Wikipedia talk:How to archive Current Events

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On reverse chronological order and whether to remove events of lesser importance

'Events by month' pages exist for months since January 1999, and since January 2002 they have apparently been automatically generated by moving the page at Current events after the end of the month. The problem is that the events are thus in reverse chronlogical order. This is entirely appropriate at Current events, because it puts the most current events at the top, the forefront of the page. However it makes no sense for historical entries, so to speak, to follow this convention, and the order of the original, hand-typed entries (those up to and including December 2001) are correctly written in forward order. April 2005 is apparently an exception as someone took the time to manually reverse the events.

I contend that all pages should look like that one -- at least in regards to the "forward" chronological order of the entries. It appears that in the process of reversing the events (or maybe before) somebody removed the events of lesser importance, resulting in a smaller, more manageable page. Trevor macinnis made some comments earlier on this talk page, now archived, regarding that issue and that is something that should be discussed too. But either way the reverse chronological order has to go. GT 10:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)