Editing Template:Event/doc (section)

=== Where to use ===
You should preferentially place {{tlx|event}} markers in articles that are specifically about the event you wish to mark-up for SMW. For example, the start and end dates of a war should go in the article about said war. A person's dates of birth and death should be included in the article about that person. A king's coronation should be included in the article about them. The date an Age was completed should go in the article about the Age itself, not the author's page. The date of a major occasion, like the founding of a D'ni guild, should go in the article about the guild, and not in the more general article about guilds as a socio-political entity.

There are times when the event itself is not significant enough to warrant its own lengthy article, but still significant enough to warrant inclusion in a timeline. In those cases, you should use your best judgement about where to describe the event. Sometimes a stub article with just the {{tlx|event}} template may be warranted. In other cases, it may go in an article about a person's actions. In still others, it may go in a summary article about that period in time (like the event material marked up in the [[Myst Online episodes]] pages).

Before adding an {{tlx|event}} marker to an article, you may first want to run a search of that time period to make sure it hasn't already been listed in another article. You can use  [https://archive.guildofarchivists.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Ask&x=-5B-5BSurface-20date%3A%3A%E2%89%A51-20January-202007-5D-5D-20-5B-5BSurface-20date%3A%3A%E2%89%A41-20July-202007-5D-5D%2F-3FSurface-20date-23ISO%2F-3FDescription&format=table&limit=50&link=all&headers=hide&searchlabel=...%20further%20results&class=sortable%20wikitable%20smwtable&sep=%3Cbr%20%2F%3E&sort=Surface%20date&order=asc&offset=0&mainlabel= the preset search on this page] to find anything within a set time range simply by clicking the pencil icon at the top-left of the page (next to the "Result" tab) and changing the dates in the left-hand box. The first date in the search box is the earliest date to search for, and the second is the latest. The first column of the results indicates what page the event is currently located on. 

In general, you should leave events where they are currently located unless you are expanding on a specific event and want to move it to its own dedicated article. If a single event impacts multiple people (such as a marriage), it should be noted on ''one'' of those people's pages, ''not both''. Whoever's page is marked up first will then be the container for that event.