[Wikipedia-l] Year pages: argument against artificially setting the number of things listed

[Daniel Mayer]

On Saturday 29 June 2002 12:01 pm,  Jan Hidders  wrote:
> Apologies for being a bit too simplistic here. I fully agree with you and
> Axel that there should not be an exact number for this and should be judged
> separately each time. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt if we would have
> some policy statement that says that these page are not supposed to be
> exhaustive plus a rough estimate of what would be considered "too large"
> for which periods in time. Just to given an idea of what would still be
> considered "readably short" and how important something has to be in order
> to be on the list.
>
> -- Jan Hidders

No apology needed. Rough guidelines are fine with me, so long as some 
exceptions are allowed for years that are just super-full of history. The 
amount of listings in an of itself should also (eventually) give a person a 
visual idea of how much history was made in that year. We can discuss the 
specifics at the year pages (can't say where exactly, because wikipedia.com 
is not accessible right now).

--maveric149