Talk:Alfred the Great
May I respectfully request that something be done about the Category "UK Monarchs"? It is just plain wrong to have someone who died 900 years before the creation of the United Kingdom(and who was not even king of a united England included in this Category. I have moaned about this elsewhere, and if able to edit the Category page I would do so. The British Royalty website has the monarchs listed under "England" up to the Stuarts and UK for Stuarts to the present.
The articles I am doing on the medieval kings I am categorising as Monarchs of England. May I suggest that there be three categories: Anglo-Saxon, England and UK; each cross linked with the others? I intend doing a list of the Kings of the Scots. That will make even more of a mockery of the "UK' tag before 1603. I am going to copy this onto the Category page. Sorry to be a boor, but.....AlanE 19:39, 11 June 2007 (EDT)
- This is an encyclopedia, therefore your personal opinion, or mine, means nothing. These [1] & [2] seem to indicate he was King of England, as the term is known now. --Sysop-TK /MyTalk 19:48, 11 June 2007 (EDT)
- TK, I think AlanE is referring to the fact that Alfred the Great could not have been a UK Monarch, since the United Kingdom wasn't formed until ~900 years after his reign. He would fall under the "Anglo-Saxon Monarchs" category suggested above. --Colest 20:03, 11 June 2007 (EDT)