Commons:WikiProject Time

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Commons clock - made from this set ^[update]

This is a project to improve coverage and categorization of media on Wikimedia:Commons chronologically.

Key to this project are the subcategories and articles within Category:Spans of time.

This project is in the very preliminary stages. Discussion of proposals should go on the talk page.

Participants edit

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Infrogmation 17:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mak 18:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Yahoo.[reply]
--Emijrp 18:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Man vyi 19:06, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
J JMesserly (talk) 22:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Andy Mabbett (talk)

Suggested guidelines edit

The below seems not to be controversial. Further details are still under discussion on the talk page.

Years edit

Years are numbered according to the Gregorian calendar. Individual years are to have categories (eg, Category:1911) for media from that year. Years also can have articles (eg, 1901), the purpose of which is yet to be decided.

Year categories edit

Year categories are in supercategories (eg, Category:1730s; Category:Years in the 18th century). Year categories have sub categories. People who were born or died in specific years should be put in birth or death subcategories (eg, Category:1911 births, Category:1911 deaths). A common sub-category is paintings by year (eg, Category:1911 paintings).

Less common sub-categories may be made where such can be useful for organizing multiple images within a year category, but need not be applied to other years if there are few or no similar images in those other years (eg, Category:1911 baseball cards, Category:New Orleans Mardi Gras 2005).