Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Reenactment

Proposed WikiProject importance parameters

 * Top: Articles fundamental to an understanding of reenacting, such as Historical reenactment, or explaining basic concepts common to multiple reenactment periods, such as Farb (reenactment), and Authenticity (reenactment).
 * High: Commonly reenacted periods such as Medieval reenactment and American Civil War reenactment. Largest or most significant reenactments, particularly when dealt with in a general sense (consider Battle of Hastings reenactment as opposed to Hastings 2006).
 * Mid: Less commonly reenacted periods, such as Korean War reenactment. Largest umbrella reenactment groups. Large reenactments, particularly when referring to an individual event (consider Hastings 2000 or Hastings 2006, as opposed to Battle of Hastings reenactment). Mid-sized reenactments referred to in a general sense.
 * Low: Smaller umbrella reenactment groups. Individual reenactment groups (2nd South Carolina String Band). Smaller events referred to in a general sense (Dixie Days).

That's my proposal...thoughts? Cmadler (talk) 16:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 months, no comments. I'm moving this to WikiProject Reenactment/Assessment and implementing it. Cmadler (talk) 14:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

QUESTION: As we classify reenactment events based on size, to what degree should that be audience size versus number of participants (consider Slag om Grolle with perhaps 350 participants but 30,000 in audience)? Should size be absolute among all reenactments (in which case the very largest is probably Gettysburg 135 (1998) estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 reenactors) or should should size be considered differently for different periods (in which case Hastings 2000, with about 1500 participants, might be considered a "large" reenactments even though a similarly sized American Civil War reenactment might only be considered "mid-size")? Thanks, cmadler (talk) 19:13, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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 * I will volunteer to represent WikiProject Reenactment in this working group, unless someone else wants to, in which case you are more than welcome to it! cmadler (talk) 13:33, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Can you make photos of yourself and your equipment, so we can illustrate articles like Late Roman army that's partly illustrated in cooperation with fectio.org. You can insert your images into appropriate articles or make a short post in MILHIST Logistics/Graphics. Thanks a lot. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 14:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:36, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of reenactment?
By the way, here's a relevant discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

Now back to the question...

The Transhumanist 01:15, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I must confess, I don't really understand the purpose(s) of outlines as described. It seems to me that an "Outline of X" would cover the same material that should be covered in any complete "X" article. cmadler (talk) 16:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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new article
Knight against Samurai Vyacheslav84 (talk) 12:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Reenactment at Wikimania 2014
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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Requested move discussion at World War II reenactment
The discussion can be found here: K.e.coffman (talk) 00:25, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Talk:World_War_II_reenactment

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Sterling Renaissance Festival
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