Talk:List of decades, centuries, and millennia

message: "BC" should be changed to "BCE" (Before Common Era); consistent with usage recommended by the American Historical Association.  20:51, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ironically you are being American-centric by saying that if an American institution recommends something, we should follow through. Kransky 14:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea, put it in Kransky 14:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC to BCE 

message: Decades: "This page refers to a period of ten years." - no it doesn't. Decades refers to periods of ten years. A decade is a unit of time equal to (a period of) ten years. We have now lost that information from wikipedia by replacing an article with a redirect. Ian Cairns 00:05, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Decade vs Decades

message: Some commentators suggest that this phenomenon will not continue into the 21st Century with its decades   really?  Wow...I would just love to know speculated this and the basis of their reasoning! Kransky 14:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced comment

message: The calendar starts at 1 AD, the year before it is 1 BC, there is no year Zero.  Therefore the first decade AD was 1AD to 10AD and likewise the first decade BC was 1BC to 10BC.  So. a decade ends in a zero, not a nine.  All other decades, centuries and millenia follow the same format, ending in 0, 00 or 000. Unless you want to pick one and cut it to 9 years, 99 years or 999 years.  But then it would not be a decade, century or millenia.  Just get 1000 of anything and count them out in 10's, 100's or 1,000's.  You start counting with a number ending in 1 and end with a number that ends in 0, 00 or 000.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertjerl (talk • contribs) 07:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It was nonsense the last time this was added, and it's still nonsense.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 08:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Please read WP:RY, or my longer reply at one of your duplicate posts at Talk:2000s (decade)#Wrong dates for this decade. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:35, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

text: No.  I can't argue that ru.Wikipedia shouldn't work that way, but ours shouldn't, per long-standing consensus.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:15, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decades and counting them 

message: almost every decade lacks it's second year... for example in - 1070s (decade) - article the year 1070 is immediately followed by 1072, with 1071 nowhere to be found. This is true with all the other decades as well, I checked thoroughly --Dj777cool (talk) 15:37, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  This was not a joke - see 1070s for yourself --- list of events occurring in the 1070s, ordered by year, but 1070 is followed by 1072 in the events line.. every decade is like this --Dj777cool (talk) 06:41, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decades need fixing!!! 

message: If so, I can't find it. Here's an idea of how it could be populated, for now anyway, at this time in history. Such a List might indicate:
"The 20s" refers to 1920 - 1929 (203.128.80.36 above notwithstanding)
"The 30s" refers to 1930 - 1939
etc. through "The 90s"
"The 2000s" referring to 2000 - 2009
"The 2010s" referring to 2010 - 2019
(I'm not sure if "The 1910s" was in use back then, or even if it is currently an acceptable convention.) 
So such a "List of Named Decades" or a "List of Names of Decades" could catalog such things and it's Talk Page could help find references to resolve such matters. Thoughts? Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host  (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a "List of Named Decades"? 

message: Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, eh? This must be about the least encyclopedic thing I've ever come across on Wikipedia. A refusal to count from 1-10, well I assume it's a refusal rather than an inability to do so. What complete nonsense!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwladys24 (talk • contribs) 23:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decades running from year 0 to year 9?? 

message: The 2000s start in the 20th century and in the 2nd millenium and they end in the 21th century and the 3rd millenium, yet they are listed in only one century/millenium.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darsie42 (talk • contribs) 13:48, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You might want to look at this suggestion that the article be deleted. ~ Blurryman (talk) 19:05, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some decades are in two centuries/millenia 

message: It looks like you tagged the page but haven't opened a discussion yet. I support your proposal; this page includes centuries and millennia already anyways (apart from a few far future pages, which can be added), so it makes sense to just have everything here.  talk 19:50, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: 👍 -- Beland (talk) 22:53, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[List of centuries and millennia]]?