Recentism tag Every single time a new event happens no matter how trivial someone seems to add it to the article Now I understand I see the stuff on the news just like everyone else in the region and it always feels like something big is happening escalating tensions diplomatic consequences etc but the truth is not all of this week by week history is of lasting encyclopedic value We do not aim to capture the tiny details of an ongoing event but rather to give a summary overview after all that s really the whole point behind having an encyclopedia rather than just a collection of news stories We provide historical perspective Also from a readability formatting perspective we re not supposed to just do chronologies especially not on bulleted list format Now the problem is I know that if I were to go in and start deleting stuff we d probably start having major fights about what is or is not important Is there a way we can move forward on fixing this issue In an ideal article I don t think we d have more than a two or three paragraphs per year We d summarize things with phrases like Throughout 2012 there were a number of incidents where Chinese ships entered what Japanese controlled waters refs For particularly noteworthy events like the 2010 boat collision or the 2012 purchase we d add some though not all of the details Would anyone be willing to consider such an approach