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The project generally considers any article related to historical or modern-day warfare or military affairs to be within its scope. (The American usage of "military" is applicable here; in other words, the project concerns itself with any armed forces rather than only with land armies.)
Our primary work covers eight broad areas:
- Military operations, battles, campaigns, and wars.
- Military personnel, including both leaders and common soldiers, as well as other people involved in military affairs.
- Note that military service does not in and of itself place an individual within the scope of the project—particularly in the case of service in modern militaries. To qualify them, an individual's military service must have been somehow noteworthy or have contributed—directly or indirectly—to their notability.
- Military units and formations, ranging from small units to entire national militaries.
- Military equipment and technology, weapons, armour, and vehicles.
- Military facilities and structures, such as fortifications, military bases, test sites, and military memorials.
- Military historiography, publications, and historians.
- Types and periods of warfare, the military histories of particular nations and groups, and general military science and doctrine.
- Depictions of military history in all media, such as video games, painting, sculpture, music, film, poetry, and prose.
- Note that the project generally covers only those depictions for which a discussion of historical accuracy or real military influence is applicable. A distinction is therefore made between fictionalized depictions of historical warfare and purely invented depictions of fictional warfare; topics sufficiently divorced from actual history that a discussion of actual military history would no longer be relevant to them—such as futuristic warfare in Star Wars—are not considered to be within the project's scope. However, songs and music with long military associations—for example, It's a long way to Tipperary and Lili Marleen—are within the project's scope.
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The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:
- Naming conventions
- Notability
- Article content
- Usage and style
- Sourcing and citation
- Templates
- Categories
All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.
The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers, nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.
- Lead coordinator
- TomStar81
- Coordinators
- AustralianRupert, Dank, EyeSerene, Ian Rose, Joe N, MBK004, MisterBee1966, NativeForeigner, Parsecboy, Patar knight, Ranger Steve, The ed17, Woody
- Coordinators emeritus
- Kirill Lokshin, Roger Davies
More detailed descriptions of the coordinators' responsibilities, the history of the positions, and the process by which coordinators are selected may also be of some interest.
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