Substantive concepts in history

Disciplinary concepts
Procedural concepts
Second-order concepts history

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Wikipedia:Substantive content (geography)

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Substantive content refers to any content in a geographical article that isn't content you could say about any random location on the world, that is to say you could pick a random field or piece of land and provide information for. A common statement for such articles is "no content other than location". Examples include:

Coordinates
Distance from other places
The place's location hierarchy such as municipality, district, state or country
Elevation (unless its the height of a hill etc)

The following are usually substantial content:

Population, if this is from a reliable source like a census then the place is generally presumed to be notable
Facts about what happened in a place or what its known for etc

The following depend on a cases by case basis

Alternative names and former names

Such articles might be created with a bot but this may not get approved if the articles don't contain any substantial content.

Dealing with such articles

If the article doesn't contain any substa

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Find Substantive Sources

The following substantive sources are not subject-specific and cover a range of topics and disciplines.

The Atlantic
The Atlantic is best known as a source of in-depth articles for general audiences on current issues and trends in politics, business, tech, entertainment, health, education, gender issues, and national and global current events. Articles in the magazine often explore several points of view about a topic and reference a variety of useful sources including experts in relevant fields and research studies.
CQ Library
A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923 — each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Harpers
Reporting and commentary on a wide range of social and political subjects and current events in addition to fiction and literature. Known for the “Harper’s Index,” a monthly list of provocative fac
The section organises material on substantive knowledge into four categories: In Substantive concepts, you will find articles which, together, show the traditions of teaching pupils concepts such as ‘power’ and ‘authority’ and period-specific concepts such as ‘peasantry’, ‘parliament’ or ‘communism’. In Chronology, you will find articles that focus on teaching pupils to understand, retain and use basic temporal structures, such as dates and periods, that give them their moorings in a temporal frame of reference. In Long-term knowledge plans, we include material on planning for knowledge to grow over time. Long-term planning is an important part of this section because history teachers have thought hard about how one kind of knowledge strengthens another, across the early secondary years, so that the limited curriculum time available can be best used. Many have addressed the difficult challenge of building broad knowledge by the time pupils leave compulsory history at 13 or 14, or as a foundation f