On 2008.01.02 00:08:43 +1100, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com scribbled 1.1K characters:
On 12/31/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@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?
Interesting. IMHO, it's a bit *too* specific. Most of the interesting things in history don't happen in one year, they take a few. So I'd expect to find lots of little boxes like this:
War of blah: |1290.........1345...1360|
or something.
An article that lists all the events that happened in one year strikes me as almost like trivia. It also doesn't really work as a navigational aid, because you can't readily click to find out what happened next n whatever sequnce of events.
I'm also thinking that if we have so much manpower that we can afford to produce articles as detailed as this on the years, why not just spend that manpower on the historic event articles themselves?
Steve
A brilliant idea. The logical next step is to start deleting all the video game and pop culture articles like Pokemon - we can then channel all the spare editor energy into sprucing up the year articles once the events are all cleaned up.
It's a win-win situation.
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