Wikipedia:WikiProject Years

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. Our current focus is on improving the 1340s article (see User:AndonicO/Tzatziki Squad/1340s), as well as hammering out some new policies and guidelines:

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

• Current year: 2024
• Cleanup listings: Years cleanup
• Need expansion: Stub-Class Year articles
• Need quality assessment: Unassessed Year articles
• Need importance assessment: Unknown importance Year articles

The collaboration of the week is 1929

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

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	???	Total
FL				21			21
GA		3	2	12			17
B		1	6	115		17	139
C	4	2	20	333		83	442
Start		6	261	2,808		640	3,715
Stub			8	1,297		629	1,934
List	3	90	791	21,606	50	5,473	28,013
Category			2	38	542,056		542,096
Disambig					18		18
File					8		8
Portal		12	4	87	8,314		8,417
Project					6		6
Template			8	20	12,319		12,347
NA			9	2,477	6,039		8,525
Other				1	8		9
Assessed	7	114	1,111	28,815	568,818	6,842	605,707
Unassessed				43		83	126
Total	7	114	1,111	28,858	568,818	6,925	605,833
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 32,398			Ω = 5.19

Participants

1. Olivier
2. +sj + * (this project is why I joined WP in 2004)
3. trevor MacInnis
4. AMK152
5. Fractalchez
6. Art Smart*
7. Wrad*
8. User:Totnesmartin
9. Pro66 (formerly known as Pathfinder2006)
10. CG was here. (T - C - S - E) I will work on X in the United States articles.
11. DerbyCountyinNZ
12. User:Arthur Rubin (as well as elsewhere in WikiProject Time)
13. jj137
14. DudeWithAFeud
15. Omnipedian (currently working on yrs in Music; aspiring to work on yrs in Comics, Architecture, Science)
16. Tony1
17. Icelilly
18. FFMG
19. Tocino
20. Kendrick7^talk 19:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
21. Bud0011 (talk) 08:01, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
22. Sean (talk || contribs) 20:10, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
23. Tigerghost (talk || contribs) 07:34, 14 January 2010 (UTC)) (Work primarily on pages relating to the United States, and pages related to music or pop culture in general)
24. Kransky Kransky (talk) 12:41, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
25. MelbourneStar☆ (talk) (Interested in working on years in the past 5 years, making sure information is not removed due to conflict of interest etc.)
26. DuanedoneckerU.S. History, World History
27. Codrin.B (talk) 22:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
28. Smjg (talk) 18:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC) (been here a long time, just now getting round to putting my name down)
29. Flaviusvulso (talk) 01:49, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
30. meco (talk) 14:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
31. Arius1998 (talk) 12:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
32. Matty.007 (talk) 20:27, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
33. Typhoon2013 (talk) 03:44, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
34. Jc3s5h
35. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 11 January 2015, Australian lists
36. Maestroso simplo (talk) 3 February 2015, Copyediting Years in Ireland going chronologically starting in the 1340s
37. Jackninja5 (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2015 (UTC) Working on years in pages, mainly on Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, the UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea.

Inactive Participants

Editors who have not edited on Wikipedia for over six months

1. LittleDan
2. Spawn Man (Yay, It's all gonna be good.....But don't we need a splash of colour in here?)
3. jredmond
4. Lini*
5. User:Dank55
6. AprilBlood*
7. Grimhelm (talk)*
8. Tea and crumpets
9. User:Yggur
10. Orion11M87
11. Foolestroupe
12. Reliable♪ Forever^talk 23:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
13. Davidzuccaro
14. Orrelly Man
15. WhatWasDone (talk) 08:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
16. ShadeofTime09 (talk) 17:16, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
17. Theologiae (talk) 12:31, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
18. Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 00:27, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Accomplishments

FAs

GAs

• 1346

DYKs

• 1345

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Year box}}	Years Years: 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Centuries: 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century Decades: 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s Years: 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027	The infobox for year pages.
{{Births and deaths ToC}}		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}}		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.

''This article is about the year 2004. For other uses of 2004, see [[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.'''

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]].
* [[January 4]] - [[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===

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]]
*[[January 21]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2005]]) American author
*[[January 31]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2003]]) Polonesian King

===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]]) 
*[[December 28]] - [[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| ]]

[[af:2004]]
[[ar:2004]]

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• 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