Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year

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This is a WikiProject page related to the topic of days of the year. It serves as a style guide for date pages, such as January 1, January 2, January 3, and so on. The primary goal of this project is to ensure that all 366 historical anniversary pages maintain consistency in both style and content.

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	Days of the year
This article is part of WikiProject Days of the Year, a WikiProject dedicated to improving and maintaining the style guide for date pages.Days of the yearWikipedia:WikiProject Days of the yearTemplate:WikiProject Days of the yearDays of the year

Style

This section contains a WikiProject advice page on style. It consists of the advice of one or more WikiProjects on how to format and present article content within their area of interest. This page is not an encyclopedia article ora Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community.

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• All entries in the Wikicalendar articles should adhere to the guideline set forth at Wikipedia:Days of the year.
• Any change to the page layout that would be a deviation from the template should be discussed on this project's talk page before such change is made. Standard date page layout includes the sections: Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and observances, and External links.
• Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source.
• All events, births, deaths, and holidays should be linked to existing English Wikipedia articles and those articles should mention the specific events. Per WP:USERG, such a wikilink is not considered a reliable source, and a direct source is required.
• Events should be written in the present tense, not the past or future tense. Entries should be written in a timeless fashion so that they do not need to be updated as time passes.
• Entries should be concise and informative, and not contain long narratives. Linked articles provide detailed information.
• The date pages should be kept clean of trivia such as film history, fabricated holidays and observances, fictional events, etc.
• Items, such as dates and years, should not be linked more than once within a section. Years of birth in the Deaths section and years of death in the Births section (e.g. (b. 1970)) should not be linked. Redundant links to other articles (linking the same thing more than once) should be limited to linking in order to support a particular event. See WP:OVERLINK for more on the general topic.
• Red links should not be created in the Wikicalendar articles. Only links to existing articles that support the content should be added.
• Whenever possible, new style dates should be used for entries. Duplicate entries on corresponding old style dates should be removed.
• When ordering births and deaths that occur in the same year, listings should be ordered alphabetically by the surname of the subject.
• Multiple deaths caused by the same event (e.g. December 7, 1941) may be listed, indented with a ":*", under the name of the event. See December_7#Deaths for an example.
• In keeping with the layout in the template, entries should be formatted using – because it is easier to be consistently duplicated in new entries. Often editors will use the - (hyphen) instead of the – (endash) without knowing the difference.
• The External links section is considered static and the addition of new links should be discussed on this project's talk page.

Task list

1. Massive citation cleanup: Adopt a date (your birthday?) and ensure each entry has a direct source supporting it or it is removed.
2. Ensure each article has the sub-sections that conform to the structure agreed upon after this discussion.Completed
3. Investigate getting the edit filter Special:AbuseFilter/1129 working?
4. Event cleanup: There are many events in these pages that don't meet the threshhold of WP:EVENTDOY and should be removed.
5. Remove entries supported only by WP:FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

DOY articles brought up to citation standard

Please add the page and your username when you brought this article up to standard

Members

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Days of the year}} to their userpages.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Time.

Resources

Project guideline

• WP:DOY

Templates

Style guide (template) to Days of the year articles:

• Article template page

Templates appearing on Days of the year talk pages:

• {{Talk header}}
• {{WikiProject Days of the year}}
• {{SelectedAnniversary|<Month Day>}}

Subpages

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Watchlist

Add all the Days of the year articles to your watchlist here.

Public watchlist

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(You may also wish to copy-and-paste the link: Special:RecentChangesLinked/List of days of the year to your user page for faster access.)

See also

• List of days of the year
• WikiProject Years
• WikiProject History
• WikiProject Holidays
• WikiProject Current events
• Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries (On This Day...)