Talk:Jewish history in Colonial America
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[edit] Title
History of Jews in the United States (under English rule) is an anachronistic title as there was no United States prior to the American Revolution. AndyL 02:20, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sam, this is a disgusting comment! IZAK 03:21, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The current title Jewish history in Colonial America is problematic, too, though. "Colonial America" should include Canada, and arguably the Caribbean and even Latin America. Maybe Jewish history in the Thirteen Colonies? -- Jmabel | Talk 09:49, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Lead section
So far, this article has no lead section. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:45, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal to merge the article
I propose that this article be merged into History of the Jews in the United States, as it primarily deals with the area that ended up becoming the United States. Indeed, the latter article does deal with this subject as well -- really leaving very little benefit to this article, if at all. brozen 08:03, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
- But this is already rather long, and more likely to grow than to shrink. Why would we want to make it part of a larger, merged article? -- Jmabel | Talk
- I don't see this as a matter of length, but as a matter of appropriateness of actual difference between the two articles in subject matter. Can you cite a major difference between the two articles in the actual topics they discuss? I'm having problems with that part and I don't have a problem with a long article that is very well researched and thorough (this is an encyclopedia, after all...). brozen 18:58, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
- We often take coherent subjects out of a longer article to form their own articles, trying to keep each article to no more than about 32K of visible text. In this case, it seems this has already effectively happened. Why reverse it? The appropriate way to go would be to shorten up the British colonial part of History of the Jews in the United States to a section of about three paragraphs, and use {{main}} or some such to refer people to this article for detail on that period. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:09, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
I have done a major cleanup of this article for clarity. I deleted all the references to estimated population size as they all reflected 1905 estimates. Also a lot of the article does talk about post-colonial Jewish settlements, so perhaps a renaming or merging of the article should be revisited. --FeanorStar7 09:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
