[Wikipedia-l] order of lists of works & prizes

Mon Sep 16 00:03:21 UTC 2002

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> 
> tarquin wrote:
> 
> > Of the 5 nobel prize pages, 3 start from the present day, 2 go forward
> > from 1901.
> >
> > I found a page on filmographies etc which suggest that lists start
> > from the most recent item:
> > http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia_talk:Filmographies_and_Discographies
> >
> >
> > A comment on the talk page Wikipedia talk:Filmographies and
> > Discographies raises the fact that this order may have been influenced
> > by the IMDB's filmographies.
> >
> > IMO lists of prize awards or works are in a sense timelines, and as
> > such should go forwards.
> > what are your opinions?

It's the same as listings of an author or artist's works (eg.paintings,
books). A few weeks ago somebody went to the trouble of making a listing
of books by Dianna Wynne Jones - in alphabetical order, which meant that
somebody else had to go through and painstakingly re-order it to be
chronological.

I would like to be bold here and to suggest that ALL lists involving
dates in any way should be chronological. 

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