Wikipedia:WikiProject Syria

Purpose: WikiProject Syria (or WP:SY for short) is a forum for Wikipedia editors interested in improving and maintaining articles related to Syria, with a primary focus on the history and achievements of Syrian societies.

Issues for discussion on this forum: identifying articles and topics in the scope of this project, discussing ways to improve article standards, coordinating collaborations and article improvement efforts, developing standards and guidelines designed to achieve consistency between related articles, rating articles by appropriate standards and classes and organizing the articles by suitable categories and links.

Project structure: The WikiProject's main page includes the following elements:

• An introduction to the project's scope, its goals, and its subject area
• A list of the members and participants of the project
• An assessment of the current status of the articles within the scope of the project
• A catalog of all the templates and categories related to Syria and its WikiProject

Syria is a majority Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Syrian was a member of the Arab League from creation to 2011. Prior to the 2011-present Syrian Civil War, the country had a population of over 18 million, divded into fourteen governorates; By 2020, the population is estimated at just over 19 million citizens, though millions of those are being refugees abroad. Syrian Arab Republic traces its name to the Roman province of Syria. Under Arab rule, it largely became known as Bilad al-Sham province. Syria's capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Empire. Historically, the region of Syria has often included the territories of Lebanon, Palestine, parts of Turkey and Jordan, but excluded the Jazira region in the north-east of the modern Syrian state. The modern state of Syria was formed during the period of the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon and attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1946.

The main goals of this WikiProject are to:

• Improve and maintain Syria-related articles: fact and prose checking, expanding and ensuring currency of information, providing reliable citations and references, maintaining a NPOV, bringing more selected articles up to Featured article or Good article status;
• Expand Wikipedia's coverage of Syria-related topics: check for completeness of articles, start new articles, expand entries on neglected subjects;
• Maintaining consistency in article organization: maintaining a similar structure, coverage and presentation across articles, maintaining categories and links;
• Develop tools and resources for others to use in article production: templates, categories, infoboxes, diagrams, base maps, useful and commonly used references;
• Coordinating collaborations: between editors to establish priorities and avoid duplication of effort, gaining consensus on disputed issues.
• Develop the subject's site map: the Outline of Syria is intended to map out Wikipedia's coverage of Syria, providing a convenient navigation aid to visiting the many articles about Syria, by providing links to those articles or the lists which include them. This navigation system is useful to both readers and editors. It helps readers see what is available, and it helps editors see the gaps that need to be filled and identify problems in existing articles. (And by using "Related changes", it serves as an extensive watchlist).

The scope of this WikiProject includes Syrian-related articles, lists, categories, and templates.

Items within this scope can be grouped under the following high-level topics or themes:

• Syrian Geography – regions, locations, natural history, environment, vegetable and mineral resources, climate, hydrology, geology
• Syrian Archeology – chronologies, structures, monuments, pottery and other artifacts
• Syrian History – by time periods, by civilization, of events, of individuals, historical documents
• Syrian Cultures and Civilizations – descriptions of the peoples and their locations, histories, polities, interactions, accomplishments, society, beliefs, influences, continuity of heritage to the preset day
• Syrian Languages – languages related to Syria, their phonology, typology, grammar etc.
• Syrian Society – cultural practices, polities and governance, social structures and order, commerce and trade, education, warfare, costume and dress, gender roles, population trends
• Syrian People – biographies of notable personages, rulers, roles and titles, (includes also notable non-Syrian figures related to Syria)
• Syrian Arts – visual arts and decorative styles, iconography, media, cross-cultural influences, music, dance
• Syrian Mythology and Religion – religions, beliefs, philosophies, mythologies, rituals and ceremonies
• Projects with related or overlapping scope include: Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world, Wikipedia:WikiProject Assyria, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East.

• Syria-related articles up for deletion.

Categories relevant to this Project

To join WikiProject Syria, 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. Meno25 (talk · contribs) March 23, 2007
2. Aziz1005 (talk · contribs) March 23, 2007
3. Darwinek (talk · contribs) March 25, 2007
4. Kintetsubuffalo (talk · contribs) March 25, 2007
5. Disdero (talk · contribs) March 31, 2007
6. Al Ameer son (talk · contribs)
7. Spencer (talk · contribs) 3 March, 2009
8. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs) 20 July 2010
9. Terrortank (talk · contribs) 11:41, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
10. Fitzcarmalan (talk · contribs) 8 October 2013
11. Attar-Aram syria (talk · contribs) 13 October 2014
12. Tacoblimpfan (talk · contribs) 16 February 2016
13. SyrianLion (talk · contribs) 27 December 2016
14. Serafart (talk · contribs) 00:57, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
15. Greek Hades (talk · contribs) - 16 February 2018
16. Jadd Haidar (talk) 08:04, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
17. Pokerplayer513 (talk) 08:39, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
18. Max Pigeon (talk) 11:53, 4 October 2019 (EST)
19. Sm8900 (talk · contribs) 22:30:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC) [reply]
20. Loesjecampo (talk · contribs) 12 May 2020
21. Greyshark09 (talk · contribs) 07:34:33, 14 August 2020 (UTC) [reply]
22. Calochortus nuttallii (talk · contribs) 27 September 2021
23. Thea Ghabra (talk · contribs) 23 November 2021

1. Meno25 (talk · contribs)
2. Aziz1005 (talk · contribs)-focusing on notable biographies,photography.
3. Darwinek (talk · contribs) - geography, maintenance
4. Kintetsubuffalo (talk · contribs) - Syrian Scouting
5. Disdero (talk · contribs)
6. Al Ameer son (talk · contribs) - Damascus, villages, and mosques
7. Crtew (talk · contribs) - Journalism and mass communications
8. Terrortank (talk · contribs) - Syrian civil war, Syrian cities and towns
9. Fitzcarmalan (talk · contribs) - Syrian culture, history and civil war.
10. Attar-Aram syria (talk · contribs) - Syrian history
11. MrPenguin20 (talk · contribs) - Contribution to the Syrian Civil War
12. Bulbajer (talk · contribs) - Contribution to the Syrian Civil War
13. SyrianLion (talk · contribs) - Syrian foreign relation and policies, Syrian War, Syrian businesses and technology
14. Editor abcdef (talk · contribs) - Syrian Civil War
15. Sheldybett (talk · contribs) - Syrian Civial War
16. Sm8900 (talk · contribs) 22:30:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)  updating latest information on Syrian Civil War[reply]
17. Loesjecampo (talk · contribs) 11:52:21, 12 May 2020 (UTC)  Kurds in the Syrian civil war[reply]
18. Ronaldthez (talk · contribs) 10:17:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)  Syrian history and heritage[reply]
19. Calochortus nuttallii (talk · contribs) - Justice, accountability, and documentation in the Syrian conflict.
20. Geopony (talk · contribs) 23:48:33, 5 May 2022 (UTC)  - Syrian military, media and business and civil war[reply]
21. Cltr (talk · contribs)

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

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 03:21:45, 14 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]

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

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

For other Syria user templates, see Category:Syria user templates.

1. Ronaldthez (talk · contribs) 10:12:02, 21 January 2021 (UTC) [reply]

{{Syrian Barnstar of National Merit|message - ~~~~}} - for any extraordinary contribution(s) to Syria-related topics.