Wiki143 talk:Recentism

Appropriate date precision

We often see that when an event happens, many editors will add it to the relevant article with a rather precise date, such as "on 30 July 2023, Mr. X stated that Wikipedia is awesome." It's my view that unless the specific date itself is notable to the topic (such as the chronology of a topic with fast-changing events that need such precision for clarity, such as a war), this is essentially instant recentism and merits editing down to a less precise date. When I come across situations like this, I will consider whether or not the month or year is the right level of precision; it's almost always year. Is there a guideline that addresses this, or am I just off the hook here? Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 02:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

A related issue is "internetism" or "googleism"

People or events for which most of the coverage was published before 1994 tend not to have a large internet footprint. But doing a google, pointing to the lack of results and then AfD-ing the article is just lazy. Just because it's difficult (or even impossible) to find on the internet doesn't mean it's not notable. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 02:43, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

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Unconvincing argument

For example, in 2020, devoting more space to the 2020 United States presidential election article than to the 2000 United States presidential election article might seem logical. Nevertheless, in the future, when neither event is fresh, readers will benefit from a similar level of detail in both articles. As of May 2025, the 2020 entry is still twice as long as the 2000 entry.

It also just so happens that, 5 years later, the 2020 article gets 2x the views as the 2000 article. There's no longer that election surge. Per WP:CRYSTAL, we cannot predict in another 10 years, or 100 for this matter, which one will be more notable, It is quite possible that there is just more to say about the 2020 election and this particular example is not recentism. Scaledish! Talkish? Statish. 05:28, 7 June 2025 (UTC)