Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/May 15

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Today's featured article for May 15, 2024
A British Chariot manned torpedo scuttled. The Allied personnel attempted to escape overland and all but one reached neutral Sweden on 5 November. The other – a British serviceman – was taken prisoner by German forces and murdered on 19 January 1943. Tirpitz was eventually sunk by another bomber raid on 12 November 1944. (Full article... ) Recently featured: Mars Doom (2016 video game) Thank You (Meghan Trainor album) Archive By email More featured articles About view – talk – edit – history – watch
Picture of the day for May 15, 2024
The preen using their beaks, the sword-billed hummingbird uses its feet to scratch and preen due to its beak being so long. Photograph credit: Andy Morffew Recently featured: Carpocoris purpureipennis Archive More featured pictures view talk edit history watch file page create protected version (To create the protected version, replace the first line with {{subst:POTD row and save the page.)

2006 notes

May 15th marks Nakba Day. --Fjmustak 03:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just posted this. I've also added this to May 15#Holidays and observances. -- PFHLai 04:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2007 notes

Bartholomew Gosnold @ Cape Cod

Moved from Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors.

The Cape Cod page mentions at least two Europeans to have approached or named the Cape before Bartholomew Gosnold is claimed to have been the first European to discover it. 59.167.51.4 10:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Dave[reply]

• Bartholomew Gosnold indicates he was the first, and neither article has a source. If someone has a source to settle this, it would be helpful.--Chaser - T 10:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Diego Ribero which has the east coast charted. Unfortunately neither has the resolution to pick out the cape per se. I would suggest the Gosnold article claims he was the first because of the Archer source which mentions the naming of the cape, presumably because the party was unaware of the previous discovery. 59.167.51.4 13:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Dave[reply
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I've removed this from MainPage for now. --PFHLai 15:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cape Cod continued

Please at least change the wording from "discover Cape Cod" to "sight/see Cape Cod." I'm not trying to be overly PC, but that just seems POV/Eurocentric as it is now. —OverMyHead 16:27, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2010 notes

Ton That Dinh

Per the guideline about article quality, I ask that this late-2009 era FA be included. There are undersourced start class articles there YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 03:46, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

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There are couple of sections in that article that need more references. Two months should be plenty of time to fix it up. Thanks. —

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