Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War

Welcome to the Cold War WikiProject. This project covers all articles about people, places, things, and events associated with the Cold War. We acknowledge that several of these articles, particularly relating to nations and individuals, also fall within the scope of other extant projects, and will not attempt to assert any sort of control over them. We will however seek to add appropriate content to related articles, and work to improve them in a neutral, NPOV way.

Goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Cold War.
• Create, improve and maintain articles relating to the Cold War, its history, personalities, and developments.
• Create guidelines for articles about items related to Cold War history.
• Develop a greater number of high quality images for use in articles related to the Cold War.

Announcements

Important tasks

• Please add any task that you feel is located within the scope of this WikiProject.
• Create all yet-uncreated templates.
• Tag all Cold War history-relevant articles with {{WikiProject Cold War|class=|importance=}}
• Assess the Unassessed Cold War articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
• Work on evaluating the importance of Unknown importance articles.
• Work on articles Category:Cold War articles needing attention.
• Invite more users to join.
• Add this WikiProject to the Cold War portal, and improve the portal.
• Work on adding articles to Cold War category
• Updating articles in the Category-Class category with the new class (as in 'class=Category' on the Cold War talk page templates).

Article requests

The following articles have been requested for creation.

These articles for creation have been taken from the article request page.

1. Airborne Ranger Companies
2. Republic of Korea Army Special Forces Brigade
3. Infantry Combat Regiment
4. Kim Kyong Sok
5. Theresa Squillacote and Kurt Strand and James Clark — US citizens convicted of spying for Eastern Germany (German Democratic [sic.] Republic) and sentenced to decades in jail. A long list of reliable sources appears at a website, whose accuracy I have not verified; Kurt Strand has a prison-based website with his account.
6. Land-Reform conducted under American auspices By American-aligned forces. - A common narrative is that the Americans did nothing but maintain the status-quo or worse but this is not true. Iran famously enacted a land-reform that today even communists praise and he definitely was aligned with America for most of his run, South-Vietnam enacted extensive land-reforms in 1971, El Salvador enacted a land-reform that Wikipedia has poor sources on and many more Latin-American countries.

Article improvement requests

Culture during the Cold War - this is something I've mainly done, but I'd like someone else to work on it, maybe a group of people? In any case, it's somewhere between a list and a discussion of the subject. It needs more references, more information as some of the categories are not well populated with information. Hires an editor (talk) 18:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Special Activities Division - grossly over-length at over 170,000 bytes. This piece of bloat really needs a thorough editing. Special Operating Group may need to be split from it. I am beginning by spinning off bios of Notable paramilitary officers from SAD.Georgejdorner (talk) 03:44, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Albert Maltz and any other articles related to the Hollywood Ten - HUAC was affected by and affected the Cold War, particularly in its chilling effect on American popular culture and creative works. I've done a great deal of addition to the Maltz article today (he's the one people close to me care about, no other reason for focusing on him) but could use assistance. Lawikitejana (talk) 22:33, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Merge suggestions

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Split suggestions

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Move suggestions

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Deletion suggestions

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Members

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Assessment Department

The Assessment Department handles quality and importance ratings and is our most important project as of right now. It is located here.

Templates

Please use these templates where applicable.

Note: The templates linked in red have not yet been created. If you know how, please help out by creating the appropriate templates.

Infoboxes

• {{History Of The Cold War}} - Cold War history series infobox, to be placed on the relevant article pages

Navboxes

• {{Cold War}} - navbox, placed at bottom of relevant articles

WikiProject

• {{WikiProject Cold War}} - the project banner, to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles.
• {{Cold War history welcome}} - Welcome box for new participants' talk pages
• {{User WikiProject Cold War}} - project userbox

Templates in construction

These templates are not built yet. If you wish to create one of these templates, please place your username next to the template you are working on.

• {{Cold War history current collaboration}} (WikiProject Cold War current collaboration template)
• {{Cold War history navigation}} (WikiProject Cold War navigation box template)

Categories

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Related projects

• WikiProject European Union
• WikiProject Military history
• WikiProject Russian History

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare 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 Cold War