Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy

The Academy is the Military history WikiProject's online training school. It is intended to help members improve their editing skills by gathering together instructional essays on a wide range of subjects relevant to military history. All members are encouraged to review the advice collected here, and to refer to it in the course of their editing work.


 * Overview
 * Asking for help
 * Improving articles
 * Citations and references
 * Using statistics
 * Understanding talk page templates
 * How to use the Milhist template
 * Using external links
 * Departments of the Military history Project
 * Deleting an article
 * Copy-editing essentials
 * Using infobox templates
 * Plagiarism and how to avoid it
 * Writing a good stub
 * Writing an effective article introduction
 * Are images important?
 * Using external media
 * What do Milhist task forces do?
 * Reviewing articles
 * Wikignoming
 * Pop culture sections
 * Barnstars, Awards, and Honorable Mentions
 * Understanding the terrain
 * Using different reference formats
 * When to use sections
 * How can I help the project?
 * Frustration and disappointment
 * Opportunities for new military history articles
 * Retirement and departure
 * A Beginners Guide to Copyright on Wikipedia
 * Understanding Page Protection
 * Working with categories
 * Are style guides set in stone?
 * Unit names, ranks and abbreviations


 * Writing an Order of Battle
 * Writing a biographical article
 * How to prepare an A-Class Review
 * Writing an A-Class article
 * Dispatches: Reviewers achieving excellence
 * Writing a featured article
 * Writing a large-scope article
 * Working with foreign-language sources
 * Working with translations
 * Using the A-class review toolbox
 * Performing an A-Class review
 * NPOV images
 * Maximising the use of public domain government image collections
 * Reviewing good articles
 * Working with non-free content images
 * Maintaining articles
 * Today's Featured Article requests
 * Writing featured articles
 * Initiating a featured article review
 * The effect of aging sources
 * Featured article criteria 1c
 * Filing a Freedom of Information Request in the United States
 * Obtaining images
 * Image restoration
 * Creating maps
 * Dispatches: Reviewing free images
 * Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images
 * Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates
 * Working with sounds
 * Using declassified documents
 * A-class checklist
 * Reporting copyright infringement