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Chinese inventions

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Hi Halpo and welcome to Wikipedia,

You definitely have some valid points there, especially regarding redundancy and repetition. My main concern is that the deleted information is not repeated per se. A better approach, I believe, is to consolidate all the scattered non-Chinese-related into a few sentences either at the end or at the beginning of the paragraph rather than have them all over the place. What do you think?

Cheers, Λuα (Operibus anteire) 19:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Looks perfect. Nicely done.
Thanks! Cheers, Λuα (Operibus anteire) 16:08, 13 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Prehistoric warfare

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  • If you read the source cited, it discusses only tribal societies in the present day (i.e. roughly, the Iron Age). I can move it to its own "Modern Age" section if you prefer. Wolfdog (talk) 23:47, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
    • Also, the reason I inserted the deliberate phrase "modern-day" is because this is, after all, an article on prehistoric warfare and I'm trying to avoid easy confusion. The entire section "Endemic Warfare" in fact seems irrelevant to this article. Wolfdog (talk) 23:52, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Right. That's why I said "roughly" and offered the "Modern Age" alternative. In either case, what do you think of the fact that "Endemic Warfare" has its own page yet still has its own section included on the "Prehistoric warfare" page. The sources listed point to modern tribes, not prehistoric ones. I was willing to incorporate endemic warfare issues into a section on the modern age, but otherwise it doesn't seem to fit for this article at all. 20:26, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
I see the section on the talk page, and I'll comment on it. When you say that "the warring societies themselves were not historical," do you mean "the warring societies themselves had not developed a system of written history"? That seems to me a very unusual (and maybe problematic) way to use the term "historical." I think most of the Wikipedia audience would not consider any societies existing today to be "prehistoric" as implied by your sense of the word "historical." I'm mostly talking about the wording here. A "prehistoric society" most widely means "a society existing before the advent of societies with writing systems," but using it to mean "a society that has not yet invented a writing system" seems unfairly presumptive, as if all societies like this will inevitably "advance" into a society with a writing system, which would be a clear sign of our own cultural bias. If this is the definition you're using and the bias were false, then we wouldn't even say "prehistoric(al)"; instead, we'd just neutrally say "non-historical." The word "prehistoric" used all throughout this article, according to your writing system-based definition of "historical" (if I've got that right), specifically implies "before writing has arisen in any given society itself." Wolfdog (talk) 01:10, 29 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, I see what you mean. I just figured that endemic warfare would already be included in each Age section anyway. Wolfdog (talk) 22:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Replied on article talk page. -- Paulscrawl (talk) 08:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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