Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

Linking dates in year articles

I've noticed some pages, such as 2025 in Wales, 2024 in Wales, 2023 in Wales etc have each and every date individually linked within them e.g. 1 January, 2 January, 3 January etc. Does this fall under MOS:OVERLINK? I've tried to remove these links before but have received opposition. I'm opening this up for an RFC because there seems to be a lack of any responses to posts on this talk page. I would post it on the talk page of an article if it were relevant to a single article but as you can see this is present across multiple articles, so I wasn't sure where else to post this. Helper201 (talk) 03:38, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

• Yes, this would appear to fall under MOS:OVERLINK (though I would be open to hearing other views on the issue). Graham11 (talk) 06:56, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
• Yes - those dates should be delinked. GoodDay (talk) 14:13, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

Pinging Deb, as I think they may have been the user that opposed me when I tried to delink dates such as these in the past. Helper201 (talk) 21:09, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

• No, it doesn't fall under MOS:OVERLINK and this has been explained many times. It was specifically excluded when the linking of dates of birth and death was outlawed. Under Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking, you'll find this statement: "...in intrinsically chronological articles (1789, January, and 1940s), links to specific month-and-day, month-and year, or year articles are not discouraged." Year in Topic is included in this. If you try to de-link these, you'll get plenty of opposition from regular editors of these pages. Deb (talk) 11:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
  • I should have added - Thanks for having the courtesy to notify me. Deb (talk) 11:55, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

• Yes, just because something is "not discouraged" does not mean it should be there. Linking such commonly known dates serves no good purpose. Helper201 (talk) 01:38, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years

Please note that I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 224#Removing the Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years to propose removing the births and deaths of 20th and 21st century years. Anyone who is interested in commenting there is welcome. Interstellarity (talk) 22:19, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Unpopular opinion.

The "Leaders section can be restored with this form. With "Hide/Show" Gallery.

For the Decades until the 1970s. History has not judged the most of 1990s leaders beacause is living.

Sorry for the bad morphing.

Example: Leaders of the 1960s. EditingIsMyHobby (talk) 15:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Removing births and deaths of the year articles - 1900-1979

Continuing the discussion from my talk page, we seem to have a disagreement on whether the entries for the births and deaths should be removed for the years of the 20th century. I feel that to avoid BLP issues, it should extend all the way to 1900 and not at some point in the middle of the century.

• Pinging: @Alalch E.:, @Jameboy:, @Ttocserp: for input. Interstellarity (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Contemporary decade articles

I was thinking of improving the page 2010s, but the page is absurdly long. 2020s is even longer despite there still being 4 years to go, and both of them along with 2000s are in the top 500 longest pages. How should we go about shortening them? ChaoticVermillion (converse, contribs) 07:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)