Template talk:Ma

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Hi! This is an nice, dense template!

In Maotianshan shales this usage "between {{Ma|525 and 520}}" renders as "between and 520 525 and 520 million years ago". What's the proper way?

Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 16:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Try between {{Ma|525|and}} {{Ma|520}}, which gives
  • between 525 and 520 million years ago.
Smith609 Talk 17:31, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Done.
(fwiw, I think (I'm not sure yet) I would prefer the suffix (including the default) to be in the blue link.)
Thanks. Saintrain (talk) 00:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plotting year ranges?

Great template! Extremely useful. I wonder if the graphing timescale utility could be modified to display a range of years (for example, Index fossil has several items which will span many tens of millions of years). I guess this is a feature request - can the plotting timescale tool can be extended to accept and plot time ranges, as well as a subsequent template update to allow a range to be specified? Thanks! Nimur (talk) 03:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Nice idea. Now implemented. So to amend my answer to the previous question:
Try between {{Ma|525 and 520}}, which gives
Smith609 Talk 08:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)