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Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years

Please note that I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)/Archive 224#Removing the Births and deaths sections of 20th and 21st century years to propose removing the births and deaths of 20th and 21st century years. Anyone who is interested in commenting there is welcome. Interstellarity (talk) 22:19, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unpopular opinion.

The "Leaders section can be restored with this form. With "Hide/Show" Gallery.

For the Decades until the 1970s. History has not judged the most of 1990s leaders beacause is living.

Hide Gallery Leaders Of North America Pierre Trudeau Lester B. Pearson Lester B. Pearson John Diefenbaker Fidel Castro Rafael Trujillo François Duvalier Anastasio Somoza Debayle Omar Torrijos John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Leaders of South America João Goulart Castelo Branco Costa e Silva Eduardo Frei Montalva Alberto Lleras Camargo [[Guillermo León [[Carlos José María Velasco Ibarra C.J Arosemena Monroy Alfredo Stroessner Manuel Prado Fernando Belaúnde Terry Leaders of Europe Enver Hoxha Gaston Eyskens Todor Zhivkov Antonín Novotný Gustáv Husák Viggo Kampmann Jens Otto Krag Urho Kekkonen Charles de Gaulle Georges Pompidou Walter Ulbricht Konrad Adenauer Ludwig Erhard Kurt Georg Kiesinger Constantine II Georgios Papandreou János Kádár Seán Lemass John Lynch Amintore Fanfani Aldo Moro Rainier III Jan de Quay Piet de Jong Einar Gerhardsen Władysław Gomułka António de Oliveira Salazar Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Nicolae Ceaușescu Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Francisco Franco Tage Erlander Elizabeth II Harold Macmillan Harold Wilson Pope John XXIII Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI Josip Broz Tito Leaders of Asia Mohammed Zahir Shah Norodom Sihanouk Sirimavo Bandaranaike Mao Zedong Mao Zedong Zhou En Lai Zhou En Lai Jawaharlal Nehru Indira Gandhi Suharto Sukarno Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Satō Kim Il-sung Park Chung-hee Jamsrangiin Sambuu Ho Chi Minh Ferdinand Marcos Diosdado Macapagal Lee Kuan Yew Ngo Dinh Diem Chiang Kai-shek Bhumibol Adulyadej Leaders of Middle East and North Africa Ahmed Ben Bella Makarios III Gamal Abdel Nasser Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Abd al-Karim Qasim David Ben-Gurion Levi Eshkol King Hussein Fouad Chehab Idris I Muammar Gaddafi Hassan II Yasser Arafat King Faisal King Saud Habib Bourguiba Süleyman Demirel İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü Ahmad bin Yahya Leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa Jean-Bedel Bokassa Patrice Lumumba Haile Selassie Kwame Nkrumah Jomo Kenyatta William Tubman Hastings Banda Ian Smith B. J. Vorster Julius Nyrere Kenneth Kaunda Leaders of Australia and Oceania John Gorton Harold Holt John McEwen Robert Menzies Keith Holyoake Walter Nash

Sorry for the bad morphing.

Example: Leaders of the 1960s. EditingIsMyHobby (talk) 15:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removing births and deaths of the year articles - 1900-1979

Continuing the discussion from my talk page, we seem to have a disagreement on whether the entries for the births and deaths should be removed for the years of the 20th century. I feel that to avoid BLP issues, it should extend all the way to 1900 and not at some point in the middle of the century.

• Pinging: @Alalch E.:, @Jameboy:, @Ttocserp: for input. Interstellarity (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, I am opposed to this. The only reason we split Deaths for newer years is size reasons, because there's a lot of them. A category link isn't good enough IMO. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:31, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@QuicoleJR How do you feel about splitting births? Do we split it for size reasons as well? I'm saying this because most of our people articles are from the 20th and 21st centuries. Yes, we do have size problems for the newer years, but we also have size problems with older years up to 1900 as well. Interstellarity (talk) 14:17, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd prefer to have "births in year" articles and more "deaths in year" articles going down the 20th century, instead of simply linking to categories. QuicoleJR (talk) 14:23, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Same. —Alalch E. 12:58, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contemporary decade articles

I was thinking of improving the page 2010s, but the page is absurdly long. 2020s is even longer despite there still being 4 years to go, and both of them along with 2000s are in the top 500 longest pages. How should we go about shortening them? ChaoticVermillion (converse, contribs) 07:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have a suggestion: get rid of the tables in 2010s and 2020s. If it isn't important enough to work into the prose that will follow, it shouldn't be on the page anyway. Those tables are absurdly long and absurdly numerous, and they need to go. Similarly, for 2000s, take those massive paragraph-long bullet points on those lists and turn them into (much shorter) prose, removing anything that doesn't fit or isn't needed. If there's still a size problem after this, we can make further cuts. QuicoleJR (talk) 14:35, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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