Forum:An Idea for Minor Historical References

An Idea for Minor Historical References
As I was reading the sequel, I saw all sorts of references to "historicals", some pop culture, some to movies (mostly old), classic lit. and history historicals if you get my meaning. A lot of them wouldn't rate an article but I'm thinking of doing something like what we have for "Minor Fictional Character" but less extensive since most references are one liners rather than involved with the POV in one scene. I'm thinking of a bullet point list by novel.

We might go through the historicals and shrink them down the same way for other series. For instance, something like the Justin Timberlake article really isn't worthwhile and could be put together for a short stories list. As above, if the article has a substantive sub-section, then the one line reference should be added as a new sub-section but if not then the article should be deleted.

What say you? ML4E (talk) 20:29, December 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * I moved this from the Supervolcano template so it wouldn't get lost.


 * I had the same thought while reading AFD, and while redoing templates. While the majority of the historicals we have are either people who appear in the given work, or are at least described as doing something relevant to the plot/timeline/what have you, we do have a few articles based solely on toss-off references and don't really add much.


 * But I do think "annotating" HT's work should be part of this project, and the approach ML4E makes a lot of sense to me for that purely annotative purpose. TR (talk) 17:44, December 23, 2012 (UTC)