Template talk:Year nav

message: 01-February-2007: Perhaps the centuries listed were limited to a choice of 3 due to width-limitations; however, more century numbers could be displayed by dropping "century" from other choices, such as showing "18th" rather than "18th century" (omit "century" outside the center).  -Wikid77 14:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More centuries 

message: 01-February-2007: The navigation template "Template:Year nav" had been too wide for commonplace 800x600 screens, when displayed in the yearly articles 1500-1999, so I narrowed the nav-box by using small-font for the choice of decades.  Just a small narrowing allowed left-side text to format as 6-7 words per line, enough to avoid the peculiar appearance of 5 words-per-line wrapping which often produced very ragged lines because most words are 6-7 letters wide.  -Wikid77 14:25, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narrowed 

message: Can there be a political world map for each year embedded into the year nav?  It benefit the study of temporal politics.  Possible difficulties I know of:
# African nations changes frequently in last century and annual map may not have sufficient granulity to reflect that
# Disputed territories between peace treaties
3Laws 23:53, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political World Map 

message: I've added some code that will automatically put  on the current year page. --Philip Stevens 06:35, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current year 

message: Please copy the code from  into the template, there is no need to have two templates that do the same thing. --Philip Stevens 06:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you really asking to have one of these templates deleted or redirect to the other?  If so, perhaps you should list this at WP:TFD.  If you want help with that, or can't do a portion of the nomination due to the protection, let me know and I'll try to do the parts that you have trouble with. --After Midnight 0001 17:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: *I'll do that thanks. --Philip Stevens 21:17, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the other template has been nominated, I've disabled this edit protect. If anything else needs to be done here, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or After Midnight's. - auburnpilot talk 23:00, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year nav range 

message: 30-June-2007: That Template:Year_nav was hacked live, without full testing, and erroneous changes got protect-locked into the template on 23-June-2007.
The error message: "Unrecognised parameter 'year' " is caused by checking the keyword "PAGENAME" instead of "888" so the fix is to replace the top 2 if-statements with the following 2 code lines:
-->
-->
That fix replaces PAGENAME with parameter 1: "888" (note the triple-braces "").
I have fixed the related "Template:Year_nav_range" which is intended for experimental changes, because it is used in only a handful of years, while "Template:Year_nav" is used by hundreds of WP articles (intended for thousands).  Thanks.  -Wikid77 11:23, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. By the way, the code above would have broken the template; you forgot to use a new 
replies: text:  Thanks, it tested OK.  Glad you caught the unopened comment; these primitive computer languages are still a syntactical nightmare: there was a joke many moons ago that proposed using a comment token "$##%%&@$$" to gig the ad-nauseum language tokens.  Wow, it's way into the 21 century now, and much software is still uncommented to avoid runaway comment tokens: "what's new is old [tech] again." -Wikid77 03:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected erroneous change 

message: The  tag should be removed from this template. It looks rather silly to inform readers that things may change as the year 2054 approaches. See also discussions on WP:CAFET and . --Kildor (talk) 07:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No comments or objections have been made to this proposal after almost a week. So I request the following change to this template:
Replace the following two rows (row 4 and 5 in the template):
  -->
  {| class="infobox" style="text-align: center;"
...with the following row:
  -->{| class="infobox" style="text-align: center;"
Thanks. --Kildor (talk) 14:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Happy‑melon 15:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove {{tl|future}} tag 

message: 
Due to a category move, please remove :Category:History navigational boxes and replace with :Category:History and events templates.  Thank you. --Russ (talk) 10:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --- RockMFR 14:50, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: The decades denoted nn00s have been moved to nn00–nn09.  We need to change the template accordingly, possibly using .  (This might break the spacing, though, so I hesitate to ask for a specific change at this time.)  also needs to be changed, and  will need to be changed.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: by you, AFAICT. —Ms2ger (talk) 16:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decade links 

message: Millennium:	
Centuries: 	-  -
Decades:   	      -  -      
Years:     	-  -
Hello. This template currently displays the year it is given as a parameter and the THREE years either side as links. I would like to suggest increasing this range to FOUR years either side. The reason for this suggestion is that there is a leap year every four years such that jumping forward or backwards by four years might be a convenient option to offer.
I realise that the counter-argument to this change could be "well, why not offer 5 years, or 6 years", but my response is that 5 or 6 years (or 3 years as is currently displayed) is an arbitary choice, whereas 4 years has a calendar-based reason behind it. 
The other counter-argument is that the 3 year span fits better in the template but, in the example version I've provided to the right, I've made the years the same size text as the decades and it fits just as well.
Here's hoping for a useful discussion. GDallimore (Talk) 14:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: However, 5 years would span a decade so wouldn't be arbitrary. Jimp 05:14, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest having a four year span 

message: Is there any particular reason why the central year and century are bolded but the decade and millenium are not? As a bonus question, is there any particular reason why the preceding and following millenia aren't listed? Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 01:05, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions 

message: In articles this box is typically followed by another two boxes produced such templates as .  This gives us three boxes typically of different sizes.  If these three boxes were combined into a single infobox, it would look a whole lot nicer and there'd be just one template to transclude instead of two.  This seems an obvious improvement to me.
In fact, I'd go as far as to suggest merging these along with other templates which we have at the top of year pages (, , , etc.) into a single standard simple-to-use template. Jimp 07:10, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The link 911 leads to a disambiguation page. I was wondering, if somebody can fix the link? Gar (talk) 14:12, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  911 

message: hi. this template seems to transclude a category link called "categorys with short description". is that supposed to be occurring? 
you can ping me when you reply to this question. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  cat question 

message: The link for 911 needs updating/fixing since the article was moved to 911 (year) however there is a RM at Talk:911 (year)#Requested move 8 July 2019. Crouch, Swale (talk)  18:27, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  911 link 

message: The short description for 1 BC shows "-1".  The article also has an explicit short description.  Can we fix this, either by providing more descriptive text or by allowing articles to override it? Certes (talk) 10:32, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Oof. I don't know what I was thinking. I have reverted my change and made the short description "Calendar year". I have also added the "noreplace" option so that local short descriptions will override the one provided by the template. My apologies all around. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:03, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  No harm done; not many readers will see short descriptions for BC years. Certes (talk) 17:09, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short description 

message: Please replace each of the three links to List of decades, centuries, and millenniums with a link to List of decades, centuries, and millennia. I have moved the list article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:49, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: * Pppery * it has begun... 15:09, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 October 2020 

message: Why does the template link to "AD 2014" and not "2014" when previously it would only do that for small year numbers (e.g. AD 14)? Strangely, I found out that this has been the case since September 3, 2020 (or perhaps late in the day on September 2), yet there were no edits to this template between April 29 and October 13. Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 14:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a few months, but in case anyone clueful comes by at some point, I'm also mildly curious... AngryHarpytalk 18:12, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

text: The relevant edit to  is , after discussions at WikiProject Years, e.g. here.  For most numbers over 1000, the plain number is the title of an article (2021) or redirect to a section (2099) about that year, but there are exceptions such as 2048 and 2084.  Linking via AD 2048 etc. saves the pain of working out exactly which numbers lead to a year and regularly updating the templates. Certes (talk) 18:45, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about "AD" usage 

message: Pages for months going from January 1900 to December 1993 exist. Perhaps we could add specific months to year-navboxes. Koopinator (talk) 13:22, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider adding months 

message: Pages for months going from January 1900 to December 1993 exist. Add functionality making these accessible from year nav, just like how :Template:Millenniumbox allows navigation to constituent centuries. If this is doable, I would then like to propose :Template:Events by month be deleted.
Also, monthly coverage continues with Portal:Current_events/January_2002, perhaps find some way to incorporate that.
Koopinator (talk) 09:59, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This proposal sounds almost epic in size and would require consensus from a discussion that is well-attended, such as an RfC. There are no fewer than four WikiProjects that oversee the more than a thousand uses of the  template. We would have to find out what those members would think about deleting such a template. You seem to want this template to lead readers to month articles in addition to year, decade and century articles, and that would indeed require the attention of many editors and their approvals. Please take the time to garner consensus for this proposal before using the  template. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 10:56, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 August 2023