Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-258494-20160130230527/@comment-25898958-20170427123357

Firstly, let's not kid ourselves: an open-source encyclopedia hosted by Wikia ("the home of fandom"), in 2017, is not on the same level as a 1960 print version of a professionally-written Encyclopedia. They're not quite the same and don't necessarily have to follow traditional style formats.

Secondly, a lot of modern online Encyclopedias seem to use the "born _" format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theresa-May http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/justin-trudeau/

So, this seems to be the standard format for modern (or at least, modern online) Encyclopedias.

Thirdly, having a large gap, to me, just looks ugly, and looks like something is missing or the information is unknown.

I would prefer other editors to say which format they prefer, reach a consensus, and then use the same format for each article, rather than constantly changing things. Ollie231213 (talk) 12:33, April 27, 2017 (UTC)