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Battle of Dunsinane 27 July

I wanted to check if my comment about updating the description of the battle involving Siward, Earl of Northumbria to include a link to the Battle of Dunsinane had been seen? I suggested this in Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 27.

I realise it may be too late to change now, but if there was an issue with the suggestion I would be interested to know, if only to avoid making the same mistake again. CSJJ104 (talk) 18:16, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CSJJ104 Wow. I’m surprised that no one reads these talk pages at all. 81 views on this one in the past 30 days. Project On this day is super dead, which is pretty insane considering it’s a core part of the Wikipedia main page. Alexysun (talk) 07:22, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add a link to OTD to the bottom of the main page section?

At the bottom of the OTD box on the main page, there's some links that say Archive ▪ By email ▪ List of days of the year. Any interest in adding a 4th link ▪ About, to make OTD a little easier to find? Inspired by this question at the Teahouse. cc Alexysun. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Novem Linguae Hi Novem, thank you for trying to increase the reach of my suggestion, though I realized that this talk page isn't very active. (111 views in the last 30 days). Would bringing this to the Village Pump be a better option? Alexysun (talk) 23:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bit strange that this talk page is so inactive, because I'm sure someone must be maintaining the OTD entries on the main page. Perhaps we can do some wiki-archaeology and figure out who in this project is doing the main page updates nowadays, and ping them.

Cross-posting this to one of the village pumps is also fine if you want to do that. Feel free. Maybe drop a {{Please see}} template there. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Novem Linguae: Maintenance of OTD is sporadic, usually by one or two editors at a time. Sometimes some dates do not have their hooks rotated. I am not against this suggestion. Z1720 (talk) 23:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]