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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 tendentious 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 Missions 2.4.1 Current missions 2.5 Related projects and taskforces 2.6 Userboxes 2.7 Project award 2.8 Project banner 3 Showcase 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 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

Announcements and Open tasks

Greece WikiProject Announcements
Announcements
The first mission of our project for the improvement of an article is now official! Our goal is to bring the Greek War of Independence to GA status till the end of September! Your assistance is expected!! The August newsletter is now available. Notice board, open tasks and things to do for WikiProject Greece and Greece-related subjects in general( · changes) Welcome to the Greek Notice Board, for All Hellenes, Philhellenes & members of the Wikiproject Greece! This page attempts to organize and keep track of the articles on Greece and Greek-related subjects on Wikipedia. Each article is assigned a level of completeness according to the following scale: - stub, a paragraph or two, completely inadequate. - maybe a few paragraphs, but coverage is inadequate, still missing some basic information. - Many paragraphs, covers all, or almost all, basic information, provides a bit of depth. - Featured article status, or has gone as far as it can go, as in the case of a simple list. When rating articles keep in mind the subject at hand. A very broad topic could be considered inadequate even if it is much longer than another article on a very narrow topic. Please update the page as you see fit. News The Template:WPGreeceOpenTasks of the Wikiproject Greece is now merged in our notice board/to do Recently added: Please put articles here after adding and leave them for one week You can also both check and update the New articles section of the Wikiproject Greece. Top priorities Greek War of Independence-inline citations needed Hagia Sophia-inline citations needed Greek military junta of 1967-1974- general editing and review as this article should be included in the Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 21 on the 40th anniversary of the coup To create *This section lists articles that don't exist on any wiki. If known article exists at Greek Wikipedia, please list in the next section *See also the to-do list concerning non-existing articles related to Greek music Agathonas Iakovides Anna Khrisafi Apology of an Anti-Greek of Nikos Dimou Apostolos Khatzikhristos Babis Goles Dimitris Gogos (Baianderas) Elliniko Metopo Greek famine of 1941-42 Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble Manolis Khrisafakis Michalis Chrysochoidis Neofitos Doukas On the Misery of Being Greek of Nikos Dimou Prodromos Tsaoutsakis Rizarios Foundation Stelios Peptiniadis Stratos Payoumbtzis Vangelis Papazoglou Without the Greeks of I.M. Panagiotopoulos To create and translate from Greek Wiki This section lists articles that exist on Greek wiki, but not on English wiki. If a stub or larger article exists on English wiki, but Greek one is larger, please list in the next section. To translate and destub/expand from Greek Wikipedia This section lists articles that exists on both Greek and English wiki, but the Greek one is better and needs to be translated into English. Nikolaos Plastiras To translate and or destub/expand from English into Greek Battle of Crete - Greek version Jimbo Wales - Greek version Istanbul Pogrom Greek version Expand This section is dedicated to expansion of existing articles. See also Greece stubs and subcategories Andreas Syngrou Angelos Sikelianos Image:50PL.png Cabinet of Greece Image:50PL.png Constantine Andreou Contemporary Greek Art needs info to avoid deletion Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinopleImage:50PL.png Evangelos Averoff Evzones Image:50PL.png Fustanella (warning, lame edit war in progress, enter at great risk to your sanity) Greek Resistance Guardians of Hellenism Hellenic Air ForceImage:50PL.png (and related articles, see template) Hellenic Army (and related articles, see template) Hellenic League - just a stubby disambiguation page, needs expansion Hellenic NavyImage:50PL.png (and related articles, see template) Hellenic ParliamentImage:50PL.png History of Greece Ioannis Psycharis Image:50PL.png Ion Dragoumis Massacre of Distomo Members of the Greek Parliament, 2007- Military history of Greece Image:50PL.png Military history of Greece during World War II Image:50PL.png Military of Cyprus Miltiadis Evert Music of Greece National and Social Liberation National parks in Greece Image:50PL.png National Republican Greek League Nikolaos Douvas Nikos Engonopoulos Image:50PL.png Nikos Karouzos Nikolaos Trikoupis Nikolaos Zachariadis North Epirus Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Pavlos Melas Photios Kontoglou Prime Minister of Greece Sakis Rouvas - had to be radically stubbed back for WP:BLP violations. Please re-expand, but with extreme care as to solid sourcing. Socratis Kokkalis Trial of the Six Trial and incarceration of the junta at Korydallos Plus you can help on its discussion for deletion. Things to do Articles in general peer review or in Wikiproject's Greece peer-review Articles to improve to Featured Articles standard Battle of Crete For Featured article candidates or for articles in Feautured article review, check Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Review To fix To clean up/wikify/copyedit/etc. Remove if no tag. Add if a tag present. Nonda George Byron, 6th Baron Byron Merger proposals National awakening of the ethnic Macedonians into History of the Balkans. Discuss here Renaming proposals To find images Remove when several imgages added To create maps Other requests Portal:Byzantine Empire is up and running. Contributions are welcome. Recently updated George II of Greece Discussions Phanariotes needs the project's attention because of the ensuing edit wars Great Fire of SmyrnaImage:50PL.png needs the project's attention: NPOV check, sources, citations and cleanup Macedonia obviously needs attention, to help provide to readers what's truly up! Greece:There's a major discussion going on for more than half a year about a map. Deletion sorting Check: Greece related deletions Projects and task forces needing our help Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Balkan military history task force Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Ottoman military history task force Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Classical warfare task force

Project organization

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.

Departments

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
• Athens task force

Missions

Our goal is to improve articles within the scope of our project towardas FA status. We inaugurated our efforts with the first mission in September 2008:

Current missions

• Mission 1: Greek War of Independence

  Objective: Bring till the end of September the Greek War of Independence article to GA status. Then, we'll see!

  Mission coordinator: Kyriakos

  Status: On hold

Related projects and taskforces

• WikiProject History
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military 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)

Userboxes

Usage	Code	Image
Userbox enthusiasts can put this {{User Wikiproject Greece}} to show that you are a member of this project.	{{User Wikiproject Greece}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Greece
	{{User WikiProject Greece2}}	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.

Project award

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.

The Barnstar of WPGreece {{{1}}}

Project banner

The {{WikiProject Greece}} 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.

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Greece, an attempt to expand, improve and standardize the content and structure of articles related to Greece.
If you would like to participate, you can improve WikiProject Greece, or sign up and contribute in a wider array of articles like those on our to do list. 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.
???	This article has not yet been prioritized.
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

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. A full list of these showcase articles can be found here.

Resources

Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Greek Dimos}} - This infobox is to be used for Greek towns, cities, municipalities, and villages.
• {{Infobox Greek Isles}} - This infobox is to be used for the Greek Isles.
• {{Infobox Macedonia (Greece)}} - This infobox is only to be used for Macedonia (Greece) article page.
• {{Infobox Central Greece}} - This infobox is for the Central Greece article.

Auxiliary templates

General

• {{WPGreeceOpenTasks}} - the open task list
• {{WPGreece Sidebar}} - the main navigation box/sidebar
• {{GreekPresidents}} - template added to the bottom of an article that relates to a Greek President.
• {{Prefectures of Greece}} - Template for Prefectures of Greece.
• {{Prefectural capitals of Greece}} - Template for Greek cities which are capitals of their respective prefecture.
• {{Peripheries of Greece}} - Template for Peripheries of Greece.
• {{Capitals of Peripheries of Greece}} - Template for Greek cities which are capitals of their respective periphery.
• {{World Heritage Sites in Greece}} - Template for articles containing Greek World Heritage Sites.
• {{Hellenic foreign relations}} - Template for Foreign relations of Greece articles.
• {{Greek diaspora}} - Templates for the Greek communities around the world

Banners

• {{WPGR}} - 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
• {{Βικιπαίδεια}} - A template to use at the end of the article when you are translating an article from Βικιπαίδεια, the Wikipedia in Greece.

Other templates and stubs

These are placed at the bottom of article pages.

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

Conventions and Policies

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.

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.

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.

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)

Style

Main article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style

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.

Article names

Further information: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) and 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.

Infoboxes

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

Biography

Further information: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

Names and titles

Further information: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)

Dates

Further information: 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.

Link references

Further information: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Link_titles

Resources

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).

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!

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.

E-text sources

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

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

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• This page was last modified on 30 October 2008, at 12:35.

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