Ray Saintonge wrote:
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?
It's the same as listings of an author or artist's works (eg.paintings, books). A few weeks ago somebody went to the trouble of making a listing of books by Dianna Wynne Jones - in alphabetical order, which meant that somebody else had to go through and painstakingly re-order it to be chronological.
I would like to be bold here and to suggest that ALL lists involving dates in any way should be chronological.