Talk:October 17

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King David II of Scotland

1346 – Hundred Years' War: King David II of Scotland (pictured) was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross following his invasion of England under the terms of Scotland's Auld Alliance with France.
1931 – American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of income-tax evasion.
1952 – Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace, demanding that President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
1973 – Yom Kippur War: Egyptian forces retreated from the Battle of the Chinese Farm, allowing Israeli forces to build their first bridge across the Suez Canal.
2000 – A fatal rail accident at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the British rail network and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group Railtrack.

Beatrice of Falkenburg (d. 1277)
Jupiter Hammon (b. 1711)
James Scott (b. 1947)
Micheline Ostermeyer (d. 2001)

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See Also section for the ordinal and spacing[edit]

The reverting of the article was too fast and caused an edit conflict when I corrected my redlink to a live link and the spacing for non-four-digit years. The page the reverter's summary linked to does not mention either the See Also section or a special spacing rule. The See Also section is analogous to that in a disambiguation page. List items are supposed to get one space after the asterisk/s, multiple spaces are interpreted as single spaces unless nonbreaking spaces are used, and section headings are supposed to be spaced between the equals signs and the section titles. What is the objection on either issue? Nick Levinson (talk) 17:41, 4 September 2013 (UTC) (Expanded: 17:46, 4 September 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Date articles are a little different. The pages are kept consistent by following the template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year/Template. The sections are considered static and any change must be discussed at WT:DAYS. The Style section of WP:DAYS explains this. The list items (after the *) are spaced to be consistent in the edit window. Since it does not affect display, it is preferred to allow for easy reading in the edit window. Spaces between equal signs are optional per MOS:HEAD and WP:BODY and there is never a need to change existing spacing. If you have further questions on this, the better place to discuss is at WT:DAYS so it becomes part of the project record, not just on one article talk page. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 18:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay; I shouldn't have rushed and missed that there's a guideline on it (WP:DOY). I'll follow up. A notation: Spacing of list items is not consistent in the source code in the template or this page and for ease of reading in the edit window there should be spacing. Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 15:58, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't follow. The spacing is consistent. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 16:18, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not. Here's an example from Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year/Template:

* 1864 – [[Qi Baishi]], Chinese painter (d. 1957)

*[[1867]] – [[Lew Fields]], American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)

However, it appears that the inconsistency is intentional, in that it causes the en-dash strings to line up vertically in the edit window. I hadn't noticed that before this visit and that kind of alignment is not important to me but I can see why some editors might prefer it. I'll think about whether every list item therefore should have at least one space after the asterisk/s, adding one to pre-existing padding, in order to keep the alignment.

Nick Levinson (talk) 16:52, 5 September 2013 (UTC) (Corrected formatting: 16:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC)) (Corrected a format where nowiki doesn't work: 17:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Kannemesai Festival[edit]

the article that is linked for this festival says "in October" but doesn't specify the date. I can't find one on-line. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 16:18, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Tomb of Seti 1st.[edit]

According to the Wikipedia entry on Seti’s tomb? It was actually opened on 16th October.

Is it possible for some to check on when Belzoni discovered the tomb, and correct the article, or the On This Day pages?

Thanks.

Cuddy2977 (talk) 18:04, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to the (archived) source on this page, the date it was opened is 17 October 1817. Kiwipete (talk) 09:03, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Pete. While there is an article about the tomb, there is no article about the discovery of the tomb. I've removed the entry. Toddst1 (talk) 14:58, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Significance[edit]

Event of this day 2409:4071:200B:78C1:0:0:8C0:80B0 (talk) 14:54, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]