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This page describes a standard layout to use when adding millennia, centuries, decades, or years to the history timeline. Any comments on changes to this format should be added via Wikipedia Talk:Timeline standards. There is a proposal for changing the current standard (shown below) on the talk page and there is a recently closed survey on years pages here.
See also: WikiProject Days of the year (template for day pages)