Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/January 3

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Please, can somebody (an administrator) add the interwikis to this kind of templates (selected anniversaries templates) if it is possible? Only the month of january yet. I would do it myself but it's impossible. The interwiki of this day is [[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 3]] and the next days are similar; only changes the number ([[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 4]], [[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 5]]... ...[[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 31]]). It seems that bots do not run with administrator rights, so a bot cannot do that task. Thanks in advance. If there are any trouble, my talk page is always open for questions. Berria · (talk) 23:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Declined (sorry). Referred to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Mass editprotected interwiking required for discussion. --  Netsnipe  ►  13:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see that nobody wants to do it but I have to try it again. Please, can somebody (an administrator) add the interwikis to this kind of templates (selected anniversaries templates) if it is possible? Only the month of january yet. I would do it myself but it's impossible. The interwiki of this day is [[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 3]] and the next days are similar; only changes the number ([[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 4]], [[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 5]]... ...[[eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 31]]). It seems that bots do not run with administrator rights, so a bot cannot do that task. Netsnipe decline my request to discusse, and I can undertand it because are many changes, but there is no discussion about it, or wasn't (archived here). Thanks in advance. If there are any trouble, my talk page is always open for questions. Berria · (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of doing just eu: now and having the same problem when another language needs interwikis, I've created Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/Interwiki links (which needs protecting before it's transcluded); if this is transcluded on all the dates then only one page will need to be edited for interwikis in future. (I've set it up for the eu: interwikis requested.) Of course, it'll need an admin with AWB or something like that to do all the transclusions. --ais523 16:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

This Sel. Anniv. template has just been unprotected for now and will be re-protected before it goes back on MainPage. Please add the interwikis as you see fit. --PFHLai 14:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how the template works, so I added the interwiki. And the other selected anniversaries? their interwikis? Berria · (talk) 19:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed this to use the template. An admin should definitely fix the template before this ends up back on the Main Page. --ais523 09:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

There's currently an end div tag in this template that doesn't need to be there.

Fixed. Actually, it should be an end li tag that fixes a formatting bug on Firefox when {{*mp}} is being used in that fashion. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:55, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea how to properly report this - hopefully this will do. The following text currently on the main page

1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 theses.

makes it sound like Luther did retract 54 of his theses. But (the incorrect part) the Pope did not demand he retract 41 theses (he demanded Luther retract 41 errors in them and other writings) and (the misleading part) Luther retracted nothing. Maybe "after Luther refused to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings". - 74.162.148.39 (talk) 05:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Moved to Ineligible: New Hampshire Grants (maintenance)
• Omitted:
  Re-establishment of British rule on the Falkland Islands, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Hamilton Watch Company (ineligible—maintenance), March of Dimes (ineligible—maintenance), Alaska
• Included:
  Faisal–Weizmann Agreement (first appearance), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (first appearance), Manuel Noriega
  (4th appearance, last in 2010)