[Wikipedia-l] Year in music
Magnus Manske
magnus.manske at epost.de
Wed Dec 25 21:05:58 UTC 2002
Whoever 216.234.195.244
<http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=216.234.195.244>
is (from around Fort Worth), (s)he is adding births and deaths to these
pages, which should be on the year page.
We can
1. Move all contents to the year pages and redirect
2. block the user (I don't want that, but how to get his/her attention?)
Magnus
Zoe wrote:
> I didn't care for it from the beginning, especially since it seems to
> be solely dedicated to The Year in Rock Music, and all other genres
> are ignored. Also, I don't like that he's predicting the future with
> "2003 in music", etc.
>
> Zoe
>
> */rose.parks at att.net/* wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Having finally checked the Recent Changes last night and read some of
> the "Year XXXX in music" articles, I agree with Mr. Manske. I
> think this is
> not a good idea and foresee this followed by "Year XXXX in
> painting," "Year
> XXXX in dance," "Year XXXX in literature."
> Further, the articles are rather summary, listing publication of
> songs,
> performers' highpoints, deaths etc.
> I would think this information will be incorporated in Wikipedia
> in some
> other form eventually, if it isn't already. For me. it is hard to
> find much
> meaning in these entries, as events appear out of context. For
> this reason, I
> think we should consider whether this is a good idea, before it
> goes much
> further.
>
> As Ever,
>
> Ruth Ifcher
>
> --
>
> > Someone's creating articles like "1974 in music".Can't that just go
> > under [[1974]]?
> >
> > Ma! gnus
> >
> >
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