User:Rlandmann/section

3 November 2002 - First mention of this issue when User:Ortolan88 states that supplementary sections go at the bottom of the article "in the following order" (Quotations, References, External links). User:Toby Bartels removes the prescriptive "in the following order" three hours later. The new wording, that "optional standardized sections go at the bottom of the article, as you see below" will remain, with very few alterations, for the next three years.

2 January 2003 - User:Ortolan88 adds "related topics" between the Quotations and References sections.

26 June 2005 - User:Niteowlneils changes "related topics" to "see also"

24 September 2005 - User:Nichalp changes the order of sections so that References follows External links. It stays this way until 2 November 2005 when User:Norman Einstein changes it back, specifically so "the sections are discussed in the same order WP:MOS suggests for articles."

21 January 2006 - User:Gurch makes the first substantial change to the wording: it now simply says "Certain optional standard sctions should be added at the bottom of an article" and moves Quotations to the end, after External links "since [it] is deprecated"

10 April 2006 - User:Gareth Aus merges in Section, including the prescriptive phrase "In the preferred order".

5 May 2006 - User:RockOfVictory moves Quotations back to the top of the list and greatly expands the whole section.