Talk:1750s in archaeology

message: 23-May-2007 (revised 23May): The format of the archaeology decade articles (such as "1750s in archaeology") has evolved over 2 years to include sections for Explorations, Excavations, Finds, Births, Deaths, and Notes footnotes.  -Wikid77 05:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format 

message: 23-May-2007: As might be expected, the years-in-archaeology have NOT been wildly popular articles for expansion, being sparsely edited by only a few Wiki users for about 2 years.  Although Pompeii-related sites were found in 1709, most digs around the world date from about 1800 or later.  To simplify, I combined 200 yearly articles from 16xx and 17xx to redirect to just 20 combined-decade articles ("1600s in archaeology" through "1790s in archaeology"). -Wikid77 05:19, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slow expansion 

message: 22-May-2007 (revised 23May): I have been analyzing about 3,000 of the year-in-topic articles and have noticed the concerns: dozens of archaeology yearly articles had contained only one notable line, such as a single birth entry, after almost 2 years of public editing.  I have begun reducing/combining the yearly articles to redirect into decade articles, which combine several one-notable-line years into a multi-line decade view.  That combined-decade concept has been used extensively for the architecture years, such as 16xx_in_architecture redirecting into one of 10 decade articles.  The benefits are immediate and lasting:  already, the 100 yearly articles from 1600_ to "1699_in_archaeology" have been redirected into just 10 decade articles, such as "1640s_in_archaeology" (combining any details from the previous yearly articles ranging 1640..1649).  Because the 100 repetitious articles have been reduced to just 10, eliminating the potential editing of 90 articles, the future expansion of details has been reduced from the former daunting 100 detailed articles to just the 10 decade articles for editing across the century years 16xx.  Vandalism that hid for 3-7 months among the 100 yearly articles can be spotted much sooner by checking just those 10 remaining combined-decade articles, such as inspecting "1670s_in_archaeology" (to look for differences or botched facts).  In the future, any year expanded with extensive details could be re-separated as a yearly article, beyond the summary details for that year within the decade article, since any future yearly article could have its own navigation-box to other years, and the year-decade connections are determined by individual redirection from each yearly article.  The combined-decade articles thus reduce the century to just 10 main articles (avoiding 90 other articles) to not only simplify the major edit-hassles but also raise the content-quality of each Wikipedia article to more than just a one-line birth entry; however, at the same time, the combined-decade articles allow any particular years to be re-expanded as yearly-articles, as appropriate to future details, without impacting the broader 10 combined-decade articles.  Overall, the combined-decade approach has been a great solution to the troublesome, multi-year problem of skeletal yearly articles in Wikipedia. -Wikid77 05:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Combining/filling