Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831

CzechOut wrote: I'll make you a deal. If you clean up the pages — give 'em a proper lead in which you note the biggest things that happened that day — then I'll figure out a way to feature it on at least the main gateway pages. Show me that you're dedicated to making these pages look great and I'll give you the tech to feature 'em.

As you start to think about how to make these pages better, you might find yourself wanting to open up a debate about whether we want to split each of these pages in two and have two 1 January pages — 1 January for in-universe events and 1 January (real world) for real world events. You might also think about what kind of pictures might illustrate these pages, since most have nada. Or you might think about ways to improve the appearance of information. Should, for instance, births and deaths be in a sidebar? Is there a particular year's events that deserve highlighting in a sidebar?

Again, if you can make these pages look great, I guarantee you they'll be featured prominently.

The above was from New Homepage - 2013. I replied with the following:

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: I think we should recruit several editors to aid in this process. I agree that the date pages have a lot of work to be done. Even if I were to do it alone, though, and commit to doing 10 of them per day, it would only take me about a month.

As far as sections are concerned, I believe on the Wikipedia date articles, they have an "events" section, then "births," then "deaths." I think we could benefit from something similar. So, if we're going with splitting the articles (brilliant suggestion; never thought of it - maybe I shall indeed open up that debate), on the out-of-universe pages, we'd have any big events (like 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who) in the introduction, then a "Releases" section with all the releases, then a "Births" section, then a "Deaths" section. In the in-universe pages, we might have the most key event or aspect of the day in the introduction, an "Events" section, then "Births" and "Deaths" sections. I think, though, that if we split up the articles, it'd be harder to come up with leads for the real world date articles. Should I open a new discussion in the Panopticon about date pages so we can get onto this new project as soon as possible? I feel like this is getting off the topic of the new homepage.

So this is me, bringing this discussion to its own forum. Let's start off with the first two questions:
 * 1) Should we put subtitles like "Births" and "Deaths" as suggested above?
 * 2) Should we split date articles into two, as per Czech's suggested? This would mean, for example. 31 May and 31 May (real world).

What are your thoughts?  