Talk:Local history/Archive 1

Archive 1

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for local history

I found this page looking for the WikiProject named in the title, just serving notice it exists; it has no templates to place here as yet; I'll look for it at the list of WikiProjects.Skookum1 (talk) 19:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I've been giving this article, and the should-be-associated WikiProject named in this section, in teh last while. A lot of what I'm doing on Wiki has to do with small communities and local histories in British Columbia and adjacent parts of the Pacific Northwest; the crossovers to the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject are many, partly because that's what that group is about, natives being about as local as you can get, although in a more general sense it's because most of the small, near neraly all of the very small, towns in BC are aboriginal at least in part. butt there's also "settler histories" as one of my indigenous friends puts it/calls u; the equivlaent of tribal history of the many small towns across the continent and elsewhere; detailed local history is possible in Wiki like nowhere else, able to integrate all the little odd local publications with intercepting inrformation from other articles and areas....this has been the case for instance with articles pinning off {{Columbia River steamboats}} and its relations. it's also been the case with tiny localities that some lenience on WP:COI and WP:AUTO has to be made, as the only people to write some articles are those who are there, provided they're nursed along NPOV/encyclopedia-style wise. Not quite sure what to say further except if we had a template (for the WP:Local history not-quite-wikiproject) I'd be putting it on various articles, also a "welcome" tmplate as an invitation to remote-area and rural contributors, and smalltown contributors, to coach them along tas to how to write up the articles on their area, and deal with photo licensing and all...; a similar welcome template I've considered creating for the Indigenous peoples project. Also thought of letters to the editor in various smalltown papers inviting amateur auuthors to hlep write up their town/locality. The need for citation, citation, citation has to be relaxed in many of these places/instances, also....anyway just some thoughts ;if other editors find this intriguing please get back to me.Skookum1 (talk) 00:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello. Im thinking of changing this like suggested in the wikiproject history request, if you think I've done it badly please revert changes, thanks Xhavnak (talk) 19:02, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Globalize tag

"The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page." - yet there are examples/perspective from quite a range of countries - the UK, the USA and Russia, and there's nothing location-specific about the introduction. Also there's no discussion of the template here with specifics about what needs to be improved. I therefore suggest that the {{globalize}} tag is removed - any objections? waggers (talk) 15:16, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

No one seems to have lodged an objection so I'll do it. Rjm at sleepers (talk) 08:28, 31 March 2012 (UTC)