Talk:1980

Format
26-June-2007: The years 1900-1999 got a condensed Table of Contents after 28May07. See Talk:1950 (and "Talk:1950"). -Wikid77 22:34 26-June-2007

2004 page layout years
There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.

For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). talk--BozMo 13:52, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Benjamin Lee
I am removing the line in the Births section for Benjamin Lee (who is described as merely "unique"). This was added with the comment "updated birthday catalogue to include myself ?You will see!" However, Benjamin Lee is about a Hawai'ian politician, who, judging from the photograph, is not 24 years old.--Clipdude 07:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * It was just an ordinary person adding himself, as happens every day on some article or other. Benjamin Lee is a disambiguation page. Lkjhgfdsa 0 (talk) 17:50, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Qualifications for inclusion
I'm just curious how some of these people qualify for inclusion in 1980 when they obviously died (and were born) long before 1980. For example, Joseph Smith, Jr. is listed in the June deaths, but he died back in 1844 or so (according to the page on him). Don't the listing here have to have something to do with the year? --nihon 01:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say, Go ahead and delete such things when you see them, leaving a note in the edit summary. They're either obvious errors (someone doesn't get how this works) or subtle vandalism, and either way, they should be fixed. Lawikitejana 17:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced tag
I see soomeone tagged this page as unreferenced - I don't think that makes much sense, and I have accordingly removed the tag. We have a pretty strict policy that events mentioned here should have an article of their own, and ideally that article should be referenced and verifiable. Adding a reference for every single event/birth/death on what is essentially a "list of..." article would become extremely unwieldy and make the article very, very large. If there are legitimate concerns about specific entries on the page, bring them up here (or, in the case of an unreferenced/redlinked birth, just remove them as very probable vandalism/vanity) -- Ferkelparade &pi; 14:29, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

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Mugabe
There's currently a conflict between two items:


 * 4 March – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
 * 18 April – Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.

The correct date of Mugabe's election needs to be identified. &mdash; Hex    (❝ ?!  ❞)   10:27, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

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Superbowl
Should the Superbowl be included for this year? Centralized discussion at WT:YEARS — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:10, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Commonwealth Trade Union Council = New Page Stub is In Sandbox
Here is the link to the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=510356794. I will get someone to log in to create it if someone else won't do it first. Thanks in advance. 75.84.200.25 (talk) 00:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * OK submitted here as of now it is in review. Thanks to everyone for all the help on this one. 75.84.200.25 (talk) 15:38, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

"First year of the 1980s decade"? Wrong.
1980 was the last year of the 1970s decade, as the ancients had no such number or concept as zero, which by world standards is actually pretty recent. It stands to reason, then, that if, say, 10A.D. is the last year of the oughts A.D., 11A.D. is thus the first year of the 10s A.D., etc., all the way to 2010 and 2011A.D., the last year of the 2000sA.D. and first year of the 2010sA.D. I believe a small tweak to this article is in order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ADg2k14 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 1980 was the last year of the eighth decade of the 20th century, sure, but it was the first year of the 1980s because we're talking about two different things. -- Irn (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes. If it has "80" in it it's in the 1980's. And if not, then it isn't. This is not a mathematical question. Britmax (talk) 17:48, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

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Eclipses
See WT:YEARS for a matter relevant to this page. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:06, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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Collage
If people are in favor of a photo collage as seen from '87-2022, I would like to hear some consensus on thoughts about what images should be included in it. Thanks The ganymedian (talk) 22:33, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Births and deaths no longer in article?
I noticed that in articles about years from 1980 onward, births and deaths have been removed and replaced with links to the relevant categories. The edit summaries are all along the lines of "Cleanup per passed RfC" with no further elaboration. What was this RfC and where can I find the rationale for it? Hominid77777 (talk) 18:17, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Update: I found the discussion (from the 2013 edit summary):
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1144165042#
 * Given that the consensus was to split, it seems odd that the content was removed altogether rather that split into separate articles. I'm not sure where the appropriate place for this discussion is. Hominid77777 (talk) 18:34, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Deleting the information entirely seems very bad, and the only rationale is that some articles were too long? How is one supposed to easily find “Born on this day” information? --scruss (talk) 11:11, 27 February 2024 (UTC)