Talk:Early human history

"Early"? Not so much
I've never heard "early" human history described as "all that happened before the 15th century". Early human history is that which happened, y'know, e-a-r-l-y. Prior to the invention of writing. Before the ancient civilizations developed. To call the 14th century "early human history" is stretching things, just a tad. I know the classifications are somewhat arbitrary, but this article should be broken down along generally agreed time periods, as described by Wikipedia's human history article or a comparable source. Or, we could take the quick-and-dirty approach of renaming it to "Human history prior to the Renaissance" or somesuch. But leaving things as they are makes us look rather uninformed about history. Which is kind of ironic, given that Doctor Who ' s original mandate was to teach people about history.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  00:35, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. actually, I would like to break down the article into shorter articles ("Prehistory", "Ancient times", "Middle Ages", etc.). but then I have thought that the historical articles in this wiki need re-working in general. will save my opinions for the general forms, though. --Stardizzy2 22:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree! Maybe we can redefine "early human history" as everything up to the year 0 (a completely arbitrary date I have just now picked), and lump events into centuries afterwards? I'm also thinking of ways to improve the timeline navboxes. Nightsky 21:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Not an in-universe article/conjecture tag
See Talk:distant past for more details why. This page though is a particularly glaring example of us imposing our will upon the DWU. As discussed above, we've literally just picked some dates and said, "this is where early human history" ends, despite there being no definition in the DWU for this topic, and despite real world "common sense" definitions. There are good reasons to keep this page, though, but we have to somehow make it clear to readers that it's not a term that has any sort of DWU standing. Some possible alternatives are suggested over at Talk:distant past.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  20:12, April 23, 2010 (UTC)