Talk:2004 in science

Gravity Probe B
Hey, is GP-B a topic under the heading of Physics or Astronomy? I'm torn... Right now it's in both, due to me thinking it belongs to Astronomy, and not looking at the Physics section. Awolf002 15:50, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Title sentence
Ok so i started to make the see also changes and I noticed another inconsistency in the "title sentence" here are some we have

The year 2004 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below The year 1930 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below The year 2000 in science and technology consisted of many events, some of which are included below. The year 1998 in science and technology had many significant events, some of which are included below. The year 1983 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below. The year 1988 in science and technology

Does anyone have an opinion? Should we include "and technology" in the bold'ing? Should the years by links? How should the 2nd part of the sentence read?

Here's my proposal

The year 2000 in science and technology included many significant events, some of which are listed below.

Any objections? Suggestions?

Queson 00:09, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

Births & Deaths
Should we add these to all the pages even if we don't have any to list yet? 2004 births might seem a little odd, but there are alot of older pages (e.g. 1931 in science) that don't have births listed. I'm sure this is just because no one has thought of any yet. I think we should add the sections too all pages (births only before 1980?) even if we don't have anything to list. We need to keep the pages consistent and adding the headers early will help "hit and run" editors by letting them know what our format is. The counter argument is that we are adding headers with no information in them. Maybe we can put "There are no known births of deaths for this year." Maybe "please add one" with a link to the edit page for the year?

Queson 00:14, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

Just noticed another inconsistency. Some of the pages use the &dagger; symbol in the births to indicate the year of the persons death but others simply say "died". Some pages use * to indicate born in the deaths to indicate the year of the persons birth, but others simply say "born". I prefer the &dagger; for "died". I think its a relatively accepted standard... Queson 02:16, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC) Any objections?


 * I dunno, I would prefer it without such symbols. The simple "two dates with a mdash" was the structure I chose for biographies I started, and I don't think it is unclear what it means. Any other comments, anybody? Awolf002 20:22, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I don't think we can use teh simple (birth-end) format here because we already have one of those years. It seems redundant to me to put them both in there. Queson 04:29, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)


 * I did not mean to exactly use that format. I just noted that this is an example that does not use &dagger; symbols and is still quite readable. Awolf002 15:04, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

SO just put the death date? I've been seeing just (b. 1925) and (d. 2003). That seems pretty clear to me. If we just put the year with no modifications I'm concerned people might think it goes with some award or achievement like

April 12 Some guy (2003) Nobel laurate in blah blah.

Admittedly I think everyone will get it, but they'll have to think about it for a second. Adding the &dagger; which actually looks like a cross, I think that's why its there, or 'd.' would be pretty obvious and would read as "died". I know this is totally nitpicking, but I'd rather get some agreement now instead of after too many changes have been made.

Queson 00:56, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)


 * The current version looks good. Just (b. ) should be easy to understand. Awolf002 16:36, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bad Nature URL
The URL for the Nature article is bad: "http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038%2Fnature02999" must be replaced or deleted Awolf002 20:01, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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