Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle Ages/Crusades task force

Middle Ages & military history WikiProjects: Crusades task force

Welcome to the Crusades task force of the Middle Ages WikiProject and the Military history WikiProject! This task force covers all aspects of the Crusades in Europe and the Middle East. It covers the Crusader states in the Middle East, crusades against heretics and pagans in Europe, the Reconquista in Iberia, and crusades against the Ottomans in the Later Middle Ages, as well as Muslim, Eastern Christian, Jewish, and pagan societies affected by the crusades. It shares work with the medieval warfare task force, whose scope includes much of the topic. However, it goes beyond military matters, to social, administrative, legal, art, religious, and literary history, and modern historiography of the period.

Crusades Portal

The crusades are a relatively popular aspect of the Middle Ages, which is both a blessing and a curse. There are many popular misconceptions of the crusades, which often find their way into articles. However, with the help of this task force, we can make our crusade articles as scholarly as possible, representative of the best and most recent academic research, while also making them accessible to a popular audience and incorporating a nod to popular understanding where necessary. To join, add your name here.

Tasks

In general:

• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Create new articles where none exist. Report new articles of adequate length at Template talk:Did you know.
• Ensure accuracy of entries in Wikipedia lists and timelines. Fact check descriptions of Middle Ages military history within other types of articles.
• Expand and improve stubs.
• Raise existing articles to good article and featured article status.
• Recognize good work by awarding barnstars and good article tags where appropriate.
• Participate in active peer reviews:
• Participate in active Article Creation and Improvement Drive reviews:

Specific:

• Re-write the Crusade article. Presently it is in terrible shape.
• Re-write the Reconquista article. Presently it is in terrible shape.
• Re-write the Saladin article. Also in terrible shape.
• Bring First Crusade and Second Crusade up to current Featured Article standards. They are FAs, but of a different era of Wikipedia.
• Continue to make Kingdom of Jerusalem a Good or Featured Article.
• Continue to improve the problem articles at Talk:Franco-Mongol alliance#List of articles for review.
• Continue to improve articles about notable crusaders, especially the Kings of Jerusalem, who all deserve at least Good Article status.
• Improve the Children's Crusade article (requested on the Reference Desk).

Recognized content

Featured articles

• First Crusade
• Knights Templar
• Manuel I Komnenos
• Second Crusade
• Treaty of Devol

Good articles

• Baldwin of Exeter
• Battle of Manzikert
• Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros
• Byzantium under the Komnenoi
• Children's Crusade
• Hubert Walter
• Joshua Prawer
• Siege of Damascus
• Spanish Armada
• Walls of Constantinople

Did you knows (DYKs)

• Saladin tithe 14 February 2005
• Adelaide del Vasto May 2005
• Quantum praedecessores May 2005
• Château de Lusignan December 2005
• Council of Nablus March 2006
• Crusade cycle 31 May 2006
• Crusade of Varna 28 May 2007
• Wendish Crusade 3 September 2007
• Prussian Crusade 9 October 2007
• Peirol 22 October 2007
• Arnau Mir de Tost 1 December 2007
• Battle of Shaizar (1111) 13 March 2008
• Ismat ad-Din Khatun 14 March 2008
• Council of Acre 3 April 2008
• Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad 4 April 2008

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• None.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• None.

Former good articles

• Albigensian Crusade
• Crusade of 1101
• Persecution of Jews in the First Crusade
• Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Categories

Templates

The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with the WikiProject. Click on a template's title to see a sample of what it produces when included on a page. For a full list of Military history WikiProject templates see the main template page.

Main templates

• {{WPMILHIST}} — Template to add to talk pages of all Crusade-related articles
• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/User WPMILHIST Crusades task force}} — Userbox for members to show off and advertise our project!
• {{Crusade barnstar}} Barnstar to reward hard work on the project.

Stub templates

There are a number of more specific stub types you may use:

• For military biographical stubs, please use {{mil-bio-stub}}.
• For military history stubs, please use {{mil-hist-stub}}
• For Navy stubs, please use {{navy-stub}}

Resources

Resources

The following resources may be useful when developing articles:

• User:Adam Bishop/library#Crusades - My little crusade-related library. I also have access to a large university library system, with all related electronic resources (JSTOR, etc).
• User:Elonka/Mongol historians - hundreds of quotes relevant to Crusader-Mongol relations
• Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land by Linda Paterson, Colston Symposium, 11/4/03
• Crusades Classroom at Boise State
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusades
• Bibliography of the First Crusade by Alan V. Murray
• Crusades Encyclopedia
• Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
• Les deux cycles de la Croisade, French site about the Crusade cycle
• Add resources here!

Project navigation

Project navigation

Article assessments

Crusades task force assessment statistics Crusades articles Importance None Total Quality FA 4 4 GA 3 3 B 20 20 Start 136 136 Stub 63 63 Assessed 226 226 Total 226 226 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding parameters to the project banners at the top of its talk page:

• Crusades-task-force=yes (or Crusades=yes) to {{WPMILHIST}} (see the instructions for more details on the exact syntax)
• Crusades-task-force=yes to {{WPMA}}

This will automatically place it into Category:Crusades task force articles (and into Category:Medieval warfare task force articles).

Members

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members for Middle Ages and military history if you are not yet listed there.

1. Adam Bishop (talk · contribs) - not so much the crusading movement from Europe, but the results of it in the Holy Land, especially the social history of crusader Jerusalem
2. Benedict of Constantinople (talk · contribs)
3. Djmaschek (talk · contribs)
4. Ealdgyth (talk · contribs)
5. Elonka (talk · contribs)
6. Ghostexorcist (talk · contribs)
7. Hellboy2hell (talk · contribs) - Pages I created: al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani
8. Kyriakos (talk · contribs)
9. PHG (talk · contribs)
10. Roger Davies (talk · contribs)
11. samsam22 (talk · contribs)
12. Secisek (talk · contribs) - From AD 1095 to the fall of Malta.
13. Srnec (talk · contribs)
14. Tefalstar (talk · contribs)
15. Tourskin (talk · contribs) - Whilst I am a fan of the Lionhearts, I tend to go more for Byzantine articles, especially under the Komnenian period, which naturally compliments Crusader interests of mine.

We also have our own user box. Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/User WPMILHIST Crusades task force}} to your userpages and it will make:

This user is a member of the Crusades task force.