Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Timelines

I'm not sure a table is necessary or desirable for timelines. What's wrong with either regular headings and paragraph text, or dictionary lists, as below? We can tweak the stylesheets to make the text more compact if desired. And timelines should be on their own pages anyway, linked to from the subjects they describe. It just as important--if not even more important--for wiki text to be easy to edit as well as easy to read. --LDC

Table of contents 1 Regular running text 1.1 1820s 1.2 1840s 1.3 1850s 1.4 1860s 2 Dictionary list

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1820s

First mention of Poker by Cromwell

1840s

The game is adapted to the 52-card English deck.

1850s

The Joker, first used for the game of Euchre, is adapted.

1860s

Introduction of the draw, followed shortly by jackpots.

Dictionary list

1820s

First mention of Poker by Cromwell

1840s

The game is adapted to the 52-card English deck.

1850s

The Joker, first used for the game of Euchre, is adapted.

1860s

Introduction of the draw, followed shortly by jackpots.

I agree with LDC here, the table is not really needed here, and the other format lets people more easily add stuff. Tables would be useful as an extra note, but only if they're not too big (like the facts-tables in the country tables) or complete (like tables of Tour de France winners or countries in the world), and most timelines will be very big and probably never really complete.

Since this means timelines probably warrant their own articles, how to name them? History of Tarquinia - Timeline[?], Timeline of the History of Tarquinia[?]?

Also, there are already a lot of timelines for science topics, let's not forget these.

Anyway, I like the idea of standardisation, so keep up the good work! Jeronimo