Talk:6000000000

Proposed deletion

The rationale for the proposed deletion is sound — we do not make pages for individual BC years. However, this article contradicts itself: it states that we're talking about 6 billion years prior to the 21st century, but the infobox claims the story is in the far future. So which is it? If it's BC, then it will be deleted, but if it's the far future, it may not have to be deleted. Shambala108 ☎ 01:54, September 19, 2017 (UTC)

It appears that the "far future" tag was automatically added by the Timeline template; this definitely refers to the year 6 billion BC. That said, could anyone point me to the policy that says we can't make pages for individual BC years? That seems kind of odd to me, given the many pages on individual far-future years etc. – N8 ☎ 01:59, September 19, 2017 (UTC)

Oh my God, I can't believe it took me almost an hour to find this. The actual policy decision is located at Forum:Years - Separate pages or Century pages (specifically User:CzechOut's comments). Basically, there aren't enough BC years to justify overcoming the technical difficulties associated with making such pages (but if you want more detail, please read CzechOut's comments, as they make more sense than I could).

And, in a way, this page itself is a brilliant illustration of the issue — it's supposed to be BC, but the timeline template automatically adds "far future" for such a large date number.

Forum:For people working on year/decade/century pages . . . and Template:Timeline give some background information on how the timeline template came about.

This page will be deleted. Shambala108 ☎ 03:04, September 19, 2017 (UTC)