Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French Republican Calendar/Y1


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete all. I love the idea too, but unfortunately raw calendars do not belong in an encyclopedia. The "keep" !voters basically fall into WP:USEFUL. A transwiki, though, might be desirable. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

French Republican Calendar/Y1

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These "articles" are not articles in any sense of the word. They are calendars for the 14 years during which the French Republican Calendar was active, as well as the previous and next year based on the current date. They were moved into article-space solely in order "to remove [them] from the list of unused templates", which is a pretty weak reason, in my view. In article space, they are nothing other than unencyclopedic detail. Note also that they are trivial template transclusions.

See also Templates for discussion/Log/2011 January 5, a previous discussion on this matter which was rather obscurely closed as "Merge". — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:37, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions.  — &mdash; alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 14:38, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  — &mdash; alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 14:38, 25 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - That's gorgeous work. Carrite (talk) 16:06, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No argument there. The template is already transcluded in the article French Republican Calendar (not to mention a number of user pages), so there shouldn't be a danger of losing this incredible template work. These really seem like demonstration pieces, appropriate maybe for the template documentation page, but not for the article space. I would !vote to move these pages to the original author's userspace, if it is within policy, otherwise delete. PS, should the "Yx" page also be included? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanisaac (talk • contribs) 23:48, September 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * I deliberately excluded Yx: I'll nominate it later. The creator is inactive, so they won't want them in their userspace. — This, that, and the other (talk) 02:01, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Thanks for the above link, that makes me feel much better. Delete all as a fork of French Republican Calendar . Carrite (talk) 01:19, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Given that the author is inactive, and that the main FRC article will be preserved with enough of the template logic for it to continue to function, I don't see that userfication is necessary here. If the original author becomes active again it's easy to undelete on request. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Articles for Years 1-14. These should be a useful resource for historians who find dates according to the repblican calendard and want to convert them into conventional dates.  Delete the Yx-1 Yx and Yx+1 articles.  The calendar is long defunct and it is pointless putting modern dates in this format.  I would criticise the French Republican Calendar article for focusing on the present date according to this defunct calendar, rather than using examples from the periood when it was in use.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - I don't know how I feel about the Republican-era calendars. It would be a useful reference, but I am not sure that is what Wikipedia is for, any more than having annual calendars for historical years using the standard Western calendar or the Islamic calendar. That being said, I agree completely with Peterkingiron that we should Delete the modern calendars, that are nothing but trivial curiosities of no reference value. Agricolae (talk) 16:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It's explicitly not what Wikipedia is for. Would it be correct for us to host categories of every year of any other calendar? It's a calendar. Lengthy lists of what day of the week a given date fell on are not within our remit whether the calendar is Julian, French Republican or Mayan. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 08:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * If kept, the articles need to be renamed. — This, that, and the other (talk) 04:01, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete all per WP:IINFO. Deor (talk) 14:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Articles for Years 1-14. As a family historian who regularly encounters Republican Calendar dates, there is no better, easier reference than this for conversion to Gregorian dates.  On the assumption that this encyclopedia is the best first place to look for information on the French Republican Calendar, the articles for the historical years of the Calendar, in whatever way they are most suitably organized, are enlightening to users. Invinceble (talk) 00:13, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.