Talk:List of conflicts by duration

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Would be valuable to have beginning and end of war is two separate columns to allow to order using those dates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.157.75.235 (talk) 05:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Finished as per request. AndreyKva (talk) 23:14, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Series of wars

Just want to know what people think. Should series of wars (with breaks in between) be counted or not? Personally, I believe they shouldn't. I think this article should be about the longest periods of uninterrupted armed conflict between at least two parties. AndreyKva (talk) 00:18, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think for the most part they shouldn't but series which are referred to as a single war (mainly just thinking about the Hundred Years' War) should. 74.93.73.62 (talk) 00:48, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Germanic Wars?

Come on, people, seriously? This is kind of silly. Is there really a point in listing this as the longest "war" in history? There are many things problematic with this. First, it begins with an obscure and poorly documented attack on a then very peripheral area to the Roman world (the supposed Germanic raid on Olbia in Crimea in 220 BC, which wasn't even part of the Republic until over a century and a half later, and even in the later empire was on the edges and ruled by Bosporan client kings). Then nothing happens for over a hundred years and suddenly the Germanics show up again and the "war" re-ignites? Even if we were to start with the more well-known Cimbrian War, we can hardly call these largely disparate conflicts between Rome and various Germanic speaking tribes, many of which weren't that friendly with each other, a single war or conflict. Germanic tribes is such a broad term encompassing so many people that it can be used very loosely. It is true that the events of the Migration Period were more closely interrelated and had a big impact on the fall of Rome and the birth of medieval Europe, but the Germanic speakers were not a unified people and various tribes had different agendas, some serving as allies of Rome. Romans didn't even have a clear picture of which barbarians to the north of them were Germanic and which were Celtic or something else, and sometimes got peoples mixed up or just lumped them together, which adds more problems to this concept. Word dewd544 (talk) 06:41, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Minimum Length

Personally, I don't think wars that lasted less than ~50 years are notable enough to be on this list. Is there a defined minimum length yet? 74.93.73.62 (talk) 00:58, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reconquista?

Has anyone bothered reading the linked article? It was not a period of continuous war, and certainly not a single conflict between Cristians and Muslims (most of the time there were alliances between kingdoms of different religions, as well as fighting between kingdoms of the same religion). It should not be here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.76.89.51 (talk) 10:48, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Date Formatting/Sortability

The dates on this list should really be formatted using the DTS template standard, as this should allow rows to be sorted by individual date columns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohaq (talk • contribs) 15:04, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I've now added sortable dates to these columns. I've also disabled sorting on the Duration column, as the alphanumeric sort here resulted in a nonsense sort. There are ways to add a hidden sort value to this however, which should be explored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohaq (talk • contribs) 00:09, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Second update: I threw together some regular expressions and figured out how to quickly do the above too. There were some issues with wars that crossed the BCE/AD point, requiring manual numerical inputs, but it works. Rohaq (talk) 01:04, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]