[WikiEN-l] Interwiki links for the Icelandic decade articles.

[Stuart Orford]

--- Stuart Orford <sjorford at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > What is this "correct" and "incorrect"? Either
> > system
> > is an arbitrary division of time, and it only
> > becomes
> > important which you prefer when you get to year 0
> > (because it doesn't exist). In the real world, the
> > vast majority of people these days celebrate the
> > change of a decade/century/millennium when the
> last
> > digit changes to a zero, and so Wikipedia should
> > certainly mention that to be the case. NPOV!
> > 
> > However, it probably does make sense to use the
> > "traditional" rather than the "popular"
> definitions
> > for decades etc., as that's the way they would
> have
> > been most often referred to historically. There's
> > certainly no problem linking to the Icelandic
> > articles
> > either, even if they would be a year out.

--- Mark Richards <marich712000 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Yes, we should document popular math errors too, and
> popular misconceptions about how gravity works! ;)
> Mark

Yes, we should.

-- Stuart


		
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