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4th millennium (Next Millennium)

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4th millennium was previously merged into Timeline of the far future, and the title with this weirdly capitalized disambiguator doesn't appear to be a likely redirect. The article itself is a mix of predicted astronomical events (some of them not even in the 4th millennium) and vague societal speculation and commentary, of which none is specifically relevant to the 4th millennium. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Lists. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, this can probably be deleted in favor of Timeline of the far future, a featured list. If the same article had been created in place of the 4th millennium redirect, it would simply have been reverted. Contrary to that page title, however, noone is going to type "4th millennium (Next Millennium)" into the search bar and expect an article or redirect. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- ~~(leaning)~~ (moderate) -- ~~Leaning delete, currently,~~ Delete, per your nomination reasons. Also agree that the disambiguator is capitalized incorrectly (and may not even be needed, regardless of the outcome, here). However, do you happen to have the original merge/deletion discussion? I've looked through both the merge and deletion discussion archives and haven't located it.

MWFwiki (talk) 02:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There sadly wasn't a clear centralized discussion, although that merge an similar ones were discussed at Talk:Timeline of the far future/Archive 4#"11th millennium" link and more tangentially at Talk:Timeline of the near future#2029 Merge. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 02:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you! Yeah, it's all just too arbitrary. Secondly, removing the astronomical events (which themselves are probably getting into WP:NOTDATABASE territory), I agree, it's all just vague fluff. I would actually argue that Timeline of the far future could possibly be moved to "timeline of the future," but that's neither here nor there ("far" just seems to be a mildly arbitrary -- and subjective -- adjective). I also don't really think it's appropriate that these articles keep getting merged/unmerged/deleted/created. If you are feeling particularly bold, perhaps start a 'definitive' RfC over at Talk:Timeline of the near future or Talk:Timeline of the far future regarding any "millennium" articles beyond our current. Short of policy, that would likely be the next best thing. MWFwiki (talk) 03:05, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I might do it once this AfD is closed, so we don't have multiple discussions at the same time and it doesn't look like canvassing and/or forumshopping. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 14:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per ToBeFree. Lorstaking (talk) 03:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and ToBeFree; this wouldn't be a particularly useful redirect. --Richard Yin (talk) 21:52, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]