Talk:1999

Issues dated 2004

There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.

For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed add).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). talk--BozMo 13:36, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Removed:

• June 4 - Noemi Dominguez, a Houston, Texas schoolteacher, is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She was his sixth victim in his fifth incident.
• June 4 - Josephine Konvicka was murdered in a barn in Fayette County, Texas by Angel Maturino Resendiz. The barn is very close to Weimar, where Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic were murdered by the same serial killer. Josephine was his seventh victim in his sixth incident.
• June 15 - George Morber Senior and his grown daughter Carolyn Frederick are murdered in Gorham, Illinois by Angel Maturino Resendiz. They were his eighth and ninth victims in his seventh and final incident.

See Talk:June 4. --mav 06:39, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Why is there no disambiguation page for this? I was looking for 1999, the Japanese Nintendo game, but 1999 the Prince song is also a legitimate contender. WTF? --67.42.33.65 07:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

*October 31 - Nerf Arena Blast is released by Atari, Inc. and Visionary Media, Inc.

Why is that one on the list? The page for the game doesn't seem to warrant too much importance.

"MCMXCIX"

Isn't 1999 IMM (1 before 1000+1000) not MCMXCIX? I always thought it was. Just curious. 4myself4 (Come see my guestbook) 01:49, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be MIM, in analogy with XIX (twenty). LarRan 13:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

See Roman_numerals. The "subtraction" option only works 2 levels deep. So you can use I with V or X, but not with L, C, etc. But I agree that MIM is much cleaner. Presumably this is to avoid confusing options like MVMI (for 1996). XKL (talk) 16:21, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

The Euro

On this page on January 1 it says the Euro was introduced. It also says the exact same thing on the year 2000. Im not sure which is correct so can somebody please clear this up?--WickedWitchoftheWest 10:20, 06 March 2007 (UTC)

4 July

• Nebra skydisk discovered

Wikipedia overlink crisis

07-Jan-2008: Excessive wikilinking in articles during 2007 led to the "Wikipedia overlink crisis" (or megalink crisis), primarily by wikilinking every word in infoboxes or navboxes. For the yearly-articles, overlinking began with the "Year in other calendars" linking to 25 cultural calendars, as 25 * 2500 articles = 62_500 wikilinks, because the other-calendars infobox did not link to a 2nd-level overall "calendars" article which, only there, would link those 25 other-calendars. Deferring links into a sub-article would reduce the year-article links from 62500 back to one link per year, or only 2500 links total. Other navboxes also generated many wikilinks per article:

• Template:C20YearInTopic - has 43 links, yet often used to switch topics (as "1965_in_sports");
• Template:Month3 - (has 38 links) using 12 monthly-calendars generated about 385 wikilinks;
• Template:Events_by_month - generated 133 links per year.

Repeating the monthly-calendars, plus the events-months navbox, added 518 (385+133) links per year, or almost 12 times the number of wikilinks used to switch to other year-topic articles (12 ~= 518/43 = 12.05). Again, if only those other navboxes could have been deferred to 2nd-level articles by linking as standard see-also entries, such as see: "Table of events by month" or as see calendar: "Common year starting on Friday". Such links under the see-also section would propagate 2 total links, not 518.

The Wikipedia page-link database(s) are not always 100% in sync with current editing; however, clicking on "What links here" attempts to update page-link data about cross-references (or concordance) between linked wiki pages. For example, if an infobox template were changed to not link "city"/"county" (etc.), unlinking 50 such words, across 2500 articles, would cause Wikipedia servers (after a few minutes) to pause a while to update page-link database(s), to drop those 50*2500 = 125,000 wikilinks (omitted) when displaying "What links here". Referring to the general problem as the megalink crisis reflects the widespread use of large navboxes in over 40,000 Wikipedia articles, thereby generating many millions of overlinked pages. Looking at the actual numbers might be quite shocking to some editors, unaware that 50 navbox links actually became over 125,000 link entries. However, the issue could be even more accurately described as the "multi-megalink crisis" of generated links. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

JFK Jr death date

this page says that John F Kennedy Jr died on July 16th, but it was definitely July 18th. It is my birthday, so i know 100% that it was all over the news that morning. BlackDragon2213 (talk) 04:47, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

He died on 16th; it is the death date, not the reporting date that is relevant. The media coverage of his disappearance and death lasted a lot longer than one day. Qzm (talk) 01:32, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Why does Burnout: Revenge redirect to this page?

Entering "Burnout: Revenge" WITH a colon redirects to the 1999 page. Without the colon it goes to the right spot. I don't know how to change that, but someone else surely does? MJuice 19:55, 04 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done Some one redirected the target page here in September and a bot fixed the double redirect on the article with the colon. When the reversion was done on the article there was no double redirect for the bot to detect so the change to the colon article was not reverted. Keith D (talk) 00:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Births

I would like to request that some more births be added to this page. Hallpriest9 (Talk) 22:25, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Is there anyone in particular you think should be added? People have to be notable in their own right to be added, which for a year as recent as this will predominantly mean royalty and child actors. People who are merely family members of celebrities are not eligible. Jim Michael (talk) 17:34, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

They also have to meet the criteria in WP:RY. ttonyb (talk) 18:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Article should state the fact that 1999 was also the last year of the 2nd millennium and 20th century

Just because there was no year 0 according to the Gregorian Calendar doesn't mean that 2000 was also a part of the 20th century and 2nd millennium like 1999. Look at the front numbers, 1999 has a one in front like the rest of years of the 2nd millennium, while 2000 has a 2 in front like the years of the 3rd millennium. Also look at the next two numbers of the years. 1999 is already listed as the last year of the 1990s with 2000 beginning the 2000s. Plus New Years Eve 1999 going into New Years Day 2000 was celebrated worldwide as the end of the 2nd millennium and the start of the new one.-Bjoh249 (talk) 12:37, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

This argument has been discussed many times before (although apparently not in this article), and rejected. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:36, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, I am sure that many have also argued like me that 1999 was the last year of the 2nd millennium and 20th century, but one of the administrators rejected them. There is good cause to say the year 1999 was the last year of the 20th century and 21st century. I am going to start posting sources on my talk page that supports my argument. Bjoh249 (talk) 03:02, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

1999 was the 99th year of the 20th century. That's why it ends in "99". How difficult is that to understand? 80.254.147.36 (talk) 21:28, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Whenever I hear someone saying "there was no year 0", I get sick to my stomach... Iamthemostwanted2015 (talk) 18:56, 27 April 2017 (UTC)Iamthemostwanted2015

Day of six billion

Disputed

• It was recognized by a UN agency, not by the UN as a whole.
• Our article notes that the agency reset the "actual" date back to June 1999, based on their own figures, and scientific agencies differ by up to a year, as noted in our article Day of Seven Billion.

Off-topic

• It's a commemorative day. We list UN commemorative years, but how many days are commemorated each year? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

To anyone that includes a DBZ episode in the fiction in 1999 section again

1999 like a 2000, 2001 and 2002 one. Please don't do it. The DBZ episode only broadcasted in 1999 (in America), it didn't take place in 1999 because DBZ doesn't follow the Anno Domini calendar that people use in real life. DBZ uses the Age calendar as shown in DB Xenoverse and even that calendar hasn't reached the year 1999 or at least that DBZ episode hasn't.50.156.82.190 (talk) 04:49, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

1900s

copied from where I misplaced it on a talk page.

An anon has been adding.

It's the last year of the 1900s.

Aside from never being formatted in a way which fails to damage the display, 1900s needs to be linked to avoid confusion. The best I could do is:

It is the last year of the 1900s.

but that seems to violate WP:EGG.

Until User:The Rambling Man restored it, the anon was the only person to add it, and it's been removed by at least 4 editors, on various pages. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:42, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

And the restoration was purely procedural as Rubin, not for the first or even the sixth time, has been abusing Twinkle by giving either misleading or plain false edit summaries to excuse his edits. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:35, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

How is undoing an edit because you disagree with the edit summary "procedural" and not disruptive? -- irn (talk) 14:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Data dump

IPs are continually adding thousands of bytes of (at best) marginally notable individuals. This IP (77.174.214.192) may have researched the articles, but others (including some operating through proxys) clearly have not. I haven't checked whether this IP is doing the other objectionable things the other IPs have been doing (per WP:BEANS, I'm not going to supply the full list); if so, I (and others) will take appropriate action.

If the IP would add a few names, and they are all appropriate, then I would consider treating them as a reasonable editor, pending correction if AGF is proved wrong. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:24, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Eclipses

See WT:YEARS#Eclipses for a matter relevant to this page. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion

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• Karan Brar 2011.jpg

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 July 2020

Add Mahima Makwana, she was on born 5 August 1999. (Redacted) 11:50, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Her date of birth seems to be unsourced in her own article as well, maybe you can find and add one there while you're at it? Rummskartoffel (talk) 16:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Cameron Boyce

Why is Cameron Boyce not in the 1999 births category? --101.176.0.126 (talk) 04:55, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

See discussion on Talk:2019. --Thescrubbythug (talk) 07:43, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Add Dream to births

Minecraft speedrunner and YouTuber Dream was born on August 12 1999, Add him to the list please 35.141.142.199 (talk) 01:04, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Collage thoughts

Please let me know if anyone has any disagreements on the images included in the collage, and I will put it up for vote. Thanks The ganymedian (talk) 22:45, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

there is a discussion about the 1999 Collage at User_talk:4me689/collage_discussions#1999 4me689 (talk) 18:04, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request

For births, under September 22, please add Mahsa Amini. Her father stated her birthday in this article. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62998231 2600:100C:A210:2BB2:4D7D:B488:D08D:6BF7 (talk) 20:26, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: Must be notable to add in it. RealAspects (talk) 11:41, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Collage depreciation

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Years#Lead_image, a discussion on whether to depreciate collages in general in going on. Please share your thoughts.--Marginataen (talk) 21:44, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 December 2023

2401:3C00:11D:79D8:887:5FFF:FEBE:45D8 (talk) 19:25, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Liu1126 (talk) 20:57, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request

Under Events, for May 27, please add that Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html 2600:100C:A211:7F18:7194:D668:B9B:96C1 (talk) 18:44, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I copied the 1999 from May_27 RudolfRed (talk) 02:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)