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I would like to suggest an end date for the "Late Modern Period."
one problem with this, of course, is that the term "late modern" itself intrinsically suggests that it is still ongoing, as it is the "modern" period in which we all live. However, I would suggest that the "late modern period" was actually a period with a beginning and an end, and was typified by the great conflicts of the 20th century, starting with the Franco-Prussian War as a precursuor, and then of course World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.
I would submit that the "Late Modern Period" was succeeded by the "Information Age" which in fact is now the current period in which we all live. Obviously, one next step would be to find some published sources for this premise. equally obviously, clearly this is not a question that needs to be resolved immediately. presumably, people, may happen upon this question a decade or two from now. at some point, this question of delineating the "late modern period" from whatever comes next will in fact become more relevant. I am simply introducing this question for some initial discussion, if possible. I may also post this question at WP:Pump. I welcome any comments. thanks. ---Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 14:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
yay, I hope you actually read all of this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:6581:1400:F11D:838F:877C:B79 (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
explain the late modern era 131.226.65.211 (talk) 22:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Can someone provide sources for the term "late modern period"? Peter Isotalo 20:00, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
This article does not provide any sources to justify its existence despite being around for a very long time. There are no reliable sources justifying its existence as a separate topic rather than simply being described as part of the modern period. Peter Isotalo 08:40, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've raised the problems in this and the related articles modern era, early modern period and modernity in Wikiproject History. Thread can be found here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History#Modernity articles are a hot mess
I recommend a joint discussion for all these articles since they seem to suffer from very similar issues. Peter Isotalo 13:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
as stated in this edit, please discuss any major removals or deletions here before doing them. here is my comment on the recent edit to undo: with respect, the burden is _not_ on me to explain why we should _not_ have bulk removals here with no discussion first on talk page. and also Wikipedia is _full_ of Passages that are technically "unsourced." if I wrote that "Shakespeare wrote Hamlet," then no one would ask me for a source. most world history topics similary do not have a source for every fact stated.
. thanks.
Also, this discussion did occur in a limited form on WP:HIST talk page. the actual specific material to remove was not discussed there, however. let me say publicly that these removals were in fact in good faith, and this editor has certain specific reasons for these edits. i would encourage a constructive discussion here, to clarify and resolve this issue. --Sm8900 (talk) 20:40, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hi everyone. I seem to be late to this party, but I strongly agree with a lot of points made by Peter Isotalo, particularly with regards to the article Late modern period. It is an WP:UNSOURCED WP:OR WP:SYNTH WP:FAIL WP:COATRACK mess that probably fails WP:GNG. I've done some initial cleanups, but I'm afraid we should either:
As noted by Peter and others, so far, none of the sources actually mentions late modern period, nor the subject of periodisation more generally. It just provides confirmation of specific, but otherwise trivial claims made in the article that event X happened in year Y (e.g. the Soviet Union disintegrating in 1991), but we know all that. What is missing here is any RS from a historiographer arguing why that should be demarcate the end of this so-called late modern period or not. Just saying one could take 1991 as some sort of turning point is plain WP:OR, and referring to a source that only confirms the USSR fell in 1991 is committing WP:SYNTH. (How synthful![Joke]). Phil Bridger's suggestion to do a search on Google Scholar for RS is a good one. I've done two, with a variation in spelling, limited to sources from onwards per WP:AGEMATTERS:
The results are underwhelming. I'm a historian by training, and I've never really heard of the term late modern period before stumbling upon the article Late modern period today, but I expected at least some decent sources in Google Scholar. Instead, what I'm getting is a majority of articles, papers or book chapters that are mostly about linguistics of the English, Scottish and Irish English languages; it seems that the term late modern period is only common in that field, not in historiography. There are also sporadic mentions in other fields like literature, urban planning, art, religious studies, and military analysis, but again only in passing. Only a casual observer, a non-scholar, might look at a commonly-used term like early modern period, and therefore conclude there must also be a late modern period, regardless of whether that is a term actually commonly used in historiography (or any other field) as well. As Peter said: It might seem logical that "early modern" and "late modern" are used the same way as, say, Early Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages, but that's not the case. (...). What's sorely lacking is content on scholarly discussions about periodization as such. That's why we've wound up with our own definitions.
That said, I agree with SnowFire and Sm8900 that, unlike late modern period, the term early modern period is commonly used and accepted (including during my history studies). Early modern period easily passes WP:GNG. But for late modern period, that is not so clear-cut. As Thebiguglyalien suggested, it should have WP:NOPAGE if there aren't enough WP:RS, because then it is considered WP:OR: I think we should seriously discuss which of the three options I mentioned above (1 AFD, 2 DP, 3 strict limitation to historiography, throwing everything else out) is the best to follow here. I tagged most users in the previous discussions that I found to have valuable comments and insights (I hope you don't mind me doing so, but otherwise you might not notice my comment after this discussion has gone dormant for several months) to ask your thoughts on these options. The status quo is evidently untenable, but the discussions above and the state of the article itself also show we've got some unfinished business here. If nobody responds, I'll just WP:BOLDly gradually start throwing more irrelevant unsourced or synth stuff out according to option 3. We could always decide to go for 1 or 2 with what remains. Good day to everyone. NLeeuw (talk) 14:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Copied from centralised discussion per request made by Sm8900. Pinging other possibly interested users from previous discussions @Peter Isotalo, Thebiguglyalien, and SnowFire:. Happy to hear your thoughts on the future of this article, given the discussions above. Good evening. NLeeuw (talk) 21:12, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
In this conceptualization, Western history was divided into three periods – ancient, medieval (a word derived from the Latin), and modern. This three-part schema is still the primary way of organizing Western history.McKay et al. A History of Western Society, 9th Edition, p. 223. Never mentions "late modern", not even "early modern". (Btw 'ancient' and 'modern' are Latin words as well, which apparently didn't occur to the authors, but mkay).
I need to stress that cultural histories never follow the strict terminology used by the modern traditional political histories. Moreover, for various reasons categories like 'the Middle Ages', the 'Early Modern Period' and 'Contemporary History', long in use, are more or less inadequate, if not actually misleading.P. Rietbergen, Europe, A Cultural History, 2nd Edition 2006, Introduction. The author chose not to follow these 'long-used categories' from established political historiography, as he found them inadequate for cultural historiography, but thereby acknowledged that this is how mainstream political historiography periodised time. Where the early modern period ends, contemporary history begins. This is just splitting McKay et al.'s
modernperiod in two, namely
early modernand
contemporary, or
modernproper. Evidently,
late modernis just a rare, non-standard synonym of
contemporary, or
modernproper.
I discovered there was a thread all the way back from 2007[1] that pointed out that "late modern period" was a Wikipedia-generated neologism. It got wiped in one of several moves and redirects and was buried in the history. I've added the full thread below. Peter Isotalo 22:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hypothetical "Late" Modern TimesThanks Flammingo for your Welcome on my user-page.
On the topic: Google is an indication, not more not less. However several hundred (mostly Wikipedia replica) results are unsignificant. Not random, not guessing.
Reference[2] don't give any Reference for this hypothetical foreign language use, no source. Even if you'll find one, this would be an individual, not a largely recognized use.
As regards content: "Late Modern Times" ? And afterwards: "Latest Modern Times" ??.
French historians for example continue till nowadays, to designate fr:Histoire contemporaine all the history since end 18th century.
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I hate to break it to everybody, but this page was not movedinthis October 2022 RM, so there's a community RFC-level consensus binding it in place, and really only a follow up RM or RFC should have abrogated this. Iskandar323 (talk) 19:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply