Talk:Analysis of Western European colonialism and colonization

message: Hi , you did quite the overhaul of this page. It's impressive. Here are some suggestions and critical comments for improvement.
* The lead section could probably be a bit longr and descriptive for such an in depth page. What are some of the major insights?
* The page seems relatively Africa-centric and in future could be developed to be a bit more global. Though there are many global elements.
* I would have liked to see you link to your classmates' page on Why Nations Fail when your discuss Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson work
* Did Mamdani categorize between settler and exploitative colonialism? I don;t recall that, but of course it's possible. I have to admit I don't like the categories much. Settlers could easily be exploitative (witness Southern Africa).
* The See Also section could be better
* Really I am impressed with this article and don't have nearly as many critical comments as for others I have evaluated.
Chrisblattman (talk) 01:29, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  General comments 

message: "Impact and evaluation of" seems unencyclopedic and pointless. Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:22, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Western European colonialism and colonization]] 

message: No mention of Christianity, that was one of the greatest legacies of colonialism.--Inayity (talk) 04:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  And what About Religion? 

message: Only talking about the Western European colonial powers is arbitrary, and ignores the very similar colonial empires of Japan and the USA. The article doesn't benefit from such a narrow focus, and I can't really see there being much downside to including the aforementioned countries. While I see that there are enormous differences between Western European colonialism and say, Russian or Turkish imperialism, the geographic specificness really doesn't do many favours. 130.56.79.28 (talk) 05:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This should really be changed from 'Western European Colonialism' to 'Modern Period Colonialism' 

message: Firstly, 'evaluation of' implies a non-neutral point of view, and is manifestly inappropriate for an encyclopaædia. The only articles that should appear on Wikipedia with a title that contains 'evaluation of' are articles that describe the process of evaluating something, such as Evaluation of machine translation, and evaluations of issues are, by their nature, biased.
The "impact of" was retained in the title because this article focuses only on the impacts of colonialism & colonisation, and does not attempt to recount/describe events that occurred, etc.
Finally, "colonization" was changed to "colonisation" in keeping with the 'consistency within articles' principles of Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English as the article's body is written in British English, not American English.
This is a rather conservative move; the more radical proposals on this page should be debated before any move attempted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickc8 (talk • contribs) 09:19, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Article moved

message: I added a section on the different varieties of colonialism in order to discuss their different impacts. I will be adding a section on Exploitation Colonialism to this same heading next. Crcarey (talk) 22:27, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding new sections 

message: Why both colonialism and colonization? There is no colonialism and colonization article. Yes, Colonization=/=Colonialism, but in the European context, we talk of colonialism (see the disambig note on that page) so shouldn't this be moved to a simpler title at Western European colonialism? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:19, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The distinction is not an important one for an article of this scope.—Brigade Piron (talk) 10:45, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Since nobody else cares to comment, I think we can move it. But perhaps even simpler - European colonialism? I don't think we need to distinguish it from the pretty mucn non-existent Eastern European colonialism? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:45, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know: I can see the rationale behind the "Western" part in the title to distinguish it from the European forms of colonialism originating in the East (Russian Empire/Habsburg Empire for example): that would probably merit a move discussion. I think you could probably go ahead and cull the "colonization" part now though. —Brigade Piron (talk) 17:21, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name