Welcome to the Crusades task force, a joint venture of the Middle Ages and Military history WikiProjects. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

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This task force aims to cover aspects of the military expeditions initiated and organised by the Roman-Catholic church in the early Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, labeled from some 100 years afterwards on as Crusades.^[1]

The task force covers the Crusader states in the Middle East, crusades against what the Roman-Catholic church saw as heretics and pagans in Europe, the military operation of the Roman-Catholic church and it's allies coined "Reconquista" in Iberia, and crusades against the Ottomans in the Later Middle Ages, as well as Muslim, Eastern Christian, Jewish, and other societies affected by the crusades.

The task force tries to go beyond purely military matters, to social, administrative, legal, art, religious, and literary history, and modern historiography of the period. However at the moment not much knowledge or interest exists on these matters within the task force, so the task force welcomes editors who could contribute in these fields, to join.

Hopefully in the future, due to edits of Wikipedians all over the world, articles also will contain information about the way crusades, crusaders and crusade-thinking affected societies in other ways than military gain and loss and tells the story from all possible perspectives, not mainly that of the Roman-Catholic narrative.

The people in this task force would like to have any article related to the topics mentioned, be marked by adding the following to the project banners at the top of its talk page

• Crusades-task-force=yes (or Crusades=y) to ((WPMILHIST)) (see the instructions for more details on the exact syntax)
• Crusades-task-force=yes to ((WPMA))

This will automatically place it into Category:Crusades task force articles.

Mind, this is not an obligation, the request makes it easier for the task force to keep an eye on edits.

A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here.

With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:

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