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History Mid‑importance

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A significant contribution to Wikipedian articles[edit]

I commend the effort at creating and developing this article. I just did a search for articles containing "British history online", and got the following return, showing 57,346 results. That's a significant contribution to information in Wikipedia! Wotnow (talk) 02:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have now added a sentence regarding the significant number of attributions within Wikipedia, since on reflection, it's not a trivial side-issue, but an indicator of the significance of the site, and the relevance of an article on that site. It may also provide leads upon which to build the article.

I have also placed the quote summarising the purpose of British History Online within the article proper. It's a good quote and a useful summary, and probably hard to beat. So again it is not really a side-issue, especially at such an early stage of article development. If at a later date, the article becomes significantly larger and the summary becomes a redundant note, it can always be put back into the reference, or alternatively placed into a 'Notes' section thus.^[a] Wotnow (talk) 01:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notes[edit]

a. ^{^} A notes section can be utilised for information that is not central to the article content, but which nevertheless contains pertinent information (leads, caveats etc) that should not be lost if avoidable by such notations. Not typicaly needed in the early stages of an article, unless there is a need to create possible leads for article development, or otherwise pertinent information. I've created this here to illustrate the point and to make it easy to pinch the format if needed at some time. I for example always still find myself going back to an older article to pinch the format every time I do a notes section. If you need to create a new talk page section by the way, just place the new section heading after the "div" template below. Wotnow (talk) 01:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]