Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decimal birthday


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:46, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Decimal birthday

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Nonnotable invention of a holiday Staszek Lem (talk) 21:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge in East_Asian_age_reckoning. Not entirely sure what this article is about, but if it's a part of Korean culture than it's worth keeping in some way. The term "decimal birthday" is likely a mistranslation or machine translation of some other term, information about which likely already exists on the wiki.--Prisencolin (talk) 22:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, we cannot merge unreferenced stuff. We can only delete it. 01:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete The article does not include adequate refs to support notability.One site about the TKday" is a dead link. Another is someone's l website and says "AsianInfo.org does not guarantee the complete accuracy of the information provided on this site or links. Do your own research and get a professional's opinion before adhering to advice or information contained herein.  Use of the information contained herein provided by AsianInfo.org and any mistakes contained within are at the individual risk of the user." The page there which serves as a ref just says that 100 days after birth is culturally important in Korea,since in eras of high infant mortality it is a promising achievement and that the 60th birthday is also culturally important since in former times it represented old age. 60 is not especially "decimal." Checking the internet, I also found a Toronto Star article about how some millenials have judged their 10000th day to be a milestone in addition to turning 18 or 21, since they are  27 and a bit and might be having a midlife quandary. Lump this all together and you have WP:synthesis which is not a good basis for an article. The specific topic "decimal birthday" seems ill-defined and nonnotable. Edison (talk) 23:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 20:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment The intended topic here gets more comprehensible by looking at an older version,, which states, "A decimal birthday is celebrated using the decimal (base ten) numeral system...Decimal birthdays can be celebrated using any time unit (years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds), however the most common form of celebration uses days. The main form of celebration falls on the occurrence of every 1000th day of a person's life."  The 1000 days calculation can be found in Google searches, but I'm not aware of a reliable secondary source.  Compare with Google books, Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children, which identifies decimal birthday as the birthdate stated as [(year-1900) plus ], so a decimal birthday for someone born on 2 July 1999 is 99.501.  Unscintillating (talk) 23:35, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete I can imagine an article about certain birth days being celebrated more (e.g. 40 years old, 50 years old), or those calculated in days. But there is no indication this is called "decimal birthday", nor is their any source. If someone want to write about the subject, with a citable-title and sources, they can always re-start from scratch... L.tak (talk) 15:39, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment  quotes from a professor, but I think that a careful reading yields that it is a reliable source for an article called 10k Day with an alternate name of Tkday, but doesn't stand on its own to define "decimal birthday".  Unscintillating (talk) 17:00, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  17:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete I tried googling for this but I found next to nothing. And in addition to the East Asian age reckoning article, there exists a separate Korean one as well: Korean birthday celebrations. --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 04:49, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


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