Wikipedia talk:Timeline

Discussion
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 Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Timeline Crawler
I'm wondering if anyone ever attempted to build a wikipedia crawler that builds timelines. I'll be at wikimania, please message me or respond below. TheKaramanukian (talk) 10:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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)

Request for assistance
Can someone familiar with this extension take a look at ?

An IP has been blanking the timeline, claiming the markup is correct but that the chart is not rendering correctly. I'm not familiar with the use of this extension, so would appreciate someone with more familiarity taking a look and possibly commenting on the talk page there with any suggestions on fixing the claimed issues. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It looks like this is resolved; the consensus of replies is that the IP was mis-reading the chart, so it's user error on their part. Thanks for the input to those who replied. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:21, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

RFA:Colonial States Athletic Conference
Can someone please take a look at Colonial States Athletic Conference to see what the issue is with the timeline there?

Timeline sections in biographies
I am being told that timeline sections are not allowed in biographies, does anyone know what !Wikilaw is being cited? Another editor added this to the timeline section:

The other editor wrote: "Timelines are allowed for year, century, decade, etc articles; biographies are appropriately presented as prose." Anyone have thoughts? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:24, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Timelines are allowed

 * I count over 100 articles containing them before I stopped. They do not use a template, so they are hard to find. For instance GA article Albert Einstein contains one. I can think of no reason why they are disallowed. If you convert them to prose, you just have the biography written twice. They serve two different purposes, sometimes you just need to look for an event in a specific year, or see if one event preceded another. It is as silly as demanding that filmographies be written in prose instead of a table. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:12, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * "If you convert them to prose, you just have the biography written twice". Exactly. There is rarely a need to have the biography written twice, whether formatted as prose or bullets. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is a poor argument in favour of that practice. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Timelines must be removed or converted into prose

 * The OP posted an RfC on this topic at WT:BIOG a month ago, which closed with consensus that biographies should be presented using prose rather than timelines. In light of this, it seems redundant to have another discussion on the topic. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Removed timelines

 * Eddie August Schneider
 * Albert Einstein

Past tense or present tense
Do timelines use past tense or present tense? (Reply to me with ) —Wei4Green &#124; 唯绿远大 (talk) 21:52, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

These don’t show on mobile
Should these be avoided, maybe replaced with an image, on mobile? For example, see how Pearl Jam is just an empty section on mobile devices. DemonDays64 (talk) 00:27, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Vs. lists by date
Should all lists by date be considered timelines? fgnievinski (talk) 00:53, 29 January 2023 (UTC)