Talk:Timeline

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Contents [hide] 1 Eras 2 Minor things 3 Two issues 4 Re: format testing

Eras

So I'm slowly getting ready to compare the prologue to Dawn with the timeline, and I am noticing the eras. Um... does anyone know where they come from? The names for each era I originally wrote up were changed, which is fine (it's definitely better that they reflect the European history LOGH is modeled after than Chinese history)... but where I originally divided Imperial history into two distinct eras, now there are three (someone added a "mid" era between "early" and "late")--which begs two questions. First: does Imperial history need to be partitioned into three eras; and if so, where should that era be positioned? It strikes me as odd that the "mid" era should begin with the discovery of the FPA and beginning of the Alliance-Imperial war, as it was that war that led to the end of the old Empire. If the "mid" era is necessary, I would think a better starting point might be Heinessen's exodus, with the discovery of the FPA marking the start of the late era. Canary 22:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I think I'm the one who added the "mid" era. I actually have no idea where those eras were from; I merely modified the existing era names and re-shuffled some of the events the last time I edited the timeline. As for the mid era starting from the beginning of the war, my reasoning was that since the timeline is written from the Imperial perspective, it makes sense that the encounter with the Alliance is a much more significant change in their history than the mysterious disappearance of some 400 thousand serfs. Glacierfairy 01:06, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Minor things

• Should we auto-hide the contents? It's... awfully long.
• Citations--basically, in the end, every single episode of the OVAs (each series) will need to be cited, as well as the logh encyclopedia... where should these be placed? Lump everything together at the bottom of the page?
• Early era names suck. We need something better than "Hegemony Era" and "Space Era," I think. Canary 14:14, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Battle of Vermilion needs its link fixed in the Timeline, somewhere in the 799 UC part. Can't change it myself so thought you should know even if it is minor as this is one of, if not the most important pages. Strayor 19:26, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Fixed =) Glacierfairy 20:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't know why it was protected. I've semi-unprotected it now.  ♥ kine @ 23:02, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I like the new names for the eras. Good call Glacierfairy. Strayor 13:07, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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)

I've finished this page. I think everything looks good, but I'm not sold on the "AKA" stuff. Would you mind removing it? I think it's a bit, you know, obvious. We shouldn't need to go out of our way to state it. And can we embed a link to the Dating Systems page in those? Canary 22:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)