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Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks. (edit) Welcome to the Three Kingdoms WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! This is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. [edit] ScopeAs noted above, the project generally considers any article related to Three Kingdoms events, individuals and information to be within its scope. Factual (historical) and fictional (dramatised) information will both be described, albeit clearly defined and separated within relevant sections and articles. It is the primary goal of this project to ensure information be as historically accurate and reliable as possible and to ensure that this achievement is stringently monitored and maintained once reached. Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:
[edit] Goals
[edit] GuidelinesThe guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of the Three Kingdoms period articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches have been taken. These exceptions are often the result of protracted negotiation; if something seems unusual or out-of-place, it may be worthwhile to ask before attempting to change it, as there might be reasons for the oddity that are not immediately obvious! [edit] Naming conventions[edit] Tone marksOutside of infoboxes (for biographical entries) and/or the introductory sentence of an article, articles should avoid using tone marks for proper nouns, because the casual English reader would not know how to pronounce them, and no contemporary academic source uses tone marks for Chinese names. An exception made for "ü", since ü is not a tone; it's to distinguish between the pinyin letters u and ü, which carry different sounds and are not the same vowel. For example, "Lu Bu" instead of "Lü Bu" would not only render incorrect pronunciation but would be incorrect. Thus:
[edit] Disambiguation
An article should generally be placed at the most common name (in terms of academic study, not video games) used to refer to the event, following the Hanyu pinyin rules. If disambiguation is needed for battle articles, the year may be added in parentheses. Multiple battles at the same location in the same year should be called "First", "Second", and so forth. Alternatively, they can be merged into one article like in Battle of Hefei (not recommended if much information is available for each battle) e.g.
[edit] Terminology
The Three Kingdoms are Cao Wei (220-265), Shu Han (221-263), and Eastern Wu (222-280). Despite the name "Three Kingdoms", the Three Kingdoms were not technically kingdoms since their supreme rulers were not kings, but emperors in the Chinese sense. Since these domains don't meet the definition of empires (that honour goes to all of China, aka the Chinese Empire), we refer to the Three Kingdoms as "states". For example, "the state of Cao Wei". The reason needed for this disambiguation is because there actually was a time when these states were actually kingdoms headed by kings (王), they are:
With this in mind, the use of "kingdom" as in "Kingdom of Wei" might lead to confusion, so we use "Cao Wei", "Shu Han", and "Eastern Wu" to refer to the three contending states instead. Do not use "Cao Wei", "Shu Han", and "Eastern Wu" for events before their establishments, instead use the name of the leading warlords (eg. see Battle of Red Cliff).
Although the scope of our WikiProject covers the years 184 - 280 in ancient China according to the popular definition of the "Three Kingdoms period", the academic definition of the Three Kingdoms refers to the period between the abdication of Emperor Xian of Han (220) and the fall of Wu (280). Therefore, it is preferable to avoid referring to events, people, and establishments before 220 as solely "in the Three Kingdoms period"; instead, use phrases like "late Eastern Han Dynasty" or "end of Han Dynasty". (The additional use of the phrase "in the Three Kingdoms period" in conjunction is optional when referring to these subjects.) It does not matter whether to call the time "Three Kingdoms period" or "Three Kingdoms era".
The convention for naming ancient Chinese provinces here is to translate "zhou" (州) to "province". This is to disambiguate between the the old provinces and the modern cities that took the old provinces' names. For example, the "Jingzhou" (荊州) mentioned in old texts refers to a province called "Jing", not the modern city of Jingzhou; so when talking about the ancient province, we should use "Jing province" instead of "Jingzhou". See also:
[edit] Article structureThe guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Relevant style guides:
[edit] General structure
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[edit] For historical events
[edit] Content and style[edit] SourcesPolicy requires that articles reference only reliable sources; however, this is a minimal condition, rather than a final goal. Articles on the Three Kingdoms period should aim to be based primarily on published secondary works by reputable historians. The use of high-quality primary sources is also appropriate, but care should be taken to use them correctly, without straying into original research. Editors are encouraged to extensively survey the available literature—and, in particular, any available historiographic commentary—regarding an article's topic in order to identify every source considered to be authoritative or significant; these sources should, if possible, be directly consulted when writing the article. IMPORTANT: DO NOT use the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi) or its derivatives (eg. video games) as a source for history! They can only be used when you are writing about the novel's events (ie. under sections titled "In Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Cultural legacy", or variations thereof), which may differ widely from actual history. [edit] 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:
This tends to be a problem in Three Kingdoms articles featuring battles and individuals commonly featured in television shows and video games (i.e. the Dynasty Warriors series); for example, Zhuge Liang and the Battle of Wuzhang Plains may appear in many Romance of the Three Kingdoms-based strategy and action games, but their many appearances don't warrant an exhaustive list of each and every variation and title. [edit] Infobox templatesThere are a variety of infobox templates and auxiliary boxes available for use in the Three Kingdoms period articles.. A few general guidelines apply to all of the infoboxes:
The following infoboxes are in use in Three Kingdoms articles:
[edit] Categories
[edit] PeopleThe category tree for all topics related to people involved in the Three Kingdoms derives from the top-level Category:People of the Three Kingdoms:
In addition, all historical people (not fictional) should be categorized by their years of births and deaths, or Category:Year of birth unknown and Category:Year of death unknown. Examples:
[edit] AssessmentMain article: /Assessment [edit] Statistics
[edit] Peer reviewsMain article: /Peer reviews [edit] ShowcaseThe following is a listing of articles (and other types of content) within the scope of the project that have been noted for their outstanding quality. Project members are encouraged to peruse these at their leisure, as they serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate. Note that the project does not necessarily claim any authorship or credit for creating these. While many were written by members—sometimes with extensive input from the project as a whole—others were created by uninvolved editors, or predate the existence of the project itself, and are listed here merely because they fall within our scope. [edit] Featured content Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. [edit] A-Class articles A-Class articles, while not as rigorously reviewed as featured articles, are nevertheless considered to provide a well-written and complete treatment of the topic. Good Articles related to military history are encouraged to be brought to WikiProject Military history for A-class review, where they will provide advices for further improvement.
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If you want to show this ad in your userpage, copy the code {{wikipedia ads}}. [edit] Project organization[edit] MembersThe full list of project members is located on a separate subpage; please feel free to add your name to it if you would like to join the project!
You can also use the userbox, {{User WP3K}} or {{User WP3K alt}}, to be automatically added to the WikiProjects Three Kingdoms members category. [edit] Project bannerThe {{WP3K}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. The class and importance parameters should be filled (check the documentation and instructions). [edit] Resources[edit] Images, maps, and mediaAddress requests for particular images directly to the Graphic Lab, the Illustration WikiProject, or the Maps WikiProject. To ensure that requests can be considered, it is helpful to provide material such as external images, images from Wikimedia Commons, or clear text descriptions. If an image is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia, it may be appropriate to use {{externalimages}} to provide a direct link to the image and a (referenced) description of what the image depicts.
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