[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Andrew Gray]

On 08/09/2007, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Birth and death dates are fundamental to any biography. Birth and
> > death locations can wait till later in the article.
>
> I could compromise on years alone, but it's a give em 8 digits and a
> dash, and they'll take a dozen locations and alternative spellings
> situation.

Then you take them back out. Edit, people, *edit*...  limiting an
article "because someone might make it worse otherwise" is not a good
model.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk