Portal talk:History/Intro

The word
The word civilizations is spelled incorrectly.

The previous post is correct, civilisations should be spelled civilizations.--Mrperdew 21:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Civilisations is the British spelling and acceptable here. --Aude (talk) 21:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I somehow doubt the above comment. Google "Civilisations" and you'll see that there are hardly any hits. If it were an actual spelling of the word, I'm guessing there'd be at least two pages of hits. Someone should unprotect this page and change it.


 * What? hardly any hits? Google returns 20,000,000 hits when searching "Civilisation".  Sure, "Civilization" returns more  - 40 million.  But, "Civilisation" is acceptable. See American_and_British_English_spelling_differences --Aude (talk) 17:08, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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Edit request from 75.51.72.71, 30 October 2010
Change civilisation to civilization

75.51.72.71 (talk) 19:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * - per WP:ENGVAR; "civilisation" is the correct UK spelling. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Reformatted the intro subpage
Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Updated intro text with current text from WP:LEAD from main article, History.
 * 2) Added randomized intro image selection, for increased dynamism for the main portal page, with all free use images taken from main article, History.
 * 3) Listed (no-transcluded) link to this intro image subpage on the intro page, at Portal:History/Intro/Image.
 * 4) Kept the prior 2 paragraph format.
 * 5) Added categorization of the intro subpage to Category:History portal.

Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2016
Add: “History can provide us with an understanding of the events in the past so we can learn from them and incorporate them to similar human situations today, even if the learning and incorporating is unconsciously done. Link text Retrieved from American Historical Association], additional text. after: This includes discussing the study of the discipline as an end in itself and as a way of providing "perspective" on the problems of the present

Blueheron1997 (talk) 20:03, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  05:28, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 March 2018
may i make a few changes Ohyeahboy22 (talk) 23:13, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.      Spintendo       00:00, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 April 2018
my poppop was in the world war 1 and 2 and we won thanks to all the veterans 50.226.165.186 (talk) 15:37, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Check out the portals for World War I and World War 2. --Meanderingbartender (talk) 15:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)