Template talk:Death year and age

message: Can the single year linking (against current MOS style) be turned off? How about an optional parameter, like wiki=off? — Bellhalla (talk) 16:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year link optional? 

message: Can we add a nowrap to the "(aged xxx)" part so when it wraps the whole part moves down? Leofric1 (talk) 21:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  nowrap 

message: Is there a way to have the range of ages at death in parentheses if we know only the year of birth but the exact date of death? (Often we don't have the DOB of people who were born in obscurity but later become notable.)  Jeff Muscato (talk) 12:27, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone with access please add an additional template parameter specifying the day of the month of death?  --Doradus (talk) 19:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree, we need an option to specify the day of the death. - Esteban Zissou (talk) 19:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just going to ask about something of that nature. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 21:59, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. This template needs to be edited by someone who is good at that sort of thing so that the exact day of death can be entered. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 17:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Precise death date but birth year only

message: Is there any way to have this template work for inputting both month and years for birth/death dates? Thanks. Connormah (talk | contribs) 01:13, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know both months you should know the day too and then you can use Template:Death date and age -- Esemono (talk) 02:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The days are unknown. This is not a current situation, just something that may happen in the future. Connormah (talk | contribs) 03:02, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query 

message: Can we make  (and ) work? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:31, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exact death dates 

message: The wording of the age at death has been discussed a few times. This time I am offering a solution. I just need a few more opinions on whether it does actually tackle the problem. Discussion at Template_talk:Death_date_and_age#"Age" versus "aged" Periglio (talk) 20:53, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Age" versus "aged" 

message: This is the opposite of the question above, but surely more likely. I just added an infobox to Henry Dodwell, born October 1641, died 7 June 1711. There is no version of  that accepts only month, and no appropriate version of . I'm very much aware that you could quickly multiply out the different combinations to be unmanageable, so is it simply the recommendation that we use plain text for cases where we know only the year, or only the year/month? David Brooks (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The death date and age template should work fine. There is an example in the documentation. Post here if I am misunderstanding your question. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the problem is that template does not support missing parameters (in this case day, but often month as well). But I just realized that  can do what I want, because it does support missing parameters, and I've used it in that article. It does require a death year, which is ignored if the B parameter is used. David Brooks (talk) 06:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What if death day is known but only month/year of birth is known? 

message: Isn't that more correct if the birth date and/or death date is unknown the format is  instead of ? RfC relisted by Cunard (talk) at 01:05, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, yes, it would be nicer to do it that way, but I don't know how much trouble it would be.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:22, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

text: They're equivalent in this context. Just does not matter at all.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Honestly, I think we're splitting hairs here, and that it doesn't matter one way or the other. I added the RfC category "Wikipedia technical issues and templates" just in case consensus goes the other direction. Maybe someone will know how to fix the template so it's "just so". -- I dream of horses    @  08:03, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Both seem fine.  --SubSeven (talk) 18:13, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

text: I really can't see that it makes any difference.--5 albert square (talk) 08:02, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

text: I think better use "or" because it's more clearer. The problem with using  en dash is that the punctuation could also means "range" and no one refer people's age as 54.5 for example. Hddty. (talk) 13:40, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently I run into a lot of "nobodies", because I see things like that often. --Khajidha (talk) 19:38, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

text: *If a person's birth date and/or death date only known as a year, the uncertainty range is only two years so it works for this template and similar template. Hddty. (talk) 17:56, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

text: * 1: "or" only takes a little bit more space compared to en dash, so it's not a problem. 2: I agree that nobody is going to misinterpret but better to use "or" if we only have two years like that. Hddty. (talk) 00:42, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: *  I am not sure what you mean in your second point. Also, I still oppose per WP:AINT. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:45, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: Age format when the birth date or death date is unknown 

message: Dave Mehmet's death has been announced.  His exact date of birth is known (2 December 1960) and it is known he was 63 years old when he died, but only the year of his death (2024) has been made public.  Is there a way to use the  template to display "2024 (aged 63)" or is it easier just to type that out?  I can't figure out from the documentation how to cover this particular scenario...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you can only use  for the birth date and type out the death year and age. Johnuniq (talk) 04:47, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  All details known bar exact date of death