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I know I've seen timelines of specific industries or companies, showing how the companies merge and split over several decades. Good examples include the telecom, aerospace, and media industries; I'm sure there are others as well. I can't seem to find these elsewhere on Wikipedia, this seems like it would be a good place to index them if they do exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.130.8 (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I reomved Worf from the "Culture" listing. I don't think a timeline of a fictional character's life fits with this page. -- Stephen Gilbert 17:53 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think of timeline as being a non-prose text structured similar to the following:
Some of the articles listed here, such as history of Cyprus, are in prose format and are thus not timelines according to my perception. Do I use an unusual definition or should these be removed? Tuf-Kat 06:31, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)
An interesting resource for those wanting to add to or fact-check our timelines: The Timeline Index
Links to timelines of every variety on the web.... and it even has a link to our Themed Timelines page here. Catherine 06:13, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This timeline of modern philosophers isn't very complete, but it is an excellent template for making your own horizontal timeline. Feel free to copy the source of the timeline and change it for your own use. Make sure to copy all three files. There are a .html, .js, and .css file.
They are all histories. Robin Patterson 23:39, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Please create a category for EasyTimeline. A mediawiki from User:Erik Zachte. --Saharadesertfox 20:44, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed a bad habit by Wikipedia writers of calling their chronology articles "timelines." But a timeline is a graphical representation of history, usually involving a horizontal line crossed by short vertical lines accompanied by dates. Other graphical elements can be involved, such as icons or pictures.
The particular articles linked to here, therefore, aren't timelines. They should each be called a Chronology and be retitled accordingly.
This misuse of the term "timeline" is widespread throughout Wikipedia and needs to be changed. Therefore, unaware of a better way of flagging this problem, I'm posting a notice to this article that there is a dispute over a factual issue, in this case the issue is linguistic: the use of the most correct word for titling the article. I will now set forth my case.
Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Random House Unabridged Dictionary Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Wikictionary
As for the definition of chronology, I don't think that's in dispute. Nonetheless, the Second College Edition, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as:
Now, given all this, it is clear that we have two different words for two different things and can therefore, when using them properly, clearly distinguish between the two. But some people will counter that language is a changing thing (which it is) and so, given the definitions provided, the meaning of "timeline" may be in transition. Thus, if "timeline" is used to mean "chronology" frequently enough, such as in hip venues like Wikipedia, it will soon come to actually mean that.
And this hypothetical projection into the future is true enough. But if that were to occur it would be an unfortunate development. We would then have two words for "chronology" and no word that would unambiguously indicate the graphical representation of time in a true timeline. Therefore, when we meant this latter, we would have to add an adjective, as in "true" timeline, "graphical" timeline, or whatever. This is needlessly cumbersome.
Hence I recommend that Wikipedia establish a policy for the correct use of these two terms consistently through the various articles and that editors carry this policy out. -- 68.49.159.131 Fred
My recent revert is because: the Timeline of Motorized bicycle history was created here... it is part of this article just as much as any other timeline. It is also been nominated for deletion. I'm sure we can all wait until that's resolved before deleting a perfectly good link. Any constructive comments? --CyclePat 03:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Or better yet, what is a non-themed timeline? What timelines wouldn't belong here? Is there a reason that this isn't just "List of timelines"? --JeffW 20:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
There's only a handful of annotated entries and the division of the timelines by theme can be done with subcategories. Therefore I've begun creating subcategories in Category:Timelines to match the subject headings in this list and categorizing each timeline in this list into the appropriate subcategory. When that is done (which will take a while) I'll propose this list for AfD. --JeffW 16:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Since this list survived its AFD, can we at least give it a better name? This is not a List of "themed timelines", it's a Themed list of timelines, which seems to just mean that the lists are sorted by "theme" or subject. But there are lots of lists that are sorted in some way or other, but they aren't called themed lists.
So I propose it just be changed to List of timelines (which currently redirects to Category:Timelines which I think is against some policy). I know I could just change it but given the recent history of this list I thought it would be better to try to start a discussion first. --JeffW 19:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
List of timelines by theme? john k 22:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I want to list the years covered by each timeline (timetable, chronology or whatever) something like this:
Does anyone object if I do this? Donnie Love 03:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I have today put online as part of TimeSearch a very interactive timeline of more than 8000 events in world history, each linkng to the relevant Wikipedia article. I feel it would be a useful External Link in this article, but it has been created by my colleagues and myself at HistoryWorld and I know the embargo on adding one's own sites as links. If anyone else after checking it out agrees that Wikipedians might find it useful, please add the link. Bamber Gascoigne 11:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
the items listed do not appear to be encyclopedic entities, but Wikipedia articles (((self-reference)). This page needs to decide whether it is a disambiguation page (timeline (disambiguation)) or a Wikipedia index page (Wikipedia:List of timelines, WP:TIMEL), or perhaps even a stub for a full article on timeline (historical). --dab (𒁳) 10:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I found an article pt:Anexo:Cronologia da história do Brasil in Portuguese Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.0.80.147 (talk) 21:43, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
A quick search brings up literally hundreds of "timelines" that are no listed on this page. We have categories for this purpose. Why is this page a selective list of only some of the many timelines found on Wikipedia? Should we even keep this page? Here is a small list of timelines not on this page. And considering, this is all just under the subject of paleontology. Timeline of ceratosaur research Timeline of oviraptorosaur research Timeline of ornithomimosaur research Timeline of therizinosaur research Timeline of coelophysoid research Timeline of dromaeosaurid research Timeline of ankylosaur research Timeline of pachycephalosaur research Timeline of pachycephalosaur research Timeline of hadrosaur research Timeline of troodontid research Timeline of tyrannosaur research
A. Z. Colvin • Talk 08:14, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
It would be nice if a section about the timelines of the history of countries would be created.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:2ED6:9470:7171:760E:F581:4BF6 (talk) 01:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
MUSTAFA ESOOF MULLA TAHERALI better known as Mustafa Esoof (lala) born in United Arab Emirates 01-03-1977 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustafaesoof (talk • contribs) 03:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
HOW COME? 124.106.137.149 (talk) 23:13, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
I found the page Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal, but I'm not sure if it would go under Biography or Politics or under something else. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirby777 (talk • contribs) 03:14, 5 January 2021 (UTC)