Talk:Million years ago

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Please see Talk:Mya (unit) for ongoing discussion re this article.LeadSongDog 16:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

"present"
The usage of "present" here conflicts with the similar and very often confusing usage in radioactive dating, where "present" is fixed to 1950 "AD". Thus, we today would live in the year 64 "after (that simplistically defined) present". Regrettably, too many writers are unaware of that conflict. 93.199.20.131 (talk) 06:12, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

dead Reference link
i found http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/2/article/i1052-5173-22-2-28.htm at the same site, but haven't found anything (pertinent) by Mozley. TheNuszAbides (talk) 10:16, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Confusing
This brief article is somewhat confusing in its current form and seems to contain some unsourced musings Geopersona (talk) 17:56, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

I fully agree. I am italian and I do not dare to judge an english text, but the first statement of the debate section seems the result of a mis-editing.

The statement Where "myr" is seen in geology it is usually "Myr" (a unit of mega-years). In astronomy it is usually "Myr" (million years). is confusing because one expects a difference and finds an equality

Due to the noted capitalization problems, the symbol should never start a phrase. E.g. "Myr is deprecated" should become "The symbol myr is ..." (or "The symbol Myr is ..." since I do not know which is the correct one). The reference 1 cannot be accessed.151.29.189.70 (talk) 16:34, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Stubbornly refusing any scientific standard, English "scientists" confuse everything to everybody. BTW, "BP" is NOT "ago", but a term that is and must be reserved for radiocarbon dating and only in this relation means "raw/uncalibrated (Libby-) years before 1950). I wonder when eventually these "scientists" will grasp that. Even in that case one wonders, why not make it perfectly clear and write BNF for "before 1950", if meaning exactly that. Better are the European Iceberg publications from the Danish University, who clearly and unambiguously write b2k for "before the year 2000". That and only that is perfectly clear!! Thank You.95.90.202.103 (talk) 05:14, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Add Charts
Hi. I just came to this article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Human_timeline and thought to contribute by suggesting that charts like these are added to the article since they give a sense of perspective over the units. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6000:1605:2298:998C:FB42:3ACF:782E (talk) 03:46, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 25 February 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 16:07, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Myr → Million years ago – (not opposed to Mya (unit) alternative) Feels obvious why this title is inadequate, but just in case: "mya" "million years ago" gets twice the Google Scholar hits of "myr" "million years ago", and mya (unit) and million years ago impressively already channel 80% of the views here. Hameltion (talk &#124; contribs) 04:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Support. I have heard of the abbreviation Mya but I think it might still be confusing. Also the article can't seem to make up its mind whether it's about "Myr" or "Mya". J I P  &#124; Talk 10:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support – Using the full name of the unit of measurement is clearest and would make the lead sentence cleaner. Anecdotally, I've frequently seen mya in books but I've never seen myr before. MClay1 (talk) 07:13, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Support any of Mya, Mya (unit) or Million years ago, as long as Kyr and Bya are moved along with this to be consistent. Honestly, each of these pages could be merged to something like a Years ago (unit) "article" or merged into Unit of time. &#8213; Synpath 00:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC) I should have known that Mya is a DAB page, struck. &#8213; Synpath 00:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)