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Time portal v · d · eThis template is within the scope of WikiProject Time, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Time on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  Template  This template does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.  Mid  This template has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. To-do List: Here are some tasks you can do: Expand: Timeline Other: Vital Articles The Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team identified the following articles relating to Time as Vital: "for which Wikipedia should have a corresponding high-quality article, and ideally a featured article." Those marked with this icon: are also considered to be Core articles, "one of the core set of articles every encyclopedia should have." Their quality-scale rating as of September 2010 is listed alongside each: Calendar - C Clock - B Day - C History - C Month - B Second - B Time - B Week - B Year - C Any help in improving these articles would not only further the efforts of WikiProject Time, but Wikipedia overall.

Contents 1 Time related templates 2 Remove icons 3 Can you add an article to the template? 4 New Pages 5 Deleted article 6 Fourth dimension 7 Portal Image 8 Various fixes 9 Why is this page fully protected?

[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 06:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Remove icons

{{editprotect}} Can you remove the as per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(icons)#Help_the_reader_rather_than_decorate Gnevin (talk) 11:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Ruslik (talk) 19:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can you add an article to the template?

Can you please edit the Time template to add the article Century leap year to the "Measurement and Standards" section right after Leap year? Thank you for your consideration. ProfessorPaul (talk) 03:12, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Pages

Could an administrator add to Measurement and Standards/Calendar the following;

7 Days of the Week 7 Day Week

ta--Pnb73 (talk) 11:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted article

{{editprotect}} Hypotheses of consciousness and spacetime should be removed as it was deleted following a successful AfD. mgiganteus1 (talk) 18:16, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fourth dimension

{{editprotect}} Please remove Fourth dimension from the list per Talk:Fourth dimension; that article discusses the Euclidean 4-space, and not 4-dimensional Minkowski space, which is covered by spacetime instead. Thanks!—Tetracube (talk) 17:05, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Agreed and template added. --JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 17:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Y Done HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?

[edit] Portal Image

{{editprotected}} Can the portal image be updated from Portal.svg to Portal-puzzle.svg to match that used by the {{portal}} template. Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:04, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Done. —fetch·comms 20:09, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Various fixes

{{edit protected}} Please update code to sandbox version: [1]. Fixes: formatting, code, put in order, alpha, fx redirects, rmv dupes. Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Done Dabomb87 (talk) 04:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Why is this page fully protected?

I see nothing in its history to justify full protection. Tijfo098 (talk) 02:50, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I thought the same. Semi-protection would seem more reasonable to me, but I haven't studied the policies in detail. I'll ask the the protecting admin, User:NawlinWiki, to discuss here. Qwfp (talk) 07:24, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

There was a period about 3 years ago when we were getting nasty vandalism (i.e., gross images) to a lot of high-visibility templates. That seems to have subsided, though, and I've reduced this one to semiprotection. NawlinWiki (talk) 18:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks! Qwfp (talk) 19:42, 10 March 2011 (UTC)