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does it seem silly to anyone else to call Johnny Appleseed an environmenmtalist?

Please add European Day of Languages - 26 September, a day sponsored by the Council of Europe and European Union. --Michkalas 13:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for the suggestion. I've also added this to the list of holidays and observances on Portal:Current events/Sidebar. --PFHLai 19:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

Deleted: Abbey Road (moved to August 8)
Moved to Ineligible: RMS Queen Mary (maintenance)
Omitted: Golden Hind; West Side Story (ineligible—maintenance); Australia II; MV Le Joola
Included: Battle of Polygon Wood (first appearance); Machine Gun Kelly (first appearance); Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Petrov: first appearance; Incident: 8th appearance, last in 2010); Yves Rossy (first appearance)
Repeats: Parthenon (3rd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:59, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Golden Hind (maintenance)
Omitted: Parthenon; Battle of Polygon Wood; Yves Rossy
Included: William II of England (first appearance); Dudum siquidem (first appearance); August Frank (first appearance)
Repeats: Machine Gun Kelly (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 80th anniversary); Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (both: 2nd consecutive appearance; Petrov: 2 total; Incident: 9 total; 30th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 05:26, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

New articles (unused): Typhoon Ketsana
Omitted: William II of England; Machine Gun Kelly (ineligible—maintenance); August Frank; Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
Included: Parthenon (8th appearance, last in 2012); Typhoon Vera (first appearance); Happiness Is a Warm Gun (first appearance); Australia II (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
Repeats: Dudum siquidem (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 10:06, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Dudum siquidem; Typhoon Vera; Happiness Is a Warm Gun; Australia II
Included: Flag of Ecuador (first appearance); William II of England (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Battle of Polygon Wood (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Petrov: 3rd appearance; Incident: 10th appearance; both last in 2013); Death of Linda Norgrove (first appearance)
Repeats: Parthenon (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:58, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: European Day of Languages (ineligible—maintenance); William II of England; Parthenon; Battle of Polygon Wood; Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident; Death of Linda Norgrove
Included: Dudum siquidem (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Golden Hind (4th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); August Frank (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Typhoon Vera (2nd appearance, last in 2014); MV Le Joola (2nd appearance, last in 2011)

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: William II of England (maintenance); Parthenon (maintenance); Australia II (maintenance); Typhoon Ketsana (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Colony of New Zealand/Dominion of New Zealand
Omitted: Dominion Day (deleted—no longer observed); Typhoon Vera; MV Le Joola (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Battle of Polygon Wood (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 100th anniversary); Death of Linda Norgrove(2nd appearance, last in 2015); Fujiwara no Teika (first appearance); Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (first appearance); Lynn Anderson (first appearance)
Repeats: Dudum siquidem (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Golden Hind (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); August Frank (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 75th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:10, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Deleted: Presidency of George Washington (moved to April 30)
Moved to Ineligible: Happiness Is a Warm Gun (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): William II of England
New articles (unused): 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
Omitted: Golden Hind; Battle of Polygon Wood; August Frank; Death of Linda Norgrove; Fujiwara no Teika; Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford; Lynn Anderson
Included: Parthenon (10th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Colony of New Zealand/Dominion of New Zealand (Colony: first appearance; Dominion: 5th appearance, last in 2010); Australia II (3rd appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Yves Rossy (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 10th anniversary); Francis Daniel Pastorius (first appearance); Théodore Géricault (first appearance); Leslie Morshead (first appearance)
Repeats: Dudum siquidem (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 525th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:43, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Omitted: Dudum siquidem; Colony of New Zealand/Dominion of New Zealand; Australia II; Yves Rossy; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Théodore Géricault; Leslie Morshead
Included: William II of England (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Typhoon Vera (3rd appearance, last in 2016; 60th anniversary); Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2nd appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping (first appearance); Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (first appearance); Wendy Saddington (first appearance; 70th birthday); Ramang (first appearance)
Repeats: Parthenon (2nd consecutive appearance, 11 total)

—howcheng {chat} 15:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

New articles (ineligible): Billy the Kid (date not certain)
Omitted: William II of England; Typhoon Vera; Happiness Is a Warm Gun; 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping; Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple; Wendy Saddington; Ramang
Included: Golden Hind (6th appearance, last in 2017); Tallinn Offensive (first appearance); Death of Linda Norgrove (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Daniel Boone (2nd appearance, last in 2017; normally appears on November 2); Bertha De Vriese (first appearance); Vladimir Voinovich (first appearance)
Repeats: Parthenon (3rd consecutive appearance, 12 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Too late for me to edit the staging area, but next year really ought to use T. S. Eliot (b.1888) Sparafucil (talk) 21:41, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Deleted: Billy the Kid (moved to July 14)
Omitted: Parthenon; Tallinn Offensive; Death of Linda Norgrove; Daniel Boone (deleted—moved back to original date); Bertha De Vriese; Vladimir Voinovich
Included: Dudum siquidem (6th appearance, last in 2018); Battle of Polygon Wood (4th appearance, last in 2017); Machine Gun Kelly (3rd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Petrov: 4th appearance; Incident: 11th; both last in 2015); Fujiwara no Teika (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Edith Abbott (first appearance); Henri Fertet (first appearance)
Repeats: Golden Hind (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:10, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Parthenon (maintenance); August Frank (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Jeanie Buss
Omitted:Golden Hind; Battle of Polygon Wood; Machine Gun Kelly; Stanislav Petrov/1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident; Edith Abbott; Henri Fertet
Included: Gwoyeu Romatzyh (first appearance); Typhoon Vera (4th appearance, last in 2019); Iguala mass kidnapping (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Vladimir Voinovich (2nd appearance, last in 2020); Lynn Anderson (2nd appearance, last in 2017)
Repeats: Dudum siquidem (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total); Fujiwara no Teika (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

Heart ^(talk) 03:45, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]