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List of decades

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Delete or reform.

Users went very far down a rabbit-hole in creating all of these articles, but failed to consider the logic or necessity of them.

Decades might make sense for the 19th/20th century, but the phrasing gets increasingly nonsensical as you look back in time – "the 1150s", "the 330s", or "the 0s BC". Almost nobody would ever refer to time in these terms. They're not notable.

The bulk of these 'decade' articles are only duplicated content from the 'year' articles. If this list contained only the noted decades with proper articles, that would be fine but the same function could be fulfilled by Category:Decades.

A special mention for the invented pre-AD decades... "the 1010s BC"? (That's 1019 BC – 1010 BC.) -- Demokra (talk) 11:31, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:36, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Delete as per abive argument, lmao this is such a silly article to have. Why do we need another meainginless list of a different way of meauring time?Theprussian (talk) 14:31, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

• Keep Valid organization/navigation page for time periods; a merge with List of years or List of centuries could be appropriate though. Are you suggesting deleting pages like 1010s BC and 1150s? No, that's a standard way to organize historical events though merging the former into 11th century BC seems like a good idea, as well as merging some year articles into their decade articles. Reywas92^Talk 20:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep as a navigational aid or merge to List of years (a new column at the head of each row of ten years seems ideal). Clarityfiend (talk) 21:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep As long as there are that many articles linked to, this list is valid. If you want to get rid of all of the many decade articles, then do so first, then the list has no purpose. Until then it aids in navigation. Dream Focus 01:29, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep per Dream Focuses' good argument. Hog Farm (talk) 04:14, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. The nominator is talking specifically about all the articles linked to this one, which isn't what the AfD is about. This one, is for navigation, and perfectly valid. Ajf773 (talk) 17:54, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
• Keep Is there a guideline for, "we can have categories and lists both"? I see people claiming we cannot so often. Anarchangel (talk) 02:38, 11 January 2020 (UTC)