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.