Talk:October 31

Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

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October 31: Halloween Metrojet Flight 9268 1917 – World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges. 1941 – More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James perished when their vessel became the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552. 1963 – A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis killed 81 people and injured about 400 others. 2003 – After 22 years in power, Tun Mahathir Mohamad retired as Prime Minister of Malaysia. 2015 – Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 (pictured) exploded and then crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723) Muriel Duckworth (b. 1908) William Evans-Gordon (d. 1913) Gordon Steege (b. 1917) More anniversaries: October 30 October 31 November 1

Helicopter escape

• 1973 - Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland after a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard.

This event does not seem to me to be a globally notable event. Unless it can be established that this particular event was a major turning point in a war or government action and had lasting worldwide impact, it should be excluded. It would also need to be established that this particular event can be considered notable by a global audience. The amount of news coverage that this event had at the time it occurred is not relevant to the argument. The fact that it has an article on the subject is not sufficient to call this event globally notable. Please see WP:DOY for details on what is considered globally notable. Please don't compare this event to other events that are listed as this event must be evaluated on its own merits (and the newest listings always get first attention). -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, don't think so. WP:DOY doesn't have consensus, and is easily the most ridiculous attempt at a guideline I've ever seen. How anyone has the temerity to claim that an event that is notable enough for an article is "non notable" is beyond me. While I fully agree that these articles shouldn't be filled with every news story going, to try and exclude notable events is just plain stupid. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 14:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

According to , I submit that consensus does exist. Long standing practice and widespread acceptance can mean nothing less than consensus. As we all know, consensus can change so I would ask that you make your opinion known on the talk pages for WP:DOY and WP:DAYS. I understand that you have an emotional attachment to the subject, since you wrote the article on it. But refusing to discuss it does not help make an argument that this event should be included. Calling the goals of WP:DAYS stupid is not productive and is insulting to the editors who put many hours of effort into maintaining useful and informative date articles. Without some sort of guideline to limit what is included in the date articles, they would all be over 100k long and would be full of junk. I consider your comment arrogant and personally insulting and I only ask that you engage in productive dialog. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 15:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

This event should be on 1973 in Ireland, not here. Whilst it is notable, it is not a world event, hence it is insufficiently notable to be on this article. Jim Michael (talk) 14:09, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Halloween

Any editors interested in exploring the idea of a Wikiproject for Halloween should contact me on my talk page. Thank you.--otherlleft (talk) 21:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Ezra reading the Torah

I removed the following:

• 445 BCE – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).

Since this event is based on the Jewish Lunar calendar, it moves yearly and is not fixed to a specific Gregorian Calendar date. The date would have to be recalculated yearly to correspond to the correct Gregorian date. I haven't verified it, but I would find it suspicious that it falls on this date, and there are no citations that it has been correctly correlated to October 31, 2008 (1 Cheshvan, 5769 in the Jewish Calendar).--Abebenjoe (talk) 01:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Can there be pipe links on the Births/Deaths section?

It says "only for people for whom there is a Wiki page...no red links, no redirects." It doesn't say no pipe links, but if there is still no specific page for the actual person, can that be added? Can I make a pipe link from Joe Schmoe to his band's page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.248.202 (talk) 19:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

"eve of winter" in holidays and observances

The winter solstice is Dec 21 or thereabouts, not Nov. 1. How is Oct. 31 the "eve of the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere"? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 11:48, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

I've read that the old Celtic calendar divided the year into halves rather than quarters, beginning (about) November 1 and May 1; and it's likely not unique. —Tamfang (talk) 01:28, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

If anyone has a source for that as a current thing (rather than historic fact) they can put it in. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:47, 28 October 2018 (UTC)