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Move
Since this has been sitting idle as a redirect to "
Nelson Mandela" for 8 months, I'm going to try to move the more active but wrongly-labeled "46664" page to here ("46664 (number)"). --
Brokenfixer 02:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Because this page, 46664_(number), has a non-empty History, I can't just use the automated move to transfer (46664 A.D.) over to here (46664 number). I'm speedy merging that mislabeled page to here. That means that if you want to see the more interesting pre-history of the contents here, you'll probably find it filed under the history of "46664" (46664 A.D.). I hope that is clear. --
Brokenfixer 02:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)reply
I've appended the Talk contents from 46664 A.D. below:
--
Brokenfixer 02:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Transferred from Talk: 46664 A.D.:
umm, some 70% of this entry is a list of people at some benefit concert. What's the connection to "46664"? what was the concert protesting or supporting? looks completely unrelated without more "meat". --
SeeFood 18:36, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
AD 46664
According to Wikipedia naming conventions, articles about a specific year have the year number as their title, such as
2005,
1066,
476,
33 and
1. Therefore this article, based on its title, should be about the year 46664 in the 47th milennium. Comments? --
A D Monroe III 4 July 2005 16:19 (UTC)
I agree. The contents are now correctly stored under 46664 (number). Since noone has found anything encyclopedic to say about the year 46664 A.D., I took the liberty of making 46664 into a redirect to here. --
Brokenfixer 03:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Joe Strummer song?
I notice there's no referrence to the song 46664 written by Joe Strummer (along with Bono Cam and Dave Stewart)
Strong number
The
Apartheid authorities chose a bad number for Mandela since 46664 is a strong and easy to remember number. 46664 is a
palindrome. In terms of locomotives,
4-6-4 (
Hudson) and
4-6-6-4 (
Challenger) are strong locomotives, and a 4-6-6-6-4 if it existed would be stronger still.
A better from the regime's point of view, ie. weaker choice, would be a number with no repeated digits, and no obvious order to the digits, eg 51364. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Tabletop (
talk •
contribs) 07:27, 2 September 2006
No references are given for the names of the 2008 concert line up. Where has this information come from? The official website and nelson mandela's website do not have these performers listed. Can someone please cite some sources please?
Marnifrances (
talk) 09:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)reply
How many years?
Nelson Mandela Was prisioned in 1964 and released in 1990, so he stay in jail 26 years not over 35 as said in the article. Sorry for my bad English. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
87.25.25.196 (
talk) 08:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)reply
(four, double six, six four)
Why not "four, triple six, four"? Would it not be more logical and easier mnemonically? Too evil? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Diefromevileye (
talk •
contribs) 11:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Requested move
The following is a closed discussion of a
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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page, per the discussion below.
Dekimasuよ! 20:34, 22 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose the number alone is meaningless.
In ictu oculi (
talk) 10:10, 9 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Support some move Either this article should be moved to the base title
46664, or it should be retitled with a
WP:RECOGNIZABLE natural disambiguator (e.g.
46664 concerts) and
46664 redirected to that new title. The only way this article can remain at the present title is if
46664 redirects somewhere else or becomes a disambiguation, and there is no good target for that:
Judging from Google, the number is now associated more with the concerts than with Mandela himself, so it doesn't seem so helpful to redirect
46664 to his article and stuffing it up with yet another hatnote
46664 as a number fails
WP:NUMBER, and the only mention of it on
40000 (number) is for the Nelson Mandela meaning, so redirecting
46664 there just adds an extra pointless step to everyone's navigation
Of course we could go through the whole
list of postal codes to see where this could be a valid one, but even if you manage to find a bunch and create a disambiguation page, the article about the concerts is still quite obviously the
WP:PRIMARYTOPIC or
WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT for the number.
Comment plain numbers are reserved on Wikipedia for years AD/CE (not that that makes any sense, as the number itself should be considered the first port of call) --
65.94.171.225 (
talk) 05:15, 10 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Does Wikipedia have any actual articles about five-digit years?
10000 is a disambiguation,
20000 goes to the number, and jumping ahead to
Special:PrefixIndex/90, I see three album redirects (
90124,
90125,
90126), one disambiguation (
90210), two asteroid redirects (
90377,
90482), five US ZIP code redirects (
90025,
90049,
90073,
90077,
90291), one number article redirect (the round one,
90000), and no years.
61.10.165.33 (
talk) 05:42, 10 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Also,
WP:NCNUM: "By convention, an article name that is a number in Arabic numerals represents a calendar year in the Common Era, up till several decades in the future". Further down it specifically gives the example of
4711 (an article about a cologne brand) as an example of the "several decades in the future" exception. So there's no naming convention barrier to moving this article to
46664, though a title with a natural disambiguator might be more recognisable.
61.10.165.33 (
talk) 09:38, 11 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Support Given that there is no other notable use of the term 46664 that is not a reference to Mandela this seems logical. It seems that most cases of the term 46664 used alone refer to this campaign and not to the other Mandela topics.--
Yaksar(let's chat) 06:15, 16 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Support as proposed, but only temporarily--revisit in 44,500 years or so.Red Slash 01:42, 17 October 2014 (UTC)reply
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Robben Island
Looking at Google Maps satellite view it appears that "46664" has been etched into the prison site: