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[edit] Page started

I've just spent around 3 hours doing up this article getting it started. Please feel free to make additions but

as its a timeline, please keep all lines to a minimum, only expanding when sources conflict on the most basic details (such as the date and who poisoned who, not why)

Thanks. This is fairly simple so no need for it to get as mad as the other pages -- Tomhab 14:48, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Books

I've just gone through the entire first section (Part I - History of the Babi Movement) of the Mualana book and added any dates I could pull out. I'll give a go at another book when I get some more energy. Thats my contribution for now. -- Tomhab 15:18, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Name change

"Timeline of Baha'i" is not proper English. Baha'i as a noun is only used for a person who is a follower. The equivalent of "Islam" or "Christianity" is "Baha'i Faith", so to get around making it look weird, use the adjective Baha'i. Cuñado - Talk 15:35, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Date formating

It is my understanding that if you change the date references from [[November 12]] to ''November 12'' you not only change the appearance but you remove the entry of the event in the general wiki calendaring for that date - is that right? If so I disagree taking all these dates out of the general calendar.--Smkolins 11:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Linking to a date does not put the date in any calendar on Wikipedia. Everything is done manually. The reason for linking to dates is that the user preference will set the way it looks. For example, [[November 12]] will come out at "November 12" for most American users, but as "12 November" for most European users. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). -- Jeff3000 14:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
In general this page was way overlinked and I removed a lot of excess. My new favorite WP page is Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context. It says the following:
  • Dates when they contain a day, month, and year — 25 March 2004 — or day and month — February 10 — should be linked for date preference formatting.
  • Stand alone months and days of the week should generally not be linked.
  • Stand alone years do not need to be linked but some users prefer it, and some users prefer to link (with a piped link) to articles formatted as "year in subject" such as 1441 in art.
  • Dates in section headers should generally not be linked.
So it says that month-and-day dates should always be linked, and stand alone months should not. This page has a combination of the two. Overlinking makes the page less readable; compare the old version to the new version. If the dates are linked, then it's difficult to see where the information begins on a line. And when it comes down to it, I don't see much value in linking dates (besides the auto-formatting), because people will read this page for the information about Baha'i events. Cuñado - Talk 17:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] June 26 - July 17, the Conference of Badasht was held

Is there any references for this? --213.217.33.231 07:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't find any specific reference for this, other than the conference was held in June to July for 22 days. I'll update the text. Regards, -- Jeff3000 14:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)