Talk:Timeline of town creation in Downstate New York

Boxed notes
Nice piece of work but I do have a visual criticism. Far as I see, the boxes and letters of the notes serve no purpose except to add clutter and confusion. Boxes here should represent places. Some of the notes are merely bulleted, and that's how the others should be. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:21, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Since the towns are color coded to the notes they also need to be coded in a non-color way for those with non-color printers and such; I just havent gotten around to putting the letter codes on each town for that. As far as putting the entire note inside the box I thought that looked better than putting a box with a color and one letter then the note next to it. But regardless color is needed to match the notes with the particular towns; bulleting notes saying "Towns ..., ..., ..., ..., ..., and ... were in X County until 1809, thereafter Y County" would be more distracting than representing that any town that is purple was "A part of X County until 1809, thereafter Y County". As far as the letters with the colors- in fact for this to make FL (or FA whichever category it is decided to be put in, these timeline/family tree articles I have created are actually unique and I havent received an answer on which they are) it MUST have the letter coding supplementing the color-coding, this is required; so I can remove the letters now and put bullets, but they will need to be put back for this article to go forward in grading scale. See- List of incorporated places in New York's Capital District for a list article using letter with color coding; which was demanded for FL status (which it never received because I pulled the article out prematurely due to stress). Feel free to experiment and try putting a small box with the one letter in then a " = description" but to be honest I have never done that and will need a sec to see how to integrate the box into a sentence.Camelbinky (talk) 15:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah. I understand the graphical intention. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how to make the boxes work this way. A minute ago I tried it on the Suffolk County section by the most obvious method, got the wrong result, and didn't save. Wiki color box construction is something I never studied; only criticized, which is easier than actually accomplishing something. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Template:Family tree is where I have learned what I know. I have found that these articles I've been doing are so unique that there isnt much anything in the way of other articles to compare to or learn from. We are on our own but hopefully between the two of us experimenting we'll figure something out, I agree with you that if we can find a way to do it that a box with a letter would be better.Camelbinky (talk) 02:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

= A county.

Unfortunately that's the best I've gotten right now...Camelbinky (talk) 02:42, 30 September 2010 (UTC)