Talk:1990s/Archives/2013

Lists of Names

This article has some very long lists of names of individuals.

• No explanation is offered as to what qualifies a person to be on it. Is it just down to the opinion of the editor adding them?
• Thousands of people became notable during the 90s. Is this article going to attempt to list them all?
• This article is not a list article of "people who became famous during.."
• All in, this appears to be just list cruft that should be removed.

--Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 18:58, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

In much of the West, the 1990s was a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity - Dubious?

The 90s saw war in a lot of western countries (the Balkans, Northern Ireland, domestic terrorism in the US), crime rates were the worst ever in many places during the first half of the decade, and the recession was arguably the worst since the Great Depression until the current one started in 2007.

The 90s also saw a huge decline in the middle and working classes in a lot of the West.

Isn't such a quote more a matter of opinion and arguably false than factual?

Thevideodrome (talk) 00:05, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Michael Jackson believe we still experience the 1990s in some ways because of similar music genres (definitive 1990s genres such as Grunge exist in some form or another during the 2000s decade), similar video game franchises (Sonic the Hedgehog series, Star Fox), fashions (straight hair, body art, hipster scene), and social concerns (globalization, media violence/sex/profanity)."----Is this necessary? Doesn't every decade experience in one way or another the decade before it? This doesn't make sense to me. Thoughts? American007 01:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Cell phones become cheaper and decrease in size, and are soon a necessity for modern life.????

That sounds like some POV there, definately no NPOV I get through life fine without those annoying cell phones this should be removed.

The artical does not say that cell phones are a necessity for modern life, it says that they are percived as a necesity for modern life. I don't have, or want, a cell phone either, but I have to agree that cell phones are percieved as a necessity for modern life. I think that the percieved makes the article NPOV.

I changed it to that "they became a must-have". Retromaniac

What is up with that second paragraph? "The ninties are a watered down vergion of the eighties, and the "bad part of the seventies"? What is the bad part of the seventies? and How is that decade "the watered down eighties"?--Yack 08:22, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, it's just vandalism. You did the right thing by deleting it. --Lancevortex 09:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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On the page about 1990 you say the following: End of apartheid in South Africa and election of ANC government of Nelson Mandela

This is incorrect. The ANC were elected in 1994.

The page for 1990 notes Mandela's release and the legalization of the ANC, not the end of apartheid or Mandela's election, which you will indeed find listed in 1994. 1990s, the article this page is a discussion area for, lists important events that occur during the entire decade of the 1990s. --Brion

I suggest some kind of (maybe commonly used) classification for events and trends. Suggestion edited now to 1990s. Argument: after a while we are going to have mess of details at these decades and centuries near our time. In 20th_century there is also alittle different grouping... --- Aulis Eskola 27.4.2006

How about adding the 1997 Hong Kong hand over to China and 1999 Macau hand over to China ?

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