Talk:1st century
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Jesus was almost certainly born in 1st century BC; moving.Vicki Rosenzweig
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[edit] Decimal notation and year 0
A century begins with the 1, and ends in the next 00. So, the 19th was 1801 through 1900. How it looks now, there are only 99 years in a century. --JamesR1701E 20:32, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Following the standard decimal system, shouldn't each century begin with "0" and end with "99"? (e.g., 1st cent. would be 0-99, 2nd cent. would be 100-199, etc.) JeremyMcCracken 17:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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- Views differ, so I included both in the article. See also Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#year_zero. DirkvdM 09:00, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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- quite frankly, there is no room for differing views. there is no year 0. therefore, centruies begin on the 1 and end on the hundred. so the year 100 is part of the first century. again, no real room for different opinions here.
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[edit] Year article problem
Someone wrote at Talk:1 that year articles 50 and under should have A.D. in their article title. Has there been enough discussion as of this moment?? 66.245.106.46 22:26, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Lions
Anyone else find it hard to believe that lions became extinct in Western Europe in exactly year 1? The Wikipedia article on lions says only that this extinction happened "around the beginning of the current era". The article should reflect this uncertainty. Ckerr 09:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd agree. I'm not going to make this change myself, being too scared of the traditional Wikipedian's view of unknown editors, but still... Lord Akria 19:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism or perhaps just youthful high spirits?
Someone put the following text into the article:
"*Various inventions by Hero of Alexandria, including the steam turbine (aeolipile), vending machine, machine gun, water organ, Nintendo Wii and various other water-powered machines.
- Drew Zimmerman Begins the hobby of ruining wikipedia pages."
The Nintendo Wii and machine gun is the real vandalism, obviously, although I wouldn't be surprised if at least some form of machine gun had been invented by that time although, judging by the machine gun article, there wasn't. The machine gun was placed in an edit earlier to the most recent, and thus may be by a different person from this Drew Zimmerman. What's interesting is the edit date: 7th December. One day before the Wii's launch. XD Perhaps he's a Nintendo fan? If he is then he has good taste. I shall delete it, though I felt it was quite funny. Oh well. I still don't get the water-powered part, I hope...
If it's a joke against Nintendo then I suggest that we tear him limb from limb... Lord Akria 19:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I was too late.... Someone else already deleted it... My first chance of protecting against vandalism... Gone... WAAAAAAHHHHHHH! XD Oh well. At least it was done. Lord Akria 19:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
