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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!
We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members.
WikiProject status and resources
As per the notice at the top of this page, this project is not fully active. however, below are some automated features that you may find useful for working on articles on history-related topics.
- "Article Alerts" is an automated feature that provides constant updates on various articles that relate to history.
- You can view a list of all sub-pages of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Index
- You can view a list of all task forces of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Task forces
Popular pages
A monthly popular pages report for this project is available, updated by Community Tech bot.
You can view a list of our popular pages, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Popular_pages
Founding and development
Significant milestones for this WikiProject:
- Founded on October 22, 2001, by User:Sjc and User:MichaelTinkler.
- It was first formatted and explicitly labeled as a WikiProject after a series of edits by User:Reddi, which started on May 31, 2007 and ended around June 5, 2007.
- as of July 2008, the four users below were the coordinators for this WikiProject, as per this version of the page for Coordinators:
- John Carter (talk · contribs)
- Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs)
- Wandalstouring (talk · contribs)
- Reddi (talk · contribs)
WikiProject structure
WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:
- Coordinators are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
- Working groups host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and offline publication.
- Task forces are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics within history.
- WikiProject history recently expanded into Wikibooks.
- See below for more information, including various additional roles and group information, in the section project staff and working groups.
Goals
The goals of this wikiproject are: a) to improve Wikipedia's coverage of history by creating, expanding, and maintaining history-related articles. b) to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of history. c) to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to history in Wikipedia, d) to maintain the history portal and its sub-portals, e) to answer queries about history on the reference desk, especially the humanities reference desk.
Outline of history article
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please see the article Outline of history. Please look this over and fill-in missing topics.If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.
While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
- What's missing? Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject? Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.
It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics.
It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.Please help improve it. It's our bird's eye view.Thank you.
Scope
Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:
- Articles with a "History" section, however long, are not in our scope
- "History of..." articles are within our scope
As of 22 July 2022, there are 39,545 articles within the scope of WikiProject history, of which 313 are featured. This makes up 0.6% of the articles on Wikipedia and 3.1% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 120,838 pages in the project.
The list of history topics lists of basic history topics are some articles that are in this project's scope. The latter list is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, but rather an overview. The Lists of topics are intended to be comprehensive and to include links to every article related to the subject on Wikipedia. See List of mathematics topics and List of psychology topics as examples.
A number of lists and meta-lists are maintained in Wikipedia:
- Battles or wars should be listed in List of battles or War.
- Saints should go into List of saints.
- Lists of incumbents are becoming increasingly popular (see List of French monarchs; List of German Kings and Emperors); list those lists in Lists of incumbents
Lists and outlines
The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them.
- See also: Wikipedia:Timeline standards
Source for the sub-sections below: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration
Tasks for Project
Peer review requests
This is from the page: User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews
- hui_pan-nationalism requesting review and feedback Linnea2853 (talk) 07:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Article alerts
Generated by bot as per Wikipedia:Article alerts.
To watch the page for Article alerts, please add this page to your watchlist: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Article alerts
Did you know
- 19 Jul 2022 – Michael Phillips (historian) (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by BuySomeApples (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jul 2022 – Spy Princess (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Whispyhistory (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 22 Jul 2022 – Scripophily (talk · · hist) was AfDed by NotReallyMoniak (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 21 Jul 2022 – I'll Never Tire of You (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Chris troutman (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 20 Jul 2022 – 1934 Bulgarian census (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Alexandermcnabb (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 20 Jul 2022 – Liberation (film) (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Edwardx (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 17 Jul 2022 – Wahas ibn Abu al-Tayyib (talk · · hist) was AfDed by A loose necktie (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 16 Jul 2022 – History of Brahmin diet (talk · · hist) was AfDed by TryKid (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 16 Jul 2022 – Albanian-Greek border incident (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Demetrios1993 (t · c); see discussion (16 participants)
- 15 Jul 2022 – Richardus Anglicus (talk · · hist) was AfDed by CarolineHealeyDall (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 14 Jul 2022 – Battle of Vinland (1010) (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Unbh (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 08 Jul 2022 – Barbara of Württemberg (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Jimandjam (t · c); see discussion (10 participants; relisted)
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Categories for discussion
- 08 Jul 2022 – Category:2018-related timelines (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jul 2022 – Category:Legal history of the Soviet Union (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Jun 2022 – Category:Political history of the Soviet Union (talk · · hist) was CfDed by BlackBony (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jun 2022 – Category:East Pakistan (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Jun 2022 – Category:World War II prisoners of war massacres by Nazi Germany (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Eric (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jun 2022 – Category:Works by period of creation (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2022 – Category:Songs about the Devil (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 May 2022 – Category:History in fiction (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Apr 2022 – Category:Hollywood, Los Angeles history and culture (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
Templates for discussion
- 09 Jul 2022 – Template:History of Thailand since 2001 (talk · · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2022 – Template:History of Thailand (1973–2001) (talk · · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jul 2022 – Template:History of Thailand 1932–1973 (talk · · hist) was TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 11 Jul 2022 – Single-party government (talk · · hist) →Government was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
Miscellany for deletion
- 22 Jul 2022 – Draft:American Oddballs (talk · · hist) was MfDed by Drmies (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 21 Jul 2022 – Ignace Tonené (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by CT55555 (t · c); start
Featured article reviews
- 16 Jul 2022 – Baháʼí Faith (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by Nutez (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 20 Jul 2022 – Invasions of the British Isles (talk · · hist) has an RfC by Tewdar (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Jul 2022 – List of coups and coup attempts (talk · · hist) has an RfC by NewsAndEventsGuy (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 16 Jul 2022 – Timeline of the Warren G. Harding presidency (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Jun 2022 – Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Sanglahi86 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 May 2022 – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by A. Parrot (t · c); see discussion
- 20 May 2022 – Jews in Hong Kong (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Golden (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 14 Jul 2022 – United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to United Nations list of non-self-governing territories by Wallnot (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 20 Jul 2022 – Nawabzada Shahabuddin Khan (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Jandol State by CollectiveSolidarity (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jul 2022 – Causes of the Dutch Revolt (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Eighty Years' War by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jul 2022 – Ottoman lira (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Turkish lira by TheCurrencyGuy (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jul 2022 – Strategem of Peshawar (Jamrud Fort 1818) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Amb (princely state) by TrangaBellam (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jun 2022 – List of historians by area of study (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to List of historians by Joe Roe (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2022 – B'aakal (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Palenque by Calaclacka (t · c); see discussion
- 09 May 2022 – Territorial conquests of the Empire of Japan (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan by Linhart.stephen (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Apr 2022 – Daejeon massacre (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Bodo League massacre by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2022 – Kamarupa – Late to end period (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Pala dynasty (Kamarupa) by Chaipau (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Feb 2022 – New chronology (Fomenko) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Anatoly Fomenko by TrangaBellam (t · c); see discussion
- (3 more...)
Articles to be split
- 09 Jul 2022 – List of common misconceptions (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Blubabluba9990 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2022 – Presidency of Benigno Aquino III (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sanglahi86 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Jan 2022 – History of animation (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by ERAGON (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Nov 2021 – History of South Korea (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by 124.217.189.154 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 May 2021 – Vargas Era (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by FredModulars (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 22 Jul 2022 – Draft:Benjamin L. Marsh (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Heirluminaries (t · c)
- 21 Jul 2022 – Draft:SpyCast (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Veason912 (t · c)
- 21 Jul 2022 – Draft:Charlotte Juneteenth Shooting (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PatLee489 (t · c)
- 21 Jul 2022 – Draft:Thachil Abraham (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by VXWY (t · c)
- 19 Jul 2022 – Draft:Marquisate of Fosdinovo (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Daneellis114 (t · c)
- 18 Jul 2022 – Draft:Jerzy Jankiewicz (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 46.251.109.89 (t · c)
- 15 Jul 2022 – Draft:Moscovite-Novgorodian Wars (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Styyx (t · c)
- 15 Jul 2022 – Draft:Panakaduwa Copper Plate (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by W Dinuwara Binudith De Silva (t · c)
- 15 Jul 2022 – Draft:Administration Building of the Columbian Exposition (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M3d6f5 (t · c)
- 14 Jul 2022 – Draft:Juma Mosque (Balaken) (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Styyx (t · c)
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Project staff and working groups
The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic wikiproject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.
Project Coordinators
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For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions.
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Coordinators. The coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.
- Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
- Coordinators::
- Key Editors:
Responsibilities
- Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
- There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
- The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.
- Page Coordinators. Page coordinators can do the roles above as well, but they do so mainly as facilitators to keep the page itself formatted and up to date, to facilitate discussion here on this page to proceed smoothly, and to encourage a full and free exchange of useful and helpful information to occur on the pages of this WikIProject.
- Key editors. these are highly skilled and experienced editors, who play a key role in editing or improving important topical areas related to history. they are available to answer any questions. they have concurred with the overall structure and direction of this WikiProject.
- Working Group Coordinators. These coordinate any of one or more of the four core working groups for this WikiProject. "Working Groups" are defined as groups that correlate with the widely-accepted core functions of all WikiProjects, throughout Wikipedia; the existence of these Working Groups is on a semi-permanent basis, regardless of whether they have any members or not.
- Task Force Coordinators. These coordinate any of one or more of the Task Forces for this WikiProject. Task Forces are centered around a specific task that pertains either to the core subject area, or some specific task or project, that is specific to the WikiProject itself. they can change, be created, or dissolved, based on the changing needs and activities of the WikiProject. therefore, for WikiProject History, there are some task forces that are centered upon historical topics, others upon historical eras, and various others for sundry types of areas. these are subject to continual change and development, as the project itself may dictate.
- Assistant Coordinators. Editors who fulfill specific roles to assist coordinators in specific project areas and tasks.
Supplemental roles
- WikiProject Members. Editors who are active members of this WIkiProject.
- WikiProject Volunteers. Editors who volunteer to help with specific efforts or activities at this WikiProject.
- WikiProject Liaisons. Editors or coordinators from other Wikiprojects.
- Admin Partners. Admins who serve in a supporting role to regularly communicate to provide assistance as needed.
- Project Consultants. These are any editors who seek to provide input or assistance to the project on a periodic basis, but do not seek to take on any administrative duties here. so these could include coordinators or editors from other WikiProjects who wish to help out, any experienced editors, any admins who wish to help out or, or absolutely any other interested editors at all, regardless of their experience, who simply wish to provide their input or assistance, at any time, and wish to volunteer for some support role here to do so.
Working Groups
Working Groups at WikiProject History:
Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces
Assessment
The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales.
Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Collaboration
The Collaboration working group serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found in a section above.
Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Review
The Review working group carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope. Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Outreach
The Outreach working group acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives. Current active members:
(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)
Informal subgroups
Informal subgroups are any individual subgroup that any editor wishes to set up, on an informal or formal basis, for the purpose of gathering any group of editors together. This will be to enable editors to form their own subgroups for working with and communicating with other editors, but without taking on the formal roles and responsibilities of an official task force.
These subgroups could be formed based on any criteria at all. so any editor could form a subgroup for communicating with editors who are new to this topical area. or it could be an informal group for brainstorming ideas for a particular topic, or a particular editing drive, or group effort, or for a specific effort to delve into a particular topic, or to set up a single new article or set of articles, or for any other reason.
Our reason for setting up this new type of subgrouping is simple; history is a very broad and varied field. We would like to encourage all editors to take an active role here, as much as they might wish. so if you wish to set up any such subgroup, please feel free to post a notice on the talk page. We will be glad to help to promote any such efforts here. thanks!!
Task forces
Task forces are where the major work of the WikiProject gets done.
We will have Task Forces set up here to write about each of the topical areas covered by WikiProject History.
Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on. If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!
Sub-page for Task Force information:
Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces
Task Forces by era and Task Forces by topic
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Task Forces by era
Task forces by subject area
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Userboxes
WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:
- {{User WPH}}
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- {{User WP History}}
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Outreach and membership list
If you want to post the photo from the logo for WikiProject History, you can do so using this text: [[Image:MontreGousset001.jpg|x45px]]. this image will appear in line, as it does here.
- the text below in the "Outreach" section is from the sub-page Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach.
- the text below in the "Membership" section is from the sub-page Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Participants.
Templates
Project banner
The banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
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Infobox Historical Event
The Infobox {{Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.
{{Infobox historical event}}
Country/Region history
A navbox from Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.
Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: Category:History and events templates.
Articles Showcase
History articles by Quality-Class
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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
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The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
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DYKs
The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:
- Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany – 6 June 2008.
- History of African Americans in Chicago – 2 May 2007.
- History of Berne – 19 March 2006.
- History of Dhaka – 7 September 2006.
Categories
Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.
Category tree
- List of all subpages of this page
Organization of Category:History
Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and Human history. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories
- Category:History by nation contains the histories of modern nations. It should contain one category for each modern nation, for example History of the United Kingdom.
- Category:History by region contains the histories of regions larger than a nation, for example Category:European history.
- Category:History by period contains histories organized by chronology, for example Category:Ancient history.
- Category:History by topic contains histories not organized by geography or chronology, for example Category:History of science.
- Category:Historiography contains articles about the study of history and historians.
- See also: Wikipedia:Auto-categorization
Category names
The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.
Organization of national histories
Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.
Using the United Kingdom as an example:
- Have separate history categories for each major geographical part and historical predecessor of that nation: Category:History of Wales, Category:History of England, Category:History of Scotland, Category:History of Great Britain, Category:History of Northern Ireland, etc.
- Use the common names where possible even if this creates ambiguity. For example, England is both a historical nation and a geographical region: logically speaking we might prefer a category named like "History of England (1066–1707)", but unfortunately no-one is likely to use such a category name unless they are familiar with the categorization scheme. So Category:History of England must do for both.
- A geographical subdivision includes the categories for its parts; a historical subdivision includes the categories for its predecessors. This might create loops in the categories, for example Category:History of Ireland is in Category:History of the Republic of Ireland by the historical rule, and the latter is in the former by the geographical rule. This does no harm.
- The category "History of X" always belongs to the category for "X", if it exists. So Category:History of England belongs to Category:England.
- Put events in the most specific categor(ies) to which they apply. So the Wars of Scottish Independence go in both Category:History of England and Category:History of Scotland, but Category:Seven Years' War goes in Category:History of Great Britain.
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system:
History | .---------+------------------. | | History by nation History by period | | .----------+-----------+ .--. | | | | | | United Kingdom Republic of Ireland | Ancient history | | | | | | | .----------+-------+ | | `------------+----+ | | | | | | | | | .----+-----. | Great Britain | | `-------. Ireland <-------' | | | | | `------. | | | | +----------+-------+---. | `----+--' | Ancient Rome | | | | | | | | England Scotland | Northern Ireland | | | | | | | `-+--------' `-----------+----------------+--. | | | | | Wales Ancient Britain Roman Britain
(This diagram is far from complete: there is a Category:British Empire, not shown. Category:History of the United Kingdom is in Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.)
Don't over-categorize
Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.
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