Wikipedia:WikiProject European history
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Welcome to the European history WikiProject.
Goals
[edit]- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of European history.
- Improve European history-related articles, making them more informative and better written.
- Create guidelines for articles about items related to European history.
- Get a better main picture.
Open tasks
[edit]- Improve collaboration of the month article: Peloponnesian War.
- Work on articles needing work.
- Assess the unassessed European history articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here. [CURRENTLY NO ARTICLES ARE UNASSESSED]
- Tag all European history-relevant articles with {{WikiProject European history|class=|importance=}} and an assessment.
- Invite more users to join.
- Create all yet-uncreated templates.
Scope
[edit]- The project covers all articles about people, places, things, and events associated with the history of Europe. These articles should all be included in the Category:History of Europe or one of its subcategories.
Task Forces
[edit]Parentage and Related projects
[edit]Parents
[edit]- This project shares parentage between Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe and Wikipedia:WikiProject History
Children
[edit]Related Projects
[edit]Members
[edit]- Emiellaiendiay 02:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC). Founder
- Bchalfin 11:06, 10 July 2007 (EST) I can help with editing content and writing new articles, as well as extending stubs.
- Doug.(talk • contribs) 21:28, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- Revolving Bugbear (previously Che Nuevara) 22:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC). I specialize in WWI and inter-war Western Europe, but I'm happy to help with anything.
- John Carter 21:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC) - Will help as time and circumstances permit. John Carter 21:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
- Merovingian (T, C, E) 12:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Alex Close 18:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC) Am interested and would like to think I can contribute in some way.
- Martintg (talk) 04:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC) Interested in Baltic states and Northern Europe
- Darwinek (talk) 22:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC) Mostly Poland and Czechoslovakia but generally whole Europe in modern history.
- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Mostly Poland
- Beggarsbanquet (talk) 23:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC) History of modern France, Germany, Russia, and some on Eastern Europe and UK.
- flaminglawyerc 04:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
- Gr8opinionater (talk) 11:04AM, Tuesday 20 January 2009 (GMT)
- User:Daniel32708 Medieval to Present History
- CanonLawJunkie (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC) Catholic Church in European History. Modern/Medieval France and Papal States/Vatican City State
- Codrinb (talk · contribs)
11 December 2010 (UTC) - Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient Celts, Transylvania, Romania.
- Bermicourt 22 May 2012 - I translate articles on Germany from German to English Wikipedia, many of a historical nature.
- User:FelisRead:FelisRead
- —Brigade Piron (talk) - I work mostly on Belgian topics of the modern period (post-1789) with the odd excursion into French (and colonial) history. Particular focus on social and cultural history of WWI and WWII.
- Qxukhgiels (talk) 00:01, 11 January 2015 (UTC) - an interest
- User:Aardwolf A380 (talk) August 2015
- Csikos Lo Byzantine Empire, Early Hungary, Early Germany - 28 June 2016
- Wikirictor (talk) I have the impression the project could use a few more contributors. Wikirictor (talk) 00:30, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- I create and translate articles on traditional and historical songs of European countries (in part., Russian, English, German language songs), and sometimes translate the songs themselves (lit.). --Tamtam90 (talk) 19:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Omnipaedista (talk) 23:59, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- JeBonSer (talk | sign) 18:07, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
- Berke330 Byzantine & Late Antiquity History and Architecture, Medieval Constantinople - 16 July 2020
- Mel3131
- Luxtaythe2nd (talk) 19:19, 27 August 2021 (UTC) — Mostly Poland.
- I am Lead Coordinator at WikiProject History, would be glad to help with ideas for this wikiproject, in any way desired. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- CarolingianCitizen - Initially anything that happened since 750 A.D., above all french history, revolutionary movements and the Carolingian Empire. Joined 10:42, 8 August 2022
- User:Ltwin I've been spending a lot of time lately on British history articles.
- Gyalu22 Writes mainly in the history of Central Europe
- KTnow (talk · contribs) - Enlightenment philosophy, France since the French Revolution and the 19th-20th century United Kingdom.
- TheRealJT1743 - Post Industrial Revolution United Kingdom and Central Europe. Joined 22:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
- KINGHB190 (talk · contribs)
12 November 2023 (UTC)
- CarlosFelix1 (talk)
- Gankbank789 (talk) - I am best at 1400-1800 Europe, mainly in Western Europe, Germany, and Scandinavia.
- LeonIm24 (talk · contribs) I write about Central European history, especially Austrian history, particularly the Middle Ages.
Members of Wikipedia:WikiProject History/European task force
[edit]Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)[pruned by autmated bot from WikiProject, due to inactivity. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)]- Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs)
- Kenjoshii (talk · contribs)
- KEncyclopediaB (talk · contribs)
- AlinaGusewa (talk · contribs)
Userboxes
[edit]Members of this project may add the following userbox to their userpages.
Userbox | Code | ||
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{{User European history}} |
European members
[edit]If you're from Europe, more userboxes are available.
Countries
[edit]- Albania
- Andorra
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Finland
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Prussia
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Spain
- Scotland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
- Yugoslavia
Articles
[edit]European history articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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17 | 22 | 44 | 83 | |||
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1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||
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1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | ||
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14 | 33 | 57 | 74 | 178 | ||
B | 80 | 187 | 211 | 359 | 137 | 974 | |
C | 71 | 244 | 346 | 724 | 260 | 1,645 | |
Start | 15 | 106 | 245 | 1,670 | 465 | 2,501 | |
Stub | 12 | 406 | 146 | 564 | |||
List | 2 | 21 | 37 | 159 | 2 | 147 | 368 |
Category | 7,952 | 7,952 | |||||
Disambig | 22 | 22 | |||||
File | 20 | 20 | |||||
Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 10 | 10 | |||||
Redirect | 5 | 41 | 154 | 200 | |||
Template | 74 | 74 | |||||
Other | 40 | 40 | |||||
Assessed | 183 | 611 | 941 | 3,482 | 8,276 | 1,156 | 14,649 |
Unassessed | 15 | 15 | |||||
Total | 183 | 611 | 941 | 3,482 | 8,276 | 1,171 | 14,664 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,756 | Ω = 4.33 |
All tagged articles are found below, sorted into their respective classes.
Assessment
[edit]For an explanation of the ratings, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment; however, these ratings are somewhat subjective and especially the importance is highly project specific. See also: /Assessment.
Needing work
[edit]If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here.
Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~
Article alerts
[edit]Today's featured article requests
- 20 Nov 2025 – Nuremberg trials (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by MisawaSakura (t · c); see discussion
Categories for discussion
- 19 Aug 2025 – Category:Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Sardinia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Aug 2025 – Category:Ambassadors of Prussia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 20 Aug 2025 – Elizabeth 1 (talk · edit · hist) →Elizabeth I was RfDed by ArthananWarcraft (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2025 – Genocide of Turkish people (talk · edit · hist) →Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jun 2025 – Turkish genocide (1820–1920) (talk · edit · hist) →Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2025 – Turkish genocide (19th–20th century) (talk · edit · hist) →Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 29 Jul 2025 – Hyperpop (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Aradicus77 (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Apr 2025 – Lace tells (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zanahary (t · c); start discussion
Featured article reviews
- 28 Jul 2025 – History of Poland (1945–1989) (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2025 – Bæddel and bædling (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Generalissima (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Apr 2025 – Augustus (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 18 Aug 2025 – Anno Domini (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Anno Domini and Before Christ by Prothe1st (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Aug 2025 – Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera by Impru20 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2025 – Murder of the Romanov family (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Execution of the Romanov family by Wisher08 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Aug 2025 – Roman–Persian wars (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Roman–Iranian wars by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Aug 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Russia–Ukraine war by Chicdat (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Jul 2025 – Government of the Grand National Assembly (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Ankara Government by Asianeditorz (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Aug 2025 – War in Donbas (talk · edit · hist) move request to Donbas war by FOARP (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 19 Aug 2025 – Republic of Pontecorvo (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Principality of Pontecorvo by TurboSuperA+ (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Aug 2025 – Principality of Pontecorvo (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Republic of Pontecorvo by TurboSuperA+ (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 Aug 2025 – Combatants of the war in Donbas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Oct 2024 – Francoist Spain (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Salmoonlight (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2024 – Volga Finns (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kepler-1229b (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Nov 2023 – History of Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Mar 2022 – Kolomyia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M2545 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 20 Aug 2025 – Draft:Dutch Quarter, Colchester (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Harris.Jenny (t · c)
- 18 Aug 2025 – Draft:Jeftimije, Metropolitan of Zeta (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2001:1970:49DE:8C00:B5A7:C8FC:47A1:DA60 (t · c)
- 10 Aug 2025 – Draft:Siggebohyttan (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HadamarMan (t · c)
- 07 Aug 2025 – Draft:Henry VIII's Letters to Anne Boleyn (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Britishroyalwatch (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Assassination of Umberto I of Italy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
Templates and categories
[edit]Please use these templates where applicable.
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General templates
[edit]Template | Use on | Description |
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{{Infobox former country}} | Article pages | European history series infobox — former countries |
{{Infobox military conflict}} and {{Campaign}} | Article pages | European history series infobox and campaignbox — military conflicts |
{{Infobox treaty}} | Article pages | European history series infobox — treaties |
{{WikiProject European history|class=|importance=}} | Article talk pages | European history WikiProject banner, to be placed on all European history article talk pages
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{{User European history}} | User pages | User box to show that you're a project member |
{{Eurohist invitation}} | User talk pages | Invitation to user to join project |
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject European history/navigation}} | WikiProject pages | European history WikiProject Navigation box |
{{Portal|Europe}} | Article pages | Europe portal |
Categories
[edit]- List of all subpages of this page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject European history/Categories - A list of all categories associated with this Project.
WikiProject categories
[edit]Template | Description |
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[[Category:WikiProject European history]] | Add to every European history project page. |