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I looked in the Spanish Wikipedia for information on the quinceañera, thinking I was going to translate whatever I found there to English for the English version of the article, but I found nothing. All I know about the quinceañera is that for some reason it is a girl's birthday that is celebrated differently from the other birthdays. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.217.41.219 (talk • contribs)

Move of material to disambiguation page

HAYYY... ~*melissa tomate*~

Some material has been moved from this page to Fifteen (disambiguation). I think it should go back here, for the time being. This article is one of a series of over 100 articles, and they should follow the same principles. These principles may be discussed on a relevant talk page (by the way: Where is that?), and I do not neccesarily think that creating disambiguation pages like that is such a bad idea (though I'd prefer naming them 15 (disambiguation), etc., rather than Fifteen (disambiguation)). Once a consensus has been reached, the changes can be implemented in a systematic way.--Niels Ø 20:45, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

apologies for not examining the relevant project's policies before the move. It just seemed that a disambig page was in order, given the amount of relevant links; sticking it at at the bottom of a fairly developed article seemed confusing. No objections to moving it back for the time being, provided a disambig template is added, as i agree that the whole series should follow the same principles; however, i also think that disambig pages are important for a word with so many possible uses. if you find that talk page, let me know . . . --Heah 21:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the other pages, the idea of keeping all the info on the main number page seems to make sense, so i've reverted it at least for now, and will turn the disambig into a redirect. apologies for my ill thought out edit. I still wish it was clearer, though; perhaps i'll mention this on the project's talk page (which, btw, seems to be linked to above.) --Heah 21:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I too wish it was clearer. For the number zero, it's particularly bad: 0 redirects to 0 (number); Zero is a miscellany of links; Zero (disambiguation) redirects to Zero; 0 (disambiguation) doesn't exist; 0 (year) exists, and so does Year Zero (and it's different), where as Year 0 redirects to 0 (year), and where as e.g. 1 (year) doesn't exist (see 1 instead).--Niels Ø 21:56, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

I changed it by distinguishing between year zero = 0 (year) and Year Zero (political notion). I think that's clearer. --John H. Victor 5 July 2005 10:59 (UTC)

15 degrees/hour - Yura87 (talk) 14:29, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

24/12=2 360/12=30 therefore, 15 degrees/hour is approx. Earth around-the-axis rotation speed.

Bingo names -

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers#List of British bingo nicknames for a centralized discusion as to whether Bingo names should be included in thiese articles. Arthur Rubin (alternate) (talk) 23:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The pool ball 15

@Panamitsu:: The notable brown color of the pool ball 15 is relevant because pool is a popular sport. A conjunct of 15 pool balls contains eight colors, who are yellow (1 and 9), blue (2 and 10), red (3 and 11), purple (4 and 12), orange or pink* (5 and 13), green (6 and 14), brown (7 and 15) and black (8).

Observation: The pink color of the pool balls 5 and 13 is used in the Brazilian pool.

191.255.194.29 (talk) 12:14, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@191.255.194.29 I'm sure the 15th pool ball being the last ball is relevant. The colour, on the other hand, serves no purpose. The reader is reading about the number 15, not colours of pool balls. —Panamitsu (talk) 12:16, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for starting the discussion. I don't think we should add a description of its pool ball to each number article. I would also remove the correspondence to letters in base 36 recently added by the same IP, and similar formulaic text of the form "this number means something in a system where other numbers have an equally unremarkable meaning". Certes (talk) 12:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We certainly shouldn't be introducing such trivia into these articles. The IP has edited a large number of articles, it's going to be time-consuming removing all... Polyamorph (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Other IPs have also contributed, such as the Brazilian telephone directory kindly provided by 179.98.235.119. Certes (talk) 14:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP:WikiProject_Numbers#Template_for_integers needs an overhaul, to set a standard to start aiming towards quality improvement, they'll never pass GA for example with such unsourced lists of trivia. Polyamorph (talk) 15:01, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers. Perhaps what I am trying to say is just "Let's overhaul the template..." Imaginatorium (talk) 15:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll take a look and contribute to the discussion when I have some time later. Polyamorph (talk) 15:11, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is, a lot of these number articles contain sections which are nothing more than lists of trivia. Much of the information provided is unsourced and unremarkable. Polyamorph (talk) 14:47, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I spoke over the 26 letters in base 36 who correspond to the numbers from "10" to "35" and the each one of the 15 pool balls and its colors, who are internationally used in pool championships, as eight-ball, for example.

191.255.194.29 (talk) 14:56, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is your edits are entirely unsourced and extraneous in these articles. Polyamorph (talk) 15:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No one is disputing that the 2-ball is blue. We're discussing whether that factoid has any place in the 2 article, which is about a number rather than a sport, and there seems to be growing consensus that it doesn't. Certes (talk) 15:56, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]