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Welcome to the Military historiography task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers topics related to military historiography; its primary work is concentrated on military historians and their theories and works. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Historiography-task-force=yes or Historiography=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Military historiography task force articles.

Participants

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1. BusterD (talk · contribs) (liaison with Military Science task force, interested in all times and locations)
2. rjensen (talk · contribs) (War since Napoleon; WW1, WW2, Cold War, US Revolution, Civil War; Vietnam)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Len Deighton Rupert Downes Radoje Pajović Smyth Report John Treloar (museum administrator) William of Tyre Featured lists List of United States Army campaigns during World War II A-Class articles Milorad Ekmečić Howard Kippenberger Good articles Lorna Arnold Bede British Alpine Hannibal Expedition Frederick H. Dyer Ian Eaves Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited Peter Edwards (historian) William Henry Egle Milorad Ekmečić Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency A Glimpse of Hell (book) A Glorious Way to Die Margaret Gowing Ikuhiko Hata The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (book) David Irving Howard Kippenberger Ernst Klink Helmut Krausnick The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864 Making a New World Maurice (emperor) Geoffrey P. Megargee Military dictatorship Usama ibn Munqidh The Myth of the Eastern Front Myth of the clean Wehrmacht Panzer Aces William H. Prescott Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri The Rape of Nanking (book) Rommel myth Malcolm Ross (journalist) Gunther E. Rothenberg Felix Römer Shenandoah 1862 Ronald Smelser Hugh Stewart (classical scholar) Stonewall Jackson's arm Tolkien and the Great War Jozo Tomasevich The Utility of Force Fred Waite (politician) Wolfram Wette Background of the Winter War Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer World War II

Military historiography task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 6 FL 1 A 2 AL 0 GA 44     B 130 BL 1 C 345 CL 11 Start 721 List 39 Stub 176     Total 1,424 Total 52 Other pages Category 120 Disambig 1 Draft 0 File 2 Portal 0 Project 1 Redirect 18 SIA 1 Template 8 User 0 Total 151 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 6,763 Ω 4.582 category

Open tasks

Attention needed

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Popular pages

Full list

Cleanup needed

John Keegan

Requested articles

Winfried Heinemann • Harald Potempa • John Zimmermann (historian) • Christian Streit • Ben Shepherd (historian) • Klaus A. Maier • Horst Rohde • Hans Umbreit • Bernhard R. Kroener • Reinhard Stumpf (historian) • Ralf Blank • Bernhard Chiari • Tobias Jersak • Armin Nolzen

Expansion needed

Charles Oman • Paolo Giovio • Martin Du Bellay • Stephen Turnbull • Omer Bartov

Images needed

Andreas Hillgruber

Merging needed

Add an article here!

Citations needed

Frontinus

Translation needed

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Tagging needed

Category:Military historians Alfred Thayer Mahan

Article alerts

Did you know

• 18 Apr 2024 – Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Hydrangeans (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• undated – Jozo Tomasevich (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 01 Apr 2024 – The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hydrangeans (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 16 Mar 2024 – Black Legend (Spain) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Black legend by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion

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