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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.
Articles
[edit]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
Lists and outlines
[edit]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
Article alerts
[edit]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
Wikiproject structure and scope
[edit]WikiProject structure and scope
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Founding and development[edit]Significant milestones for this WikiProject:
WikiProject structure[edit]WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:
Goals[edit]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 articles[edit]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):
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[edit]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:
As of 7 December 2025, there are 55,850 articles within the scope of WikiProject History, of which 386 are featured and 1,123 are good articles. This makes up 0.79% of the articles on Wikipedia, 3.34% of all featured articles and lists, and 2.61% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 215,688 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:
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Peer review requests
[edit]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
[edit]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
Today's featured articles
- 17 Dec 2025 – Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 04 Dec 2025 – Civic nobility in the Papal States' March of Ancona (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sivigliano (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 06 Dec 2025 – Abu Salim Prison massacre (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zalaraz (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
- 05 Dec 2025 – Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 05 Dec 2025 – The Discourse of Lama (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 05 Dec 2025 – Thirteen Articles for the Settlement of Qinghai Affairs (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 05 Dec 2025 – 13-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 05 Dec 2025 – 29-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 04 Dec 2025 – Imperial Stele Inscriptions of the Pacification of Tibet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amigao (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 04 Dec 2025 – Gallery of gold art and artefacts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 04 Dec 2025 – History of the Sakha Republic (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CabinetCavers (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 04 Dec 2025 – Ekkehard of Huysburg (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
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Categories for discussion
- 06 Dec 2025 – Category:Former counties of France (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Benboy250 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Dec 2025 – Category:People's Republic of China history templates (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Nov 2025 – Category:Relations of colonizer and former colony (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Place Clichy (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Nov 2025 – Category:Ethnic Armenian historians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Nov 2025 – Category:Mass murder in Jerusalem (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2025 – Category:Riots and civil disorder in Jerusalem (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by The Nth User (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2025 – Category:Building bombings in Jerusalem (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by The Nth User (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2025 – Category:21st-century mass murder in Jerusalem (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by The Nth User (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2025 – Category:20th-century mass murder in Jerusalem (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by The Nth User (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Nov 2025 – Category:History of cinema in Bangladesh (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion
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Templates for discussion
- 16 Nov 2025 – Template:History of Thailand since 2001 (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Nov 2025 – Template:History of Thailand (1973–2001) (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Nov 2025 – Template:History of Thailand (1932–1973) (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Nov 2025 – Template:History of Argentina (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 05 Dec 2025 – Jrvvschōlajim (talk · edit · hist) →Jerusalem was RfDed by Zzz plant (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Nov 2025 – The Devil (talk · edit · hist) →Devil was RfDed by ArthananWarcraft (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Nov 2025 – St Paul's Shipwreck (talk · edit · hist) →Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 01 Nov 2025 – History of penicillin (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 28 Oct 2025 – Timeline of the first Trump presidency (2017 Q1) (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Newbzy (t · c); see discussion
A-Class review
- undated – Operation Forager logistics (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 05 Dec 2025 – Canu Cadwallon (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Tipcake (t · c); start discussion
- 29 Nov 2025 – Hushmand Dehqan (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Mojgoon (t · c); start discussion
- 25 Nov 2025 – Heraclitus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MisterCake (t · c); start discussion
- 15 Nov 2025 – Nicolas Delamare (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Postbox 2 (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Oct 2025 – Third Militarism (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Avocadopiu (t · c); start discussion
- 10 Sep 2025 – History of the United Arab Emirates (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Alexandermcnabb (t · c); start discussion
- 08 Sep 2025 – 2012 Henryville tornado (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by EF5 (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Sep 2025 – Opal Plumstead (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Aug 2025 – Påhlman family (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jaketheo (t · c); start discussion
- 26 Aug 2025 – Cryptogram of Olivier Levasseur (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 11wallisb (t · c); see discussion
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Good article reassessments
- 06 Dec 2025 – Aztecs (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Nov 2025 – Che Guevara (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2025 – Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 05 Dec 2025 – List of ongoing armed conflicts (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by FDW777 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 18 Nov 2025 – LGBTQ people and Islam (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Uness232 (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Oct 2025 – Cold War (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Protoeus (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 03 Dec 2025 – Thuringii (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Thuringi by Auteuil-Passy (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Dec 2025 – History of the socialist movement in the United States (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Socialism in the United States by Gianturco gusano (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Dec 2025 – Foreign relations of the Eastern Roman Empire (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Foreign relations of the Byzantine Empire by ScrubbedSoap (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Dec 2025 – Hushmand Dehqan (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hooshmand Dehghan by Mojgoon (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Nov 2025 – Prehistory of Ireland (talk · edit · hist) move request to Prehistoric Ireland by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed to Prehistoric Ireland (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 04 Dec 2025 – Late modern period (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Modern era by ~2025-38243-31 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Nov 2025 – Swedish colonies in the Americas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Swedish overseas colonies by Jähmefyysikko (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Nov 2025 – History of Amsterdam (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Amsterdam#History by FaviFake (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Nov 2025 – SS Volodarskiy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Volodarsky (ship) by ~2025-35054-91 (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Oct 2025 – Ranghad (term) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ranghar by Jajidd33 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Sep 2025 – Continental Germanic mythology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Frankish paganism by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Aug 2025 – 1985 Air Mali Antonov An-24 crash (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Air Mali (1960–1989) by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 07 Dec 2025 – Leonid Brezhnev (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Emiya1980 (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Dec 2025 – Gold (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Nov 2025 – Pax Indica (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Викидим (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Sep 2025 – Phoenicia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Aug 2025 – Historicism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rotideypoc41352 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jul 2025 – List of historical societies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M2545 (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jul 2025 – Timeline of the Red Sea crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 80.41.152.120 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2025 – Popular front (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Braganza (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Dec 2024 – Economic history of the United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2024 – Contemporary history of Spain (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Malvoliox (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for creation
- 06 Dec 2025 – Draft:Mongol Eight Banners (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cemet Hala (t · c)
- 05 Dec 2025 – Draft:SS Arawa (1884) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by XTREME542 (t · c)
- 05 Dec 2025 – Draft:Spitfire MK912 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Halifaxbomber (t · c)
- 03 Dec 2025 – Draft:Felix Schaffgotsche (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Michael C.M. Huey (t · c)
- 03 Dec 2025 – Draft:Heinrich von Trebra (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HappyHistorian1862 (t · c)
- 03 Dec 2025 – Draft:H. Don Carolis and Sons (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bonadea (t · c)
- 02 Dec 2025 – Draft:Jacob Lavinsky (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HappyHistorian1862 (t · c)
- 29 Nov 2025 – Draft:Peoria Sunday Morning League (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Skulte34 (t · c)
- 27 Nov 2025 – Draft:Marcia C. Schenck (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Babaksdn (t · c)
- 27 Nov 2025 – Draft:House of Karta (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Victor Ningthemcha (t · c)
- (121 more...)
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Project staff and working groups
[edit]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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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:
- Former project leaders, with thanks:
- Vami_IV, joined June 22, 2022. (deceased)
Responsibilities
[edit]- 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.
Working Groups
[edit]Working Groups at WikiProject History:
Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces
click on "show" to see our working groups!!!
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Assessment[edit]The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales. (Please feel free to add your name to join!!) Collaboration[edit]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[edit]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[edit]
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[edit]
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
[edit]We can have Task Forces for specific historical eras, or alternatively for specific topical areas. 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:
TF Modern and Contemporary History
[edit]Official banner:
{{WikiProject History|importance=Mid|attention=|auto=|needs-infobox=|Contemporary History=yes|Contemporary history-importance=Top}}
- Task Force page
- Members:
- Writes and updates articles on contemporary history, including the items below.
- Timelines for current year,
- articles on current time periods;
- historical articles in need of updates for current events.
TF Ancient History
[edit]- Members:
- Covers Ancient history; usually defined as history from the earliest civilizations up to the fall of the Roman Empire.
- Goals (will be updated):
Possible task forces
[edit]Possible Task Forces
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Task forces by subject area[edit]
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Outreach, members, templates
[edit]If you want to post the photo from the logo for WikiProject History, you can do so using this text: [[File:MontreGousset001.jpg|x45px]]. this image will appear in line, as it does here.
Membership
[edit]If you would like to be a member of the project, then please add your name at the bottom of the list below, with this text: # {{user|your username}}.
Members can also feel free to add {{User WikiProject History}} to their user pages.
Members
[edit]Below is a list of members. Feel free to add yourself by adding your signature.
List of members of WikiProject History
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}} Userboxes[edit]WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:
Project templates[edit]Project banner The banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
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[edit]
Categories[edit]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:
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.
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:
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system: History |
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History by nation History by period |
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United Kingdom Republic of Ireland | Ancient history |
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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.) Related WikiProjects[edit]
Resources[edit]External sister projects See also[edit]Technical items and resources[edit]Guidelines and resources[edit]
Wikisource[edit]
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