Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

Year in religion

I've created 2022 in religion as an example of what might go in a "year in religion" article. I think there's potential for these to be made for each year of the 21st century, and it's certainly a more critical topic than many of the other "year in topic" articles. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

I would mostly agree. I would recommend documenting not only religion itself but the decline of it in western society, which has started to become widely documented. Consider taking a look at the Pew Research Center. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 01:41, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

That's definitely notable, and any events specifically about atheism/secularism should be included, but I'm not sure how much demographic trends can be captured in a single year. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

If the year in religion articles have lists of notable deaths, what would the standard be? Would it exclusively be clergy and the like, or would it be anyone heavily involved in religion and popularly associated with their religious beliefs? Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:35, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Notablity of Years In motoring

First off, here are the articles in question. List of years in motoring.

Anyways, I don't think these articles are notable. I propose we split them into something along the lines of "Timeline of motoring by Germany", with articles for the US and whatnot. What do you guys think? Daveman115 (talk) 17:34, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Personally, I agree that these smaller subjects probably don't need an individual article for each year. For comparison, there are related articles at Timeline of transportation technology, Timeline of aviation and List of years in rail transport. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 21:27, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Splitting deaths at sub-articles

Size splits have been carried out at some of the main year articles and the year in the United States articles. Are there any other subtopic year articles where they're too long? I notice there are lots of U.S. articles that still have a really long list (with the hundreds of citations that follow), and then there's the United Kingdom articles; ‎2022 in the United Kingdom is currently the 34th largest article on Wikipedia. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Month articles

Why there are two different systems for month articles, and between 1980-2001 there are no month articles? Should we bring back month articles from 1980-2001 and 2002-present periods? I know there are some problems with Portal:Current events and consensus earlier, but the Portal:Current events pages between 1980 and 2005 was deleted by MfD five months ago. Also, there are some missing articles (redirects in the 1960s, 1970s). Moreover, there are some articles about November 1993 and December 1993. Thingofme (talk) 06:04, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Should the months from January 2002 to present be convertible into an article or using the Portal:Current events subpages? Thingofme (talk) 10:32, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Duplication of Topics

Not sure if this is the correct way to do this. There needs to be an overall edit of these timeline pages for duplications. While doing research it was not uncommon to find the same event listed in several places. An example of this was the discovery/isolation of Plutonium. It is listed for multiple years/multiple dates. While a discovery may not be able to be noted for an exact date the language should be clearer. Again, as an example. Was Plutonium discovered or isolated or created on a given date. Was a plane announced/first flown/ tested at a certain date. By having multiple dates for a subject it becomes unclear which is the correct date. Just in the years 1930-1947 I've seen this duplication/lack of clarity quite frequently. Perhaps a general edit is needed with someone with more attention to detail than I have? Mikecataldo (talk) 01:06, 29 May 2023 (UTC)