Talk:Hindenburg Line

message: I have expanded this page and included Operation Alberich which already has a page because it seems to me that they go together. I'm not sure that all the narrative is necessary but put it there so that the page is comprehensive. If desirable it can be pruned and material moved to other pages. It could do with a fresh pair of eyes though.Keith-264 (talk) 10:59, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindenburg and Alberich 

message: # I don't think that the article makes it sufficiently clear that the line was incomplete when the withdrawal began, with positions not fully dug and concrete not properly set due to the winter.
#* I can add some detail here
# The discussion of the reverse slope is good, but I would add that some of the defenders did not like the layout, as they could only check what the British were up to by sending out patrols to their own wire.
#* I don't have a source for this
#*: Bean, vol. IV, The AIF in France 1917, p. 267  Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:01, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for taking so much trouble, there's plenty of room for improvement. Pity about German sources in English though, they are even sparser than usual. Keith-264 (talk) 18:43, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just been looking at Bean but haven't got to those bits yet.Keith-264 (talk) 19:41, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Guards Div hist, p. 206 15 Mar, patrols skirmishing in St Pierre Vaast Wood, 18th, XIV Corps cavalry passed through, 19th advanced guards to advance to vicinity of Nurlu. 8th Div hist, p, 108 18 Mar, advance into southern SPV wood advanced with Wiltshire Yeomanry. Keith-264 (talk) 23:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Haig Dispatches p. 73 advanced troops on west bank of the Somme Brie bridge repaired sufficient for infantry, by 19 Mar infantry held line of Somme with infantry outposts and cavalry patrols over the river. Line of cavalry outposts with infantry in support Germaine-Hancourt-Nurlu-Bus. 74 successive lines of resistance... by main bodies of infantry...cavalry and infantry outposts maintained touch and covered consolidation.... cavalry took an active part....Keith-264 (talk) 23:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Just found an analysis by II Corps of the advance to the H Line which says the opposite of the Australian OH about the advanced forces being out on a limb, corresponding to the OH criticism that the advance was slow and hesitant ("bewildered and helpless") found in http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/599/  Thomas, A. M. (2010). British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914–18. Birmingham UK: Birmingham University. OCLC 690665118. conclusions at Corps level seem a bit parochial.Keith-264 (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: Made the narrative of British advance to the HL more detailed to bring out differences in 5th and 4th army methods and intentions.Keith-264 (talk) 08:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The only reference I've seen to concrete is for Vimy ridge on the the Sixth Army front north of the HL.Keith-264 (talk) 08:55, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More detail 

message: I've added this from a magazine article but can't find all the bibliographical details (the magazine has no cover) if anyone can help I'd be grateful,it's Purnell's History of the First World War. Thanks.Keith-264 (talk) 07:04, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of battle 

message: I question whether it's really appropriate or necessary to have the conflict infobox given that this is not a battle but rather battlefield feature. An lead image of the trench line seems like a more appropriate feature. --Labattblueboy (talk) 10:56, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Template:Infobox military operation this might be betterKeith-264 (talk) 11:13, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: What about :Template:Infobox military installation? It's the option employed for Fortifications of Rhodes, Walls of Constantinople and similar.--Labattblueboy (talk) 14:58, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I inserted :Template:Infobox military structure. I took notice that it was employed for Maginot Line and a number of other defensive lines in :Category:World War II defensive lines.--Labattblueboy (talk) 08:33, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox military conflict 

message: @Julius Marx Greetings, I used Anglo-French for brevity over British-French and put the French last, since they played a lesser role in the battle. I thought of using Entente but the Russians weren't there and decided that Allied was too vague. Would you prefer British-French, rather than Franco-British? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 08:29, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see an sources employing the term British-French with regards to the Somme. "Anglo-French" or "Franco-British" are employed and a quick searched appears to show a slightly greater employment of "Anglo-French" with regards to the Somme.--Labattblueboy (talk) 23:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

text: Whatever it was, Franco-British it wasn't. Did your search discriminate between scholarship and hackwork?Keith-264 (talk) 07:27, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed it did. Here is some of the easily identifiable scholarship: Matthias Strohn's latest, Doughty's "Pyrrhic Victory", Peter Hart's Somme book. I seem to remember Elizabeth Greenhalgh's work referring to it as Franco-British. Anyway, as I said, sources (with notable citation stats) employ both Franco-British and Anglo-French, they don't however refer to it as British-French.--Labattblueboy (talk) 13:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

text: Bugger! Although I wouldn't put Hart into the same category as the others. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 17:18, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha ha ha, fully agree about Hard. Either way, Anglo-Franco still appears to win out but who knows what the future holds.--Labattblueboy (talk) 22:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclature 

message: Realised that the lead was too big and moved extraneous detail to the article instead. Keith-264 (talk) 13:31, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  CE Comment 

message: The existing lede had the problem of being rather long. In condensing the lede, I did not remove anything that was not mentioned elsewhere in the article. Anywikiuser (talk) 11:01, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree but your cut was rather abrupt and we should leave it alone while discussing. I'll have a look as well. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 11:48, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it was "abrupt". The previous lede (and to a lesser extent, your revised version) focus most on the factors that led to the construction of the Hindenburg line. There's a lot of detail for things like the "Materialschaft" that were one of many things that had tipped the strategic situation against Germany. But it's also important to add what happened when the German Army withdrew to the Hindenburg line, what happened while it was in use as a defensive line from 1917-18, and its importance in the concluding months. Anywikiuser (talk) 14:06, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

text: Yes, does my revised version need expanding or more cuts to accommodate what you want? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 14:10, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Justification for re-writing lede