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This page is an Archive of the discussions from WikiProject European history talk page (Discussion page). (2012 - 2020) - Please Do not edit!

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Who is Fred Kautz? - UNDUE issues connected with Hitler's Willing Executioners

Hello history people,

I've noticed that on the pages connected with the controversy about Daniel Goldhagen's writing - Hitler's Willing Executioners, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Hans Mommsen Eberhard Jäckel, and also the historian Theodor Schieder, there is reference made to "Fred Kautz", a Canadian historian. He makes some fairly strong comments about some of the people mentioned above. Because of this I checked out who he was, puzzled that he didn't have a wiki article. It turns out he's a "freelance" writer, not an appointed academic, who has written two books. The first is the attack on Goldhagen's critics, published by a minor non-academic publishing house, and the second, written in German in 2004 appears to be unnotable - certainly ignored in English. Should his views be given such weight, especially in the HWE page? VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 04:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Fred Kautz is a Canadian-German Historian with academic background also at University of Darmstadt, Germany. Fred Kautz is certainly not one of these corrupt historians earning lot of money as financed storyteller or traveling entertainer.[1][2]Web108 (talk) 01:20, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Getting Started

Hi I'm a big fan and admirer of European History. I was looking the Task Force and Project listings to find one that sounded interesting. I was wondering what are the steps to becoming a member of this Task Force, I'd be eager to donate time to help out. I understand that I'm a fairly new Wikipedia User and that may cause a little apprehension, but I'm really eager to help out and I'd really appreciate any feedback anyone could give me. Thanks! (so you know, I had an account that I started last year and that I was a big contributor on but I lost my password so I started this account a few days ago.) Magister Scienta (talk) 19:40, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers

Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id={{arxiv|0123.4567}} (or worse |url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567, likewise for |id={{JSTOR|0123456789}} and |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → |jstor=0123456789.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):

• {{cite journal |author=John Smith |year=2000 |title=How to Put Things into Other Things |journal=Journal of Foobar |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=3–4 |arxiv=0123456789 |asin=0123456789 |bibcode=0123456789 |doi=0123456789 |jfm=0123456789 |jstor=0123456789 |lccn=0123456789 |isbn=0123456789 |issn=0123456789 |mr=0123456789 |oclc=0123456789 |ol=0123456789 |osti=0123456789 |rfc=0123456789 |pmc=0123456789 |pmid=0123456789 |ssrn=0123456789 |zbl=0123456789 |id={{para|id|____}} }}

Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Extended parameters

I know I haven't been involved much lately, but I decided to boldy implement the extended quality parameters, in part because some were actually in use. The data should update at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/European history articles by quality statistics soon, and therefore on the mainpage, but in the interim the data can be viewed here: Template:WikiProject European history/class.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 08:37, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Members who vanished in 2009 suddenly rediscovered

I just noticed that myself along with 34 others, including the founder of the project, were removed with this vandal edit in 2009 and nobody every reverted it! I just copy-pasted the old user list, so we're all back. If someone actually wants to move all the users to a subpage or even clean up the list by removing banned/non-existent users and maybe moving inactive users (based on Wikipedia actions, not activity for the project which is nearly impossible to measure) to a separate subsection, then go for it.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:49, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Svein, King of Norway

There is a dicussion of this man's status as King and his article title at Talk:Svein, King of Norway. If interested please join in the discussion.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 04:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination for C. A. Patrides

The DYK nomination for C. A. Patrides needs to be reviewed.

Did you know

• ... that Constantinos A. Patrides, the author of Milton and the Christian tradition, earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation?

Thanks!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 23:44, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:East Germany#Satellite state of the USSR or not

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:East Germany#Satellite state of the USSR or not. Should this article describe East Germany (the former German Democratic Republic) as a satellite state of the former USSR?"" Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:52, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Portal:History

Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, ResMar 23:15, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:European history will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within European history. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 20:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Byzantine Empire for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Ancient Civilizations Textbook

Hello all! I’m working with the Saylor foundation to create a series of original, crowd-sourced textbooks that will be openly licensed and freely available on the web and within Saylor’s free, self-paced courses at Saylor.org. We are using Wikibooks as a platform to host this project and hope to garner the interest of existing members of the Wikibooks and Wikipedia community, as well as bring in new members! We thought that some of your members may be interested in contributing to our book Saylor.org's Ancient Civilizations of the World.--Thomas Simpson (talk) 17:49, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

New article on film One Hundred Years of Evil

• One Hundred Years of Evil

I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 01:29, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of articles tracing historical dynasties

Several requests to delete articles entitled "Line of succession to the former throne of X" (e.g. Württemberg, Tuscany, Two Sicilies) have recently been proposed for deletion from Wikipedia by Pat Gallacher. Although Wikipedians from various projects are being notified of these requests for removal, I think those who monitor this page may also appreciate being notified. FactStraight (talk) 03:12, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

RFC at Talk:History of Vojvodina

Your attention is drawn to Talk:History_of_Vojvodina#Request_For_Comment_re:_WikiProject_Banners_on_this_page. Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 02:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Europeans share common ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago

Pls see Talk:Genetic history of Europe#Europeans share common ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago -- Moxy (talk) 02:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Do you read Fraktur?

If you read Fraktur, the old German blackletter typeface (as shown here), you may want to add this template to your userspace: {{User:Alarob/frak}}

Using it will automatically put you in the skill category "Wikipedians who can read Fraktur." — ℜob C. alias ÀLAROB 03:32, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Looking for help citing the following

Hi,

I am working towards overall improvements to the Treaty of Versailles article. The following is from the territorial changes section. I have not been able to find any information that backs it up, yet it does not seem prudent to just delete it since it does add some background context. Can anyone confirm if the overall points are correct and at the same time provide some inline citations to support the paragraph?

"Germany′s borders in 1919 had been established nearly 50 years earlier, at the country′s official establishment in 1871. Territory and cities in the region had changed hands repeatedly for centuries, including at various times being owned by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Poland, and Kingdom of Lithuania. However, Germany laid claim to lands and cities that it viewed as historically "Germanic" centuries before Germany′s establishment as a country in 1871. Other countries disputed Germany′s claim to this territory. In the peace treaty, Germany agreed to return disputed lands and cities to various countries."

Regards, EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 21:50, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

gun control rfc

There is an RFC that may be of interest to this group at Talk:Gun_control#RFC. Subject of the RFC is "Is the use of gun restriction legislation or other confiscations by totalitarian governments (Nazi, Communist etc) accurately described as "Gun Control". Are such instances appropriate for inclusion in the Gun Control article. (Details at RFC in article)" Gaijin42 (talk) 16:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

this rfc could use additional input. Gaijin42 (talk) 02:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Horrible Histories

Hi. We're having a discussion on the fate of Horrible Histories TV show at: Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)#Moving on. As a relevant Wikiproject, we would greatly appreciate it if you would voice your opinion on the talk page, or to have a crack at editing and improving it. Thankyou for your time. :)--Coin945 (talk) 13:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Good article reassessment requested for Spanish Civil War article

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.Isthisuseful (talk) 21:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin

The List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin article has been proposed for deletion. Your opinions are welcomed. --Norden1990 (talk) 17:35, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Proposed restrictions on styles & titles of former royals

Proposed restrictions on styles & titles of former royals A proposal is now pending to !vote to ban use of titles, honorifics and styles historically associated with titled members of no longer reigning families or to require that wherever such titles are mentioned in a Wikipedia bio, article or template that a disclaimer must be attached informing the reader that the title/style is not legal or is a courtesy title only. You may read opinions and express your views here. FactStraight (talk) 22:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Western Europe

Western Europe, e.g. France, Spain is missing from the geographic listing.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:18, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

World War I reparations

Hi, I have already posted this elsewhere, but have so far gained little feedback. As the reparations article links to this project, I am hoping some members will be able to help.

I am currently working on the World War I reparations article. I have hit a bump on Bulgarian reparations. so far, I have established the following:

1 - Treaty of Neuilly established that Bulgaria had to pay 2.250 billion Gold francs in reparations.(Treaty of Neuilly, Article 121)
2 - In 1923, the Bulgarian reparation sum was "revised downwards" to 550 million gold francs "plus a lump sum payment of 25 million francs for occupation costs".(Marks, Myths of Reparations, pp. 234-5)
3 - Between the treaty signing and April 1922, 173 million gold francs were paid. 4 - Between 1925 and 1929, Bulgaria paid a further 41 million gold francs, before reparations were abandoned at the Lausanne conference of 1932.

Does anyone have any additional information (including sources) to expand the above, especially in the following two areas: 1 - Do the above figures represent total Bulgarian reparation payment, and if not what were they? 2 - Did an event, such as the Dawes Plan for example, occur to revise down the Bulgarian reparation payments?

CfD discussion for societies and cultures

There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures.
If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27#Society by country. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:21, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Disappeared (Northern Ireland)

I have just started a new article on Disappeared (Northern Ireland), which might be of interest to this WikiProject. GiantSnowman 18:43, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Daesitiates

Dear historians: This old Afc submission is about to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the page be kept and improved instead? —Anne Delong (talk) 23:24, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Renaming and moving: Greater Romania > Interwar Romania

Your comments on the requested move of the article Greater Romania are welcome here. Borsoka (talk) 18:22, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject European History at Wikimania 2014

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East-West Schism article proposed name change

Please see the discussion here. RFC. Evensteven (talk) 23:14, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Romanian Revolution template

Hey everyone! I was looking at Template:2014 Ferguson unrest and thought it was pretty crazy that there wasn't one for the Romanian Revolution. I've started one at User:Yaksar/Template:Romanian Revolution but before I put it into any article space I thought it would be good to get some help in fleshing it out more to make it more logically structured. If you want to help out, feel free to do so there, or discuss it on the talk page. Thanks!--Yaksar (let's chat) 00:40, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

The relation of the Allies with Hungary at the Paris Peace conference

In the article Treaty of Trianon I found the text below:

The treaty was dictated by the Allies rather than negotiated and the Hungarians had no option but to accept its terms.[11] The Hungarian delegation signed the treaty under protest

Aren't the above facts self-implied? As far as I know, after any military conflict the winners dictate the terms of the peace treaties to the losers (and don't negotiate with the defeated side when taking the decisions).

So, is it necessary to include the phrase above?

Peer review: Hungarian prehistory

All comments here would be appreciated. Thank you, Borsoka (talk) 12:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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750th anniversary of De Montfort's Parliament

20th January 2015 is the 750th anniversary of the first English Parliament.[3] The article De Montfort's Parliament is being improved and further contributions would be welcome and beneficial to work it towards GA.

The BBC [4] are planning a "Democracy Day" of live events, discussions and debate, produced in partnership with the Speaker’s Office of the House of Commons, including broadcasts from inside Westminster. Whizz40 (talk) 06:15, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War GAR

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Anotherclown (talk) 07:33, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Habsburg category discussion

See here. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Crown princesses category discussion

See here (three consecutive nominations). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy to be moved to Louis, Duke of Burgundy. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Kingdom of Germany: proposal to split article

See this proposal. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

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Requested moves

Three requested move discussions which concern this project have been started. They can be found at:

• Talk:SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt#Requested move 2 June 2015
• Talk:Schutzstaffel#Requested move 5 June 2015
• Talk:Sturmabteilung#Revamped format

BMK (talk) 16:27, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000-1301)

All comments, suggestions are welcome here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 02:30, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

remote Visiting scholar for DePaul University

• See Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply; position focuses on focus on Chicago history, Catholic social justice studies, and Vincentian Studies (including French history during the Napoleonic Era).• Lingzhi♦(talk) 05:02, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

History of Georgia

I notice that Georgia isn't listed under the countries encompassed under the scope of this project. As the Wikipedia article states (having been changed from "a country in Weastern Asia") that it is transcontinental, shouldn't the history of Georgia be considered a relevant topic of this project as this implies it is partially european? Regards Aardwolf A380 (talk) 07:03, 13 August 2015 (UTC) Aardwolf A380 (talk) 07:03, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

People from the Elizabethan era

A category discussion about People from the Elizabethan era, please see here. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

GA 2nd Opinion

Hello - I am reviewing Bozh for GA status and need a second opinion. If someone is willing to do that and ping me when done it would be much appreciated. The feedback page is here. LavaBaron (talk) 18:26, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Peer review: Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)

All comments would be appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 02:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

European Civil War

This page has many issues, which I've outlined on its talk page and will not rant and rave about here. I am a WikiNoob, and I would like some assistance and direction in editing in order to turn this into a cohesive article on an interesting theory, rather than an edit war waiting to happen. A Sentient Sock (talk) 04:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion about the gallery of Romanians

There is an on-going debate about the gallery of personalities from the article Romanians. Any opinions are welcome at Talk:Romanians#What happened to the gallery?. Hahun (talk) 07:27, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

AfC submission

Could anyone have a look at Draft:Protohistoric Aquitania? It's currently eligible for deletion given it hasn't been edited in a while. Thanks, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 17:27, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

All comments would be highly appreciated here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin/archive2. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 15:29, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Northern Ireland Troubles: a colonial conflict?

Something of an impasse in this discussion Template talk:British colonial campaigns about whether or not the Troubles, and earlier Irish conflicts, should be listed in a template of British colonial campaigns. A wider variety of opinions on the matter would be most welcome! Gerrynobody (talk) 12:59, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Joining

If I wish to join this project, what are the steps to joining? Do I just add my name to the list of members? Aman Ibn Jif (talk) 02:26, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Reassessment of Napoleon

Napoleon, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

Looking for feedback on a tool on Visual Editor to add open license text from other sources

Hi all

I'm designing a tool for Visual Editor to make it easy for people to add open license text from other sources, there are a huge number of open license sources compatible with Wikipedia including around 9000 journals. I can see a very large opportunity to easily create a high volume of good quality articles quickly. I have done a small project with open license text from UNESCO as a proof of concept, any thoughts, feedback or endorsements (on the Meta page) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 14:57, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Tsarist_autocracy#My_two_cents._Article_deletion.

Please see this discussion. In my opinion the notability of 'tsarist autocracy' is too weak. If considered otherwise, the article needs a huge overhaul to better reflect historiographical debates and viewpoints. 2001:1C02:1907:9500:6DC8:DB74:E72E:310D (talk) 09:59, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Iazyges

Hello, the article Iazyges is within the frame of your project, and I have made some significant edits to it, kindly re-assess it. Thank you. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 00:37, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Peer review: Vlad the Impaler

All comments are appreciated here. Thank you for your time. Borsoka (talk) 06:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Ruthenian people categories have been nominated for discussion

Several Ruthenian people categories have been nominated for possible renaming, merging or deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_10#Category:Ruthenian_princesses
• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_11#Category:Ruthenian_women
• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_12#Ruthenian_people_by_period
• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_12#Ruthenian_people_by_descent

on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:09, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

This RfC...

...may be of interest to the members of this project: [5]. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:10, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

People who emigrated to escape Nazism

Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism has been nominated for possible deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 March 17#Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. 10:40, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

More expertise needed in Moravia-Sudetenland discussion

Please feel free to contribute to this discussion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_April_9#Category:Historic_counties_in_Moravia. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:54, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

British war crimes

I have instigated a discussion about this highly biased and OR driven article at Talk:British_war_crimes#Article_problems. Mabuska ^(talk) 23:22, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song

You are welcome to discuss the newly created {{Infobox folk song}} and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 06:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   10:56, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Gjon Kastrioti move request

Trying to widen a discussion of the title of the Gjon Kastrioti article. The issue is under discussion here if you care to participate. —  AjaxSmack  17:37, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Modern history#Image use is excessive

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Modern history#Image use is excessive. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:15, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Featured Article Review listing for Rudolf Vrba

I have nominated Rudolf Vrba for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Catrìona (talk) 01:28, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

FAR listing for Werner Mölders

I have nominated Werner Mölders for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Catrìona (talk) 03:03, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Origin of the Romanians

All comments are highly appreciated here: Talk:Origin of the Romanians#RfC: two maps. Thank you. Borsoka (talk) 07:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Splitting proposal: Origin of the Romanians

All comments are appreciated here. Borsoka (talk) 05:59, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

RfC: Origin of the Romanians

There is currently a Request-for-Comment open about restructuring the Origin of the Romanians article. Any comments or suggestions for improving the article would be greatly appreciated. Borsoka (talk) 11:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Requested move

There is a requested move request at Talk:Gothic Christianity that would benefit from your input. Please come and help. Paine Ellsworth, ed.  ^put'r there  21:15, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

The Troubles listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for The Troubles to be moved to Northern Ireland conflict. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. --Scolaire (talk) 15:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Modern history for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Modern history is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Modern history until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:05, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Julius Caesar for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Julius Caesar is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Julius Caesar until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:11, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Cold War for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Cold War is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cold War until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:12, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

German-occupied Europe -> German occupation of Europe during World War II

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:German-occupied Europe#Requested move 24 June 2019, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Facts707 (talk) 17:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

RfC: Splitting of the article "White Croats"

There is currently a Request-for-Comment open about restructuring the White Croats article. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.--Nicoljaus (talk) 11:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Expulsion of Jews from Spain

An article of interest to this project—Expulsion of Jews from Spain—has been proposed for merging from Alhambra decree. Your feedback would be welcome at the merge discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 00:59, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for independent feedback on Walter Kuhn

I recently did a rather extensive removal of material at Walter Kuhn for WP:WEIGHT, WP:UNDUE, and POV concerns. Walter Kuhn was a German academic who was involved in advising Nazi resettlement and ethnic plan plans during the war but afterwards became a recognized expert on the Ostsiedlung. Another editor disagrees with me and and has added back and even expanded many of these areas. I'd appreciate any independent sets of eyes who would have a look and see what they think.--Ermenrich (talk) 04:31, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Standardization of era "successions"?

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see: Talk:Mousterian#Clean up era "succession" mess.

This started as a one-article issue report, but looking around I see that the problem is pretty common (in short: conflicting "preceding/following era" links in infoboxes, navboxes, leads, and article bodies).

It needs a site-wide solution (perhaps a cross-wikiproject guideline or at least a WP:PROJPAGE with some advice in it).
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  10:36, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject History needs people

Hi everyone. I am the new coordinator for WikiProject History. we need people there!! right now the project seems to be semi-inactive. I am going to various WikiProjects whose topics overlap with ours, to request volunteers.

• If you have any experience at all with standard WikiProject processes such as quality assessment, article help, asking questions, feel free to come by and get involved.

• and if you have NO Experience, but just want to come by and get involved, feel free to do so!!!

• For anyone who wants to get involved, please come by and add your name at our talk page, at our talk page section: WikiProject History needs you!!!!

• Alternately, if you have any interest at all, feel free to reply right here, on this talk page. please ping me when you do so, by typing {{ping|sm8900}} in your reply.

we welcome your input. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

AfD discussion of Race and intelligence

A discussion is taking place of whether to delete the article Race and intelligence, see [6]. NightHeron (talk) 12:25, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi, I have recently found a conflict between sources on one matter regarding Old Serbia. I have made a deal with one admin that I shall not edit the article without prior community consensus/feedback. Other editors tagged have not been active on the page and are passive about it, therefore I would like to invite you to help out with this issue. I personally have little experience when we have some conflicting info. on the same subject. I believe that a fresh perspective would improve the article. [7] ty, Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 16:07, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Elizabeth Báthory article

Elizabeth Báthory (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

For those that are interested in editing articles about historical figures or just ensuring the accuracy of articles about them (or appropriate tone in articles), see Talk:Elizabeth Báthory#Poor sourcing in, and accuracy of, this article. A permalink for it is here. It could use more eyes. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 19:27, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Austerliz FAR

I have nominated Battle of Austerlitz for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. buidhe 02:51, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Moscow FAR

I have nominated Battle of Moscow for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. buidhe 01:05, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

1644 Siege of Liverpool

A few days ago, because of an edit request on Talk:Liverpool by CaseyJones121974 I noticed that there seem to exist about two or three different claims about the duration of the siege of Liverpool by Prince Rupert in 1644. I'm not very good with history, but if anyone is interested, I've listed the first few sources I could find and their different claims at Talk:Liverpool#Semi-protected edit request on 29 June 2020. Rummskartoffel (talk) 10:31, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Continued discussions at Germania

New perspectives and old issues needs comments. Please join at the talk-page Talk:Germania. Sechinsic (talk) 16:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Rfc: lede of French Revolution

An Rfc concerning the lede of French Revolution is under discussion at Talk:French Revolution#rfc_CF45697. Your feedback would be appreciated. Mathglot (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Any notable source from the Middle Ages in Poland, called "Gesta Wulinensis ecclesiae pontificum"

Hi! There is an article on Danish wikipedia, called Gesta Wulinensis ecclesiae pontificum [8].

There is practically no one reading "WikiProject European history", who knows of any notable document by that name (from what is now Poland, and from the Middle Ages)?

(There is practically no one who can see a reason for Wikipedia-English to have an article by that name?) Thank you in advance! 89.8.67.252 (talk) 13:45, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

First European constitution?

Hey there,

Input wanted on Talk:Poland#First constitition?.

Thanks! François Robere (talk) 10:35, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Battle of Blenheim

I have nominated Battle of Blenheim for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 02:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Holy League (1684)

The page Holy League (1684) seemed relatively important and severely lacking, so I have added a fair bit to improve it. I think that someone more knowledgeable than me should have a look and see if I have missed anything important, also I think it deserves a reassessment above stub class now. Thanks. Thepipemaster (talk) 03:40, 9 December 2020 (UTC)