Proposal for a clear relationship between Category:Centuries in Germany and Category:Centuries in the Holy Roman Empire

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Background information: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_April_8#997_establishments_in_Germany.

The key notion underlying this proposal is that we should distinct between imperial history and local history. Note that we already categorize local history in current country categories e.g. Category:12th century in Switzerland.

  • Imperial history would also include clashes between duchies and counties if is concerns a struggle for imperial power.
  • Local history would also include clashes between duchies and counties if there is only a local significance.

Proposal - for example for the 12th century:

Category:12th century in the Holy Roman Empire

Category:12th century in Germany

Same way not only about centuries but also about decades and years. (However, I wouldn't expect a subdivision in decades or years would be useful for the proposed categories of the 16 current states.)

Please note that this proposal does not require any merge, rename or delete action. It would require creating new categories though (namely century categories for the 16 states).

Please share your comments. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:57, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this actually an issue? Or are we just anticipating an issue? I realize that we should not consider the HRE and Germany as one and the same; territories were added and deleted over time. But it was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, so.... I suspect defining some categories as "local history" only would confuse people. I'm an historian of Germany and it would confuse me. How about Central Europe? auntieruth (talk) 20:15, 22 May 2015 (UTC)Reply