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Events section is long... we could divide it into subsections by month but that would crowd the TOC. - Hemanshu 17:45, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC

[edit] Format

12-December-2006: As of December 2006, each year has a different format, as people add events or special subhead categories, "Nobel Prizes" (1901+) or "Ship events" and such. For example, year '1778' had month-name subheads parallel to the "Events" subhead (which had un-dated events with no months). In the 1900s, Events have been divided into 12 month-name subheaders; for the 1700s, I subdivided Events by multi-month: January-June, July-December, and Unknown-dates. It seems that unless month names are identified in subheaders, the un-dated events get added into scattered locations. For the years 1900-1999, I have used a typical series of edits, to shorten the Table of Contents and allow space for putting images in the Events section:

- in the lead intro, put "Year 19xx" to avoid starting a sentence with a numeral;

- put "link will display the full year" (had been "will take you to calendar");

- simplified Births section as 6 bimonth periods: January-February, March-April, etc.;

- split Deaths section as 4 quarters: January-March, April-June, etc.;

- moved other-calendars box ("Year in other calendars") into the Births section;

- used a break-line ("{{-}}") to separate subhead sections after images;

Editing has been by hand because various year-articles had sporadic groupings of months (such as "May-October") when grouping under Events, Births or Deaths.

As with many Wiki articles, the format evolves, and multiple people must edit to maintain all 5 aspects: new facts, accurate facts, images, Wiki-format, and some consistency with related articles. It is too difficult to expect each person will master all 5 jobs. -Wikid77 12:26, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

NOTE (for text spacing): Prior to December 2006, for the year articles 1900-1999, the top navigation boxes had crowded the text: daily events had been listed (in many years) with only 5 words per line, due to crowding of text by navigation boxes. Now, the edits listed above should allow over 11 words per line for entries in the "Events" section (on 800x600 PC screens). Also, careful placement of the navigation boxes has allowed space for small thumbnail images to be mixed beside the Events text, to help illustrate events. Thumbnail images can be added without crowding the text. -Wikid77 02:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

12-December-2006: As of November 2006, many years didn't have event images. For many articles in "1900-1999" and the 20 yearly articles "1770-1789", I have been able to add images beside the corresponding text under Events, but that required moving the "Year-in-other-calendars" to the Births section (which is where it "appeared" to be in most years with few events, by automatic formatting). The new images now are near the corresponding Events text. I also had to separate some sections by adding a break-line template:

{{-}}<!-- reset to left margin, for future images above -->

The break-line pushes the next subheader down, below any future Events images above it. Images have been added in a similar manner to the 1770s-1780s, 1880s-1890s, 1900s-1980s, etc. Among those 130+ years, the various articles, originally, each had slightly different formats. -Wikid77 05:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC) [revised break-line + 1880s]