Talk:Current Events

Formatting question
I'd like to go through this and make the format look the same--from June 2010 on, that is, considering that's when we seem to have begun using the format of 'date-dash-description'. What am I actually talking about? Well, take a look. I'm seeing about six different formats:

June 1 - description

June 1- description

June 1-- description

June 1--description

June 1: description

June 1 description

While the oldest version seems to be the "June 1--description" option, we tend to prefer the &mdash; version on the wiki. As well, the version that's been used most consistently, especially in recent years, is the "June 1 - description" option. It was actually while briefly checking to make sure there weren't further deviations from this (I spotted a couple at the top that I was going to fix) towards the bottom of the page that I even found out we'd ever done it differently.

I'm going to fix the ones at the top, and add in several missions that don't seem to have made it onto the page yet. If people could weigh in on what to do about the rest--conformity, leaving the earlier ones as they are, supporting two different styles but making sure the styles at least match (ie, x--x and x - x, rather than x--x, x-- x, and x - x, x- x)--that would be great.

DawnFire (talk) 23:46, January 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm all for conformity. I'd probably go with "June 1 &mdash; description" because I think it looks nicer, but the hyphen version, "June 1 - description" is pretty straightforward and clean, too.


 * While we're at it... I was just thinking, might it be a good idea to make this Current Events page just for current events&mdash;say, maybe just things that happened in the last month? IMO, all the old stuff more properly belongs on the various Year:XXXX pages. What do other people think?


 * ~Neshomeh 17:28, February 1, 2014 (UTC)


 * For the first point: great, I'll do that, then. I'll choose one of those two versions and run with it, although I may just stick with the hyphen version, as most of the page already uses it.


 * As for the second...I am quite willing to fill out the Year pages with the information from this page&mdash;I hadn't done so before because I wasn't sure exactly what was supposed to go on the Year pages (a number of events seem to be Real World ones, at least in the earlier Year pages). It would be nice to not have them stop at 2010 (not to mention it would be nice for all of them to have more than one or two entries on them!) You also have a point about emphasizing the 'current' part of Current Events...maybe on the Current Events page there could be a link to the Year pages directory (and maybe vice versa as well?) That way, if someone finds the Current Events page and wants to know what happened earlier, they have a direct link...


 * I'd also suggest possibly having the Current Events page being the current month and the previous month&mdash;it means the page would never be completely empty, and there would always be a template to copy for anyone who wants to add to the page and isn't sure of the format.


 * DawnFire (talk) 05:36, February 2, 2014 (UTC)