Talk:List of World War II military operations

message: I reinstated Slapstick as a part of Baytown and deleted as a standalone. Also reinstated Potluck - it's documented here , so I don't understand why it was deleted. Folks at 137 19:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleting Potluck must have been some technical error of mine. Slapstick was listed twice, under Baytown and alone (the second option is easier to search by alphabet...). Pibwl ←« 19:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The current practice is to list "sub-operations" within the main, it gives a broad structure. One can find a known op by using <ctrl-F> to find the text. Apologies if I get possessive!! Folks at 137 20:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ops Potluck & Slapstick

message: So far have collected a lot of operations not listed here, around 250 or so. Thinking about how best to add those in, if/when the time exists. Anyway, did briefly add for USSR since there are so few, including an entry for Operation Pike. See Eastern Front European Theater during WW2. I'm too lazy to add the "forgotten offensives" but did leave word on where to look them up. Fluffy999 21:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added some more. Suggest the format of the list gets moved back to the way it was, someone thought legibility was improved by bunging a lot of detail under "see also". It wasn't. Fluffy999 16:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I added short description about Operation Haudegen  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antinpoika (talk • contribs) 17:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: I think it would be more useful if we changed this from a list to a sortable table with the following columns:
* Operation name(s) (English & primary names first, then other designations)
* Nationality(s) 
** Only major participants for obvious technical reasons
** Shouldn't be a problem as we can use umbrella terms (Western Allies, European Axis etc.) if the list is too long
* Theatre
* Year 
* Short description
* Implemented? (boolean, either a  or an )
As an example:
Name(s)          	Nationality(s)	Theatre                            	Year	Description                                                    	Impl.?
Haハ  (ha)        	Japan         	Burma Campaign                     	1944	Distraction offensive to assist U                              	
BattleaxeBruiser 	United Kingdom	Western Desert Campaign            	1941	Attempt to capture Libyan province of Cyrenaica                	
SealionSeelöwe   	Germany       	Battle of Britain                  	1940	Proposed invasion of the United Kingdom                        	
DragoonAnvil     	Western Allies	Western European Campaign          	1944	Invasion of southern France                                    	
Heaven天 (ten)    	Japan         	Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign	1945	Suicide attack against American forces by the Battleship Yamato	
WhiteWeiß (Weiss)	Germany       	Poland                             	1939	Plan for the invasion of Poland                                	
Conventions
* Naming 
** Previous or secondary names for operations appear in italics
** If translated, the original foreign name appears beneath the English translation
* Use of "Operation"
** The word "operation", and its foreign equivelants, is omitted from the name
** Various languages have their own variation of "operation"
*** German: Unternehmen (ie. "Unternehmen Seelöwe")
*** Japanese: gō sakusen / 号作戦 (i.e. "Ha-gō sakusen" or "ハ号作戦")
**** 号 (gō) - Number / symbol / mark
**** 作 (saku) - Work / production
**** 戦 (sen) - War / battle / fighting
Notes
* Many Japanese code-names are taken directly from their phonetic alphabet (katakana or hiragana), and thus, since they simply represent a "sound", have nothing to translate.
* Other explanations for special cases (such as the German operations which start with "Case" (German "Fall")) would go here
Thoughts? Oberiko (talk) 20:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Convert to sortable table?

message: The original point of this list and its predecessors was to define operation code names. There are few WWI codenames, so that list is v short. August Storm appears to be an "unofficial" name, but does offer a definition and the article explains the situation. If this is unacceptable, then it should be removed from the list; no other entry uses anything other than a codename. No offence intended for the revert. Folks at 137 (talk) 21:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what the original intent was, but neither the title of the list, nor its introduction mention code names. In any case, there was never an Operation August Storm. If you see the talk page for that article you will see the discussion on it--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 21:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The codename bit needs to be restated. I'll check that out, there have been huge reworkings of these lists. The name is referred to in the article as, if I recall, one that was coined by a journalist - there's been a few editors with an interest, it would be good to canvass their views - consensus. Get back after work. Folks at 137 (talk) 05:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was used by David Glantz, the author of the original report at US Army Staff College based on the suggestion of his then 11 year old daughter, and has been used unquestioningly in the last 25 years by other authors who never bothered to ask him--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 06:53, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: August Storm

message: The list, List of Axis named operations in the European Theatre, was created in late 2008. It substantially covers the same ground as the List of World War II military operations (and its subsidiaries) although there are omissions in both. A merger is desirable to avoid duplication of effort and to maintain a single reference source. The "List of World War II military operations" family is the more established of the two (created 2006 as a result of reorganisation of a yet older list), more complete, more organised and should be the single source. Folks at 137 (talk) 09:09, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merger

message: I noticed that two significant Atlantic/Scandianvian operations do not appear on this page and wanted to call it to your attention for future inclusion. The operations are OPERATION TORCH (the invasion of North Africa) and OPERATION LEADER (Raid on Norway).  The U.S.S. Ranger CV-4 article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ranger_(CV-4) should provide a fairly good starting reference when you get around to adding these operations. 
In addition to the two operations listed above, I'd also suggest inclusion of the thirteen operations listed in the U.S.S. Tennessee BB-43 article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tennessee_(BB-43) Awards section Service stars awarded table. Among these are OPERATION ICEBURG the battle for Okinawa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa and other critical WWII Pacific operations. 
Ussrangercv4 (talk) 15:06, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Operations 

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thread_title: Operation Donar

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