Talk:Timeline

Links

Just for the record, there are so many links in this timeline — for example, to both Norwegian and English versions of the same things — because eventually the plan is for some of the link targets to redirect to others. Once that is done, the "extra" links can be removed. I just haven't decided which targets should be considered the "canonical" ones. - dcljr (talk) 16:14, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Format for dates and refs

See my latest edits here, in which I have standardized the formatting of recent additions (dates, refs, links to TT, etc.). I know it's hard to understand all the conventions I've been using, especially since my documentation of those conventions is anywhere from incomplete to nonexistent, but I hope that these followup edits will give sufficient clarification. In particular, please use "YYYY-MM-DD" format for dates, as much as possible (as much as "reasonable", anyway — I even use "YYYY-MM" for months without days, which is somewhat atypical). The thinking here is to minimize ambiguity (e.g., no "2/5/24", or similar), and to make linking easy and "automatable": see the documentation for {{d}}, which creates links to entries in this timeline, and {{du}}, for "unlinked" versions of dates that don't/won't correspond to entries here. Also, when a link to YT, TT, FB, etc., is used in a reference, please include the date you actually "|accessed=" the resource. The use of this parameter triggers (if I've implemented it yet) special "bibliographic" formatting of the link, suitable for refs. Thoughts about this are welcome. - dcljr (talk) 02:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)