Talk:Timeline of theoretical physics

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Merge[edit]

I think this article should merge (see here) with timeline of developments in theoretical physics. Thoughts, anyone? 5.151.82.74 (talk) 04:03, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like a good idea, but is that information necessary? (it seems to be in a draft form)
If the information is useful, I think it would make sense to merge them. Using the new layout approach here.--CaroleHenson (talk) 05:01, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge complete. -- Beland (talk) 19:07, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

The article has been tagged as needing references and I thought I'd do some work on it based on the length of time spent trying to address issues, such as getting wikilinks. Here are some of my thoughts:

  • From what I can see of other timeline pages, every line item does not need to have a source, but that's under the assumption that the wikilinks will provide the information - and that information will be cited.
  • At the very lest it would seem that citations are needed for the items that have no wikilinks.
  • At best there should be a review to ensure that each item is discussed in one of the linked articles - and that information is cited. If so, it would be good to bring over the citation information and then the article will have much more credence.

I'll work on finding of citations as examples.--CaroleHenson (talk) 04:59, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Going to the articles doesn't seem to be the best thing - because it may refer back to the original book, but it's better to get a source that puts it in context and says that its a revolutionary find - at that date - by that person. Make sense? Well, I've popped in a coupe for example.
Oh, and there's a cool tool, if you like: 1) search google books for the timeline items, and 2) when found get it formatted using http://reftag.appspot.com/ - you just need to copy the google books url over and the tool will format it into a citation.--CaroleHenson (talk) 05:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To be viable[edit]

To be a good, viable page it needs readership, which is very low (http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Timeline_of_theoretical_physics). To increase that, it would be good to get links added to other articles - perhaps list or outline of science articles. Another option is to add to the "See also" section of articles about given timeline items (Newton's law of universal gravitation, etc.)--CaroleHenson (talk) 05:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Undated events[edit]

In the merge from Timeline of developments in theoretical physics, these were undated. I didn't feel like spending a lot of time pinning dates on them, since it's unclear all of them actually deserve inclusion in the timeline, and some are poorly explained and may not be distinct events. Feel free to add them to the article or delete from here as you see fit. -- Beland (talk) 06:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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