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Vami_IV

Please feel free to add your name to join!!!!

@Vami IV:, this is your page. please feel free to use this, modify, etc., as you wish. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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Vital articles

These articles need to gain featured status as soon as possible:

History (Comparison: Mathematics)
Outline of history (Comparison: Outline of biology, Outline of geography)
Glossary of history (Comparison: Glossary of philosophy)

Open tasks

You can add notes here on any tasks to be done, items to be addressed, articles needing improvement, etc. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.

Redlist - women historians - add new biographies for notable women historians
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of history - Supply images, make requests for history articles.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/History - Comment on History-related articles up for deletion.
Answer requests for comments
History of Lacock Requires a rating and possible expansion/cleanup

Article alerts

Did you know

19 Mar 2026 – Timeline of the Liz Truss premiership (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by A Thousand Doors (t · c); see discussion
19 Mar 2026 – Council of Censors (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sir Joseph (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2026 – Baptistery of Bekalta (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
10 Mar 2026 – Heraclitus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
09 Mar 2026 – Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
07 Mar 2026 – Lisa Fagin Davis (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Talulagosh (t · c); see discussion
01 Mar 2026 – Marie Salmon (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Chao Garden (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

19 Mar 2026 – Baquerizo family (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EcuadorianPenguin (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
14 Mar 2026 – Battle of Sodhra and Badra (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Vanamonde93 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
14 Mar 2026 – Battle of Amritsar (1738) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Vanamonde93 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
14 Mar 2026 – Racial policy of Nazi Germany (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by IdanST (t · c); see discussion (12 participants)
10 Mar 2026 – Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
10 Mar 2026 – Pike square (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Phlogiston Enthusiast (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
09 Mar 2026 – Galdan Boshugtu Khan's expeditions against the Kazakh Khanate (1681–1684) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
13 Mar 2026 – Battle of Attock (1787) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Vanamonde93 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 20 Mar 2026; see discussion (5 participants)
12 Mar 2026 – Djiboutian War of Independence (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Socialwave597 (t · c) was closed as delete by Elli (t · c) on 19 Mar 2026; see discussion (6 participants)
11 Mar 2026 – Abbasid expeditions to East Africa (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Replayerr (t · c) was closed as keep by Pax:Vobiscum (t · c) on 19 Mar 2026; see discussion (18 participants)

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Categories for discussion

17 Mar 2026 – Category:History of Haryana (1947–present) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
16 Mar 2026 – Category:History of Chhattisgarh (1947–present) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
16 Mar 2026 – Category:Hacking in the 2010s (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by DigitalIceAge (t · c); see discussion
15 Mar 2026 – Category:History of Czechoslovakia by topic (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion
15 Mar 2026 – Category:History of the Holy Roman Empire by topic (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion
15 Mar 2026 – Category:Ottoman military officers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
14 Mar 2026 – Category:History of Coats of arms (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
14 Mar 2026 – Category:21st-century American physicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion
14 Mar 2026 – Category:17th-century American physicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion
14 Mar 2026 – Category:19th-century American physicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mclay1 (t · c); see discussion

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Templates for discussion

23 Feb 2026 – Template:Aviation Safety Network accident history (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Paine Ellsworth (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

21 Mar 2026 – 2014 civil war in Syria (talk · edit · hist) →Syrian civil war was RfDed by A1Cafel (t · c); see discussion
17 Mar 2026 – War of choice (talk · edit · hist) →War of aggression was RfDed by GnocchiFan (t · c); see discussion
17 Mar 2026 – 2004 election in progress (talk · edit · hist) →Timeline of the 2004 United States presidential election was RfDed by Qwerty123M (t · c); see discussion
16 Mar 2026 – Syrian war (2011–2013) (talk · edit · hist) →Syrian civil war was RfDed by A1Cafel (t · c); see discussion
16 Mar 2026 – The 16th (talk · edit · hist) →16th century was RfDed by BD2412 (t · c); see discussion
15 Mar 2026 – Syrian Civil War, November 2012 – March 2013 (talk · edit · hist) →Syrian civil war was RfDed by A1Cafel (t · c); see discussion
15 Mar 2026 – Biblical Israel (talk · edit · hist) →Ancient Israel and Judah was RfDed by Abesca (t · c); see discussion
05 Mar 2026 – Capitols of ancient Rome (talk · edit · hist) →Ancient Rome was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
05 Mar 2026 – Capitols of the Roman Empire (talk · edit · hist) →Ancient Rome was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
12 Mar 2026 – Historical Israel (talk · edit · hist) →Ancient Israel and Judah RfDed by Abesca (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

28 Jan 2026 – File:John Logie Baird, 1st Image.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3) was FfDed by Candidyeoman55 (t · c); see discussion
22 Jan 2026 – File:Zapluty karzel.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3) was FfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be worked on

Feel free to add any articles needing improvement you come across here. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.

Articles to be created

Articles that Need Improvement

Known class and importance

History (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs expansion
Ancient history (C-class, Top-importance) - Cleanup, expansion needed
Early modern period (C-class, Top-importance) - Cleanup, expansion needed
Age of Revolution (Stub-class, Top-importance) - Expansion severely needed.
Civilization (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs major expansion and reorganizing
Postclassical Era (C-class, Top-importance) - More references and expansion needed, minor reorganizing.
Ancient Rome (B-class, Top-importance) - Needs reorganising, good though
History of construction (C-class, Top-importance) - Needs reorganization, cleanup
History of Shamanism (Start-class, Top-importance) - Needs expansion (inclusion of Turkic and Mongol history)
History of East Asia (Stub-class, High-importance) - Needs major cleanup, expansion, etc.
History of Asia (Start-class, High-importance) - Needs major expansion
Colonialism (C-class, High-importance) - See Talk:Colonialism#Cleanup of article
Early modern Europe (C-class, High-importance) - Cleanup, expansion, reorganizing
Nazi Party (C-class, High-importance) - Needs expansion, more references and citation cleanup. Help very much needed.
History of Belgium (B-class, Mid-importance) - Expansion badly needed.
History of Mauritius (Start-class, Mid-importance) - Expansion needed.
Shark Island Extermination Camp (C-class, Low-importance) - Needs references, clean-up, re-writing and expansion. Name change request to Shark Island Concentration Camp currently being discussed - see Talk:Shark Island Extermination Camp#Requested Move

List of golden treasures - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_oldest_golden_treasures - if some history nerd wants to help with information and creating the article i would greatly appreciate the gesture , maybe even buy you a beer :)

Unknown class and importance

Ancient Carthage - Needs some reorganizing
Ancient Greece - Cleanup
Archaeology - Cleanup
Constitutional Crisis - Needs expansion, cleanup
Emperor Gwanggaeto - needs more additions.
Empire - Needs assessment and serious cleanup/expansion.
Fall of the Berlin Wall - new article in the last few days, needs expansion and cleanup, preferably before the 30th anniversary
History of Sri Lanka - Needs expansion and Medieval history of Sri Lanka clean up
List of history topics - Needs expansion
Local history - Needs major improvement
Oral history - Cleanup
Secession - Needs some expansion
Timeline of prehistory - Expansion, sources
Union of Brittany and France - Needs reorganizing, cleanup
Witch-hunt - medieval section is somewhat fragmented, needs scholarly citations.
Xinhai Revolution - Needs Cleanup
History of money - multiple issues with structure and references, see the talk
Leprosy in Malta - would benefit from review by a historian, perhaps additional sources?

Outside of WikiProject History

Marshfield, Gloucestershire - English village, has very large and very disorganized/OR history sections; lots of good info, but needs organization and re-writing
Referendum - Needs Cleanup