On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:25:46PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Friday 28 June 2002 04:12 am, Jan Hidders wrote:
How about the following:
- We make a guideline that says that there should be no more than, say, 10
births / deaths / events on the page and that these should be the most important ones in that year.
I don't think that would be a good idea. Some years are just loaded with many notable people who were either born, did something really important, or died during that year that continue to be relevant to us in the present. We shouldn't place any type of artificial rule on the number of things listed.
Apologies for being a bit too simplistic here. I fully agree with you and Axel that there should not be an exact number for this and should be judged separately each time. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt if we would have some policy statement that says that these page are not supposed to be exhaustive plus a rough estimate of what would be considered "too large" for which periods in time. Just to given an idea of what would still be considered "readably short" and how important something has to be in order to be on the list.
-- Jan Hidders