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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]

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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

Did you know

09 Mar 2025 – Lope Martín (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kimikel (t · c); see discussion
26 Feb 2025 – Francisco Mascarenhas (Governor of Macau) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Underbar dk (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

09 Apr 2025 – Lefter Koxhaj (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by StephenMacky1 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
08 Apr 2025 – Siege of Baghdad (1821) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HistoryofIran (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
08 Apr 2025 – Richard Wilton (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Revirvlkodlaku (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
08 Apr 2025 – List of destroyed heritage (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Blackballnz (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
08 Apr 2025 – Capture of Sinhagad (1693) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ratnahastin (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
08 Apr 2025 – Adhunik Bharat Ke Brahmarshi Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TheSlumPanda (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
08 Apr 2025 – Battle of Erzurum (1821) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Insanityclown1 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
07 Apr 2025 – Ponnar Shankar (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GoldRomean (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
07 Apr 2025 – Armenian violence in the Ottoman Empire (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Yerevantsi (t · c); see discussion (12 participants)
07 Apr 2025 – Feminine Archetypes of Ancient Drama in the Allegories of the Modern World (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)

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Proposed deletions

06 Apr 2025 – House de Nuchèze (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Onel5969 (t · c): concern
05 Apr 2025 – Battle of Erzurum (1821) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Insanityclown1 (t · c) was deproded by Cyclopia (t · c) on 07 Apr 2025
05 Apr 2025 – Richard Wilton (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Revirvlkodlaku (t · c) and endorsed by A. B. (t · c) on 05 Apr 2025 was deproded by Necrothesp (t · c) on 08 Apr 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Battle of Kasur (1763) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Asilvering (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

09 Apr 2025 – Category:Dacia in art (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
09 Apr 2025 – Category:Ancient Israel in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
09 Apr 2025 – Category:Dacia in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
07 Apr 2025 – Category:Defunct political party alliances in the Palestinian territories (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
07 Apr 2025 – Category:Defunct newspapers published in the State of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
07 Apr 2025 – Category:Greco-Roman ethnography (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
06 Apr 2025 – Category:Historical timelines (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
04 Apr 2025 – Category:Films set in the Aztec Triple Alliance (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
03 Apr 2025 – Category:Centuries in the Øresund Region (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
03 Apr 2025 – Category:Decades in the Øresund Region (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion

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Redirects for discussion

04 Jan 2025 – Western Civilisation (talk · edit · hist) →Western culture was RfDed by Rotideypoc41352 (t · c); see discussion
04 Jan 2025 – Western Civilization (talk · edit · hist) →Western culture was RfDed by Rotideypoc41352 (t · c); see discussion
04 Jan 2025 – Western civilisation (talk · edit · hist) →Western culture was RfDed by Rotideypoc41352 (t · c); see discussion
04 Jan 2025 – Western civilization (talk · edit · hist) →Western culture was RfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

08 Feb 2025 – File:Scythian tatoo.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on History of tattooing) was FfDed by Iruka13 (t · c); see discussion

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