Talk:List of years in archaeology

This page has been nominated for deletion twice. The first nomination discussion is archived below:

There are about 20 of these articles. Each one contains one event in archaeology. Shouldn't just be put on the main page for the year? LDan 17:42, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Archaeology timeline, perhaps? -- Cyrius | (talk) 17:59, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Moved discussion to WikiMedia —Tkinias 18:02, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• Hang on. I only started this morning. Its based on List of years in science, and in response to a suggestion on Talk:Archaeology. It seems a bit rough to delete just because I'm a slow typist. Penfold 18:26, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Good point, give him a chance. ping 07:56, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, for now. Got to give a guy a fair shot before you go around deleting his stubs. (Although I doubt there's going to be enough meaningful information for each year to have its own page) -- Cyrius | Talk 23:09, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep for a bit. Secretlondon 02:10, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
• You know, this may sound silly, but why isn't this part of List of years in science? A few of the years in science pages already have Archaeology sections, like 1908 in science. These should be merged into the appropriate List of years in science descendant page. If you want a dedicated archaeology page as well, you should see List of themed timelines#Science for a starting point. -- Cyrius | Talk 20:08, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)
• Please merge with list of years in science. Sparse year-lists are hard to navigate, and provide too little context. [once such lists are better developed, we can argue over whether this really belongs with 'years in science' or 'years in history'... sj 11:14, 2004 Apr 6 (UTC)
• Keep and see if there are enough Wikipedians interested in archeologogy and anthropology to build this system of articles into a worthwhile navigational device. It certainly has the potential to be very useful if there are enough people that are willing to invest the time into developing it. The same can be said for timelines of all the arts and science disciplines. Merge into a broader timeline (such as science) only if there is no significant development in , say, 6 months or so. mydogategodshat 19:32, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The second archived discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of years in archaeology -- Francs2000 | Talk 01:36, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Timeline of archaeology

The format of Timeline of architecture would work well for this page, hence the proposed move. —Viriditas | Talk 03:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of Archaeology, an idea for consolidation

No activity here since 2004, but I figured I'd stir up the interested parties. Specifically, I was looking for a master list of archaeological finds, digs, events, etc arranged by date - this is the closest I could find, but it's very tedious to browse. The page layout and organization (Explorations, Excavations, Publications, Finds, Awards, Miscellaneous, Births, Deaths) is excellent, however, it is hampered by the lack of content, leading to a somewhat empty page.

I suggest a cleanup and consolidation. A Timeline of Archaeology would be fantastic if, instead of a page for each year, it split into decades of events, eg Archaeological Events of the 1990s. As far as merging with Science or Architecture timelines, I'd be inclined to vote against that. While an archaeological timeline would certainly be considered a subset of science and architecture, archaeology is specifically the investigation of the past - a reader wouldn't want to sort through the myriad of entries in each timeline such as the release of a new medicine or the development of a new highrise or civic center in order to track down recovered ship wrecks or unearthed tombs. --BakerQ 16:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

It is, of course, only a minute after hitting the Save button that I see the continued discuession in the Votes for Deletion archive. Luckily, my suggestion still stands. --BakerQ 16:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

There certainly has been steady good improvement on many of the individual year articles, but this "List of years" has remained a plain basic navigational aid. In it's present state I think it's ok, but if someone wishes to redo it in format similar to Timeline of architecture I'd say go for it. Off hand, why don't you go ahead and start a Timeline of archaeology (note per our conventions "archaeology" shouldn't be capitalized there). Once that page at least has all the relevent links, this page could be redirect there if there is no objection. -- Infrogmation 17:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll go ahead and get started on that shortly. (Nothing better than an external voice to remind you that if you want something done, it's best to do it yourself!) --BakerQ 18:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)