Familypedia talk:Categories for birth and death years

Births and deaths by year
''This first section was copied from Forum:Births by Year/Deaths by Year straight after Robin proposed creating this project page. After suggesting renaming to ".... births" etc (still under discussion at that forum), AMK had gone on to suggest we categorise such pages ..."''

by Births and deaths by year, instead of just by year? Because I'm sure some people would want to see an index of birth years without having to go to each century, year, etc. Just a suggestion. - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions


 * We can group them in any number of ways. Do you mean adding  Category:Birth years, covering all millennia (and similarly death years)? So a reader could more easily jump from 1899 to 1900 to 1901, etc? Robin Patterson 08:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions 16:09, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * They will be long lists (each well over 1000 subcategories eventually) needing lots of scrolling to reach 20th century, but I don't mind adding that to the standard. (There can be easier ways to jump from 1899 to 1900 to 1901, such as direct reciprocal links from Category:Births in 1900 to Category:Births in 1899 and Category:Births in 1901; I think Wikipedia has some clever templates designed for that sort of thing - see, for example, Wikipedia:Template:BDYearsInDecade, which I'm planning to study.) Robin Patterson 15:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I've now copied to some wiki, and will do here if not already, a template that matches Template:BDYearsInDecade. Thinking about an overall Category:Birth years, and deaths ditto, I wonder whether we might just have a Category:Births in the 2nd millennium, so that people wanting 19th and 20th centuries don't have to scroll through loads of pre-1001 near-empty categories. I should have a closer look at how Wikipedia handles the short menus and links between them. We probably need a separate page project:Categories for birth and death years where we can set out the current standard format and use the talk page to discuss changes to it. Robin Patterson 04:24, 3 August 2007 (UTC)