Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years

Feedback needed for proposed merge

I would be interested to know the perspectives of WikiProject Years members for this proposed merge: Merge nomination for article "AD 12". My main argument is that dated written records are very sparse for many years in antiquity. Therefore, many of those "individual year" articles for the 1st century and earlier would not be expandable beyond stubs.

Note that I am consulting feedback in good faith. I wasn't sure how controversial a merger would be. SVG-image-maker (talk) 01:58, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Relevant RfC

See Talk:1900#RfC on the exceptional/century common year wording. GTrang (talk) 01:37, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Large-scale merges of year articles

Following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AD 12, we decided to launch Wikipedia:Decade merges essay, and have begun merging year articles in classical antiquity or earlier (up to c. AD 500) up into the decade level. This was done because the articles are often very short and inadequately sourced, and most dates in antiquity are not known precisely to the year — in particular, the absolute chronology of the ancient Near East is disputed. We also have plans to upmerge some of the earlier decades to centuries, and centuries to millennia. Currently, the earliest year article is 678 BC, the earliest decade article is 1790s BC, and the earliest century article is 40th century BC. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Category:People by century - when they were born, alive, or notable?

Is Category:People by century supposed to be sorted by when a person was born, when they were alive, or when they were notable/active? For example, if an actor from California was born in the late 20th century but only started their career in the 21st century, would they go under Category:20th-century actors or Category:21st-century actors? Would they go under Category:20th-century people from California, Category:21st-century people from California, or both? Oornery (talk) 22:41, 30 August 2026 (UTC)