Guidelines:Article Layout/Historical Events

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What are Historical Events?

Historical events are events that took place in the past. I could be

• Releases of economic or financial data
• Discussions or actions that have been taken by us

General Rules

• If the historical release has a date we use: Year, Month - Full Text, Date e.g. "2023 January 12"

Examples of Historical Event Layouts

Consumer Price Index - See Historical Releases

Volkswagen - See Deliveries

Open Questions

• Should releases of numbers be named according to the date at which they are released e.g. Consumer Price Index:Historical Releases/2023 January 12 or according to the content of the release e.g. Consumer Price Index:Historical Releases/2022 Dec or Consumer Price Index:Historical Releases/2022 December
• Should we use singular or plural on upper level pages e.g. Consumer Price Index:Historical Releases/2023 January 12 or Consumer Price Index:Historical Release/2023 January 12 or Guideline:Article Layout/Historical Events vs Guidelines:Article Layout/Historical Events

Implementation in Wikipedia

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2023_January_12

It consists of 3 articles. Separated by a /

1. The article itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion
2. An Article for an overview of past events/logs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log
3. An Article for an specific event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2023_January_12