Giving the EG a Bit of a Remodel

[Drashner1]

I think we could think about embedding the timelines as a spreadsheet. Other tables I think can stay as is.

Fair enough. I tend to find the CMS method of creating tables rather hard to wrap my head around - but that could just be me

Another possible table that it might be good to build from a spreadsheet might be the Master Star List or a Table of All Inhabited Systems or something. We could potentially organize it via various indicators (e.g., Inner Sphere, Political Affiliation, etc.) and then use filtering to let users drill down to specifics very rapidly.

From what I can tell, it might be possible to set these up so that updates made to the master spreadsheet stored in OneDrive are reflected in real time to the embedded sheet. Which would be handy.

What do you think about pruning the timeline to simplify it? Stuff that doesn't impact society much, or refer to thr rest of the setting, could be dropped.
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There's probably a fair bit of room for pruning. The timelines are peppered with various (usually short) bits that don't seem to have any connection to anything in particular. In some cases they may have been put in as filler to add verisimilitude. In others, perhaps they were intended to be the springboard or placeholder for some more extensive article that was never created.

I would suggest that we should have a discussion of just what we want the timeline(s) to actually do as part of the OA project, with an eye toward written guidelines around what sort of content should be retained and what should be removed, as well what should/should not be added to the timelines in the future after they are cleaned up. Also, to answer such questions as - where should timelines go? Should any individual world ever have a timeline? How many timelines should we have in the first place? Etc.

Todd