Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Resources

This is a list of useful online resources and editing tools for Greece-related topics. Feel free to add more!

Levels
Primary sources:


 * "Piece of information or evidence that was created by someone who witnessed first hand or was part of the historical events that are being described".

These are sources which, usually, are recorded by someone who participated in, witnessed, or lived through the event. These are also usually authoritative and fundamental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published original accounts, published original works, or published original research. Physical objects can be primary sources.

Wikipedia would not ordinarily be considered a primary source (see No original research). Over time, however, this situation may change as researchers may use, for example, analyses of Wikipedia edits and reversions as evidence of shifts and changes in attitudes and approaches.

Secondary sources:


 * "Piece of writings which were not penned contemporaneously with the events in question".

These are sources which, usually, are accounts, works, or research that analyze, assimilate, evaluate, interpret, and/or synthesize primary sources. These are not as authoritative and are supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration. This includes published accounts, published works, or published research.

Wikipedia would be considered a secondary source on some occasions.

Tertiary sources:

These are sources which, on average, do not fall into the above two levels. They consist of generalized research of a specific subject under consideration. Tertiary sources are analyzed, assimilated, evaluated, interpreted, and/or synthesized from secondary sources, also. These are not authoritative and are just supplemental documents concerning the subject under consideration.

Wikipedia would be considered a tertiary source on some occasions.

Popular culture
In "popular culture" sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture. If present, the section should be a prose discussion of the subject's cultural significance, cited from reliable sources. In particular, the following should be avoided:
 * Compendiums of every trivial appearance of the subject in pop culture (trivia)
 * Unsupported speculation about cultural significance or fictional likenesses (original research)

Style
In historical articles, the past tense is strongly preferred. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events that occurred in the past. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense".

Remain objective as possible. The point and ideal of Wikipedia is to create an encyclopedic neutral body of knowledge. Avoid using the first-person point of view (emphasising the facts; not the editor). Explain the evidence (from the links and references) and explain the reasons of any conclusions.

Article names
Convention: Use the form most familiar to English speakers. Name pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form.

For ancient Greek names, the latinized forms, e.g. Themistocles, are the norm, except when the name has been further anglicized, e.g. Aristotle. For Byzantine-era names, either the traditional latinized forms or, preferably, the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium forms can be used, e.g. Cantacuzenus (latinized) vs Kantakouzenos (ODB). The first name is given in its anglicized form so far as this exists, i.e. "John" rather than "Ioannes" or "Ioannis". For modern Greek names, unless a specific form is verifiably the common form, phonetic transliteration is to be used, e.g. "Aristotelis Valaoritis" rather than "Aristoteles Balaorites".

Infoboxes
A number of infoboxes can be used for History related articles. These include Infobox person, Infobox officeholder and Infobox Military Person.

Dates
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. If dates used are from the Julian calendar, please make a note as to any differences.

Banners

 * WikiProject Greece - The banner of the project stating an article falls within the scope of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. For its parameters check WikiProject Greece/Project banner.
 * - for inactive and archived pages
 * Greek script needed - for articles on a person, place, or concept whose name is originally rendered in the Greek alphabet

[[Image:Nuvola apps package development.png|20px|Stubs]] Stub templates

 * These are placed at the bottom of article pages, after the categories


 * Greece-stub - Stub notice for Greece articles.
 * AncientGreece-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greece.
 * Greek-myth-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek mythology.
 * AncientGreece-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek people.
 * AncientGreece-writer-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Ancient Greek writers.
 * Byzantine-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the Byzantine Empire.
 * Byzantine-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Byzantine people.
 * Greece-struct-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek buildings and structures.
 * Greece-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek geography.
 * CentralGreece-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Central Greece periphery of Greece.
 * CentralMacedonia-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Central Macedonia periphery of Greece.
 * Crete-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Crete periphery of Greece.
 * EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery of Greece.
 * Epirus-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to geography of the Epirus periphery of Greece.
 * Peloponnese-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Peloponnese periphery of Greece.
 * SouthAegean-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of South Aegean periphery of Greece.
 * Thessaly-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the Thessaly periphery of Greece.
 * WGreece-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the West Greece periphery of Greece.
 * WMacedonia-geo-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of the West Macedonia periphery of Greece.
 * Greece-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people.
 * Greece-politician-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek politicians.
 * Greece-sport-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to sportspeople of Greece.
 * Greece-athletics-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek people connected with the sport of track and field athletics.
 * Greece-footy-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to biographies of people associated with Greek football (soccer).
 * Greece-mil-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to the Greek military.
 * Greece-mil-bio-stub - Stub notice for articles relating to Greek military personnel.

Online libraries and collections

 * Digital Newspaper Archive from the National Library of Greece
 * Anemi, Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies, by the University of Crete
 * Internet Archive
 * www.gutenberg.org
 * www.nektarios.gr - Ἱστορία
 * ΟΕΔΒ - Ηλεκτρονική Βιβλιοθήκη

Ancient and Byzantine history

 * The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
 * Diodorus Siculus, Library
 * Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
 * Xenophon, Hellenica
 * Attalus: Not a reference by itself, but a list of events in Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean history, year-by-year in rough chronological order within that year, with those events massively referenced themselves. It is sort of a "meta-index" of event-specific references, with many of the references linked directly to online versions of the text. An invaluable online historical research tool!
 * Biblioteca Augustana - Greek-language authors from Antiquity to the late Byzantine period
 * LacusCurtius - Greek and Latin authors
 * Livius - Articles on Ancient History
 * Revue des études byzantines (Byzantine studies journal)
 * Dumbarton Oaks Online Publications (Byzantine studies)
 * Byzantina Symmeikta Archive (Byzantine studies journal)
 * Translated Excerpts from Byzantine Sources: The Imperial Centuries, c. 700-1204 (by Paul Stephenson)
 * Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantine Online Sources
 * Byzantine Reference Documents

Greek onomatology

 * Behind the Name: a first rate site with the etymology of first names. It includes an excellent selection of classical and contemporary Greek names, their meanings and some historical background.
 * Lexicon of Personal Greek Names: an ultimate compendium from Oxford University.

[[Image:Gnome-fs-client.svg|20px|External links]] Websites
Note: Websites should be avoided as sources if at all possible, as their veracity is questionable. They make good "starting points", but facts in articles should be traceable to a published work of some type.


 * President of the Hellenic Republic
 * Prime Minister of Greece
 * Hellenic Parliament
 * General Secretariat of the Greek Government
 * Greece (useful information and links related to Greece)
 * Window to Greece (older version)
 * Greek missions abroad (embassies, consulates, representations)
 * Foreign missions in Greece
 * Greek National Tourism Organisation
 * National Statistical Service of Greece
 * Encyclopaedia Britannica - Greece's country page
 * Foundation of the Hellenic World Websites
 * Foundation of the Hellenic World: Hellenic History on the Internet
 * Foundation of the Hellenic World: Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World
 * The Greek Heritage
 * Open Directory Project: Greece
 * History of Greece: Primary Documents
 * Former Greek Royal Family

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.