Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 42

message: Over at Talk:Rear Admiral#Move_to_Rear_admiral they've started a requested move from "Rear Admiral" to "Rear admiral" a la Prime minister and the WP naming conventions. If this goes through, all articles will have to be de-capped. Personally, I really don't mind either way, but articles should be consistent as much as is practicable. Does anyone here have a reason it/they should NOT be moved? Otherwise, we might as well nominate them all and get all our ducks (Ducks?) in a row. -- SigPig \SEND - OVER 20:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's probably some subtlety involved with non-generic rank titles.  Thus, "marshal" may be either capitalized or not, and could thus be moved; but, say, "Marshal of the Soviet Union" or "Marshal of France" might need to stay capitalized (as, for example, "Prime Minister of the United Kindgom"). Kirill Lokshin 20:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization of rank titles 

message: An interesting discussion going on here regarding a proposed rename of the category; any input would be very welcome!  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 14:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Wars in the Balkans]] 

message: I've added some new features to  that I'd like some feedback on:
* A separate show/hide bar for the task forces, both to allow easier browsing and to remove the need for the redundant "This article is supported by..." text on each line. 
* Somewhat more interestingly, as part of a Wikipedia-wide effort to find solutions to the "forest of yellow templates" problem that plagues some talk pages, there's a new small=yes parameter available; setting it will cause the template to shrink down to userbox width and float on the right margin.
Any comments would be very appreciated! Kirill Lokshin 20:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: very good, the smaller things get and the less redundant, the better. Wandalstouring 20:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure if it's just me, but the small=yes parameter seems to cause overlap problems if there are other templates of the talk page. The separate drop downs are nice, though. Carom 21:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's meant to be applied to every template, so I'm not entirely sure if it works quite correctly when only one has it set.  It's something that's being tested across the board anyways (see here), so any formatting issues like that will be cleaned up through the CSS class once we figure out what they are. Kirill Lokshin 21:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, that makes sense, then. Carom 21:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|WPMILHIST}} formatting 

message: I've begun a proposal to rename this category to "Wars of NATO". Please lend your input Here. LordAmeth 20:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Wars of the NATO]] 

message: The article "Roswell UFO incident" has undergone a major rewrite and quite a bit of attention from us over at WP:PARA.  Since the article is part of both project I felt it would be a good idea to invite you guys to the party! :) ---J.S (t|c) 20:28, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roswell UFO incident peer review 

message: I'm a bit confused. In my 1301 history class my proffessor brings up different groups of scottish highlanders. He refers to their contributions during the American War for Independence (on the Brittish side of courdse) yet i can't find any article on wikipedia that mentions a group of highlanders that existsed before the 1800s. Is there a reason for this? Am I missing an article? Eno-Etile 06:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Your professor is, of course, correct. Highlanders, i.e. people who lived in the Scottish Highlands, have existed for centuries and centuries. They fought the English in the 1300s, under William Wallace and others, and they continued to resist English domination for some time after that. I don't know anything one way or the other about them taking part in the American Revolution; but just because they weren't formally established as British Army regiments until later, that doesn't mean they didn't exist as a distinctive people. LordAmeth 09:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was sure we had an article on the highlanders following the Jacobites in the British service. Ahh there we go 78th Fraser Highlanders and your teacher may ahve spoken of the 71st Regiment of Foot.--Dryzen 16:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks alot that question has been bugging me for over a month. Anyway is there any reason neither of these regiments appear on the highlanders disambigution or "The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)" page?Eno-Etile 21:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly due to there being little link between the modern Scottish Regiment and these defunct regiments. You can find most if not all the regiments in :Category:Highland regiments. As to the disambigution Highlander was not the Regiemtns actual name therefoe is not mentioned, I'll add the Cat.--Dryzen 18:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the info Eno-Etile 05:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The formation of the Highlanders 

message: In light of the fact that the combined requests page seems to actually have some (not much, admittedly) associated activity now, including in the image/map/translation sections, and the cartography and translation departments haven't had any over the two months since this was last discussed: are there any objections to archiving those two department pages at this point and running with just the combined request page? Kirill Lokshin 06:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I dont see any problems with that, it will probobly be a better place for exposure.--Dryzen 18:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Full steam ahead, I say. Carom 21:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problems here. Hossen27 06:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just merge them into the request departement. Wandalstouring 13:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Okay, I've gone ahead and marked those pages as inactive, leaving pointers to the main request page. Kirill Lokshin 17:54, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mothballing departments redux