Talk:1550

Format

30-December-2006: As of December 2006, each year has a different format, as people add events or special subhead categories: "World population" or "Ship events" and such. For example, year '1778' had month-name subheads parallel to the "Events" subhead (which had un-dated events with no months). In the 1800s, Events have been divided into 4 quarters as subheaders: January-March, April-June, etc. For the 1500s, I subdivided Events by six-month periods: January-June, July-December, and Undated. It seems that unless month names are identified in subheaders, the un-dated events get added into scattered locations. For the years 1500-1599, I have used a typical series of edits, to have a short Table of Contents and allow space for putting images in the Events section:

- at top of article, use "X" template: {{C16YearInTopicX}};

- in the lede intro, put "Year 15xx" to avoid starting a sentence with a numeral;

- put "link will display the full calendar" (had been "see link for calendar");

- split Events section as 2 six-month periods: January-June, July-December;

- put other-calendars box "{{Year in other calendars}}" into the Births section;

- used a break-line ("{{-}}") to separate subhead sections after images;

Editing has been by hand because various year-articles had sporadic groupings of months (such as "May-October") when grouping under Events, Births or Deaths.

As with many Wiki articles, the format evolves, and multiple people must edit to maintain all 5 aspects: new facts, accurate facts, images, Wiki-format, and some consistency with related articles. It is too difficult to expect each person will master all 5 jobs, across the thousands of yearly articles. -Wikid77 07:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

NOTE (for text spacing): Prior to December 2006, for the year articles 1500-1899, the top navigation boxes had crowded the text: daily events had been listed (in many years) with only 5 words per line, due to crowding of text by navigation boxes. Now, the edits listed above should allow over 12 words per line for entries in the "Events" section (on 800x600 PC screens). Also, careful placement of the navigation boxes has allowed space for small thumbnail images to be mixed beside the Events text, to help illustrate events. Thumbnail images can be added without crowding the text. -Wikid77 08:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Images

30-December-2006 (revised 16Feb07): As of November 2006, many years didn't have event images. For many articles in "1600-1999" and the 99 yearly articles "1501-1599", I have been able to add images beside the corresponding text under Events, but that required opening space, along the right-side, by moving the "Year-in-other-calendars" to the Births section (which is where it "appeared" to be in most years with few events, by automatic formatting). The new thumbnail images now are near the corresponding Events text. I also had to separate some sections by adding a break-line template:

{{-}}<!-- reset to left margin, for future images above -->

The break-line pushes the next subheader down, below any future Events images added above it. Images have been added in a similar manner to the 150000s, 160000s-189000s, 190000s-19800s, etc. Among those 480+ years, the various articles, originally, each had slightly different month-name groups and formats. -Wikid77 05:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)