Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Middle Ages/General (section)

==Application of Project Banners==
The project banner has recently been added to a great many articles which probably do not really fall under the definition of "medieval" or "Middle Ages". .. The Japanese medieval period is generally considered to extend from roughly 1180 (the beginning of the [[Genpei War]] which ended in the establishment of the first shogunate) to roughly 1600 (the end of the [[Sengoku period]] of feudal civil war). ... While I realize the difficulties of applying each individual country/culture's notions and dating of their own medieval period, and keeping it all straight, I think this is something that the project needs to figure out.

Having a project banner on an article isn't a big deal - it doesn't affect the content of the article, and is (at least in my opinion) less important than categories in terms of being appropriately placed. Even so, a number of topics have been labeled under the Middle Ages Project which quite assuredly fall under the rubrics of "antiquity", "classical", "ancient" or the like. I'm going to go remove a number of the more blatant ones. 

What do you suppose we should do about this? Shall we establish a rubric for what counts as "medieval" in various parts of the world? [[User:LordAmeth|LordAmeth]] 01:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)