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The Military history WikiProject's content guide is intended to provide recommendations regarding the content and structure of articles within the scope of the project.
The structures suggested in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article. They are not meant to enforce a single, binding structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics a fully developed article will discuss. The recommended structures may be further broken down into subsections if judged appropriate for each article's content.
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section in a longer article) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
Because of the key role the discussion of individual battles plays in military historiography, it is often useful to summarize information about a particular battle in an article of broader scope (such as one discussing a war or military leader). In such cases, the bulk of the material should be in the article on the battle itself; the summary in the external article should be trimmed to one or two paragraphs that concisely present the following:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines (note: these do not denote headings as such, but general topics that could be included):
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
It is very important that biographies of military personnel are placed into their wider military and social context. In a military sense, the contribution an individual made to a military campaign should be explained in a neutral way, including the wider context of military operations, not just the individual's combat decisions or actions. The social context should include, but is not limited to, how the individual fitted into the political, religious, economic, and ethical context of the time. Where high quality reliable sources refer to a person's political or ideological views these should be included. If an individual has been alleged to have been involved in breaches of the law of war, these allegations should also be included, along with the results of any legal action taken against them.
"In popular culture" sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture. Any popular culture reference being considered for inclusion must be attributed to a reliable secondary source for the article topic. Items meeting these requirements should typically be worked into the text of the article; a separate section for popular culture items, and in particular the following, should be avoided:
This tends to be a particular problem in articles on military hardware (weapons, vehicles, and so forth); for example, the Mauser K98 and the M1 Garand may appear in any World War II film, and their many appearances don't warrant an exhaustive list. On the other hand, a discussion of the Webley representing a stereotypical British revolver, or a conceptual artist's public response to the symbolism of the East European tank monument, is certainly notable.
The following text may be inserted as a hidden comment into military history articles:
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This is an
essay on
article content. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more
WikiProjects on how the
content policies may be interpreted within their area of interest.
This information is not a formal
Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. |
Military history guides Content · Notability · Style |
The Military history WikiProject's content guide is intended to provide recommendations regarding the content and structure of articles within the scope of the project.
The structures suggested in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article. They are not meant to enforce a single, binding structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics a fully developed article will discuss. The recommended structures may be further broken down into subsections if judged appropriate for each article's content.
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section in a longer article) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
Because of the key role the discussion of individual battles plays in military historiography, it is often useful to summarize information about a particular battle in an article of broader scope (such as one discussing a war or military leader). In such cases, the bulk of the material should be in the article on the battle itself; the summary in the external article should be trimmed to one or two paragraphs that concisely present the following:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines (note: these do not denote headings as such, but general topics that could be included):
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
The opening paragraph (or lead section) should concisely convey:
The article can be structured along these lines:
It is very important that biographies of military personnel are placed into their wider military and social context. In a military sense, the contribution an individual made to a military campaign should be explained in a neutral way, including the wider context of military operations, not just the individual's combat decisions or actions. The social context should include, but is not limited to, how the individual fitted into the political, religious, economic, and ethical context of the time. Where high quality reliable sources refer to a person's political or ideological views these should be included. If an individual has been alleged to have been involved in breaches of the law of war, these allegations should also be included, along with the results of any legal action taken against them.
"In popular culture" sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture. Any popular culture reference being considered for inclusion must be attributed to a reliable secondary source for the article topic. Items meeting these requirements should typically be worked into the text of the article; a separate section for popular culture items, and in particular the following, should be avoided:
This tends to be a particular problem in articles on military hardware (weapons, vehicles, and so forth); for example, the Mauser K98 and the M1 Garand may appear in any World War II film, and their many appearances don't warrant an exhaustive list. On the other hand, a discussion of the Webley representing a stereotypical British revolver, or a conceptual artist's public response to the symbolism of the East European tank monument, is certainly notable.
The following text may be inserted as a hidden comment into military history articles:
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