Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 61

message: 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)
replies: text: Just an oversight, presumably; much of the category system is a work in progress, and is likely to be for the foreseeable future. Kirill 12:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor category complaint

message: 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)
thread_title:  Cruise missiles 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Rename request for [[West Coast air raid]] 

message: I'm done translating the French FA !!
You may want to :
# Proofread it !
# re-evaluate its quality, and make some suggestions to improve it !
Thanks !
NicDumZ ~ 08:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Battle of Bir Hakeim]], bis. 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Romanian Land Forces]] now open 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Battle of Panipat (1761)]] now open 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Ho Chi Minh Campaign]] now open 

message: Pericles has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Vassyana 08:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pericles 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Colour specifications for flags 

message: 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)
replies: text: Possibly see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Standardizing navigation templates above? Kirill mentioned he'd changed some generic navbox thing... See here, where he says: "I've changed  to use  with some particular styles set." That sounds like it might explain what you are seeing. Carcharoth 00:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And as you can see, because I forgot to tl-non-transclude them, they've floated left, which is what you are describing. Carcharoth 00:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now fixed; apparently "margin: auto" causes problems on Firefox but not on IE when additional explicit margins are set. Sorry about that! Kirill 00:54, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No problems - I know from experience that cross-browser compliant CSS is a right royal pain-in-the-butt. Thanks for the prompt repair. --Vedexent (talk) - 00:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the thanks for the speedy repair as well. Did you change something else? The text looks different in my browser now, I like it better. IvoShandor 01:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, see a bit further up. ;-) Kirill 01:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

text: It's a known issue with some (many?) browsers; see WP:BUNCH (which is, I'm fairly certain, linked at least from WP:CAMPAIGN) for how to fix it. Kirill 05:21, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again Kirill, problem solved. IvoShandor 06:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some notes about this in a more prominent place, since this question keeps coming up; see WP:MILHIST#NAVPROBLEMS.  Hopefully it'll be a bit easier to find the answer now. Kirill 18:04, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, I may have noticed it there, because when I came here to look for layout guidelines I really only came to the main page. Thanks for all ye ol' help though. IvoShandor 21:56, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Fixed now; the parameters have changed slightly. Kirill 17:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou Kirill! Woodym555 19:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who the heck broke the battle boxes? 

message: 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)
replies: text: It's a known issue with some (many?) browsers; see WP:BUNCH (which is, I'm fairly certain, linked at least from WP:CAMPAIGN) for how to fix it. Kirill 05:21, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again Kirill, problem solved. IvoShandor 06:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some notes about this in a more prominent place, since this question keeps coming up; see WP:MILHIST#NAVPROBLEMS.  Hopefully it'll be a bit easier to find the answer now. Kirill 18:04, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, I may have noticed it there, because when I came here to look for layout guidelines I really only came to the main page. Thanks for all ye ol' help though. IvoShandor 21:56, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Related battle box topic

message: 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)
replies: text: Fixed now; the parameters have changed slightly. Kirill 17:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou Kirill! Woodym555 19:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Related navbox topic

message: 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)
thread_title: Article request

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Byzantine-Ottoman wars]] now open 

message: 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)
replies: text: The US military thinks they're oak leaves; see Oak leaf cluster (which is where the image is derived from). ;-) Kirill 16:10, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiChevrons with Oakleaves 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]] now open 

message: 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)
replies: text: It appears to be an issue with the unassesed status the template was placing on the talk page. I have assessed the article, but that doesn't garentee the article will still have the project template tommarow. On a related note, the article needs cleanup and wikilink attention badly. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  62d Medical Brigade 

message: 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)
thread_title: [[Rat-eating in the Royal Navy]]

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Byzantine-Ottoman wars]] needs attention 

message: 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)
replies: text: Here's an easy one. 1A and 1B is a Nazi-era Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer. Lewis Collard! (baby i'm bad news) 04:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Some of the latter pictures (44/43, that area) look to be of the German 88 mm gun; though I wouldn't swear to it. TomStar81 (Talk) 04:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Another: 2B and 2C are Jagdpanther tank destroyers. Lewis Collard! (baby i'm bad news) 04:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Oooh, I'll take it there then. Lewis Collard! (baby i'm bad news) 05:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Identify that tank/gun, round 2

message: 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)
thread_title:  Help needed at [[Alvin York]] 

message: 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)
replies: text: I think we've been basically going with the idea that it covers everything in the 1792–1815 period, regardless of geography. Kirill 21:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Napoleonic scope

message: 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)
thread_title: Oh, [[bunker fuel|Archie!]]

message: 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)
replies: text: Is there an article about the unit, this looks like a candidate for merger if I ever saw one. Those photos seem more like vanity pictures than anything else, they probably qualify for deletion on those grounds. IvoShandor 13:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nix the last comment about photos. : ) IvoShandor 13:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as i can tell, the only link is to the Rangers. The 75th redirects there. It could be added there, i suppose. Woodym555 14:27, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't think PLATOON-level units are notable. -- Миборовский 19:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree - especially when the platoon isn't independent but is part of a larger unit. This article seems to be a well-meaning, but confused, attempt to cover a sub-unit of the 2-75th which seems, at face value, to suffer from disipline problems. It seems appropriate to either merge some the content into the main article on the Rangers or re-write it to move the focus onto the robbery - it seems that it's the robbery and its implications which might be notable, and not the platoon per-se. --Nick Dowling 00:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with Nick, the robbery part might well be notable, as is it might still work best in the main 75th article, don't know for sure, just because it would be so short. Unless, of course, someone is down for some expansion, but it should be merged, and/or refocused and retitled. IvoShandor 03:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats what i thought when i brought it up here. At first i thought it was a joke, what with the bank robbery etc. I think it best to cut down and focus on the robbery, then merge it into the Rangers article under Discipline problems, or in the news (or whatever the main contributors on that page think). Woodym555 10:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text:  I'd agree that most platoon-level units aren't. I can think of one exception. -- llywrch 21:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Madslashers]] 

message: 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)
thread_title:  US nuclear warhead designation convention 

message: 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)
replies: text: Ypu might want to leave a note on the Classical warfare task force page as well to alert editors there. The members there have expressed an interest in classical warfare and should be able to help. Woodym555 14:57, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I will do that.  Thanks.  --Chaleyer61 23:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take a look at the article and tell you what I think. Kyriakos 05:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major revision to the article on Philopoemen 

message: 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:
:* The title is forced onto a second line, with the first line left blank.
:* The title is forced onto a second line, with the first line left blank; and the box is stretched beyond its normal width (hopefully never occurs).
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)
thread_title:  Possible problem with campaignbox rendering 

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thread_title: Treaty of Devol

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Military history of Gibraltar during World War II]] now open 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)]] now open 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Jacques Le Gris]] now open 

message: The A-Class review for Enfield revolver is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated!  Thanks! Kirill 03:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Enfield revolver]] now open 

message: 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)
replies: text: There are several possibilities here. Quite possibly the critic had read an old version of the article (or the wrong article). Possibly there has been new history uncovered that you haven't included. Possibly the critic is taking one side in a controversial matter. Possibly the critic is wrong? Do keep trying to get external opinions, and don't let this get you down. If it really, really bothers you, the only way to be sure is to contact the critic and see what he says. Carcharoth 03:50, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind historians, they have quite often their own ideas and argue a lot with each other. You try to present what historians say on the subject, perhaps these opinions are a bit more controversial than your presentation but that doesn't make you wrong. Wandalstouring 07:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major accuracy problems?

message: 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)
thread_title:  Good Article Review 

message: A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Jacques Le Gris; please stop by and help review the article!  Thanks! Kirill 00:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Jacques Le Gris]] needs attention 

message: A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Enfield revolver; please stop by and help review the article!  Thanks! Kirill 00:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Enfield revolver]] needs attention 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]] now open