Talk:Outline of the history of the United States/Archive 1
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MOS
I appreciate the efforts put into this, but please try to follow the WP:MOS. We don't use ISO-style dates in prose (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd), and we don't link dates anymore either. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:25, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
- Also, the improper use of hyphens couple with the ISO dates means that we have nearly incomprehensible date ranges: "1849-05-03-1850-09-09" Dabomb87 (talk) 00:27, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
Projects
WP History and US enough or US history? have added despite inactive state SatuSuro 13:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Enquiry?
The wikipedia History main page states that the term history comes from the Greek historia (ἱστορία), "an account of one's inquiries,". This article doses not reflect that (Wikipedia) definition. There is not much enquiry going on here, more of a eulogy. For instance, one of the main threads in (early) US history was the mass ethnic cleansing, displacement, and acts of genocide against the native americans. There can be disagreement about the morality of these events, but there can be no disagreement about their _importance_ in US history. Yet there is zero mention of this episode: this is a major flaw in this article. Surely there are a few scholars in US history (I am not such an expert) that could fill this important gap in the article? Hopefully they can do so without fear? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmurnion (talk • contribs) 20:40, 6 December 2011 (UTC)