Talk:Horrible Histories

Move?

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The result of the move request was: not moved. No support here for the revert. DrKiernan (talk) 18:43, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Horrible Histories → Horrible Histories (franchise) –

• Reverse a recent move which was listed as uncontroversial. And redirect Horrible Histories to Horrible Histories (book series). (Request in my user talk page by a user who says that the book series is the primary meaning.)relisted Tiggerjay (talk) 20:11, 14 April 2013 (UTC) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:02, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose - ghits suggests that both are about the same in usage in the prior 90 days, about 11k and 12k each. So there is no clear PRIMARYTOPIC here, however since the franchise is the bigger scope (parent entity) it would make sense for it to have the simpler name, and have the book series be the one requiring parenthetical disambiguation. Tiggerjay (talk) 06:35, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

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The comments under "Historical accuracy" don't seem to be really about the accuracy of the show, but more about whether it's good educational material, or even good. And why do we have the opinions of a politician who's never even seen the program?125.230.97.217 (talk) 05:53, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Spin offs

The "Boring Bible" book series is listed as a spin-off in the footer to the Horrible Histories page. But as far as I can see the Boring Bible series is merely inspired by the Horrible... series; different publishers and authors trying to use the same format/concept for a different subject. They're not in any official way related, unlike the Science and Geography series which are all published by Scholastic and more obviously direct spin offs. Much of the Boring Bible page has been written or edited by the author of the books himself. Does the Boring Bible link actually belong in this footer? Edit: After reflection and further research, I've removed the Boring Bible link. Every other spin off book series listed here is published by Scholastic and directly linked to Horrible Histories.

Box in the article is spoiling the alignment of the text

In my opinion, something should be done about the box with text in it in the article as it is affecting the alignment of the text within the article, making the article look unprofessional in my opinion. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 12:37, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

The box contained an extended quotation from a newspaper which I assessed as a copyright violation, so I removed it. Verbcatcher (talk) 19:36, 1 February 2021 (UTC)