2008/10/17 Delirium delirium@hackish.org:
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
on 10/17/08 12:39 PM, geni at geniice@gmail.com wrote:
A lot of our articles have mostly bot or tool assisted edits.
Which leaves all creative instinct and Article by Article basic human judgment behind. A sad road to go down.
Marc