User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130201211532

I unfortunately can't give this important project my full attention at this precise moment. So I might miss various nuances of this discussion. Forgive me if I come back later than you'd like to squash something you've already done.

Let's concentrate on the one thing that's non-controversial that you can be getting on with immediately: the emplacement of leads. You've already started on that, and I'd probably make that my major focus over the next few days.


 * When there aren't that many things that happen, I think you can safely dispense with the bulleted lists and just turn things into a proper paragraph. Just remember to use bold according to T:BOLD and to obey T:TENSES by keeping things in the strict and simple past tense.
 * When there are multiple things that happened, and one of them seems clearly more important than the other, use a construction like 26 June. There, the Amy and Rory's wedding in 2010 is the centrepiece.  Most of the other events require that first event to happen.  So you highlight the big events, then drop the others into a bulleted list under a full sentence like:
 * Amongst the other notable things that occurred on this day were:
 * Of course, it's not always that your lead event needs to be causal, as it is on 26 June. But there are going to be days where the events of one year dwarf the importance of events on the same day in other years.


 * When there are multiple things that happened with none of them seeming dominantly important, your lead should be something vague, but which nevertheless brings order to the page. Something like:
 * 7 September was notable for a number of highly varied events on Earth and its parallels:
 * And then you just launch into a bulleted list

I'd recommend, for now, that you make this your primary task. Of all the things that need to be done to these page, the one "emergency" is that they don't have leads.

I'll be back in other posts to respond to other things that you've talked about above.