[WikiEN-l] Avoiding the dates issue

[Andrew Gray]

2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:


> And this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Stiv%C3%ADn
>
> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
> represented in the Project.

"now being represented"? It was added exactly like that in 2006!

We've had dates represented like that for a long time - they usually
get cleaned up to conform to the normal practice at some point, but
I've seen quite long-established articles still using asterisk for
born, dagger for died. It really isn't anything to do with the new
date linking approach...

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- Andrew Gray
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