Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

Discussion at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present

Presently a discussion is going on at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present#Splitting off 2020-2024 entries into new article when 2025 begins? about whether to split off the 2020-2024 entries of LGBTQ+ characters in January 2025 or to leave the article as is. Your contributions would be appreciated. Thanks! Historyday01 (talk) 22:20, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

The First Thanksgiving

When it's Thanksgiving we're talking about the pilgrims. 204.111.114.223 (talk) 13:21, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

In 1620 the indians taught the pilgrims to hunt and fish, 204.111.114.223 (talk) 13:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Years vs establishments categories

We currently have an inconsistency in the sense that the years and the establishments categories are not existing in tandem in the 7 most recent centuries BC. Establishments by decade categories only start by 400 BC, and establishment by year categories start at the beginning of the Common Era. Consequently, for example Gela, which still exists as a medium-sized city in Italy, is both in Category:7th-century BC establishments in Italy which makes perfect sense, and in Category:688 BC which is odd. Should we fix this? @Fayenatic london and Smasongarrison: your opinions are appreciated too. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Seems OK to me. – Fayenatic London 21:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm happy to defer to marco's judgement on this one. ^SMason_Garrison 22:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 6 § States and territories (dis)established in YYYY

Categories in this WikiProject's scope have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 6 § States and territories (dis)established in YYYY on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. harrz ^talk 22:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Merging years into decades

I see a lot of decade articles like 110s and 1710s are simply concatenating year articles. It seems like it would make things simpler to just merge early year articles into decade articles, given that apparently length is not an issue. -- Beland (talk) 09:04, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Looking at Template:Years in Spain, the problem seems even worse, where many years don't have any information at all. Perhaps everything pre-1900 in Spain should be merged into decades? If the same is done for other European countries, that could make link and category alignment easier. -- Beland (talk) 09:12, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Well, merging a vast amount of articles without notifying a larger section of the readerbase would seem like improper conduct. AD 1 has the highest amount of pageviews for any year in the 1st millenium, so perhaps a little test could be carried out by proposing to merge AD 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 into 0s with a WP:SIZE justification. If a majority of editors would be in favour of such a merge, it would be safe to say years can also be merged into decade pages for many other articles. Koopinator (talk) 18:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Done; see discussion at Talk:0s#Merging year articles. -- Beland (talk) 19:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

I've done this in the past with Bulgaria where all of the pages were nearly empty, creating decade pages like 1940s in Bulgaria. With things like this, I figure it makes more sense to keep them all together. And then they can be split off from the main article if anyone ever puts the work in to flesh them out. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 20:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)