On 12/31/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Although I don't know how feasible this is on a large scale, doing all that for each year. It might be easier to start with the decade articles?
I doubt it. Mostly because to write a decent "decade" article, one ought to have as a starting point roughly ten passable (i.e. non-empty) "year" articles from which to select the most interesting or (cough cough) "notable" events.
The latter pages would have, for the most part, been populated by editors who get bored enough to Google for various internet texts which refer to an exact year.
Conversely, Googling for a decade (e.g. "1340s" with or without an apostrophe) would probably find a significant number of pages discussing events for which the exact year is unknown or disputed.
These would help round out a needy "decade" article, but not likely be useful in any of the underlying "year" articles.
—C.W.