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Before a widely anticipated or scheduled future event, sometimes, its predicted effects will be in an article of their own. Whether they are or remain in the article anticipating the event, afterwards, they should be moved to the timeline. Any controversies about whether the event caused other events should be in a separate article on the actual effects. This lets them be compared to the predicted effects, helps keep track of any attempts to add new predictions without attribution after the fact from the list of actual effects, and it keeps the timeline neutral.

A decent example is the timeline of the Canadian federal election, 2004 and the main article on the Canadian federal election, 2004. This shows how to divide a "timeline" from the other reporting after the fact. To see how to report the timeline (and everything else) that comes before such an event, compare to Canadian federal election, 2005. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 142.177.109.47 (talk) March 28, 2005

[edit] Overhaul

I attempted an overhaul of this project page, hopefully making everything clearer and more concise, without losing anything useful. Feel free to improve/redo if you can do a better job :) --Quiddity 19:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)