Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of months by year


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  10:47, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

List of months by year

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The inclusion of all months from January 1900 to December 2019 now makes this list useless per WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE. The extra months were added by IP addresses likely belonging to the same person. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 05:00, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 05:06, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Need to address this navigation problem with some thinking It says something that half of the talk page chatter is "what-the-heck is this for?" There is something to be said, maybe, for a timeline navigational system, but this structure of lists made up entirely of whatever someone bothered to put in the list (and I'm guessing that the vast majority of editors don't know these articles exist) is surely headed deep into WP:INDISCRIMINATE territory if people put any serious effort into filling it in. Mangoe (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * (which is to say, at this point, delete with all its children) Mangoe (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment Can't we just revert the newly included months to make it less useless? Or is this a larger discussion about whether this should exist at all? (It's got a decent navigational use once you get past the "what the heck?") SportingFlyer (talk) 19:47, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Split to List of months of the 20th century and List of months of the 21st century (1200 months in each century). But if you will delete the some months' links only with such criterias as "good article does not exist", then rename the article to "List of selected months and selected years chosen by some editors". 178.92.80.206 (talk) 21:15, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J04n(talk page) 16:20, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * delete. What a weird list. Serves no purpose. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:49, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep If the list was a legitimate list to have before some redlinks were added, it's still a legitimate list afterwards. Whether months which don't yet have articles should be linked here or not is a content dispute that is not suitable for AfD. I can see the case for leaving them out, but even if they are included, the list hardly seems indiscriminate to me. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 18:20, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:CLNT. The linked articles are clearly related and therefore there should be either or both of a category and list for them. This is the list. The deletion rationale (that it now includes redlinks) in no way supports deletion - indeed, WP:DOAC (sub-section of the first link) explicitly states that the ability to contain redlinks is an advantage of a list over a category. Dorsetonian (talk) 19:40, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. The ultimate exemplar of WP:OL per Over-Extensive Lists. This might be the best (worst?) example of WP:LISTCRUFT on this encyclopedia. Just think of how much ground that covers. -- Millionsandbillions (talk) 19:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per CLNT, but split into centuries per 178 to allow for previous centuries. A useful navigational tool. This does not violate any part of OL. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:USEFUL is not a legitimate argument. -- Millionsandbillions (talk) 19:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Fine. A navigational tool. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:52, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete this and all the month articles per Legacypac. I've just had a look at what's in the linked lists. If they were even remotely complete, they'd be totally unmanageable. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:05, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 05:55, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete the pages I spot checked are indiscriminate collections of events that only matter in one part of the world or don't matter at all. For kicks I checked my birthday and found nothing happened that day. I do see a use for this master list - a nice guide to finding and deleting all the useless daughter month pages. Legacypac (talk) 06:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't really see the purpose of this page, but adding redlinks has not really changed anything and the nomination is a bit POINTY. SpinningSpark 01:59, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete and I'll comment not. Just: whoa. -The Gnome (talk) 20:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)


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