Wikipedia:Timeline standards
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This page is part of the Manual of Style, and is considered a guideline for Wikipedia. The consensus of many editors formed the conventions described here. Wikipedia articles should heed these guidelines. Feel free to update this page as needed, but please use the discussion page to propose major changes. |
- For the various types of timeline implementations, see Wikipedia:Timeline.
This page describes a standard layout to use when adding millennia, centuries, decades, or years to the history timeline. Any comments on changes to this format should be added via Wikipedia Talk:Timeline standards. There is a proposal for changing the current standard (shown below) on the talk page and there is a recently closed survey on years pages here.
See also: WikiProject Days of the year (template for day pages)
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[edit] Scope
Articles for the year 500 BC and earlier should be redirected to the relevant decade. Articles for the year 1700 BC and earlier should be redirected to the relevant century. Articles for the year 4000 BC and earlier should be redirected to the relevant millennium.
[edit] Layout for year pages
Here is the format for the Year pages. Note: Wikipedia:WikiProject Years is working on minor updats for this version.
[edit] Infobox
Each year should have an infobox at the top right. The templates will be the template {{yearbox}} followed by the template {{C21YearInTopic}} (or applicable centuries template).
{{yearbox|
| in?=
| cp=20th Century
| c=21st century
| cf=22nd century
| yp1=2001
| yp2=2002
| yp3=2003
| year=2004
| ya1=2005
| ya2=2006
| ya3=2007
| dp3=1970s
| dp2=1980s
| dp1=1990s
| d=2000s
| dn1=2010s
| dn2=2020s
| dn3=2030s
}}
{{C21YearInTopic}}
[edit] Intro Section
The first sentence in the introduction explains that the page is for a year and not a number. This statement should only be included if the number is on the List of numbers page. The second introduction sentence will describe the year (a link to a calendar) and the type of calendar the year belongs to. The following sentence lists any official designation the year has.
''This article is about the year 2004. For other uses of 2004, see [[2004 (number)]]:'' '''2004''' is a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was designated the: *''International Year of [[Rice]]'' (by the [[United Nations]]) *''International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against [[Slavery]] and its Abolition'' (by [[UNESCO]]) *''Year of the Monkey'' (by the [[Chinese calendar]])
[edit] Sections
[edit] Events
The events section is divided into months, each month has a calendar at the beginning and lists any important events that occurred. The month header once linked to the particular month in the year (if the page exists, eg. January 2004), but doesn't anymore. Every item links to the day.
==Events==
===January===
* [[January 3]] - [[Flash Airlines Flight 604]] crashes into the [[Red Sea]] off the coast of [[Egypt]], killing all 148 aboard.
* [[January 4]] - [[Mikhail Saakashvili]] wins the presidential elections in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].
* [[January 4]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MER-A]] (''Spirit'') lands on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
===February===
* [[February 1]] - A [[hajj]] stampede in [[Mina, Saudi Arabia|Mina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], kills 251 pilgrims.
===March===
===April===
===May===
===June===
===July===
===August===
===September===
===October===
===November===
===December===
[edit] Births section
The Births section list all births in that year, divided into month section. Each entry links to the day page, has a very short description of the person, and links to the death year if known.
==Births== ===January=== *[[January 21]] - [[Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway]] *[[January 21]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2005]]) American author *[[January 31]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2003]]) Polonesian King ===February===
[edit] Deaths section
The deaths section begins with a see also statement, and follows the same format as the births section: Month section, day link, name, and birth year link if known.
==Deaths== '''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2004]]''' ===January=== *[[January 27]] - [[Jack Paar]], American television show host (b. [[1918]]) ===December=== *[[December 28]] - [[Jerry Orbach]], American actor (b. [[1935]]) *[[December 28]] - [[Susan Sontag]], American writer and activist (b. [[1933]])
[edit] More
It has not yet been decided what else will be included on the year pages. Many currently have sections for awards, fiction, external links etc. These sections may be removed (or more likely moved to a separate page to be included on the infobox) later, but for now the following form can be followed to close out the page.
== External link==
{{commonscat|2004}}
[[Category:2004|*]]
[[af:2004]]
[[ar:2004]]
End of format for the Years
[edit] Layout for decade pages
The format for the Decade pages is out of date and will soon be replaced with the current format.
[edit] Layout for century pages
Here is the format for the century pages
1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries
Events and Trends
Significant People
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
Decades and Years
| 0s BC | 9 BC | 8 BC | 7 BC | 6 BC | 5 BC | 4 BC | 3 BC | 2 BC | 1 BC | |
| 0s | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 10s | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20s | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30s | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| 40s | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 |
| 50s | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 |
| 60s | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 |
| 70s | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 |
| 80s | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 |
| 90s | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 |
| 100s | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 |
End of format for the century pages
