geni wrote:
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.
That's probably true. I'm personally more annoyed that people come by
with bots (or bot-like scripts) and unlink centuries. In most cases
where I actually take the time to write out "[[5th century]]", it's
because the century is relevant as background information.
Actually I'd have fewer problems in general with any of this if it were
humans making case-by-case judgments. It's mostly the drive-by
auto-editing by people who haven't even read the article that I find
annoying and harmful.
-Mark