Wikipedia talk:Timeline

message: 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)
thread_title:  Timeline Crawler 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Overhaul 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Request for assistance 

message: 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)
replies: text: *"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)
thread_title:  Timeline sections in biographies 

message: * 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)
replies: text: *"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)
thread_title: Timelines are allowed

message: * 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)
thread_title: Timelines must be removed or converted into prose 

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

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

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