Talk:2020s

Too many images in the culture section

Hello, I have noticed that there are to many images in the Culture section. Seeing as how we are on 2 years into the decade, and as the decade progresses. Do I have approval to delete some of the images?

Leaf8613 (talk) 18:10, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Leaf8613

Definitely agree, it is already close to surpassing the amount of images in the 2000s and 2010s pages. Regarding which to delete at this point, I think 5 singers being featured is a bit much, and I think some could be combined, like the 2 video game consoles could be represented by one image and HBO max/squid game could be combined into one representing streaming platforms more generally. Also are vaccines that much of a cultural phenomenon as much as they are a scientific one? I agree masks should be included for their overt social impact but the vaccine is a bit different I feel. Yeoutie (talk) 19:29, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Notice of group resource

I would like to invite any interested editors here to join the task force for Contemporary History. One of our core goals is to highlight and promote the coverage of contemporary history as its own distinct area here at Wikipedia.

We differ from a simple effort to cover current events, in that we seek to provide the editing community with resources that would allow it to provide broad and comprehensive coverage of articles on contemporary history as a broad topical field, rather than simply on individual current events as they may occur.

to that end, we have set up articles such as 2020s in political history, which allow the whole editing community to adopt a broad scope in keeping wikipedia updated with broad historical trends, topics and events, as they occur, but also as they become relevant to the field of history overall. I hope that sounds helpful and worthwhile to you. you are welcome to join us in any way, or to offer any input or ideas that you may wish. we welcome your input. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 14:48, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Bad image choice in collage

We're only 2 years into the 2020s - 4 images is way too many to have in the collage already. Also, the images in the collage should generally only include events that span multiple years of the decade. COVID and Ukraine are good image choices. I think Afghanistan withdrawal and the George Floyd Protests should be removed, as they were single events that were no longer than a few months each. In the future, the mix of images should generally include some positive events and technological innovations too like past collages - the current mix is all "negative" events, which is an incorrect representation of reality. comment added by 2604:3d08:3686:9800:e58d:b3ce:a909:1c73 (talk) 16:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

1. That collage is customizable, pictures can be added and/or removed easily without having to make a new image in Commons. that means you can easily add big events easily from the decade as they happen.

2. you need a consensus first before removal and there's only one person saying removal, which is you, a random IP address, and we don't always trust random IP address as you can make a proxy to make it look like you're from a different location,

and 3. a customizable collage ain't that big of a deal, I will switch one of the images of the collage to show my point. 4me689 (talk) 22:01, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I don't agree with foldable smartphones being in the collage. While it would be nice to have something to represent technological advancement, they're not something that have caught on amongst the people I know, and even if they do they haven't really changed anything on a societal level. If we want to represent technological advancement in this decade I think it should be the rapid development of COVID vaccines. I don't think there's much point creating a collage so early into the decade. Other than COVID and the invasion of Ukraine it's hard to say what the most significant events will be. --82.38.192.41 (talk) 11:15, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

the foldable phones are more of a placeholder until something bigger happens, the collages meant to make it look better and make it look like more of a decade page. 4me689 (talk) 16:07, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Honestly, if the decade isn't over yet (not to mention barely even a quarter way through) then we shouldn't even have a collage. Basil the Bat Lord (talk) 00:34, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

The emergence of AI in multimedia, including DALL-E 2 and VQGAN+CLIP, should be mentioned in technology or arts

Started in January 2021 with the release of CLIP and increasing in popularity ever since. Completely separate from NFT and a major technological artistic advancement that was absent from the 2010s yet heavily built upon privately until this decade. 47.205.69.71 (talk) 01:03, 22 July 2022 (UTC)