I didn't agree to this. It depends on what the reader is looking for.
Chrono order (earliest first) -- when you care about the complete list, from first to last * List of US presidents - Washington, Adams, Jefferon, ... * Lists of states that joined the union * Nobel prizes
Reverse chrono (latest first) -- when you care about the last few more than the first * Academy Award (Oscar) winners * Emmy Awards * Sports champions -- World Series (baseball), World Cup (soccer), Stanley Cup (hockey)
Some awards like Pulitzer Prizes could go either way. Nobel Peace Prize, which is politically motivated and topical, could also go either way.
Ed Poor
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A while back we agreed that most chronological lists should go forward, from past to present reading down. (prizes, incumbents, lists of works, and chronologies themselves)
since there are many list pages that go the other way, and reversing by hand is tedious, I've put up a perl script:
* http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/cgi-bin/reverser.cgi
I'll link it to it from the manual of style when I get round to updating it to mention lists.
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"Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com writes:
Reverse chrono (latest first) -- when you care about the last few more than the first
- Sports champions -- World Series (baseball), World Cup (soccer), Stanley Cup (hockey)
I know who won all those things recently, I remember them all vividly. I'm far more likely to want to look up who won them in 1938[0].
[0] The New York Yankees, Italy and the Chicago Blackhawks
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I didn't agree to this. It depends on what the reader is looking for.
I knew it! I raised this *ages* ago. some people agreed. LDC had objections; Toby said "do we even need a standard? but if there is one, forward"
I waited a good 2 weeks, and raised it again, adressing both of of their comments. I said "any objections before I make it Manual of Style policy. check the archive, but I think it's been *another* 2 weeks since then!
Chrono order (earliest first) -- when you care about the complete list, from first to last
- List of US presidents - Washington, Adams, Jefferon, ...
- Lists of states that joined the union
- Nobel prizes
Reverse chrono (latest first) -- when you care about the last few more than the first
- Academy Award (Oscar) winners
- Emmy Awards
- Sports champions -- World Series (baseball), World Cup (soccer), Stanley Cup (hockey)
Some awards like Pulitzer Prizes could go either way. Nobel Peace Prize, which is politically motivated and topical, could also go either way.
Ed Poor
-----Original Message----- From: tarquin [mailto:tarquin@planetunreal.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:10 PM To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] on a lighter note: lists
A while back we agreed that most chronological lists should go forward, from past to present reading down. (prizes, incumbents, lists of works, and chronologies themselves)
since there are many list pages that go the other way, and reversing by hand is tedious, I've put up a perl script:
I'll link it to it from the manual of style when I get round to updating it to mention lists.
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