Forum:For people working on year/decade/century pages . . .

Please be sure to read the documenation at Template:Timeline for the latest information on how the new template is progressing. Because the template is heavily dependent upon the PAGENAME and upon assumptions about the range of dates we cover on the site, it's important that we have good communication about what we're all doing. I'm basing my maintenance of the template on things that I observe about the actuality of our pages. So if you go and create a page which is outside the pattern of things that exist as of 11:47, April 1, 2010 (UTC), the template won't necessarily work on it. For instance, if you were suddenly to create a page named 143 BC, the template wouldn't work on it, because we have no pages currently formatted like that.

Also, some special requests:
 * Please remember that all these pages are articles. They're not placeholders.  Thus, they should all have proper lead paragraphs in which you summarize some of the key events of the year/date/century in question.
 * Because these are articles, they must obey the same rules as any other article. Principally, there must be a reference in the DWU in order to justify their creation.  Please do NOT create pages that are blank.  If nothing in the DWU happened in the year 2106, then don't create the page.  I quite understand why there are so many blank year pages — you want navigability from one year to the next — but I'm working on a solution that will still allow navigability without violating the general rules for article creation on this wiki.  If you create blank pages, you prevent this solution from being implemented, because it is based upon sensing uncreated pages.
 * The general format of article pages is that any wikipediainfo boxes are on the bottom. Yet, for some reason, I'm encountering a lot of year pages where template:wikipediainfo is the first thing on the page.  Now that we've actually got a proper way to navigate between pages on our own wiki, Template:Timeline should be on top, like any other infobox.  Indeed, this is being built as an infobox not a nav template.  Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  11:47, April 1, 2010 (UTC)