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Romanticism and Revolution at AfD

Please offer opinions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romanticism and Revolution. -- Banjeboi 15:22, 17 February 2010 (UTC

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Public history

Category:Public history, which is under the purview of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:09, 14 March 2010

Judaism and political radicalism: needs review

I've just taken a look at the Judaism and political radicalism article: it seems to me to be full of unsourced opinion and conclusion-drawing, and very light on references to reliable sources. If anyone could cast an eye over it, I'd be grateful. -- The Anome (talk) 11:12, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I will be improving it.RRD13 (talk) 07:29, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is a WP:OR that should be deleted. Pluto2012 (talk) 19:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

David Littman (historian)

There is a controversy on the talk page to see if David Littman can or cannot be qualified as Historian. Could some uninvolved contributor try to solve the issue ? Pluto2012 (talk) 11:28, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Istrian exodus

There is a long standing edit/POV war on the topic between two editors, which are basically the only ones currently involved in the article. I am trying to mediate and I managed to get full page protection, but I am not an expert on the topic or subject matter. I would be glad if someone interested can put the talk page on their watchlist, have a look at the previous and current discussions and try to help getting consensus for edits that are and will be proposed. The article needs a lot of eyes. Many thanks! --cyclopia ^speak! 19:53, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul of subjects related to mummification

I am currently undertaking the massive task to improve the article on mummification. It lost "good article" status in 2008 and there has been very little done to bring it back up to standard. In doing this, I have also noticed many other articles related to this subject that are sorely lacking. I have added them to my list of articles to improve once the the main article overhaul has completed. I would definitely welcome any suggestions/feedback/collaboration on this project. I have a done/to-do list on my userpage if anyone would like to see it. Thanks in advance! Saint Soren (talk) 06:09, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed restrictions on styles & titles of former royals

A proposal is now pending to !vote to ban use of titles, honorifics and styles historically associated with titled members of no longer reigning families or to require that wherever such titles are mentioned in a Wikipedia bio, article or template that a disclaimer must be attached informing the reader that the title/style is not legal or is a courtesy title only. You may read opinions and express your views here. FactStraight (talk) 23:07, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RFC at Teenage pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy isn't likely on your list, but I have just started a history-related RFC at Talk:Teenage pregnancy#RFC on including or excluding Mary, Mother of Jesus there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:04, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A request for help in getting an interesting project started.

Over on Wikiversity I am prototyping WikiChronos in my userspace.

The idea is to write a Wikivoyage like travel guide page for various Historical destinations!

(I.e Wikivoyage is Travel Guide, so WikiChronos is a 'time-travel' guide!)

This might need a lot research, so I would therefore appreciate the co-operation of WP:History in getting the project started, and in helping to write the articles. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:16, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed with the End of history

Currently, End of history is a disambiguation page. I believe that the concept of there being an "end of history" (i.e. the development of a stable political/economic/social state such that major change no longer occurs) is the primary topic of the term, and have begun a draft at Draft:End of history. This being a bit outside my field, I would appreciate any help in making a complete and thorough article of it. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:09, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been featured

Hello,
Please note that Recorded history, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
_{Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 01:00, 16 December 2013 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team}[reply]

gun control rfc

The following RFC may be of interest to members of this board. Talk:Gun_control#Authoritarianism_and_gun_control_RFC Gaijin42 (talk) 16:40, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Debt inheritance

Color me shocked, but I was just failed by Wikipedia for the first time in many years. I couldn't find an article on Debt inheritance. I know it used to be commonplace during the Middle Ages as a way of keeping people in serfdom, but was made illegal as one of the foundations of American ethics (as a way of abolishing the aristocracy), which then spread to the rest of the first world. But I don't know enough to write an article about it, and I couldn't find any information on Wikipedia. Is there some article that exists that I couldn't find that Debt inheritance should be a redirect to? Or did I really stumble across an article that doesn't exist, but should? Thanks. --Cyde Weys 22:04, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, Wikipedia really doesn't seem to have any information on the various debt inheritance schemes that existing from the Middle Ages through the Colonial Era. I'm not aware of any key volumes on the subject. I guess if you were to write anything about it, the article on inheritance looks like a good place to put it. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:40, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on perspective, I think. In premodern societies some debts and obligations weren't really personal so much as they were seen as obligations of a family, village, or another group of people. The use of a personal monetary debt as a tool to create a lifelong labour commitment is a rather modern view - a number of premodern societies wouldn't have seen any need to involve such a tool, as if you lived in village X then you were obliged to give part of your harvest to Lord X (or to the king's agent), and that's that. I won't pretend that our coverage of premodern economies is good - we don't even have articles on aspects of land tenure that shaped the lives of a billion people, even though we have coverage of every pokemon - just saying that perspective can make a difference here. bobrayner (talk) 00:10, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stab-in-the-back myth

Eyes needed here. An editor is pushing a POV counter to standard histories of post-World War I Europe. BMK: Grouchy Realist (talk) 07:17, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Am sorry, but that is a blatant lie. Well established sources have been presented to amend three incorrect pieces of information that were, themselves, POV pushing (further sources can be provided). Ken was asked to take this dispute to the talkpage (diff and thus far has not done so despite my posting (diff). However, further opinion is very much welcome since this dispute appears to be in deadlock.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 07:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Further investigation show that this POV editor is pushing a theory based on a single journal article. This is a case of WP:FRINGE. BMK: Grouchy Realist (talk) 08:16, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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RFC

Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — LlywelynII 13:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent Clean Up Needed

Just hit Persecution of Traditional African Religion while doing some WP:NPP and it is a mess. The subject is notable but the article is closer to an angry op-ed piece than a scholarly encyclopedic entry. It desperately needs attention from someone with some background in African and religious history who can throw a little balance into it -Ad Orientem (talk) 06:10, 31 January 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Category:Pseudohistorians has been proposed for deletion again.

Category:Pseudohistorians has been proposed for deletion again. Anyone interested in commenting can do so here. __ E L A Q U E A T E 06:54, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DRN

Assistance request. There is a DRN which has run away before a volunteer took it on at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Puerto Rico.

The issue revolves around including sourced material in the article narrative. -- Whether to allow both sides of a controversy into the article introduction -- how PR is "unincorporated" and "incorporated" as alternately sourced. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 16:29, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hi,

I written article about history of Slovenia in Finnish Wikipedia. I have one little problem: my source book said that Habsburg Monarchy was called Austrian Empire in official documents already in 1711, but all others sources said that change happens 1804 or 1806. Is my book totally wrong or is here something that I just can't dig up? Najboljši (talk) 20:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And please, could you post your answers to my fi-wiki talkpage. Just press button called "Lisää Aihe". Title is named for "Otsikko" and Save page is "Tallenna sivu". Thank you. Najboljši (talk) 20:24, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recorded history in the age of written writing

Isn't the topic "recorded history" a misnomer? Shouldn't the topic, if included, explain to your gentle reader that history is the use of records? 72.81.180.161 (talk) 19:16, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Opium Wars

FYI, a level-4 vital history article is to be reformatted, see talk:Opium Wars for the information on what was decided. -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 19:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]