Talk:1960s
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A fascinating page, but it should be renamed somehow; I'd rather not do it myself, but perhaps 1960s in the United States. Of course, many of the same events were occurring in Europe at the same time. Would be interesting to learn what the European experience at that time was.
Perhaps the different continents should just have subpages off of each decade's page. Then have the main page highlight the more global events such as the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution etc..
On the same page is the way to go. Many history books attempt to give a disjoint history along geographic/regional boundaries. This does little to encourage a worldwide view of each timeframe. These pages for each decade are meant to be a jumping off point/summary of major events/trends and also to facilitate a continuous timeline of all events/things/people mentioned in wiki. We should avoid anything but short one liners for each trend/topic/event to keep the decade list page readable.
- Obviously the comment was ironic, but a lot of the decade pages are very U.S.-centric - the 'Sports figures' sections ludicrously so. I've been going through them decade by decade, adding major sporting figures from other countries. I'm tempted to remove several of the baseball/basketball/ice hockey/American football figures; if other sports had so many entries the lists would be unbearably long, and most of these figures will be unknown outside the U.S./Canada. I'm trying to restrict my additions to world-renowned figures, although I have added a few cricketers who will no doubt be unknown to most people outside the U.K./Commonwealth. On this page, I'm removing Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke and Gale Sayers as they are not well known enough to have Wikipedia articles. Someone else can always add them back if they feel the need. --Lancevortex 10:31, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
They probably deserve articles. They are each Hall of Famers and have been listed in requested articles. --Rj 01:25, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
other pages that link to Dick Butkus: Dick Butkus Award Chicago Bears December 9 1942 List of people by name: Bu List of American football players University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
other pages that pages link to Ray Nitschke: List of athletes in movies Green Bay Packers December 29 March 8 1998 1998 in sports List of people by name: Ni User talk:Maveric149/archive 10
other pages that pages link to Gale Sayers:
Chicago Bears
Running Back
May 30
List of people by name: Sa-Sb
List of people by name: Sav-Saz#Saye
List of famous left-handed people
- Looking back at my post, I should have rephrased what I said about Butkus et al: I didn't mean to imply that they were not famous enough to ever have Wikipedia articles, just that they weren't famous enough for anyone to have bothered writing one yet. I fully concur with you, Rj, that they do deserve articles. That said, I'd still dispute whether they should be on this particular list of sports figures of the 1960s, perhaps with the exception of Butkus, as I assume he is considered one of the best in his field seeing as he has an award named after him. My point was that I believe that only those sporting figures considered among the greatest ever in their field (or who otherwise have achieved great fame or notoriety) should be on these lists, as otherwise they will soon become unmanageably long. It appeared to me that the U.S.-only sports were overrepresented, and so I deleted Butkus et al. The bare fact is that hardly anyone outside of the U.S./Canada will have heard of them. --Lancevortex 14:05, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
