Typical example of Wikipedia changes being applied excessively due to lack of judgment. The idea that it was unnecessary in most cases to link day or month was a good one; carrying it to year is ridiculous. Even print reference sources often provide a listing by year of births and deaths--almanacs for example. A small group of self-selected specialists with the persistence to follow all the MOS discussions should not be deciding these things--they should be able to distinguish the parts that do need more general community involvement. (To expect the community in general to follow ''all'' of MOS is not practical).
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:16 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/17 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
Which leaves all creative instinct and Article by Article basic human judgment behind. A sad road to go down.
Marc
Not really. Human create. Bots sort of copyedit.
-- geni
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