Thread:Qunow/@comment-6697950-20131020092056/@comment-6697950-20131020140534

Well, that solves that issue then. I didn't notice the small print. But, I can't even read the most of it, so I didn't even know that it was written there.

Anyway, now we have a different issue. Timeline referencing is much stricter than referencing on other articles, as the timeline dates may pretty much come from anywhere while a lot of dates are actually relative dates that are based on other dates.

Therefore, referencing the chapter/part is only acceptable IF the exact date written there. E.g.:

"Lyfa's brother Kirito—Kirigaya Kazuto was attacked by the fugitive from the Death Gun incident, 'Johnny Black'—Kanemoto Atsushi just two days ago, on the 29th of June."

The date here is pretty much self-explanatory, so referencing just "Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 1" is sufficient. However, for relative dates like "yesterday", "12 months ago", "this weekend" etc., just referencing that chapter/part is not enough, as it requires knowing other dates, thus you need to explain how you deduced the date. E.g.:

"12 months after the SAO incident, according to Volume 3, Chapter 2."

This way, it's much easier to confirm whether a date is correct or not and doesn't require an editor to read 2 or more other volumes just to figure out if the date is correct.