White Wolf:Timeline

One of the White Wolf Wiki's pride and joys is its extensive Timeline section. Although it's very much a work-in-progress, it's still possibly the most complete White Wolf timeline ever created.

Of course, with all the information we're able to present, it's easy for the casual reader to get confused, and for contributors to inadvertently miss or duplicate information.

In the spirit of avoiding any unnecessary confusion and aiding contributors in making the best timeline we can possibly make, we've created a series of guidelines to follow when adding information.

Creating a page
It occurs less frequently as the timeline is filled out, but occasionally contributors will find that a given period doesn't yet exist on the Wiki. We recommend using the following templates:

Years

 * Example given: 1847 (oWOD)

Events

 * Max Theon is born.

January

 * Something else happens

Decades
We recommend the following template:


 * Example given: 1840d (oWOD)


 * 1840 (oWOD)
 * 1841 (oWOD)
 * 1842 (oWOD)
 * 1843 (oWOD)
 * 1844 (oWOD)
 * 1845 (oWOD)
 * 1846 (oWOD)
 * 1847 (oWOD)
 * 1848 (oWOD)
 * 1849 (oWOD)

Events

 * Max Theon is born.

Early 1840s

 * Something else happens.

Century
We recommend the following template:


 * Example given: 1800c (oWOD)


 * 1800d (oWOD)
 * 1810d (oWOD)
 * 1820d (oWOD)
 * 1830d (oWOD)
 * 1840d (oWOD)
 * 1850d (oWOD)
 * 1860d (oWOD)
 * 1870d (oWOD)
 * 1880d (oWOD)
 * 1890d (oWOD)

Events

 * Max Theon is born.

Early 1800s

 * Something else happens.

Millennia
Pages covering millennia are rare, but when used, follow the same format as century pages, with links to the component centuries at the top, and with a title using the letter m for "millennium."

Arranging data
There's a distinct method of arrangement used on the Wiki to better sort through the data visually for both readers and contributors. Sorting on an individual page is done in the following order:


 * 1) Chronological: Clearly, in a timeline, events should be listed in the order in which they occur. For events which happen at an unknown time, they should be placed at the top of the relevant section. Specific events should follow below, in order. In a year page, headers should be created for specific months. In decades, centuries and millennia, headers should be created for early, mid-, and late in the period.
 * As a corollary, events which span a period of time should be listed on the pages of the first and last relevant years, at the top of the page. Events which end in a given year should be placed above those which begin in that year. Add a couple of blank lines, and then continue with undated events.
 * 1) Game line: Once sorted chronologically, events should be sorted by game line, such that readers can find the events they find relevant as quickly as possible. A guide follows:
 * Real Life
 * World of Darkness
 * World of Darkness
 * Vampire
 * Requiem for Rome
 * Vampire: The Requiem
 * Werewolf: The Forsaken
 * Mage: The Awakening
 * Promethean: The Created
 * Hunter: The Vigil
 * Old World of Darkness
 * Vampire
 * Vampire: The Dark Ages
 * Dark Ages: Vampire
 * Victorian Age: Vampire
 * Vampire: The Masquerade (incl. Kindred of the East)
 * Werewolf
 * Werewolf: The Dark Ages
 * Dark Ages: Werewolf
 * Werewolf: The Wild West
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse
 * Mage
 * Ars Magica
 * Dark Ages: Mage
 * Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade
 * Mage: The Ascension
 * Wraith
 * Wraith: The Great War
 * Wraith: The Oblivion
 * Orpheus
 * Changeling: The Dreaming
 * Hunter: The Reckoning
 * Mummy: The Resurrection
 * Demon: The Fallen
 * Age of Sorrows
 * Exalted
 * Trinity Universe
 * Adventure!
 * Aberrant
 * Trinity
 * 1) Order of release: Entries should be posted in order of their book's release. Data from first-edition books comes before data from second-edition books, and entries from a book published in 2002 come before those from books published in 2003.
 * 2) Product code: If two sources are released at the same time, they should be sorted numerically by their product codes, lowest going first.
 * 3) Page numbers: Multiple references from the same book should be posted in order of the page numbers they come from. Page 15 comes before page 72.