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We generally consider any article 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:
- Military operations, battles, campaigns, and wars.[Note 2]
- Military personnel, including both leaders and common soldiers, as well as other people involved in military affairs.[Note 3]
- 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.[Note 4]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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What advice can we offer?
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We maintain three sets of formal guidelines for articles related to military history:
- The content guide covers article content and structure.
- The notability guide covers the notability of topics.
- The style guide 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.
Who coordinates our project?
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The project coordinators are 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.
- Lead coordinator
- Dank
- Coordinators
- Adamdaley, Buggie111, EyeSerene, Hawkeye7, HJ Mitchell, Ian Rose, MisterBee1966, Nick-D, Nikkimaria, Sp33dyphil, Sturmvogel 66, The ed17
- Coordinators emeritus
- Kirill Lokshin, Roger Davies
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How is our project organized?
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We have organized activities within the project under four main departments:
We are undertaking four special projects to reach specific article improvement goals:
- Operation Brothers at War aims to bring all core topics related to the American Civil War to featured status in time for their 150th anniversary.
- Operation Great War Centennial aims to bring all core topics related to World War I to featured status by the centenary of the war.
- Operation Majestic Titan aims to create the largest featured topic on Wikipedia, covering every modern battleship ever planned or built.
- Operation Normandy aims to bring all core topics related to the Battle of Normandy to featured status by its 70th anniversary.
We also maintain task forces to organize collaboration on particular military history topics:
- General topics
- Fortifications · Intelligence · Maritime warfare · Military aviation · Military biography · Military historiography · Military land vehicles · Military memorials and cemeteries · Military science and technology · National militaries · War films · Weaponry
- Nations and regions
- African military history · Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history · Balkan military history · Baltic states military history · British military history · Canadian military history · Chinese military history · Dutch military history · French military history · German military history · Italian military history · Japanese military history · Korean military history · Latin American military history · Middle Eastern military history · Nordic military history · Ottoman military history · Polish military history · Russian, Soviet and CIS military history · South Asian military history · Southeast Asian military history · Spanish military history · United States military history
- 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
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