Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history

Welcome to the Military history WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on our discussion page. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of project members!

• To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of military history in the English language.
• To improve coverage of military history by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
• To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to military history in Wikipedia.

Currently, there are 413 featured articles, 60 featured lists, 9 featured topics, 172 featured pictures, 9 featured sounds, 10 featured portals, and 206 A-Class articles within the scope of the project.

We are working towards the following milestones:

We are also undertaking two special projects:

• Operation Great War Centennial: an initiative to bring all core topics related to World War I to featured status by the centenary of the war.
• Operation Majestic Titan: an initiative to create the largest featured topic on Wikipedia, covering every modern battleship ever planned or built.

The project includes several departments, which host work on specialized tasks:

• The assessment department, which focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's military history articles, generating statistics to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
• The contest department, which aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them.
• The logistics department, which acts as a clearing house where editors' technical skills and resources can be matched to article needs, providing the specialist assistance editors may need to call upon to improve their articles.
• The review department, which conducts both informal peer reviews of articles and other content and formal reviews for A-Class status, and provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.

The project also contains 52 task forces, which are established, formal groups for collaboration on specific topics within military history, as well as 10 working groups, which are informal clusters of editors working on a single topic within a task force.

The project generally considers any article related to historical or modern-day warfare or military affairs to be within its scope. (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.)

Our primary work covers eight broad areas:

1. Military operations, battles, campaigns, and wars.
2. Military personnel, including both leaders and common soldiers, as well as other people involved in military affairs.

   Note that 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.

3. Military units and formations, ranging from small units to entire national militaries.
4. Military equipment and technology, weapons, armour, and vehicles.
5. Military facilities and structures, such as fortifications, military bases, test sites, and military memorials.
6. Military historiography, publications, and historians.
7. Types and periods of warfare, the military histories of particular nations and groups, and general military science and doctrine.
8. Depictions of military history in all media, such as video games, painting, sculpture, music, film, poetry, and prose.

   Note that the project generally covers only those depictions for which a discussion of historical accuracy or real military influence is applicable. A distinction is therefore 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—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 the project's scope.

The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:

1. Naming conventions
2. Notability
3. Article content
4. Usage and style
5. Sourcing and citation
6. Templates
7. Categories

All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.

The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.

Lead coordinator 

TomStar81

Coordinators 

Abraham, B.S., Cam, Eurocopter, EyeSerene, Ian Rose, Joe N, Juliancolton, Maralia, MBK004, Nick-D, Parsecboy, Sturmvogel 66, The ed17, Woody

Coordinators emeritus 

Kirill Lokshin, Roger Davies

More detailed descriptions of the coordinators' responsibilities, the history of the positions, and the process by which coordinators are selected may also be of some interest.