Talk:Timeline

A few things have changed in recent times, prompting going to create actual articles:


 * StarCraft Wiki is set to be a fansite of Blizzard, which suggests a degree of scrutiny. It would be best to provide relevant information on a public level.


 * One issue we never considered was that of Loomings, which gives absolute dates for the early battles on Chau Sara. Loomings was released in 2003, same as Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. StarCraft II also began development in this same year. Circa the start of development of SCII, Blizzard hadn't altered the timeline.


 * Fanon timelines have influenced canon before. The timeline for Harry Potter is an example, it being established unintentionally in The Chamber of Secrets that the book took place in 1992, a date which gave way to the rest of the timeline. And as we already have a few key absolute dates to go by, it's easy to stem outwards.


 * The timeline is easy to change, and so many dates have wormed their way into articles that the idea of keeping a timeline in reserve has become redundant. We've written information under false pretenses before-at least if Blizzard does change the timeline (which it doesn't seem intent on doing), we have a list of what these pretenses are.--Hawki 06:37, 14 August 2008 (UTC)