Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies

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	Welcome to the Ancient Germanic Studies WikiProject

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The Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject works to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history, language and culture of the Ancient Germanic peoples from ca. 500 BCE to ca. 1000 CE. Our chronological scope is derived mainly from the field of linguistics, with the First Sound Shift (ca. 500 BCE) marking the beginning of the Ancient or Old Germanic period and the change from the 'Old' to the 'Middle' dialects (High German ca. 1000, English 1066, Norse ca. 1100) marking its end. In historical terms, this period stretches from the last phase of the Nordic Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages.

Guidelines, Policies and Suggestions

General WP:RS: Only add information from reliable sources, and cite them where it is appropriate to do so. WP:V: Make only those claims that can be verified as stemming from reliable sources. WP:OR: Keep articles free of original research, and be attentive to signs of unwarranted synthesis. WP:NPOV: Maintain a neutral point of view, being careful to distinguish between fact and opinion, and give due weight to the views concerned. WP:MOS: Apply the guidelines given in the manual of style in all your edits. Specific Quality: The members of this WikiProject are dedicated to bringing about a dramatic improvement in the quality of the articles within its scope. The most tangible evidence of improved quality that Wikipedia offers is assessment. Our ideal should be to raise every article within our WikiProject's scope to GA-status or higher. Of course, in practice, this ideal will not always be attainable. But we should make an honest attempt to significantly improve each and every article we edit with an eye towards its eventual assessment. Focus: Though everyone has their preferred method of working, it is believed by some members of this WikiProject that individual editors can achieve better results by focusing upon one article - or a limited group of closely related articles - at a time, rather than adding sporadically to a great number of articles which cover a relatively large field, improving many a little but none a lot. Of course, 'article burnout' can arise, and when it does it is best to turn to another article of equal interest, to help out a fellow project member with copy-editing, or performing an internal peer-review. But don't forget to return to your former work and see the article through to the 'end'. Helping an article attain a higher assessment rating is, after all, a rather rewarding experience. Collaborative work groups: Ancient Germanic studies is a broad topic, encompassing research and discoveries from various fields of knowledge such as history, archaeology, linguistics and mythology. As a result, many of the articles which fall within the scope of this project would benefit most from treatment by contributors with specialised knowledge in those areas. This will often require inter-project collaboration. To facilitate such collaboration, this WikiProject supports the creation of specialized work groups which work together with other WikiProjects to achieve common goals. MoS additions: The breadth of the topic that this WikiProject covers entails that, if a healthy degree of uniformity is to be maintained among closely related articles, additional rules of style will need to be established. Rather than dictating these, however, this WikiProject makes it incumbent upon its work groups and daughter projects to formulate these on an as-needed basis. These guidelines are then made available on the project page of the related work group or daughter project. Project templates: Use caution when dealing with templates. We request that you do not launch a 'template campaign' and rifle through dozens or even hundreds of pages, putting up our WikiProject's banner template. A project banner is a sign of commitment to an article, and the number of articles we can maintain and improve is limited by our membership. Of course, project banners are a great way to quickly increase membership. Yet this often accomplishes little more than a temporary 'bloat' in membership numbers, and can actually contribute to its eventual demise. Therefore, only place banner templates on articles that you are personally willing to help improve - ideally to GA-status - and maintain. Invitation templates: Please do post an invitation template onto the talkpages of editors who you think might be interested in joining this WikiProject. With increased membership, we can tackle a wider range of articles.

Contents 1 Open tasks 1.1 WikiPortal Maintenance 1.2 Work group development 1.3 Requests for collaboration 1.4 Requests for peer review 2 Members 3 Work groups 4 Parent projects 5 Sibling projects 6 Related projects 7 Categories 7.1 Main project category 7.2 Main article categories 7.3 Assessment categories 8 Templates 8.1 Project banner template 8.2 Project invitation template 8.3 Project userbox template

[edit] Open tasks

As this is a new WikiProject covering a broad topic, a good deal of freedom is granted to members in terms of where they begin working. For the time being, we are relying primarily upon personal initiatives to improve individual articles or select groups of articles. There are many articles which fall under this project's scope, and looking through some of the related categories (such as History of the Germanic peoples) is a good way to get an idea of where work needs to be done. Some initiatives may develop into task forces with their own work page. If you have a small project in mind which would encompass several interrelated articles (e.g. articles relating to one of the Ancient Germanic tribes, one of the Old Germanic languages, or to a series of related historical events), you may propose creating such a task force on our talk page. Alternatively, you could adopt a particular article with a view towards raising its assessment rating, or pick a task from one of the lists below:

[edit] WikiPortal Maintenance

• Add quality pictures to the Selected picture module, replacing the current choices as appropriate and paying special attention to our scope.
• Add FA, GA or B-class articles to the Selected article module, replacing the current choices as appropriate and paying special attention to our scope.
• Add quality articles to the Selected runic artefact module.
• Update the 'Did you know..?' module with more interesting facts relevant to our scope.

[edit] Work group development

• Runic studies: Currently under development. If you are interested in participating, please visit the work group's page.

[edit] Requests for collaboration

(If you would like to invite fellow project members to collaborate with you on a particular article, please list it here.)

• Alu (runic)
• Anglo-Saxon paganism
• Bracteate
• Germania (book)
• Mannus
• Nerthus
• Suebian knot
• Tuisto

[edit] Requests for peer review

(If you would like to have a fellow project member perform a peer review on an article you are working on, please list it here)

• Tuisto: Currently B-Class; please review with GA-nomination in mind.

[edit] Members

(If you would like to contribute to this WikiProject, please add your name to the list below.)

1. John Carter
2. Aryaman
3. :bloodofox:
4. Skadinaujo
5. Berig
6. Pecopteris
7. Conningcris
8. Sigurd Dragon Slayer
9. Srnec
10. Deaþe gecweald

[edit] Work groups

• Runic studies

[edit] Parent projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject History

[edit] Sibling projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Celts

[edit] Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject European history

[edit] Categories

[edit] Main project category

• Category:Ancient Germanic studies articles

[edit] Main article categories

• Category:Ancient Germanic peoples
• Category:History of the Germanic peoples
• Category:Germanic languages

[edit] Assessment categories

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project banner template

Adding {{WPAGS}} to the top of an article's talkpage will produce the following:

	This non-article page is within the scope of the Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating.

To indicate that an article is covered by the Runic studies work group, add the following parameter to the template code:

{{...|runes-work-group=yes}}

[edit] Project invitation template

Adding {{Template:WPAGS-Invite}} to an editors talkpage will produce the following:

Hello! Your editing history indicates that you might be interested in joining the Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history, language and culture of the Ancient Germanic peoples. We also maintain the Ancient Germanic culture WikiPortal. If you are interested in contributing, you are welcome to sign up at the project page. Thanks!

[edit] Project userbox template

Adding {{User WPAGS-Member}} to your userpage will produce the following: