Encyclopedia:WikiProject Military history

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File:WPMILHIST-composite-logo.png Template:Shortcut Welcome to the Military history WikiProject! We are a group of Wikipedia editors that work on topics related to military history, theory, and practice. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on our discussion page or by contacting the project coordinators directly. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|What do we do?}} Our goal is to build the foremost free-content encyclopedia of military history in the English language by: Creating, improving, and maintaining articles that describe all aspects of military history; Providing guidelines and recommendations for editors working on military history articles; and Serving as the central point of discussion for all issues related to military history on English Wikipedia. We are currently working towards five major milestones: Assessment progression Template:Progression rainbow

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|How can you help?}} You don't have to join our project to work on military history articles. We welcome everyone who wants to help improve these topics, and encourage you—project member or not—to participate in all of our activities and take complete advantage of the support we offer. Our list of open tasks contains thousands of articles that need different types of improvement. Article reviews and other discussions can be found on our list of article alerts (watch). Please feel free to select something that interests you and start editing! If you would like to advertise your participation, you can formally join the project by adding your name to the list of members, or by adding one of our userboxes to your user page. Whether or not you join the project, you can sign up to receive our monthly newsletter, The Bugle, by adding your user name to this list.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|What topics do we cover?}} We generally consider any article related to historical or modern-day warfare or military affairs to be within our scope.<ref group="Note">The American usage of "military" is applicable here; in other words, the project concerns itself with any armed forces rather than only with land armies.</ref> Most of our work focuses on eight broad areas: Military operations, battles, campaigns, and wars.<ref group="Note">Other than a requirement for military or paramilitary involvement, we do not limit the events to which terms such as "war" or "battle" are applied; it is generally enough for the term to be used by reliable sources. Editors should beware, however, of interpreting such usage too literally; the popular media often uses them to describe civil law enforcement matters such as "gang wars" or "street battles", which are not typically within our scope.</ref> Military personnel, including both leaders and common soldiers, as well as other people involved in military affairs.<ref group="Note">Military service does not in and of itself place an individual within the scope of the project—particularly in the case of service in modern militaries. To qualify them, an individual's military service must have been somehow noteworthy or have contributed—directly or indirectly—to their notability.</ref> Military units and formations, ranging from small units to national armed forces. Military equipment and technology, weapons, armour, and vehicles. Military facilities and structures, such as fortifications, bases, test sites, and memorials. Military historiography, publications, and historians. Types and periods of warfare, the military histories of particular nations and groups, and general military science and doctrine. Depictions of military history in all media, such as video games, painting, sculpture, music, film, poetry, and prose.<ref group="Note">We generally cover only those depictions for which a discussion of historical accuracy or real military influence is applicable. A distinction is made between fictionalized depictions of historical warfare and purely invented depictions of fictional warfare; topics sufficiently divorced from actual history that a discussion of actual military history would no longer be relevant to them—such as futuristic warfare in Star Wars or fantasy battles in Lord of the Rings—are not considered to be within the project's scope. However, songs and music with long military associations—for example, It's a long way to Tipperary and Lili Marleen—are within our scope.</ref> {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|What advice can we offer?}} We maintain advice pages on content and notability related to military history articles, and there is a formal style guideline as well: The content guide provides advice on article content and structure. The notability guide provides advice on the notability of topics. The military history style guideline covers naming conventions, usage and style, sourcing and citation, templates, and categories. In addition, our Academy offers training and instruction on a wide range of subjects related to military history and Wikipedia. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|Who coordinates our project?}} {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators}}

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Section header|How is our project organized?}} We have organized activities within the project under four main departments: The assessment department determines and tracks the quality of military history articles. The contest department offers a form of friendly competition to motivate editors. The coordination department maintains the project's internal structure and processes. The incubator department host new groups and initiatives within the project. A group of project members are currently undertaking a special project called Operation Majestic Titan which aims to create the largest featured topic on Wikipedia, covering every modern battleship ever planned or built. Previous special projects have included work on the American Civil War, World War I and the D-Day landings. We also maintain task forces to organize collaboration on particular military history topics: General topics Fortifications · Intelligence · Maritime warfare · Military aviation · Military biography · Military culture, traditions, and heraldry · Military historiography · Military land vehicles · Military logistics and medicine · Military memorials and cemeteries · Military science, technology and theory · National militaries · War films · Weaponry Nations and regions African · Asian · Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific · Balkan · Baltic states · British · Canadian · Chinese · Dutch · European · French · German · Indian · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Middle Eastern · Nordic · North American · Ottoman · Polish · Roman and Byzantine · Russian, Soviet and CIS · South American · South Asian · Southeast Asian · Spanish · United States Periods and conflicts Classical warfare · Medieval warfare · Early Muslim military history · Crusades · Early Modern warfare · Wars of the Three Kingdoms · American Revolutionary War · Napoleonic era · American Civil War · World War I · World War II · Cold War · Post-Cold War