrong (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); 2014 Kunming attack (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:59, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Howcheng: Should Saint David's Day perhaps appear before National Pig Day in the list of celebrations? I find my loyalties torn in both directions... Ham II (talk) 22:42, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Ham II: We have two conflicting rules here. First is that observances are listed in alphabetical order of the country of observance, so that puts Pig Day first. But there's a second rule that moves less serious ones to the end, so Pig Day could come last in that sense. I could go either way on this. —howcheng {chat} 04:12, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Glenn Miller (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Thomas Campion
Omitted: Periodic table; Battle of Adwa; Warwick Armstrong; Samuel Stritch; Roger North (biographer); Mercedes de Acosta; Mustafa Barzani
Included: Muhammad Ali of Egypt (3rd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Henri Becquerel (4th appearance, last in 2017); Hoover Dam (4th appearance, last in 2016); Klaus Fuchs (8th appearance, last in 2015); Samuel Werenfels (first appearance); Angelo Emo (first appearance); Kesha (first appearance)
Repeats: 2014 Kunming attack (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:04, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 request

@Howcheng: can we list Vic Mitchell (b. 1934) please? Mjroots (talk) 12:43, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mjroots: I suggest you make the lead a bit longer. Otherwise, it looks good. —howcheng {chat} 07:42, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mjroots: One more thing: can you possibly get a footnote for the birth date? Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 08:12, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Howcheng: - it's covered by reference [1], first paragraph of "Early life and career". Mjroots (talk) 08:18, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mjroots: That was my assumption, but I suspect TRM will want a footnote closer to the text. —howcheng {chat} 08:21, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see, shall we? @The Rambling Man:. Mjroots (talk) 08:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If it's in footnote [1] then just re-use it at the end of the sentence containing the claim. Otherwise, OTD regardless, it's not being verified adequately. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:46, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the statement that it's not being verified adequately, but I've added the additional ref anyway. Mjroots (talk) 12:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: American Airlines Flight 1 (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Glenn Miller
Omitted: Muhammad Ali of Egypt; Henri Becquerel; Hoover Dam
Included: Yellowstone National Park (11th appearance, last in 2018; rescued from Ineligible); Battle of Adwa (12th appearance, last in 2019); Warwick Armstrong (3rd appearance, last in 2019; 100th anniversary)
Repeats: 2014 Kunming attack (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Klaus Fuchs (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Samuel Werenfels (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Angelo Emo (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

Forgot the births/deaths this year again. —howcheng {chat} 08:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 request

Hi, hope this isn't too early -- I'm not very experienced with OTD. I'd like to place a nomination for Disability Day of Mourning to run if possible. It's never run OTD before (was made a few days after 1 March 2021), has no cleanup tags, is a B-class that could probably pass GAN with some work, and ran DYK when new without issues. (cc Howcheng) Vaticidalprophet 06:04, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Vaticidalprophet: Looking good, but the only thing it needs is a citation for the date. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 07:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have added, thank you! Vaticidalprophet 07:14, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

Omitted: Battle of Adwa; Warwick Armstrong; 2014 Kunming attack; Samuel Werenfels; Angelo Emo; Kesha
Included: Massacre of Vassy (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible; blurb previously featured French Wars of Religion, which remains ineligible, and is making its 5th appearance, last in 2010); Battle of Sio (3rd appearance, last in 2014); 2008 Armenian presidential election protests (first appearance); George Wishart (first appearance); Théophile Delcassé (first appearance); Robert Bork (first appearance)
Repeats: Yellowstone National Park (2nd consecutive appearance, 12 total; 150th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:45, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]