[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Elias Friedman]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/16 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> > It just happened again. I went in and edited a biography article, made
> some
> > corrections as to the Date of Birth, and left the month and day unlinked
> but
> > linked the year. One minute later someone else came in and de-linked the
> > year with the edit comments, "(unlink yob per WP:MOSNUM)". Is this the
> > present policy? And if so, how came we change it?
> >
> > Marc Riddell
>
> Yes it is present MOS and you change it in the normal manner. However
> this would what be the third time the debate has happened in a few
> months so I doubt you would get very far. See for the most part what
> happened in the year of someone's birth is of little interest unless
> the event dirrectly impacted them. You might be able to make a case
> for the years where they did whatever makes the noteable but even then
> a case could be made that you would do better linking to say 1860s in
> engineering.
>
>
> --
> geni



It seems to me that linking someone's birth year would give a reader easy
access to a listing of an individual's contemporaries via the list of people
born in that year and adjacent years.  Having an idea of the other people
who were alive and working at the same time can give a lot of context when
reading a person's biography.

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