Talk:Timeline of Richmond, Virginia

Merge
I've created a page History of Richmond, Virginia. I think we could fold in this time line at the bottom of that article? It would also be cool to use the time line tool to get a visual of the timeline. Obviously the History of Richmond, Virginia page sucks at the moment, but I am trying to clean up the main Richmond, Virginia article. I think this will help. Whoever created this page weigh in! Thanks, and keep up the good work! --MaxPower 17:44, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
 * Maxpower: Having a separate history page sounds fine with me, but I would prefer to have the timeline be text based in addition to being colored. Generally speaking, I think the litmus test for innovations to this page is if there are other cities that did it the same way. Chicago has a history page with a separate timeline that goes in reverse order from Richmond's. I am flexible on whether to have timeline on separate page or not but I don't want to see it disappear or become the colored version alone. MPS 00:51, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC) PS I am also 132.159.147.99
 * That sounds fine to me. My main goal is just to clean up and organize the set of Richmond related article. I think having both text and colored time line are a great idea actually. I guess the color timeline is a future goal, while simply filling in dates on the existing one would be a more pressing need. --MaxPower 19:30, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
 * Agreed then. Thanks for your hard work. MPS 29 Jan 2005

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: uncontested move. DrKiernan (talk) 17:43, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Timeline of Richmond, Virginia history → Timeline of Richmond, Virginia – Shorter title M2545 (talk) 14:00, 30 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. "Timeline" and "history" are redundant terms. Twyfan714 (talk) 18:28, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
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Should Amelia County be part of the Greater Richmond Region timeline?
Yesterday I added the formation of Amelia County from Prince George, as well as the formation of Nottoway from Amelia. Today, an anon IP reverted these edits, saying "out of scope - we're just in Richmond Va for this article" ... to which I reply that surrounding counties are relevant to the history of Richmond, and since Amelia is now considered part of the Greater Richmond Region, it is close enough to mention in this article. Since I reverted the anon IP, I decided to start a talk page section to hash it out here rather than start a revert war. What does anyone else think? Peace. MPS (talk) 13:59, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * This is Timeline of Richmond (the city) and other events that affected Richmond, and not the entire MSA. I can assure you that neither most of those living in Richmond, nor those in Amelia and Nottoway, would find this relevant to the scope of this article. Also the Tri-Cities lie between these places and Richmond and are included as their own area. Amelia and Nottoway are rural counties distant from Richmond with other prominent cities that are closer.  71.127.130.221 (talk) 14:06, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that Nottoway is not (yet) a part of the Richmond Region....but... it was formed from Amelia, which is why I included that blurb about Nottoway. In my opinion, the scope of this article is Richmond (the area) and not just the municipal city limits. Otherwise, we could not talk about things "happening in Richmond" until the city annexed those parts (For example, Manchester was not annexed until 1910... Are the Midlothian Coal mines part of Richmond History? What about Falling Creek Ironworks? William Byrd of Westover Plantation in Charles City County?). We can argue back and forth all day about what our opinions are about defining the "Richmond Area," but the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) offers an objective definition -- defining the Richmond Area as including 13 counties and 4 independent cities. Do you have a better source for a definition for the "Richmond Area?" I don't think you speak for "most of those living in Richmond" when you voice your opinion that things in Amelia are not historically related to Richmond.  My opinion is that not much historical has happened in rural Amelia, but we should include formation of Amelia county in this article because Amelia is a part of the Richmond area defined by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  I think of Richmond history as occurring over 400 years... so something happening in Henrico Shire or Charles City Shire, or along the banks of the James River, Swift Creek, or the Eastern part of the Appomattox River would be part of the history of Richmond. The "prominent city" of Lynchburg was not settled until 1757 and Farmville didn't exist until 1798. I am not mad at you I just disagree with your opinion. Peace, MPS (talk) 15:26, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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Acknowledgment
Thank you to Rollins College via the Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program for access to subscription databases used in compiling this article. -- M2545 (talk) 15:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)