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WikiProject North Macedonia is a WikiProject whose aim is to increase the quality of articles related to North Macedonia and Macedonians. It is chiefly designed to help users collaborate on articles.
This WikiProject is not about coordinating edit wars or pushing points of view. Any forum dealing with North Macedonia and Macedonians is going to be controversial, so please be careful when nominating articles and making edits. Please also read the editing-notes below before posting!
AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
Editing Notes for Macedonian articles Editing Notes for Macedonian articles
Many articles relating to North Macedonia, the Macedonian language, Macedonians and Macedonian history and politics may be controversial. For this reason, please be extra careful when editing or creating articles.
Maintain civility at all times in your articles and comments. Using the article's discussion page to resolve disputes is a good way to ensure a good outcome. If a dispute escalates, alert an administrator, rather than allow the situation to degenerate into an edit war.
Avoid emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name-calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument.
Please avoid lameedit wars about names. Check the naming conventions for North Macedonia-related articles, about how and when to use "North Macedonia", plain "Macedonia" or "Republic of Macedonia" and related issues. Please note that all edits regarding the use or non-use of the name "(North) Macedonia(n)" in any article are subject to a one-revert rule restriction, except edits whose effect is solely to implement these binding conventions. People who edit-war against them are likely to end up blocked. If in doubt, make use of the article's discussion page.
Remember, irrespective of your nationality, race, religion or star sign, your grouping will be judged by your conduct, so keep it nice! :-)
To join WikiProject North Macedonia, edit this section and add the Wikitext#{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
Membership of the North Macedonia Wikiproject is open to all users who have an interest in North Macedonia and Macedonians. Membership of the group is based on adherence to
the "Editing Notes for Macedonian articles" (see WikiProject page).
When joining the project, you should watch the project page, as this allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.
In historical articles, the past tense is strongly preferred. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense".
Remain as objective as possible. The point and ideal of Wikipedia is to create an neutral encyclopedic body of knowledge. Avoid using the first-person point of view (emphasizing the facts; not the editor). Explain the evidence (from the links and references) and explain the reasons of any conclusions.
Convention: Use the form most familiar to English speakers. Name pages in English and place the native transliteration on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the anglicized form.
It is recommended that the contemporary Macedonian style of Romanization be used. This includes using letters not found in the English language such as: č, ǵ, ḱ, š and ž. When introducing a Macedonian name, a Cyrillic version and a transliterated version should be provided.
WikiProject North Macedonia now has its own article assessment department. Article assessment aids with improving and categorizing articles that fall under the scope of the project by focusing on quality articles and on articles in need of further work.
To help with assessment of an article, you can
join the project;
read the guidelines and familiarize yourself with the processes of article assessment (see link below);
Please note that many articles relating to North Macedonia, Macedonians and the Macedonian language are controversial. Please be mindful of this when adding the Assessment Template to an article, and refer to the article's discussion page if in doubt as to whether it relates to North Macedonia, Macedonians or the Macedonian language.
Articles that have not yet been assessed fall into two categories:
The {{WikiProject North Macedonia}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are documented on a separate subpage.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject North Macedonia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of North Macedonia 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.North MacedoniaWikipedia:WikiProject North MacedoniaTemplate:WikiProject North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia articles
The WikiProject North Macedonia Barnstar of National Merit is the project's official award, to be bestowed on anyone who has made significant contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of North Macedonia-related articles or to the project itself. It may be awarded by any user, and project members are encouraged to use it to recognize the outstanding work of others.
The WikiProject North Macedonia Assessment Department can be found here.
