User blog:JoshuaJSlone/New thing: This Day in History

So I was looking for a new big project to start, and turned to something that had been in the back of my mind since we set up the birthday pages instead of having it just be a frequently-edited section of the home page. And that is: a more general "This Day in History" thing, beyond just births. What brought it back to mind recently was noticing a concert DVD I'd obtained was almost exactly 10 years from the date of filming. Something that could list things like that, single/album/book/movie/whatever releases, whatever other notable events, is the kind of thing I find interesting.

That makes for a pretty broad number of things to list, but as a start I went with some things easily accessible. I took a table of hundreds of single/album release infos (though not totally comprehensive for what's in the wiki), and through a bit of text manipulation turned it into properly formatted links. I then went through the year pages (like 2001) and added in most of the things with specific dates under the Members section, though I did avoid some things on this pass like the comings and goings of Eggs. Member births might seem like an obvious addition, but since there's already the separate birthday pages I left that out at least for now. With these things together I ended up with a big file that had hundreds of portions theoretically ready to be pasted into pages. Buuut it's kind of a bad idea to have 300 pages and then wish you'd done something a little different. Much easier to be able to make edits with the big file first. So I've just added a little over a week's worth of pages as sample, starting with Template:This Day in History March 25.

One thing I already think probably should be changed is some identification for what the releases are, but I'm not sure how detailed is necessary/best.

March 25 as it is now: Slightly more detailed Even more Links for everyone?

But really any change is up for grabs at this point. The file I linked to earlier may be big, but I started work on it less than a day ago so there's not a lot of time investment to go to waste yet.