Talk:March 28

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March 28

HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid

1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.
1935 – The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
1942 – Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
1946 – The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
1979 – British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894)
Nasser Hussain (b. 1968)
Lady Gaga (b. 1986)
Charles Schepens (d. 2006)

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Computer games on this page[edit]

Let me make my position quite clear - this page is for events of global significance, which does include cultural significance as well as political and environmental. However, that cultural significance needs to be very significant indeed. So while the release of a game such as Space Invaders or Pac-Man constitutes a major cultural landmark, if a game isn't making normal news headlines (not games news, news news) across the planet there is no way it warrants an entry here. Average Earthman 11:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly agree - there is no way that the edit alluded to is any way globally significant. Martin Hinks 12:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of everyone[edit]

I'd suggest if you want to include every single person born on March 28th you create a category. A list comprised largely of people almost nobody has heard of will be little used. We're not creating something to show off how much data we can collect, we're trying to write something that people will actually find useful. Average Earthman 23:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments to me suggest that my suggestion wasn't actually that popular. Since I'm complaining there are more important people not on the list than some who are, if removing people is unpopular, I guess I'd better add the people I think are more deserving of being on here. Average Earthman 15:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Great Alaska Earthquake (Good Friday Earthquake) happened on March 27, NOT March 28!

I don't want to step on any toes by deleting the reference, but if someone who is a toe-stepper could please handle this, I'd appreciate the correction! It's already listed correctly on March 27, by the way...

Add Peter J. Thomson's,Secession's singer,death.

Or at least thats what her wife said on youtube 6 hours ago.

Gotta confirm its really her,though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.64.208 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Global notability[edit]

Individuals whose articles cannot be relied upon to at least have the potential of global notability are rv as per this discussion and this one. Porn stars, btw, just from experience, rarely if ever have that potential, and that's not a bias or animus on my part, just a fact. Quis separabit? 13:53, 16 December 2016 (UTC). I'm removing the celebrities in other 0-4 languages by removing entries on births Shiesmine (talk) 12:51, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's ten millionth article[edit]

When I raised whether we should claim our achievement of the ten millionth article on March 31 2008 at WP: Village Pump, I was informed that the ten millionth article (in the Hungarian Wikipedia) was actually created several days before then. According to:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/10M_articles

the date was March 28, so should this be seen as one of the anniversaries here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would say that that is an inherently notable event considering it's kind of why we're all here. The only caveat is that the listing needs to link to an existing article on the English Wikipedia that supports the event. I haven't read Wikipedia lately, but perhaps the info from the press release could go in there for support. (Mufka reads press release) Actually, it looks like it occurred on March 27. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 19:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]