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Richard Cooke (February 17, 2020).
"Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet". Wired. Retrieved February 27, 2020. By contrast, Wikipedia's article on Napoleon sits at around 18,000 words long and runs to more than 350 sources.
I really think we need to have another conversation about the family members in the infobox. It’d be good to have another talk about it with more editors involved. The “consensus” to remove valuable information from the infobox for no valid reason is being upheld by the same 2 or 3 editors, and those same few revert any edits that go against their “consensus.” I would give a detailed explanation as to why I think the family info removed should be restored but I’ve already done so in my previous conversation in the talk page, which went nowhere. I’m bringing it up again because I believe most editors would agree to restore the info, but perhaps aren’t aware of this discussion or aren’t passionate enough about it to create the conversation, I’m hoping more editors will get involved to change this ridiculous infobox. Kind regards, Robertus Pius (
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Contribs)19:57, 8 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I agree I think it's a bit unreasonable to exclude his parents and progeny from the Infobox, considering Napoleon's quite important for the late Bonaparte dynasty. I agree to to list his children and parents in the infobox. I know that Aemilius Adolphin prefered the minimalist approach, but I agree with Robertus, legend, Векочел, and others that it's quite important for the infobox.
128.62.179.178 (
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20:03, 17 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I’ve given up trying to change the infobox. Hopefully one day another editor will start up the conversation again as this infobox quite frankly, is ridiculous. Robertus Pius (
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Contribs)23:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I have changed the the following sentence in the lead: "Napoleon brought modernizing reforms to France and Western Europe, stimulating the development of
nation states."To: Napoleon brought modernizing reforms to France and Western Europe, and the upheavals of the period stimulated the development of nation states." It wasn't the modernising reforms in themselves that stimulated the development of the nation states, it was a much more complicated amalgam of revolutionary ideas, the unintended consequences of his reoganisation of Europe and a result of his enemies using patriotism as a weapon of war against him. The last thing Napoleon wanted was a unified Germany on his border, an independent Italy, and a Battle of the Nations.
If this article is a DGA, it goes from A-class to B-class (unless the reassessment indicates it is not sufficient to meet B class). If it is no longer GA, it can no longer be A. I have made the adjustments in the banner to reflect B class.
Cinderella157 (
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23:17, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply
A couple of editors have extensively rewritten the lead, adding quite a lot of detail. I think it is generally better written than the previous version, but it tries to cram in too much detail and too many links leading to an almost unreadable
sea of blue. I have cut some of the detail but I think it should be condensed much more in order to make it a high level summary of the main points of the article, rather than an attempt to rewrite the entire article in four paragraphs.
The article previously used a roughly 50-50 mix of {{sfn}} and {{sfnp}}. I have standardised the sfns on the latter following personal preference but have no objection changing them all to the former if there's a consensus for that instead – I just think that the style should be the same throughout. There are also one or two plain-text (non-templated) references to convert, which I will do shortly. Best,
Wham2001 (
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20:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Done, but inevitably some of the sources are missing. If anybody can work out what the following sfns refer to:
Just stumbled across the detail on the Lapérouse
page that Napoleon came close to being offered a place on this expedition, which was lost in 1788, and would've had an immeasurable impact on the course of history if he had been gone with it.
This seems worth noting on his page too! The start of the 'Early career' section skips from his 1785 graduation to 1789 in one sentence, a single sentence detailing this near miss would be a valuable addition.
2601:445:800:13F0:69A4:15C2:A62A:606A (
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06:50, 6 July 2024 (UTC)reply
This is already a very long article in which many details have to be omitted. Napoleon wasn't offerred a position on the La Perouse expedition. Unfortunately, we don't have the space to record events that didn't happen.
Aemilius Adolphin (
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07:04, 6 July 2024 (UTC)reply