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Pet Project: Former (historical) buildings and structures.

Hi all. I apologize if this isn't the best place to post this sort of thing, but I wasn't sure where else to attempt to reach all the historians out there.

I've created a new set of categories, which I think is rather important and central, and which needs quite a bit of help from you all to make it a valuable part of Wikipedia, and not just dangling category bits.

Within Category:Former buildings and structures, I have begun to sub-categorize by country (e.g. Category:Former buildings and structures of Japan) and by building type (e.g. Category:Former Castles, Palaces, and Fortresses). So far, I have been having a surprisingly difficult time coming up with buildings that no longer exist and are of a certain degree of historical significance. Please feel free to add more sub-categories, for other countries or building types, and to add more articles!

For more details on what I'd like to see classified as a 'former building' and other such discussions, please see the individual Category pages, as well as my talk page. Thanks. -LordAmeth 14:11, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Some of your categories are mistitled:
Category:Former Castles, Palaces, and Fortresses should be Category:Former castles, palaces, and fortresses
Category:Former Places of Worship should be Category:Former places of worship
Gdr 16:42, 2005 May 11 (UTC)
Okay, I'll change them, no big deal. But they weren't "mis-titled." I did that intentionally, to look more bold, and to follow the standard rules of titles that we all learn in, like, 1st grade - words other than "a" or "the" should be capitalized. LordAmeth 02:57, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
As a late FYI, Wikipedia naming conventions may differ from other conventions you're used to. In Wikipedia we try to always use lower case for words that are not proper nouns or do not start a sentence. A given title should not look "bolder" than any other. See the manual of style for more information. --Dhartung | Talk 21:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for subproject: Historians peer review

Hi. I've found that the standards of wikipedia history articles are incredibly low. I was particularly shocked that someone put this History of Poland (1945-1989) up for a Featured Article status. We seriously need a qualified historian's peer review project, possibly as a sub-project of this one.

Goal

Certification of pages as meeting a common standard, based on historiographical analysis of the short comings of articles and their correction.

Method

Use a self-selected body of historians to review articles for quality. Where historians as a minimum is defined by an undergraduate specialisation, or a published monograph in a quality press, or a published peer reviewed history article. (Allied fields like historical sociology, historical anthropology, Womens Studies etc. should be considered equivalent.)

Common requirements for articles

A discussion of the historiography of the historical subject. A historiographical bibliography of the subject. Brining the contents of the articles up to the requirements of a reviewed, historian written, entry in an historical encyclopedia.

yours Fifelfoo 8 July 2005 05:03 (UTC)

Improvement drive

Heraldry has been nominated to be improved by Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Vote for this article there if you want to contribute.

Also, the articles History and History of the Balkans are currently nominated to be improved by Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive and can be selected on this page.

Spice trade is the current collaboration at Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Help us improve it in any way you can. --Fenice 19:55, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

History COTW

This seems to be a fairly active wikiproject would it be a good idea to have a History COTW? 12.220.47.145 00:47, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

COTW

History of technology is a COTW candidate - see its nomination page. If you're interested, you can vote for it, or help out with the article itself. Thanks! -- Beland 03:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Humanities is now a COTW candidate. Please vote/comment/help! Thanks, Walkerma 05:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Collis P. Huntington High School

Colis P. Huntington High School (the name of the article is currently misspelled) has been listed for deletion and I'm trying to clean it up with some high hope of producing a good article about the history of this former segregated colored school in Newport News, Virginia. Any help would be appreciated, and you might also like to make a comment on the deletion discussion page. --Tony SidawayTalk 18:52, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls

Hello, Please notice this project. I hope that a new List of publications in history will be created and adopted by the history project. Thanks,APH 06:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Soweto riots

Could someone, or preferably anyone, review this article please? These riots were a major incident during apartheid, and I have given the article a going over, but it needs references, sources, more definite info on what transpired during the massacre, and basically just some credibility to how it is written. Thanks in advance. Harro5 06:04, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Project Consulate and Empire

Hello,

first, let me introduce myself. My name is Frank Schulenburg, I come from Germany and have been contributing to the German Wikipedia since February 2005. My special field of interest is early modern history, especially economic and world history. You'll find more information on my german userpage.

I'm currently working on a project at the french wikipedia, which I've started a few days ago. You can find it at Wikipédia:Projet/Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. The main goal of this project is the collaboration between the different Wikipedias on the topic of the French Consulate and First French Empire (1799–1815).

Everyone with a special interest in French History is invited to contribute or just to take a look at it. If you want to take part in this project, please put your name in the list of participants.

Greetings, --Frank Schulenburg


Historians Needed

The History of Europe article has long been neglected, right now it is a huge mess. The section headings are rather haphazard, the style is reminiscent of 1066 and all that and its pretty safe to assume that it is full of factual errors (nearly every single date in the French Revolution section was wrong before I rewrote it).

Please come and help cleap up this aweful mess. Thanks. --BadSeed 06:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


Improvement drive

A related topic, History of the world is currently a nomination on WP:IDRIVE. Support the article with your vote to improve its quality. --Fenice 14:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

History articles

I asked this question on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), but I would like an opinion from anybody who comes here: Is there an actual naming conventions policy that states that the article title should be in the form of "History of X" instead of "X history"? Although Wikipedia:WikiProject History lists naming conventions for categories on this subject, I do not see any for articles. If not, should we formally write one up. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Just an opinon ... kinda depends on the subject. More formally, articles should be "History of [insert topic here]", IMO. J. D. Redding

History of Science WikiProject

There is a new History of Science WikiProject that some members of this project may be interested in. Also, if there is an appropriate way to link from your project to History of Science on your project page, such as under child projects, please do so.--ragesoss 04:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

History of India WikiProject

The History of India WikiProject was created a while ago, but no one knew about it. The project has been discovered and revived. Hopefully history enthusiasts from this project will help support this derivative project. deeptrivia (talk) 03:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 Project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-Class and good B-Class articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable history articles? Is Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Status a useful place to start? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers, Walkerma 03:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Request

According to my knowledge and google search, the article Sakastan is almost entirely incorrect. However, I would not like to get involved. Can somebody please take a look? Thanks! deeptrivia (talk) 23:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Suetonius

Wherever Suetonius is used as a link/shorthand not to the person but to his main work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, I'm turning the link into Lives of the Twelve Caesars. This is currently a redirect to Suetonius but might later split off into an article of its own, and anyone doing that splitting might need a specific list of links to the work not the man. Please don't revert them to redirect straight back into Suetonius. There are about 500, so any help would be gratefully received. Thanks. neddyseagoonNeddyseagoon 22:55, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

History by nation

When's the History by nation comming? --HolyRomanEmperor 20:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

A favour

Wikipedia's too slow for me, so could some one please put that I'm a member of the Wikiproject on my talk page? Thanks in advance. --HolyRomanEmperor 16:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Uh, not the User Talk page. The User page. :-( --HolyRomanEmperor 18:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. I initially assumed that's what you meant, but when I went back and reread your request, I thought you meant the talk page. Cheers!--ragesoss 17:43, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Granary COTW

I have nominated the stub article Granary to WP:COTW Granaries have been important in history, agriculture, society and economy .They are still very important. Very much could be said in terms of the history of agriculture, the different types of granaries and the importance in different cultures (in proverbs, stories, etc...) It is still, at this stage, a stub. Building a image gallery of granaries would also be nice. --Francisco Valverde 17:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

History article needs help

Can someone help add info to Social issues of the 1920s? As of now, it is quite short, unprofessional, and I've done almost everything I can do to fix it. It needs to cover more than just the USA, and the existing sections require validation and expansion. Also, the article needs to be linked under "See Also" in similar pages. If anyone would like to contribute even just a little cleanup it would be very much appreciated.--The ikiroid (talk)(Help Me Improve) 21:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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