Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Maritime History


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created

Description
Maritime history - as a global overview of maritime activity as identified by current articles and histories.

Identify the subject:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_history
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Maritime_history

Show that you are aware of related projects: As of January 2011, WikiProject Maritime Trades and WikiProject Ports are merging to become the Maritime Transport task force of WikiProject Transport. Do not be alarmed if you notice some anomalies during the transition.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SHIPS
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Maritime_warfare_task_force
 * The Maritime Trades and Ports Projects are Merging
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Nautical is basically a us oriented military history portal

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * maritime history (number of pages in the category:less than 1,000 )
 * maritime history (number of pages in the category:less than 1,000 )


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.



I have already created Australian Maritime History some years ago, and have been peripherally interested in WP Shipwrecks and WP Ships, where very good work already occurs with a massive scope and range.
 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?

Note - this project is specifically to tie in the articles and categories that specifically identify as being 'maritime history'. It is not intended to replace or reconfigure anything that already exists under the other banners/scope of WP:SHIPS or other projects, unless adequate discussion and or consensus is reached on specific items.

I would imagine that some small numbers of SHIPS articles might be more suitably moved to Maritime History and vice versa, one hopes that SHIPS participants can acknowledge that this project idea could facilitate a more suitable set of categories and subject areas and that a good relationship could be established to understand the areas of scope/delineation. A substantial part of the SHIPS project would be untouched by this proposal.

To try to understand the importance of the Maritime History project idea, the category that exists, and its tagging for the history project suggests that inadequate support and maintenance of maritime history articles and subjects could be specifically fixed with a lot less effort than is required elsewhere.

WP:SHIPS is a project where project maintenance is an issue whereas the current structure of the Maritime history project is currently less than a 1,000 articles

I believe the firm establishment of a Maritime History project can establish a positive effect on the articles and categories that have the term Maritime history in their titles, and that it can sit well next to the other projects and task forcs that already exist.

Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) satusuro 12:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.