Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History/Archive 3

message: Which of these do we not meet. hehe--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 18:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting... 

message: we do have tagged A class articles, but this project has no A class review. We do have B class artilces and do not specify according to which guidelines (there are the old wikiguidelines and the new ones from the milhistory project). These issues sghould be clarified and I tend to support an own A class and peer review. Wandalstouring 20:05, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We most certainly do have an A-class review. Look at Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review and Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Quality. It's all there--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 20:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Than your layout definetly needs improvement. Wandalstouring 10:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Our peer review directs to a wikiwide review that is definetly a mess. Wandalstouring 10:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Our layout is almost identical to milhist but we don't have many articles at the moment.The peer review thing was a link that predates the creation of our peer review (About 20 days ago) I fixed it--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 11:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review process 

message: History of Indonesia is currently under an A-Class review. It is our third one to date--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 10:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review/A-Class review|A-Class review]] 

message: I have nominated Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany for peer review (linked). I would really appreciate comments and/or collaboration from anyone in this WikiProject.
Thanks! - Revolving Bugbear (formerly Che Nuevara) 18:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany 

message: Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).
*List of basic history topics
*List of basic medieval history topics
*List of basic Renaissance topics
This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice of List articles 

message: Okay, we've started recruiting members regularly (About one a day, which I think is a record) so we're going to need to organise some kind of big assessment drive to get all our articles assessed soon. Anyone got any ideas on how we're gonna do this?
*We'll need some kind of script to find all our articles
*We'll need to draw attention to the drive somehow, another ad might do and some witty picture, like MilHists would work too
--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 19:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment drive 

message: We're slowing down with our work here. This age is supposed to be watchlisted by our members. We need need to get going again or we'll go under--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 20:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's see, there haven't been any significant responses to comments in, what, the past week? I think we might be a little bit premature to say the sky is falling after only one week of comparative inactivity. What would probably be best would be to either determine or create some way other than the banner, specific categories work best generally, which would clearly and explicitly indicate that an article within it is one with which this group is specifically concerned, as opposed to any of the subprojects. Also, some of us are on other tasks for a few days yet. And, of course, action would be impacted by the actions of other projects. I personally kind of like the way the religion project has indicated its scope: that it deals explicitly with those articles which do not fall clearly within the scope of any other extant religion project or that deal with subjects relevant to three or more different, not directly related, projects. A similar approach to determining this project's scope might work as well. Certainly, setting such guidelines would probably involve doing work for some of the child projects as well with tagging, but doing so would also help establish goodwill with those other projects. John Carter 20:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Doug and I have been discussing overhauling WP:EH. You might want to take a look. - Revolving Bugbear 20:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This project isn't going down.  This is a top level project, it needs to play a supporting role and help the subprojects grow (both membership and organizational structure).  We all have articles to edit and many of us have multiple projects to work on, you included Phoenix, so no offense, but WP:CHILL, please.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 00:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no harm in promoting our cause by using Phoenix-wiki's ideas. It is not like we are wasting ink or harming things in any way- in fact, by getting the word out, we are acting positively to help articles expand. It really does surprise me every time I see historical articles not tagged or recognized and those which need our help. I know we all can't edit everything, but if no one says anything then we really have no purpose for having this WP at all. Monsieurdl 01:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 1) The proper place to discuss the future of this project is right here.  2) Rome wasn't built in a day.  That's all I'm getting at.  --Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Trust me, as soon as I finish tagging the rodent articles for the new Pocket pets group, I'll start tagging some of the historical articles again. However, there does remain the question of how to tag for projects which have banners but not assessments. If someone wanted to be really useful, they might contact some of the other history projects to see if they would be willing to use our banner for assessment purposes. John Carter 01:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if they need to use our banner for assessments, but I was strictly speaking about getting the word out about going through articles for assessments, what really needs help, input on general history topics, etc. I don't know how many would be willing to give up their banners for ours, but it could be added if they agreed and so we would have a record. Of course, there would be a problem if an article had four, five, or more banners. That would be ugly! Monsieurdl 01:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I could adjust the banner like some of the other projects have to include a drop-down at the bottom saying that the article is specifically supported by their project, like the Template:WPMILHIST does, and adjust the banner to give separate assessments for each subproject as well. That would help reduce the banner clutter, and probably help some of those projects get a better idea regarding the quality of the articles relevant to their project. John Carter 01:45, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering about the very same thing, I suggested a less comprehensive version at Wikipedia:WikiProject European history.  What do User:Revolving Bugbear and the two coordinators here think about that idea? (I specifically ask for Bugbear's opinion because he's active at European history with me, obviously anyone else is welcome to chime in too).  Seems like that is is exactly the sort of thing this project can do for the subs.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Another way to deal with banner profusion is the useful banner shell template. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 03:54, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

text: I think that's a separate issue, for which that is the best solution.  I think John was just suggesting a general History Banner that all subprojects could use, not so much for decluttering as to cement the relationship between the projects and avoid everyone having to create the same thing over and over again.  Am I right John?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, yes. That would allow the article to be assessed, and potentially even display at the bottom the name of the relevant subproject, all in the same banner, in much the same way that the Template:WP Australia and others do. Also, by instituting that sort of setup, it would probably make it even easier for other subprojects to be created, as it would require less work to create everything, go about tagging, etc., as at least some of that work would already be done. John Carter 15:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, but what about projects with many task forces? We'll clearly have to forget about MilHist and History of science in this--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 18:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With the caveats brought up by Phoenix-wiki, I think this is a good idea. - Revolving Bugbear 18:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not myself entirely sure what those caveats specifically are, though. I don't see adding Military history to the banner anytime soon, they already have a more than adequate assessment component. WikiProject History of science covers a rather different area, and already has assessment, so I'd leave that alone as well. Basically, at least initially, I was only thinking of those projects who either don't have assessments to be incorporated into the banner, and, potentially, the project itself. Only thereafter do I think anyone should even consider trying to merge in active projects with assessments. -- John Carter (talk) 18:43, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That was what I meant, not to include the MilHist or Science logo, or any other established project's ones--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 19:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  We're slowing down, we need to get active again 

message: I've made a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#What to do with WikiProject History--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 23:03, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal 

message: I noticed that the WikiProject History talk page template was added to Talk:February 9.  Is it the intention of this project to make Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year a subordinate project?  That might be a good idea in order to get more interest and organization behind the days of the year articles but it seems to conflict with the proposal above. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 20:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The banner seems to have been added by one of the project's more active editors, so I guess it'd be best if he responded. Personally, I would welcome getting more attention to those articles myself, and wouldn't necessarily mind if the History banner were adjusted to generate statistics for the Days of the year project, but right now that's beyond my own limited abilities. I do look forward to answers from others, too. John Carter (talk) 21:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

text: It was me who placed the template, it was an accident. I dunno about making you a subordinate project as you're not about history solely. It might be beneficial to work in close contact with days of the year though--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 22:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As for getting more attention to those articles, maybe we could create a subpage to list historic events that can be added to such pages? That would help.--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 22:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I think the days of the week project pretty much is basically solely history, as their basic focus is to list historical events that happened on a given day. Granted, it's rather an unusual extension of the topic, but still falls within the scope of this project. John Carter (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So what do you want to do? MAke it anothner child task force or a task force? I think it's fine the way it is though we should list it as a child project--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 16:35, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's already a child of Wikipedia:WikiProject Time.  Let's leave it alone for now but think about it for the future.  If membership in both projects doesn't improve, maybe combining might be in order. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 04:37, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year 

message: The United States WikiProject has been created.  If you're interested, please add your name to the list of participants.  I'm currently working on getting all the templates and categories created (i.e., fixing all the red links).  Any and all assistance would be appreciated.  Thanks! Corvus coronoides talk 13:48, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I look forward to aiding you whenever possible- as I noted in the participants section, I'm most knowledgeable in early American history since it coincides with a lot of the history of New France. Nice addition! Monsieurdl (talk) 13:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume you posted to attract the attention of users with the knowledge of US history, which is a great idea. We currently don't have the manpower but a US task force might be something to think about creating in the future. What do you think, John--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 16:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly, if the members of the new project wished to use the  template for assessment purposes, it would probably be easier to maintain than an entirely separate banner. It might also have the benefit of allowing the banner to be used for multiple related task forces which deal with a specific article, reducing the amount of talk page space taken up by the banners. If the members of the project wanted to use the History project banner, I think the changes could be made rather easily. John Carter (talk) 16:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think switching banners is really an issue at all. Corvus coronoides talk 17:18, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New WikiProject Created 

message: Could editors please take a look at this article and comment on its talk page? It is mostly the work of one editor and I have concerns about neutrality. It is also looking increasingly unencyclopedic and probably contains excessive detail (such as on the 1903 coup). Your opinion may differ, of course. --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:18, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Will do--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 23:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much. For the avoidance of doubt, my specific concerns are verifiability, neutrality and undue weight plus various Manual of Style issues. (It has the longest section headings I've ever seen on Wikipedia, for instance. Though no doubt someone will be along soon with links to even longer ones :)) --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] 

message: 2001 Cincinnati riots is currently tagged This article does not cite any references or sources. (September 2006). Some cites have apparently been added since then, but the article still needs cleanup. -- Writtenonsand 19:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Addded to openasks--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 21:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[2001 Cincinnati riots]] needs your help 

message: Chinese Exclusion Act is on WP:ACID If you can help out that'll be great. Marlith T/C 05:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese Exclusion Act 

message: The A-class review department isn't very active, and I note we haven't any A-class articles at present (:Category:A-Class history articles). (There was one but its A status wasn't assigned by the project .) Why don't we adopt a simpler assessment scale, simply leaving out A-class (FA-GA-B-Start-Stub)? Other projects have their own scale, e.g. Maths: FA-A-GA-Bplus-B-Start-Stub; so, I don't see why we shouldn't. It doesn't actually require any coding changes, as if we simply leave it out, the v1.0 team automatically ignores it, cf. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography (baronets) articles by quality statistics. DrKiernan (talk) 10:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, people have a habit of assigning A-class without discussion, but that's the standard layout for most wikiprojects and having an unconventional layout would mean no statisctics, as the bot doesn't recognise anyhting except the current fromat (Of course, importance ratings can e removed, but it might be better to keep them)--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 20:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals#Assessment does not recognise GA-class and has deleted that category (see :Category:WPChem worklist articles by quality). The bot works quite happily without it. As I said above, it doesn't require any coding changes to the bot, it just ignores empty or missing categories. So, if we decide to delete A-class, I think we can just go ahead and do it. DrKiernan (talk) 08:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, but we won't be deciding to delete A-Class anytime soon--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 20:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-class 

message: If anyone can help, still needed is an article about the History of the Jews in Wales to complete the History of the Jews in Europe. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 12:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the Jews in Wales 

message: How about more fully integrating WP Eurohist by adding a |europe=yes parameter to  which automatically switches an article from this parent project to the daughter one, and also means that Eurohist can use this project's peer review and A-class review processes (if they wish to do so)? British Royalty and Biography have this kind of relationship and it seems to work well. I don't know much about template coding though, so someone else would have to actually do it. DrKiernan (talk) 08:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm afraid that the template coding is probably beyond my own, meager, abilities, but I'll at least try to come up with something in the next few days. Anyone else who feels more comfortable regarding such matters is free to jump in before me, of course. John Carter (talk) 15:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I'm working on the Africa template. Oh yeah, John, I've got the syntax rigth and now it's just tedious typing out of the same thing, but'll it'll be done soon--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 21:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No rush. Sorry to be putting you to all this work, but I'm really too stupid to figure it out myself. John Carter (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates 

message: Phantom time hypothesis: "The Phantom time hypothesis is a theory developed by Heribert Illig (born 1947 in Vohenstrauß) in 1991, which suggests that the Early Middle Ages (more precisely, the period 614–911 AD) never occurred, meaning that all artifacts attributed to this period are from other times and that all historical figures from this period are outright fabrications." 
-- Article is currently peppered with "fact" and "cleanup" tags requesting that mainstream-historical criticisms of this eccentric theory be cited. This is fair (if silly) and IMHO shouldn't be too arduous for historians. 
(We also have New Chronology (Fomenko), but that's in better shape.) -- Writtenonsand (talk) 14:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Phantom time hypothesis]] 

message: This is an article a couple of us have completely revamped in an experiment to see if it was possible to make a year article an FA. Obviously, it's a history article, so any help you could lend would be wonderful. Wrad (talk) 02:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[1345]] 

message: Hi, can somebody give me some help editing and improving this article, I would like to try and push it to GA status. Blueanode (talk) 16:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Antonio Armijo]] 

message: The above article is currently being considered for deletion. Anyone interested should feel free to take part in the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of western Eurasia. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 18:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD on [[History of western Eurasia]] 

message: Robert Conquest needs cleanup for neutrality and weasel problems. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 20:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Robert Conquest]] needs cleanup 

message: I'm starting an article about The History of the World (the book by JM Roberts). Are there any history book articles that are rated Good Article or Featured article that I could use as a guide? --Sean Brunnock (talk) 22:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decent history book article? 

message: I have today come across a curious case of a country which wants to change its history. This country is now known as Romania. Ostensibly the current explanation of the etymology on the article page is that the Romanians are descendants of Romans. My proposition is that until recently (in historical terms) it was known as Wallachia or Rumelia have been rejected. The proposition that WWallachins may have arrived in Roman Dacia, and found soldier settlers there speaking Vulgar Latin in the 5th Century CE, and like the French, adopted the tongue was found by the editors to be a personal insult, as well as one to their country. Even the fact that the root of the word Rumania comes from the Arabic ar-Rum for Rome (included in the Koran in the 7th Century), and was shortened to Rum by the Ottoman Empire who used it to refer to the Greek speaking Byzantium, has failed to change the editors' minds on the naming of the country in their determination to Latinise Rumania to Romania. The article has again been submitted for FA rating. This despite the etymology having been shunted off to a behind the scenes page with untranslated references (mostly Rumanian and Italian, and one undated encyclical from Vatican). I have requested a third party assessment of the page after my comments were repeatedly deleted from discussion. Would appreciate someone looking in on it.--mrg3105mrg3105 14:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't sound too good. Could you link to the page, I'll have a look.--Phoenix-wiki 14:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're talking about the Romania page, I tend to think that the policy of WP:NAME fairly clearly establishes that of the name of the page, as that is the spelling in the English language versions of the European Union site here, the Romanian Tourist Office site  here, and the English language version of the governmental website here If you're discussing some other name, please specificy the page in question. Even the comments are deleted, we can review the page history to see them. Thanks. John Carter (talk) 16:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe he's referring to what information on the spelling should be contained in the lead paragraph and what in the Etymology section. - Revolving Bugbear 16:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing country's history by a Wiki-vote, or whats in a single vowel 

message: The naming convention for monarchs has previously been an exception to Wikipedia's general naming conventions.  Efforts are now being made to bring them in line, with a propoasl for the most common name for a monarch to take precedence. (eg. William the Conqueror, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mary, Queen of Scots.)  Please consider the proposals at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Proposals to change Monarchal naming conventions so we can get wide consensus on this matter.  Thanks. Gwinva (talk) 01:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming Conventions: Monarchs 

message: Hello everybody, 
please have a look into this proposed merger.
Thank you, Str1977 (talk) 21:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidents and Kings of Greece 

message: It might be possible to integrate a switch into the project banner to permit separate assessments for a variety of countries, thus allowing, for instance, French history, German history, Spanish history, etc. Would the members of this project be interested in setting up such national history work groups for the countries which probably have the most articles related to their histories? John Carter (talk) 02:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good idea. I'll get in touch with some of the larger national projects and ask if they'd like a co-task force in our project space. There's no point setting up task forces for countries that not many people arfe interested in editing though.--Phoenix-wiki 20:05, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subprojects 

message: This is an article in need of a makeover. It's confusing and heavily dependent on one historian's view. --Dweller (talk) 16:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for assistance at [[Children's Crusade]] 

message: Would watchers of this page look at Psychohistory and Early infanticidal childrearing, two articles which seem to relate to history.  I wonder if they are pushing a fringe POV, or if they are accurate, and do not have the expertise to judge. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 14:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard of Psychohistory in this context before, so I think whether it is fringe or not it probably qualifies as notable enough for an article, given the likes of Fawn Brodie using its principles. And from what little I remember of the subject, the page is generally accurate. In all honesty, though, I'm more familiar with Psychohistory (fictional), which probably won't surprise anybody. Regarding the latter, I honestly don't know one way or another, but the psychology wikia has an article on it. I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology would probably know more about that subject than we would, and I see you've notified them as well. I hope someone responds on the subject there, as I myself can't tell from a web search whether it's notable enough to have a separate article or not. John Carter (talk) 15:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns about articles 

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# :Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic cognitive psychology topics#History of cognitive psychology
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# :Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic world wide web topics#History of the world wide web
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# :Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics/Draft/List of basic tool topics#History of tools
Thank you.
The Transhumanist  10:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History sections of the Lists of basic topics 

message: I keep running into articles missing history on the topic.  Is there a tag for this?  If so, please point me to it!
Thank you.
The Transhumanist  10:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: is our tag. I will open a subpage where such articles can be listed since tagging them seems rather pointless. Wandalstouring (talk) 17:27, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinking about the issue again a category might be a better approach. I would like to consult my fellow coordinator, but he seems not inclined to respond yet. Wandalstouring (talk) 12:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I think he means . John Carter (talk) 13:55, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I like the idea of a category — :Category:Articles lacking a History section, that would be easier to use than a subpage.--Phoenix-wiki 14:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a tag for "This article needs a history section"? 

message: My article Prehistoric medicine has been selected as a Start grade article, but there is a mention on the discussion page of it being upgraded to a B-status, but there is also a criteria thingy-majigy that I don't know what to do with; it says add it to the template call..? Could someone experienced in this field (or just more experienced than I am) please help me sort this out. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needing help 

message: There are several articles about various members of the Birley family, most of whom are descended from Richard Birley (1743 - 1812), merchant. I would like to link them together using some form of family tree/template. Can anyone point me to where I can find something that I can use as a model? Thanks for any help.  --Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 09:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm. I regret that I know not of any already existing template. But if someone with the coding wizardry skills were to create one, I think it'd be of huge help. LordAmeth (talk) 08:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Use Template:Familytree. You can see its implementation at House of Hador. Wandalstouring (talk) 14:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family tree/template 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_CD_Selection/additions_and_updates#History where the proposed changes going from the 2007 Schools DVD to the 2008 one are listed. Theren't aren't many changes or updates listed even though History is one of the biggest sections (see http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/index/subject.History.htm) in part because we don't really have a history buff helping with the project. Any advice would be very welcome. --BozMo talk 15:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools DVD 

message: As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I have reviewed American Revolution and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article along with other task forces/WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 01:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Revolution GA Sweeps Review: On Hold 

message: There's a discussion over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Requested moves about what the 1100s, 1200s etc. should mean. Articles like 1100s currently form part of the series on decades; however it is proposed that they should be about centuries, in line with usage. Since the discussion is not generating a whole lot of new light at the moment, contributions would be welcome.--Kotniski (talk) 16:32, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  1100s discussion 

message: Arthur Bryant was a historian, particularly of England. I know next to nothing about him (or historiography); I merely read in something about Wotton House that he preceded John Gielgud as resident of a pavilion, with the implication that he was well known. I went to the page about him, which looks very wrong. Comments on the talk page seem to agree, but I can't judge offhand and I don't have the time to check (e.g. by looking him up in the Dictionary of National Biography or whatever the OUP monster is called). Can somebody knowledgable take a look? (Crossposted to Wikiproject England.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:45, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a short version of that work which I am using to expand the article now. The subject certainly appears to have embraced ideas which we would now call unpopular, but I do tend to think that the existing structure is far less than acceptable. I'll try to add the other information from the source tomorrow. I personally do consider the volume of quotations to have at the least WP:Undue weight problems, and will probably try to trim the amount of them considerably. Unfortunately, I don't know that much offhand about the subject myself, so that's probably about all I will be able to do unassisted. With any luck, someone who has more direct knowledge of the subject will help as well. John Carter (talk) 01:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arthur Bryant 

message: Would it be worth adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums to related wikiprojects? It's a new project but has obvious links with this one in improving the coverage of museums & artifacts etc.— Rod talk 10:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, added--193.120.116.177 (talk) 08:50, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Museums 

message: Well it appers there's been a little panic during Wandalstouring's and I's recent inactivity. Well I think I'm ready to reassume the position, though JohnCarter is already a coordinator in all but name. I've been doing a lot of mainspace work btw, hope to get History of timekeeping devices to FA soemtime in the future.--Phoenix-wiki 08:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordination 

message: Burr-Hamilton duel is right on the thin edge of being GA, and it looks like there's enough meat there to build an FA from. A good project for anyone who's interested. Ling.Nut (talk) 05:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Burr-Hamilton duel]] 

message: I have found a tremendous amount of POV in articles relating to history that have been copied from encyclopedias in the public domain. We need an effort to eradicate POV assertions from those entries.  —  Rickyrab | Talk 16:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I've gone through a lot of articles about Egypt ripping out obvious copyvio, not from encyclopedias but from all sorts of places (this was by one editor which made it easier).  I'm just now looking at Romulus and Remus trying to figure out if this  is a copy of Wikipedia or the other way around.  There are some other new articles which have sprung up fully polished that I also wonder about. Maybe we should make a list?--Doug Weller (talk) 17:28, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Add any articles you find with POV problems that are related to history to the to do list at the top of the page above. That'll help get at least some attention to them. John Carter (talk) 17:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV in history-related articles that have been recovered from public domain encyclopedias 

message: Someone is actually trying to throw the garbage heap of history onto the garbage heap of history. Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 00:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  garbage heap of history 

message: Any editor with a broad knowledge of history is invited to take a look at Wikipedia:Vital articles and offer suggestions on how to improve the list of 1000 vital Wikipedia articles, as well as on the process of choosing them. It suffers from a severe lack of attention and POV editing. — goethean ॐ 01:45, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Vital articles]] 

message: There is an ongoing discussion regarding Historical revisionism at Talk:Historical revisionism, also relevant are the articles on Historical revisionism (negationism) and Denialism. Paul foord (talk) 14:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at [[Talk:Historical revisionism]] relevant to this project 

message: Do members here feel that articles such as Robert F. Kennedy assassination actually fall under the purview of this project.  It is currently listed as a biographical article, but I'm not certain that this is appropriate in of itself Fritzpoll (talk) 23:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the banners for US presidential elections and US history, which are probably appropriate in this case. John Carter (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much Fritzpoll (talk) 23:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kennedy assassinations 

message: I have written an essay titled History vs. genealogy, dealing with what I believe to be one of the great problems with how history is dealt with on Wikipedia. I would very much appreciate comments. Lampman Talk to me! 16:50, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History vs. genealogy 

message: WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies was proposed for creation as a potential "child project" of WikiProject History. The proposal received enough signatures, and the project has been set up. We would like to list WikiProject History as our "parent project", and have WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies listed as a "child project" of WikiProject History. Thanks. —Aryaman (talk) 01:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for "child project" status 

message: I'd like to know if anyone can help with Battle of Grobnik field - 2 of us have now searched (see the Talk Page) and come to the conclusion that there probably was no such battle, just a 19th century poem.  I'm probably going to take it to AfD unless someone can convince me it was real. Thanks.--Doug Weller (talk) 17:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Croatia would probably know better about the alleged battle. But I myself might question deleting it, as it does seem to have been the subject of the epic poem; it's probably notable as a work of fiction, even if it isn't historically accurate. John Carter (talk) 19:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The editor who created it will do his best to stop that from happening. And there are no English language sources for the poem either that I can find. Thanks for the suggestions about other projects. --Doug Weller (talk) 19:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone know anything about 13th century Europe? - was the [[Battle of Grobnik field]] a battle or just a 19th century poem? 

message: Is there a reason why the History of Sheffield merits the same level of importance as the History of China and the Maya Civilization? There doesn't seem to be, so unless anyone objects (and I'm fairly certain nobody will), I will set about lowering the article's Importance to something more appropriate. Nautical Mongoose (talk) 12:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting out priorities 

message: Article on Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (favorite of Elizabeth I of England) has been tagged "This article needs additional citations for verification" since June 2007 (actually has no inline cites). -- Writtenonsand (talk) 19:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester]] needs cites 

message: Our article about the Neutrality acts basically states that the acts only applied when the president found that a state of war existed between two nations; by refusing to issue such a finding, Roosevelt was able to avoid hurting allied nations. However I found that the current Encyclopaedia Britannica gives a very different account, and never mentions this option. The details are at Talk:Neutrality Acts#Was Roosevelt free to ignore the Neutrality acts?. Maybe an expert could look into this. Thanks and cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 03:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Roosevelt able to ignore the Neutrality acts? 

message: Does anybody have any objections to be restyling the project page so that it looks more current? The Quill (talk) 08:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope everybody likes the restyling I gave the page I just thought it needed to be a bit more modern. Any complaints or problems with the new design should be placed here and not on my talk page if a problem arrises. The Quill (talk) 09:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also I think that to comlete the new look we need to replace our logo. While it is very nice it just doesn't look proffesional enough. I think that we should stick with the time/clock theme but I can't find many images on wikipedia to help us out so far I can only find  which isn't that great. I will try to construct my own clock image but if anybody has anyother logo suggestions once agai please place them here. Thanks. The Quill (talk) 09:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The old image on the banner was chosen as being an indication of history, being the first page of a very old historical document. There was an earlier idea of using the image already used by Wikipedia:WikiProject intelligent design, but having two groups use the same image would be confusing. Which is unfortuante, because it is a great image. Maybe an image showing both a clock and a bookshelf might be best. John Carter (talk) 13:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't want the image of the prject to look modern! I'd like it to look, well, historical.--Doug Weller (talk) 08:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I understand what you mean but I'm not sure are you saying you want an old image or the you want an image which is modern which shows something lookin old?The Quill (talk) 14:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Woah woah woah, a portal look is not good IMO. I like the new grey/silver colour, but it was like this before and it wasn't nice. I'm going to return it to the other format, but i'll keep the cahnges I think.--Phoenix-wiki 21:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I don't care if the image is old, but it needs to show something looking old (IMHO). Doug Weller (talk) 18:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Any particular suggestions? John Carter (talk) 18:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Dude, you asked if there was any objections in this section, so I replied in this section. Accusations of vandalism are a personal attack. I was the coordinator and re-creator of this project, but gave that up due to my recent inactivity. The status quo is maintaiend untill discussion is finished, which means discuss it here.--Phoenix-wiki 17:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Phoenix-wiki here myself. I find the section format to offer disadvantages if one section is notably longer than other, and this project will have some very long sections. I would be open to other identifier images, though, if anyone could come up with any. John Carter (talk) 19:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restyle 

message: Requesting an initial assessment of this article.
69.140.152.55 (talk) 01:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[indentured servitude]] 

message: Well, due to my recent inactivity I had to give up coordinatorship a while ago. I'm still not active enough to do it, and don't think I will be as active as I used to be any more. John Carter, you indicated a willingness to do this, are you still interested? We can change the page to say taht if you are.--Phoenix-wiki 17:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The work with the new WP:GEOBOT, if and when that discussion is over, and being elected coordinator of Christianity, will limit my time, but I'd be willing to do "co-", work, if you would be willing to help watch things when I get lost somewhere else for a few days on other tasks. John Carter (talk) 17:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordination 

message: Hello.
Could I request a few editors to take a look at the NPOV noticeboard and comment as to whether non-1939 start dates for World War II have enough support to be considered a significant minority or not?  Thanks. Oberiko (talk) 17:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request a few eyes to help gauge significance 

message: Right, you asked me to create a new topic, which is what I'm doing. As far as thge colours go, I like it, but the portal layout isn't very efficient IMO, and looks unproffesional. As for the image, I was thinking about some of these which I found on the commons. I'd like to hear opnions about them:
Image:P history.png
Image:P Roman empire.png
Image:P tourismus.png
Image:Icon of Colosseum.svg
:Of the four, I think the one on the left work best, as horseback riders or their equivalents tend to be fairly universal in the world, and it does seem to indicate a nebulous "historical" period. John Carter (talk) 19:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah okay. I'll implement that then if there are no objections.--Phoenix-wiki 20:23, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redesign 

message: An admin moved the summary version of this article to 1345 (summary) from the main 1345 spot. This article is in the scope of this project. Commentary is needed on whether summaries in the main year articles should be encouraged or not. Discussion is here. Wrad (talk) 23:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[1345]] 

message: I'm working on the Belton flintlock article, and the only known documentation of it is the correspondence between Belton and the Continental Congress.  I found Congress' side of things in Journals of the Continental Congress from May of 1777, but the footnotes say that Belton's letters are in the Papers of the Continental Congress.  I can't seem to find those online, and I'm not near a good library.  Here's what I need:
*Letter from Belton, April 11:  Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, I, folio 123
*Letter from Belton, May 7:  Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, I, folio 175
*Letter from Belton, May 8:  Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, I, folio 182
These appear to be available in some libraries on microfilm; if anyone is interested in giving me a hand, I'd appreciate it.  scot (talk) 01:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Papers of the Continental Congress 

message: This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist  10:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics 

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thread_title:  Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme 

message: This WikiProject is having a revival and is trying to determine the direction it will be heading in the future. Questions are being asked, and exciting things are coming in the future that could impact this project, including the bringing of 1345 and other year articles to GA and even FA status. Please consider joining this project and improving year articles on wikipedia. Wrad (talk) 20:03, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Years]] 

message: I've heard religious toleration guaranteed to Quebec after  La Conquête called one of the "outrageous acts" leading to the American Revolution. If anybody can source it, would you include it at  La Conquête? Thanks.  TREKphiler hit me ♠  14:32, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  That's outrageous! 

message: Currently, 946 articles are assigned to this project, of which 413, or 43.7%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of .) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 11:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles flagged for cleanup 

message: I am just wondering where can I request a reassessment of one of my articles, Prehistoric medicine, because there seems to be no obvious place to ask? MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 11:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-assessment of articles, where? 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject World History has seen no activity since April. Propose that, given the overlap of the scope of the groups, that project be integrated into this one, either as a separate subproject or possibly merged directly into the project itself. John Carter (talk) 00:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger with WikiProject World History 

message: After some tweaking, by myself and other users, the template has now been moved to Template:Country history and can be "enacted". I'm sure it will go through a bit of a rough patch as we have to convert a whole whack of very different templates, but hopefully it will eventually lead to a much more standardized set of articles. Thank you for all your support and positive comments! Any further suggestions can be directed at the template talk page. Mr. Absurd (talk) 04:17, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: Please discuss this move here--  LYKANTROP  <FONT COLOR="black">✉ </FONT> 14:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move of Aztec and Inca 

message: I am working on the 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia, due out first week Sept, content fixed from ten days time. It is a big project and a popular one (the online 2007 version will overtake Citizendium on Alexa within a few months and there are more than a million offline users). We want to include a lot of portal pages but it would really help to have portal pages for curriculum topics so a teacher can look at all the relevant resources in one. A few exist but many do not. Ones like "the Tudors" "Medieval Britain" British History 1500-1750 and 1750-1900 etc (see http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/curriculum.htm for ideas) would improve the schools wikipedia no end and also bring teachers onto the main site. I don't have the skills or time to do any of these. Please could someone here have a go at some? --BozMo talk 09:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take a run at a Medieval Britain Portal today. --Kaly99 (talk) 16:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please, please, please... 

message: Does anybody want to take a look at List of countries in chronological order of achieving statehood? It is full of dubious countries and other errors. For example, it says that Bohemia, not the Czech Republic, became independent on January 1, 1993 from Czechoslovakia. (An IP keeps changing that one back.) Thanks, Phlegm Rooster (talk) 17:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of countries in chronological order of achieving statehood 

message: On the list of countries in chronological order of achieving statehood, the date given for the founding of Japan, 660 BC, is the traditional date derived from Japanese legend. But in actual historical fact, the Yamato state which would evolve into a unified, coordinated country did not emerge until many centuries later. Whether that date is 538, when the capital was founded at Asuka, 710 when the capital was founded at Nara, or earlier in the Kofun period, is certainly a matter of debate. Many scholars of Japanese history would likely argue that there was no country of "Japan" until 1868. But in any case, whatever date we may choose, it's certainly not 660 BC, as that's simply completely historically inaccurate, going back to a period during the Jomon period before there was any organized government or society of any kind beyond small chiefdoms, extended family clan villages, or something to that effect. Please see discussion at Talk:List of countries in chronological order of achieving statehood, and respond there, not here. Thank you. LordAmeth (talk) 01:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founding of Japan 

message: I am not sure how active this project is, but if someone or even the project, is looking for something to do, Wikipedia's coverage of Pulitzer Prize winning history books is poor at best. These are some of the most important historical works of all time and we are lacking even basic articles on the majority of them. I created an article today on a book I have read. It would be good if everyone could just read through the list and if you have read a book create an article, even a stub. Every little bit helps. KnightLago (talk) 02:00, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pulitzer Prize winning history books 

message: This new article looks rather POV-ridden to me, and apears to exaggerate the death toll and, possibly, the extent of British responsibility (especially the comparisons to the Nazis and Stalin). It isn't at all in line with the article on this topic (Great Famine of 1876–78) and seems unessessary and possibly should be considered a POV-fork of that article. Can this be saved, or should it be nominated for deletion? Nick Dowling (talk) 11:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like it should be deleted, as the subject is already covered by the "Great Famine" article. If we wanted to incorporate a little more into the Great Famine article about accusations against the British, that could be alright. But the "Holocaust" article as it stands is both redundant, and founded upon a biased view of the event - the very fact that the word "Holocaust" is used is evidence of that. LordAmeth (talk) 17:47, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've nominated it for AfD. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British-India Holocaust. LordAmeth (talk) 18:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that. Nick Dowling (talk) 12:03, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[British-India Holocaust]] 

message: On Founding Fathers of the United States, I added Richard Montgomery. I am not sure if he should be listed there, but give me your opinions.-Red4tribe (talk) 20:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Founding Fathers 

message: Hello...the Cold War article is up for FAC, but there is a critique that this wikiproject has an interest in the article, and has rated it a B. I'd like to request a reassessment, but am unsure of how to make this request. What is necessary to make the request for reassessment? Thanks! Hires an editor (talk) 19:36, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-Assessment of the Cold War article 

message: I have created  which (with  and ) generate a definition list for a series of dated events, each being wrapped in an hCalendar microformat, with the date generated by . The example on the template's documentation is taken from Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 2001–2003.
 can optionally be added to a page, to pass its hCalendar events (generated by the aforesaid templates, or others) to external timeline-generating and other hCalendar-using websites. 
I'd be grateful for constructive suggestions for improvements; and as to where there templates might be best employed. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy Mabbett; Andy Mabbett's contributions 21:04, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates for timelines 

message: A consensus forming input is needed on Talk:Bush Doctrine#Bush Doctrine background. Please include your Wikipedian view there. Thanks. Scierguy (talk) 17:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bush Doctrine background 

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thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for History 

message: I just joined this project after noticing an issue that could use some attention from project members. The articles modern era and modern history attempt to cover the same topic, but are kept separate. I proposed a merger and started a thread over at Talk:Modern era#Merge.
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thread_title:  [[Mercantilism]] 

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thread_title:  College football history 

message: Folks,
I have put together a new template  designed to allow a 1, 2, 3 or more column table of key events to be added to an article describing events over time.  The template allows the easy addition of date stamped events, and the easy addition or insertion or removal of events as the article evolves over time without editors having to worry about table syntax, adjusting and balancing rows or columns, etc.
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thread_title:  Historical event list - new template 

message: Can somebody check out the string of recent edits to Monroe Doctrine? Thanks, Grsz11 →Review! 04:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Monroe Doctrine]] 

message: The article Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany is within WikiProject History. It is a featured article. I am desperately seeking more regular contributors who are willing to contribute positively to the article for further improvement and suggestions. Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 11:32, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany]] 

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message: How can I have my article assessed by the Wikiproject History? Thanks.--Pampi1010 (talk) 08:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  On assessment 

message: nominated Kingdom of Mysore for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Since the Kingdom of Mysore was a historical region, feedback from historians will be very helpful.  Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 02:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kingdom of Mysore FAR 

message: Help needed on the above article, on a very obscure putative micronation in the Spratly Islands. I came to it from the reliable sources noticeboard and have commented on sources, but more help would be useful. It is a history article, but many of the sources that mention it (always in passing) are texts in international law. I would prefer history sources only to be used, but would very much welcome any comments. Itsmejudith (talk) 11:21, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kingdom of Humanity]] 

message: History of Mumbai, a recently listed GA, has been listed for a Peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/History of Mumbai/archive2. Comments, Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks, KensplanetTC 09:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[History of Mumbai]] 

message: Chinese imperialism article has just come up at WP:RM for renaming. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 12:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese imperialism → Territorial expansions in the history of China 

message: History of Mumbai is currently at FAC at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Mumbai. Comments, Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks, KensplanetTC 12:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[History of Mumbai]] at FAC 

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thread_title:  Request for Input 

message: I notice that the aticle History of Iran is rated mid-importance and History of New Zealand is rated top-importance. This seems odd to me. I would think that the "History of" countries articles would all be of about equal importance. --Ong saluri (talk) 07:16, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rating error? 

message: There is currently a new taskforce being setted up at WP:GLASS within the WikiProject Physics. However, it seems to me that it should at the same time also be within the WikiProject History, based on the category Glass history and the article Glass itself. In the category Glass history there is just one good article so far (Hebron glass) and there are many in need of attention. Is there any opposition to adding a link to the new taskforce on the WikiProject History page? Do you have other suggestion or ideas? You are very welcome to contribute. Thanks...--Afluegel (talk) 07:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New taskforce 

message: If you are familiar with the medieval Islamic history, Please share your opinion in Talk:Samanids#Title, about the title of the page, the infobox and the lead. Alefbe (talk) 03:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third opinion 

message: Hi all. Recently about 3000 high-resolution, high-quality portraits of famous English people (mostly 16-19th century nobility) were added to Commons in :Commons:National Portrait Gallery, London. The most difficult part of integrating these images into Wikipedia is finding appropriate articles to add them to and inserting them appropriately. For the ones I'm not sure about, I use  to notify users on the talk page. I've already done this with a great many of them (roughly from the beginning up through Henry Brouncker in alphabetical order) but I need help to do the rest. Please assist me in placing these images here and on other-language Wikipedias. Thank you! Dcoetzee 10:13, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help placing portraits 

message: Hello. It would appear that the current name of this article is contested. I'd like to ask an administrator knowledgeable in the article topic (Kievan Rus'; especially English language literature on it) to visit the page and make an assessment of the resulting discussion to determine the validity of the concern raised. --Illythr (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Vladimir I of Kiev]] 

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thread_title:  Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects? 

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message: * Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
* Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Aspray, William. Computer: A History of the Information Machine. New York: BasicBooks, 1996.
* Graham, Ian S. The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
* Krol, Ed. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, 1987.
* Krol, Ed. Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
* Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991.
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thread_title:  Request for people who have copies of any of the following publications. 

message: Hello, anyone who is knowledgeable on Roman historians care to chime in on this discussion: Talk:Pugnaces_Britanniae#Gratius_Falsius Thank you Green Squares (talk) 20:53, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman historian 

message: I've created a category :Category:Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England to bring together all of the groupings, sub-groupings, kingdoms, tribes, clans etc of Anglo-Saxon England, and one of the things that this has revealed is a degree of inconsistency in how they are named in article title. Ought the following different ways of titling articles on essentially equivalent subjects to be harmonised and, if so, are there any existing conventions that could be brought to bear?
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* Wessex vs Kingdom of Essex vs South Saxons
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message: The History of the University of Florida article was just recently created, and could use a major expansion. NorwalkJames (talk) 16:43, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the University of Florida 

message: User:Truthkeeper88 who is copy-editing the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos article asked a question concerning the reason for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish America in 1767 on this talk page. Quoting from there: From what I can tell the sequence of events was: 1. Political tension between Portugal and Spain over control of the region; 2. the general expulsion of all Jesuits from Spanish territories in 1767. Is that correct? Was the political tension prior to the general expulsion, and was it a cause of the general expulsion? Since I am unsure of the answer to these questions I am looking for help from the History WikiProject. Thanks bamse (talk) 22:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expulsion of Jesuits from South America 

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thread_title:  Korean history at [[Joseon Dynasty]] 

message: This review is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force/Sweeps, a project devoted to re-reviewing Good Articles listed before August 26, 2007. History of the Earth has been reassessed, see discussion, and will be placed on hold until issues can be addressed. If an editor does not express interest in addressing these issues within seven days, the article will be delisted.--ErgoSum•talk•trib 17:56, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Reassessment of "History of the Earth" 

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thread_title:  FAR 

message: Dear Colleagues, I ask for your help on two issues:
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message: Also, here's a relevant discussion about subject development you might find interesting.  
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thread_title:  What's missing from [[Outline of history]]? 

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message: I found that many if not most of history sections in articles about Central and South America locations use "European Discovery", "European Settlement" and "First Europeans". I believe that should be changed to Spanish in most cases and some other nationalities in others. Is there a reason why that should not be the case? Thanks for guidance. -->))))º>(talk) 16:26, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Empire & Discovery of America 

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thread_title:  History sections of math articles 

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thread_title:  Date discussion impacting historical dates 

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thread_title:  {{noredirect|Persian Empire}} 

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thread_title:  Request for peer review 

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thread_title:  Sourcing policies 

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thread_title:  Aboriginal peoples history C/E Assistance requested please 

message: Can some people here please look at the sourcing in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mandell Creighton/archive1 on the British Historian Mandell Creighton.  I have some concerns.  Regards,  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing 

message: I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at . --Ysangkok (talk) 15:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular pages 

message: Anyone have any complaints if I drop people with red-links (especially contribs); and maybe re-organize the list? -- Mjquinn_id (talk) 19:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Membership list 

message: "Cavalier derives from the Spanish word caballeros" (strike)
"Shakespeare used the word cavaleros to describe an overbearing swashbuckler or swaggering gallant in Henry IV, Part 2, in which Shallow says "I'll drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London." (strike)
"Cavalier derives from the French word chevalier, itself originating in the Vulgar Latin word caballarius, meaning horseman." (add)
The majority of English words relating to law and war are loan words from French. This was imposed on the English after they were conquered in 1066. For many centuries the language of the court was French. (just a comment)
Jeremiahta (talk) 04:22, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You make it sound like they were colonized by France, like as if England was Vietnam. England after 1066 was ruled by Normans, not by "the French". French was the court language because it was seen as the most refined, cultured language of the time. Russia would adopt French as the language of the court as well for a time in the 17th-18th centuries. I don't think anything was "imposed on the English" in the sense of an imperial power imposing things upon its colonies - the language evolved naturally, as languages do, as the result of Norman influence. LordAmeth (talk) 19:56, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the word cavalier 

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message: The current article at Affirmative Action is fully about social equality with various phrases such as "positive action" redirecting there. I have suggested moving to and merging with Social equality and both are part of this project. It shouldn't require much change to either articles basis so I could do it but please go ahead and chime in at it on Talk:Affirmative_action#Social_equality or Talk:Social_equality#Affirmative_Action ~ R.T.G 08:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
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thread_title:  [[Social equality]] 

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thread_title:  Open Discussion 

message: I believe this is of interest to the wikiproject.Teeninvestor (talk) 19:13, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Economic history of China (pre-1911) ]] FAC 

message: Has a major deficiency in project management:
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thread_title:  This project 

message: I've formed a new category to collect all the articles (and new subcats) dealing with the hunting of bison (primarily American buffalo).  Since bison hunting is 99% a historical issue, and closely tied into the history of Western Expansion in the United States, I've tagged it for this project.  I'd appreciate any input on building the category, and also as to whether it should be re-named, as though the American buffalo is technically a bison, it is far better-known by the term "buffalo", and labeling the category "Bison hunting" might hurt more than it helps.  Alternately, folks could try and add a few pages on hunting European bison (wisent, etc) to round it out. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:43, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category [[:Category:Bison hunting]] 

message: Does this article have any redeeming features: Pop culture history, 1920-present? I'm thinking of nominating it for deletion as it is so poorly put together. The article creator removed the maintenance tags. Fences&Windows 03:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture history 

message: RATING REQUIRED. I have recently originated and expanded an article on Carl Warburg.  I have added to the WikiHistory project. Please can the project review this article and give it a quality rating. Thanks. --Roland Sparkes (talk) 11:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carl Warburg 

message: Query: does the article Warburg's Tincture, a medical history article, come under the remit of the WikiProject History?--Roland Sparkes (talk) 11:59, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Warburg Tincture' 

message: I want to discuss the section headings in the series of articles titled List of state leaders by year. I am not exactly sure if this is the right place. But anyway...In some years, the section heads are categorized according to continents: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe etc. But in most years there is also a section of Middle East and North Africa which is highly ambiguous eg., where is Iran in Asia, or in Middle East ? where is Sudan in Africa, or in North Africa ?  This results in inconsistent categorization of states. For example, Byzantine Empire is in Middle East in 1157 and in Europe in 1176. (Believe me no notable change in territory of Byzantine Empire between 1157 and 1176.) I think the categorization of these series of articles should be standardized; only the continent and nothing else. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of states 

message: An editor is asserting that this page is not neutral because "the sources come from the Allies", and has made the following changes:. As this editor has elsewhere called laws against Holocaust denial "thought crime" and made edits to Gas chamber to suggest that the use of gas chambers by the Nazis was claimed by "the Allies and Jewish sources", I request that editors assess this claim and these edits. Fences&Windows 21:02, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Any kind of criminal punishment for just saying something is a thought crime, whether it is holocaust denial, Communism denial, Capitalism denial, Islam denial, Christianity denial and whatever denial. We don't have double-standards. These kind of criminal punishments are EXACTLY thought crimes and restriction of free speech. Otherwise why only these THOUGHT CRIMES apply to some European countries and not i.e. to the United States?--Professional Assassin (talk) 22:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What on earth is Capitalism denial? Saying Capitalism doesn't exist? O_o Could you make a lucid. relevant point please? Hohum (talk) 01:23, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Nazi Germany]] 

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message: Could someone cleanup and add references or merge Mythologization of history please.  It is currently unreferenced and seems to be original research. If anyone thinks it is not worth keeping I'll tag it for deletion, I want to it to be read by some expert eyes before I make any hasty edits. Thanks Mattg82 (talk) 02:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythologization of history 

message: I've created a basic article for Timothy Brook, together with a couple of recent books.
Many articles mention or cite Timothy Brook.  These may now be linked to Timothy Brook (historian). Many thanks. Esowteric+Talk 15:11, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Have been through the articles and linked to "Timothy Brook", but have left most citation authorlinks alone. Esowteric+Talk 17:35, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest to keep only selected papers and all books. It look like as some kind of bibliography. Best wishes, --Vojvodae please be free to write :) 18:31, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks: I'll strip out the later parts of the bibliography. Esowteric+Talk 18:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article: Timothy Brook (historian) 

message: When doing research for writing articles for United States Women's History Month, I found this list of potential articles.  
*List of early women elected to United States state legislatures. I'm working on the ones of Kentucky and New York now. Any one else want to help by checking to see which ones are missing from Wikipedia? FloNight♥♥♥♥ 21:24, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early U.S. woman state legislators 

message: Hi, I'm developing Jacob Frank (an 18th-century European Jew who developed a religious movement called Frankism) as a mascot for Wikipedia's sister project Wikiversity.  Wikiversity aims to be an online open school and university, and was also created to host original research.  Because of its nature, it's open to educational resources in almost any format.  Wikiversity's mascots appear on User talk pages when new Users are welcomed.  In my opinion, the Wikiversity mascots could be used more fully as an opportunity to teach.  The previously developed Wikiversity mascots lack intrinsic educational value.  For example, they include a jack-o-lantern, a goat and twin babies not noticeably tied to anything else.  In contrast, Jacob Frank is tied to a chapter of history that is relatively little-known and is probably interesting to some people who might not have heard of him beforehand.  I'm also hoping to use his professed ignorance in real life and his doctrine of "purification through transgression" to introduce the Wikiversity policies of "Be bold" and "Ignore all rules" (Wikipedia has very similar policies with the same names).  I would appreciate your going over to Wikiversity to provide feedback on the pages about the mascot: v:User:JacobFrank and v:Template:JacobFrank.  The Template is left on new Users' talk pages; the Userpage is linked from the template and provides more information about Jacob Frank.  Also, any ideas for other Wikiversity mascots?  Thanks.  --AFriedman (talk) 04:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jacob Frank]] now a mascot for Wikipedia sister project Wikiversity 

message: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Catholic Church has opened to decide which of several versions of the article has consensus, and how best to develop it. Input is welcome. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 00:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic Church RfC 

message: Hello, I am needing some help and am not sure which board to go to.  I am needing help writing a condensed version of the History of Stephens City, Virginia.  I have tried and seriously failed.  I am trying to get the Stephens City, Virginia article up to Good Article status and the reviewers have said that the current history section, while very good, is just too darned long.  So my plan is to move the longer history section to History of Stephens City, Virginia and have a condensed version on the Stephens City, Virginia page.  I typically write radio station articles, so town/city history isn't my forté.  I tried asking for help at WP:CITIES, but that talk page hasn't seen any edits since March 24th.  I requested the help of a couple editors from WP:CITIES, but they didn't do much writing either.  Is there anyone who could help on this? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Stephens City, Virginia]] History 

message: In an attempt to get a project wide consensus and WP:MOS standard I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Capitalis(z)ation_of_ancient - eg the correct form of "Pottery of A/ancient Greece". Please contribute if possible.77.86.119.83 (talk) 21:38, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation of ancient 

message: There is a dispute as to whether Christ myth theory—an article about the theory that Jesus may not have existed as an historical figure—ought to be included in the "pseudohistory" category. Input would be appreciated. SlimVirgin talk contribs 01:56, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on [[Christ myth theory]] 

message: This is an article on a controversial book by a historian.  I do not have any major problem with the article, or its contents.  But thinking about it, I have problems with the structure that divides reactions to the book into "praise" versus "criticisms."  I have come here because I think this is an isue most professional historians have had to address one way or another.  Professional historians try to follow professional standards of scholarship, and judge one another's work according to these standards of scholarship.  But we all know that Americans love reading books on American history; English love reading about English history, Greeks love reading about greek history and so on - and if someone writes a book that seriously challenges one's national self-image, that person can be subjct to tremendous criticism, even death threats.  My point is that history books are often written (or published) with different interests or motives, and are judged by people with radically different interests an criteria.
Sections on "praise and criticism" - and I think this is true for many history books - often muddle this divide, the divide between people who judge a work purely on scholarchip grounds and people who judge it for other reasons.
I wrote a section on the talk page here raising this issue.  I'd appreciate it if any of you who get what I am talking about would read the article - it is pretty short - and consider commenting.  This is not so big a deal as to call for an RfC.   I would just like the views of historians who work in other parts of the world to comment, as they could comment more dispassionately and represent "history" as a scholarly field. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 13:16, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Invention of the Jewish People]] 

message: Hey everyone at WP History!!!! We just started a new history WikiProject dealing with Anglo-Saxon England between 410 and 1066. We really would like your help!!! Feel free to sign up on our Project page.
Also, Could someone help set up the 1.0 assessment stuff. Our savvy with bots, templates and stuff is rather limited (I am the most experienced editor in these issues, and the last time I tried, I made a goodly number of mistakes.) Thank you so much!!!
Sadads (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We figured out the assessment stuff but are still looking for interested editors! Sadads (talk) 02:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms|Wikiproject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms]] could use some help 

message: I would like to request assistance in evaluating the notability of the subject and its historical merits. The article is in its initial stages and clearly needs working on. I find that there is a substantial amount of information on the subject at hand but no stand-alone article in Wikipedia. Please feel free to join the article talk page. Link to the article's latest non-merged version. Thank you for your input! --Hittit (talk) 04:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persecution of Ottoman Muslims and Turks 1821-1922 

message: FYI, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World has been controversially merged into Gavin Menzies. An RfC has been opened on the issue, see Talk:1421: The Year China Discovered the World
70.29.208.247 (talk) 03:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1421: The Year China Discovered the World 

message: There's an AfD that's going on which could probably do with the help of a history expert. The problem is that there's an article which looks at first glance to be informative and reliable, but the only contribution has taken all the material from, and linked and referenced the article too, a book and website he wrote himself of questionable reliability. My instinct is to merge any verified bits of information into River Severn, but you might have a better idea of how to proceed. Thanks Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 12:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Disasters on the Severn]] 

message: I invite comments, questions and suggestions for the featured list candidacy of List of  National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials). The nomination page can be found here. bamse (talk) 20:42, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FLC National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials) 

message: I've updated my list of missing history topics - Skysmith (talk) 12:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Where might the activities of Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy fit?Metabaronic (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing history topics 

message: Looking at Template:Human_history, every era's link has some explanation of other parts of the world for each time period, except Middle Ages.  The Middle Ages needs to be expanded on other parts of the world or it should be a subgroup of another category.  Thanks, Marasama (talk) 16:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Ages only occurred in Europe and borders to Europe? 

message: In the absence of a "WikiProject Naval history" I've made Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy a child of WikiProject History. This group has been inactive and is need of overhauling (or keelhauling if it doesn't get off the ground). Any input will be helpful, particularly if it strengthens ties to its new parent.Metabaronic (talk) 11:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Piracy could use some help 

message: Grand overall historical timelines:
*Timeline of modern history
*Timeline of early modern history
*Timeline of the Middle Ages
*Timeline of ancient history
*Timeline of prehistory
are very incomplete and in need of major expansion. Help would be appreciated. Thank you. Serendipodous 09:24, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline help 

message: Unusual place for me to be but I've been asked by a friend who has a historian bio page to point something out. The current categories (such as Category:English historians) are very ambiguous to non-Wikipedians as they leave the reader in the dark if these are people studying English history or if these are historians who are ethnically English. At the very least, the Category pages need some line stating that.
Secondly the complaint from him and his colleagues is that it's a somewhat unhelpful category and that an additional one would make more sense to the reader that sorts historians by their chosen field (such as Historians of English history for example) as someone looking into, say, French history, won't find a list helpful of all the historians from France but rather one listing all the pepople studying this matter.
Both points may have been debated before but I couldn't see anything at a quick glance so I thought I'd bring it up. Akerbeltz (talk) 10:43, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "X Historians" Categories 

message: There is a disagreement on the History of painting talk page regarding the number of images within the article. I believe the majority of the 400 images need to be removed while other editors believe the article is fine as it is. Opinions appreciated. --auburnpilot talk 17:03, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of painting 

message: In the absence of activity at WikiProject Organisations, I am posting this request here. There is an ongoing debate [Talk:Independent Order of Odd Fellows|here] regarding the the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. This is a fraternal organisation established in 1819 as a breakaway from the Order of Oddfellows and is an oraganisation somewhat similar to the Freemasons. The debate involves the worth of including a list of regional grand lodges/jurisdictions in the article (or possibly broken out as a stand alone list) - the IOOF list is essentially the equivalent of General list of masonic Grand Lodges which has successfully survived two AfD attempts and is now existing quite happily. Ronz and a passing admin, JohnUniq, are arguing to get rid of it entirely, Pdfpdf and myself believe it is a worthwhile inclusion (noting that grand lodges are essentially headquarters for a large number of subordinate lodges). The debate is currently stagnating and has suffered from some personality conflicts which have distracted from the real issues. I think there is historic socio-cultural value in retaining the list and would appreciate it if some WikiProject History editors could drop by and offer further perspective on the relevance, or otherwise, of the list. Cheers AusTerrapin (talk) 21:21, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ongoing debate regarding Independant Order of Oddfellows 

message: Please see my proposal here and comment/vote.  Thanks, Slrubenstein   |  Talk 15:44, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed redirect of [[Ritual decalogue]] to [[Covenant code]] 

message: I hope to attract some attention here . I have written a comment on the introduction to 'Migration Period', and  also tried to submit a rephrasing, which unfortunately got reverted . There are a few factual mistakes in  the article, but the drift of the first introductory part is also to  emphasize ethnonyms + the unqualified term 'migration' . So a propos  historiography there is room for improvement . The comment is at the  talk-page, and a draft is here -> User:Sechinsic/migration01 . Sechinsic (talk) 06:29, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Migration Period]] & [[historiography]] 

message: Comments would be appreciated at an RfC about the best title for the Christ myth theory. See the discussion here. The article is about the theory that Jesus of Nazareth did not, or probably did not, exist as an historical being. Should it be moved from Christ myth theory to, for example, Jesus myth theory? SlimVirgin talk|contribs 23:17, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on [[Christ myth theory]] page name 

message: The template to open ahnentafels (ancestry tables) (Template:ahnentafel top) was changed last May to open all such tables on first viewing with an option to "Hide". The previous situation had been the reverse (a title bar with a link to "Show").
(1) Editors can now change the first appearance of an ahnentafel by adding "|collapsed=yes" to "ahnentafel top" (see Template:Ahnentafel top/doc.)
(2) I'm now taking a survey to see how many editors (or the editors of how many articles) would prefer to keep this situation, and how many would prefer to change the default so that editors who wanted to display a full ahnentafel on first sight would have to add "collapsed=no". 
Since over 2,500 articles (some of which would clearly benefit from one option and some from the other) use this template, a large sample of preferences would be very helpful in discussing which default to use.
Please indicate your preferences at Template talk:Ahnentafel top/Requested Comments 1. And let other editors know about this poll. Thanks. —— Shakescene (talk) 22:47, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment on  ahnentafel (ancestry) templates: an open and shut case 

message: I'm sure I'll get flamed for asking this but ...
In discussing another article an editor brought up the question of how the term Middle Ages (and by extension Medieval) should be used in Wikipedia. Essentially this is a question of consistency relating to geography (does the term Middle Ages by itself uniquely identify Latin Europe?). I'm sure this has probably gotten discussed before (has there been some resolution?). Though this term is most commonly used to refer to Latin Europe in literature, that usage is not unique. Some authors use the term to refer to other parts of Europe; some use it to include the Muslim world; some even use it to discuss the whole world (e.g. China in the Middle Ages). So the question is, when we use the term "Middle Ages" in Wikipedia, either in an article title or in the text, does that term uniquely identify Latin Europe or the term strictly referring to a time period? In other words if an article is talking about Europe in the Middle Ages, does it need to explicitly say Europe or does "Middle Ages" identify the geography (and by extension if an article is titled "foobar in the Middle Ages" is it reasonable to limit the topic to Latin Europe or does the title imply worldwide scope)?
I'm basically looking for guidance in terms of policy.
--Mcorazao (talk) 22:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Middle Ages" naming convention 

message: Hi, a discussion on the presentation of the Six-Day War at Preemptive war has been started in the talk page to the latter article. Please join in and comment. Thanks! Shoplifter (talk) 16:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preemptive war 

message: Was looking for a last fast look at the History of Canada article before i put it up for GA review. See if spelling is ok etc,,,Moxy (talk) 16:30, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Canada 

message: Fresh eyes would be appreciated on an RfC about whether, in using in-text attribution for sources on the Historicity of Jesus, we should include whether that source is an ordained minister or similar. See Talk:Historicity_of_Jesus#RfC_on_in-text_attribution. Many thanks, SlimVirgin talk|contribs 17:01, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on in-text attribution 

message: Not sure where to put this since I don't see a page for it.  WP surprisingly doesn't have a biography of the noted British historian Ralph Bennett (1911-2002).
67.122.211.178 (talk) 21:07, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  requested article 

message: A deletion discussion for a page within the scope of your project, List of largest empires, has been created.  You are welcome to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of largest empires (5th nomination).  Qwyrxian (talk) 01:13, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion Discussion 

message: I have created a new WikiProject related to history: WikiProject American Old West. We're discussing how much pop culture stuff (books, movies, TV shows, etc.) we should include in our scope. So my question is this: How much pop culture stuff is included in the scope of WikiProject History? The UtahraptorMy mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 21:23, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've thought about this issue in relation to Historical fiction and Historical novels. If you want your project to be a history project, then pop culture references would be a very minor part of it (see Annie Oakley for an example of an article, about a historical person, that includes a 'Pop culture' section). On the other hand, a project focused on American Old West mythology (or expanded to include both history and mythology) could include pop culture references as discrete articles. For instance, The Lone Ranger is not historical but definitely part of American Old West mythology. WCCasey (talk) 23:51, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pop culture is something of a ideological issue: if you limit everything you will end up chopping out valuable info, if you set no guidelines on it then people will turn 2/3rds of the article into pop culture references. For our part we include pop culture material when the material is known to have had an impact on culture or to have been a part of a well reported or well documented cultural phenomena. The extent to which you can borrow from us depends a little on the material being discussed, as noted above alot of the material you will end up covering will be in the mythos range more so than the pop culture range, so I would suggest trying to determine how you will tell the two apart from each other first, then move from there. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:57, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a little help resolving an issue 

message: There's a discussion here at files for deletion about whether we can claim fair use for a particular image from the Holocaust. J Milburn began it as a discussion about just one this image, but the same issues apply to most of the others we use too. Fresh eyes would be appreciated. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 14:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fair-use discussion about a Holocaust image 

message: Hi all —
A while back the British Isles article underwent a peer review. Most of the suggestions coming out of it have been implemented and IMO the article is approaching GA standard. This is an article that had been dogged by POV issues and in-fighting amongst its editors so the achievement of getting it to the standard it is in admirable for all involved. However, one major sticking point is referencing, which are appallingly sparse. There is no way the article could achieve GA as it stands on account of the state of referencing.
The task of fixing it up isn't impossible. There are about 30 paragraphs that need referencing. With enough editors, we would only need to take two or thee paragraphs each to get the job done. To that end, I've set up a "meitheal" page. The idea is for anyone who is willing to help out to take a paragraph at a time and to references just that paragraph. If you can do more than one then great. Just come back and take another one.
The meitheal page is here: Talk:British Isles/Meitheal. If you're willing to help out, just dig in.
Thanks,
--RA (talk) 17:39, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Isles Meitheal 

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thread_title:  History articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: Can someone please assess this article about a French explorer of colonial Louisiana in the 18th century? It would be appreciated. Thanks, Jsayre64 (talk) 03:10, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dumont de Montigny]] 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk: Notability (people)#Proposed addition: Diarists and correspondents. patsw (talk) 00:23, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at Wikipedia talk: Notability (people)#Proposed addition: Diarists and correspondents 

message: List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents) is currently a featured list candidate and looking for comments, questions or suggestions at the nomination page. Thanks. bamse (talk) 11:16, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured list candidate looking for comments 

message: There's presently a disagreement at Talk:Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon concerning the 1939 tour of Canada and the US she undertook with her husband. Additional input would be appreciated. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 12:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 

message: nominated Radhanite for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Jan 1922 (talk) 19:09, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radhanite at FAR 

message: I would like some input here, preferably from people engaged in the academic study of history, or at least with a good familiarity of said discipline.  Over at Talk:Historicity of Jesus, I'm being confronted with the notion that a "historian of religion" is not really a "historian", but a "religious studies scholar".  As a non-historian who is very familiar with the academic study of religion this idea confounds me greatly.  It is my perspective that religious studies is not a discipline but an interdisciplinary field populated by scholars who ostensibly all focus on the same general subject matter but do so by way of other disciplines ... like history.  Am I wrong about this?  I'm not a historian personally so I'm willing to accept that maybe I am.  Any input would be nice.  Thanks.Griswaldo (talk) 17:05, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Followup -- My interlocutor says that for someone to be considered a historian they have to publish in a "general historical journal", cited by others who do and/or have an appointment in an academic department that has "history" as its name.  Does anyone know what is meant by "general historical journal"?  Also would that mean that historians of the ancient world who are in classics or archeology departments are not "historians" properly understood?  Thanks again for any input here.Griswaldo (talk) 17:22, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Input requested 

message: Do you know this paper? If you want to read it, email me, I'll send you a copy. --Nemo 20:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias for accuracy, breadth, and depth in historical articles 

message: A discussion is being held about acceptable historical references here, and opinions from members of this project would be most welcome. Tom Reedy (talk) 21:19, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion request 

message: List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents) is currently a featured list candidate. It has so far received 3 support (and 0 oppose) votes. It needs a last look from someone before it can be promoted. I'd be very happy if somebody could have a look at it and leave comments, questions, suggestions and/or a vote ("support" or "oppose") on the nomination page. Otherwise it is in danger of failing. Thank you. bamse (talk) 20:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help with FLC 

message: Hi, we need more opinions on the Talk Pages (, ) of the articles Almoravid dynasty and Almohad Caliphate, thanx to those who come to participate. Regards--Morisco (talk) 17:35, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help on Almoravid dynasty and Almohad Caliphate 

message: A discussion is being held at Talk:China and Talk:Cradle of civilization regarding a recent report about the writing system of China, its age and whether China is the world's oldest civilization. Input would be welcome.--The Taerkasten (talk) 11:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We really need input at this discussion. This project doesn't seem to be active.--The Taerkasten (talk) 12:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cradle of civilization 

message: I am quite fond of categories like military history, political history, and so on. But what about former countries? I just created, filling the gaps, the :Category:Political history of the Ottoman Empire (noting that :Category:Military history of the Ottoman Empire) so I could properly categorize some articles that were in the categories of Politics of the OE and History of the OE. But then a thought struck me: which part of the politics of the OE is not in its political history already? Which part of military of the OE is not part of its military history already? With continuing entities, the recent, continuing entities and events are outside the categorization realm of historical categories (as far as I understand it). But with historical entities, this logic fails, and this also renders the distinction between categories such as Politics of the OE and Political history of the OE moot. Am I wrong? Is there any justification for the :Category:Political history of the Ottoman Empire? Should an article that is in the category Politics of the OE and History of the OE remain in them, or be reclassified into the Category:Political history of the Ottoman Empire ? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  17:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History by type for former countries - overkill? 

message: WikiProject Dacia is looking for supporters, editors and collaborators for creating and better organizing information in articles related to Dacia and the history of Daco-Getae. If interested, PLEASE provide your support on the proposal page. Thanks!!--Codrinb (talk) 05:10, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Dacia 

message: The article seems to dance around calling him an Annale historian. Is there genuine historiographic doubt about this, or just that the article isn't written as well as it could be? Our article on Annales School mentions him prominently, so one or other needs fixing. --Dweller (talk) 11:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]] 

message: There is an ongoing discussion that needs expert input.  There are editors claiming that historians of religion, unless employed by a department of history specifically, are not really "historians".  The same is true, evidently, regarding ancient historians, who again, are do not have appointments in departments of history.  The dispute arose when editors began to claim that Paula Fredriksen is not a proper "historian".  I was under the impression that she was one of the most renowned living historians of ancient Christianity, but apparently I'm wrong because she is a "historian of religion" without an appointment in a department of history.  Any input would be helpful.  See Talk:Historicity_of_Jesus#NPOV_tag.  Thanks greatly.Griswaldo (talk) 17:33, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I'm being told this - "I have taken a look at the AHA article and at the organization's homepage. They are not an association of professional historians. They even include students, school teachers, public historians, and about anyone else who would apply and pay the membership fees. That's it."  Please help!Griswaldo (talk) 17:44, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a dangerous trend. Does that mean Gordon Prange or Clay Blair aren't historians? Or Keegan? Or Tony Preston? Or Ned Beach? Yoiks!  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  03:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historians of religion and 'historians proper" 

message: There is a discussion at Talk:American Revolutionary War#Only war Britain lost that may be of interest to project members. I can't imagine that this issue has not come up before. Any reliable sources on the issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 00:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was the American Revolutionary War the only war Britain ever lost? 

message: I have drafted a blueprint for a Template:History of People's Republic of Poland; you can find it in my sandbox. I'd like to have your opinion about the usefulness of it, the eventual reduction in the number of items or in an horizontal way. Generally speaking I think such a template would be useful, as I was striving today to make a sense between the different polish uprising during the cold war.--Dans (talk) 18:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template: History of People's Republic of Poland 

message: An editing dispute at Talk:Black Legend (in which I am involved) requires extra eyes form people who know Spanish history and colonial history in general.·Maunus·ƛ· 20:15, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Black Legend]] 

message: The abovementioned file is incorrect, as it represents neutral states (Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria) as being in the Western field, while correctly points out the autonomous position of Yugoslavia and Albania in the socialist field. The correct file to use would be the second one, which is nevertheless way less used. Can somebody please advise on how to proceed?--Dans (talk) 19:27, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, especially taking in consideration that right map is stated to be source for derivation of left map which obviously is wrong and can mislead the readers. Unfortunately, I am not experienced enough to give you advice how to proceed.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  It appears to me that the wrong map is the source of the correct one; but the substance does not change. I've alerted Commons village pump --Dans (talk) 22:19, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, you are again right.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  File:EiserneVorhang.png 

message: has expanded the WP:FURTHERREADING section at the end of History of Germany until it now contains more than one hundred (100) publications—ten times what the community usually thinks is an acceptable size.  Many of the publications are specific to short time periods.  His stated purpose is to provide a directory of "the scholarship". 
If editors here, who doubtless have more knowledge of the subject than I do, would please take a look to figure out what should stay, what should be moved to other articles, and what should simply be removed, I'd appreciate it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:23, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Germany 

message: Hi
I ask considering it now seems common practice by professional historians and universities to use BCE/CE in favour over BC/AD, should Wikipedia hold a community wide poll to gain consensus if we should do the same i.e. a) community wide usage of only BCE/CE or b) the current status quo.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.81.225 (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  BCE/CE over BC/AD 

message: Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as , , ...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place  (or worse ), now you can simply use , likewise for  and  → .
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
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Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:56, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Citation#Implementation|Citation templates now support more identifiers]] 

message: Is this article a candidate for potential deletion, or else merging somewhere. Or is anyone able to reference/expand the article? Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 13:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Planisme]] 

message: This article started out with the title "Jews and money" and was almost simultaneously retitled Economic history of the Jews and put up for deletion.  This sums up its problems in a nutshell: User:Mathsci/example.  Here is the AfD page.  Given its new title, the expertise of WP's historians would be welcome. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 16:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Economic history of the Jews]] 

message: There are numerous references to different revisionist historians in the Historiography of the French Revolution (English) site, and these need to be further expanded on. As I mentioned on that article's discussion page, revisionism is a very broad term, used simply to, at a basic level, refer to reinterpretation, critical or otherwise, of a history or a historical event. It would be useful if several users contributed further to this article by elaborating on particular uses of the term 'revisionist' in this context, particularly pertaining to individual historians.
Furthermore, there is a slant towards featuring more English/American historians than French historians, on this specific page. The addition of other historians of French or otherwise European nationality would perhaps provide a fuller picture of French Revolution historiography over the last two centuries.Kfodderst (talk) 08:28, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Revisionism" clarification in French Revolution Historiography 

message: The Qadi article concerns a judge, in islamic jurisprudence. However, after reading through a few sources, it seems that the kadı in the ottoman empire had quite a complex role which went beyond that of a judge; they were also involved in taxation and local administration &c. (This kind of feature-creep seems to have happened to several other elements of Ottoman officialdom which were inherited from conquered territories). At the moment, several Ottoman articles have piped links from Kadı to Qadi; I'm thinking of flattening those piped links and writing a new article devoted to the kadı-as-an-ottoman-official. Of course, the two articles could get appropriate hatnotes. Does that sound reasonable? Any comments/feedback from the WikiProject History community? bobrayner (talk) 16:35, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kadi / Qadi 

message: I am trying to prevent a potential edit war at Española, New Mexico and am hoping that you have some guidelines that can just resolve the issue.  Which is;  (this is my version of the issue.  There might be others) in the History section of the article, one editor thinks that since the city was really founded in the 1880s the section should start there.  Another editor feels that the history from the 1600s, which both editors agree needs to be included, should be presented first.  Can anyone help out?  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:30, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is obviously a problem here, then, with differing levels of opinion in regards to its history. The best thing to do is to avoid WP:UNDUE and instead focus on what is so far historically backed up. There may need to be agreement, for instance, on a certain date or era, with a single section preceding under the general title of "Pre-1880", etc. or something of the sort. Presenting all its history under a large subtitle would help, with individual sections coming under this subtitle; this would simultaneously enable a chronological relating of the information, and thus solve this conflict. Kfodderst (talk) 06:30, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  a little help, please 

message: As pointed out on the Marie Antoinette discussion page, there is far too much dependence on Fraser's biography. 
I have personally included some references to Lever (English-translated, so not entirely as weighty as the French version, but nonetheless, it holds) and even Hibbert, although the latter is somewhat debatable, and I am investigating personally a few points of contradiction brought up by his text. In any case, with that in mind:
Other sources available to be incorporated and consequently cited include: Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin (who recently passed away, unfortunately), Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before the French Revolution & Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution by Nesta Webster, Memoirs of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan herself, What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber, and even from other books such as Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution and William Doyle's Oxford History of the French Revolution.
These are of course only as a start - but there is really no excuse to be so heavily dependent on Fraser's biography, especially because that is very subjective, sympathetic and at times controversial. The article also doesn't make much of von Fersen, who is on the contrary very important, and I've dropped in him in several edits at several key points. 
What also needs to be worked on is the heavy specificity of detail in some areas, and then the absence of any detail at all in others. Kfodderst (talk) 08:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marie Antoinette - Fraser Dependence 

message: These few incidents should be included into the Marie Thérèse of France article. Some references to aid writing a section for this: The Dark Count by Ludwig Bechstein, The Mystery of Hildburghausen by Brachvogel and Nevtelen Var (The Nameless Castle in English) by Jokai Mor for purporting the theory; in contrast, and a nice summary/overview, which dismantles the theory rather effectively, was done by Sophie Nagel in her book on Marie-Therese, Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter. The inclusion should be done as soon as possible. I will be able to contribute as well, but maybe not immediately. If anyone has anymore references/sources or information, please mention them here so they can be included into the article. Kfodderst (talk) 08:36, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hildburghausen and Castle Eishausen Theories 

message: Why is the Middle Ages listed as a specific time period when that page talks nothing about the rest of the world.  The page specifically talks about Europe and any associated Islamic nation that had conflict with.  It's like the rest of the world does not exist.  I check the other periods of time Earliest Recoreds, Antiquity, Early modern, Modern, & Contemporary, they talk about the rest of the world.  I wrote once and the responces was it was the mark when the fall of Roman empire.  When the Mongal empire fell, there is no specific period in history dedicated to that (and it affect more nations than the fall of Rome).  So how is the Middle Ages dedicated to Europe.  I find this very bias.  So either there are more things happenning around the world or I feel this (Middle Ages) should be move to a sub-area of another time period.  Thanks, Marasama (talk) 15:41, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because - and the page itself says this - the Middle Ages was a period of time in Europe. Medieval redirects there, too: primarily, it refers to Europe. Kfodderst (talk) 07:11, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Ages - bias towards European history 

message: Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of questions, if I may.
How do you ensure that a history article is neutral?
Could you say that history articles are neutral enough that one can learn history from Wikipedia without much doubt?
Thanks! Ilias K., Greece 19:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, if it doesn't violate WP:UNDUE, in a Wikipedia sense. But really, if it provides a clear picture of all sides, with views held by the majority of historians, etc. You can also check by getting a Peer Review done, or even getting an Academic Peer Review. Kfodderst (talk) 07:12, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article neutrality 

message: I've nominated the India page for an FAR.  Its History and Culture sections needs work.  Please help improve it.  Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  India at FAR 

message: Culture.si This is a portal by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia with over 2000 articles about Slovene culture. The text is under the same license as Wikipedia; you have to atrivute the source. Just wanted to let you know about this. --U5K0 (talk) 13:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture.si - 2000+ free text articles 

message: Hi, I normally review FAC and MILHIST-A.  As a result of RS/N discussion I came here to see if this project's review culture was vital, fostering, rewarding, content improving and encyclopaedia improving.  HISTORY-A reviews seem to be stalled as of 2009.  Anyone know what happened? Fifelfoo (talk) 05:12, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't, and it's a bit of a puzzle ... a lot of great history articles pass through FAC, and I'd be happy to help, but as Gertrude Stein said, there's no "there there".  Perhaps we ask the successful history-related wikiprojects if some kind of A-class review would be helpful for their goals? - Dank (push to talk) 12:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviewing culture: HISTORY-A appears to be stalled. 

message: I invite comments, questions and suggestions for the featured list candidacy of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others). The nomination page can be found here. Thanks. bamse (talk) 00:31, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been listed as Nominations urgently needing reviews, meaning that it is in danger of failing because of a lack of reviews. So far it has received one "support" vote (no "oppose") while three votes is considered to be the minimum for success. Hopefully a member of this wikiproject will have time for a review. You'd need to do the following: Check this list for these criteria and leave your comments (together with a "Support"/"Oppose" vote) here. Thanks a lot! bamse (talk) 21:05, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  FLC of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others) 

message: Hello,
I am working with the Account Creation Improvement Project (my latest report is here). Now I need your help to find some easy things for newcomers to do. 
To guide the new users into working on the articles, we have created a step-by-step process that starts right after the new user has provided a username and a password. Here is the first step. If you click on "history", for instance, you go to a page where you are asked to state your skills. And based on your choice there, you go to a page that combines these two choices. Here is what it looks like if you choose copyediting.
Right now, that list of articles that needs copyediting in the field of history, has been created manually by a rather small set of users. That is not a scalable solution. Especially considering that these articles could very well be edited by the time we have created all the lists.
That's why my question to you in WikiProject history is if you could create four templates for each of the four skillsets: Copyediting, Research & Writing, Fact checking, and Organizing - and keep them updated? We could then transclude those templates in the account creation process.
This is probably one of the most efficient things you can do in this project. Yes, really! There are roughly 5-7000 new users - each day. Around 30% of them start to edit. So if only a sixth of them sees the history templates, that's around 250 potential new editors in your field - each day. Possibly more. And they want and need something easy to do. Some of them will continue to edit if they think that the tasks are fun and they are welcomed into the project.
So, what do you say about those templates?
I will gladly answer any questions you may have about this question or the project. Best wishes//Hannibal (talk) 16:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you help the newcomers with some easy tasks? 

message: People watching this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:British Canada (1763–1867)#Request for comment about title. Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 05:21, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about title of Canadian history article 

message: There's a dispute about using Chinese scholarship relating to the Boxer Rebellion at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard.  Some third opinions from any editors who are familiar with this area, especially using non-English sources and balancing opposing/fringe POVs, or with Chinese history in particular, would be very helpful.  Ocaasi t | c 21:37, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boxer Rebellion at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard 

message: Is WikiProject History in danger of being labeled Historical? This page is inactive and only retained for historical reference.
People are posting, people are trying to drum up some teamwork and collaboration to deal with the sprawling hellscape of weak articles in history, lord knows I've tried; but there isn't much going on here.  WikiProject History's collaboration of the month is listed as October...possibly an October from the previous decade. 
So much needs to be done, articles need improving, content forks need merging.  Wikipedia's coverage of 19th century history and earlier, especially history outside of the United States, is in desperate need of attention, and it's much too daunting for one editor, even two or three. 
Would anyone be interested in collaboration on the following?
 
Articles in need of improvement: 
* Boxer Rebellion - more references and historical context needed 
* Boxer Protocol 
* Shandong Problem - needs expansion with more sources 
* Qing dynasty 
* Racial equality - barely a stub! 
* Cuban War of Independence 
* Latin American Muslims
* Blacks_in_Latin_America 
* Race and ethnicity in Latin America rambling footnotes should be...?
* Mexican War of Independence 
* Afro-Mexicans in the Mexican War of Independence - in awful shape, a stub with no lead 
* Nicaraguan Revolution - fairly disorganized, with the relevant history of the conflict spread over multiple articles 
Articles for creation: see list in my userspace for suggestions
Other editors are often telling me  and this is my best effort... Please see this post as an opportunity for history article-collaboration, for rebirth of WikiProject History.  --NickDupree (talk) 00:44, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nick, many of these one could also ask at the corresponding country or region wikiproject talk page. For instance Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China seems more active, though I concede Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mexico looks pretty quiet...as does Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latin America :/ Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:19, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject History, in danger of being labeled Historical? 

message: Hi! I nominated List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Chinese books) at featured list candidates and would be very happy if somebody could have a look at it, checking for these criteria and leaving questions/comments/suggestions and possibly a vote (support/oppose) on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse (talk) 19:55, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been listed as Nominations urgently needing reviews, meaning that is in danger of failing the nomination because of a lack of reviews. Hopefully somebody will find the time to do a review of it. bamse (talk) 16:54, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  FLC of List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Chinese books) 

message: Hi! I nominated List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books) at featured list candidates and would be very happy if somebody could have a look at it, checking for these criteria and leaving questions/comments/suggestions and possibly a vote (support/oppose) on the nomination page. Thanks. bamse (talk) 10:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese books National Treasures 

message: We could really use some thoughtful and well-informed comments here. Thanks. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 11:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC at [[Yeshu]] 

message: Comments are invited on the discussion page for subject article about California Historical Landmark #968 and alleged duplication of coverage in articles about historic aircraft using the site.Thewellman (talk) 15:53, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[China Clipper flight departure site]] 

message: RfC at Talk:Kingdom_of_Sardinia#Request_for_Comment_of_August_2011 regarding Italian/European history, particularly Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont-Sardinia.   Any help would be appreciated. --Noleander (talk) 06:07, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC regarding Kingdom of Sardinia 

message: Colleagues -- Articles on academic journals often show a kind of official abbreviation like Soc. Sci. Hist. and J. Econ. Hist. and Technol. Cult. in the infobox. I've proposed that there also be space in the infobox for the abbreviations more commonly used in history and the social sciences like SSH and JEH and T&C. There is opposition to adding space for such acronyms, partly on the basis that they are not official and not informative. Your views are welcome at the proposal. -- Econterms (talk) 09:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox journal#Draft proposal regarding journal abbreviations|proposal regarding journal abbreviations]] 

message: There is an RFC on the addition of identifier links to citations by bots. Please comment. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:58, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC on identifiers 

message: Please see Economic history of China before 1911, where there is a discussion on the economy of China over the last 2 millennia, and the accuracy of the description used in this article, China and Asia. See also Talk:China and Talk:Asia for related discussions. 
70.24.244.20 (talk) 15:02, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economic history of China before 1911 

message: There is a poll taking place here on whether or not to extend the ArbCombinding resolution, which says there may be no page move discussions for Ireland, Republic of Ireland or Ireland (disambiguation), for a further two years. Fmph (talk) 20:11, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poll on ArbCom resolution - Ireland article names 

message: Can anyone point me to the policy or consensus on how to mark historical dates depending on the technical context of the article? I can't seem to find it anywhere. Niluop (talk) 23:31, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been discussed quite a lot over the years; what does WP:MOSNUM currently say? - Dank (push to talk) 23:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you Dank. The policy currently states that neither is preferred over the other. I found some old discussions on the matter, but did not see any resolutions. Still, it appears that editors, even admins, feel strongly about making it one or the other. Niluop (talk) 01:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW, many writers write "BC" but pronounce it "before the Christian era" these days ... so all the arguments about "BCE" have had the effect of making BC less biased.  For "AD", you can often get away with writing nothing at all ... "in the year 43". - Dank (push to talk) 01:41, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date System (BC/AD or BC/BCE) 

message: WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011.
I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.  
One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge.  For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos to the NRHP county lists of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites that are related to the War of 1812."  To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).
Any and all contributions appreciated.
Smallbones (talk) 02:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest]] 

message: There's a proposal to adjust one of the main section titles used in "Wikipedia's contents", which will affect the order in which the section titles are presented.  See Portal talk:Contents#Proposal for main section title adjustment. The Transhumanist 02:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to change a section title 

message: After a two-year ban imposed by Arbcom, a page move discussion for the Republic of Ireland can be entertained.
* (Discuss)–Republic of Ireland →Kauffner (talk) 08:08, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Open Ireland page move discussion 

message: I am wondering if this WikiProject is currently active, as things seem to be moving rather slowly.
I am a member of WikiProject Military history, and wondered if this is equally busy.  I was a little surprised to see that one of the A-class review requests dates back to 2009, but maybe the process was discontinued.  Could anyone provide me with more information, as I am interested in becoming an active member of this project?
Thanks, DCItalk 21:51, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active 

message: Hi! I'm a new page patroller and ran across this new page.  It's in fairly bad shape right now and could use some TLC from experienced editors who also know something of the field.  From what I'm seeing, it looks like the information currently contained in the a article could fit into other articles more appropriately.  I can see how this could possibly warrant its own article but this is admittedly far from my area of expertise.  I could use some more eyes on the article if any of you have time.  If you have any advice for me, I'd appreciate it if you could leave it on my talk page or leave me a TB if you want to continue talking here as I'm not going to put this page on my watchlist. OlYeller21Talktome 14:15, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[History of scholarship]] 

message: Hello, I'm just here to advise of a standardised succession table I've recently created. See  for more info. Hope it comes in handy. ClaretAsh 13:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardised succession table 

message: There is debate at Talk:Miguel, Crown Prince of Portugal about the reliability of sources, etc.
If any members of this project have knowledge about Portuguese 14th Century history, your input would be much appreciated. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portuguese historians needed... 

message: Recently, the article History of Pottery in the Southern Levant was moved to History of Pottery in Palestine. It had been under the title History of Pottery in the Southern Levant for around 5 years, and it had been my understanding that this was in order to keep the article NPOV. I am currently in a dispute with the editor who moved the page on the article talk page and was wondering if anyone would be able to assist regarding the proper naming of the article. Thanks Drsmoo (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming Dispute over History of Pottery in the Southern Levant