Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Time

Broken time zone discussion for xxx date text

I have started a discussion about the broken time zones at Template talk:Start date text. Not only does this family of templates look up the wrong time zone value for older dates, and render the time zone offset for the main example on the documentation page, related to the Attack on Pearl Harbor false, the ISO 8601 string in the metadata is utter nonsense. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Dhanu (month)#Requested move 7 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dhanu (month)#Requested move 7 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Ticking (sound)

I am not sure exactly where the best place to post this is, but I have started a draft on ticking as a sound most often associated with clocks (I was astonished to learn that our article at the title, Ticking, is about an obscure kind of textile). Any thoughts on sourcing or otherwise improving this draft would be appreciated! BD2412 T 02:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Note: Now at Ticking (sound), but could still stand expansion. BD2412 T 19:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Major rewrites needed on Roman calendar and related articles

This was something that was raised a few years ago on its talk page, but I've gone through some material related to the Roman calendar, and a while back I came to the conclusion that much of the article and some related articles (Mercedonius, which might need to be moved to Intercalaris, and the Leap year error section of Julian calendar) will need to be looked at and possibly rewritten entirely. Especially due to the interference of a certain LTA, there's a lot of places where they focus on explaining the classical sources and/or downplaying modern research, and in particular they focus on an outdated model of how the leap month is handled in the Roman Republican calendar.

Unfortunately I don't have the time or energy to deal with it myself, and probably won't for a long time. As such, is anyone here willing to help? Arcorann (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

This might be a good project for me. What sources would you recommend having on hand for this? If there is a good single reference or pair of references and no one else is interested, I could plan to begin it after finishing July 2. RowanElder (talk) 18:36, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Non-Archimedean time

The article Non-Archimedean time has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced for almost 20 years, this is a thing, but this page is synthesis of several ideas.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 03:20, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal UTC+08:45 -> Time in Australia

There is a discussion at Talk:Time_in_Australia#Merge_proposal, proposing that UTC+08:45 be merged into Time in Australia. TarnishedPath^talk 09:54, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Anno Domini#Requested move 18 August 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Anno Domini#Requested move 18 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 18:48, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Big Ben lead paragraph

There is a discusssion at Talk:Big Ben#Lead paragraph about the wording of the lead paragraph of Big Ben. Anyone is welcome to participate. Thanks, A.D.Hope (talk) 17:42, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Consistency in names for decades.

Various templates for grouping establishment and disestablishment for decades such as Template:Sports clubs and teams (dis)established in the YYY0s category header use the value of the category it was in to calculate a link to the decade. So for example, when placed in Category:Sports_clubs_and_teams_established_in_the_1940s , part of the output is

This category is for sports clubs and sports teams established in the 1940s.

However, this becomes an issue when placed in Category:Sports_clubs_and_teams_established_in_the_1800s , as 1800s is a dab page between that decade and the 19th century. 1900s on the other hand is the page for the decade. (other pages earlier in time like 1700s are also dab pages.) So I'd like to either see the XY00s pages consistently refer to decades *or* have redirects for all decades so they can be accessed like the 1800s, so for example 1920s (decade) would be a redirect to 1920s so that the templates could have the internal code generate a piped like to there (so instead of a link to 1920s, it would be to <nowiki>1920s. Ideas?Naraht (talk) 03:17, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

After deeper dive, found template:Decade link. I think I can use that.Naraht (talk) 03:23, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:51, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)