Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Goals

 * To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms in the English language.
 * To improve coverage of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms in Wikipedia.

Scope

 * Mother Projects: WikiProject England, WikiProject European history, WikiProject History and WikiProject Middle Ages

WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms was founded to support the improvement of articles dealing with the period between the withdrawal of Romans from the British Isles in 410 AD until the effective loss of Anglo-Saxon control of England following the Battle of Hastings in 1066 in the region that would become the unified kingdom of England. Though primarily focused on the Historically studied aspects of this period, this project also wishes to improve the coverage of its modern historiography, fiction, literature and cultural repercussions.

Article guidelines
Wikiproject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms endorses all stylistic conventions of Wikipedia and does not, as of now, have its own style guide. However, style guides in related subjects such as WikiProject Military history/Style guide ought to be consulted before approaching Peer Reviews. If Stylistic and article issues are raised on the Project talk page, further guidelines will be established.

To Do list

 * Project tasks
 * Get 1.0 Assessment up and running
 * Get Members, talk it up!!!
 * Start picking collaborations and identifying articles to work on


 * The following articles are being worked on:


 * Religion in Mercia
 * South Saxons merge into Kingdom of Sussex
 * Discuss The Dragon (Beowulf) merge into BeowulfExpanding and refining The Dragon (Beowulf) per discussion
 * Discuss Gewisse merge into Wessex
 * Discuss Anglo-Saxon monarchs into Heptarchy
 * Discuss Battle of Merton merge into Battle of Marton
 * Discuss Backberend merge into Handhabend
 * Discuss name change and deletion of Category: Anglo-Saxon settlements and Category: Mercian settlements
 * The kings of East Anglia from earliest times down to Ælfwald


 * Priority articles to improve:
 * End of Roman rule in Britain
 * De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
 * Hereward the Wake
 * Sub-Roman Britain
 * Battle of Edington
 * Cilternsæte--really short, appears to be a kingdom
 * Anglo-Scandinavian


 * Discuss the following templates
 * Template:Anglo-Saxon society


 * Articles to do:


 * Æthelwulf of Berkshire
 * Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
 * Thomas Northcote Toller (http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mancass/thetollerlecture/ )
 * Hope Muntz, scholar and novelist, author of The Golden Warrior etc. (notability needs proving)


 * Aesthetics:


 * Develop a project-specific banner logo
 * Design a project-specific Barnstar and reward policy

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1)  ( Will do support stuff and am really interested in contemporary fiction that reflects on the period) 13:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2)  (interested in creating/improving biographical articles) 22:53, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)  (interested in Anglo Saxon History generally, but more specifically in Sussex)11:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 4)  (Norþhymbra Rīce, especially Beornica-rīce, from King Ida to present day Berwickshire) 11:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) - I want to learn about Mercia and would be happy to share what I learn.
 * 6)  - ecclesiastical history and topics touching on that. 17:07, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 7)  - Northumbria, Danelaw, Viking Age, ethnicity, saints & hagiography. Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk ) 21:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 8)  - General Anglo-Saxon history and culture, with a particular focus on Mercia. 12:54, 30 November 2011
 * 9)  - mainly later Anglo-Saxon biographical articles. 12:48 29 August 2012
 * 10)  - Interested in the Kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria and East Anglia. 16:12 14 November 2013
 * 11)  - Interested in various non-royal Anglo-Saxons of note, ealdormen, bishops, thegns, etc. 03:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 12)  Mostly just GAN reviews.  Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  03:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 13)  - Interested in Anglo-Saxon history (including society, culture, language, art, literature, &c.).  Student of Old English, Middle English, paleography, mediæval manuscripts, historical linguistics, and philology in general.  Of course, no student of mediæval manuscripts lasts long without at least a workable reading knowledge of Latin! 00:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 14)  - most stuff, in particular battles. 22:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 15)  - Europa! 11:57, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 16)  - Anglo-Saxon history, especially onomastics Faust.TSFL (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 17) EmilySarah99 (talk) 00:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * 18)  GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 11:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 19)  All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:05, 8 July 2024 (UTC).

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.


 * Gandersheim Casket
 * Sutton Hoo helmet
 * Ingwær
 * Airdeconut
 * Kentish Royal Legend
 * On the Resting-Places of the Saints (expanded)
 * Odda, Ealdorman of Devon
 * Beorn Estrithson
 * Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
 * Battle of Buttington - added this to the project, not exactly new but had been neglected!

Englisc Wicipǣdia
Articles in this WikiProject will be of particular interest to the Englisc Wicipǣdia and speakers of Old English are encouraged to participate in the translation of project articles.

Categories
Main Categories which contain Project articles
 * Category:Anglo-Saxon England
 * Category:Sub-Roman Britain
 * Category:Anglo-Norse England
 * Category:Anglo-Saxon settlements
 * Category:Battles involving the Anglo-Saxons

Important Historical regions for the period:
 * Category:East Anglia
 * Category:Essex
 * Category:Kent
 * Category:Mercia
 * Category:Northumbria
 * Category:Sussex
 * Category:Wessex

Templates



 * Invitation Template
 * Project Banner


 * User Badge
 * Lists of the Kings of Anglo-Saxon England

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