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Just for the record, Strauss and Howe coined the term “Millennial”

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Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe coined the term. To my understanding, some people have been going into this article and attempting to delete any mention them. This is erasure of history. While Strauss-Howe generational theory is widely criticized, it is part of the generations history whether people like it or not. Bob200505722 (talk) 23:00, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any attempt to "delete any mention" of them. There are multiple mentions of the theory and its authors throughout the article. Betty Logan (talk) 00:36, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. This is easy to confirm with the search function of one's web browser. Nerd271 (talk) 02:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just had someone revert my change to delete them from the opening paragraph.
I responded to user "Some1" with:
"It is untrue to history to not acknowledge from the outset of the article that the term has not changed in use.
Originally, meant as a term to acknowledge those most impacted by the millennium (c.1982-2000/2005) it has since become synonymous with Gen Y.
Removing this from the article removes the very real change that has happened within the term.
To those in history who are unfamiliar with the time, their only way to know is with the information provided."
The important part of the term that has been eroded is that those born in the early years of the new millennium are most definitely affected by the occurrence of the millennium; thus, they are 100% truly millennials in every sense of the meaning of the term. Gen Y ≠ Millennial, Gen Y = Gen Y, Millenial = Gens Y and half of Gen Z.
It is a temporal classification that surrounds the Millennium itself. Hamish.croker (talk) 05:03, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As pointed out by multiple people in this thread already, Strauss-Howe's coinage of the term is already mentioned first thing in the Millennials#Terminology and etymology section. Putting it and their date ranges in the lead would violate WP:NPOV by giving them WP:UNDUE weight, especially when most RSes don't mention them or use their date ranges at all. Also, see Strauss–Howe generational theory. Some1 (talk) 23:09, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thus the article should be titled "Generation Y, part of which is called millennials". 193.50.46.168 (talk) 13:39, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Own generation needs to be formed

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I think the older millennials need to have their own generation bc we are nothing like the younger ones. Bc many of us in the 80s are getting pissed when we are to correct ppl for our part away from the ideology of millennials 144.163.28.153 (talk) 05:43, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? It already exists, the Xennials. There is even a Wikipedia page for this Xennial micro-generation. ChicagoGirlD (talk) 23:38, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 10 September 2025

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Change https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-05/ipsos-mori-millennial-myths-realities-full-report.pdf to https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-05/ipsos-millennial-myths-realities-full-report.pdf

It's link no 91 here:

Polling agency Ipsos-MORI warned that the word "millennials" is "misused to the point where it's often mistaken for just another meaningless buzzword" because "many of the claims made about millennial characteristics are simplified, misinterpreted or just plain wrong, which can mean real differences get lost" and that "[e]qually important are the similarities between other generations—the attitudes and behaviors that are staying the same are sometimes just as important and surprising."[91] Tanjacorrs (talk) 17:01, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Fixed, thanks. Dan Bloch (talk) 20:14, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Myspace & Livejournal

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Does anyone else think these two websites are defining traits of the millenial generation? I don't think this level of granularity is helpful. If you are an old millennial (like me) you probably didn't use them, and if you were a young millenial you probably didn't either. It feels a bit like Jw00231 is a millennial trying to impose his own experiences on the article. I also don't think this web 1.0 WP:JARGON is relevant either. Generations are broad demographics and they need to be discussed in broad terms. What we can say is that millenials (the oldest beginning their childhoods in the 80s and youngest ending theirs roughly in the late 2000s) experienced the rise of the internet in some form (generally from 1994 when Windows 95 brought it into homes) and probably ending in 2007 when the iphone took the internet out of homes and into people's pockets. Betty Logan (talk) 19:52, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd argue those sites actually cover the full spectrum of Millennials. Older millennials were on Myspace in 2003-2004 promoting local bands and artists, core millennials were on the site in 2006-2007 as part of the emo/scene trend, and younger millennials caught the tail end of Myspace around 2009-2010.--Jw00231 (talk) 18:42, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reversal of likely age demographics

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The opening paragraph wrongly states that millennials are likely to be the children of Boomers or older generation Xers. Millennials are not likely to be the offspring of older generation Xers but rather older boomers even in reference to "early stage millennials". The cited article correctly states it. Dwightfryebrain (talk) 17:39, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't follow your logic at all. If we go by the ages of the mothers, the average child-bearing age during the 80s and 90s was 27/28, so going with that average birth-age the year range that produced the millenial generation (which I will consider as 1980–2000 for the sake of simplicity) was primarily produced by mothers born 1953–1972 i.e. younger boomers and older Gen X. Older boomers are more like to have Gen X children. Betty Logan (talk) 04:03, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]