N.B.: Creating a task force involves a great deal of work, and is very time-consuming to reverse if an inappropriate or misnamed group is created. It is generally inadvisable to create task forces without prior discussion—particularly regarding the name and scope—on the project's main talk page.

Before a task force can be created, it is necessary to decide on a name for it. The process requires both a full name (e.g. "French military history" or "American Civil War") and a one- or two-word or acronym shorthand used for some template parameters (e.g. "French" or "ACW"). The instructions below use the "Fooish military history" task force (shortened to "Fooish") as an example; when creating an actual task force, remember to substitute the correct name, rather than actually creating the example pages.

1. Create the task force page:
   1. Create the main task force page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Fooish task force) with {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/Task force boilerplate|Fooish}} as the content.
   2. Fill in the "Scope" section on the new task force page.
   3. Create the task force talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Fooish task force) with {{WPAVIATION Navigation}} as the content.
2. Add support for the task force to {{WPAVIATION}}:
   1. Select an image to use as the task force icon. The image should be recognizable at a small size and reasonably representative of the topic of the task force.
   2. Add the task force display code (shown below) to the task force section of {{WPAVIATION}}, in correct position among the task force parameters. If the name of the task force does not begin with a capitalized term—in other words, where the name would be lowercase if it were not a page title (e.g. "military aviation" or "maritime warfare")—an altname= parameter containing the lowercased version of the name must be passed to {{WPAVIATION/Task force categories}}.

1. 1. {{!}}-

      {{#ifexpr:{{#ifeq:{{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{Fooish-task-force|}}}|{{{Fooish|}}}|{{{fooish-task-force|}}}}}|yes|

      {{!}} style="width: {{#ifeq:{{WPAVIATION/YesNo|{{{small|}}}}}|yes|28px|43px}};" {{!}} [[Image:Fooish_image.png|{{#ifeq:{{WPAVIATION/YesNo|{{{small|}}}}}|yes|28x20px|43x30px}}|center]]

      {{!}} [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Fooish task force|Fooish task force]]<includeonly>{{WPAVIATION/Task force categories|name=Aviator|subproj=Aviator task force|class={{{class|}}} |A-Class={{{A-Class|}}} |B-Class-1={{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{B-Class-1|}}}|{{{B-1|}}}|{{{B1|}}}|{{{b-1|}}}|{{{b1|}}}}} |B-Class-2={{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{B-Class-2|}}}|{{{B-2|}}}|{{{B2|}}}|{{{b-2|}}}|{{{b2|}}}}} |B-Class-3={{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{B-Class-3|}}}|{{{B-3|}}}|{{{B3|}}}|{{{b-3|}}}|{{{b3|}}}}} |B-Class-4={{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{B-Class-4|}}}|{{{B-4|}}}|{{{B4|}}}|{{{b-4|}}}|{{{b4|}}}}} |B-Class-5={{WPAVIATION/Any|{{{B-Class-5|}}}|{{{B-5|}}}|{{{B5|}}}|{{{b-5|}}}|{{{b5|}}}}}}} {{#ifeq:{{{needs-infobox|}}}|yes| [[Category:Fooish articles needing infoboxes]]</includeonly>

      }}

   2. Add {{{Fooish-task-force|}}}{{{Fooish|}}}{{{fooish-task-force|}}} to the appropriate conditional statements in the template.
   3. Update the project banner instructions:
      1. Add "|Fooish-task-force=" to the example syntax, in correct position among the task force parameters.
      2. Add "* '''Fooish-task-force''' (or '''Fooish''') – "''yes''" if the article is supported by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Fooish task force|Fooish task force]]." to the instructions, in correct position among the task force parameters.
2. Set up the task force assessment infrastructure:
   1. Create the main task force category (Category:Fooish task force articles) with {{WPAVIATION Task force category|Fooish}} as the content.
   2. Create the main task force assessment category (Category:Fooish articles by quality) with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment category|Fooish}} as the content.
   3. Create the assessment level sub-categories:
      1. Category:FA-Class Fooish articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|FA}} as the content.
      2. Category:A-Class Fooish articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|A}} as the content.
      3. Category:GA-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|GA}} as the content.
      4. Category:B-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|B}} as the content.
      5. Category:Start-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|Start}} as the content.
      6. Category:Stub-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPAVIATION Task force assessment level category|Fooish|Stub}} as the content.
   4. Add the task force's statistics table ({{WPAVIATION Task force assessment|Fooish}}) to the task force statistics table in the assessment department.
3. Set up the task force's open tasks listing:
   1. Create the task force's open task template ({{WPAVIATION Announcements/Fooish}}) using the syntax shown on {{WPAVIATION Announcements/Task force}} as the content. At a minimum, the name= parameter must be set to "Fooish"; optionally, some initial tasks should be located and added to the listing.
   2. Add the new template to the "Task force lists" section of {{WPAVIATION Announcements}}; the column break should be moved, if necessary, to keep the two columns properly aligned.
4. Set up the task force's userboxes:
   1. Create the task force userbox (Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach/User WPAVIATION Fooish task force) with the following content, using the same image as was used in {{WPAVIATION}} above:

      <div style="float: left; border:solid #C0C090 1px; margin: 1px;">

      {| cellspacing="0" style="width: 238px; background: #F8EABA;"

      |-

      | style="width: 45px; height: 45px; background: wheat; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; color: black;" | [[Image:Fooish_image.png|45x45px]]

      | style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: #000000;" | This user is a member of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Fooish task force|'''Fooish task force''']].

      |}</div>

   2. Add the following to the userbox listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach#User banners and userboxes, in proper order among the other task force userboxes:

      |-

      | <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach/User WPAVIATION Fooish task force]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt>

      | {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Avaition/Outreach/User WPAVIATION Fooish task force}}

5. Add the task force to the project's navigation system:
   1. Add a link to the task force to the "Task forces" section of the main project page.
   2. Add a link to the task force and the talk page to the appropriate task force section of {{WPAVIATION Navigation}}; the stripe colors may need to be rotated to maintain the alternating-stripe pattern.
6. Announce the new task force:
   1. Add an announcement of the new task force page to the "Announcements" section of {{WPAVIATION Announcements}}, and to the discussion of the task force proposal on the project's talk pages (if any).
   2. Add the task force to the "Aviation" section of the WikiProject directory; add cross-reference links to any other sections into which the task force falls.

• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review alert|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review personal notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/Peer review notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/Peer review personal notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/FAC notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/FAC personal notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/FAR notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/FAR personal notice|X}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/AFD notice|X}}

• {{WPAVIATION Archive}}
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• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/Banner}}
• {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Coordinators/Toolbox/Newsletter boilerplate|...}}
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• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach/Newsletter}}
• {{WPAVIATION/Checklist categories|...}}
• {{WPAVIATION/Class|...}}
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