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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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The many-worlds interpretation (MWI) is a philosophical position about how the mathematics used in quantum mechanics relates to physical reality. It asserts that the universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wave function collapse. This implies that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements are physically realized in some "world" or universe. In contrast to some other interpretations of quantum mechanics, the evolution of reality as a whole in MWI is rigidly deterministic and local. Many-worlds is also called the relative state formulation or the Everett interpretation, after physicist Hugh Everett, who first proposed it in 1957. Bryce DeWitt popularized the formulation and named it many-worlds in the 1970s. According to this interpretation: in the "Schrödinger's cat" paradox, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other

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2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: National Diet (maintenance); Richard E. Byrd (maintenance)
Omitted: Zong Massacre; Eureka Flag; Sand Creek massacre (ineligible—maintenance); Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831; Manila Peninsula rebellion
Included: Natchez Massacre (first appearance); Battle of Fort Cumberland (first appearance); FC Barcelona (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Pong (2nd appearance, last in 2008; 40th anniversary); Korean Air Flight 858 (4th appearance, last in 2010; 25th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:54, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (maintenance)
Added then deleted: Manila (already featured on June 24)
Omitted: Natchez Massacre; Battle of Fort Cumberland; FC Barcelona; Pong; Korean Air Flight 858
Included: Papal conclave, 1549–50 (first appearance); San Jose, California (5th appearance, last in 2010); National Diet (8th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 50th anniversary); Manila Peninsula rebellion (2nd appearance, last in 2011)

—howcheng {chat} 08:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: Papal conclave, 1549–50; San Jose, California; Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831; Manila Peninsula siege
Included: Zong massacre (4th appearance, last in 2011); Sand Creek massacre (3rd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible; 150th anniversary); United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (6th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Pong (3rd appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: National Diet (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Zong massacre; Sand Creek massacre; National Diet; Pong
Included: Natchez revolt (first appearance); Whitman massacre (first appearance; rescued from Ineligibe); Eureka Flag (5th appearance, last in 2011); Korean Air Flight 858 (5th appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:00, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: Natchez revolt; Whitman massacre; Eureka Flag; United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; Korean Air Flight 858
Included: Papal conclave, 1549–50 (2nd appearance, last in 2013); FC Barcelona (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Richard E. Byrd (4th appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831; (3rd appearance, last in 2013); United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 09:18, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Following a complaint at WP:ERRORS, Byrd tagged and returned to ineligible - too much unreferenced material. Zong massacre added back. Bencherlite ^Talk 18:55, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: San Jose, California (maintenance); Eureka Flag (maintenance); National Diet (maintenance)
New articles (unused): LaMia Flight 2933
Omitted: Papal conclave, 1549–50; Natchez revolt; Zong massacre; FC Barcelona; Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831; United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19
Included: Battle of Fort Cumberland (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil (first appearance); United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (8th appearance, last in 2015; 70th anniversary); Korean Air Flight 858 (6th appearance, last in 2015; 30th anniversary); Manila Peninsula siege (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 10th anniversary); Claudio Monteverdi (first appearance); Christian Doppler (first appearance); Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Deleted: LaMia Flight 2933 (moved to November 28)
Omitted: Battle of Fort Cumberland; Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil; United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; Korean Air Flight 858; Manila Peninsula siege; Claudio Monteverdi; Christian Doppler; Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Included: Battle of Hama (first appearance); Zong massacre (6th appearance, last in 2016); Whitman massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Pong (4th appearance, last in 2014); United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 (2nd appearance, last in 2016); George Brown (Canadian politician) (first appearance); Mary Somerville (first appearance); Emma Morano (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:01, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

New articles (unused): Janet Smith (judge)
Omitted: Battle of Hama; Zong massacre; Whitman massacre; Pong; United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19; George Brown (Canadian politician); Mary Somerville; Emma Morano
Included: Liberation Day (Albania) (rescued from Ineligible); Natchez revolt (4th appearance, last in 2016); Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil (2nd appearance, last in 2017); National Diet (10th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 (4th appearance, last in 2016); Manila Peninsula siege (4th appearance, last in 2017); John Felton (assassin) (first appearance); Public Universal Friend (first appearance); Yōichi Masuzoe (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:03, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Omitted: Natchez revolt; Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil (ineligible—maintenance); National Diet; Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831; Manila Peninsula siege; John Felton (assassin); Public Universal Friend; Yōichi Masuzoe
Included: 1549–50 papal conclave (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Eureka Flag (6th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); FC Barcelona (4th appearance, last in 2016); Pong (5th appearance, last in 2018); Korean Air Flight 858 (7th appearance, last in 2017); Amos Bronson Alcott (first appearance); Artur Phleps (first appearance); Janet Smith (judge) (first appearance; 80th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 02:02, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: John Felton (assassin) (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Abdullah Cevdet
Omitted: 1549–50 papal conclave; Eureka Flag; FC Barcelona; Pong; Korean Air Flight 858; Amos Bronson Alcott; Artur Phleps; Janet Smith (judge)
Included: Battle of Hama (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) (3rd appearance, last in 2017); National Diet (11th appearance, last in 2019); Manila Peninsula siege (5th appearance, last in 2019); Claudio Monteverdi (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Mary Somerville (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Lalit Modi (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:24, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]