Layout Guide/Timeline

This Layout Guide is an official guide as to how the Timeline articles should be written and structured. Feel free to discuss the Layout Guide on the talk page.

Formatting
Within one of the timeline pages, there are a few rules that must be taken into consideration:


 * Years must be written as ==Level 2 Headings==
 * Months must be written as ===Level 3 Headings===
 * Days must be written as ====Level 4 Headings====, and always in ordinal numbers.
 * Each event must be written in its own bullet point, therefore, different events, despite appearing in the same source, should appear in a different bullet point.
 * Events must be written in Present tense, and always from an in-universe perspective.

Choosing Dates

 * Once a date is provided in an official or canonical source, the date is considered to outrank other sources, except if the date is not consistent with the events provided in other canonical sources with the same importance (books, films or web series).
 * If specific dates are never provided, a calculation is done starting with a canonical date, and taking into consideration both references to the passage of time off-screen and visual clues to the passage on-screen.
 * Other events are given dates regarding their relative position to events with assigned or calculated dates, or matching similar real-world events.

Timelines for Alternate Realities
Alternate Realities presented in Mordenheim Universe media present their own different timeline articles, written with the same rules as the main ones, but with some litte differences:

Date Articles

 * Articles are named as sub-pages of the main articles, using for the differentiative the simplest name available to define the reality they belong to. If available, name has to be chosen from canonical media.
 * If possible, articles need to be condensed for these realities, instead of just using the names for main timeline articles chosen for decades or years for their importance to that reality, they need to be named for their importance to their specific reality. For instance, having an article for each year in the 2010s decade doesn't mean it has to be so for every other reality, and that decade may be condensed into a single 2010s article.
 * This condensation should not, as a general rule, apply to the main article for a specific reality, only to the backstory articles in between the Point of Divergence and the alternate reality shown in media.

Points of Divergence
Specific dates are known to present a Point of Divergence, a moment in time where a different outcome of events results in the creation of an alternate reality. That date is properly marked with the POD template, that would explain the reason of the divergence and then link to the alternate reality created after that date.

Sourcing

 * The timeline must follow all the rules given in the Sourcing Policy, in this case, adding a reference to each individual event presented in a bullet point.