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Why was the US Civil War not accessible through Category:Warfare of the Industrial era? I just had to categorise it. Has the basic categorising been overhauled lately? Carcharoth 00:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Were there any mobile surface to surface cruise missile launch pads during the 80's. Cuzz I have been looking under every stone and sand grain but just cant find anything. Peacekeeper II 21:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to get West Coast air raid renamed to Battle of Los Angeles; as nutty as the proposed new title sounds, it's what the media and historians prefer calling it. "West Coast air raid" seems to be an invention of Wikipedians. Whether you agree with my position or not, feel free to contribute to the discussion here: Talk:West Coast air raid. Ichormosquito 03:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm done translating the French FA !! You may want to :
Thanks ! NicDumZ ~ 08:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Romanian Land Forces is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 13:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Battle of Panipat (1761) is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 01:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Ho Chi Minh Campaign is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 17:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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I was reading Flag of Germany, and I was dismayed to come across Flag of Germany#Specifications of the colour set, which is very geeky technical specifications for the colours of the flag, in no less than four different colour models. I don't know if flag articles fall under WP:MILHIST, but I want to read about the history and story of a flag, not be told how to make a flag image with the right colours. Does anyone agree with me, and if so, what is the best way to deal with it? Carcharoth 00:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The "battles of war X" boxes appear to be broken - at least they now all float to the left (and often overlap with the TOC) as opposed to floating to the right as they used to. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.6, so I don't think I have some weird browser that has an atypical HTML/CSS/Javascript render behavior. --Vedexent (talk) - 00:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Absolutely. They are completely jacked. Take a look at Attacks at Fort Blue Mounds, its in the intro now, which doesn't work all that well. ;) Could someone remedy this? I tried my hand, didn't see anything obviously different other than a category addition. IvoShandor 00:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
(unindent)Ah. IvoShandor 01:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this problem, since we were talking about battle boxes, but it seems that if you include the battle box below the infobox the result screws up the section edit links, see Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. This seems to only be remedied by a sufficiently long enough intro, such as in Attacks at Fort Blue Mounds. I noticed this problem early on so I had to move many of the templates in the articles I was working on down, such as in Battle of Kellogg's Grove. Is there any way to remedy this? Or is this just one of those things we have to live with? Just curious, has anyone else noticed this? Or is this some kind of browser specific problem? IvoShandor 04:53, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The Template:Highest Awards for gallantry is not showing anything when it is used on any page. e.g.Victoria Cross, Medal of Honor. When you click show/hide nothing appears. Is this something to do with the change noted above? Do i need to do something? Thanks Woodym555 13:06, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
So I have been working quite a bit on the Black Hawk War of 1832, so far raising 8 of 12 battle/skirmish/massacre articles from basically nothing to good article status. Anyway, I wondered if anyone here would be interested in writing an article on a war faction relating to the war, Chief Black Hawk's "British Band" of Native American Sauk and Fox warriors. Basically you could seek out the relevant info at Black Hawk War and use the citations there as well as looking at some of the other sources on that page, poking around on them, and seeing what you could come up with. Either way, the article will eventually get done, but since it's fairly important in the overall scheme of documenting the conflict I would like to see it get done sooner rather than later since right now I am still concentrating on the last 4 battle articles. Any takers? IvoShandor 01:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
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The A-Class review for Byzantine-Ottoman wars is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kyriakos 22:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Just noticed this; are there any actual oakleaves in the picture? It looks more like a laurel wreath.... -- Hongooi 13:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 16:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
The original author of the 62d Medical Brigade appears to have ownership issues and won't even tolerate a WPMILHIST template on the article's talk page. I'm not not at all sympathetic to his newbieness, having been cross-wise with him on other issues. I'm pointing this out to folks who might be interested in that article and might be in a better situation to reason with him productively, and walking away. Enjoy. Studerby 06:27, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
I expect most people will think this is a joke - it isn't - and I'm trying to put together an article on the subject. If anyone has any references please can you add them to my sub-page here. (Also interested in dog-eating, etc.) I'm off to Poland tomorrow and will try to work up an article next weekend. --Major Bonkers (talk) 19:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Byzantine-Ottoman wars; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! Kirill 19:20, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Two months ago, I posted here with about a half-dozen pictures I took at the Aberdeen proving ground museum, asking if people could identify them. It went very well. I had occasion this week to visit the musuem again. This time, I didn't skip the ones that lacked nameplates. I've uploaded the ones I've identified here, but these still need to be incorporated into articles.
Meanwhile, I have a lot of pictures of tanks and guns that need to be identified. I've uploaded them here so you can browse them. I tried to get at least two shots of every exhibit, from front and in profile. As far as my naming scheme, the numbers identify the exhibit, and the letters identify the picture. So: 1A is the first picture of the first exhibit, 1B is the second picture of the first exhibit, 2A is the first picture of the second exhibit, and so on and so fourth. Raul654 04:35, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Note: I've created a list at User talk:Raul654/favpics/2007 Ordnance Museum 2 for answers and best guesses. Raul654 04:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, most of the pieces are identified now. As for the rest, I must admit I have no idea what they are... A pity you didn't have a ruler - knowing a caliber would probably help :). Bukvoed 16:36, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
A new user has made significant additions to Alvin York, but they have been using an excessively florid style and are adding quite a bit of preachy information about York's religious convictions. I've left three messages on the user's talk page and have received no response, nor have they responded to messages on the article talk page. This does not seem to be a high traffic article, so it would be great if some MILHIST members could get involved. Or at least watchlist the article. Natalie 21:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Is it correct to assume that this task force covers all conflicts, world-wide, post 1792? Folks at 137 21:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Looking at the sub & DD pp, I note none of them include bunkerage. Shouldn't the templates ask/provide for it? Trekphiler 22:38, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Aside from global conflicts on the scale of WWI and WWII, do you feel that individual wars of at least a moderate scale, length and importance, but not too well-known, oh say, the First Indochina War, are deserving of their own WP:PORTALs? In other words, can these wars supply enough battles, events, equipment and persons, to furnish a high-quality portal? If they can, are they necessary? How is Portal:WWII different from Second World War? Are portals a redundant regurgitation of information that can be found elsewhere? Or are portals a nice organizational complement to articles because of their non-prose nature? Seeing that the individual articles for these wars are more often than not ill-kept and in bad shape, can a portal serve as a nexus from which content relating to the war can be gathered, classified, and presented on an organized, professional level? -- Миборовский 03:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I would just like to draw peoples attention to the Madslashers article. I found it as part of the drive and i think it needs some clearup. I have done a bit but the tenses need clearing up, some mention of the trial, if it has occured should be added. I couldn't find much information through google. Also, is this noteworthy as an article, should it be renamed? Thanks Woodym555 13:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I've come across a number of new articles on US nuke warheads. They're typically titled in the style "W57" (no hyphen), but the articles themselves generally employ the form "W-57" (with a hyphen). I couldn't find anything authoritative on the web, and I've always seen it both ways, even in military documents. Do we have a preferred convention on this? Askari Mark (Talk) 16:03, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Recently I read this article and realised that despite the detail and effort that had been put in by previous editors, the point had been reached where a major revision to the article was required. The article had become much too long and was written in a style that was very difficult for the reader to follow. Therefore, I have removed what I considered to be unnecessary detail, as well as work to improve the grammar and layout of the article.
I would really appreciate feedback from anybody interested in this famous ancient Greek general on the changes that I have made to the article. Any additions to improve the quality and accuracy of the article would also be appreciated. --Chaleyer61 13:00, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
What do people think of Category:Cossack military units? My initial inclination was to rename it to Category:Cossack units and formations, but the point was brought up that these are not purely military units, but rather political and administrative groupings that happened to field equivalently named military units; thus, I don't think that the other standard naming—Category:Military units and formations of the Cossacks—is going to be any better. A few other ideas that come to mind:
We don't really have any precedent for dealing with such not-fully-military groupings, as far as I know; so any suggestions would be very appreciated. Kirill 15:57, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Your opinions are sought in a disagreement that has arisen over this article. An editor has added on several occasions a complete list of the 833 casualties of HMS Royal Oak, sunk in 1939. Currently, myself and another editor believe, for a variety of reasons that include excessive length and deviation from the summary-style of a WP article, that this list is out of place. The list is contained on a long-standing web page linked to in the External links section, and in a number of written and online sources. Any insight you can offer in this situation would be useful. — BillC talk 20:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Due to certain (albeit otherwise very useful) changes to how link wrapping is done, certain campaignboxes with long titles formatted as a single link may see one of several issues:
There is a workaround to these, as noted at WP:MILHIST#NAVPROBLEMS; if anyone spots one of these, please try to fix it, or leave a link here for someone else to do so. Thanks! Kirill 22:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
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The A-Class review for Military history of Gibraltar during World War II is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 17:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.) is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 17:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
The A-Class review for Jacques Le Gris is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 01:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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Some of you may know that I have been diligently working on improving Wikipedia's coverage related to the Black Hawk War. The problem discussed below is a bit lengthy, sorry, please do read on.
I have a friend that works at a local newspaper, he was talking to the President of Northern Illinois University and somehow the Black Hawk War came upon, I guess he is quite the Black Hawk War buff. In this conversation he called the Wikipedia article on the war "blatantly wrong." This is really bothering me, I have been working extraordinarily hard on this article, and I strive for accuracy because I think the dissemination of knowledge is only useful if it is correct, with history especially. I have poured over hundreds upon hundreds of pages of text on the internet, in books, on microfiche etc, to make this article move toward shining. I don't know if this person read an older version weeks ago or came upon yesterday, I just don't and can't know that, but the fact that he pointed out an article that I have put so much energy into has really discouraged me. What I am wondering is, can anyone take a look at the article, maybe together we can flesh out any inaccuracy. It doesn't seem to me that the article is in any way "blatantly wrong." At least not based on everything I have read and studied thus far. If this article is truly inaccurate then I give up, my days on Wikipedia are over. Unfortunately, I don't know any historians on the Wiki, which would be a great thing if I did and had a professional with knowledge on the topic help flesh it out, but we make do around here with what we have. I am no stranger to historical research and don't think I have made any missteps along the way, I am very careful to consult multiple sources before writing, sometimes they disagree but I almost always note this unless I think it's just too trivial or the source too biased to be useful. Basically disregard the stray point on the graph, you know?
If anyone can help flesh this article out with me, please do.IvoShandor 07:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
One of this Project's Good Articles, Presidio of Santa Barbara has been nominated for Good Article review. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Drewcifer3000 19:43, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
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The A-Class review for Battle of the Plains of Abraham is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Kirill 03:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)