[WikiEN-l] Year articles

[Oldak Quill]

I really like what you've achieved and this should be replicated at
other year articles. In many ways, prose fills out the picture a lot
better for me than a list does. The list timeline has other
advantages: a lot of easily-accessible information and as a navigation
aid.

I think many year articles are linked to for the benefits the timeline
provides, particularly as navigation aid. At the same time, we have a
strong preference to prose articles, relegating lists to disambiguated
and clarified names ("List of X", "X timeline", &c.). How would we
balance that [[1345]], and year articles more generally, are mainly
linked to for the purposes of navigation and instant broad
information, while giving our normal preference to prose?

On 31/12/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago, we discussed the various articles on years, which are
> invariably bald timelines of births, deaths and events; the
> possibility of fleshing them out into prose was tossed around.
>
> I've just been told someone finally did one of them :-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1345
>
> with the old content at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1345_timeline
>
> Thoughts?
>
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