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Today is the first day of the Jewish year. Worth mentioning, isn't it? Exabyte4 (talk)

It was mentioned, on October 2. The confusion is due to differences in calendars and timekeeping. Under the Hebrew calendar days begin at sunset. Under the Gregorian calendar, which evolved from Roman timekeeping, days begin at midnight. To deal with the difference, Misplaced Pages is simply following the common practice of listing events on the Hebrew calendar on the date the begin under the Gregorian calendar. --Allen3  10:41, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

But today will still be the first day of the Jewish year until sunset (although I'm not sure which sunset would apply for front page purposes - only where UTC is used?) I realise there may have to be an easy compromise to avoid having to set up special timers for such events. I'm guessing that "common practice" probably represents just such a compromise. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Understandable, although there is a point to the comment above. Thanks. Exabyte4 (talk)

We used to list it on two dates: the Gregorian day that includes the beginning of the Jewish day, then the actual day itself, but it didn't seem particularly fair that Jewish holidays got to be listed twice due to a quirk in the calendar, whereas secular holidays and those of other religions only got to be shown once. I suppose I can take it up with the folks at WikiProject Judaism to see which day they would prefer Jewish holidays to be shown on. —howcheng {chat} 16:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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Can we make a list of articles in reverse chronological order, so that way we can see which ones are newer. It would be pretty helpful when looking for pages that need more info. If something like this already exists, can you let me know? UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 15:01, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Is Special:NewPages what you're looking for? Modest Genius 15:12, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Yea, this is exactly what i meant. Thank you! UNSC Luke 1021 (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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First of all: Welcome! This page is for discussing the organization and layout of the main page. It isn't for general questions or for encyclopedic content. Yes, I know that, but nobody tells me WHERE to find the place for questions of encyclopedic content. I know as well, that I can ask on the debate page of the specific article (in this case this one, but nobody's looking there because that's not exactly a very much-frequented article. It would be nice if you could add something like If you have a general question or a question of encyclopedic content please go here.

So, I was wondering if anyone is an expert in Greek football. There are a lot of football clubs that are actually departments of big sports clubs (and the football department having a different name than the original club), and it is always hard to impossible to find information on the history of the names of those departments. Now I stumbled over the football club PAE Aris (Aris FC), which is part of the sports club AS Aris. So far, so good. Now my question: Since I'm working on a football archive I'd like to know since when the football department of AS Aris is called "PAE Aris". The club itself was founded in 1914 as "PS Aris" as a pure football team, with the "P" standing for "football". The next years, many other sports departments (e. g. basketball) evolved, so in 1926 PS Aris renamed to "AS Aris" with the "A" standing for "athletic" to reflect that there are many sports played in that club. Today, the football department is called "PAE Aris" while the sports club itself is still officially named AS Aris. I don't find any information about since when "PAE Aris" is used. I doubt that the club's football team is called that way since 1926.

So my question is: When did the name of the football department of AS Aris change to "PAE Aris"? It would be nice if someone could help me out!--31.16.72.92 (talk) 22:14, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

We do have something like what you suggest at the top of this page, underneath the text that you copied to here.("For questions about using and contributing to Misplaced Pages") In your case I would suggest the Help Desk. 331dot (talk) 22:16, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

For specific questions like this head along to Misplaced Pages:Reference desk/Entertainment. Stephen 22:19, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

And also see the football project too. Lugnuts 08:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

For help in general to find where might be best to ask questions, first check the talk page of the article on the subject you're asking about; it might be well-trafficked and therefore a good forum. If not, there should be one or more banners for WikiProjects, which are larger projects grouping articles in a certain field; these will have general talk pages for the project as a whole (so, if I'm looking at a film but the film's article is quiet and little-read, I can ask about it at the talk page of WP:FILM). Failing that, if you have a quiet project too, you can try directly asking people who have edited the article or similar articles on their talk pages—maybe I can't find information about Manchester City WFC, but I see that someone has edited a lot of articles on the men's club, so I can ask them if they know what I need to know. GRAPPLE 09:37, 5 October 2016 (UTC)