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Why are there no colons?

Just wondering why there are no colons for each year, listing the events? 134.204.224.36 (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

we need to change the structural format of this entry's section for history

why are events delineated by date in this article? I would like to change the history section for this entry into a narrative-based format. after all, this enry does cover the entire 21st century. Sm8900 (talk) 18:34, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An old request but I whole-heartedly agree. The events section as it stands should not be a timeline (already covered in Timeline of the 21st century and respective years article such as 2022) but rather a general overview of trends and major events. The same could be said about many of the other sections as well but this is the most egregious in both substance and length. Editors should take inspiration on deciding what is notable enough for inclusion from the 20th century article. Yeoutie (talk) 09:34, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe when we get into 2040 or 2050, we would have too many events here and people from the future would look back onto the general trends and the events of our early 21st century, maybe... Just a random Wikipedian^(talk) 15:49, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of events

There has been a lot of additions of somewhat internationally obscure events in this page by IPs, so there should be some inclusion criteria here. TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 21:54, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]