Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Worklist

message: What about a campaign category? Leithp 19:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Add them to "Battles", perhaps?  Otherwise, we'll need to get into questions of where Battle of Normandy belongs and such. —Kirill Lokshin 19:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Would I put Burma Campaign in the battles category? I had been planning to add Battle of Imphal and Battle of Kohima as well. Leithp 19:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No reason why not ;-)  We can always create a separate table later if any problems come up. —Kirill Lokshin 19:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Campaigns

message: Do we want to keep the Chemistry colors?  Maybe a spectrum-like scheme (similar to the Babel boxes) would work better? —Kirill Lokshin 19:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the colors. Keep 'em. I've run through a few of the articles, added remarks. Will change a few things in relevant articles. Guapovia 23:15, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors 

message: In case there's ever a need to prioritize the wars on the worklist, here's one view of what constitutes the biggest wars in history. From Appendix A of Niall Ferguson's The Cash Nexus, here are the 12 "biggest wars in history", as determined by the number of "war dead as a percentage of world population":
#World War II
#World War I
#Thirty Years' War
#Napoleonic Wars
#War of the Spanish Succession
#Seven Years' War
#War of the League of Augsburg
#French Revolutionary Wars
#Dutch War of Louis XIV (1672-78) (i.e. Third Anglo-Dutch War)
#Ottoman War (1682-99) (i.e. what Wikipedia calls the second Great Turkish War)
#War of the Austrian Succession
#Korean War
--Kevin Myers | (complaint dept.) 21:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 12 Biggest Wars in History 

message: Here are the ten greatest generals in history, according to The Reader's Companion to Military History (Cowley & Parker, eds., 1996), which they list in chronological order:
*Alexander the Great
*Hannibal
*Saladin
*Ghengis Khan
*Oda Nobunaga
*Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
*Napoleon Bonaparte
*Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
*William T. Sherman
*William Slim
--Kevin Myers | (complaint dept.) 15:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added in Moltke, who was the only one missing. I'm not sure about that list though. I'm a big admirer of Bill Slim's accomplishments, but why was he in there and not John Churchill? Or Scipio Africanus Major, or Belisarius, or...... Leithp 16:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Ten Greatest Generals 

message: Is is possible to make the individual lists templates? This would allow the lists to be embedded in other pages as well. While this might make editing the lists a little tricker, an "edit link" could be made part of the table.
This could be advantagous for wars and battles. Wars could be broken up according to the task force they are a assigned to (with a "general" category for orphan wars?). Battles could be broken up by war. The lists would be centrally managed (in the template page), but could be embedded in the task force pages (or anywhere else) as well. - Vedexent 00:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a clever idea, but unfortunately we have (or will shortly have) overlapping task forces.  For example, the Battle of Grunwald is both Middle Ages and Polish military history; which template would it be listed on.  Having a separate template for every war would be rather unmaintainable, in my opinion. —Kirill Lokshin 00:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worklist templates? 

message: Would anyone mind taking a look into this article? There's plenty of information on the web about it, and it'd be a very easy improve. ⇒ SWATJester  Ready  Aim  Fire! 22:47, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[RSTA]] 

message: I've updated the colors to match the spectrum used by the main 1.0 scheme a bit more closely (with some differences in shade and so forth, made purely on aesthetic grounds).  Any objections to the new set? Kirill Lokshin 03:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For reference the colors used in WP:Beatles have been changed: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification. I sort of think gray in the middle doesn't make as much sense as a more chromatic rainbow... It would be good to have everyone use the same set if it made sense to do so. It may not though... we use more colors to carry info about proposed merge/delete and AfD bait than some do. 04:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, feel free to use the templates we've used: , , ,  and , and to propose improvements to that chromatic scheme. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 01:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update to colors 

message: Wow, this is an extensive worklist, and it is certainly very impressive.  If you think it is appropriate, you can also transfer part of your list (e.g. FAs and A-Class articles) to your WikiProject's table on the Work Via WikiProjects listing, so everyone can see the progress you've made. Again, congrats! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 01:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congrats 

message: Note to self (and anyone else who happens to drop by to do the conversion to the new assessment system): everything up to "Wars" has been retagged. Kirill Lokshin 05:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion process status