1) On wikipedia, we have lots of dates where only years or months are specified Eg. the ancient Korean kingdom in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojoseon the last year of existence was 108BC. The precision is year units so judging from the examples for whole days from the microformats book Brian edited, as well as in the hcalendar, iCalendar (RFC2445) documents, the dtend for this date should be -0107. Similarly, if the battle end date is given as August, 1843 then the dtend should be 1843-09, and if the article says battle end date is August 19, 1843, then the dtend should be 1843-08-20. Correct? (BTW- Consideration was given to postpending something like December 31, 23:59, (or 24:00), but this sort of practice implies a precision that simply does exist for any of these historical events. )
2) hCalendar usage for death dates. Consider article Ceasar Augustus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:J_JMesserly/demo1. We are aware of proposals for dday (death day) addition to hCard. Some feel vEvent is perfectly suited to Life events. My question: Is the usage of vevent, dtstart and dtend in this example in any way officially deprecated or ruled improper? Thanks. As with my previous inquiry to earlier this month on localities, this sort of usage on wikipedia is easily corrected in the future should microformats.org guidance on usage for historical data evolve to contradict the advice given on these two questions today. -John (User:J JMesserly) at wikipedia and commons. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
