Wikipedia talk:Timeline

Discussion

Before a widely anticipated or scheduled future event, sometimes, its predicted effects will be in an article of their own. Whether they are or remain in the article anticipating the event, afterwards, they should be moved to the timeline. Any controversies about whether the event caused other events should be in a separate article on the actual effects. This lets them be compared to the predicted effects, helps keep track of any attempts to add new predictions without attribution after the fact from the list of actual effects, and it keeps the timeline neutral.

A decent example is the timeline of the Canadian federal election, 2004 and the main article on the Canadian federal election, 2004. This shows how to divide a "timeline" from the other reporting after the fact. To see how to report the timeline (and everything else) that comes before such an event, compare to Canadian federal election, 2005. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.177.109.47 (talk) March 28, 2005

Timeline Crawler

I'm wondering if anyone ever attempted to build a wikipedia crawler that builds timelines. I'll be at wikimania, please message me or respond below. TheKaramanukian (talk) 10:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Overhaul

I attempted an overhaul of this project page, hopefully making everything clearer and more concise, without losing anything useful. Feel free to improve/redo if you can do a better job :) --Quiddity 19:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for assistance

Can someone familiar with this extension take a look at List of British monarchs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)?

An IP has been blanking the timeline, claiming the markup is correct but that the chart is not rendering correctly. I'm not familiar with the use of this extension, so would appreciate someone with more familiarity taking a look and possibly commenting on the talk page there with any suggestions on fixing the claimed issues. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

It looks like this is resolved; the consensus of replies is that the IP was mis-reading the chart, so it's user error on their part. Thanks for the input to those who replied. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:21, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

RFA:Colonial States Athletic Conference

Can someone please take a look at Colonial States Athletic Conference to see what the issue is with the timeline there?

Timeline sections in biographies

I am being told that timeline sections are not allowed in biographies, does anyone know what !Wikilaw is being cited? Another editor added this to the timeline section: {{prose|section|date=September 2016}} The other editor wrote: "Timelines are allowed for year, century, decade, etc articles; biographies are appropriately presented as prose." Anyone have thoughts? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:24, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Timelines are allowed

• I count over 100 articles containing them before I stopped. They do not use a template, so they are hard to find. For instance GA article Albert Einstein contains one. I can think of no reason why they are disallowed. If you convert them to prose, you just have the biography written twice. They serve two different purposes, sometimes you just need to look for an event in a specific year, or see if one event preceded another. It is as silly as demanding that filmographies be written in prose instead of a table. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:12, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

• "If you convert them to prose, you just have the biography written twice". Exactly. There is rarely a need to have the biography written twice, whether formatted as prose or bullets. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is a poor argument in favour of that practice. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Timelines must be removed or converted into prose

• The OP posted an RfC on this topic at WT:BIOG a month ago, which closed with consensus that biographies should be presented using prose rather than timelines. In light of this, it seems redundant to have another discussion on the topic. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

A timeline of Einstein

1879: Born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire 1884–1894: Attends Catholic primary school (3 years) and Luitpold Gymnasium (7 years) in Munich 1894–1895: In Pavia, Italy 1895–1896: Completes his secondary school with Swiss Matura at Argovian cantonal school (gymnasium) in Aarau, Switzerland 1896: Renounces his Württemberg citizenship to avoid military service 1896–1900: Study at Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich 1901: Becomes Swiss citizen 1902–1909: Work at Swiss Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland 1902: His father Hermann dies in Milan, Italy 1903: Marries Mileva Marić 1905: Publishes four Annus Mirabilis papers 1905: Awarded PhD by University of Zurich, Switzerland 1907–1916: Develops general theory of relativity 1908–1909: Lecturer at University of Bern 1909–1911: Associate professor at University of Zurich 1911–1912: Full professor at Charles University in Prague 1912–1914: Regular professor at ETH Zurich 1914: Moves to Berlin together with his family, few months later separates from his wife, Mileva Marić, who returns to Zurich with their two sons (4 and 10 years old) 1914: Becomes a German citizen (actually a subject of the Kingdom of Prussia (German Empire), 1918 implicitly converted to citizen of Free State of Prussia (Weimar Republic)) in addition to his Swiss citizenship 1914–1933: Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1914–1932: Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin 1914–1917: Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin 1916–1918: President of the German Physical Society 1919: Divorces Mileva Marić, and marries his cousin Elsa Löwenthal 1920: His mother Pauline dies at Albert's house in Berlin 1922: Receives 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics 1933: Renounces German citizenship (Weimar Republic) and emigrates to the United States 1933–1955: Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States 1936: His wife Elsa dies 1940: Becomes an American citizen in addition to his Swiss citizenship 1951: His sister Maja Winteler-Einstein dies at his house in Princeton 1955: Dies in Princeton

Removed timelines

• Eddie August Schneider
• Albert Einstein

Past tense or present tense

Do timelines use past tense or present tense? (Reply to me with {{ping|Wei4Green}}) —Wei4Green | 唯绿远大 (talk) 21:52, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

These don’t show on mobile

Should these be avoided, maybe replaced with an image, on mobile? For example, see how Pearl Jam#Timeline is just an empty section on mobile devices. DemonDays64 (talk) 00:27, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Vs. lists by date

Should all lists by date be considered timelines? fgnievinski (talk) 00:53, 29 January 2023 (UTC)