On 08/09/2007, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Birth and death dates are fundamental to any biography. Birth and death locations can wait till later in the article.
I could compromise on years alone, but it's a give em 8 digits and a dash, and they'll take a dozen locations and alternative spellings situation.
Then you take them back out. Edit, people, *edit*... limiting an article "because someone might make it worse otherwise" is not a good model.