Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of decades


 * 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 keep as a navigational list for the many articles about decades. The nomination statement seems to be suggesting that all the individual decade articles should be deleted, but none of those are properly nominated. RL0919 (talk) 12:52, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

List of decades

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Delete or reform.

Users went very far down a rabbit-hole in creating all of these articles, but failed to consider the logic or necessity of them.

Decades might make sense for the 19th/20th century, but the phrasing gets increasingly nonsensical as you look back in time – "the 1150s", "the 330s", or "the 0s BC". Almost nobody would ever refer to time in these terms. They're not notable.

The bulk of these 'decade' articles are only duplicated content from the 'year' articles. If this list contained only the noted decades with proper articles, that would be fine but the same function could be fulfilled by Category:Decades.

A special mention for the invented pre-AD decades... "the 1010s BC"? (That's 1019 BC – 1010 BC.) -- Demokra (talk) 11:31, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 11:36, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as per abive argument, lmao this is such a silly article to have. Why do we need another meainginless list of a different way of meauring time?Theprussian (talk) 14:31, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Valid organization/navigation page for time periods; a merge with List of years or List of centuries could be appropriate though. Are you suggesting deleting pages like 1010s BC and 1150s? No, that's a standard way to organize historical events though merging the former into 11th century BC seems like a good idea, as well as merging some year articles into their decade articles. Reywas92Talk 20:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep as a navigational aid or merge to List of years (a new column at the head of each row of ten years seems ideal). Clarityfiend (talk) 21:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep As long as there are that many articles linked to, this list is valid. If you want to get rid of all of the many decade articles, then do so first, then the list  has no purpose.  Until then it aids in navigation.   D r e a m Focus  01:29, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per Dream Focuses' good argument. Hog Farm (talk) 04:14, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. The nominator is talking specifically about all the articles linked to this one, which isn't what the AfD is about. This one, is for navigation, and perfectly valid. Ajf773 (talk) 17:54, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Is there a guideline for, "we can have categories and lists both"? I see people claiming we cannot so often. Anarchangel (talk) 02:38, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete DELETE: It is ridiculous listing groups of ten years as decades but excluding years 1 to 9 because they do not constitute a decade. Do it properly from year 1 to the end of year 10 = the first decade, followed by the other decades to produce a consistent result. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pvadasz (talk • contribs) 05:57, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, this page provides useful navigation and provides a good place to showcase the logical conflict between cardinal/ordinal decades, where in our current counting system the first span can't be a real decade. That is useful information to have visually available and discoverable to readers searching for information about decades in general. This should not be deleted or limited to pages about other topics or specific decades only. --Krinkle (talk) 18:51, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Dede2008 (talk) 11:17, 15 January 2020 (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.