Talk:Timeline of the Samnite Wars

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template for list

This template: {| class="wikitable" width="100%" | width="20%" bgcolor="#ccccff" | '''Battle''' | width="45%" bgcolor="#ccccff" | '''Details''' | width="35%" bgcolor="#ccccff" | '''Ancient sources''' |- |- |-valign="top" |rowspan="2" | '''[[Battle of xxxx]]''' ([[date]]) | short prose description | primary (ancient) sources |- |colspan="2"| '''Scientific literature''': * {{citebook|author=A.N. Author |title=Booktitle |publisher=Academic Press|date=19xx|pages=000-000}} |- |- |}
Produces this table:

Battle	Details	Ancient sources
Battle of xxxx (date)	short prose description	all surviving primary (ancient) sources
Battle of xxxx (date)	Scientific literature: A.N. Author (19xx). Booktitle. Academic Press. p. 000. `{{cite book}}`: `\|author=` has generic name (help); Check date values in: `\|date=` (help) (the best secondary sources should be used; for practical purposes, we should limit ourselves to two or three items; if a better item can be found, it should replace the least authoritative of what is here)

Scope of the article

I've started with the themes of "military campaigns of the Middle Republic" and then limited it to the "Samnite Wars" and was thinking of seeing how it went and scaling it back up as appropriate. I wonder whether the focus shouldn't be expanded to, say, "chronology of the Samnite Wars", which would allow for more than a list of battles. Semperf 17:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]