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540:, not useless. They also have the benefit of being concise. This isn't a template that "needs" to be big or needs to be everywhere. It's just impossible to pick 50 topics as an "overview" and have this be even remotely fair; once you start drilling down to the level of "Frontier Theory is a valid link from any article dealing with US History," you end up with any number of OTHER notable events being "valid" links too, whether it be Teddy Roosevelt reading the book on the influence of sea power or robber barons or the transcontinental railroad or whatever else, and that's just the 1880-1910. 71: 164: 53: 22: 192: 81: 277: 567:- it's a broad overview template with many more thousands of years of history to go through, and it does not even attempt to link to every interesting event that occurred in Chinese history, because such a template would be utter madness and have 1,000+ entries. But that doesn't mean the template is useless as is. 182: 473:
I also think this template shouldn't go at the bottom of every specific bit of US history. This should go on overview articles of all US History; plenty of notable historical incidents have no need to link back to such an overview (in the old version of the template) or a grab-bag of random topics
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I disagree with this expansion - the template is now far too huge and unwieldy, and this template isn't really appropriate for that many places anyway. Picking topics without being prejudicial is incredibly hard as well - why does Second-wave feminism get a mention but not environmentalism? Why
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Not a grab bank but just an overview of a timeline spanning four different centuries. Second-wave feminism was already included in the broad timeline offeren in Template United States topics. The template already includes a link to history of United States music, so the emergence of Jazz should
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I was following a list about historical eras of the United states and the key events shaping them. I have exhausted the list and I am personally done with expanding the templete. Any specific items you would like
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Negro League baseball but not jazz music? Why the Frontier Theory but not Arthur Schlesinger's historical theories? Best to just stick with the broad topic overviews, in my opinion.
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probably not get an individual entry. ry is the only article currently covering the end of the Frontier, which was the event suggested by the list I was following.
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The broad topic overview is pretty useless in my opinion. I tried using it as a reader and it failed to lead to any of the relevant articles.
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There just isn't a home for this set of links. They're too disparate. That's what the search bar is for. For comparison, look at
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Doesn't a template which doesn't link to any interesting event and claims to depict "history" serve as the definition of useless?
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a link in this footer, but I'm not sure I should. Maybe it should stick to being a link to all of
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either... something to do instead of making massive templates (this and other redlinks) ?
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Templates shouldn't be too large, or else they just replicate a better process like
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perhaps we could divide the template up into sections by time period.
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