Wikipedia:WikiProject Battles

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Battles. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Title WikiProject Battles

Scope This WikiProject aims primarily to provide a standardized format to describe battles.

Parentage The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject History[?].

Descendant Wikiprojects No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar Wikiprojects The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Wars[?] and WikiProject Timelines.

Participants

• ktsquare and Eclecticology suggested a wikiproject battles.
• Ram-Man
• TeunSpaans
• Jniemenmaa

Structure and Format The article List of battles should contain all of the known battles of historical significance.

Article titles should follow the format: Battle of Gettysburg. If disambiguation is needed years are added in parenthesis, as in Battle of Dunbar (1652)

The term Battle is a good NPOV generic term and is preferred over substitutes like attack, slaughter, raid, etc. These latter terms may be used if their usage is the most commonly used to describe a particular battle.

It has been suggested that wikipedia should contain an entry for every major battle. The suggested qualification for a major battle are:

• Every historical battle that had 10000 or more men on either side.
• Every battle that is generally considered decisive for the outcome of a (civil) war.

I suggest that, aside from the project box as currently present at the Battle of Lützen (1632), every battle has at least an attempt to describe:

• The prelude to the battle: Why, previous movement of forces, and which campaign.
• A description of the battle.
• The battle's aftermath.

Hierarchy Definition No classification of battles has been defined. See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General[?]
• /Strategy[?]

Progress

• Dec 11, improved project layout battle of Lutzen
• Dec 11, battle of Marston Moor : stub expanded to article.
• Dec 11, battle of Nordlingen : better project layout
• Dec 15, battle of Turnhout (1597) added
• Dec 15, battle of Turnhout (1789) added
• Dec 17, Battle of Shrewsbury added
• Dec 17, battle of Lipany, stub added
• Dec 17, Battle of Varna added
• Dec 19, biography admiral Bailli of Suffrenn (stub) added
• Dec 19, added battles campaign of suffren to list of battles
• Dec 20, battle of Antietam expanded, project box added
• Dec 23, battle of White Mountain added
• Dec 23, battle of Sablat added
• Dec 23, battles of bohemian period of 30-years war added to battle list.
• Dec 27, 2 napoleontic battles added to battle list
• Jan 07, Battle of Wiesloch, stub added
• Apr 25, Battle of Waterloo, description expanded
• May 8, Battle of Tours, expansion
• May 15, Battle of Issus, added, was a reqested article
• May 29, Battle of Wisternitz added.
• Jun 2, Battle of Crete, stub rewritten. More work remains to be done (name of German paratroop commander)
• Jun 17, Battle of Fraustadt added
• Jun 17, Battle of Gaugamela stub expanded