RuneScape:Requests for merging/History

History and historical timeline
Hello there. Some of you may be aware of the project I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. Now that it's - finally, may I add - nearing it's end, I think it's time for this RfM I'd planned. So, currently we have two pages chronicling the "history of everything". One is History; an obsolete, relatively short, boring and unimaginative article. The other is Historical timeline; an even more obsolete, incredibly unattractive, inaccurate and generally crappy collection of tables. As you will have noticed, my project is a rewrite of this latter page. However, I propose (after some second opinions from Ansela and Suppa) that the two pages be merged. Honestly, there is no point in having them simultaneously on the wiki.

My plan, should this RfM succeed, is to replace the History page with the (finished (obviously)) contents of my Lab page and have Historical timeline redirect to it. Frankly, I believe the best way to present such an extensive amount of historical historyness is via short entries in tables (with some images to make sure it doesn't look dull) rather than enormous paragraphs of boring text, which, face it, is what the History page would become if reworked (reworked while keeping its current format, that is). Basically, if an organised overview of history, because that's what the tables would be, exists, there is no need for massive textwalls to accompany it. Hence my suggestion to get rid of History in its current state and replace it with what I'm working on.

In summary, copy-paste User:Fswe1/Laboratory2 onto history (once it is finished) and redirect historical timeline to history. Note that, should this RfM pass before the work is finished, I suggest that nothing happens until it's finished, in which case I'll take care of the merging (since this case wouldn't require admin tools). Stuff like table formatting can always be done; I think the current layout of Lab2 works. 18:40, December 3, 2013 (UTC)