Talk:List of regicides

Table

What do you think about creating a table with the following columns?

• year
• monarch
• country
• place
• type (coup, murder, execution, battle)
• assassin
• notes

I propose removing the current sections, inserting a single table for all the centuries. Grillofrances (talk) 04:24, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Do you mean "all" or "each"? Because a single massive table would be awkward to navigate; better to have a separate table for each section. Additionally, "assassin" is only appropriate if the "type" is "assassination", so doesn't really work as a column title for every entry. "Perpetrator(s)" could work instead. It might be better to have only 1 location column, rather than both "country" and "place"; the list doesn't get that specific, and too many columns would stop the table fitting on 1 page. To be honest, I'm not sure what advantage a table would have over the current list. A table could be sorted, but I can't really see how sorting by columns other than "year" would be helpful. Lists are much easier to edit than tables and moving everything into a table would take a lot of work. – Scyrme (talk) 09:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

I mean a single table as this article doesn't contain too many items as far. Besides sorting, IMO a table is more readable. Moreover, it would promote adding the missing info which is likely to be forgotten in the case of a list. As a country, I mean a given monarchy - it's totally separate from location as the location may be either within the given monarchy or outside it or possibly in some disputed area. I'm ok with "Perpetrator(s)". Grillofrances (talk) 16:15, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

I can't say I agree at all. This list is several pages long; it's massive. A table would pad it out with column separators and such, which would make it even longer. It would have no subheadings and no TOC; it would just be a massive wall of data. I sincerely don't understand how that could be more readable than the list as it is now. The list is very readable and easy to navigate in its current format.

As a country, I mean a given monarchy - it's totally separate from location as the location may be either within the given monarchy or outside it or possibly in some disputed area.

Do you mean "monarch of..." vs "was killed in..."? Fair enough, in that case; I can see how two column headings might be warranted for that. – Scyrme (talk) 17:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I mean "monarch of..." and "was killed in...". Grillofrances (talk) 15:25, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

I don't agree that such a list would be massive. It looks to be about 170 items which would be shorter than e.g. List of countries by GDP (nominal) with 216 items. Grillofrances (talk) 15:29, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

A massive list for me is e.g. this List of United States counties by per capita income with several thousand items. Grillofrances (talk) 15:33, 7 December 2022 (UTC)