Talk:1901

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The year in topic layout on this page is one of three versions. I seek opinions before making them all the same; see comment on my talk page BozMo(talk)

Contents 1 British protectorate 2 Licence plate 3 Format 3.1 Monthly calendars overlink or crowd 4 American League 5 "regarded by some"?

[edit] British protectorate

Nigeria is mentioned to become a british protectorate in both 1900 and 1901. Anyone has idea which one is correct...? --Ningyou

[edit] Licence plate

The 2005 licence plate currently illustrating the article looks very little like those of 104 years earlier. Too bad we apparently don't have an illustration of a plate from that era at present, but I don't think this illustration is particularly relevent. I'd as soon remove it from this article. Comments? -- Infrogmation 02:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Format

[See: Talk:1950#Format. -Wikid77 14:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)]

[edit] Monthly calendars overlink or crowd

04-Jan-2008: Many or most year-articles in "1900-1999" once again have those month-calendar images re-added, although they have been removed repeatedly by prior editors. The total of 12 monthly calendars generate over 385 new wikilinks (per year) or 385*100 = 38,500 wikilinks to repeat the calendar display, which had already been provided by the "link will display full calendar" at the top of each article. Also those month-images are crowding the article text, causing numerous large text gaps in the auto-wrap of text. The intent of wikilinking is to connect to other articles for further details, so that information does not need to be repeated within each related article. The rampant trend of "boxifying" another article, such as a 12-month calendar, to be repeated into each related article as navboxes is overlinking and generating millions of spamlinks into the Wikipedia page-link database. In the case of "1900-1999" those month-calendars alone generate 38,500 wikilinks into the page-link database. I am returning to the original design of wikifying the year-articles to only link to the full-year calendar, using one wikilink. For days not described within year-article events, the full-year calendar will provide the 385 extra wikilinks (such as "2 April"). Please help by removing any month-calendar boxes in any of those year-event articles, as has been done by other editors previously.

Discuss at Talk:1950#Monthly calendars overlink or crowd. -Wikid77 12:33, 4 January 2008

[edit] American League

There should be a reference to the American League (baseball) beginning play in 1901. Jny 16:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "regarded by some"?

"The world celebrates what is regarded by some as the start of the new century." That phrasing seems to me rather odd. Objectively speaking, it was the start of a new century, was it not? Or does anyone seriously dispute that? And if so, on what grounds? If it simply means that not everyone in the world uses the Gregorian calendar, then we should clarify. Aridd (talk) 21:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)