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	Welcome to the Ancient Germanic Studies WikiProject

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The Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject works to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history, language and culture of the Ancient Germanic peoples from ca. 500 BCE to ca. 1000 CE. Our chronological scope is derived mainly from the field of linguistics, with the First Sound Shift (ca. 500 BCE) marking the beginning of the Ancient or Old Germanic period and the change from the 'Old' to the 'Middle' dialects (High German ca. 1000, English 1066, Norse ca. 1100) marking its end. In historical terms, this period stretches from the last phase of the Nordic Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages.

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WP:NPOV: Maintain a neutral point of view, being careful to distinguish between fact and opinion, and give due weight to the views concerned.
WP:MOS: Apply the guidelines given in the manual of style in all your edits.

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Quality: The members of this WikiProject are dedicated to bringing about a dramatic improvement in the quality of the articles within its scope. The most tangible evidence of improved quality that Wikipedia offers is assessment. Our ideal should be to raise every article within our WikiProject's scope to GA-status or higher. Of course, in practice, this ideal will not always be attainable. But we should make an honest attempt to significantly improve each and every article we edit with an eye towards its eventual assessment.

Focus: Though everyone has their preferred method of working, it is believed by some members of this WikiProject that individual editors can achieve better results by focusing upon one article - or a limited group of closely related articles - at a time, rather than adding sporadically to a great number of articles which cover a relatively large field, improving many a little but none a lot. Of course, 'article burnout' can arise, and when it does it is best to turn to another article of equal interest, to help out a fellow project member with copy-editing, or performing an internal peer-review. But don't forget to return to your former work and see the article through to the 'end'. Helping an article attain a higher assessment rating is, after all, a rather rewarding experience.

Collaborative work groups: Ancient Germanic studies is a broad topic, encompassing research and discoveries from various fields of knowledge such as history, archaeology, linguistics and mythology. As a result, many of the articles which fall within the scope of this project would benefit most from treatment by contributors with specialised knowledge in those areas. This will often require inter-project collaboration. To facilitate such collaboration, this WikiProject supports the creation of specialized work groups which work together with other WikiProjects to achieve common goals.

MoS additions: The breadth of the topic that this WikiProject covers entails that, if a healthy degree of uniformity is to be maintained among closely related articles, additional rules of style will need to be established. Rather than dictating these, however, this WikiProject makes it incumbent upon its work groups and daughter projects to formulate these on an as-needed basis. These guidelines are then made available on the project page of the related work group or daughter project.

Project templates: Use caution when dealing with templates. We request that you do not launch a 'template campaign' and rifle through dozens or even hundreds of pages, putting up our WikiProject's banner template. A project banner is a sign of commitment to an article, and the number of articles we can maintain and improve is limited by our membership. Of course, project banners are a great way to quickly increase membership. Yet this often accomplishes little more than a temporary 'bloat' in membership numbers, and can actually contribute to its eventual demise. Therefore, only place banner templates on articles that you are personally willing to help improve - ideally to GA-status - and maintain.

Invitation templates: Please do post an invitation template onto the talkpages of editors who you think might be interested in joining this WikiProject. With increased membership, we can tackle a wider range of articles.

Open tasks

As this is a new WikiProject covering a broad topic, a good deal of freedom is granted to members in terms of where they begin working. For the time being, we are relying primarily upon personal initiatives to improve individual articles or select groups of articles. There are many articles which fall under this project's scope, and looking through some of the related categories (such as History of the Germanic peoples) is a good way to get an idea of where work needs to be done. Some initiatives may develop into task forces with their own work page. If you have a small project in mind which would encompass several interrelated articles (e.g. articles relating to one of the Ancient Germanic tribes, one of the Old Germanic languages, or to a series of related historical events), you may propose creating such a task force on our talk page. Alternatively, you could adopt a particular article with a view towards raising its assessment rating, or pick a task from one of the lists below:

WikiPortal Maintenance

Add quality pictures to the Selected picture module, replacing the current choices as appropriate and paying special attention to our scope.
Add FA, GA or B-class articles to the Selected article module, replacing the current choices as appropriate and paying special attention to our scope.
Add quality articles to the Selected runic artefact module.
Update the 'Did you know..?' module with more interesting facts relevant to our scope.

Work group development

Runic studies: Currently under development. If you are interested in participating, please visit the work group's page.

Requests for collaboration

(If you would like to invite fellow project members to collaborate with you on a particular article, please list it here.)

Requests for peer review

(If you would like to have a fellow project member perform a peer review on an article you are working on, please list it here)

Wade's Causeway - I have taken this article from stub to its current state the last week or so, and would like to drive the article through GA to FA rating over the coming weeks. To that end, I think it would be useful for someone from this wikiproject to review the relevant sections of the article (particularly "Etymology" and "Legendary Interpretations" and provide any feedback/review as appropriate please. Many thanks, --PocklingtonDan (talk) 18:47, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Work groups

Runic studies

Articles

Ancient Germanic studies articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1				1
GA		12	4	6		3	25
B	4	12	18	20		6	60
C	7	19	28	80		16	150
Start	1	13	39	215		40	308
Stub	1	2		83		35	121
List	1	2	1	5		2	11
Category		9		1	272		282
Disambig					2		2
File					3		3
Project					1		1
Template					26		26
NA		17	1	5	30		53
Assessed	14	86	92	415	334	102	1,043
Unassessed						4	4
Total	14	86	92	415	334	106	1,047
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,096			Ω = 4.66

Good articles

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Project portal

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Redirects for discussion

30 Mar 2024 – Colonia Ulpia Traiana (talk · edit · hist) →Xanten was RfDed by Significa liberdade (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

11 Jan 2024 – Thor (Marvel Comics) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion

Templates

Project banner template

Adding ((WPAGS)) to the top of an article's talkpage will produce the following:

Ancient Germanic studies NA‑class

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Germanic studies articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ancient Germanic studiesWikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Germanic studiesTemplate:WikiProject Ancient Germanic studiesAncient Germanic studies articles
NA	This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Runic studies coverage

To indicate that an article is covered by the Runic studies work group, add the following parameter to the template code:
((...|runes=yes))

Project userbox template

Adding ((User WPAGS-Member)) to your userpage will produce the following:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies.

Project invitation template

Adding ((WPAGS-Invite)) to an editor's talkpage will produce the following:

Hello! Your editing history indicates that you might be interested in joining the Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the history, language and culture of the Ancient Germanic peoples. We also maintain the Ancient Germanic culture WikiPortal. If you are interested in contributing, you are welcome to sign up at the project page. Thanks!

Tools[edit]

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. automatically to references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies

v t e Germanic peoples
Ethnolinguistic group of Northern European origin primarily identified as speakers of Germanic languages
History	Nordic Bronze Age Pre-Roman Iron Age Roman Iron Age Germanic Iron Age Viking Age
Early culture	Architecture Art Calendar Clothing Family Festivals Folklore (Proto-Germanic folklore, Anglo-Saxon mythology, Continental Germanic mythology, Norse mythology) Funerary practices Anglo-Saxon Norse Law Anglo-Saxon Norse Literature Anglo-Saxon Norse Names Gothic Numbers Paganism Anglo-Saxon Gothic Norse Rings Scripts Gothic alphabet Runes Symbology Warfare Anglo-Saxon Gothic and Vandal Viking
Languages	Germanic parent language Proto-Germanic language East Germanic languages North Germanic languages West Germanic languages
Groups	Alemanni Brisgavi Bucinobantes Lentienses Raetovari Adrabaecampi Angles Anglo-Saxons Ambrones Ampsivarii Angrivarii Armalausi Auiones Avarpi Baemi Baiuvarii Banochaemae Bastarnae Batavi Belgae Germani cisrhenani Atuatuci Caeroesi Condrusi Eburones Paemani Segni Morini Nervii Bateinoi Betasii Brondings Bructeri Burgundians Buri Cananefates Caritni Casuari Chaedini Chaemae Chamavi Chali Charudes Chasuarii Chattuarii Chatti Chauci Cherusci Cimbri Cobandi Corconti Cugerni Danes Dauciones Dulgubnii Favonae Firaesi Fosi Franks Ripuarian Franks Salian Franks Frisiavones Frisii Gambrivii Geats Gepids Goths Crimean Goths Greuthungi Gutones Ostrogoths Thervingi Thracian Goths Visigoths Gutes Harii Hermunduri Heruli Hilleviones Ingaevones Irminones Istvaeones Jutes Juthungi Lacringi Lemovii Lombards Heaðobards Lugii Diduni Helisii Helveconae Manimi Nahanarvali Marcomanni Marsacii Marsi Mattiaci Nemetes Njars Nuithones Osi Quadi Reudigni Rugii Rugini Saxons Semnones Sicambri Sciri Sitones Suarines Suebi Sunici Swedes Taifals Tencteri Teutons Thelir Thuringii Toxandri Treveri Triboci Tubantes Tulingi Tungri Ubii Usipetes Vagoth Vandals Hasdingi Silingi Vangiones Varisci Victohali Vidivarii Vinoviloth Warini
Christianization	Gothic Christianity Christianization of the Franks Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England Christianization of Scandinavia Christianization of Iceland
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