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"Men will fight long and hard for a piece of coloured ribbon..." Napoleon


Hello! Are you interested in orders, decorations and medals? Do you think it is important to improve Wikipedia's coverage on this topic? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

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  • (22/02/07) Category:Orders and decorations, this topic's supercategory, has been nominated for renaming on WP:CFD. It is proposed that this category be renamed to Category:Orders, decorations, and medals, per the example of the national sub-categories. Debate can be found here.

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[edit] Stubs

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[edit] Categorisation

[edit] Content

  • Add Template:Infobox Military Award to all decorations and medals articles.
  • Develop articles for standardised presentation of each nation's national honours system.

[edit] Scope



This WikiProject aims to

  1. To thoroughly explore national orders, decorations, and medals, along with their associated national honours systems, both globally and historically.
  2. To improve related articles.
  3. To provide a place to discuss common issues on orders, decorations, and medals related pages.
  4. Organise, discuss, and categorise Category:Orders, decorations, and medals
  5. To ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources.
  6. Develop standards and templates for orders, decorations, and medals related articles.

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[edit] How to Contribute



How you can help depends on your time, resources and interest:

[edit] Expand articles

  • Add Infoboxes to articles.
  • Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to all orders, decorations, and medals pages.
  • Add external links to websites with additional information about the subject of an article and respect the rules regarding copyright violations.
  • Check references and cite sources for articles.
  • Expand orders, decorations, and medals stub articles into full articles.

[edit] Improve articles

  • Check for spelling and factual errors and correct wikilinks.
  • Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.
  • Revert Vandalism on this portal and on articles.

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[edit] Help for Authors


[edit] Article naming

Two main issues arise here: How we should deal with multiple instances of the same medal name, as awarded by different countries, and how foreign medals, which have their own non-English names, should be named.

[edit] Disambiguation

In any case where the same name is shared, disambiguation is the key. To take an example, a medal by the name of the Cross of Valour is awarded by both Australia and Canada. As a result we turn this page into a disambiguation page, as per the usual Wikipedia disambiguation guidelines. The medals in question are then moved to individual pages, named according to the convention Medal Name (Country). Therefore the Australian medal is to be found at Cross of Valour (Australia) and the Canadian at Cross of Valour (Canada). The disambiguation qualifier should always adopt the conventional short form of the country's name, never an abbreviation or initials - eg United Kingdom, not Great Britain or UK; United States, not US, USA, America, etc.

[edit] Non-English language awards

The basic rule is that the names of foreign-language awards should be translated into English except where there is an established track-record of referring to it by its foreign-language name. Therefore we use Iron Cross in favour of "Eiserne Kreuz", Pour le Mérite in favour of "For the Merit" or "Merit Award", and Param Vir Chakra in favour of "Bravest of the Brave Award". This effectively means that the article will reside at the customary English-language name. Having said this, editors are encouraged to create redirects for all reasonable permutations and variations on the name, whether in English or in the native language.

[edit] Selecting the right category

The main category for this topic is Category:Orders, decorations, and medals. This should not be used for articles about individual orders, decorations, or medals - instead these should be directed to the appropriate national sub-category. Only articles of pan-national importance or those dealing with the topic itself should be placed in the main category.

For further details see the WikiProject category policy.

[edit] Stub articles

If your article is a stub, please add the following stub template to the bottom of the article.

All articles tagged with this stub will appear in Category:Order, decoration, and medal stubs.

[edit] Project Templates

Please use the Template:Infobox Military Award in all articles relating to decorations and medals. This provides all the key information in a smart, easily accessible format. Other Project templates can be found here - feel free to add to this list if you develop your own templates.

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This article is part of WikiProject Orders, Decorations, and Medals, a collaborative effort to improve, organise, and standardise Wikipedia's coverage of national honours systems. For guidelines and a participants list see the project page. You can discuss the project at its talk page

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[edit] Belarus

Hero of Belarus

[edit] Poland

Virtuti Militari

[edit] Ukraine

Hero of Ukraine

[edit] United Kingdom and Commonwealth

Victoria Cross

[edit] Canada

Order of Canada, Victoria Cross (Canada)

[edit] New Zealand

Victoria Cross for New Zealand

[edit] United Kingdom

Victoria Cross, Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath

[edit] United States

Medal of Honor

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Victoria Cross medals

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