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European history articles have been selected for the Misplaced Pages 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Misplaced Pages articles selected by the Misplaced Pages 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the European history articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Misplaced Pages talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Misplaced Pages talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Misplaced Pages for Schools to extend the reach of Misplaced Pages worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Misplaced Pages 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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)

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 Misplaced Pages 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):

• John Smith (2000). "How to Put Things into Other Things". Journal of Foobar. 1 (2): 3–4. arXiv:0123456789. ASIN 0123456789. Bibcode:0123456789. doi:0123456789. ISBN 0123456789. ISSN 0123456789. JFM 0123456789. JSTOR 0123456789. LCCN 0123456789. MR 0123456789. OCLC 0123456789. OL 0123456789. OSTI 0123456789. PMC 0123456789. PMID 0123456789. RFC 0123456789. SSRN 0123456789. Zbl 0123456789. |id=____. {{cite journal}}: Check |arxiv= value (help); Check |asin= value (help); Check |bibcode= length (help); Check |doi= value (help); Check |issn= value (help); Check |jfm= value (help); Check |mr= value (help); Check |ol= value (help); Check |osti= value (help); Check |pmc= value (help); Check |pmid= value (help); Check |rfc= value (help); Check |ssrn= value (help); Check |zbl= value (help)

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 Misplaced Pages: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. 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 Misplaced Pages actions, not activity for the project which is nearly impossible to measure) to a separate subsection, then go for it.--Doug. 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)

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