On 6/16/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Clutter perhaps, but harmless clutter at worst. There are people interested in local history who would appreciate knowing who the former mayors were, and what made them special at the time that they lived. (Can't say about mayors, but I do have publications with lists of postmasters.) I admit too that it takes a fair amount of obsession to dig it all up, but if an editor has it I'm not going to complain. It all still needs to be verifiable, but that should be no problem in most of these situations.
The thing is, these can be neatly handled as lists within articles. In a lot of cases that's a better way to enter the stuff anyway, because the lack of structure obscures things overall. BUt putting an article for each entry looks like more is being accomplished, so people would rather do that.