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I would feel much better about this if it were a footer rather than a right-aligned box. I will change it myself in a few days if there are no complaints. -- mav
To keep this navbox simple and straightforward I think it would be better if the topics section were removed and only the "history of the United States" series kept. The topics are also linked in the bottom navbox {{ US history}} which has more space.
Alternatively, perhaps inclusion criteria could be formed? I expect links to articles that are topical yet holistic in terms of time and place (at least in terms of contemporary U.S. territory), which would exclude links to the African American civil rights movement (1896-1968), the Civil War, and the South. These are important topics of course however there's also slavery, the Revolution, and the West that are similarly important yet omitted. African American history and women's history would be included.
I favor the simplicity of the first option. Does anyone have any opinions? Remove, clarify, none of the above? — Mrwojo ( talk) 23:02, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
The Great Seal is kind of dull as an image choice for this template. Could we possibly replace with something that might cast a little more color on US history? I was thinking of (a scaled-down version of) Washington Crossing the Delaware, as that is a pretty iconic moment in - and unmistakable depiction of - American history. -- 70.181.184.7 ( talk) 21:03, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I kind of think that topics should appear before ethnicities in this template. I believe them to be more general and of more broad-based interest. Thoughts? p b p 14:40, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
per discussion at MOS:ACCESSBILITY, I have undone the overstyling. Frietjes ( talk) 14:37, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: withdrawn ( non-admin closure) Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 05:16, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Template:History of the United States →
Template:US history sidebar – More concise and also consistent with {{
US history}}, which is the bottom-of-page equivalent of this template. Both have
History of the United States as their main heading/link, so using that as the name of this template but not the other seems arbitrary and potentially confusing. Since this template is based on a variant of {{
Sidebar}}, it makes sense to indicate that in the title.
Sangdeboeuf (
talk) 06:15, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion about changing this template listed here: WT:USA#Need to fix Template:History of the United States. — Naddruf ( talk ~ contribs) 17:30, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was Merge. It's been a while and no dissents.
I propose merging Template:History of the United States with Template:Periods in US history as a single sidebar.
History of the United States |
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United States portal |
This is what it would look like. I've made no content changes other than merging the two together. I think there's no good reason to keep these as separate ideas, because the readers probably won't care about the difference. The dates do not line up exactly, and that's one problem. — GoldRingChip 14:46, 9 March 2021
Cross-posted at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, but I've requested that the discussion be held here. — GoldRingChip 23:30, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
I welcome your thoughts. — GoldRingChip 19:46, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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