Talk:1991

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 13:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

On April 14 you have the same event listed twice. You should delete one. But which one to keep? I added the first performance of smells like teen spirit and the release of nevermind by Nirvana HOD 09:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Generation for the year

 * 1991 like a 1992 one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.143.196 (talk) 01:21, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Should we include the generation for the year, and if we should which generation was it? Generation Y or the internet generation? Mrmattkatt 20:48, 8 September 2006 (UTC) Note: Question is still not answered Mrmattkatt 02:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No, because there's some disagreement on the boundaries between them & it's not important enough. Jim Michael (talk) 17:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Mining accident
Jan 9 and Jun 9 seem to have the same event. Robin Patterson 06:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Electric Company
This was a recently added event for April 15, a TV show ended, I've added a wikilink but I'm not sure if it's notable enough to keep. Any thoughts? It has its own wikipedia article, but that doesn't always make it notable. JoeyETS 01:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Table of contents
I'm kinda new here but shouldn't the TOC be at the top. I don't really know how to fix it --Fukhed666 00:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Closest palindromic years?
Are 1991 and 2002 really the closest palindromic years? What about, for example, years 2 and 3? Or years 22 and 33?  Jamie | C 14:11, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You are correct; I just came to the talk for this article just to mention that (999 and 1000 make good close examples as well). Eouw0o83hf 13:16, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

1000 is not a palindromic year, surely! I think you mean 1001? I'm assuming palindromic years would have to be at least 3 digits. So the first year would be 101, then 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, 202, 303, 404, 505, 606, 707, 808, 909, 1001, etc. MightyArms (talk) 04:41, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Superbowl
Should the Superbowl be included for this year? Centralized discussion at WT:YEARS — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:08, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Deaths
Shouldn't there be a separate page for the deaths, so like "Deaths in 1991"?--Mjs1991 (talk) 11:19, 24 June 2012 (UTC)


 * yeah 11 years after this comment, I click on Deaths in 1991 and it goes nowehere. 2603:7080:5706:59A:91D5:5A81:E850:F3F (talk) 13:08, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That's because there was no one here in 1991 to record recent deaths... Deb (talk) 13:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Oleg Babak
I don't see how he has sufficient notability for a Wikipedia article. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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Eclipses
See WT:YEARS for a matter relevant to this page. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

More problematic people

 * June 3 – Andy Milligan, American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1929)
 * June 4 – MC Trouble, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * June 8
 * Mary Bacon, American jockey (b. 1948)
 * Bertice Reading, American singer and actress (b. 1933)

I don't really see international significance for any of them.
 * Andy Milligan is listed as a screenwriter for a number of films, but I'm not convinced he's the screenwriter, nor that the films are notable.
 * MC Trouble may be the first female rapper who charted (in US charts), but I'm not convinced that's internationally significant.

— Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:47, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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Event considerations
, I've taken a long time to notice this but I'm adding my views in bold below. Deb (talk) 12:32, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Deb! :) Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India." be added or left off? Should "Harald V of Norway becomes the king of Norway after the death of his father, Olav V." be added or left off?
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 * (Will re-add to the page) Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola." be added or left off? Should "The television station SCTV started nationwide broadcasts in Indonesia from Jakarta." be added or left off? Should "A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides." be added or left off? Should "The ballistic missile submarine USS Sam Houston is deactivated." be added or left off? Should "A video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. Four Los Angeles police officers are indicted on March 15 for the beating." be added or left off?
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 * (Will re-add to the page and I actually now understand why this is more important than I originally thought it was) Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional IRA attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence." be added or left off?
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Should "President of Poland Lech Wałęsa becomes the first Polish president to visit the U.S." be added or left off? Should "The Warsaw Stock Exchange opens in Poland." be added or left off?
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Should "Prime Minister of Iceland Steingrímur Hermannsson resigns following an inconclusive parliamentary election on April 20. On April 30, he is succeeded by Davíð Oddsson." be added or left off?
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Should "The Surinamese general election is won by the military-backed New Front for Democracy and Development." be added or left off?
 * Include
 * (Will re-add to the page) Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "In Israel, a judge investigating a 1990 incident outside a mosque in Jerusalem in which at least 17 Palestinians were killed rules that Israeli police provoked the incident." be added or left off? Should "Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka breaks the world record for men's pole vault." be added or left off?
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 * I'm not entirely sure if this particular record is that notable. I'm definitely open to reconsidering but why do you think it's notable? Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm coming round to your point of view now I know how many times Bubka actually broke the world record - four times in 1991 alone! Deb (talk) 18:18, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "June Rowlands is elected as the first female Mayor of Toronto, Canada." be added or left off? Should "The US Senate confirms Robert Gates as the head of the CIA." be added or left off? Should "Carl Bildt succeeds Ingvar Carlsson to become the next Prime Minister of Sweden." be added or left off?
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Should "Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of the former socialist leader of Albania, is arrested for embezzlement." be added or left off? Should "A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid." be added or left off? Should "French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the wreckage of the Spanish Galleon San Diego off the coast of Fortune Island (Philippines)." be added or left off? Should "The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleged that Thomas sexually harassed her." be added or left off? Should "The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands." be added or left off? Should "Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career." be added or left off? Should "President of Turkey Turgut Özal appoints Mesut Yılmaz as Prime Minister of Turkey, replacing Yıldırım Akbulut, who had resigned. Later on June 23, Mesut Yılmaz forms the 48th government of Turkey, which lasts until November 18 when it is replaced by a new government led by Süleyman Demirel." be added or left off?
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Should "The International Olympic Committee awards Nagano, Japan, the right to host the 1998 Winter Olympics." be added or left off? Should "George Hennard kills 23 people in Killeen, Texas, before killing himself." be added or left off?
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 * I kind of get why this might be notable but why do you think it's notable? Is the death toll high enough to be considered notable? Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Should "In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before killing himself." be added or left off?
 * Include
 * I still don't think this is notable enough for the page. Unless some very well-known people were among the killed or wounded, seven deaths is much too low for notability. Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmm, sometimes a small number of deaths can make a big impact depending on context. - for example, Australia in general has fewer spree killings for a number of reasons.

Should "Salvadoran Civil War: Salvadoran rebels shoot down a U.S. Army helicopter and kill its surviving crew." be added or left off?
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 * I'm leaning towards putting it back on the page but how does this relate to other events in the Salvadoran Civil War? Is this unique or special relative to other events in that war? Dan the Animator 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Most of these don't seem especially notable or relevant. Would like to get other opinions on these though. Dantheanimator (talk) 02:05, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've reverted these additions, as you didn't furnish a reliable secondary source for them, as is required by our verifiability policy. Elizium23 (talk) 18:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I re-added the events with sources. Do you have any objections or suggestions to the re-addition? I also personally don't think myself much of a furnisher—maybe a cobbler of bad soles? Dan the Animator 18:19, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They look fine to me, except Harald V of Norway still lacks a source? Elizium23 (talk) 18:43, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Elizium23! :) I added in a Britannica source. Dan the Animator 19:30, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

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Wandy Peralta
Regarding this revert of my edit, please could someone tell me where it specifies that people have to be "internationally notable" (not just Wikipedia notable) to have their birth added here. Once I am aware of the criteria, it will prevent me from adding inappropriate entries in future. --Jameboy (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * See many discussions above. Did you think that the year article was meant to include everyone born in that year who has a Wikipedia article? Deb (talk) 17:58, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was my expectation. WikiProject Years, which I assume is the relevant guideline(?), states "The Births section lists notable births in that year, divided into month sections. Each entry links to the day page, has a very short description of the person, and links to the death year if known." It doesn't mention anything about international notability or what that entails. --Jameboy (talk) 20:05, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * When you think about it, though, that would mean that the article would include everything that now appears in both Category:1991 births and Category:1991 deaths as well as every event that is listed in every individual month article for 1991. Such an article would not be navigable. Unfortunately we have never been able to agree a set of written criteria for inclusion. Wandy Peralta appears to be a pretty minor figure in the context of the 200+ baseball players listed in 1991 in baseball as having been born that year. Deb (talk) 08:43, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * , I'd just add that there is plenty of work to be done on these articles if you want to contribute. For a start, entries in the day and year articles are now supposed to be accompanied by citations (same is true for Year in baseball articles), and most of the existing ones aren't. It's going to take forever to do this, so the more people who work on it, the better. Deb (talk) 10:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Fair. I'll look at adding some citations when I get a chance. I'll give more thought to the question of notability but I won't add any new people for now. --Jameboy (talk) 21:55, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request
Under births, for April, for April 5, please add Moroccan football player Yassine Bounou. https://fbref.com/en/players/f6798fc3/Yassine-Bounou 208.127.190.114 (talk) 22:04, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thank you very much! &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 14:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Collage thoughts
Please let me know if anyone has any disagreements on the images included in the collage, and I will put it up for vote. Thanks The ganymedian (talk) 22:42, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Please fix the collage so that the images aren't all distorted by being squashed into a square. If you can't do better, find images that are all the same size. Deb (talk) 08:41, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm commenting this out because you haven't put the content up for discussion. We don't need two separate pictures for the end of the Soviet Union. The Oceanos incident is not very well known, and there were no casualties. Deb (talk) 08:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You replaced the collage claiming you had "fixed" it. What changes did you make? Deb (talk) 10:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Per your message on November 2, I fixed the images that looked distorted and replaced the pictures regarding the Soviet Union and Océanos. The ganymedian (talk) 16:07, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you see any other photo problems that you wished to be fixed @Deb ? The ganymedian (talk) 19:34, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Where did you discuss the content? Deb (talk) 09:50, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I have a few ideas.
 * We can replace the first image of Boris Yeltsin waving the flag with an image of the Croatian War of Independence.
 * We can also replace the Oceanos disaster with the Moby Prince disaster in Italy, with 140 deaths. DementiaGaming (talk) 23:58, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 1991 Events Collage 3.0.jpg Here's the collage, well, i just merged Soviet attempted coup d'etat and dissolution of Soviet Union into one, also i added the Moby Prince one The0Quester (talk) 16:10, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Lookin' good. DementiaGaming (talk) 16:31, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request
Under births, for February 17, please add Jeremy Allen White. https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2020/02/17/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-17-Jason-Ritter-Michael-Jordan/8571581877360/ 2600:100C:A210:2BB2:6D5E:BC16:1E93:ED5E (talk) 21:32, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅  TG HL ↗  🍁 06:44, 2 December 2022 (UTC)