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Vami_IV

Please feel free to add your name to join!!!!

@Vami IV:, this is your page. please feel free to use this, modify, etc., as you wish. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tasks

Vital articles

These articles need to gain featured status as soon as possible:

History (Comparison: Mathematics)
Outline of history (Comparison: Outline of biology, Outline of geography)
Glossary of history (Comparison: Glossary of philosophy)

Open tasks

You can add notes here on any tasks to be done, items to be addressed, articles needing improvement, etc. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.

Redlist - women historians - add new biographies for notable women historians
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of history - Supply images, make requests for history articles.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/History - Comment on History-related articles up for deletion.
Answer requests for comments
History of Lacock Requires a rating and possible expansion/cleanup

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

21 Oct 2024 – Harry Pitts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
20 Oct 2024 – List of oldest continuously inhabited cities (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Joe Roe (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
19 Oct 2024 – History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by I dream of horses (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
19 Oct 2024 – I Love the '90s (American TV series) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Drmies (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
19 Oct 2024 – Pilot major (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sandstein (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
19 Oct 2024 – World Statesmen (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Toweli (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
18 Oct 2024 – Peace Party (Turkey) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
18 Oct 2024 – List of World War II weapons of Turkey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
18 Oct 2024 – Uşşaki (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
17 Oct 2024 – History of Mozilla Thunderbird (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Evelyn Harthbrooke (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

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Proposed deletions

21 Oct 2024 – FULRO insurgency (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 202.53.53.118 (t · c): A Serial Sock puppeteer created this article in 2016 which the bulk of information has remained until now. Contains blatant POV pushing, serious misinformation, non verifiable info/sources, repetition of paragraphs, some ficton. Very messy
12 Oct 2024 – History of the Jews in Qatar (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Gazingo (t · c) was deproded by Liz (t · c) on 18 Oct 2024

Categories for discussion

20 Oct 2024 – Category:Historic buildings and structures in France (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by RevelationDirect (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Category:17th-century Somalian people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Category:16th-century Somalian people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Category:15th-century Somalian people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Category:14th-century Somalian people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Category:13th-century Somalian people (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
19 Oct 2024 – Category:Historical figures with ambiguous or disputed sexuality (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Golikom (t · c); see discussion
16 Oct 2024 – Category:History of Yugoslavia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Joy (t · c); see discussion
09 Oct 2024 – Category:Defunct airlines of Guadeloupe (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion
08 Oct 2024 – Category:History of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Bohemian Baltimore (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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Redirects for discussion

27 Sep 2024 – First settlers of the Americas (talk · edit · hist) →Peopling of the Americas was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
09 Oct 2024 – John Alston (talk · edit · hist) →The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria RfDed by Sarayourfriend (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Featured list candidates

15 Aug 2024 – Timeline of Partygate (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by A Thousand Doors (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

17 Oct 2024 – Lisabi: The Uprising (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Afrowriter (t · c); start discussion
17 Oct 2024 – Des Moines speech (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hydrangeans (t · c); start discussion
03 Oct 2024 – Columbian exchange (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
01 Oct 2024 – History of the Regency of Algiers (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Nourerrahmane (t · c); start discussion
28 Sep 2024 – Henry C. Berghoff (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Henry Berghoff (t · c); see discussion
20 Sep 2024 – History of education in Wales (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Llewee (t · c); see discussion
15 Sep 2024 – La Querida (mansion) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 12george1 (t · c); start discussion
09 Sep 2024 – Saybrook Colony (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gazingo (t · c); see discussion
04 Sep 2024 – Castlereagh–Canning duel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Michael G. Lind (t · c); see discussion
02 Sep 2024 – History of education in Wales (1939–present) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Llewee (t · c); see discussion

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Articles to be worked on

Feel free to add any articles needing improvement you come across here. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.

Articles to be created

Articles that Need Improvement

Known class and importance

History (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs expansion
Ancient history (C-class, Top-importance) - Cleanup, expansion needed
Early modern period (C-class, Top-importance) - Cleanup, expansion needed
Age of Revolution (Stub-class, Top-importance) - Expansion severely needed.
Civilization (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs major expansion and reorganizing
Postclassical Era (C-class, Top-importance) - More references and expansion needed, minor reorganizing.
Ancient Rome (B-class, Top-importance) - Needs reorganising, good though
History of construction (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs reorganization, cleanup
History of Shamanism (Start-class, Top-importance) - Needs expansion (inclusion of Turkic and Mongol history)
History of East Asia (Stub-class, High-importance) - Needs major cleanup, expansion, etc.
History of Asia (Start-class, High-importance) - Needs major expansion
Colonialism (C-class, High-importance) - See Talk:Colonialism#Cleanup of article
Early modern Europe (C-class, High-importance) - Cleanup, expansion, reorganizing
Nazi Party (C-class, High-importance) - Needs expansion, more references and citation cleanup. Help very much needed.
History of Belgium (B-class, Mid-importance) - Expansion badly needed.
History of Mauritius (Start-class, Mid-importance) - Expansion needed.
Shark Island Extermination Camp (C-class, Low-importance) - Needs references, clean-up, re-writing and expansion. Name change request to Shark Island Concentration Camp currently being discussed - see Talk:Shark Island Extermination Camp#Requested Move

List of golden treasures - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_oldest_golden_treasures - if some history nerd wants to help with information and creating the article i would greatly appreciate the gesture , maybe even buy you a beer :)

Unknown class and importance

Ancient Carthage - Needs some reorganizing
Ancient Greece - Cleanup
Archaeology - Cleanup
Constitutional Crisis - Needs expansion, cleanup
Emperor Gwanggaeto - needs more additions.
Empire - Needs assessment and serious cleanup/expansion.
Fall of the Berlin Wall - new article in the last few days, needs expansion and cleanup, preferably before the 30th anniversary
History of Sri Lanka - Needs expansion and Medieval history of Sri Lanka clean up
List of history topics - Needs expansion
Local history - Needs major improvement
Oral history - Cleanup
Secession - Needs some expansion
Timeline of prehistory - Expansion, sources
Union of Brittany and France - Needs reorganizing, cleanup
Witch-hunt - medieval section is somewhat fragmented, needs scholarly citations.
Xinhai Revolution - Needs Cleanup
History of money - multiple issues with structure and references, see the talk
Leprosy in Malta - would benefit from review by a historian, perhaps additional sources?

Outside of WikiProject History

Marshfield, Gloucestershire - English village, has very large and very disorganized/OR history sections; lots of good info, but needs organization and re-writing
Referendum - Needs Cleanup