Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-7302713-20130510115714

Wow...this discussion thread has got a little off course. I can't absorb it all, not close. Moving a bit closer to the original topic, are we only discussing splitting day of the year pages into in-universe and real world or are we considering doing this with all date pages? Splitting 1993 into 1993 and 1993 (real world)? Splitting the 1990s into 1990s and 1990s (real world)? Splitting 20th century into 20th century and 20th century (real world)?

Also, is it just me or are the calenders on day of the year pages emulating 2010? If so, why? Also, can we put days of the week onto day of the year pages?

I saw the thread about hiding info and the link to the GOT website, and it is fairly fantastic. I know that it's not a wiki, much less a wikia wiki, but year pages were one place where I thought this could really work. Not in terms of source (prose, tv, etc), but in terms of in-universe and real world. It would be fairly awesome to go to a year and be able to see only what happened in-universe and only what happened in the real world, and both at once. So, forgive me, I'm going to bring tabbing back up for a mo'.

I don't see how linking to the page is made harder by the use of tabs. If I hyperlink 4 May in an article while discussing something that happened that day, is it really important that I be taken to the exact part of the page that discusses that? The article is already telling me what happened on 4 May that's relevant to the article. The purpose of linking to 4 May is for the reader to be able to see what-else happened that day. And we don't really know what the reader is interested in. Just because they came to the page via a link regarding a release doesn't mean that they are interested in other releases. I understand that there are problems inherent in the tabbing system. It's under review by wikia and it's not the most editor friendly system. But it's incredibly reader friendly and I think that it has enough benefits that we should at least explore the possibility of using it, trying to pinpoint what the potential problems are and if they have solutions, not dismiss it entirely out of hand.