Wikipedia:WikiProject Years

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WikiProject Years is a project dedicated to improving all year-related articles on Wikipedia to Featured status. We cover all year, decade, century, and millennia articles and their subarticles. Our scope is incredibly large, so we rely a lot on automated bots to do more tedious tasks.

In 2009, WikiProject Years developed a essay for the inclusion of events "recent year" articles.

Important policy discussions took place in January 2009 at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years.

Scope

This WikiProject's first aim was primarily to formalize the unofficial standard used for creating year pages. A standard was created and then transferred to Wikipedia:Timeline standards. The project still conceivably has responsibility for maintaining/improving that standard. The project currently oversees all year articles, (e.g. 1345, 2008), decade articles, century articles, and millennia articles, as well as their sub-articles (e.g. 2008 in sports).

Similar projects

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Time.

• WikiProject Current events (inactive)
• WikiProject Years in science (inactive)
  • The various "years in (foo)" pages need their own project pages as well. +sj + 03:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
• WikiProject Days of the Year
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Timelines (inactive)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject History
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Leaders by year (inactive)

(Also, since year articles cover science, philosophy, arts, literature, and other subjects, this project has connections to several other projects not listed.)

To do

Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Years. Edit or discuss these tasks. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History

• Urgent:
• To Nominate at WP:FAC:
• To Improve to Featured standard: 1340s, 1346
• To Improve to GA standard: 1345
• Collaboration: 1929
• POV issues 1980s
• Worldwide view issues 1980s, 1950s, articles of individual years from 509 BCE through 543 CE
• To Expand/Destub: see Stub-Class Year articles
• To Clean up: 1970s
• To Review/Rate: see Unassessed Year articles
• To Merge/Split:
• Citation problems: 1950s

The collaboration of the week is 1929

1. Resolve policy questions (such as WP:RY)
2. Fix templates
3. Improve 1929 and 1340s

Article alerts

Pages can still be rescued even when the project becomes inactive

Articles for deletion

• 16 Apr 2020 – List of Rolling Stone Top 200 number-one albums of 2020 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Lil-unique1 (t · c) was closed as delete by Girth Summit (t · c) on 23 Apr 2020; see discussion (8 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 20 Apr 2020 – Category:Acts of the National Assembly for Wales 2020 (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Redrose64 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Railway stations in the United States by opening year (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Railway stations in Russia by opening year (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Railway stations in Canada by opening year (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Railway stations by opening year (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Canals completed in the 19th century (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Canals completed in the 20th century (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 13 Apr 2020 – Category:Canals completed in the 21st century (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BrownHairedGirl (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

• 22 Apr 2020 – File:Execution of Nguyen Van Lem.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) was FfDed by Aspects (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 19 Sep 2019 – 19th century in LGBT rights (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Timeline of LGBT history, 19th century by Jay D. Easy (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 08 Apr 2020 – List of mass shootings in the United States in 2019 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jax 0677 (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Nov 2016 – 2016 in sports (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Donnie Park (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 15 Jan 2020 – Draft:2020 in Mideast politics and government (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2401:4900:12E0:3902:52F6:8F56:4B71:CBCA (t · c) was declined by Hasteur (t · c) on 21 Apr 2020

Assessment and review

The WP:YEARS department that assesses articles for quality and importance can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Assessment. If you are interested in assessment and review, please add your name to the list of reviewers on the assessment page.

Current status

Years articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FL				1				1
GA		1	2					3
B			1					1
C	1	5	13	72			2	93
Start	3	17	544	953			324	1,841
Stub			9	694	1	1	262	967
List		18	1,456	9,104	13		5,195	15,786
Category				9	343,947	47,259		391,215
Disambig			2	4	10			16
Portal					300	12		312
Project					1			1
Template				1	348	403		752
Other				1				1
Assessed	4	41	2,027	10,839	344,620	47,675	5,783	410,989
Unassessed				1			4,349	4,350
Total	4	41	2,027	10,840	344,620	47,675	10,132	415,339
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 15,389			Ω = 5.30

Participants

Inactive Participants

Accomplishments

FAs

GAs

• 1346

DYKs

• 1345

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Year box}}	Years Years: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Centuries: 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century Decades: 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s Years: 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023	The infobox for year pages.
{{Births and deaths ToC}}	Content January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December	Table of contents for births and deaths sections of year pages.
{{C21 year in topic}}	See Template:C21 year in topic	The topic infobox for year pages.
{{WikiProject Years}}	WikiProject Years (Rated NA-class) YearsWikipedia:WikiProject YearsTemplate:WikiProject YearsYears articles v t e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Years, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Years on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of the Years WikiProjects. For instructions, see assessment page.
{{User WP Years}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Years.	This userbox is for members of the project to put on their userpage and proclaim that they are a member of this project.

Year in Topic boxes

Each century has a different year in topic box, depending on how much information is available in Wikipedia. The following have been created so far:

• {{C21YearInTopic}}
• {{C20YearInTopic}}
• {{C19YearInTopic}}
• {{C18YearInTopic}}
• {{C17YearInTopic}}
• {{C16YearInTopic}}
• {{C15YearInTopic}}
• {{C14YearInTopic}}
• {{C13YearInTopic}}
• {{C12YearInTopic}}
• {{C11YearInTopic}}
• {{M1YearInTopic}}

The last one is for the whole 1st millennium (1-1000 AD). However it has not yet been decided how many there should be. See talk page and survey for discussions.

Old surveys

• August 2005 survey results

Example Year

Warning: The following example is a bare bones idea of how a year page should look. If you believe something is missing want to add it to "2004", please don't edit this page but go to 2004.

Infobox

Each year should have an infobox at the top right. The templates will be the template {{Year box}} followed by the template {{C21YearInTopic}} (or applicable centuries template, see above).

{{Year box}}
{{C21YearInTopic}}

Intro section

The first sentence in the introduction explains that the page is for a year and not a number. This statement should only be included if the number is on the List of numbers page. The second introduction sentence will describe the year (a link to a calendar) and the type of calendar the year belongs to. The following sentence lists any official designation the year has. For articles containing year summaries, the intro summarizes the year as a whole in a manner consistent with WP:LEAD.

{{about|the year|the number|2004 (number)}}

'''2004''' is a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was designated the:

*''International Year of [[Rice]]'' (by the [[United Nations]])
*''International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against [[Slavery]] and its Abolition'' (by [[UNESCO]])
*''Year of the Monkey'' (by the [[Chinese calendar]])

'''See [[The world in 2004]] for a description of the state of the world in this year.'''

Sections

Events

The events section is divided into months, each month has a calendar at the beginning and lists any important events that occurred. The month header once linked to the particular month in the year (e.g. January 2004), but no longer does. Each item links to the day.

== Events ==

===January===
* [[January 3]] – [[Flash Airlines Flight 604]] crashes into the [[Red Sea]] off the coast of [[Egypt]], killing all 148 aboard.
* [[January 4]]
** [[Mikhail Saakashvili]] wins the presidential elections in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].
** [[NASA]]'s [[MER-A]] (''Spirit'') lands on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].

===February===
* [[February 1]] – A [[hajj]] stampede in [[Mina, Saudi Arabia|Mina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], kills 251 pilgrims.

===March===

===April===

===May===

===June===

===July===

===August===

===September===

===October===

===November===

===December===

Category

Add any such timeline articles to the timelines category for that year. eg Category:2019-related timelines. and also the timelines category for years for that topics. eg Category: Political timelines by year.

Summary of year

A summary of the year may follow the timeline, describing events of the year. Be sure to cite everything in this section.

Births section

The Births section lists notable births in that year, divided into month sections. Each entry links to the day page, has a very short description of the person, and links to the death year if known.

== Births ==
===January===
* [[January 21]]
** [[Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway]]
** [[another name]], American author (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 31]] – [[another name]], Polonesian King  (d. [[2003]]) 

===February===

Deaths section

The deaths section begins with a see also statement, and follows the same format as the births section: Month section, day link, name, and birth year link if known.

== Deaths ==
'''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2004]]'''

===January===
* [[January 27]] – [[Jack Paar]], American television show host (b. [[1918]])

===December===
* [[December 28]]
** [[Jerry Orbach]], American actor (b. [[1935]]) 
** [[Susan Sontag]], American writer and activist (b. [[1933]])

More

It has not yet been decided what else will be included on the year pages. Many currently have sections for awards, fiction, external links etc. These sections may be removed (or more likely moved to a separate page to be included on the infobox) later, but for now the following form can be followed to close out the page.

==External links==
{{commonscat|2004}}

[[Category:2004| ]]

Decades

Notable world leaders

The following is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as a Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal must not be taken to represent consensus, but is still in development and under discussion, and has not yet reached the process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as policy, guideline, nor yet even as a proposal.

A gallery of notable leaders states and organisations are included in decade articles. Leaders are ordered by the power of their associated state or organisation:

In general, only leaders in power for over two years within the decade and current leaders should be listed, with a maximum of three per state or organisation, listed in chronological order.

Tools

Main tool page: dispenser.info.tm

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Years