Talk:Golden age (metaphor)

Cut and paste move

This page appears to be the product of a cut-and-paste move; the content was previously at Golden age. And why the capitalization here of "Age"? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:20, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Why not? Is it a spelling mistake? Pictureuploader 21:34, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Because our standard is that other than the initial letter of an article name, we only capitalize if the word would normally be capitalized (like in a proper noun). -- Jmabel | Talk 23:15, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

"Ages" are usually capitolized however - for example see Category:Periods and stages in archaeology for Bronze Age and Stone Age j-beda 16:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

China

"Chinese Golden Age, around 1000 AD. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Han Dynasty" was recently anonymously changed without comment to "Chinese Golden Age, around 1000 AD. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty" (emphasis mine). I don't know enough to clear this up, our articles are stubs. 1000 AD would be a bit late for Tang Dynasty. Does someone have something citable? -- Jmabel | Talk 23:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Merger

I've created Golden Age (disambiguation) which seems like the clearest place for all the disambiguation stuff to live, so I removed that section from Golden Age (metaphor). We should probably redirect The Golden Age to Golden Age (disambiguation), rather than "merge" it with Golden Age (metaphor). So to be clear, I vote no merge. j-beda 17:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the redirect, as long as care is taken that no info is lost. Cvj2000 15:22, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Capitalization

The capitalization here is inconsistent: the title spells "Golden Age" while the opening sentence says "golden age". Which is correct? Nabbia (talk) 17:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Value judgements

While the concept of a Golden Age always involves a value judgement, here the article leaves unclear who or what tradition considers these to be "golden ages". Consider these expressions in the article:

• "Han, Tang, Song, and Ming all considered golden ages in Chinese history." By whom and why?
• "The Chinese Golden Age is used to refer to the period of the Tang and Song Dynasties from 618 to 1279, which saw an economic revolution." And who uses the term?
• "Golden age of Christian Monasticism"... "Understood to be a Golden age in the European continent of strictly religious matters, and not in comparison to other Golden ages of the era." Understood by whom and in comparison to what?
• "The "Golden Age of England" is the Elizabethan Era" According to whom? The article on the Elizabethan era merely states that "The Victorian era and the early 20th century idealised the Elizabethan era."
• "The "Golden Age of Britain" is the Victorian Era" According to whom? The article on the Victorian era attributes the statement to one Bernard Porter, but it is unclear what his area of study is.
• "The Genroku era (1688–1704) in Japan is widely considered a "golden age" for literature, drama, and the arts" Why exactly and by whom? The article on Genroku also makes that statement without any citation.
• "The Golden Twenties, the 1920s in Europe, the Roaring Twenties were the American equivalent" Who exactly terms these to be golden ages? The article on the Golden Twenties mostly deals with cultural developments in the Weimar Republic between 1923 and 1929, an all too brief era. The Roaring Twenties article mentions financial prosperity, but makes no mention of any reputation of the era in later generations.
• "In the United States, multiple periods in the 20th century are considered, usually from 1945-1963." Considered by whom and why this 18-year period?

I find the state of the article surprisingly poor for such a widely used concept. Dimadick (talk) 00:25, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

I removed the POV tag because it normally suggests a bias problem. The main problem noted by Dimadick is not one of bias or point of view, but rather that the list of metaphoric Golden Ages has no citations showing who considers them golden and why. Some list items are supported by links to other Wikipedia articles, which though not specifically mentioning the phrase golden age do document the age's cultural or economic importance, e.g. Elizabethan and Victorian England. What I think what this article most needs is incremental improvement of documentation of most of the listed golden ages, and removal of a few alleged golden ages for which no reliable source of its alleged importance can be found, rather than correction of a point-of-view problem.CharlesHBennett (talk) 04:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

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