Editing GoArch:History Project (section)

=== Gregorian (surface) calendar ===
==== Days ====
Month/day combinations (like April 21) should only be created when needed. These pages should list events from any year that took place on that day.

Day pages should indicate how far into the calendar year they are, and how many days remain after it (e.g. "'''April 21''' is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the [[w:Gregorian calendar|Gregorian calendar]]. There are 254 days remaining until the end of the year.")

Every day's page should also include the {{tlx|month}} template at the top to provide inter-day and inter-month navigation. This template takes the name of the current month as its only parameter.

==== Months ====
Gregorian months (e.g. "April") do not require their own entries. If someone wants to know about a month, they can look it up on Wikipedia.

==== Years ====
Every year page '''must''' include the {{tlx|years}} template at the top. This template requires two parameters: the decade and the century in which that year appears.

Events within a year should be broken down by type, then date. Currently, the categories for events are:

* '''Births''' - for any person born in that year
* '''Deaths''' - for any person who died in that hahr
* '''Events''' - for anything else that happened in that hahr

Events that are only identified by the year in which they occurred should be listed first, unless there is some indication that it took place between two other events with more accurate dates. Other events should then be listed chronologically by month and day.

===== Categories =====
Categories should be placed inside a <nowiki><noinclude></noinclude></nowiki> container. This will prevent them from appearing on pages when the contents of the year's page are transcluded into other places.

Every year page '''must''' include the following categories:
* <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:''<decade>'' BC/CE activity<nowiki>]]</nowiki> (e.g. [[:Category:2000s CE activity]])
* <nowiki>[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}| ]]</nowiki>

The activity category is a hidden organizational category that enables the decade pages to pull only the contents of that decade from the specific year pages that make that decade up. Pages that do not contain the activity category will not be pulled into the decade pages.

===== Other calendars =====
{{ambox|text=This portion of the project hasn't been started yet. I'm still working out templates that would make it easy to drop this information into a page without having to manually deal with formatting it every time. --[[User:Alahmnat|Alahmnat]], Grand Master ([[User_talk:Alahmnat|talk]]) 13:52, 4 January 2019 (PST)}}

Each year's page should at the very least indicate the time span covered by that year in the D'ni calendar system. Because our calendar and the D'ni calendar are offset from one another and drift slightly due to leap years, you should include the specific yahr and vailee on which the year began and ended.

==== Decades ====
If the decade containing that year does not yet exist, it should be created as well. Every decade page's title should follow the convention of "''<decade>''s BC/CE", e.g. "2000s CE".

Decade pages '''must''' have the {{tlx|Centuries}} template at the top of the page. This template takes the century as the only parameter.

Decade pages should also list the years that comprise them. The wording is typically as follows:
<blockquote>
The '''''<decade>''s DE''' was a [[:Category:Gregorian decades|Gregorian decade]] which began on January 1 ''<first year>'' BC/CE, and ended on December 31 ''<last year>'' BC/CE.
</blockquote>

Every decade page '''must''' also contain the template {{tlx|Activity by year for decade}}, with the special <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> magic word as the template's parameter. This template will pull every event from each page tagged with that decade's activity category, order them by year, and link them. This cuts down on the amount of maintenance and busy-work required to keep every part of the timeline up to date as the Archive expands.

==== Centuries ====
Every century page '''must''' begin with the {{tlx|Centuries}} template. As on the Decades pages, this template takes the century in question as its only parameter (e.g. {{tlx|Centuries|20}} for the 20th century).

The events list on a century page may be abbreviated to contain fewer entries for a year than actually occurred, essentially creating a "highlights" list, which visitors may explore more deeply by visiting the pages for specific years.

Century pages may also list significant individuals, and provide overviews of complex events (though visitors should be directed to specific Archive entries for full details). Currently our historical records are limited, so there are not likely to be many circumstances where a century page cries out for a great deal of embellishment beyond simple lists of events.

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