A while ago I began diffusing this category into days per month child categories because the parent category was rather large. Today it seems another user named @Andrwsheng0001 created another one of these child categories for January. I found this January category empty and decided to fill it, which editors @Aqurs1 and @Kiwipete informed me should not be done without prior discussion. ★Trekker (talk) 20:24, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a particular view one way or the other. But, if this change is going to be made, please do it for all months of the year, not just the current four - January, February, March, April. Thanks. Kiwipete (talk) 20:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, none of the month categories should be deleted. If there are no objections in a few days I'll gladly deal with the remaining months.★Trekker (talk) 08:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Following on from this, @HeyElliott has made this edit to January 13. Does this edit make sense? If it's done to all DOY articles, then we'll just end up with all articles for the month under the heading "0-9", rather than the first letter of the month's name. Kiwipete (talk) 22:40, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Born / died
The DOY pages use b. and d. instead of the full words born and died, which is normal elsewhere in Wikipedia. The DOY pages do not have any need to break this norm nor is there any agreed policy about this on the project page. Why is this? — GhostInTheMachinetalk to me14:42, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apart from this being a long-standing practice, the closest references to this I can find are this statement "Years of birth in the Deaths section and years of death in the Births section (e.g. (b. 1970)) should not be linked" in WP:DOYSTYLE and examples given in the DOY template. Kiwipete (talk) 18:36, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above item is only about not linking the year, nothing about b. vs. born as such. A new policy can always change long-standing practice. At least in this case, we know exactly how many articles we need to change... — GhostInTheMachinetalk to me20:14, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kiwipete seeing as three of you have made a decision, I'll throw in some dissent. Changing the formatting is incredibly distracting and adds absolutely nothing. Perhaps it was a style format as it was the most efficient way to convey information without being a distraction? My.socrates.note (talk) 18:51, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should observances/holidays that vary in date each year be included (eg Easter, Matariki)? If so when should they be added/removed? Tunedmass (talk) 07:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
