Talk:7 Billion Actions

Working with the UN to improve this article
Following up on their Social Media Bootcamp, we were contacted by the UNFPA about ways to get this article started, in ethical keeping with our guidelines. I have given them some advice about NPOV and encyclopedic style, which I believe they have made a good-faith effort to implement here. Of course, Wikipedians can and should scrutinize this article to more fully ensure that it adheres to all of the right standards!--Pharos (talk) 01:01, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Merge day
I'm proposing that most of Day of Seven Billion be merged into this article, with the (small amount of) actual science from that article merged into a Population article, probably Projections of population growth. The notability of the day is entirely due to the action campaign, rather than any underlying facts. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:48, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. The 7 Billion ACtions page recieved only about 5% of the Day of 7 Billion's pageviews on the 31st. Also, see Day of 5 Billion and Day of 6 Billion, I don't remember any "X Billion Actions" planned for them? Buggie111 (talk) 19:36, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The Day of Five Billion and The Day of Six Billion stubs should be merged into United Nations Population Fund; there's hardly anything there. The Day of Seven Billion probably should be merged somewhere, but it has (inappropriate, as estimated in July 2010) world population estimates, and other material which probably should be somewhere.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 03:18, 3 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Both articles have been grown to reasonably large texts and the subjects and content is reasonably independent. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:31, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * They're reasonably large texts not related to the subject.
 * The July 2010 population statistics probably should be somewhere, but clearly not at Day of Seven Billion.
 * The "Choice of Date" should be at United Nations Population Fund or "United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division"; the alternative actual estimated dates belong in Projections of population growth, as do similar discussions at The Day of Six Billion.
 * The wikitable at the right needs to be fixed (the article says that USCB predicted 2012 for 7 billion), and should probably follow either the UN organization or somewhere in Population growth.
 * The first chart at the right fails WP:NOTNEWS; it's appropriate as of the time the chart was generated, but even past population may change significantly.
 * That doesn't leave much that belongs at that topic. — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:38, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * By this logic you may dismantle every third wikipedia article, I am afraid. However I do agree with some of your points. At the same time the 7G Day artile lacks of somke directly relevant content. For example, many counties declared their own 7G Baby. I will add this. Staszek Lem (talk) 15:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Staszek Lem (talk) 15:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per Staszek Lem's above comment, the dismantling goes to the extremes and still would leave text that probably would be big enough for DYK. I also agree that the symbolic baby ID's should be added. Buggie111 (talk) 18:42, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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