Talk:1986

Page layout years

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 13:48, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Trimming the births

I'd agree with this as a move - looking at the Category:1986 births, there are a lot of people with articles born in this year already, if we were to list all of them then the list would become unwieldy, and dominate the article. Average Earthman 10:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Non-world events

TheMidnighters reverted my edit of putting Sir Alex Ferguson's appointment as Manchester United manager. His explanation was that it was a non world event. Well first of all that is false. Manchester United have an estimated 80 million fans around the globe. Secondly it is no regular hire, he is still the manager of Manchester United 20 years later and he's been the most successful manager in the history of English football. Finally if his hiring isn't a 'world event' then neither is the Chicago Bears defeating the New England Patriots in the Superbowl of January 1986. Is a world event also considered when some serial killer gets convicted in November or December (I can't remember which month it was)? I'm going to put his hiring back up, please respond below if you disagree before reverting again. --Tocino

• Manager of a team that has regularly been the richest football team in the world (Deloitte reports, google for them, I can't be bothered), success in the Champions League, popularity worldwide. I'd say that keeps it. Certainly more of a globally notable event than a very US-only sport such as American Football (how many non-Americans played in the 1986 superbowl?). Average Earthman 12:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • The 1986 article is mainly for global political or disastrous events with a few exceptions. For something like a notable hire, trade and other sports events, it can go in 1986 in sport or, for football specifically, 1986 in football (soccer), articles which were made to suit facts like this. I hope you would agree that even though his hiring is a world sporting event, it does not suit the purpose of the main 1986 list. What's the point of having those articles if nobody uses them for what they're made for? I've added the Ferguson hiring to both articles and think that both the hire and the Super Bowl results should be removed from this list. --TM 12:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
    • To be fair Steaua Bucuresti winning the European Cup should be deleted if the other sporting news are. I will delete it shortly. Argentina winning the World Cup however that's a world event, so I will leave it be. --Tocino 17:37, 10 July 2006
      • I agree completely with the World Cup results staying, it being one of those exceptions. --TM 01:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

A manager being a appointed isn't an event of world importance, even if that team has millions of glory-hunting fans in many countries. It doesn't change anything in itself. It doesn't affect world events like a country electing a new leader or a war being started. Jim Michael (talk) 12:31, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

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Copyrighted material from this year will be copyrighted for DECADES, possible even into the next century. 108.66.234.28 (talk) 00:14, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Superbowl

Should the Superbowl be included for this year? Centralized discussion at WT:YEARS#Superbowls — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

STS - 51L

The article's thumbnail is not appropriate. Please find a POSITIVE event that happened in 1986. Sausagea1000 (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

The article does not have a thumbnail. Maybe you are viewing through some sort of third party App that automatically takes the first image on the page and uses it as a thumbnail? If so, I don't think that is an issue for us.

Anyway, the images are not there to be positive. They are there to show what happened that year. The Challenger disaster was in January so that puts it near the top. It isn't the worst event to get a picture. Many more people died a much nastier death in the Chernobyl disaster, which is also shown. Both events are very major ones for that year and including both images seems reasonable to me. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:11, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

How about you put the Chernobyl disaster as the thumbnail? Sausagea1000 (talk) 00:56, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

The Challenger explosion was a notable event that happened in January. As such, we put a photo of it near the top. (The designation "thumbnail" has nothing to do with where it is, only its size.) Whether the event was "positive" in your mind or not is immaterial. That you wish to minimize the Challenger deaths and offer the Chernobyl deaths in their place is... interesting, in a disturbing way. - SummerPhD^v2.0 06:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

What do you even mean? Sausagea1000 (talk) 15:11, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

I reverted your change. You changed a valid image to one that does not exist so no image was showing. Please get consensus here before changing the image. The image of the Challenger explosion is appropriate for the location. - GB fan 16:28, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

I was trying to put the Chernobyl disaster as the thumbnail Sausagea1000 (talk) 19:05, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

"Thumbnail" does not mean main image, top image or anything like that. It means the image is fairly small.

The Challenger explosion image is first because the explosion happened in January. The photo is next to January.

The Chernobyl disaster is further down next to "April" because the disaster happened in April. - SummerPhD^v2.0 22:03, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Look SummerPhD 2.0 where is your operator? Sausagea1000 (talk) 22:58, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

I am a person. I don't have an "operator". - SummerPhD^v2.0 01:05, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

You are a bot. Sausagea1000 (talk) 01:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Why do you think SummerPhDv2.0 is a bot? All bots on Wikipedia have bot in their user name. - GB fan 01:28, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

The v2.0 at the end of his/her name. SummerPhD might be a third - party bot that is being used to commit vandalism on Wikipedia. Sausagea1000 (talk) 02:15, 31 December 2016 (UTC)