The advantage of presenting the years immediately is that it provides the setting: "b.1910 d.1990" is more concise and informative than a vague "twentieth-century", and is the appropriate stye for an encyclopedia.
On 9/8/07, quiddity blanketfort@gmail.com wrote:
Stable versions is Wikipedia's answer to everything.
Dangit, I thought Wikidata was the answer to everything!
(Or Semantic Mediawiki, which seems to be the currently active name/project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
I've been telling Wikipedia critics "stable versions could potentially improve situation X" for _years_ now
Ditto, but for Wikidata. Hopefully coming soon? see also: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:DV1
Quiddity
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