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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!
We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members.
WikiProject status and resources
As per the notice at the top of this page, this project is not fully active. however, below are some automated features that you may find useful for working on articles on history-related topics.
- "Article Alerts" is an automated feature that provides constant updates on various articles that relate to history.
- You can view a list of all sub-pages of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Index
- You can view a list of all task forces of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Task forces
Popular pages
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A monthly popular pages report for this project is available, updated by Community Tech bot.
You can view a list of our popular pages, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Popular_pages
Founding and development
Significant milestones for this WikiProject:
- Founded on October 22, 2001, by User:Sjc and User:MichaelTinkler.
- It was first formatted and explicitly labeled as a WikiProject after a series of edits by User:Reddi, which started on May 31, 2007 and ended around June 5, 2007.
- as of July 2008, the four users below were the coordinators for this WikiProject, as per this version of the page for Coordinators:
- John Carter (talk · contribs)
- Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs)
- Wandalstouring (talk · contribs)
- Reddi (talk · contribs)
WikiProject structure
WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:
- Coordinators are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
- Working groups host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and offline publication.
- Task forces are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics within history.
- WikiProject history recently expanded into Wikibooks.
- See below for more information, including various additional roles and group information, in the section project staff and working groups.
Goals
The goals of this wikiproject are: a) to improve Wikipedia's coverage of history by creating, expanding, and maintaining history-related articles. b) to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of history. c) to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to history in Wikipedia, d) to maintain the history portal and its sub-portals, e) to answer queries about history on the reference desk, especially the humanities reference desk.
Outline of history article
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please see the article Outline of history. Please look this over and fill-in missing topics.If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.
While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
- What's missing? Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject? Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.
It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics.
It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.Please help improve it. It's our bird's eye view.Thank you.
Scope
Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:
- Articles with a "History" section, however long, are not in our scope
- "History of..." articles are within our scope
As of 29 June 2024, there are 49,779 articles within the scope of WikiProject history, of which 346 are featured. This makes up 0.73% of the articles on Wikipedia and 3.17% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 177,984 pages in the project.
The list of history topics lists of basic history topics are some articles that are in this project's scope. The latter list is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, but rather an overview. The Lists of topics are intended to be comprehensive and to include links to every article related to the subject on Wikipedia. See List of mathematics topics and List of psychology topics as examples.
A number of lists and meta-lists are maintained in Wikipedia:
- Battles or wars should be listed in List of battles or War.
- Saints should go into List of saints.
- Lists of incumbents are becoming increasingly popular (see List of French monarchs; List of German Kings and Emperors); list those lists in Lists of incumbents
Lists and outlines
The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them.
- See also: Wikipedia:Timeline standards
Source for the sub-sections below: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration
Tasks for Project
Peer review requests
This is from the page: User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews
- hui_pan-nationalism requesting review and feedback Linnea2853 (talk) 07:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Article alerts
Generated by bot as per Wikipedia:Article alerts.
To watch the page for Article alerts, please add this page to your watchlist: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Article alerts
Did you know
- 15 Jun 2024 – Timeline of Partygate (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by A Thousand Doors (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Jun 2024 – List of individual body parts (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gobonobo (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 27 Jun 2024 – List of battles in Kinmen (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Toweli (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 27 Jun 2024 – Hurt Hardy (talk · · hist) was AfDed by GuyBanks (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 26 Jun 2024 – List of common misconceptions (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Wound theology (t · c); see discussion (11 participants)
- 26 Jun 2024 – Sadakiyans (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Semsûrî (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 26 Jun 2024 – Andrew Hignell (talk · · hist) was AfDed by PeeJay (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 25 Jun 2024 – German Pennsylvania (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Vlaemink (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 24 Jun 2024 – Capital Radio (pirate) (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Glane23 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 24 Jun 2024 – Paul K. Davis (historian) (talk · · hist) was AfDed by TheNuggeteer (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 24 Jun 2024 – Yesunte Möngke (talk · · hist) was AfDed by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 23 Jun 2024 – Francis William Lascelles (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Sandstein (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
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Proposed deletions
- 24 Jun 2024 – Andrew Hignell (talk · · hist) PRODed by PeeJay (t · c) was deproded by Salvidrim! (t · c) on 25 Jun 2024
Categories for discussion
- 26 Jun 2024 – Category:United Kingdom history book stubs (talk · · hist) was CfDed by PearlyGigs (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jun 2024 – Category:National military histories by war (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Tunisia (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Syria (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Somalia (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Poland (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Morocco (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Kazakhstan (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Holy Roman Empire (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2024 – Category:Medieval Germany (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
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Templates for discussion
- 25 Jun 2024 – Template:WikiProject History (talk · · hist) was TfDed by Gonnym (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 09 Jun 2024 – Genghis Khan (talk · · hist) was FA nominated by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 20 Jun 2024 – Piñon, Colorado (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by TheNuggeteer (t · c); start
- 07 Jun 2024 – Shagdarjavyn Natsagdorj (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); start
- 02 Jun 2024 – Human history (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Phlsph7 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2024 – History of Wahhabism (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Shadowwarrior8 (t · c); start
- 20 Apr 2024 – Erik Sparre (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by ThaesOfereode (t · c); start
- 15 Feb 2024 – Marcus Rediker (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Pac-Man PHD (t · c); start
- 23 Jan 2024 – Khalji Revolution (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Noorullah21 (t · c); start
Featured article reviews
- 24 Jun 2024 – Middle Ages (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by Borsoka (t · c); see discussion
- 25 May 2024 – The Slave Community (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Nov 2023 – Battle of Red Cliffs (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by A455bcd9 (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Oct 2023 – Byzantine Empire (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by SandyGeorgia (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 09 Jun 2024 – History of Transylvania (talk · · hist) has an RfC by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 27 Jun 2024 – Modern era (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Modern period by Interstellarity (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jun 2024 – Analysis of Western European colonialism and colonization (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Analysis of European colonialism and colonization by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – Kerma (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Kerma (city) by Alexanderkowal (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1980–1991) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1980 to 1991 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1964–1980) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1964 to 1980 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1815–1849) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1815 to 1849 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1776–1789) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1776 to 1789 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1945–1964) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1945 to 1964 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1917–1945) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1917 to 1945 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – History of the United States (1789–1815) (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to History of the United States from 1789 to 1815 by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be merged
- 24 Jun 2024 – Pubs in the Ottoman Empire (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Meyhane by Macrakis (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jun 2024 – Sinking of the Flensborg (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Frigate Flensborg by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – Ethnocide (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Cultural genocide by Chrisahn (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2024 – There was no such thing as Palestinians (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Golda Meir by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Apr 2024 – Epidaurus Festival (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Athens Epidaurus Festival by Czar (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Oct 2023 – Antisemitism in the United States in the 21st century (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Antisemitism in the United States by GnocchiFan (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 07 May 2024 – Contemporary history of Spain (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Malvoliox (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jan 2024 – History of Samoa (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by JJUPLOADS22 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Sep 2023 – Witchcraft (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 May 2021 – Vargas Era (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by FredModulars (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 27 Jun 2024 – Draft:Death of Beatrice d'Este (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Manoru007 (t · c)
- 26 Jun 2024 – Draft:Middle Shooks Run (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2601:802:8200:D8D0:5C14:DD2D:4990:BE8F (t · c)
- 25 Jun 2024 – Draft:Ludwig Schiwy (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HerrvonWolfsberg (t · c)
- 24 Jun 2024 – Draft:Christian Amalvi (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LeapTorchGear (t · c)
- 22 Jun 2024 – Draft:Wei Wuzu (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dr.Lewinsky 2 (t · c)
- 22 Jun 2024 – Draft:Kirill Kobrin (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ds ae ea ds (t · c)
- 21 Jun 2024 – Draft:Alexander Fairlie of Braid (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 24.36.39.152 (t · c)
- 20 Jun 2024 – Draft:British concession of Hankow (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hankow idk (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2024 – Draft:Nawab of Atrauli (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nawab of Atrauli (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2024 – Draft:UCC History Society (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Beckybourke (t · c)
- (176 more...)
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Project staff and working groups
The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic wikiproject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.
Project Coordinators
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For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions.
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Coordinators. The 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.
- Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
- Coordinators::
- Key Editors:
Responsibilities
- Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
- There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
- The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.
- Page Coordinators. Page coordinators can do the roles above as well, but they do so mainly as facilitators to keep the page itself formatted and up to date, to facilitate discussion here on this page to proceed smoothly, and to encourage a full and free exchange of useful and helpful information to occur on the pages of this WikIProject.
- Key editors. these are highly skilled and experienced editors, who play a key role in editing or improving important topical areas related to history. they are available to answer any questions. they have concurred with the overall structure and direction of this WikiProject.
- Working Group Coordinators. These coordinate any of one or more of the four core working groups for this WikiProject. "Working Groups" are defined as groups that correlate with the widely-accepted core functions of all WikiProjects, throughout Wikipedia; the existence of these Working Groups is on a semi-permanent basis, regardless of whether they have any members or not.
- Task Force Coordinators. These coordinate any of one or more of the Task Forces for this WikiProject. Task Forces are centered around a specific task that pertains either to the core subject area, or some specific task or project, that is specific to the WikiProject itself. they can change, be created, or dissolved, based on the changing needs and activities of the WikiProject. therefore, for WikiProject History, there are some task forces that are centered upon historical topics, others upon historical eras, and various others for sundry types of areas. these are subject to continual change and development, as the project itself may dictate.
- Assistant Coordinators. Editors who fulfill specific roles to assist coordinators in specific project areas and tasks.
Supplemental roles
- WikiProject Members. Editors who are active members of this WIkiProject.
- WikiProject Volunteers. Editors who volunteer to help with specific efforts or activities at this WikiProject.
- WikiProject Liaisons. Editors or coordinators from other Wikiprojects.
- Admin Partners. Admins who serve in a supporting role to regularly communicate to provide assistance as needed.
- Project Consultants. These are any editors who seek to provide input or assistance to the project on a periodic basis, but do not seek to take on any administrative duties here. so these could include coordinators or editors from other WikiProjects who wish to help out, any experienced editors, any admins who wish to help out or, or absolutely any other interested editors at all, regardless of their experience, who simply wish to provide their input or assistance, at any time, and wish to volunteer for some support role here to do so.
Working Groups
Working Groups at WikiProject History:
Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces
Assessment
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The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales.
Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Collaboration
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The Collaboration working group serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found in a section above.
Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Review
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The Review working group carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope. Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Outreach
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The Outreach working group acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives. Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Informal subgroups
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Informal subgroups are any individual subgroup that any editor wishes to set up, on an informal or formal basis, for the purpose of gathering any group of editors together. This will be to enable editors to form their own subgroups for working with and communicating with other editors, but without taking on the formal roles and responsibilities of an official task force.
These subgroups could be formed based on any criteria at all. so any editor could form a subgroup for communicating with editors who are new to this topical area. or it could be an informal group for brainstorming ideas for a particular topic, or a particular editing drive, or group effort, or for a specific effort to delve into a particular topic, or to set up a single new article or set of articles, or for any other reason.
Our reason for setting up this new type of subgrouping is simple; history is a very broad and varied field. We would like to encourage all editors to take an active role here, as much as they might wish. so if you wish to set up any such subgroup, please feel free to post a notice on the talk page. We will be glad to help to promote any such efforts here. thanks!!
Task forces
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Task forces are where the major work of the WikiProject gets done.
We will have Task Forces set up here to write about each of the topical areas covered by WikiProject History.
Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on. If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!
Sub-page for Task Force information:
Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces
Task Forces by era and Task Forces by topic
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Task Forces by era
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Userboxes
WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:
- {{User WPH}}
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- {{User WP History}}
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Outreach and membership list
If you want to post the photo from the logo for WikiProject History, you can do so using this text: [[Image:MontreGousset001.jpg|x45px]]. this image will appear in line, as it does here.
- the text below in the "Outreach" section is from the sub-page Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach.
- the text below in the "Membership" section is from the sub-page Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Participants.
Templates
Project banner
The banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
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Infobox Historical Event
The Infobox {{Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.
{{Infobox historical event}}
Country/Region history
A navbox from Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.
Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: Category:History and events templates.
Articles Showcase
History articles by Quality-Class
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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
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The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
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DYKs
The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:
- Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany – 6 June 2008.
- History of African Americans in Chicago – 2 May 2007.
- History of Berne – 19 March 2006.
- History of Dhaka – 7 September 2006.
Categories
Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.
Category tree
- List of all subpages of this page
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Organization of Category:History
Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and Human history. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories
- Category:History by nation contains the histories of modern nations. It should contain one category for each modern nation, for example History of the United Kingdom.
- Category:History by region contains the histories of regions larger than a nation, for example Category:European history.
- Category:History by period contains histories organized by chronology, for example Category:Ancient history.
- Category:History by topic contains histories not organized by geography or chronology, for example Category:History of science.
- Category:Historiography contains articles about the study of history and historians.
- See also: Wikipedia:Auto-categorization
Category names
The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.
Organization of national histories
Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.
Using the United Kingdom as an example:
- Have separate history categories for each major geographical part and historical predecessor of that nation: Category:History of Wales, Category:History of England, Category:History of Scotland, Category:History of Great Britain, Category:History of Northern Ireland, etc.
- Use the common names where possible even if this creates ambiguity. For example, England is both a historical nation and a geographical region: logically speaking we might prefer a category named like "History of England (1066–1707)", but unfortunately no-one is likely to use such a category name unless they are familiar with the categorization scheme. So Category:History of England must do for both.
- A geographical subdivision includes the categories for its parts; a historical subdivision includes the categories for its predecessors. This might create loops in the categories, for example Category:History of Ireland is in Category:History of the Republic of Ireland by the historical rule, and the latter is in the former by the geographical rule. This does no harm.
- The category "History of X" always belongs to the category for "X", if it exists. So Category:History of England belongs to Category:England.
- Put events in the most specific categor(ies) to which they apply. So the Wars of Scottish Independence go in both Category:History of England and Category:History of Scotland, but Category:Seven Years' War goes in Category:History of Great Britain.
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system:
History | .---------+------------------. | | History by nation History by period | | .----------+-----------+ .--. | | | | | | United Kingdom Republic of Ireland | Ancient history | | | | | | | .----------+-------+ | | `------------+----+ | | | | | | | | | .----+-----. | Great Britain | | `-------. Ireland <-------' | | | | | `------. | | | | +----------+-------+---. | `----+--' | Ancient Rome | | | | | | | | England Scotland | Northern Ireland | | | | | | | `-+--------' `-----------+----------------+--. | | | | | Wales Ancient Britain Roman Britain
(This diagram is far from complete: there is a Category:British Empire, not shown. Category:History of the United Kingdom is in Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.)
Don't over-categorize
Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.
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