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- 1962 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) was elected... - His article has 1961. The year difference is better explained on Secretary-General of the United Nations. He acted for a year following DH's Sept 1961 death from 30 Nov 1961, then was elected in own right 30 Nov 1962. Maybe change year to 1961 and change "was elected" to 'became'? JennyOz (talk) 11:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Fixed – It now says 1961. Schwede66 00:18, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- That said, the Secretary-General of the United Nations article says that he was acting for just over a year until the position was made permanent in 1962. Does anyone want to delve into the sources to find out what's true and correct? Schwede66 00:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller - article and refs say released Nov 29. Date was changed from 30 to 29 last year here. See also last discussion on talk page. 1982 still has 30th. JennyOz (talk) 11:13, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Main Page history
I like using Wikipedia:Main Page history, but it has not been written for a number of days now, look at Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 November 20. The bot owner made only few edits, one saying that the bot can't do it in retrospect (which I sort of thought anyway). What can we do? Once I'm hear: could a bot perhaps change earlier renditions which look strange, due to changes in the presentation, compare Wikipedia:Main Page history/2018 November 23 (look at the "Recents") and Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 November 20? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- It can be done manually fairly easily for the current main page, using special:ExpandTemplates with
{{:Main Page}}
in the input wikitext box, then copy-pasting the output into the relevant history page. I've done that for Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 November 24, and happy to do it for a few days, until the bot starts running again. It is possible to do it retrospectively by rebuilding a copy of the main page in a sandbox, transcluding older templates (ITN needs to be done manually), but it is a time-consuming task. — Voice of Clam (talk) 08:04, 24 November 2023 (UTC)