Template talk:Chronology

message: Time is a pretty vast subject, and it's impossible (or, at least, very unwise) to try to group all of it into a single template. A cautionary lesson is the defunct Template:Culture of China. It ran on for hundreds and hundreds of links, but the articles were better served by a few interlocking templates, which they enjoy now. 
My intent is to build a loose hierarchy of Time templates. There will a good deal of overlap, especially regarding calendars. 
I have no absolute goal in mind for the templates, and expect Wikipedians to edit them to suit. A general goal is, of course, to make articles on Time more accessible and interrelated.
Some suggestions:
*The Time Portal will display all the templates.
*Don't duplicate Template:Calendars, which is very concise and useful, into another template. Calendar topics are bound to show up in several Time templates, but none should be a list like the one in the Calendars template.
*Individual articles should preferably have just one, and no more than two or three Time templates. There may be exceptions, but the goal is to resolve clutter and confusion, not create it.
*Let the Geology editors work out their own Era templates. This may well apply to other disciplines; it's enough to link to chronology and overview pages about time in various disciplines.
Cheers, Yamara 23:12, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Time related templates

message: Chronology is the science of locating events in time, and is served by this template.
Chronometry is the science of measuring time itself, and is served by the Time measurement and standards template.
Thus, historic and paleological events are chronology, but methods to measure and determine seconds, hours, years and centuries are chronometry.
There is a lot of overlap in these subjects, as one relies upon the other. Even their Wikipedia articles at this writing are underdeveloped in explaining the difference.
When updating or altering these templates, please bear this in mind. Cheers, Yamara 23:12, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chronology vs. Chronometry

message: As of this writing, I'm just trying to get the ball rolling on connecting the disparate elements about Time and Chronology across Wikipedia.
My intention is to create another cross-referencing template for Time, which will cover units and methods of measurement, (like years, months, etc. and clocks, horology, etc.) but will also list the most general of Chronology topics, since Time supercedes Chronology in concept. 
This template, as it now stands, will need adjustment and editing as its development and range of coverage develops. -- Yamara 18:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Note on the creation of the Chronology Topics template

message: Why is dating standards included as plain text not a link? Looks odd. --BozMo talk 10:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating standards 

message: Is there an specific reasons why Juche Calendar shouldn't be added?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.65.143 (talk) 06:23, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Juche Calendar 

message: I want to make a few edits to the template. When I edit, it tells me to update the documentation, but it doesn't tell me how to do that. This is a little embarrasing, since it feels like something I should know how to do already, but how do I update the documentation? Maximajorian Viridio (talk) 00:41, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do I update the documentation?