Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Years of birth death in Intro of bographies

Policy limitations

Although this is something quite useful I am afraid it is outside of scope for the community wishlist as it requires a Manual of Style changes. As every community or wikiproject is unique and independent we should not interfere with this right in way of dictating how to formulate the first line in a biography entry. Different projects have different rules, just to list some:

• enwiki: John Smith (1500, 1600) was an English painter
• some other wiki: John Smith, English painter, * 1500, † 1600
• yet another wiki: John Smith (* 1500, † 1600), English painter

We can see there are multiple styles to formulating the main biographical data. I think it's best for admins/community wishlist maintainers to close down this idea as invalid due to reasons provided above. Best regards, A09|(pogovor) 18:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC)