[WikiEN-l] Year articles - en: versus de:

[Ilmari Karonen]

Phil Boswell wrote:
> David Gerard-2 wrote:
> 
>>An interesting point that came up in conversation with presroi on IRC.
>>Compare:
>>
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974
>>    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974
>>
>>Anyone interested in writing up our year articles as decent history
>>articles, as well as the lists of stuff?
> 
> You will note that they have removed the lists of births and deaths to
> separate articles.
> 
> What are the odds that if anybody tried this on :en: the resulting articles
> would be on AFD in a heartbeat as "listcruft"?

Perhaps.  On the other hand, someone _could_ just write up a guideline 
about it and submit it to a consensus poll.  I expect it might pass 
quite easily, given how awkward the year articles currently are, and, 
once approved, would pacify even the strictest policy wonks.

There _are_ other methods for getting things done besides being bold, 
you know.  Sometimes they can even be more effective.

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Ilmari Karonen