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Color-code bios by region?

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Just a thought pbp 02:49, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The VA3 bios by country and Region

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  • Africa (5): Ramesses, Cleopatra, Mansa Musa, Nelson Mandela, Ibn Khaldun
  • Americas (8):
    • United States (7): Washington, Lincoln, Armstrong, Michael Jackson, Disney, Edison, Ford
    • South America (1): Bolivar
  • Asia (27):
    • China (7): Qin, Mao, Zheng He, Confucius, Laozi, Li Bai, Shen Kuo
    • Other East Asia (3): Genghis Khan, Hokusai, Murasaki Shikibu
    • S and SE Asia (6): Ashoka, Akbar, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Buddha, Adi Shankara
    • C Asia and Middle East (11): Hammurabi, Cyrus the Great, Timur, Suleiman, Rumi, Avicenna, Al-Khwarizmi, Jesus, Paul the Apostle, Muhammad, Ali
  • Europe (72):
    • UK (14): Elizabeth I, James Cook, John Locke, Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Shakespeare, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, James Clerk Maxwell, Alan Turing
    • France (7): Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, René Descartes, Voltaire, Antoine Lavoisier, Louis Pasteur
    • Italy (12): Julius Caesar, Augustus, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Galileo Galilei
    • Germany/Austria (14): Adolf Hitler, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Gutenberg, Albert Einstein, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Emmy Noether, Kurt Gödel, Martin Luther
    • Greece (9): Alexander the Great, Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Hippocrates, Archimedes, Euclid
    • Spain/Portugal (4): Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Pablo Picasso, Miguel de Cervantes
    • Russia (4): Catherine the Great, Joseph Stalin, Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Mendeleev
    • Other Europe (8): Roald Amundsen, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Nicolaus Copernicus, Carl Linnaeus, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Leonhard Euler

pbp 21:23, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Colors Moxy🍁 21:38, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Purplebackpack89 Don't you think that doing by era would be better? Or perhaps we could come up with some system that displays both the era and the country? Wikieditor662 (talk) 01:23, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Wikieditor662: You can tell what era it is from where it is on the timeline, or which timeline it's in...
You should color-code by country, not by era pbp 01:56, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The eras themselves still have their own parts within their eras... Especially for the overview. Wikieditor662 (talk) 03:59, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Same difference...you can still see what era somebody is from where they are on the timeline. Somebody from a different era or subera will have different birth and death dates. You can demarcate splits in eras with colored vertical lines. I hold fast to the idea that it is preferable to color-code by geographic region and color-coding by time period on a timeline is superfluous pbp 10:02, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's not universal, meaning there isn't one time period which translates perfectly into every region. Different locations have different times for their eras. Wikieditor662 (talk) 19:16, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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