Wikipedia:WikiProject European history/Strategy

Defining scope
The history of Europe is a very broad topic, with unclear boundaries. When deciding whether an article falls under our scope, two fundamental questions need to be addressed:


 * 1) What is the topic's relation to Europe? Some topics which are not confined to geographical Europe may relate heavily to European history, while other topics which involve geographical Europe may be primarily non-European in nature.
 * 2) What defines a historical topic? When does a topic pass from a recent event to a historical event? Do pursuits of other fields which happened in the past qualify as history?

A Category tree for can be found here.

Should there be a Portal:European history?

 * Discuss

Relevant extant Portals:


 * 1) History:
 * 2) * Portal:Middle Ages - inactive?
 * 3) * Portal:Classical Civilisation - recently active
 * 4) * Portal:Ancient Rome - recently active
 * 5) Non-history
 * 6) * Portal:Europe - active
 * 7) * military histories / wars - mostly active
 * 8) * Portal:Fascism - inactive
 * 9) * country portals - mixed bag
 * 10) Regions
 * 11) * Portal:Pomerania - a historical region of current day Germany and Poland

Relation to other WikiProjects
There are a number of extant WikiProjects with large crossovers areas. Some are highly active, and some are defunct. How will we define our relationship to them?

Historical country projects

 * WikiProject Russian History
 * WikiProject Former Countries
 * WikiProject Soviet Union
 * WikiProject Yugoslavia
 * WikiProject Prussia
 * WikiProject Kingdom of Naples
 * WikiProject Friesland
 * WPFC Austria-Hungary task force
 * WPFC Holy Roman Empire task force
 * WPFC Italian historical states task force

Geographic Projects

 * WikiProject Countries
 * WikiProject Europe
 * Western Europe (no WikiProject):
 * WikiProject United Kingdom
 * WikiProject Scotland
 * WikiProject Gibraltar
 * WikiProject Spain
 * WikiProject France
 * WikiProject Belgium
 * WikiProject Luxembourg
 * WikiProject Netherlands
 * WikiProject Northern Europe
 * WikiProject Denmark
 * WikiProject Estonia
 * WikiProject Faroe Islands
 * WikiProject Finland
 * WikiProject Iceland
 * WikiProject Latvia
 * WikiProject Lithuania
 * WikiProject Norway
 * WikiProject Sweden
 * WikiProject Eastern Europe
 * WikiProject Russia
 * WikiProject Ukraine
 * WikiProject Armenia
 * WikiProject Azerbaijan
 * WikiProject Georgia
 * WikiProject Romania
 * WikiProject Southern Europe
 * WikiProject Italy
 * WikiProject Greece
 * WikiProject Albania
 * N.B.: Slovenia is a taskforce of WikiProject Europe
 * WikiProject European Microstates

Other

 * Wikiproject Polish Army
 * Wikipedia:Wikiproject Polish Heraldry
 * WikiProject Middle Ages
 * WikiProject European Union especially see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_European_Union