tarquin wrote:
Of the 5 nobel prize pages, 3 start from the present day, 2 go forward from 1901.
I found a page on filmographies etc which suggest that lists start from the most recent item: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia_talk:Filmographies_and...
A comment on the talk page Wikipedia talk:Filmographies and Discographies raises the fact that this order may have been influenced by the IMDB's filmographies.
IMO lists of prize awards or works are in a sense timelines, and as such should go forwards. what are your opinions?
I agree with you on this. I shared the work to put all the academy award pages in normal time line order, and I am sometimes tempted to fix the Nobel Prize pages in the same way.
The article which you cite suggests that copyright may be an issue. Original ways of arranging material can be copyright, but there is nothing original about a basic chronological or alphabetical sequence going either forwards or backwards. That issue's a red herring.
One other advantage of a forward chronological list is that it makes some annotations about the award much easier. Using [[Academy Awards]] as an example, it is much easier to insert something like "This year the name of this award changed to ..." in a forward context than by trying to go up on the down escalator.
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