Talk:Timeline

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Revision as of 14:12, 30 April 2011

Two issues

1. Should the timeline page have picutres?
2. Is the first paragraph (describing the timeline) necessary? — Canary

I have no opinion on the first, it seems like it could be OK either way. I don't think Memory Alpha's time-line pages have them, but i'm not positive. Edit: The year-specific pages do, if there are images available, but most of the 'broader' pages (decades and centuries) do not.

I don't like the first paragraph in its current incarnation. It's written from a real-life perspective (makes references to the series), which is no good, and the date thing seems self-explanatory. I would change it at some point.  ♥ kine @ 01:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: format testing

Hi. I wanted to test something here, and i didn't want to mess with your work, so i've made a copy of this page at Timeline/test. On that page, you can see that i've replaced the manually typed out dates by the {{d}}-templated dates (and then added some CSS specific to these pages to make it so that the text shows up in the body as well as the tool-tips). I think this has two advantages:

1. Obviously it's quicker to type and doesn't require manual calculation of dates
2. If we do end up changing the format and/or abbreviations for dates, every one of these lines can be updated instantly (along with the rest of the site) just by modifying the template

Let me know what you think  ♥ kine @ 13:27, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Looks good. I do, however, think it is (vitally) necessary to change the date formatting to something consistent. I'll update the old timeline page w/ the new one I've got saved here. (Re:Formatting--at this point, it's basically just shifting the number and letter positions, removing the periods, etc.) Canary 14:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)