Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 24

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Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb was suspended for ten days during the 1912 baseball season. Cobb was disciplined for beating Claude Lucker, a fan who had been heckling him during the four-game series between Cobb's Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees. Cobb was ejected from the game on May 15, 1912, and American League president Ban Johnson suspended him indefinitely. Cobb's teammates took his side, and after defeating the Philadelphia Athletics on May 17, told Johnson that they would not play again until Cobb was reinstated. Johnson refused to do so. Seeking to avoid a $5,000 fine, owner Frank Navin told manager Hughie Jennings to recruit a team; he did so. Facing the Athletics, baseball's World Champions, the replacement players, joined by Jennings and his coaches, lost 24–2, after which Cobb persuaded his teammates to return. They and Cobb were fined, but Navin paid. The walkout was baseball's first major league strike; it had little effect, but teams put additional security into stadiums. (Full article...)

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French battleship Justice

Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. She was the second member of the Liberté class, which included three other vessels and was a derivative of the preceding République class. Justice carried a main battery of four 305 mm (12 in) guns, with ten 194 mm (7.6 in) guns for her secondary armament. On entering service, Justice became the flagship of the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, participating in the training routine of squadron and fleet maneuvers and cruises, as well as several naval reviews. During World War I, Justice was used to escort troopship convoys carrying elements of the French Army from North Africa to face the Germans invading northern France and also steamed to contain the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, taking part in the minor Battle of Antivari. She was sent to the Black Sea after the war to oversee the surrender of German-occupied Russian warships, and then briefly became a training ship, before being decommissioned in the early 1920s. This photograph shows Justice in 1909, near New York City.

Photograph credit: Detroit Publishing Company; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Suggested correction

The text:

...makes it sound like Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake Valley, then led them into Mexico. It might read better as:

I can't edit this source, but someone with more power ought to.  :)
—ZorkFox (ষTalk) 00:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out. You may want to try WP:ERRORS the next time you find minor errors like that on MainPage. You'll get better service there. -- PFHLai 13:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lost City of the Incas

Moved from Talk:Main Page.

The "Lost City of the Incas" usually refers to Vilcabamba, not Macchu Picchu --Descendall 23:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"then thought to be the ..." would be most accurate. The name is associated with its history. --Dhartung | Talk 00:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Siege of Damascus

According to the article, the Siege of Damascus started on July 23, 1148. This date is also listed in A History of the Crusades (p 508) --Andibrunt (talk) 07:55, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

All articles making their OTD debuts! —howcheng {chat} 05:57, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was a mistake to include noncited assertion from Albanian Revolt of 1910 into this page, especially because it was explained on the talk page that this article has serious issues. One of the issues was that the text of could mislead potential readers that rebels managed to capture many towns including Shkoder, though the last section mentions that rebels did not manage to capture cities but only mountainous regions. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 14:10, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The article does not have any maintenance tags on it. The "fact" is what's listed on the July 24 article. —howcheng {chat} 17:21, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries: The date must be a cited to a reliable source with an inline citation, since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. In this case the assertion from Albanian Revolt of 1910 is not cited. It even does not exist in the text of the article.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:34, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"On July 24, 1910, Ottoman forces entered the city of Scutari. During this period martial courts were put in action and summary executions took place. A large number of firearms were collected and many villages and properties were burned by the Ottoman army.[8]" I admit that I did not verify it against the source, however. Actually I just tried right now and that page is not included in the Google Books preview, so that would not have been possible anyway. —howcheng {chat} 02:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The assertion you added to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries is not sourced. The source you mention is used to support another assertion, the claim about villages burned by the Ottoman army. But even if the text you presented is supported by the same source (which is not), it is about the Ottoman reinforcement which managed to break trough the mountains under control of the rebels and enter Scutari to reinforce its Ottoman garrison. Then they went to villages on the mauntains and did what they did (burning houses and taking away arms from rebels). Point is that Ottoman forces did not capture the city of Shkodër because it was already under Ottoman control, not conquired by the rebels. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 06:21, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, how would reword it? —howcheng {chat} 09:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think that rewording would not resolve the problem with unsourced assertion about events that actually did not happen (Ottomans capturing Shkoder in 1910).--Antidiskriminator (talk) 15:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

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2018 notes

—howcheng {chat} 15:48, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Howcheng:, I solved the problem you had inserted a tag about it in Bridgeton incident.Regards! Saff V. (talk) 06:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

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2023 notes

Heart (talk) 23:12, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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