Talk:Modern Times (history)

message: Do Speilberg and Lucas really belong on the same list as Galileo and Einstein? xyzzyva
Hi xyz: Yes they do, in these modern times of mass media and mass (popular entertainment) through the movies and TV,as defining the way modern people are entertained and the "heros" they "choose" from "Star Wars" to "ET" IZAK 06:16, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: People

message: Am I wrong, or doesn't the Modern World start with the end of the Middle Ages (around 1500)? You then divide it into the early modern world (until roughly, the French Revolution) and the contemporary world (afterwards). David.Monniaux 06:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: After Middle Ages; early modern, contemporary

message: I imported a definition from the article modern, where "modern age" was redirected to previously. There's another one in modernity. We may need to do some more surgery to eliminate some duplication... --Joy [shallot] 18:24, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  various definitions 

message: No reason or discussion was given on this page as to why the  template was slapped on this page by User:David.Monniaux. So to bring everyone up to speed and allow other people to comment here, here is a copy of the comments from Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/History:
* Modern world The list of personalities is extremely POV and shows some odd preferences (Lucas and Spielberg may be popular filmmakers, but they will probably be forgotten one century from now, just as we have forgotten many popular artists of the 19th century). David.Monniaux 06:58, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Attention-template 

message: The result of the VFD debate was redirect to Modern world, rather than merge.  If you like to merge the content, check the page history. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:28, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern history 

message: ::The English Glorious Revolution (1688) marked the end of feudalism in Great Britain, creating a modern constitutional monarchy.
What about January 30 1649 surly a better cut off point? -- Philip Baird Shearer 22:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  end of feudalism in Great Britain 

message: This article is pointless as currently written (do we really need a list of the most influential figures of the last 500 years?), but I don't think it has to be.
The question of what constitutes modernity is a serious one, and I think it might be useful to have an article discussing various interpretations for what it is and for when it started.
I am familiar with the academic debates concerning the end of antiquity and the beginning of the middle ages, and I can only assume (without any great knoweledge) that there are parallels with regard to the start of the modern period.
--Francisx 04:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern/Early Modern Period Discussion 

message: Please do not move this page by cut and paste, as it fragments the page history.  If you cannot move a page yourself, use wikipedia:requested moves. Thanks, Graham talk 13:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: I fixed the link to "jet" in the article to point to "jet engine".  I think that was the sense intended, as jet technology improves both planes and missiles in wartime.  if "jet plane" was the sense intended, someone should fix my change. Vslashg (talk) 23:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguating [[Jet]]