2008/10/16 Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>et>:
It just happened again. I went in and edited a
biography article, made
some
corrections as to the Date of Birth, and left the
month and day unlinked
but
linked the year. One minute later someone else
came in and de-linked the
year with the edit comments, "(unlink yob per WP:MOSNUM)". Is this the
present policy? And if so, how came we change it?
Marc Riddell
Yes it is present MOS and you change it in the normal manner. However
this would what be the third time the debate has happened in a few
months so I doubt you would get very far. See for the most part what
happened in the year of someone's birth is of little interest unless
the event dirrectly impacted them. You might be able to make a case
for the years where they did whatever makes the noteable but even then
a case could be made that you would do better linking to say 1860s in
engineering.
--
geni
It seems to me that linking someone's birth year would give a reader easy
access to a listing of an individual's contemporaries via the list of people
born in that year and adjacent years. Having an idea of the other people
who were alive and working at the same time can give a lot of context when
reading a person's biography.
--
Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P ⚕
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