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To-do list

• Find information to fill empty cells, especially pertaining to dates/periods portrayed.
• Put groups in some sensible default order (earliest year portrayed from earliest to latest, and alphabetically within that?).
• Merge in groups from other reenacting pages.
• Add information. Approximate number of members might be a useful thing to add. Membership in umbrella groups?
• More information for umbrella groups?
• Criteria for inclusion in this list? For example, if North South Alliance is listed, should the Mississippi Valley Brigade also be listed, and the 7th Texas Cavalry? How far do we go? At what level is a group an "umbrella group"?

Other thoughts? Cmadler (talk) 15:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The main criteria is that the group should have a Misplaced Pages article. Lists are supposed to be "lists of Misplaced Pages articles". In its current state this list is for the most part a directory/linkfarm so I have tagged it as such. Ohioartdude2 (talk) 13:56, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I can find no guideline to that effect; to the contrary, it seems that a large part of the value of lists is the list members need not have articles. In some cases, list members may eventually have articles, while in other cases, the individual members are not sufficiently individually notable (see for example, numerous lists of minor characters such as List of minor characters in Dilbert). cmadler (talk) 15:09, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

The problem is lists of this sort run contrary to WP:LINKFARM, WP:LIST, WP:EL, Misplaced Pages:Linking, WP:NOTDIRECTORY, Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Laundromat, and even WP:SPAM. Misplaced Pages is not a directory to help find reenactment groups, it is an encyclopedia that describes what a reenactor does. I saw a discussion on this at Misplaced Pages talk:External links/Archive 27#Link lists that bassicaly recomends purging a list like this. Ohioartdude2 (talk) 18:48, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

A discussion among a handful of users doesn't make a policy or guideline. Also, the outcome of that discussion was to leave List of Astronomical Societies intact, interpreting the links as more akin to embedded citations, which I would argue is the case here (I don't have time to do it right this moment, but if it makes a difference to you, I can start converting them to citation formatting). cmadler (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually a handful of users do make policy and guidelines, if you think the guideline or consensus is wrong you can always open up another discussion at WP:EL and try to change it. Their outcome was to purge Star party, a list of ELs, and work with List of Astronomical Societies, since it came close to WP:LSC, per its "reasonable to expect an article could be forthcoming in the future". With an article such as this with the vast majority (over 100 entries) being a directory of non-article ELs, which would simply be a "large number of redlinked unwritten articles", there are other options per WP:LSC and WP:ELMAYBE (linking a directory over an unacceptable long lists of ELs). Ohioartdude2 (talk) 17:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ohioartdude2 i must admit having read through the pages in question one one hand you may have a point (as substantially this could be seen as a list of links) however given the clear intent of the original author to include additional relevant information about societies (period covered etc) this list is clearly more than that. A number of the societies mentioned on this list are the subject of Misplaced Pages articles (where encyclopaedic information is appropriate) and this again does help differentiate this from a simple list of lists or similar. I genuinely do not see how the page ] can be seen as ok (given how little info it contains on other aspects of those societies) but this not. On this basis I would propose that directory/linkfarm be removed at this time. Nathandbeal (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest removing the external / links resources on this page as neither has anything to do with the subject of the article. Nathandbeal (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

The 'umbrella groups' section is also less than ideal at this stage (being merely links to site with no additional content. On this basis perhaps this should be expanded out or removed. Perhaps adding an additional column to the main list to denote a group that acts as an umbrella and where those groups who are members of that umbrella/wider group (as for example 'Conroi De Vey' is a member group of 'Regia Anglorum' (the umbrella in this case)). Nathandbeal (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

• I'm not the creator of this article, but I am probably the primary contributor, and the present format is largely my doing. The current two external links could be switched to references for the the groups they list; offers a long (possibly comprehensive?) list of 1812 reenactment groups in the UK and US, and contains a very long list of Napoleonic reenactment groups in 15 countries. I have no objection to adding the "umbrella groups" into the main table and adding a column to designate such. Do note that while some groups in this list have articles, many groups instead link to the group being portrayed (e.g., 18thBtn AIF Living History Group gives a link to the actual 18th Battalion (Australia), not the reenactment group). cmadler (talk) 14:49, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

• Since neither or are re-enactment societies, i'm still not sure why they should included in a list of List_of_historical_reenactment_groups. We would be better using these sites (and sites like them) as a source for additional societies to include in this list? Nathandbeal (talk) 23:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

• I agree, perhaps these should be used as sources (in-line citations). cmadler (talk) 01:06, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

• As to societies including wiki links to a page not about that society, i wonder if that is truly appropriate, would it not lead to confusion, should this be corrected? What are the wider thoughts here? Nathandbeal (talk) 23:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

• It should be corrected, or somehow made clear that the link is to the historical group being portrayed, and not the reenactment society. cmadler (talk) 01:06, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

• See also my comment at the top of this page: Criteria for inclusion in this list? For example, if North South Alliance is listed, should the Mississippi Valley Brigade also be listed, and the 7th Texas Cavalry? How far do we go? At what level is a group an "umbrella group"? I still think that's a question worth considering. It seems unrealistic to list every component group of every larger group, but on the other hand, some component groups are larger than other independent groups. cmadler (talk) 14:52, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

* That is a good point, i would think an umbrella group is one that has groups, that are part of it that operate under their own guise and that of the wider group. A group could be part of more than one umbrella. Perhaps however this is a very complex relationship that might be very difficult to express, perhaps it would help if we better defined what an umbrella organisation is (it is not a term i heard use to describe groups in the UK)? Nathandbeal (talk) 23:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

• I don't know that I've heard the term used either, but the concept of groups within groups (to at least 3 or 4 levels) is widespread within US reenactment of a variety of periods (certainly in American Civil War and American Revolution, which in my non-comprehensive experience are the most organized). cmadler (talk) 01:06, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Cleaning up this list

The purpose of a page like this is that it is a link to Misplaced Pages articles.

In a week or so, I intend on removing any entries on this list which do not have an article.

Just for clarity, I am also intending on looking at the articles which we do have, and if they meet the criteria for speedy deletion (especially A7 (No credible claim of significance or importance)) I will do so, and if they meet that criteria, but I do not feel that they meet the criteria for inclusion then I will either propose them for deletion or take them to Articles for deletion.

Regards, PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 11:30, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Update: I have removed links which were to the real-life battalion (etc) rather than the reenactment group. Most of the redlinks are to an article with a title like Reenactment Group Name (reenactment). If you want to create an article for the group, click on the red link and create it, however please note:

• Any article should be about a group that meets Misplaced Pages's notability criteria
• Any article needs to include references to significant coverage about the group which are in reliable sources which are independent of the group. In other words, you can't rely on press releases, social networks, the group's own website

I have tried to put the groups into alphabetical order - there might be a couple which are out of order, in which case please feel free to correct them!

I have also formatted the groups' web addresses. I have not checked to see if they work or not - in a week or so when I do the clean out, I will be removing this column altogether - if the group has an article (and so remain in the list, I think there are about 9-12 that currently have articles) then the website will be in the article. There is no reason for it to be in this list.

Regards, PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 14:26, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately (and sadly), they are way out of alphabetical order now. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 17:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Clean Up Mk2

Maybe I should have read the talk page first. I have turned the bare external links of the individual societies into wiki type in-line citations (I realise that these are direct to the various societies own pages (primary sources) but I think its ok in this case), and thus removed the banner. Hope this was ok....Zoebuggie☺whispers 21:15, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Wirt Artna (Malta)

This has been repeatedly added (for example ). The text "From the blood stained sand of ancient Rome to the battlefields of the second world war" appears to be a publicity blurb and is not in a tone appropriate for Misplaced Pages. It's not clear that the claim that the reenactments cover 753 BC to 1945 AD are supported by the group's website. The only ref I can find to reenactments is at the 19th Century Fort Rinella: Includes various aspects of 19th century British military drill and fighting skills as practiced by the British Tommy in the days of Empire. Including the firing of live-historic artillery and a cavalry show. The history may go back to 745 BC, bu tit does not look like the reenactments do. Meters (talk) 23:23, 17 February 2015 (UTC)