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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.
As 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:
The 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!
Outside 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 is 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:
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, but this is not recommended if much information is available for each battle.
Examples:
For people, due to the limited transliteration of Chinese characters, it is likely that a Three Kingdoms person would have the same article name as another Chinese person, sometimes in the same time period, or even serving the same lord. There are several ways to disambiguate them, if the Three Kingdoms person needs to be renamed:
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 context. Since these domains do not meet the definition of empires (that honour goes to all of China, also known as the Chinese Empire), we refer to the Three Kingdoms as "states". For example, "the state of Cao Wei", or simply "the state of Wei".
The reason needed for this disambiguation is because there actually was a time when these states were actually kingdoms headed by vassal kings (王), who were nominally subjects of an emperor. They were:
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. We may also use their short forms: Wei, Shu, Wu.
Do not use "Cao Wei", "Shu Han", and "Eastern Wu" for events before their establishments; use the names of the leading warlords instead. See Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms#Notes for a more detailed explanation.
Although the scope of our WikiProject covers the years 184 to 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" (or "Three Kingdoms era"); instead, use phrases such as "late Eastern Han dynasty" (or late Han dynasty) or "end of the Han dynasty".
The convention for naming ancient Chinese provinces here is to translate "zhou" (州) to "province". This is to disambiguate between 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 JingzhouinHubei province; so when talking about the ancient province, we should use "Jing Province" instead of "Jingzhou".
See also:
The 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:
Policy 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 historiographical 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 and its derivatives, video games such as Dynasty Warriors, and any other work of fiction, as sources for history! They can only be used when you are writing about the novel's events (i.e. under sections titled "In fiction", "Cultural legacy", or variations thereof), which may differ widely from actual history.
"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 film and television and video games (i.e. the Dynasty Warriors series); for example, Zhuge Liang and the Battle of Wuzhang Plains may appear in many of Koei's Three Kingdoms-based strategy and action games, but their many appearances do not warrant an exhaustive list of each and every variation and title.
The 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 categorised by their years of births and deaths, or Category:Year of birth unknown and Category:Year of death unknown.
Examples:
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| B | 2 | 43 | 87 | 86 | 1 | 219 | |
| C | 6 | 25 | 34 | 38 | 1 | 5 | 109 |
| Start | 1 | 33 | 105 | 167 | 10 | 316 | |
| Stub | 43 | 84 | 6 | 133 | |||
| List | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Disambig | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Redirect | 15 | 273 | 288 | ||||
| NA | 1 | 39 | 40 | ||||
| Assessed | 11 | 103 | 270 | 397 | 319 | 22 | 1,122 |
| Unassessed | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 103 | 273 | 397 | 319 | 23 | 1,126 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,475 | Ω = 4.46 | |||||
The 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 organisational 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.
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.
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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The {{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).
Address 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 {{External media}} (t/l) to provide a direct link to the image and a (referenced) description of what the image depicts.
The following are some useful pages created by members of the project and other Wikipedia users.
Requests for translation assistance should be made at the talk page of this project, or at Wikipedia:Translation. Only use online translation tools as a last resort.
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