Talk:1996

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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 13:41, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Quake's release

Wikipedia has September, but [1] has May—Trevor Caira 15:58, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Poverty

first sentence: designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. But by who? The UN? Axezz 14:13, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

July 8 item concerning Israeli PM - source?

I note the item concerning the Isralei PM for July 8th. What's the source of this claim?

Aside from the source, I'm not sure that it is of major historical interest in the same way as other entries. The receipt of a report is not a major milestone. Further, the text appears to make an argument rather than simply reporting the event. Unless someone can defend it I think we should remove it. -Will Beback 05:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

September 19 HSBC Arena incident

127.5 Million dollar scoreboard? I'm a bit skeptical. Source, please.

March 19, Sarajevo

March 19 - Sarajevo becomes a united city again when Bosniak authorities take control of the last district held by Serbs.

I'm not entirely sure what this is referring to. The siege was declared officially over on Febuary 29, 1996. Bosniak should probably be Bosnian and Serbs should probably be VRS or similar. Any input is welcomed. Zetetic Apparatchik 12:06, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Faux Pas (webcomic)

Please explain what you mean not supported by the article. It says 1996 establishments —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.216.95 (talk) 14:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it did. That was not supported in the article. Only 1970s and 2001 were documented. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 14:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Taking another look at this one, I agree with Arthur:

You've linked to the wrong article; should be Faux Pas (webcomic) not faux pas.
The article itself does not say 1996, except in that categorisation which you added, without citing a source.[2] Instead it says 'late 1970s', and '2001'. Its not clear at all from the article when the comic went online.
The only sources for that article are the webcomic site itself, which does not qualify as a reliable source - see WP:SELFPUB, item 7 (its ok on the rest of the counts there)
The only claim on the website is that the copyright runs from 1996 to the present, not that the webcomic has been there all that time. In fact, checking at [3] back to 1997 shows that the webcomic was not there, it was a site used to sell artwork. From checking the archive the description changed from Faux Pas prints to Faux Pas online strips sometime between October 2000 and February 2001 (theres a missing page in the archive).

In short, not only is the specific, referenced, date missing from the article, it appears that adding it to the article wouldn't be supportable either. Bazzargh (talk) 15:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tornado man

My apologies for not catching it. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Queen advises early divorce of Charles & Diana

As the divorce was finalized on 28th August 1996, surely this item should preside in December 1995 and not '96.