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Is there a guideline for when year and decade articles are notable? I am in particular looking atDraft:2032. I don't think that a stand-alone article is needed, but is there a guideline?Robert McClenon (talk)20:36, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware of any, but future years would fail point 2 ofWP:CRYSTAL, and I see articles deleted for that on occasion.Thebiguglyalien (talk)🛸21:54, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just read the (now-archived) thread onreimplementing the births and deaths in the pages after 1980. I'm open to the proposal of having an abridged birth/death section in an article that highlights particular deaths. Any criteria is going to be subjective and subject to editorial discretion (as all content management is), but I think a good inclusion criteria would be:"any person who was head of state or head of government, at any point in their life".Fidel Castro,George H. W. Bush andElizabeth II would thus qualify. Other people can be consigned to "Deaths in [year]" pages. The strength of this criteria is that it's objective, that heads of state are commonly regarded as representatives of their nation, and that they tend to have sizeable influence over the course of history. The weakness, I acknowledge, is that it will downplay culturally or scientifically important people, though such an attribute is harder to quantify.Koopinator (talk)15:44, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed some pages, such as2025 in Wales,2024 in Wales,2023 in Wales etc have each and every date individually linked within them e.g.1 January,2 January,3 January etc. Does this fall underMOS:OVERLINK? I've tried to remove these links before but have received opposition. I'm opening this up for an RFC because there seems to be a lack of any responses to posts on this talk page. I would post it on the talk page of an article if it were relevant to a single article but as you can see this is present across multiple articles, so I wasn't sure where else to post this.Helper201 (talk)03:38, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, this would appear to fall underMOS:OVERLINK (though I would be open to hearing other views on the issue).Graham11 (talk)06:56, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Yes - those dates should be delinked.GoodDay (talk)14:13, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PingingDeb, as I think they may have been the user that opposed me when I tried to delink dates such as these in the past.Helper201 (talk)21:09, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• No, it doesn't fall under MOS:OVERLINK and this has been explained many times. It was specifically excluded when the linking of dates of birth and death was outlawed. UnderWikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking, you'll find this statement: "...in intrinsically chronological articles (1789, January, and 1940s), links to specific month-and-day, month-and year, or year articles are not discouraged." Year in Topic is included in this. If you try to de-link these, you'll get plenty of opposition from regular editors of these pages.Deb (talk)11:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I should have added - Thanks for having the courtesy to notify me.Deb (talk)11:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, just because something is "not discouraged" does not mean itshould be there. Linking such commonly known dates serves no good purpose.Helper201 (talk)01:38, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that I started a discussion atWikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 224#Removing the Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years to propose removing the births and deaths of 20th and 21st century years. Anyone who is interested in commenting there is welcome.Interstellarity (talk)22:19, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The "Leaders section can be restored with this form. With "Hide/Show" Gallery.

For the Decades until the 1970s. History has not judged the most of 1990s leaders beacause is living.

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Example: Leaders of the 1960s.EditingIsMyHobby (talk)15:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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