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Anniversaries in the year articles

Regarding anniversaries of the creation of certain media, cultural property, and organizations, I do not see them as relevant enough to include in the year articles, in most cases. I think anniversaries should only be included if they have a particularly high amount of coverage, such as the bicentennial of the United States in 1976, or perhaps the release of Mickey Mouse into the public domain.

The following are examples of what I'm talking about:

2029: "50th anniversary of the Alien."
2043: "100th anniversary of Droopy."
2052: "100th anniversary of the Cinerama."

Yamazaki Kaoru (talk) 18:00, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree with you. One could add an arbitrary number of non-notable anniversaries but that wouldn't be encyclopedically useful at all. Feel free to boldly remove them. Cheers, Sophocrat (talk) 01:50, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone ahead and removed them myself from the articles you cited. Thanks for pointing this out :). —Sophocrat (talk) 01:56, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, too. Are all the ones you've seen in future years? -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:35, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. All the ones I've seen are in future years. I'll remove the others now. Yamazaki Kaoru (talk) 22:28, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deprecating Template:Nobelprize proposal

Hi, I would like to propose deprecating {{Nobelprize}} in favour of Category:Nobel Peace Prize winners,

The topicon can be added to non-winners and no one would ever know about it whereas categories would be better spotted and reverted if need be. The other issue is the articles are also being put in the "Bogus file options" lint error category because there's an error with the formatting of {{Nobelprize}},

I appreciate some articles have the {{good article}} topicon however this shows the achievements of editors and the article they've significantly expanded .... whereas this topicon just tells people someone's a winner of an award, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 21:26, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I don't see how it's encyclopedically useful. As far as I know we don't add a topicon for any other non-Wikipedia category. We can deprecate it and if someone's up for it we could copy English Wikipedia's version of the template, which outputs an updated link to the Nobel Prize website. Sophocrat (talk) 23:37, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm fine with this. Be bold. :) fr33k man 22:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @The Sophocrat and @Fr33kman for your replies they're greatly appreciated :),

I perhaps could've just done this instead of asking here but over at Enwiki it was always sod's law that whenever I was bold someone always had to object to my change, Of course I'm not perfect and I know there's somethings I see as being pointless that others/many don't but it seemed being BOLD would always go against me which is kinda the reason why I don't bother anymore (that and I prefer to have consensus behind me so that if someone makes a fuss at least I can say I have consensus),

Anyway waffling on thanks again it's very much appreciated :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 21:04, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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