Talk:European History

Jaw Dropping
This book is amazing. It is content rich, it has a massive amount of information and best of all, it is made by volunteers, thank you! Mitchturn (discuss • contribs) 04:51, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

What happened to the Portuguese?
Why are most of the important Portuguese explorers missing? I added them back. #Brandon Johnsonn 16:38, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

There is a sentence hidden behind the infobox, that you can see if you change your font size. I use a 130% fontsize, and I can see '..tion' appear on the right of the box in the upper left corner.


 * I updated the template so the text should be gone now. Can you still see it? --hagindaz 13:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Misleading title
The subtitle is wrong: From Joan of Arc to Tony Blair. If you want to make a clear chronological statement here spanning the lifetime of European History from its beginning to its present ('Tony Blair' is associated with the present) then Joan of Arc is wrong in this perspective, since there were many important historical figures before her life time. I suggest to replace her name with "Charlemagne", which makes much more sense to me.

As a remark and personal opinion: Tony Blair does not fit into Europe's picture as other politicians would do today, because of his standpoint in questions of the European Union and the special state Great Britain has in Europe (of the big and old nations of Europe Great Britain's people show the least identification with Europe and what it stands for) I would replace his name as well with somebody like the Luxembourg president or Romano Prodi.


 * I've removed the subtitle. Mentioning Tony Blair is POV, suggesting he is somehow the most important person in Europe today. I don't see why that would be him.
 * I've also changed "complete survey" to just "survey". I'm not sure what a complete survey is, and I don't think we're ever going to agree on that. Qwertyus 14:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I also think the earlier title is misleading because it says "from Rome to present day, yet the next page says "from hundred years war to present"

pictures in PDF version
i started reading the book on line and deceded to download the pdf version, and notice there isn't so many pictures as the on line and print-version. why is that?

PS: very good book!!!201.78.130.253 06:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well Done
I'm reading the book at the moment and I have honestly ound it to be one of the best books I have read on history for a long time. Well Done to everyony. --82.33.114.90 (talk) 08:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Linking to Wikipedia?
How do contributors feel about linking to Wikipedia for some (for lack of a better word) events? For example, I would like to link to the Wikipedia article for "denazification" in the chapter "1918-1945", as we need not go through it in detail, but it would be nice if we placed links for further reading.

This policy applies to all chapters of this book. I believe it would entice the reader to read on, and being a free culture book, its purpose is nothing but informing the reader about European History as effectively as possible. Placing links to Wikipedia is a means to this end. What do you think? Johnanth (discuss • contribs) 14:37, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Anyone want a copy edit?
Being greatly interested in European History, this book naturally caught my eye. However, I've noticed that it seems to have some run-on sentences and other grammar problems. Copy editing is one of my primary areas of work on the English Wikipedia (I'm actually a coordinator for the Guild of Copy Editors), so I think I can make some good grammatical improvements to this book. Since this is a featured book, however, I wanted to see if people would like a copy edit before I do too much. --Biblioworm (discuss • contribs) 23:28, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Social science history
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