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(copying this question over from the village pump): I've been editing country years talk pages (e.g. Talk:1920 in France) and I'd like to know if WikiProject Time is an appropriate WikiProject for such articles. I've seen it randomly on a few talk pages, but are such articles actually well-suited for this project? (note: we already use WikiProject Years) — Nythar (💬-🎃) 17:47, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Nythar: - yes, I'm wondering same thing since there are thousands of these year lists. Some I've seen with WP Time, but mostly not. Also curious about adding History wikiproject? JoeNMLC (talk) 04:41, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- JoeNMLC: I've seen WikiProject History on quite a few of these talk pages, and because it seems relevant, I added it to other talk pages to keep the format relatively consistent. However, I'm still not quite sure about adding either WikiProjects History or Time. Any suggestions? I was wondering whether this needs consensus or just an agreement between two or three WikiProject members. — Nythar (💬-❄️) 01:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- Nythar: In August 2022, for Template - "Years in Romania", I combined 3 other Romania templates into that one. After that, on some of those years, if a Talk page was missing I created with WP Romania, WP List, WP Years. On talk pages for some years it contained Romania only, so I added the two (List and Years). Just my opinion, but to keep these year lists focused it may be best to do just the 3 Wikiprojects (Country, List, Years). Adding WP Time and WP History I don't know whether these would attract more editors to improve the Year lists. I'm not sure how active WP Time is but I think WP History is active, especially with so many Biography articles. JoeNMLC (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- JoeNMLC, sorry about the late reply. Anyway, I think these three WikiProjects seem fine. I'll use them in the future for such talk pages. Regards, — Nythar (💬-❄️) 19:59, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
- Nythar: In August 2022, for Template - "Years in Romania", I combined 3 other Romania templates into that one. After that, on some of those years, if a Talk page was missing I created with WP Romania, WP List, WP Years. On talk pages for some years it contained Romania only, so I added the two (List and Years). Just my opinion, but to keep these year lists focused it may be best to do just the 3 Wikiprojects (Country, List, Years). Adding WP Time and WP History I don't know whether these would attract more editors to improve the Year lists. I'm not sure how active WP Time is but I think WP History is active, especially with so many Biography articles. JoeNMLC (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- JoeNMLC: I've seen WikiProject History on quite a few of these talk pages, and because it seems relevant, I added it to other talk pages to keep the format relatively consistent. However, I'm still not quite sure about adding either WikiProjects History or Time. Any suggestions? I was wondering whether this needs consensus or just an agreement between two or three WikiProject members. — Nythar (💬-❄️) 01:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Please consider if you might contribute helpfully to wp:HOWLONGISALONGTIME, a Wikipedia essay which has been needed and yet has only just been started. wp:IANAL, but what is time, anyhow? Is your time the same as my time? Sincerely, --Doncram (talk,contribs) 10:53, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
The graphic on this page is now out of date. Evan Siroky has very-recently revved time-zone-boundary builder to v2023d, and (at my request) has uploaded the resulting imagery to wikimedia. I have amended the graphic at tz database -- which had a very dated map of timezones (and was IMHO clearly incorrect in its depiction of the PRC as having multiple timzeones).
Perhaps it's time to drop this graphic from this page, but instead provide a crosslink to the (more general) article at tz database? Building an accurate graphic from a list is a non-trivial and error-prone task... Siroky says "it is the intent of this project to rely more heavily on the timezone data from OpenStreetMap. In future releases, more boundaries will have their definitions come directly from overpass searches for timezone key/value pairs in OpenStreetMap. This project will continue to quality-control the resulting worldwide data prior to releasing." [1]https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/blob/master/README.md
cthombor (talk) 23:53, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ Siroky, Evan (1 January 2024). "Time Zone Boundary Builder".
The date format field in Infobox country is often completely unsourced. Some of these have sources at List of date formats by country, but this list itself also contains many entires that are unsourced too. Presumably, written sources don't exist for many date formats of countries because this seems to be such a common sense thing that no one bothers to formalise it in text. What's the best way forward here? Liu1126 (talk) 13:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- The standard answer is find sources. Is this a start? [2], [3]. ~Kvng (talk) 15:46, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Bhadra (Hindu calendar)#Requested move 16 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:29, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Byzantine calendar which members of this project may be interested in contributing to. Remsense ‥ 论 01:18, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about the broken time zones at Template talk:Start date text. Not only does this family of templates look up the wrong time zone value for older dates, and render the time zone offset for the main example on the documentation page, related to the Attack on Pearl Harbor false, the ISO 8601 string in the metadata is utter nonsense. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dhanu (month)#Requested move 7 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
I am not sure exactly where the best place to post this is, but I have started a draft on ticking as a sound most often associated with clocks (I was astonished to learn that our article at the title, Ticking, is about an obscure kind of textile). Any thoughts on sourcing or otherwise improving this draft would be appreciated! BD2412 T 02:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Note: Now at Ticking (sound), but could still stand expansion. BD2412 T 19:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
This was something that was raised a few years ago on its talk page, but I've gone through some material related to the Roman calendar, and a while back I came to the conclusion that much of the article and some related articles (Mercedonius, which might need to be moved to Intercalaris, and the Leap year error section of Julian calendar) will need to be looked at and possibly rewritten entirely. Especially due to the interference of a certain LTA, there's a lot of places where they focus on explaining the classical sources and/or downplaying modern research, and in particular they focus on an outdated model of how the leap month is handled in the Roman Republican calendar.
Unfortunately I don't have the time or energy to deal with it myself, and probably won't for a long time. As such, is anyone here willing to help? Arcorann (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2025 (UTC)