Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Requests

Scottish Wars of Independence

I think it should be noted that some article requests for the above topic could be answered only by the briefest of 'stubs', because the details we have are so sketchy. Rcpaterson 05:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Than we answer with stubs and hopefully they will grow with some Scottish help. Wandalstouring 13:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Beauge

It was a part of the Hundred Years War. Capitan Obvio 09:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

You request an article? Can you brief us about it? Wandalstouring 13:52, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Battles of Asiago Plateau

We have in the article requests a request for the Battles of Asiago Plateau. I have to date found two such battles, one at Battle of Mount Ortigara, and one at Battle of Asiago. I don't know how many more there might be, but, if there are only these two, maybe all that would be required would be a disambiguation page mentioning the pair of them. Jeminstlouismo 15:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Done--SGGH 19:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Battle of the Bagradas River 49 BC

Wikipedia has, in the article requests, a request for the Battle of the Bagradas River 49 BC. Wikipedia already contains an article with this title.

Battle of the Bagradas River 49 BC

Since a Wikipedia article entitled "Battle of the Bagradas River 49 BC" already exists, would a redirect to that article be appropriate?

Link Caesar's civil war to Battle of the Bagradas River (49 BC)

Hamilcar Barca had a Battle of the Bagradas River (239 BC) during the Mercenary War Wandalstouring 13:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

ww2

I was wondering, is the ww2 german-russian fighting better understood as a series of individual battles, or as an overall article? because the battles were related to each other, and the result of one affected others which may have been taking place at the same time in another location, through the necessity of troop movements, etc. they weren't just a chronological "line" of battles, one after the other. it seems to me that world war 2 was less a sequence of battles than many wars in the past were, simply because of the large area involved and large number of soldiers who were fighting at any one time. SpookyMulder 14:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, the "battles" are not necessarily battles in the classical sense—the "Battle of Stalingrad" was more of a campaign, for example—but in terms of articles, we have both ones on the individual operations and more general ones like Eastern Front (World War II). Kirill Lokshin 14:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Mărăşeşti

In the requested article area was a request for the "Battle of Maracesti". There is already an article on this battle/an article has been created in response to the request, under "Battle of Mărăşeşti" so it can be taken off the request list. --SGGH 20:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but link it. Most users do not know to type "Mărăşeşti". Wandalstouring 13:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Three articles

Gould Island Firing Pier, Firing Pier and Naval Torpedo Station. Here are some PD pictures. --Paul E. Ester 06:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

A pier to fire torpedos. Are you legally allowed to upload them on wikimedia and is there a possible use on wikipedia? Wandalstouring 13:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Tin Town

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.za/site/features/tin_town.php

A 'gulag' for IRA members, does this qualify as a possible military history article? i can't find an existing article in wiki so far... --SGGH 09:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes if Colditz castle is military history, a prison for IRA is either. Wandalstouring 13:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Operation Bagration/Battle of Belorussia

These two seem to be, from my research, one and the same. Therefore I've removed the Battle of Belorussia from the requested articles list as Operation Bagration is an existing article.--SGGH 09:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

If it's not too much trouble, might it be possible for you to create the "missing" article as a redirect to the existing one when you encounter such cases in the future? Kirill Lokshin 09:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm working on operation Bagration at the moment, and I'll clean this up when it will be done. -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 09:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

RE: Kirill Lokshin, no problem, ill make sure to do that in the future. --SGGH 14:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

SdKfz 4

I've started a SdKfz 4 article and removed it from the requested articles list. SdKfz 4 is only a start, a more experienced and knowing member should add to it at some point.

Hopefully it will happen. Do you have some numbers about how many of these vehicles were produced in total? Wandalstouring 14:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Australian Malay Campaign 1941-1942

Shouldn't this page be linked to the Battle of Malaya ? Tristan benedict 22:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Mozambican War of Independence

I've written this article, and I fear that I am nearing the limits of my ability as I am finding it very difficult to research much more. I have found it difficult to find material on the conflict or related ideas, there are a number of detailed books i wish i could get my hands on though.

The framework is all there, the sections are (i feel) correct, they just need fleshing out (see the talk page for more detail) and I would very much appreciate if other users could make a particular effort to help me out. Many thanks in advance. --SGGH 14:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

world war 2 building capacities

One thing I've never seen but would like is a list, or a detailed map showing the major weapons/plane/tank factories and related infrastructure in Europe during ww2. Something which showed, ok, 500 tiger tanks were built at X, 300 at Y, the spitfires were built at Z etc. As well as the capacity of each factory or industrial area. Also oil production and refineries, perhaps even major locations of AA guns, military airfields and their length, basically anything that had military strategic value during the war. I think this would be quite useful when you read about the campaigns, to see WHY a particular place became a goal to capture at a certain time. You know? Thanks if anyone can fill in any of this information. SpookyMulder 12:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

We could create such a map based on Putzger "historischer Weltatlas" ISBN 3-464-00176-8 page 117 for WWII and page 106 for WWI It doesn't tell in detail what was produced at which spot (I don't think that could be integrated into any map, even the Ministries of Defence would have difficulties to reconstruct all.) but you see the main production centers and what new centers were developed. I requested a map.Wandalstouring 01:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

request for help with ww2 article

Hi. could some of you guys please go over to the World War 2 article? There's currently a proposal there by only two users to rewrite most of the article, mainly to shorten it. I'm very concernred that only two people could rewrite an entire large article, consisting of dozens of people's work, without any underlying consensus. It seems to me that this would mean the removal of the work by many people by a small handful of users, mainly to attain what they consider the "correct" article length. So I'm disturbed that this is happening without any underlying consensus. i'd feel a lot better if a few more people could come over to the article, and take a look. Thanks. --Sm8900 04:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Suggested sandbox edit. Wandalstouring 10:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Minot Air Force Station

Is there anyone that knows of the Minot AFS? This location is appx. 18 miles south of Minot, North Dakota (the Minot Air Force Base is approximately 18 miles north of Minot, North Dakota). All the information I can find is at http://www.minotafs.org/, which though informative, in my humble opinion can't really be taken as a reputable source (unless consensus says otherwise...). Thanks for the help (I hope!). NDCompuGeek 10:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

If there isn't that much material available the topic is probably not very noteable. Probably they can help you themselves to some more material. Just write an e-mail to/phone the officer who is responsible for the PR of this base. Wandalstouring 13:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I would, but the station is closed and the two VERY large radar domes that were there have been removed. It is now a small civilian "suburb" of Minot, since the Air Force was kind enough to sell the land and the remaining structures (mostly the housing units) to a housing development agency. NDCompuGeek 18:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

OK in this case ask the US Air Force(PR departement) or some Air Force veteran organisations(they are likely to know some people who have lots of spare time). Also the mayor or other people involved in the administration of the town may be able to give you helpful info. Wandalstouring 18:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Moving into Task-force Specific Lists

As several of the other coordinators have noted, this list is getting quite long and out of hand. I (along with others) are thinking of beginning to move a lot of these into the task-force specific lists. But before I jump into it, I just want to test the waters, and make sure that I know what I'm doing and am not misinterpreting what ought to be done here.

1. If we start moving red-links (articles that need to be written) into the task-force specific boxes, those boxes are going to get real big real quick. Is this okay?
2. Is it okay to remove things from this list here? - i.e. yes, it's getting quite long, but I wonder who uses this list and whether it would be an inconvenience or disservice to them to remove things.
3. Should blue-links (i.e. already created articles) simply be removed entirely from the list as they are no longer red-link "need to be written" articles?

Thanks. LordAmeth 09:30, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

1. Yes, but not as big and unhandy as this list here.
2. The idea is to delete the complete list here.
3. Check the blue links, in case it is a stub it can be handled like a red link. Wandalstouring 10:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Minor note: stubs should go in the "expansion" slot in the task force list, while red links go in the "requested" slot. Kirill Lokshin 13:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, W. There have unfortuantely been a few too many times that I've jumped into something and made some poor misjudgement over the intention or the method, so I just wanted to make sure. I'll be happy to jump into this later today, or maybe tomorrow. LordAmeth 11:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Um... I worry about the loss of information - listing just the redlink battle name, for example, on the task force template, loses the information about which campaign it comes from. Ideas? LordAmeth 13:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

In general, it can be assumed that anyone who's actually in a position to write an article on the battle will know the campaign, or can at least check Special:Whatlinkshere; I don't really think it's an issue. (You could, if you're so inclined, put the campaignbox name in an HTML comment after the link; but, frankly, it seems like it'd be a waste of time.) Kirill Lokshin 13:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Righto. Thanks for that. LordAmeth 13:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, you might want to check the full list of available fields at Template:WPMILHIST Announcements/Task force before doing a lot of moves. There's a separate field for translation requests, for example. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 13:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool. One more problem - I'm going through the general list of requested articles now, and finding quite a few that have no links pointing to them except from the request lists, and user pages (which are presumably transcluding the request list). What should be done with these? Leave them? Delete them? Thanks. LordAmeth 14:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd just leave them for the time being. Many of the ones that have no links do so either because of obscurity (which isn't a problem, I think), or because they're alternative spellings or names that need to be redirected to the correct article. Kirill Lokshin 14:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)