Talk:Hamilton County, Texas

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Timeline History[edit]

Before anyone arbitrarily deletes large chunks of the history, please discuss. The timeline was designed as is, to help the global community understand how the timeline of the county history fits into the larger whole of Texas history. To do otherwise takes a very myopic view. Hamilton County has never existed in a vacuum. Maile66 (talk) 18:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps (and I see you have made similar additions to Guadalupe County, Texas), but Wikipedia geographical articles are not generally written that way. See for example Galveston County, Orange County, Albany County, Colfax County, and in general any county article with a "History" section. In general, only historical items directly pertaining to the article subject are included, anything else being considered irrelevant or outside the scope of the article (which is narrow and specific to one subject). According to WikiProject U.S. counties, the "History" section should contain "Major historical events that occurred in the county". State-wide and nation-wide events outside the county obviously would not meet this criteria. — Loadmaster (talk) 19:04, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I responded to this more completely here but I'll just make a quick comment. I think there is nothing wrong with providing historical context in the history section for any article and, in fact, believe that is a good thing to do (provided the context does not overwhelm the main topic). Timelines should generally have less context information than prose, though, and should be closer to the main topic. The biggest concern here is that this is not a list article so a detailed timeline like this is not really the best thing to do. A general prose history of the county would be better (with context as appropriate). If the timeline is really important I would say either:

Include it as a table off to the side of the history section (but it would need to be a lot shorter), or
Make a separate article Timeline of the history of Hamilton_County, Texas (probably not appropriate).

--Mcorazao (talk) 21:54, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I rewrote the list of events as a past-tense narrative, following the style of other county articles. I retained non-county events that were relevent to Hamilton county, but omitted the ones that were too global in scope. — Loadmaster (talk) 20:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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