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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.

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:

1,500 featured articles: 91.9% complete

500 featured pictures: 94.6% complete

Done — 250 other featured content items: 101.2% complete

Done — 5,000 good articles: 103.7% complete

15% of all articles rated B-Class or better: 82% complete

Assessment progression

11.6% Stub-Class
48.2% Start-Class
27.9% C-Class
8.9% B-Class
2.4% GA-Class
0.3% A-Class
0.7% FA-Class
0% remaining

Military history
WikiProject

Main project page	+ talk
News & open tasks
Academy

Core work areas

Assessment
Main page
→ A-Class FAQ
→ B-Class FAQ
→ A-Class review requests
→ Assessment requests
→ Current statistics
→ Review alert box

Contests
Main page
→ Contest entries
→ Scoring log archive
→ Scoreboard archive

Coordination
Main page	+ talk
→ Handbook
→ Bugle newsroom	talk
→ ACM eligibility tracking
→ Discussion alert box

Incubator
Main page
→ Current groups and initiatives

Special projects
Majestic Titan	talk

Member affairs

Membership
Full list	talk
→ Active / Inactive
→ Userboxes

Awards
Main page	talk
→A-Class medals
→A-Class crosses
→ WikiChevrons w/ Oak Leaves

Resources

Guidelines
Content
Notability
Style

Templates
Infoboxes
→ Command structure	doc · talk
→ Firearm cartridge	doc · talk
→ Military award	doc · talk
→ Military conflict	doc · talk
→ Military installation	doc · talk
→ Military memorial	doc · talk
→ Military person	doc · talk
→ Military unit	doc · talk
→ National military	doc · talk
→ Military operation	doc · talk
→ Service record	doc · talk
→ Militant organization	doc · talk
→ Weapon	doc · talk
Navigation boxes	doc · talk
→ Campaignboxes	doc · talk
Project banner	doc · talk
Announcement & task box
→ Discussion alert box
→ Review alert box
Template design style	doc · talk

Showcase
Featured articles	1289
Featured lists	146
Featured topics	32
Featured pictures	473
Featured sounds	69
Featured portals	5
A-Class articles	682
A-Class lists	40
Good articles	5,185

Automated lists
Article alerts
Most popular articles
New articles
Nominations for deletion

Task forces

General topics
Fortifications
Intelligence
Maritime warfare
Military aviation
Military culture, traditions, and heraldry
Military biography
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 military history
Asian 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
European military history
French military history
German military history
Indian military history
Italian military history
Japanese military history
Korean military history
Middle Eastern military history
Nordic military history
North American military history
Ottoman military history
Polish military history
Roman and Byzantine military history
Russian, Soviet and CIS military history
South American 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
Post-Cold War

Related projects
Blades
Espionage
Firearms
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Piracy
Ships

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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.

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.^{[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]}

Notes

^ 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.

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.

Who coordinates our project?

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

Hawkeye7

Coordinators

Coordinators emeritus

To contact the coordinators, please leave a message on the coordinators' discussion page, or use the {{@MILHIST}} notification template on any other discussion page on Wikipedia.

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

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] 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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