Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-08 Thread David Gerard
2009/12/8 Jim Redmond j...@scrubnugget.com: Who says we can only feature Pearl Harbor-related articles or images on December 7?  The daily FA and FP should reflect our best works, whether or not they're related to some significant anniversary.  If that means that the article on the USS

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-08 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/8 Jim Redmond j...@scrubnugget.com: Who says we can only feature Pearl Harbor-related articles or images on December 7?  The daily FA and FP should reflect our best works, whether or not they're related to some

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-08 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: There is a whole process now for requesting a main page featured article slot. Mainly because we have more featured articles being produced than there are available slots.

[WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-07 Thread Nathan
...in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. into World War II. Not that you'd know that from the On this day section of the main page. I guess there is an iron rule that nothing mentioned in any other part of the main page makes it into the On This Day section (a Today's

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-07 Thread Jim Redmond
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:05, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: ...in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. into World War II. Not that you'd know that from the On this day section of the main page. I guess there is an iron rule that nothing mentioned in any other part of

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-07 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Jim Redmond j...@scrubnugget.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:05, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: ...in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. into World War II. Not that you'd know that from the On this day section of the main page. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-07 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: day's events in history. Excluding Pearl Harbor (or anything similarly notable) from OTD because a related content item is featured elsewhere on the page suggests that the event itself is not notable enough to be listed on OTD.

Re: [WikiEN-l] On this day in history...

2009-12-07 Thread Jim Redmond
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 18:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps there are folks who are scraping just the On this day section, or people who look there for interesting tidbits on the date. Or expect to look there to find articles on the day's events in history. True. OTD's contents