Talk:Eighty Years' War (1566–1609)

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Ereunetes in topic Lede

Lede

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This is a voluminous article with a 60 kB size. But it lacks a proper lede. I'll call the editor. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 10:21, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Apparently the editor did not answer :-) But your point is well-taken. I'll try to expand the lede. I am sure my draft will be edited, if others see things differently.--Ereunetes (talk) 19:11, 30 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 21:20, 25 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Eighty Years' War (1566–1609)The first phase of the Eighty Years' War – The war continued up to 1648. This article deals with the events upto 1609. Relisted. BDD (talk) 18:25, 18 April 2014 (UTC) Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 08:09, 7 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • Merge with Dutch Revolt. Marjolein 't Hart, in Dutch Wars of Independence, writes: "[H]istorians who study the earlier decades - stopping in 1609 or even before - preferring 'Dutch Revolt', while works that include the last phases of the war tend to speak of 'the Eighty Years War'. . . For a while the term Eighty Years War was viewed as rather old-fashioned, but it has been revived by a recent internationalist perspective looking, for example, at the struggle from the viewpoint of the Spanish opponent or ... stressing the global character of the fighting." Srnec (talk) 12:29, 9 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Currently we have two articles that appear to be about exactly the same thing. They're not supposed to be—and they aren't quite—but your average reader will wonder what the difference is supposed to be. I don't have time to fix it, since both articles are long and the fix is probably not too easy. Splitting overlong articles is secondary to reconciling our two main articles. Srnec (talk) 23:51, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move of the page history of this page was mismanaged

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This article was originally part of an article I wrote years ago, entitled "Eighty Years' War" (see page history of that page). The powers that be decided that this article was too long and so split it up (see the archived discussion). But apparently when the split was done the so-called page history (history of previous contributions) was deleted (See the history section that only goes back to the date of the copy-and-paste). This is expressly forbidden under the Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves rules. My rights as an author have been violated. I want this addressed. I'll therefore put the banner mentioned in this Administrators article on this page.--Ereunetes (talk) 19:56, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

I've added attribution for the page split, which fulfils all necessary requirements for pages that have been SPLIT. Primefac (talk) 21:53, 26 May 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)Reply