Template talk:Time measurement and standards
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[edit] Time related templates
Time is a pretty vast subject, and it's impossible (or, at least, very unwise) to try to group all of it into a single template. A cautionary lesson is the defunct Template:Culture of China. It ran on for hundreds and hundreds of links, but the articles were better served by a few interlocking templates, which they enjoy now.
My intent is to build a loose hierarchy of Time templates. There will a good deal of overlap, especially regarding calendars.
I have no absolute goal in mind for the templates, and expect Wikipedians to edit them to suit. A general goal is, of course, to make articles on Time more accessible and interrelated.
Some suggestions:
- The Time Portal will display all the templates.
- Don't duplicate Template:Calendars, which is very concise and useful, into another template. Calendar topics are bound to show up in several Time templates, but none should be a list like the one in the Calendars template.
- Individual articles should preferably have just one, and no more than two or three Time templates. There may be exceptions, but the goal is to resolve clutter and confusion, not create it.
- Let the Geology editors work out their own Era templates. This may well apply to other disciplines; it's enough to link to chronology and overview pages about time in various disciplines.
Cheers, Yamara 06:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Editing the template
I have no problems with edits to the template, including making the title bar match Wikipedia standards of capitalization for readers. This is all fine.
Please do not redirect to edit the template. It does not allow updates to reach all of the entries. -- Yamara 11:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Archaeology & geology
I'm removing the links to these major topics. They are about the past, but this template is primarily about measurement & standards. Other Time templates link to these articles where appropriate. See Portal:Time for all the templates. -- Yamara 11:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Time ball
Can one of the admins please add Time Ball to this protected template. It probably fits into the section with marine chronometer. Thanks Socrates2008 (Talk) 10:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Eliminate Pro-Islamic Bias please
Listing only the Islamic calendar, but not the Hebrew Calendar nor the Indian Calendar discriminates against these commonly used systems. Either include other common calendars, or remove the Islamic one. Wikiguy0812 (talk) 12:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Wikiguy0812
[edit] New and Amend Pages
Could an administrator add to Measurement and Standards/Calendar the following;
And amend
Days of the Week to 7 Days of the Week
ta--Pnb73 (talk) 11:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Done
- Week was already in the template.
- 7 Days of the Week is a redirect to Week-day names, which I've fixed.
- 7 Day Week is a redirect to Seven-day week, added.
- In future, you need to use {{editprotected}} if you want to get an admin's attention. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Add the Annums
I've been looking for measurements of time greater than millenia and couldn't find anything. Eventually I found Myr which led me to Annum and I found what I was looking for. Why not list the different annum measurements in the "Calendar" section under 'day' 'week' and such and link them to that page? I'd do it myself if I were an admin. --IdLoveOne (talk) 00:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
- Better still: delete the Unusual in the Unusual units section & group all units together. In fact, move the
[[:Category:Units of time|Units of time]]from Major subjects. Something like this.
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- (Code removed.)
- This solves the problem of labelling units "unusual" (what's unusual here might be common over there). JIMp talk·cont 07:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
{{edit protected}} I see no objections so ask that the edit be made to group units of time together as suggested above. JIMp talk·cont 13:15, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
- There seem to be an unnecessary number of line breaks - possibly because you have a small monitor and have adjusted it to look nice on yours. Would there be any objection to removing artificial line breaks and letting the browser break the line where it needs to? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
What I'd had in mind is grouping like units together (from second to fortnight we have all simple ratios, similarly with month to millennium & then the less common ones). But I think I might have been previewing it in a narrow window. Looking at it with normal width I see what you mean. I have no objection to the removal of these line breaks. JIMp talk·cont 18:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
