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Relevant discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: Reimplement the births and deaths in the pages after 1980. In addition to the title question, there are also questions about the inclusion criteria for the births and deaths section for older years (e.g. 1901). Thryduulf (talk) 10:09, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guideline for notability of year and decade articles

Is there a guideline for when year and decade articles are notable? I am in particular looking at Draft: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 of WP:CRYSTAL, and I see articles deleted for that on occasion. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 21:54, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Births and deaths in the pages after 1980 (revisited)

I just read the (now-archived) thread on reimplementing 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 and Elizabeth 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]

Linking dates in year articles

I've noticed some pages, such as 2025 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 under MOS: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 under MOS: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]

Pinging Deb, 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. Under Wikipedia: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 it should be there. Linking such commonly known dates serves no good purpose. Helper201 (talk) 01:38, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years

Please note that I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#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]

Unpopular opinion.

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Hide Gallery Leaders Of North America Pierre Trudeau Lester B. Pearson Lester B. Pearson John Diefenbaker Fidel Castro Rafael Trujillo François Duvalier Anastasio Somoza Debayle Omar Torrijos John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Leaders of South America João Goulart Castelo Branco Costa e Silva Eduardo Frei Montalva Alberto Lleras Camargo [[Guillermo León [[Carlos José María Velasco Ibarra C.J Arosemena Monroy Alfredo Stroessner Manuel Prado Fernando Belaúnde Terry Leaders of Europe Enver Hoxha Gaston Eyskens Todor Zhivkov Antonín Novotný Gustáv Husák Viggo Kampmann Jens Otto Krag Urho Kekkonen Charles de Gaulle Georges Pompidou Walter Ulbricht Konrad Adenauer Ludwig Erhard Kurt Georg Kiesinger Constantine II Georgios Papandreou János Kádár Seán Lemass John Lynch Amintore Fanfani Aldo Moro Rainier III Jan de Quay Piet de Jong Einar Gerhardsen Władysław Gomułka António de Oliveira Salazar Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Nicolae Ceaușescu Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Francisco Franco Tage Erlander Elizabeth II Harold Macmillan Harold Wilson Pope John XXIII Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI Josip Broz Tito Leaders of Asia Mohammed Zahir Shah Norodom Sihanouk Sirimavo Bandaranaike Mao Zedong Mao Zedong Zhou En Lai Jawaharlal Nehru Indira Gandhi Suharto Sukarno Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Satō Kim Il-sung Park Chung-hee Ho Chi Minh Ferdinand Marcos Diosdado Macapagal Lee Kuan Yew Ngo Dinh Diem Chiang Kai-shek Bhumibol Adulyadej Leaders of Middle East and North Africa Ahmed Ben Bella Makarios III Gamal Abdel Nasser Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Abd al-Karim Qasim David Ben-Gurion Levi Eshkol King Hussein Fouad Chehab Idris I Muammar Gaddafi Hassan II Yasser Arafat King Faisal King Saud Habib Bourguiba Süleyman Demirel İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü Ahmad bin Yahya Leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa Jean-Bedel Bokassa Patrice Lumumba Haile Selassie Kwame Nkrumah Jomo Kenyatta William Tubman Hastings Banda Ian Smith B. J. Vorster Kenneth Kaunda Leaders of Australia and Oceania John Gorton Harold Holt John McEwen Robert Menzies Keith Holyoake Walter Nash

Sorry for the bad morphing.

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