Talk:Banned and restricted cards/Timeline

Here are two links to a search in the crystalkeep MtG database using the keyword "restricted". They show all the cards that were restricted (many of them were subsequently banned) from the very beginnings to 2006. Crystalkeep is the site of Stephen D'Angelo, WotC Judge who wrote the Oracle errata and wording until that year. Many results showed here still are not listed in the timeline of DCI bans and restrictions. A few results are spurious.

http://www.crystalkeep.com/cgi-bin/magicsearch.cgi?cardName=&cardColour=&cardType=&creatureType=&rarity=&cardText=&rulingText=restricted&expansion=&pageNum=0&numCards=90 http://www.crystalkeep.com/cgi-bin/magicsearch.cgi?cardName=&cardColour=&cardType=&creatureType=&rarity=&cardText=&rulingText=restricted&expansion=&pageNum=1&numCards=90

Dead link. I thought the site was dead for years. What you might be looking for is https://web.archive.org/web/20051210071848/http://www.crystalkeep.com/magic/rules/summaries.php where you can download the html in zip (also https://web.archive.org/web/20010305103445/http://www.activesw.com/~sdangelo/magic/rule-cards.html not 2006 unfortunately.) --Eluency (talk) 09:21, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Reverse order

This article is great, but I think it's less direct than it could be. I imagine that visitors are more likely to be interested in the most recent changes to the B&R list than they are the earliest bannings. As such, I would like to rewrite this article in reverse chronological order. However, I am open to discussion as to whether it should be reversed on the scale of years, or with finer granularity. In other words, which of the following flows better?

• 2001
  • March
  • Dec
• 2000
  • March
  • June
  • Sep

or:

• 2001
  • Dec
  • March
• 2000
  • Sep
  • June
  • March

--Corveroth (talk) 01:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

If we're going to reverse it, it should be on the monthly scale. —Fenhl 04:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't agree. I believe that players "interested in the most recent changes to the B&R list" will go to magic.wizards.com and search there or just google "mtg banned list" and end up going to this page. There, WotC maintains a current and valid list. I believe the purpose of this wiki is to register the history of the bans and restrictions, and as usual, it should not be reversed. --Ltlombardi (talk) 12:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

I think we have a much broader purpose than maintaining one list, but you otherwise have a reasonable argument. Many of the few (just 28, in the main namespace) links to this page come from articles linking it with the text "banned" or "banned list" (banned list is in fact a redirect here), or as a "see also" link under a discussion of a format's bannings. How do you feel about expanding this article to more directly address those uses? This would leave the body of the article unchanged, with only a new lede, and perhaps a new name. As a second, unrelated proposal, would you object to a section near the top of the page listing just the most recent bannings (in addition to, not instead of, their position in the main list below)? --Corveroth (talk) 18:48, 10 January 2017 (UTC)