Talk:Timeline:Pre-eclipse

Not that it really matters too much right now, but most of those events are sentences and should have periods: (Zahava fights in the IDF., Mr. Bennet is born., Hana vows to avenge her progenitors' deaths, and honor their legacy., etc.) — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 17:56, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

• I know that a lot of them are, but just to make it consistent, I removed the trailing periods. Otherwise, we'd have to make all of the parts complete sentences, and I don't really feel like doing that for that many parts.--Bob 18:08, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

Reference template?

One thing I think might look nice would be a template to format timeline references (quotes, dates on receipts, that sort of thing.) I'm thinking of something like this:

"He says six months. Seems we're made of time."--Jessica (Stolen Time)

That would make them stand out a bit from the rest of the page and make it clearer what they are.--Hardvice (talk) 20:49, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

• I'm liking that with the quotes. With pictures, there's only really two pictures that refer to a time table - the receipt and Zane's obituary. I think it'd look cool, but I just don't really know how it could be flexible to handle a thumbnail. Maybe one of y'all know.--Bob 20:53, 14 April 2007 (EDT)
  • We could just do a text link to the image, like this:

Nathan's hotel bill is dated October 6th.(Hiros)

but then I guess we'd be missing the pictures (unless we put the image in a gallery, too.)--Hardvice (talk) 21:03, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

• I tried toying around with different things, I think it looks better the way it is now IMHO. But the quotes definately look a lot better.--Bob 21:14, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

• I like the idea of distinguishing the quotational references from the bulleted events, but I'm just not digging the way it looks. I don't have a better suggestion, and I'm not hating the blurby quotes, it's just not my favorite. I wonder if there are any other possibilities. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 22:09, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

• I suppose we could modify the quote template for use on the timeline. Heroe!(talk) 10:15, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

• It should probably be its own template. The quote template lets us use a quote like an image. These are closer to citations and thus need to be better integrated into the accompanying text. We could make the new template look more like the quote template, however:

"He says six months. Seems we're made of time."--Jessica (Stolen Time)

My only concern is that it looks a bit too much like the surrounding text.--Hardvice (talk) 13:16, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

• Personally, I think the example above is the best way to go. It looks just enough like the surrounding text to not be distracting, yet the box makes it stand out enough. If you want, we could make the font different, and even make the box rounded. I think it's the blue background that I find a bit ... objectionable.

"He says six months. Seems we're made of time."--Jessica (Stolen Time)

Hmm? Hmm? — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:18, 15 April 2007 (EDT)