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{{hatnote|'''For the <nowiki><timeline></nowiki> extension help, see [[Help:EasyTimeline syntax]].'''}}<br />
{{hatnote|Main listing: [[List of timelines]]}}<br />
{{hatnote|Main categories: [[:Category:Timelines]], part of [[:Category:Chronology]]}}<br />
{{Main|Timeline|Chronology}}<br />
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'''Timelines''' describe the events that occurred before another event, leading up to it, causing it, and also those that occurred right afterward that were attributable to it. Timelines are often bulleted lists or tables. Timelines in paragraph format ([[wikipedia:Proseline|proselines]]) are not recommended.<br />
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==Guidelines==<br />
{{Main|Wikipedia:Timeline standards}}<br />
{{selfref|For help with embedding EasyTimeline timelines in Wikipedia, see [[Help:EasyTimeline syntax]] and [[:mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax]].}}<br />
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer|WikiProject Timeline Tracer]] is making an effort, as of January 2008, to seek out and standardize timeline and chronological references.<br />
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See also the [[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|Featured list criteria]] and [[Wikipedia:Lists]] as style guides, and relevant [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|Featured lists]] such as [[Timeline of chemistry]], [[Timeline of the Manhattan Project]], and [[List of sieges of Gibraltar]] as examples.<br />
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==Graphical timelines==<br />
* [[:Category:Graphical timelines]]<br />
** Uploaded images of timelines<br />
** {{tl|Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based [[Template:Horizontal timeline|horizontal]] or [[Template:Graphical timeline|vertical]] graphical timelines. <br />
** [[mw:Extension:EasyTimeline]], editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki, <nowiki><timeline></nowiki><br />
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==Days, years, decades, centuries, millennia==<br />
Wikipedia-wide date-based timeline (See any date: [[June 1]], [[1930s]], [[1952]], [[1900s]], etc)<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Timeline standards]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Years]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer]]<br />
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== Templates ==<br />
* {{Tl|For timeline}} – hatnote to point to timeline<br />
* {{Tl|Timeline}} – infobox<br />
* {{Tl|Include timeline}} – easier method of using the 2 below<br />
** {{Tl|Graphical timeline}}<br />
** {{Tl|Horizontal timeline}}<br />
* {{Tl|Timeline Legend}}<br />
* {{Tl|Prose timeline}} – the cleanup tag<br />
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=== Using hCalendar ===<br />
{{See also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats}}<br />
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* {{Tl|Timeline-start}} – \<br />
* {{Tl|Timeline-item}} – These three templates make a list (technically, an HTML definition list) of events.<br />
* {{Tl|Timeline-end}} – /<br />
* {{tl|Timeline-event}}<br />
* {{Tl|Timeline-links}} – produces Timeline from a series of [[hCalendar]] [[microformat]]s<br />
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