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War faction infobox
A war faction infobox may be used to summarize information about a particular faction participating in a war; it should not be used for regular military units and formations (which should use infobox military unit instead). The infobox should be added using the infobox war faction template, as shown below:

Note: When using parameters, avoid the ambiguous abbreviation "N/A", and instead use "unknown" or "none". All subjective or qualitative judgements and numerical quantities or statistics must be cited to a reliable source (see Wikipedia:WP:MILMOS).


 * name – the formal name of the faction.
 * native_name – the faction's name in their own language
 * native_name_lang – ISO 639-1 code e.g. "fr" for French. If more than one, use for |native_name= instead
 * war – the war or wars in which the faction participated; for proper grammar, it may be necessary to insert "the" before the name.
 * image – optional – an image representative of the faction. The image must be given in the form [[Image:Example.jpg|300px]] ; in particular, the thumb attribute must not be selected.
 * caption – optional – the text to be placed below the image.
 * ideology – optional – the ideology of the faction, if relevant.
 * active – the period during which the faction was active.
 * leaders – the leaders of the faction.
 * groups – optional – the clans or tribes the faction includes, if relevant.
 * headquarters – optional – the headquarters of the faction.
 * area – optional – the area in which the faction operated; a map may be included here, if one is available.
 * strength – optional – the number of personnel comprising the faction.
 * partof – optional – the larger group of which the faction is a part, if any.
 * previous – optional – the previous identity of the faction, or the factions from which it emerged.
 * next – optional – if the faction transformed into another one, the name of that faction.
 * allies – optional – the faction's allies in the war.
 * opponents – optional – the faction's opponents in the war.
 * battles – optional – any notable battles or wars in which the unit participated. The decision of what constitutes a notable battle is left to the editors of the specific article.