Talk:Timeline of historic inventions
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[edit]Twitch
[edit]Besides Twitch not being the first 'live streaming service' (that was Camarades in 1998, closely followed by Spotlife) I don't think such almost commercial advertising and history rewriting has a place on Wikipedia. The same goes for the mentions of various other brands.
For a reference see: https://jacquesmattheij.com/story-behind-wwcom-camaradescom/
178.85.82.160 (talk) 18:55, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Potassium nitrate military use in the Seleucid Empire
[edit]The cited source for this claim doesn't appear to actually support this statement. The book mentions that the Arabs had a word for potassium nitrate, and that there was evidence of military use in ancient India, but doesn't mention the Seleucid Empire anywhere in the book (as far as I can tell)
I don't know if the claim is true or not but for what it's worth I can't find any other evidence online to support it. I believe it should be marked 'Verify source' 32.221.25.105 (talk) 05:56, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
Criteria for inclusion?
[edit]I think it would help considerably if we could develop criteria for inclusion on this page and state those criteria in the lede. The current selections follow no rhyme or reason that I can discern, and while I am tempted to make sweeping changes, I'm sure each editor having their own standard in mind is how we ended up in this mess. So I've come to the talk page. 166.181.87.25 (talk) 04:59, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- A draft, off the top of my head, to maybe serve as a starting point for discussion:
This page lists nonincremental inventions that are widely recognized by reliable sources as having had a direct impact on the course of history that was profound, global, and enduring.
- Under this proposal, for instance, we would remove "ejection seats" from the page (unless there is something even more historically significant about them than I am aware of), but, in the same general area, would add an entry like "UAVs" on the grounds that drone warfare is considered a major global development by a sizeable number of historians, and we could back that up with WP:RSs. 166.181.87.25 (talk) 05:24, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
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