Talk:Xennials

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edit warring

To editor DrKyleJaySmith: This is the pro forma request that you stop before we block you. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:42, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring about the intro

Taking this to the talk page because my compromise edit was reverted and the IP users continue to war with Butternut. The intro says "typically born in the late 1970s to early 1980s", and then sourced material says 1977 through 1985. IP users change it to mid 80's, because 1985 is somehow considered by them to be mid 80's, gosh who knew? Then Butternut reverts. My compromise edit was to specifically state the cited years, what was wrong with that? Well "they aren't typical years" according to the revert reason. That's confusing. So what do we find to be an edit that people will be happy with that will end the edit warring?--SexyKick 04:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the sourced material uses years in the early eighties. I was going to say we could quote the highest profile source, USA Today, but it seems to have disappeared. Kolya Butternut (talk) 05:38, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Are any of these high profile enough? (Forbes?) [1] [2] [3]] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]--SexyKick 03:50, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aren't those all just referencing Business Insider? And the Urban Institute is just creating ten-year cohorts which are not the standard generations. Obviously 1985 has been used, but I don't know how that compares to 1983 or other years. I haven't found 1985 used this year from Google Scholar.[10] But we could say that "sources have used the late seventies to early eighties or as late as 1985". "Mid-eighties" would include 1986, which I haven't seen. Kolya Butternut (talk) 23:20, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What you just wrote sounds good to me, without the word "or".--SexyKick 07:28, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm concerned that if we write "and" it will sound like sources use the late seventies to 1985 to define xennials, when what we mean to say is that different sources use different years in the late seventies to 1985 to define xennials, or they just define them vaguely. What about "Researchers and popular media use birth years from the late 1970s to early 1980s or as late as 1985 as their defining range"? Kolya Butternut (talk) 14:25, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it sounds fine to me, what I meant above though was reading it without "or" made more sense to me, not "and" - "Researchers and popular media use birth years from the late 1970s to early 1980s as late as 1985 as their defining range" - I am not going to be picky about it myself though.--SexyKick 17:41, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]