Talk:2009

Project CityCenter

I think that we should add that Project CityCenter,the most expensive privately funded construction project in U.S. History, will open November 2009 in Las Vegas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.166.11.76 (talk) 17:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism??

hi i got it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.13.19 (talk) 10:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC) I get porn pictures coming up when I search 2009, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2010 on wikipedia. not 2007 or 2008. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.9.137.2 (talk • contribs) 05:47, January 1, 2008 (UTC)

Are you complaining about the lack of porn pictures for those two years? I'm not sure if this is the best place to request them. Also, please put new posts at the bottom (not the top) of the talk page, and sign and date your posts using four tildes. Chris the speller (talk) 20:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

What in the living....

Someone seriously hit this page HARD around midnight & managed to disable the edit & history functions w/o going into the source. There were two floating PHP windows...ya. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.25.195 (talk) 05:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

True or false??

True or false: with current knowledge, it is expected by most Americans that the Quarter (U.S. coin) will return to its pre-1999 appearance in 2009. 66.245.67.150 16:39, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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"Ron Paul will be inaugurated to the office of President at Noon Eastern Time. Assuming President Bush serves out his entire term, he will be the 44th President of the United States." There has been no president elected yet... Temporarily, I changed this statement to: "The 44th President of the United States is scheduled to be inaugurated."

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President Bush completes his term

Seems liked a pointed opinion shot to suggest the President is possibly going to be impeached or something else. It's sufficient to say this date would be the end of his term.

Wrong sir, wrong. I wasn't pointing an opinion. I just think that in today's times, what with terrorism, avian flu, and hurricanes, that nothing is certain. I'm not saying I'm hoping that it happens. Not at all. I just never implied impeachment out of some lame attempt to steer public opinion.

Perhaps we should just say, like any future event, that the 44th prez is scheduled to be inaugurated on 1/20/09

Fictional events

I removed the fictional events section, which only contained a Robotech reference. This kind of information should appear on another page, (e.g. 2009 in fiction). as these year pages should be as professional as possible as they are amongst the most widely linked pages in wikipedia. Rje 01:05, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Take them off of 2010 too then. They probably appear on other pages too. Moncrief 03:37, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not convinced. If you were writing about 1984 in the 1970s, wouldn't Nineteen Eighty-Four have rated a mention? The film reference was a bit criptic. I assume the writer was referring to 2009 Lost Memories which has its own article. --Cavrdg 06:05, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Conan O'Brien

I don't believe that anyone mentioned that Conan O'Brien will take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno. It might be worth adding.--Waldo J. Cartridge 17:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Rhodri Morgan planned retirement

For a long time the "First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan plans retirement" has been seen on this article for 2009. This is common knowledge amongst the Welsh users of wikipedia, is there suddenly a belief that news that affects the Welsh nation is less important than other news that effect any other country? Amlder20 20:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

This is information about a leader of Wales, a nation in the U.K. like Scotland and should be recognise as so. This business of pushing Welsh information aside has become common not only on Wikipedia. This was under 'Unknown dates" and should had remained as Mr Morgan did announce that he planned a retirement nearly halfway through his third term if he gets it. "Rhodri Morgan expects to retire as First Minister of Wales. " was the sentence. Amlder20 20:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is now like a dictatorship, if you don't do what your told to do your punished, I believe the removal of this information is to bully Welsh people into giving up their right to have Welsh information on a website. If this was done against an Irishmans contribution there would be riots! Amlder20 20:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this information should be mentioned on the page. It is relevant and this is the Wikipedia site for English-speaking countries... Not just the US. ---- Zestos 23:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I think this page needs to be protected. There has recently been vandalism involving a person replacing the page with "Smackdown".(Myscrnnm 04:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC))

Major Religious Event?

Just scrolling through. Why are the only events listed here "Easter" and "Chritmas"? This section is a)irrelevant (why put the same holidays on every year page if almost all of them occur annually), and b)exclusive to Christianity. Remove? (is this on every other year page too?) Arkyopterix 20:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Looking up the hoopla over the year 2012, I noticed Pagan holidays/Equinoxes & Solstices calculated out that far, but not as far as next year ?! Why is it only Christian based holidays when there are so many more religions, cultures, etc ? 76.170.118.232 (talk) 07:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC) 2008-10-10 T00:14 Z-7

Probably no specific reason, although some of the "pagans" may believe the world will transform in 2012 to the extent that such celebrations may chnage (or change date). — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:18, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Narnia Movie

Isn't The Silver Chair coming out in may of this year? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedrtaylor (talk • contribs) 21:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

And this is important why? — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Metic Units

There was a recent story in the UK that the E.U had cancelled plans for the metrication of the UK. If this is correct please change.

I have changed this-with the appropriate citation :) Lemon martini (talk) 15:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

St. Patrick's Day?

Is St Patrick's Day really a 'major religious event'? I don't view it as such, and I don't know anyone who does. It's just an excuse for people to get drunk. I'm part Irish (real Irish, not American-Irish) and I see it as a completely pointless day. If it really is a major religious event, then shouldn't St George's Day, St David's Day and St Andrew's Day be on there too? ---- Zestos 22:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Clarification

The calendar shows Burj Dubai opening in June but not to be completed until September. Can someone check on the correct dates for this please? Inearlymorning (talk) 04:15, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Major sporting events

I'd like to know why the 2009 Indanapolis 500 and 2009 Daytona 500 points were removed. First, they arguably cary more gravitas than the NBA and NHL All-Star Games (which are mentioned). Second, the article does mention the start of the Formula One season (which sets a precedent for including motor sports).Mustang6172 (talk) 05:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. The 500s are among the major races of the racing season, not the major event. Indianapolis and Daytona 500s are not the start of the season. (And, finally, I'd like to see the Formula One season opening moved to "in racing", but the consensus has been against me.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:31, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

2009 in...

I have created the article List of '2009 in' articles. Just to let everyone know, and thanks! — Orion11M87 (talk) 02:00, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Inauguration of the US President

I've simplified that entry; making it similiar to the entries in 2005, 2001 etc, etc. GoodDay (talk) 19:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Israeli general election

I thought consensus was that elections which do not have a world-wide effect were to be in the article from the "Elections" entry in the tab, at Electoral calendar 2009? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:28, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

True, rmv done. — Orion11M87 (talk) 15:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Darwin Year

2009 will also be dedicated to Charles Darwin on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of publication of On the Origin of Species (see [1] and Darwin Day#Future). Unfortunately, I don't know which cover organization proposes this (although several prominent organizations support it, such as IUBS), so I'm not sure how to include this in the heading. Anyone care to help? --Yerpo (talk) 08:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Woodstock 40th anniversary

Is that a significant event? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.232.122 (talk) 20:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

removal of will be

I changed 'will be' to 'is expected to be' in the opening in this edit [2] . Seems like a logical edit to me as the edit implies that it is expected that this year will take place and the other one implies it will take place for a fact on Thursday. We simply do not know know what the future hold. Cheers! Cheers dude (talk) 21:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)