Template:en-timeline/documentation

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This is a timeline template for words with English quotations. Parameters:

• 1400s – years of 15th-century quotations
• 1500s – years of 16th-century quotations
• 1600s – (etc.)
• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

• enm – A link backwards to the entry for the Middle English progenitor of this word (if any), where (in theory) older cites would be found.

{{en-timeline
| 1400s =
| 1500s =
| 1600s =
| 1700s =
| 1800s =
| 1900s =
| 2000s =
| enm =
}}

If more than one date exists for a century, separate them with spaces, and they should bottom-align.

All parameters are optional. If none are given, the timeline will be blank, as it should be above. This timeline is probably not suitable for other languages than English, which may want longer or shorter timelines, or links back to different prior languages (or forward to later ones?).

Please feel free to gussy up this template any way that seems necessary, I'm not very good at pretty format.

Adapted from la:Formula:Chronologia.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for en-timeline

Creates a timeline for English citation pages.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
15th c.	1400s	Years of citations from the 15th century (1400-1499)	String	optional
16th c.	1500s	Years of citations from the 16th century (1500-1599) Example 1525 1597 1599	String	optional
17th c.	1600s	Years of citations from the 17th century (1600-1699) Example 1689 1694	String	optional
18th c.	1700s	Years of citations from the 18th century (1700-1799) Example 1749 1789	String	optional
19th c.	1800s	Years of citations from the 19th century (1800-1899) Example 1855 1889	String	optional
20th c.	1900s	Years of citations from the 20th century (1900-1999) Example 1917 1919 1964	String	optional
21st c.	2000s	Years of citations from the 21st century (2000-2099) Example 2008	String	optional
Middle English link	enm	A link backwards to the entry for the Middle English progenitor of this word (if any), where (in theory) older cites would be found.	Page name	optional