Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history
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Welcome to theMilitary history WikiProject!We are agroupof Wikipedia editors that work on topics related tomilitary history,theory,and practice. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them onour discussion pageor by contactingthe project coordinatorsdirectly.
Our goal is to build the foremost free-content encyclopedia of military history in the English language by:
We are currently working towards five major milestones:
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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. Ourlist of open taskscontains thousands of articles that need different types of improvement. Article reviews and other discussions can be found on ourlist 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 byadding your nameto thelist of members,or by adding one of ouruserboxesto 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 tothis list. |
We generally consideranyarticle related to historical or modern-day warfare or military affairs to be within our scope.[Note 1] Most of our work focuses on eight broad areas:
We maintain advice pages oncontentandnotabilityrelated to military history articles, and there is a formal style guideline as well:
In addition, ourAcademyoffers training and instruction on a wide range of subjects related to military history and Wikipedia.
Theproject coordinatorsare the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers.
To contact the coordinators, please leave a message on thecoordinators' discussion page,or use the{{@MILHIST}}notificationtemplate on any other discussion page on Wikipedia. |
We have organized activities within the project under four main departments:
A group of project members are currently undertaking a special project calledOperationMajestic Titanwhich aims to create the largest featured topic on Wikipedia, covering every modern battleship ever planned or built. Previous special projects have included work on theAmerican Civil War,World War Iand theD-Day landings. We also maintain task forces to organize collaboration on particular military history topics:
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