I think it looks much better, but it looks like it will take longer to read.
But at least it's all in the one place, rather than forked into two separate pages.
Anthony
User:AGK en.wikipedia.org
On 01/01/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
I think the timeline articles should in no case be removed--they are enormously easier for navigation. Perhaps some people want text articles for subjects of this sort--fine with me, if people are willing to write them. I wonder though how a criterion for suitable content can ever be found. consider the events listed under "the Americas" thi swill presumably be repeated for dozens of other years identically. It will be interesting to compare this article with 1346--many of the events are continuous. I question which should be the main article. 1345 might be 1345 events for example, while the main article might be the timeline.
The extremely large number of links to years make this of particular concern--what will people expect to find when the click on one? a list of possibly related happenings, or a long diversion?
On Jan 1, 2008 8:08 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/31/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Some time ago, we discussed the various articles on years, which are invariably bald timelines of births, deaths and events; the possibility of fleshing them out into prose was tossed around.
I've just been told someone finally did one of them :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1345
with the old content at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1345_timeline
Thoughts?
Interesting. IMHO, it's a bit *too* specific. Most of the interesting things in history don't happen in one year, they take a few. So I'd expect to find lots of little boxes like this:
War of blah: |1290.........1345...1360|
or something.
An article that lists all the events that happened in one year strikes me as almost like trivia. It also doesn't really work as a navigational aid, because you can't readily click to find out what happened next n whatever sequnce of events.
I'm also thinking that if we have so much manpower that we can afford to produce articles as detailed as this on the years, why not just spend that manpower on the historic event articles themselves?
Steve
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