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WikiProject Years is a project dedicated to improving all year-related articles on Wikipedia to Featured status. We cover all year, decade, century, and millenia articles and their subarticles. Our scope is incredibly large, so we rely a lot on automated bots to do more tedious tasks. Our current focus is on improving the 1340s article (see User:AndonicO/Tzatziki Squad/1340s, as well as hammering out some new policies and guidelines:

WikiProject Years is currently developing a guideline for the inclusion of events in year articles, especially more recent years such as 2009 (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Recent Year guidlines draft). Please have a look and offer suggestions. Recent year articles are consistently among the most edited on Wikipedia and are surrounded with controversy, as everyone believes their event is "notable enough" to be listed in the main year article. We need objective criteria which will (hopefully) alleviate the controversy a bit.

There is also an important policy discussions going on here Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#YEAR ARTICLES ARE NOT 'TRIVIA' ARTICLES and here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Years#A_proposal. Please take part in the discussion.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Similar projects 3 To do 4 Assessment and review 4.1 Current status 5 Participants 6 Accomplishments 7 Templates 7.1 Year in Topic boxes 8 Old surveys 9 Example Year 9.1 Infobox 9.2 Intro Section 9.3 Sections 9.4 Events 9.5 Summary of year 9.6 Births section 9.7 Deaths section 9.8 More

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject's first aim was primarily to formalize the unofficial standard used for creating year pages. A standard was created and then transferred to Wikipedia:Timeline standards. The project still conceivably has responsibility for maintaining/improving that standard. The project currently oversees all year articles, (e.g. 1345, 2008), decade articles, century articles, and millennia articles, as well as their sub-articles (e.g. 2008 in sports).

[edit] Similar projects

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Time.

• WikiProject Current events (inactive)
• WikiProject years in science (inactive)
  • The various "years in (foo)" pages need their own project pages as well. +sj + 03:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
• WikiProject Days of the Year
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Timelines (inactive)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject History
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Leaders by year (inactive)

(Also, since year articles cover science, philosophy, arts, literature, and other subjects, this project has connections to several other projects not listed.)

[edit] To do

The collaboration of the week is 1929

1. Resolve policy questions (such as WP:RY)
2. Fix templates
3. Improve 1929 and 1340s

[edit] Assessment and review

The WP:YEARS department that assesses articles for quality and importance can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Assessment. If you are interested in assessment and review, please add your name to the list of reviewers on the assessment page.

[edit] Current status

Years articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA					1	1
	C		8	1		10	19
	Start		129	276	220	10	635
	Stub		1	2	39	24	66
	List	2	7	4	11	115	139
	Assessed	2	145	283	270	160	860
	Unassessed		1			3337	3338
	Total	2	146	283	270	3497	4198

[edit] Participants

[edit] Accomplishments

FAs

GAs

• 1346

DYKs

• 1345

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Yearbox}}	Centuries: [[{{{cp}}}]] · [[{{{c}}}]] · [[{{{cf}}}]] Decades: [[{{{dp3}}}]] [[{{{dp2}}}]] [[{{{dp1}}}]] [[{{{d}}}]] [[{{{dn1}}}]] [[{{{dn2}}}]] [[{{{dn3}}}]] Years: [[{{{yp1}}}]] [[{{{yp2}}}]] [[{{{yp3}}}]] [[{{{year}}}]] [[{{{ya1}}}]] [[{{{ya2}}}]] [[{{{ya3}}}]]	The Infobox for year pages.
{{C21YearInTopic}}}}	WikiProject Years by topic: News by month Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec Arts Architecture – Art – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television Politics Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states Science and technology Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight Sports Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – National Rugby League By place Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – China – Denmark – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Ireland – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – Sri Lanka – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe Other topics Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments Works and introductions categories Works – Introductions v • d • e	The topic infobox for year pages.
{{YearsProject}}	WikiProject Years (Rated NA-Class) YearsWikipedia:WikiProject YearsTemplate:WikiProject YearsYears articles v • d • e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Years, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Years on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of the Years WikiProjects. For instructions, see assessment page.
{{User WP Years}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Years	This userbox is for members of the project to put on their userpage and proclaim that they are a member of this project.

[edit] Year in Topic boxes

Each century has a different year in topic box, depending on how much information is available in Wikipedia. The following have been created so far:

• {{C21YearInTopic}}
• {{C20YearInTopic}}
• {{C19YearInTopic}}
• {{C18YearInTopic}}
• {{C17YearInTopic}}
• {{C16YearInTopic}}
• {{C15YearInTopic}}
• {{C14YearInTopic}}
• {{C13YearInTopic}}
• {{C12YearInTopic}}
• {{C11YearInTopic}}
• {{M1YearInTopic}}

The last one is for the whole 1st millennium (1-1000 AD). However it has not yet been decided how many there should be. See talk page and survey for discussions.

[edit] Old surveys

• August 2005 survey results

[edit] Example Year

Warning: The following example is a bare bones idea of how a year page should look. If you believe something is missing want to add it to "2004", please don't edit this page but go to 2004.

[edit] Infobox

Each year should have an infobox at the top right. The templates will be the template {{yearbox}} followed by the template {{C21YearInTopic}} (or applicable centuries template, see above).

 {{yearbox| | in?= | cp=20th Century | c=21st century  | cf=22nd century  | yp1=2001 | yp2=2002 | yp3=2003 | year=2004 | ya1=2005 | ya2=2006 | ya3=2007   | dp3=1970s | dp2=1980s | dp1=1990s | d=2000s | dn1=2010s | dn2=2020s | dn3=2030s }} {{C21YearInTopic}} 

[edit] Intro Section

The first sentence in the introduction explains that the page is for a year and not a number. This statement should only be include if the number is on the List of numbers page. The second introduction sentence will describe the year (a link to a calendar) and the type of calendar the year bellongs to. The following sentence lists any official designation the year has. For articles containing year summaries, the intro summarizes the year as a whole in a manner consistent with WP:LEAD.

 ''This article is about the year 2004. For other uses of 2004, see [[2004 (number)]]:''  '''2004''' is a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was designated the:  *''International Year of [[Rice]]'' (by the [[United Nations]]) *''International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against [[Slavery]] and its Abolition'' (by [[UNESCO]]) *''Year of the Monkey'' (by the [[Chinese calendar]])  '''See [[The world in 2004]] for a description of the state of the world in this year.''' 

[edit] Sections

[edit] Events

The events section is divided into months, each month has a calendar at the beginning and lists any important events that occurred. The month header once linked to the particular month in the year (eg. January 2004), but no longer does. Each item links to the day.

 ==Events==  ===January=== * [[January 3]] - [[Flash Airlines Flight 604]] crashes into the [[Red Sea]] off the coast of [[Egypt]], killing all 148 aboard. * [[January 4]] - [[Mikhail Saakashvili]] wins the presidential elections in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. * [[January 4]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MER-A]] (''Spirit'') lands on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].  ===February=== * [[February 1]] - A [[hajj]] stampede in [[Mina, Saudi Arabia|Mina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], kills 251 pilgrims.  ===March===  ===April===  ===May===  ===June===  ===July===  ===August===  ===September===  ===October===  ===November===  ===December===  

[edit] Summary of year

A summary of the year may follow the timeline, describing events of the year. Be sure to cite everything in this section.

[edit] Births section

The Births section list all births in that year, divided into month section. Each entry links to the day page, has a very short description of the person, and links to the death year if known.

 ==Births== ===January=== *[[January 21]] - [[Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway]] *[[January 21]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2005]]) American author *[[January 31]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2003]]) Polonesian King  ===February=== 

[edit] Deaths section

The deaths section begins with a see also statement, and follows the same format as the births section: Month section, day link, name, and birth year link if known.

 ==Deaths== '''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2004]]'''  ===January=== *[[January 27]] - [[Jack Paar]], American television show host (b. [[1918]])  ===December=== *[[December 28]] - [[Jerry Orbach]], American actor (b. [[1935]])  *[[December 28]] - [[Susan Sontag]], American writer and activist (b. [[1933]]) 

[edit] More

It has not yet been decided what else will be included on the year pages. Many currently have sections for awards, fiction, external links etc. These sections may be removed (or more likely moved to a separate page to be included on the infobox) later, but for now the following form can be followed to close out the page.

 ==External link== {{commonscat|2004}}  [[Category:2004| ]]  [[af:2004]] [[ar:2004]]