Defining scope

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The history of Europe is a very broad topic, with unclear boundaries. When deciding whether an article falls under our scope, two fundamental questions need to be addressed:

  1. What is the topic's relation to Europe? Some topics which are not confined to geographical Europe may relate heavily to European history, while other topics which involve geographical Europe may be primarily non-European in nature.
  2. What defines a historical topic? When does a topic pass from a recent event to a historical event? Do pursuits of other fields which happened in the past qualify as history?

A Category tree for Category:History of Europe can be found here.

Should there be a Portal:European history?

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Relevant extant Portals:

  1. History:
  2. Non-history
  3. Regions

Relation to other WikiProjects

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There are a number of extant WikiProjects with large crossovers areas. Some are highly active, and some are defunct. How will we define our relationship to them?

Historical country projects

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Geographic Projects

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Other

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