Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece

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Welcome to those who have visited this WikiProject on Greece! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Greece and its history with a spirit of co-operation. This page and its subpages as they develop contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page

Goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Greek history, geography, transportation, culture, and so on.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Greek topics by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To address POV issues and tentative edits in articles within the scope of the project.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Greece in Wikipedia.
• To increase the number of articles related to Greece
• To maintain articles related to Greece, in terms of reverting vandalism, updating as needed, and so on.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to Greece, namely its:

• geography
• history (ss history we regard the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources; in other words, ambition of the project is to cover articles related to the prehistory of Greece, the history of ancient Greece, the history of the Byzantine Empire and of medieval Greece in general, and the history of modern Greece),
• culture
• languages
• politics, etc., all seen in their broadest senses.

The project intends to expand Wikipedia's resources on the subject in a fair and accurate manner and to act as a locus where controversies can be aired and hopefully resolved. to be within its scope.

Structure

Parent of this WikiProject:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries

Internal structure

Internally, the project intends to develop several structural features to help in managing its work:

• Departments, in order to coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as article assessment, peer review, or project-wide collaboration.
• Task forces, more informal groups for collaboration on specific areas of the Greek history, such as particular periods or nations.

Contents 1 Announcements and Open tasks 2 Project organization 2.1 Members 2.2 Departments 2.2.1 Assessment 2.2.2 Outreach 2.2.3 Review 2.3 Task forces 2.4 Related projects 2.5 Userboxes 2.6 Project award 2.7 Project banner 3 Showcase 3.1 Featured articles 3.2 A-class articles 3.3 Good articles (GA) 3.4 Did you know? (DYK) 4 Resources 4.1 Infoboxes 4.2 Auxiliary templates 5 Conventions and Policies 5.1 Sources 5.1.1 Levels 5.2 Citations 5.3 Popular culture 6 Style issues 6.1 Article names 6.2 Infoboxes 6.3 Biography 6.4 Names and titles 6.5 Dates 6.6 Link references 7 Resources 7.1 Downloadable public domain books 7.2 Online Texts (readable/not downloadable) 7.3 Greek onomatology 7.4 E-text sources 7.5 Websites

[edit] Announcements and Open tasks

Greece WikiProject Announcements
Announcements
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece and the Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Greece have been merged into this brand new and dynamic project! A New articles sub-section is created, where you are invited to list any recently created article within the scope of the project. The Portal:Military of Greece has been created so if anyone wants to help go right ahead. A new (and overdue) Greek and Turkish cooperation and notification board has been launched. Stop by, have a look and sound off! Open tasks for WikiProject Greece [[edit]] Top priorities [[edit]] Editing / formatting [[edit]] Missing articles [[edit]] Expansion Parthenon-Desperately needs inline citations Greek War of Independence-inline citations needed Hagia Sophia-inline citations needed Template:HOGOpenTasks/Copyedit Greek famine of 1941-42 Massacre of Distomo 1999 Athens earthquake Hellenic Post Goudi Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Miltiadis Evert Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Evangelos Averoff Ethniki kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos Nikolaos Zachariadis Pavlos Melas Hellenic Parliament Trial of the Six Ion Dragoumis [[edit]] Merges [[edit]] Discussions [[edit]] Maps First Kingdom of Greece into Kingdom of Greece Phanariotes needs the project's attention because of the ensuing edit wars Great Fire of Smyrna needs the project's attention: NPOV check, sources, citations and cleanup Template:HOGOpenTasks/Maps [[edit]] Recently Updated [[edit]] Other requests George II of Greece Template:HOGOpenTasks/Other

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Members

The full list of project members is located on a separate subpage; please feel free to add your name to it if you would like to join the project! You are also encouraged to initiate the creation of a task force for a project that might be of interest to you or you can participate in any of our projects as a member.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department is now ready and it will focus on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's military history articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessments are done by any member of the group through parameters in the {{WPGreece}} project banner.

Statistics

Greek articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	5	9	11	1	1	27
	A	1	1	1		2	5
	GA	2	2	3	1	8	16
	B	42	33	55	14	140	284
	Start	22	41	65	52	662	842
	Stub	3	17	79	232	736	1067
	Assessed	75	103	214	300	1549	2241
	Unassessed	0	0	1	0	2450	2451
	Total	75	103	215	300	3999	4692

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department will acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants. Its primary activity is the production of monthly project newsletters; a number of additional programs are either underway or being planned, however.

[edit] Review

The review department is the project's main forum for conducting detailed reviews—both formal and informal—of particular articles within its scope. The department hosts reviews internal to the project: (Peer reviews - an informal review meant to provide ideas for further improvement), and also provides a convenient collection of military history articles currently undergoing formal review outside the project (Featured article candidates, Featured article review, Non-article featured content candidates).

[edit] Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of Greek history; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them.

General topics

• Politics and politicians task force

[edit] Related projects

• WikiProject History
• Classical warfare task force of the Military history WikiProject (covers the military history of ancient Greece)
• Balkan military history task force of the Military history WikiProject (covers the military history of modern Greece)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome (covers aspects of the history of Ancient Greece)

[edit] Userboxes

Userbox enthusiasts can put this {{User Wikiproject Greece}} to show that you are a member of this project.

This user is a member of WikiProject Greece, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles related to Greece. Please feel free to join us.

Or use this larger version to show that you are a member of this project.

{{User_History_of_Greece}}

[edit] Project award

"WikiProject Greece Barnstar"

The Barnstar of WPGreece {{{1}}}

The WikiProject Greece Barnstar is the project's official award, to be bestowed on anyone who has made significant contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of Greece-related articles or to the project itself. It may be awarded by any user, and project members are encouraged to use it to recognize the outstanding work of others.

[edit] Project banner

The {{WPGreece}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are documented on a separate subpage.

	This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Greece; If you would like to join us, please visit the project page; if you have any questions, please consult the FAQ.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Additional information: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked

[edit] Showcase

The following is a listing of articles (and other types of content) within the scope of the project that have been noted for their outstanding quality. Project members are encouraged to peruse these at their leisure, as they serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate.

The project does not claim any authorship or credit for creating these. While many were written by members—sometimes with input from the project as a whole—others were created by uninvolved editors, or predate the existence of the project itself, and are listed here merely because they fall within our scope.

[edit] Featured articles Alcibiades Aspasia Basiliscus Byzantine Empire Caspian expeditions of the Rus Corinthian War Cretan War Demosthenes El Greco Epaminondas George I of Greece Greco-Buddhism Greek Mythology Hippocrates Indo-Greek Kingdom Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Macedonia (terminology) Manuel I Komnenos Maximus the Confessor Names of the Greeks Parthenon Pericles Roman-Spartan War Simeon I of Bulgaria Theramenes Thrasybulus Treaty of Devol

[edit] A-class articles Battle of Greece Battle of Marathon Ioannis Makrygiannis Pythia

[edit] Good articles (GA) 300 (film) Aeschylus Apollo Battle of Lechaeum Battle of the Olive Grove of Koundouros Byzantine-Arab Wars Egyptian Invasion of Mani First Council of Nicaea First Macedonian War Greek military junta of 1967-1974 Hrisi Avgi Maniots Ottoman Empire Princess Alice of Battenberg Rus'-Byzantine War (860) Sophocles Thucydides

[edit] Did you know? (DYK) Articles on Greece-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section: Opening of the Fifth Seal Egyptian Invasion of Mani Ludwig Thiersch

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Greek Dimos}} - This infobox is to be used for Greek towns, cities, municipalities, and villages.
• {{Greece}} - Infobox for Greek regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages. not yet finished.
• {{GreekRoyalty}} - Infobox for Greek kings. under construction.
• {{GreecePM}} - Infobox for prime ministers of Greece. under construction.

[edit] Auxiliary templates

General

• {{WPGreeceOpenTasks}} - the open task list
• {{WPGreece Sidebar}} - the main navigation box/sidebar

Banners

• {{WPGreece}} - The banner of the project stating an article falls within the scope of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. For its parameters check Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Project banner.
• {{WPGreece Archive}} - for inactive and archived pages
• {{Greek}} - for articles on a person, place, or concept whose name is originally rendered in the Greek alphabet

Other templates and stubs

• {{Greece-stub}} - Stub notice for Greece articles; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Ancient-Greece-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Greek-myth-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek mythology; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Ancient-Greece-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek people; placed at the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Ancient-Greece-writer-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek writers; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Greece-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek buildings and structures; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Greece-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek geography; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{CentralGreece-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Central Greece periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Central Macedonia periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Crete-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Crete periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Epirus-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Epirus periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Peloponnese-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Peloponnese periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{SouthAegean-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of South Aegean periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Thessaly-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Thessaly periphery of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Greece-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Greece-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Greece-sport-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to sportspeople of Greece; placed at the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; placed at the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Greece-footybio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to biographies of people associated with Greek football (soccer); placed at the bottom of article pages.

[edit] Conventions and Policies

[edit] Sources

All sources must be reliable for the topic to which they are applied; however, this is a minimal condition for use, rather than a final goal. With the exception of certain recent topics that have not yet become the subject of extensive secondary analysis, history articles in general and articles related to Greek history, in particular, should aim to be based primarily on published secondary works by reputable historians. The use of high-quality primary sources is also appropriate, but care should be taken to use them correctly, without straying into original research. Editors are encouraged to extensively survey the available literature—and, in particular, any available historiographic commentary—regarding an article's topic in order to identify every source considered to be authoritative or significant; these sources should, if possible, be directly consulted when writing the article.

The goal of Wikipedia is to become a complete, accurate encyclopedia. Verifiability is an important tool to achieve accuracy, so it is strongly recommended to check facts. However, don't be too keen to remove unverified information at the cost of completeness.

[edit] Levels

Primary sources:

"Piece of information or evidence that was created by someone who witnessed first hand or was part of the historical events that are being described".

These are sources which, usually, are recorded by someone who participated in, witnessed, or lived through the event. These are also usually authoritative and fundamental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published original accounts, published original works, or published original research. Physical objects can be primary sources.

Wikipedia would not ordinarily be considered a primary source (see Wikipedia:No original research). Over time, however, this situation may change as researchers may use, for example, analyses of Wikipedia edits and reversions as evidence of shifts and changes in attitudes and approaches.

Secondary sources:

"Piece of writings which were not penned contemporaneously with the events in question".

These are sources which, usually, are accounts, works, or research that analyze, assimilate, evaluate, interpret, and/or synthesize primary sources. These are not as authoritative and are supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published accounts, published works, or published research.

Wikipedia would be considered a secondary source on some occasions.

Tertiary sources:

These are sources which, on average, do not fall into the above two levels. They consist of generalized research of a specific subject under consideration. Tertiary sources are analyzed, assimilated, evaluated, interpreted, and/or synthesized from secondary sources, also. These are not authoritative and are just supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration.

Wikipedia would be considered a tertiary source on some occasions.

[edit] Citations

The nature of historical material requires that articles be thoroughly—even exhaustively—cited. There is no numerical requirement for a particular density of citations or for some predetermined number of citations in an article; editors are expected to use their best judgement as to how much citation is appropriate. When in doubt, cite; additional citations are harmless at worst, and may prove invaluable in the long term. In general, an article may use either footnotes or Harvard-style references; while footnotes may prove more convenient when citation becomes extremely dense, or involves significant additional commentary, the choice of which style to follow is left to the discretion of an article's editors.

[edit] Popular culture

In "popular culture" sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture. If present, the section should be a prose discussion of the subject's cultural significance, cited from reliable sources. In particular, the following should be avoided:

• Compendiums of every trivial appearance of the subject in pop culture (trivia)
• Unsupported speculation about cultural significance or fictional likenesses (original research)

[edit] Style issues

Main article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (general style issues)

In historical articles, the past tense is strongly preferred. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events that occurred in the past. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense".

Remain objective as possible. The point and ideal of Wikipedia is to create an encyclopedic neutral body of knowledge. Avoid using the first-person point of view (emphasising the facts; not the editor). Explain the evidence (from the links and references) and explain the reasons of any conclusions.

[edit] Article names

See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)

Convention: Use the form most familiar to English speakers. Name pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form.

[edit] Infoboxes

A number of infoboxes can be used for History related articles. These include {{Infobox revolution biography}} and {{Infobox Military Person}}.

[edit] Biography

See: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

[edit] Names and titles

For naming articles See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles), for use in article content See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

[edit] Dates

See: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. If dates used are from the Julian calendar, please make a note as to any differences.

[edit] Link references

See: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Link_titles

[edit] Resources

[edit] Downloadable public domain books

• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete.
• Herodotus
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 2
• Smith, William, "A Smaller history of Greece from the earliest times to the Roman conquest".
• Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (translated by Richard Crawley).
• All of Plutarch's lives can be found at classics.mit.edu (could be expanded to reference individual volumes).

[edit] Online Texts (readable/not downloadable)

• The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library
  • Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
  • Xenophon, Hellenica
• Attalus: Not a reference by itself, but a list of events in Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean history, year-by-year in rough chronological order within that year, with those events massively referenced themselves. It is sort of a "meta-index" of event-specific references, with many of the references linked directly to online versions of the text. An invaluable online historical research tool!
• Add things here!

[edit] Greek onomatology

Behind the Name: a first rate site with the etymology of first names. It includes an excellent selection of classical and contemporary Greek names, their meanings and some historical background.

Lexicon of Personal Greek Names: an ultimate compendium from Oxford University.

[edit] E-text sources

• Dumbarton Oaks (on Byzantine history)
• Add things here!

[edit] Websites

Note: Websites should be avoided as sources if at all possible, as their veracity is questionable. They make good "starting points", but facts in articles should be tracable to a published work of some type.

• President of the Hellenic Republic
• Prime Minister of Greece
• Hellenic Parliament
• Greece (useful information and links related to Greece)
• Window to Greece (older version)
• Greek missions abroad (embassies, consulates, representations)
• Foreign missions in Greece
• Greek National Tourism Organisation
• National Statistical Service of Greece
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Greece's country page
• Hellenic History
• The Greek Heritage
• Open Directory Project: Greece
• Chronology of Greece from the World History Database
• History of Greece: Primary Documents
• Greek Royal Family (Deposed)
• Greece main cities list and satellite views
• General information about Greece
• Greece Tour travel guide
• Greek News