Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Resources
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This is a list of useful online resources and editing tools for Greece-related topics. Feel free to add more!
Conventions and Policies
[edit]Sources
[edit]All sources must be reliable for the topic to which they are applied; however, this is a minimal condition for use, rather than a final goal. With the exception of certain recent topics that have not yet become the subject of extensive secondary analysis, history articles in general and articles related to Greek history, in particular, should aim to be based primarily on published secondary works by reputable historians. The use of high-quality primary sources is also appropriate, but care should be taken to use them correctly, without straying into original research. Editors are encouraged to extensively survey the available literature—and, in particular, any available historiographic commentary—regarding an article's topic in order to identify every source considered to be authoritative or significant; these sources should, if possible, be directly consulted when writing the article.
The goal of Wikipedia is to become a complete, accurate encyclopedia. Verifiability is an important tool to achieve accuracy, so it is strongly recommended to check facts. However, don't be too keen to remove unverified information at the cost of completeness.
Levels
[edit]- "Piece of information or evidence that was created by someone who witnessed first hand or was part of the historical events that are being described".
These are sources which, usually, are recorded by someone who participated in, witnessed, or lived through the event. These are also usually authoritative and fundamental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published original accounts, published original works, or published original research. Physical objects can be primary sources.
Wikipedia would not ordinarily be considered a primary source (see Wikipedia:No original research). Over time, however, this situation may change as researchers may use, for example, analyses of Wikipedia edits and reversions as evidence of shifts and changes in attitudes and approaches.
- "Piece of writings which were not penned contemporaneously with the events in question".
These are sources which, usually, are accounts, works, or research that analyze, assimilate, evaluate, interpret, and/or synthesize primary sources. These are not as authoritative and are supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published accounts, published works, or published research.
Wikipedia would be considered a secondary source on some occasions.
These are sources which, on average, do not fall into the above two levels. They consist of generalized research of a specific subject under consideration. Tertiary sources are analyzed, assimilated, evaluated, interpreted, and/or synthesized from secondary sources, also. These are not authoritative and are just supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration.
Wikipedia would be considered a tertiary source on some occasions.
Citations
[edit]The nature of historical material requires that articles be thoroughly—even exhaustively—cited. There is no numerical requirement for a particular density of citations or for some predetermined number of citations in an article; editors are expected to use their best judgement as to how much citation is appropriate. When in doubt, cite; additional citations are harmless at worst, and may prove invaluable in the long term. In general, an article may use either footnotes or Harvard-style references; while footnotes may prove more convenient when citation becomes extremely dense, or involves significant additional commentary, the choice of which style to follow is left to the discretion of an article's editors.
Popular culture
[edit]In "popular culture" sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture. If present, the section should be a prose discussion of the subject's cultural significance, cited from reliable sources. In particular, the following should be avoided:
- Compendiums of every trivial appearance of the subject in pop culture (trivia)
- Unsupported speculation about cultural significance or fictional likenesses (original research)
Style
[edit]In historical articles, the past tense is strongly preferred. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events that occurred in the past. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense".
Remain objective as possible. The point and ideal of Wikipedia is to create an encyclopedic neutral body of knowledge. Avoid using the first-person point of view (emphasising the facts; not the editor). Explain the evidence (from the links and references) and explain the reasons of any conclusions.
Article names
[edit]Convention: Use the form most familiar to English speakers. Name pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form.
For ancient Greek names, the latinized forms, e.g. Themistocles, are the norm, except when the name has been further anglicized, e.g. Aristotle. For Byzantine-era names, either the traditional latinized forms or, preferably, the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium forms can be used, e.g. Cantacuzenus (latinized) vs Kantakouzenos (ODB). The first name is given in its anglicized form so far as this exists, i.e. "John" rather than "Ioannes" or "Ioannis". For modern Greek names, unless a specific form is verifiably the common form, phonetic transliteration is to be used, e.g. "Aristotelis Valaoritis" rather than "Aristoteles Balaorites".
Infoboxes
[edit]A number of infoboxes can be used for History related articles. These include {{Infobox person}}, {{Infobox officeholder}} and {{Infobox Military Person}}.
Biography
[edit]Names and titles
[edit]Dates
[edit]The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. If dates used are from the Julian calendar, please make a note as to any differences.
Link references
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Editing tools
[edit]Standardized templates
[edit]| Template | Use |
|---|---|
| {{Infobox person}} | Any biographical article |
| {{Infobox military person}} | Military biographies |
| {{Infobox monarch}} | Monarchs and other rulers or royalty |
| {{Infobox military conflict}} | Battles, wars, etc |
| {{Infobox Greek Dimos}} | Greek towns, cities, municipalities, and villages |
| {{Economy of Greece}} | {{Greeks}} | {{History of Greece}} | {{History of Greek art}} | {{Politics of Greece}} |
| Template | Use |
|---|---|
| {{Greece topics}} | Overview of all Greece-related topics |
| {{Ancient Greece topics}} | Overview of all Ancient Greece-related topics |
| {{Byzantine Empire topics}} | Overview of all Byzantine Empire-related topics |
| {{Heads of state of Greece}} | Overview of the Greek heads of state (kings, presidents, etc) |
| {{Prime Ministers of Greece}} | Overview of the heads of government of modern Greece |
| {{Foreign Ministers of Greece}} | Overview of the foreign ministers of modern Greece |
| {{Current Cabinet of Greece}} | Overview of the members of the Greek Cabinet |
| {{Cabinets of Greece}} | Overview of the cabinets of modern Greece |
| {{Regions of Greece}} | Overview of the Regions of Greece |
| {{Capitals of Regions of Greece}} | Overview of the Greek cities which are capitals of their respective region |
| {{Prefectures of Greece}} | Overview of the Prefectures of Greece |
| {{Prefectural capitals of Greece}} | Overview of the Greek cities which are capitals of their respective prefecture |
| {{World Heritage Sites in Greece}} | Overview of articles containing Greek World Heritage Sites |
| {{Foreign relations of Greece}} | Overview for the foreign relations of Greece articles |
| {{Greek diaspora}} | Overview of the Greek communities around the world |
| {{Greek Military}} | Overview of the Greek Armed Forces |
| {{Greek elections}} | Overview of past elections and referenda |
| {{Greek language}} | Overview of the Greek language |
| {{Constitution of Greece}} | Overview of the Greek Constitution and its historical evolution |
| {{National parks of Greece}} | Overview of the Greek national parks |
| {{National sports teams of Greece}} | Overview of the national sports teams of Greece |
Banners
[edit]- {{WikiProject Greece}} - The banner of the project stating an article falls within the scope of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. For its parameters check Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Project banner.
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Archived}} - for inactive and archived pages
- {{Greek script needed}} - for articles on a person, place, or concept whose name is originally rendered in the Greek alphabet
- These are placed at the bottom of article pages, after the categories
- {{Greece-stub}} - Stub notice for Greece articles.
- {{AncientGreece-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greece.
- {{Greek-myth-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek mythology.
- {{AncientGreece-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek people.
- {{AncientGreece-writer-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek writers.
- {{Byzantine-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the Byzantine Empire.
- {{Byzantine-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Byzantine people.
- {{Greece-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek buildings and structures.
- {{Greece-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek geography.
- {{CentralGreece-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Central Greece periphery of Greece.
- {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Central Macedonia periphery of Greece.
- {{Crete-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Crete periphery of Greece.
- {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery of Greece.
- {{Epirus-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Epirus periphery of Greece.
- {{Peloponnese-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Peloponnese periphery of Greece.
- {{SouthAegean-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of South Aegean periphery of Greece.
- {{Thessaly-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Thessaly periphery of Greece.
- {{WGreece-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the West Greece periphery of Greece.
- {{WMacedonia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the West Macedonia periphery of Greece.
- {{Greece-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people.
- {{Greece-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek politicians.
- {{Greece-sport-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to sportspeople of Greece.
- {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people connected with the sport of track and field athletics.
- {{Greece-footy-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to biographies of people associated with Greek football (soccer).
- {{Greece-mil-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the Greek military.
- {{Greece-mil-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek military personnel.
- {{AncientGreece-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greece.
Resources
[edit]Online libraries and collections
[edit]- Digital Newspaper Archive from the National Library of Greece
- Anemi, Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies, by the University of Crete
- Internet Archive
- www.gutenberg.org
- www.nektarios.gr - Ἱστορία
- ΟΕΔΒ - Ηλεκτρονική Βιβλιοθήκη
Ancient and Byzantine history
[edit]- The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
- Attalus: Not a reference by itself, but a list of events in Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean history, year-by-year in rough chronological order within that year, with those events massively referenced themselves. It is sort of a "meta-index" of event-specific references, with many of the references linked directly to online versions of the text. An invaluable online historical research tool!
- Biblioteca Augustana - Greek-language authors from Antiquity to the late Byzantine period
- LacusCurtius - Greek and Latin authors
- Livius - Articles on Ancient History
- Revue des études byzantines (Byzantine studies journal)
- Dumbarton Oaks Online Publications (Byzantine studies)
- Byzantina Symmeikta Archive (Byzantine studies journal)
- Translated Excerpts from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c. 700-1204 (by Paul Stephenson)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantine Online Sources
- Byzantine Reference Documents
Greek onomatology
[edit]- Behind the Name: a first rate site with the etymology of first names. It includes an excellent selection of classical and contemporary Greek names, their meanings and some historical background.
- Lexicon of Personal Greek Names: an ultimate compendium from Oxford University.
Websites
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Note: Websites should be avoided as sources if at all possible, as their veracity is questionable. They make good "starting points", but facts in articles should be traceable to a published work of some type.
- President of the Hellenic Republic
- Prime Minister of Greece
- Hellenic Parliament
- General Secretariat of the Greek Government
- Greece (useful information and links related to Greece)
- Window to Greece (older version)
- Greek missions abroad (embassies, consulates, representations)
- Foreign missions in Greece
- Greek National Tourism Organisation
- National Statistical Service of Greece
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - Greece's country page
- Foundation of the Hellenic World Websites
- The Greek Heritage
- Open Directory Project: Greece
- History of Greece: Primary Documents
- Former Greek Royal Family
Tools
[edit]- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.