[Wikipedia-l] Historical anniversaries

Jim McKeeth jim at mckeeth.org
Sat Sep 28 19:34:45 UTC 2002


Looking at the historical anniversary pages for days I think it would be 
more logical to order them like this:

Day of the year
Holidays
Events
Births
Deaths

With holidays moved up to the second item from the last.  The reason is 
that the holiday is celebrated every year, so it makes more sense to have 
it nearer the top so it is easier to find.  You could argue that everyone 
knows December 25th is Christmas, but to those who celebrate Christmas, 
that is the most significant thing about that, and you would be surprised 
how many people don't know that it is Christmas.

I am more then willing to start making the changes, but I would like some 
comments on this first so I don't start a format war.

I posted this to 
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Historical_anniversaries/Example as well 
and welcome comments there.

-Jim McKeeth




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