Wikipedia:WikiProject North Macedonia

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• Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
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• AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;

• Add content to North Macedonia-related stubs.
• Help assess and categorize Macedonian-related articles.
• Help manage the North Macedonia Wikiportal.
• Contribute and improve on the quality of North Macedonia-related articles.
• Recognize and correct vandalism in North Macedonia-related articles.
• Correct the transliteration of Macedonian words or names.

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.

Please be sure to:

• Use a neutral point of view.

• Provide sources for your edits.

• 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.

• Adhere to Wikipedia etiquette.

• Avoid emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name-calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument.

• Please avoid lame edit 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! :-)

• {{Infobox settlement}} - This infobox is to be used for Statistical regions and municipalities of North Macedonia.

General

• {{lang-mk}} (used for Macedonian-language names of subjects of articles)
• {{North Macedonia topics}}
• {{Macedonians (ethnic group)}}
  • {{Ethnic groups in North Macedonia}} - Template for articles regarding ethnic groups in North Macedonia.
  • {{Lists of people from North Macedonia by city}} - Template for articles regarding lists of people from different cities of North Macedonia.
• {{Politics of North Macedonia}}
  • {{Political parties in North Macedonia}} - Template for articles regarding political parties in North Macedonia.
  • {{North Macedonian elections}} - Template for articles relating to elections in North Macedonia.
  • {{Foreign relations of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles regarding the foreign relations of North Macedonia.
• {{History of North Macedonia}}
• {{Towns in North Macedonia}}
  • {{Bitola}} - Template for the City of Bitola
  • {{Ohrid}} - Template for the City of Ohrid
  • {{Skopje}} - Template for the City of Skopje
  • {{Štip}} - Template for the City of Štip
  • {{Struga}} - Template for the City of Struga
• {{Macedonian language}}
  • {{Macedonian dialects}}
• {{Macedonian First Football League}}
  • {{Macedonian Football Cup seasons}}
  • {{Macedonian Second Football League}} - Template for Articles regarding the Second League in Macedonian football.
• {{Media of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to mass media of North Macedonia.
  • {{Cinema of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to the cinema of North Macedonia.
  • {{Mobile network operators in North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relation to mobile phone use in North Macedonia.
• {{Regions of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to the statistical regions of North Macedonia.
  • {{Municipalities of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to the municipalities of North Macedonia.
  • {{National parks of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to national parks in North Macedonia.
• {{Army of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to the Army of Macedonia.
• {{Universities in North Macedonia}} - Template for articles in relation to universities in North Macedonia.
• {{Airlines of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to Airlines in the Republic of Macedonia.
• {{Music of North Macedonia}} - Template for articles relating to music of North Macedonia.
  • {{North Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest}} - Template for articles relating to North Macedonia's involvement with the Eurovision song contest.
• {{Infobox settlement}} (for use with cities/towns in North Macedonia)
  • North Macedonia syntax → completed example

Stubs

• {{NorthMacedonia-stub}} - Stub notice for North Macedonia.
  • {{NorthMacedonia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of North Macedonia.
  • {{NorthMacedonia-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Macedonian people.
    • {{NorthMacedonia-footy-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Macedonian footballers.
    • {{NorthMacedonia-basketball-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Macedonian basketballers.
    • {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Macedonian politicians.

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.

1. AWN2*
2. Fut.Perf.
3. Laveol
4. Köbra
5. Local hero
6. Gr8opinionater
7. Patkica
8. TM
9. Makedonij
10. Isavevski
11. Slovenski Volk
12. Politis
13. Kiril Simeonovski
14. Tomica
15. Wikipelli
16. Antidiskriminator
17. M4r51n
18. Славянский патриот
19. Audi1merc2
20. Resnjari
21. Makedonija
22. Macedonia1913, soccer, diaspora, Macedonia, Macedonians, politics
23. Durraz0
24. Ivanavram
25. SomeDude132, history, typos, politics, language, etc.

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Capricornis ^talk -- Inactive since Apr 2011
2. MacedonianBoy
3. NikoSilver -- Inactive since Apr 2009
4. 82FirebirdTA -- Inactive since Oct 2007
5. Makedonia -- Inactive since Mar 2011
6. Ireland101 -- Inactive since Jan 2008
7. BalkanFever -- Inactive since Mar 2010
8. 157.228.x.x -- Inactive since Mar 2009
9. Hegumen -- Inactive since Jul 2008
10. Revizionist -- Inactive since Nov 2009
11. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs) -- Inactive since Nov 2012
12. Wu1976 -- Inactive since Jun 2008
13. Aramgar -- Inactive since Jun 2010
14. batispecela -- Inactive since Oct 2010
15. MatriX -- Inactive since May 2009
16. Karabinier -- Inactive since Dec 2014
17. Rrallepermall -- Inactive since Nov 2013
18. Phill24th -- Inactive since Sep 2015
19. Mr Volokin -- Inactive since Jan 2015
20. IJA - Inactive since 2014
21. StephenMacky1

Members of WikiProject North Macedonia should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject North Macedonia participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject North Macedonia participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject North Macedonia}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject North Macedonia.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP North Macedonia}}	This user participates in WikiProject North Macedonia.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP North Macedonia|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject North Macedonia.	linked pages

For other North Macedonia user templates see Category:North Macedonia user templates.

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

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.

* Project founder

Ongoing Maintenance

• Current squad in North Macedonia national football team
• Current roster in North Macedonia men's national basketball team

Articles to Expand

• Gjorge Ivanov
• MANAPO
• Jovica Arsić
• 2008 Macedonian parliamentary election
• Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society
• Vevčani
• Demir Hisar
• Dimche Sarvanov
• Indira Kastratović
• Delogoždi (use MKD wiki)
• Velešta (use MKD wiki)
• Volkovija, Brvenica (use MKD wiki)
• North Macedonia national beach handball team - the article is written, but apparently they are not satisfied with only primary sources - other sources need to be referenced

Articles to Write/ Requests

• Karaman (dog) (redirected)
• Drimkol-Golo Brdo dialect
• Tikveš-Mariovo dialect
• Korča dialect
• Klečevce, Klecevce
• Negotino-Pološko, Negotino-Polosko
• International handball tournament Struga (see hr:Međunarodni rukometni turnir Struga) - one of the oldest handball tournaments in the open in the world

• June 16, 2007 The Republic of Macedonia WikiProject is now up and running and taking members!

• October 9, 2007 Please note the new guidelines and editing notes for the WikiProject.

• January 9, 2008 Thanks to BalkanFever, WikiProject Republic of Macedonia now has an article assessment capability, at Assessments

• February 10, 2011 Skopje has been listed as a Good article

• Article alerts
• North Macedonia Portal
• Macedonian Wikipedians' notice board
• North Macedonia-related articles up for deletion.
• Macedonian Wikipedia (in Macedonian)

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.

A number of infoboxes can be used for history-related articles. These include {{Infobox military person}}.

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. If dates used are from the Julian calendar, please make a note as to any differences.

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

1. join the project;
2. read the guidelines and familiarize yourself with the processes of article assessment (see link below);
3. add the {{WPMKD}} template below to the talk page of an article related to North Macedonia or Macedonians;
4. assess the article in terms of the criteria.

The WikiProject North Macedonia Assessment Department can be found here.

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:

• Category:Unassessed North Macedonia articles
• Category:Unknown-importance North Macedonia articles

Usage	Code	Image
Userbox enthusiasts can place one of the following templates on their user page to show their membership in this project.	{{User WikiProject North Macedonia}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject North Macedonia.
	{{User WikiProject North Macedonia 2}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject North Macedonia .

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.

North Macedonia Unassessed

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 ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

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 North Macedonia Barnstar of National Merit {{{1}}} this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~