Talk:1990

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[edit] Format

26-June-2007: The years 1900-1999 got a condensed Table of Contents after 28May07. See Talk:1950#Format (and "Talk:1950#Condensed TOC"). -Wikid77 22:05 26-June-2007

[edit] Holidays

Moved from article:

Holidays go on day pages, not on year pages. There would be many dozens of holidays on any single year page since every country has a list about as long as above. --mav 06:04, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] 2004 page layout years

There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.

For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically).

talk--BozMo 13:45, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

why do we keep repeating that this is the year 1990 on every line? And why the days of the week?

[edit] Regional leaders

Right, are we going to list the change over of every regional governor (e.g. every single US state, every Australian state, etc. etc.), or not? I say not, so I've deleted the governors of Victoria. The anon IP that added in the first place just added it back. No comment or anything. I'm deleting it again because we haven't listed any other states (not even California automatically, and that would count as a world top ten economy on its own). Let me know if you disagree please. Average Earthman 16:18, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] December

December 6 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek Rock Singer/Songwriter was placed into the article please confirm the validity of this information Betacommand 14:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birthday removal

Removed Brianne Murray's birth from June, because (1) there's a separate section for births, and (2) I have a sneaking suspicion that Brianne Murray is the one who put it there. Ah, vanity edits. Sailorptah 16:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can someone please put a picture or two in this article!!??

scx —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 60.234.157.64 (talk) 02:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

Nope. Years typically don't have pictures put into them. No real reason to actually.--Wizardman 02:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
26-June-2007: Okay, 7 weeks later, added 3 images (Leaning Tower of Pisa, Superdome and Exxon Valdez). I had added several hundred images to years 1500-1979, but stopped at 1980 due to fears of gripes about "new-fangled images" upsetting the vanity boxes in yearly articles. (And gripe they did.) We could have added thousands of relevant images (they are available & quick), but you won't believe how difficult the resistance has been, with people deleting all images in some years, or converting to massive PNG files that made yearly articles load 5 times slower, or reformatting image-links to put several large text-gaps in each article. It has been a tedious task: 20% information & 80% reformation. Anyway, thanks for supporting the illustrated years. -Wikid77 23:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Year of the Mental Horse?

Is that right? I couldn't work it out from the Chinese Zodiac page, but it looks a bit wrong to my untrained eye! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LeeG (talk • contribs) 23:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC).

Sorry, forgot to sign LeeG 23:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

It should be Metal Horse -- the change to Mental Horse apparently got missed in some earlier vandalism reversion. I've changed it back. Pinball22 12:54, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contents

What the bloody hell happened? They look whacko futacko!

-60.240.98.215 14-July-2007
Please read other issues here, such as how about the first issue above (duh) about the Table of Contents. The compact TOC has since been converted to box-style after June 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 23:56, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Danger of overlinking as 380 spam-links

06-Jan-2008: The monthly-calendar Template:Month3 propagates wikilinks to about 35 articles, for all weekdays, days, and weeks. When used 12 times in an article to cover 12 months, the effect overlinks to 380 wikilinks (or more), rather than linking by one wikilink to a full-calendar article (propagating only the 1 wikilink). For year-articles "1950-2008" the template was multi-linked 12 times per article, generating over 22,000 wikilinks, rather than the original 58 links to just single full-calendar articles. Although the usage has been reduced, Template:Month3 was becoming a major part of the "Wikipedia megalink crisis" which overlinks words such as "city" or "county" or "km" millions of times into the page-link database(s) across Wikipedia. -Wikid77 (talk) 23:56, 6 January 2008 (UTC)