Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force/Archive 1

message: I found the attached infobox over on the World War II page
SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 00:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied on the main project talk page ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 00:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: World War Two page and infox

message: The campaigns added are exclusively US-centric.  They hardly relflect the global nature of the war (heck, every event where the US isn't present, like the Battle of Britain, aren't even mentioned). Oberiko 01:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sofixit ;-)  (Slightly more seriously, I assume it's because the person adding them was in the U.S. military; and most of them are red links anyways, and should probably be removed.) —Kirill Lokshin 01:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually you are going to find that there will be a problem finding information of the sort available for US wars because few other nations have their information on line to the same extent that the US has its information on line. As it is, the US is the only nation I know that has all of its governmental information in the Public Domain, and thus freely accessable. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 13:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but there's no reason to insist that everything be available online, or be sourced directly from the government; we could just as easily use whatever campaign breakdown is used by the major historians in this area (is there a common one, incidentally?).  —Kirill Lokshin 14:07, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Campaigns

message: There's some intensive debate over how this should be organized and what should be listed in it going on; additional input from anyone with knowledge of the Eastern Front would be extremely helpful. —Kirill Lokshin 15:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now started to reorganise the templates.  Please provide input, additions, and corrections, where you see those are necessary.  Remember the goal is to reduce the size of the main campaignbox to a minimum, while being able to add smaller engagements that warrant an article. Andreas 08:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Campaignbox Axis-Soviet War]] 

message: I would like to start an article on the Battle of Yelnia (first operational defeat of the Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa, but have seen a number of different spellings of the place.  Could a Russian speaker please confirm that Yelnia is indeed the correct and current spelling? Thanks. Andreas 16:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean this? Kirill Lokshin 16:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the one spelling I did not try. Thanks a lot. On my watchlist, hopefully soon to be improved. Andreas 16:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle - request for help 

message: I have a dilemma with Soviet losses. 
Here are the facts:
# The Russian Academy of Science published a report in 1993 that detailed the data on the demographic impact of the war on the USSR. The losses were 26.6 million including 17 million draft aged males.
# The official Russian military report published in 1993 listed 6.8 million confirmed dead plus 1.3 million POW dead and 500,000 MIA for a grand total of 8.6 million military war dead. They claim 4.0 million POW taken by Germans less 2.7 liberated in 1945 yielding a loss of 1.3 million POWs.
# The Germans claimed to have taken 5.7 million POW not counting Sov MIA of whom 1 million were drafted into the German Army( Vlasov Army, SS)
# Most western historians( I could make a list) list Sov POW losses as 3 million+. Not counting in MIA
# An independent Russian researcher Vadim Erlikman published in 2004 a handbook of statistics on war casualties(with extensive footnotes, using Russian & Western sources) that claimed the USSR military losses were 10.6 million  in the war including 6.9 million Killed, 700,000 MIA, 2.6 million POW and 400,000 partisans and milita. The number of POW and MIA is more credible than 1.8 million so I posted Erlikman's data for the USSR casualties on the WW2 Casualties page. Erlikman is not an apologist for the communist system or the Russian government. He listed an estimated 1.7 million dead due to Soviet repression in addition to war losses of 26.5 million
# Back to the 2.7 million POWs and "Vlasovites" that were sent back to the USSR in 1945. I wonder how many are included in the total of 17 million draft aged males lost in the war. They were marched off to the Gulag. We just do not know their fate. 
# Please go to my talk page ----Woogie10w 01:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't sound like we're going to be able to get the numbers right if so many credible (or at least useable) sources contradict each other.  Our best bet is to place the numbers as a range and then provide readers with the list of sources and each of their figures. Oberiko 17:26, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed. In fact I doubt if anyone could ever get the numbers right. The Red Army didn't do a very good job collecting the information in the first place, so it is not realistic to expect anyone today to have a very accurate number. That would be true even if none of the histories had an axe to grind. DMorpheus 18:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need to get the numbers right 

message: Not sure if it was needed, but it helps me find my way through things. 'Red Army Operations in World War II' (sorry, no idea how to link it) - I just started it and will try to categorise as many articles as possible. I think I will also use Easter to consider how to clean up the current mess that are the Red Army WW2 related cats a bit. Andreas 13:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting idea, but won't such a structure cause some redundant categorization with, say, a potential "Wermacht operations in World War II" category?  Maybe it would be easier to use a geographic category (e.g. :Category:Battles and operations on the Eastern Front (World War II)) instead? Kirill Lokshin 14:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I am happy to see it moved.  That would then enable us to clean up :Category:Soviet-German War by moving all the operations/battles in it to a subcategory. Andreas 14:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that needs some cleaning up; I'm not sure if "Battles and operations of the Eastern Front" or "Battles and operations of the Soviet-German War" is the better name for the new category, though. Kirill Lokshin 14:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Category 

message: I'm currently building up userbox templates conforming to the the style found on the Military history WikiProject. I'll be building one for this task force if its members dont mind. What would be a defining image representing World War II? Your help is appreacited.Dryzen 13:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about the Soviet soldiers on the Reichstag? Leithp 13:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good image, but will it still be recognizable when small?  (As an aside, whatever image is decided upon, you might want to update  to use the same one, for consistency.) Kirill Lokshin 13:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In that regard I've built the template with the image from , If its decide that an another image is more repressentative, its an easy thing to modify the template.Dryzen 14:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Nice, I perfer the tank to the aircraft. What do the other participants think?Dryzen 18:22, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the Spitfire has apparently been axed by a member of our friendly neighborhood image death squad, I've replaced it with the panzer for the time being. Kirill Lokshin 23:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the decision was taken for us.Dryzen 15:16, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mmmmm, more userboxes :)))) -- Grafikm_fr (AutoGRAF) 22:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I would try sticking with a photograph from WWII before filling in the blank space with a simple unit or symbol. Some of the WWII images I would suggest include: :Image:Pennsylvania Lingayen.jpg, :Image:1942 midway g17054.jpg, :Image:NormandyLST.jpeg, :Image:Yalta Conference.jpg, :Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg (inelligable, I believe, but forth the mention anyway), :Image:USSArizonaPearlHarbor.jpg, :Image:Mccarthur-peace.jpg, :Image:Doolittle b-25.jpg, or something similar. TomStar81 22:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't tried all of those, but I would think that any good photograph would have the same problem of not being identifiable at 40px that the Soviet flag-raising one did.  Kirill Lokshin 23:23, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I know, but I would feel better about knowing that we at least tried. That and the fact that other people who join later are probably going to wonder why we did not pick one these photos for the project. In this way we can say that we tried, but it didn't work out :-) TomStar81 00:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

text: We should try to find a picture of the National World War II Memorial to see if it would be a good canidate for use. TomStar81 00:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates 

message: Is there any point in having this article? Battle of the Oder-Neisse I think a redirect to Battle of Berlin, or maybe Battle of Seelow Heights would suffice. Andreas 12:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oder-Vistula and Battle of Berlin cover this perimeter I think. One could always check though... :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 12:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not Oder-Vistula, since the article is talking about the Berlin Operation. Andreas 12:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It still contains useful stuff IIRC (sorry I'm working at the moment, don't even have time to go check... :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 12:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the information could be rescued by adding it to the other articles.  Andreas 12:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of the Oder Neisse 

message: I happened to notice that there are three articles that all cover the same event. Operation Punishment stands alone, and Operation 25 redirects to Invasion of Yugoslavia, which is poorly written. I'd fix this myself but I don't know how to edit redirects. 216.242.114.115 14:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've redirected the lot of them to Operation Punishment, which seems to be the only one with actual content.  Whether that's the best name for the final article is something that can be discussed at a later point. Kirill Lokshin 14:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bombing of Belgrade in World War II, anyone? Andreas 18:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That works; redirect them all there, then? Kirill Lokshin 18:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I have also integrated the text from Operation Punishment into the Belgrade article and rewritten that one a bit. Andreas 06:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good! Kirill Lokshin 12:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Punishment / Operation 25 / Invasion of Yugoslavia 

message: We need to do some cleanup of the category system under :Category:Battles and operations of World War II:
# Category names should be of the form "Battles and operations of the Foo Campaign of World War II", not "World War II battles and operations of the Foo Campaign".
# We're missing the very obvious :Category:Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II (under that name or some other); everything is lumped in the single :Category:Soviet-German War.
# Categories should generally nest as "Foo Campaign" → "Battles of the Foo Campaign" → "Naval battles of the Foo Campaign".
Might anybody be able to help, primarily with putting together a list of the categories we have and how they're (supposed to be) nested?  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 14:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Campaign categories 

message: The article Battles of Narvik which is supported by this task force is now the focus of the current collaboration of the fortnight. Please join in improving this article.
Inge 12:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:   [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Collaboration|Military history Collaboration of the Fortnight]] 

message: The image in the info box seems to sometimes appear and sometimes not - this is rather odd. I wonder if someone could take a look. Tyrenius 04:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Battle of Aachen]]

message: Noting that there's no overview campaignbox for the war, I created , but Oberiko noted that there's a  as well.  I'm wondering what the best approach to take here would be?  I think that it would be a good idea to turn the theatre template into one or several campaignboxes, for consistency with all the other such templates; would something like that be workable? 
In terms of ideas, there are two at right.  The top is the current campaignbox; the bottom is a more sophisticated campaignbox, listing theatres and sub-theatres.  I've omitted the "Contemporary wars" line, but it would be easy to include if anyone thinks it really belongs. Comments on these—as well as any other ideas—would be very appreciated! Kirill Lokshin 02:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The second one is imho too sophisticated. I think we should split it, like Andreas did with eastern front campaigns some time ago... -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 16:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps we could try a collapsable one, akin to what we have on the WPMILHIST template.  It would only list the top campaign/theatres initially, but clicking on a button would then open up that section so show the contents. Oberiko 17:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Those collapsible sections don't work properly on all browsers/skins, so I'm rather loath to use them on actual article content templates. Kirill Lokshin 15:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

text:  I think that in the first place we should reflect on a decent hierarchy of campaigns ans subcampaigns for each theater. I'll try to come up with something for the Eastern front... :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 17:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So, anybody have other ideas?  What are our options here? Kirill Lokshin 15:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overview campaignbox(es)? 

message: Please forgive me if this talk page is not the most ultimate place to put my request at, but I am
in need of help with the following issue; I have aquired a number of hi-res photos from Operation
Overlord which I probably will upload to Wikimedia in the near future. Some of these are particularly
interesting since they portray very famous persons (Eisenhower, Montgomery, De Gaulle, Churchill etc) in unusual (Normandy) environments. Now to my problem: They often appear with other presumably famous military characters which I
personally can't identify, i.e. Allied senior officers and captured German officers as well. I would really
appreciate if someone with particular knowledge about this could help me with identifying the persons.
If you are interested with helping out, please tell me so on my talk page and/or send me a personal
email (via my talk page). If you desire, I will then send you lo-res versions of the images in question to you.
My warm regards, --Dna-Dennis talk - contribs 04:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be faster to just upload the pictures and let the remaining people be identified gradually; it's not as though we don't have piles of war photos with unidentified officers floating around. Kirill Lokshin 04:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The US Army Center of Military History is in the middle of positing its photo Archive on-line as well, and you may find some or all of your photos located there. If so, you may save yourself some time and trouble since they are in the Public Domain, and free for the asking. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 13:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ID Help wanted 

message: I just noticed that the US Navy has posted on its historicdal website the official chronology of World War II. I linked it on the page. There is a link to a Merchant Merchant marine page as well.
SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 13:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  U.S. NAVY OFFICIAL CHRONOLOGY LINK POSTED 

message: Comments on copying these articles to Wikipedia please.
See Talk:Rafwaffe PeterGrecian 13:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied on article talk page. Kirill Lokshin 15:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment: BBC project WW2 People's War 

message: There's a new peer review request for HMCS Prince David that may be of interest to editors here; any input would be appreciated! Kirill Lokshin 01:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[HMCS Prince David]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Battle of Greece that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 14:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Battle of Greece]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 01:45, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun]] 

message: There has recently been created a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany, which, I hope, will be able to get together and improve the various articles on the German civilian side of World War II. Your task force seems to cover the majority of the actual military matters well, and there seem to be projects which exist for most of the other countries significantly involved in the war. Would any of you be interested in perhaps assisting in the development of a portal which would deal with the precursors to, actions of, and aftermath of the wat? If yes, please contact me at my talk page, and we could try to hash out the details of such a portal. Thanks for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War II Portal? 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Japanese battleship Kongō that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 12:36, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Japanese battleship Kongō]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 12:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 12:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo]] 

message: If anyone is interested, there are several renaming proposals being considered here with regards to how the various sub-categories for the Pacific Theater are named. Kirill Lokshin 16:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Campaign categories 

message: For your information, I've nominated Colditz Castle for a review at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Colditz Castle.  Please take a look! --Spangineerws (háblame) 16:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colditz Castle 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 21:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: From Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography:
*Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II#The case for the bombing as a war crime Dispute between two editors over a number of points. It needs other editors to join the debate to help build a consensus. 10:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bombing of Dresden in World War II 

message: I've just come across a reference to the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill; it would seem that James L. Day, who received his Medal of Honor for his actions in that battle, is the only article linking to it. The Battle of Okinawa article makes no reference to "Sugar Loaf Hill," although I did get a great number of fully relevant hits for it on Google. You all do an amazing job, and considering how extensive I thought our WWII coverage was, I was surprised to come across an entire battle with nearly no reference made to it. Just thought I ought to bring it to your attention. Cheers. LordAmeth 23:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugar Loaf Hill 

message: There's a new peer review request for Battle of Wuhan that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 04:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Battle of Wuhan]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for T-26 that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 16:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[T-26]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for U.S. 8th Armored Division that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 23:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[U.S. 8th Armored Division]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 13:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 13:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)]] 

message: The requested articles departement gets reorganized. The requests get moved to the specific taskforce. In case of error move it to a concerning task force.
*Holocaust slave labor litigation 
Wandalstouring 11:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added to open task template. Kirill Lokshin 13:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested articles 

message: I just wanted to let everyone know that an English-translation of the book, "Kogun: The Japanese Army In The Pacific War" by Saburo Hayashi is available on the web.  To access it, manually type the URL into your browser: [url]http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/utm/kogun.txt[/url].  Then click on any of the date links listed, then copy and paste the text to a Word file.
This book gives a high-level summary of Imperial Japanese Army operations in the Pacific War along with some brief bios of most of the high-ranking Japanese Army officers.  Since it's out of print it's almost impossible to find a bound copy for a reasonable price. Cla68 22:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electronic copy of translated Imperial Japanese Army history available 

message: There's a new peer review request for Armia Krajowa that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 01:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Armia Krajowa]] 

message: I'd like to request an article on Josef Meisinger, Gestapo chief and the so-called "butcher of Warsaw". Articles already exist on him in German and Polish. Thank you. (In future, should I do it this way, or place requests directly into the task force bar, or both?)LordAmeth 22:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Directly into the task bar is probably better; those have somewhat more visibility, and help keep things a bit neater. Kirill Lokshin 22:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another request 

message: There's a new peer review request for USS Missouri (BB-63) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 01:36, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[USS Missouri (BB-63)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Doris Miller that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Doris Miller]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Battle of Edson's Ridge that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Battle of Edson's Ridge]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Battle of Edson's Ridge that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Battle of Edson's Ridge]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for B-17 Flying Fortress that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 20:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[B-17 Flying Fortress]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for USS Texas (BB-35) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 03:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[USS Texas (BB-35)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Kurt Welter that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 15:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Kurt Welter]] 

message: Hi. could some of you guys please go over to the World War 2 article? There's currently a proposal there by only two users to rewrite most of the article, mainly to shorten it. I'm very concernred that only two people could rewrite an entire large article, consisting of dozens of people's work, without any underlying consensus. It seems to me that this would mean the removal of the work by many people by a small handful of users, mainly to attain what they consider the "correct" article length. So I'm disturbed that this is happening without any underlying consensus. i'd feel a lot better if a few more people could come over to the article, and take a look. Thanks. --Sm8900 04:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: help with ww 2 article please

message: There's a new peer review request for T-26 that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 04:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[T-26]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Eric Gascoigne Robinson that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 22:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Eric Gascoigne Robinson]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for T-26 that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[T-26]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for AHS Centaur that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 13:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[AHS Centaur]] 

message: T-34 is now on featured article review, with the main concern being a lack of citations; if anyone has some sources handy, please drop by and put in a few footnotes.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 17:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article review for [[T-34]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for 1st Infantry Division (United States) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 17:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[1st Infantry Division (United States)]] 

message: I have just started up WikiProject Colditz to cover articles regarding Colditz Castle and, in particular, it's role as a Prisoner of War camp in WWII. This project aims to cover the castle and all the notable prisoners, such as Michael Sinclair and Pat Reid, who were imprisoned there. Feel free to check it out and if you want to help out, I will be most grateful! -- Qarnos 09:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wikiproject: Wikiproject Colditz 

message: There's a new peer review request for P-38 Lightning that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 13:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[P-38 Lightning]] 

message: I'm concerned about this article dealing with American policy in occupied Germany; it relies heavily on a single book and is filled with original interpretations of primary sources. Someone with a sound knowledge of the immediate aftermath of WW2 in Germany needs to take a good look at it.--Nydas(Talk) 14:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Morgenthau Plan]]

message: There's a new peer review request for HMS Royal Oak (1914) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[HMS Royal Oak (1914)]] 

message: We are proposing a triple split of the Colditz Castle article at Talk:Colditz_Castle#New project. The matter is a bit sensitive since it's a former featured article and there have been some objections in the past. We would like to receive the approval of the WWII task force before we start working on this. Cowpriest2 19:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a decent idea; the aricle is fairly long already, and is due for major reworking anyways (as the total lack of citations means it doesn't really even qualify as B-Class now).  The resulting articles will probably be of a size that can accept expansion, too; the article on the castle itself, in particular, could use more material than what's in the current version. Kirill Lokshin 20:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree, no offense intended, but the article is starting to look disjointed. Oberiko 20:31, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting Colditz Castle 

message: Richard O'Connor 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. LuciferMorgan 16:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Richard O'Connor FAR

message: There's a new peer review request for Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 04:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Panzer I that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 03:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Panzer I]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Soviet partisans that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 03:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Soviet partisans]] 

message: I don't know if this is the right place to say this, but it would be helpful if some people would help to categorize the Category:World War II images on Commons. They provide a valuable media resource for article covered by the task force. They are all grouped together and need to be placed into subcategories. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks TheVault 03:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organizing pictures on Commons 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Anthony Eden that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 17:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Anthony Eden]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Battleship that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Battleship]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for King's Regiment (Liverpool) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 21:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[King's Regiment (Liverpool)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Iowa class battleship that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 11:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Iowa class battleship]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Armament of the Iowa class battleship that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 15:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for World War II that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 19:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[World War II]] 

message: In the course of moving redlinked requested articles into the task forces' divided jurisdictions, I am trying to create redirects wherever I can or to otherwise remove items from being "requests" (i.e. labeled/listed as still needing to be created). As it pertains to Operations, though, I am for the post part leaving it to you guys to decide what redirects where. I'm no expert in WWII, particularly when it comes to such details as Operation titles, and precisely which aspects of the Allied invasion of Sicily are referred to as "Operation Bigot-Husky" or "Operation Husky" or whatever. Anyway, just putting it out there that many of these requests, the Operations in particular, may need little more than just becoming redirects to the proper battles or campaigns. Thanks. LordAmeth 20:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation titles 

message: There's a new peer review request for Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 00:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942)]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 00:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942)]] 

message: An annon on the Talk:Battle of Normandy#Canadian Flag incorrectly portrayed talkpage brought up that that article's Canadian flag seems to be incorrect for the period. I rapidly checked this up and he seems to be correct. The problem is that the 1957 ensign seems to be used in most articles of the Project. I only changed the two used in the Battle of Normandy article. Anyone know whether the rest can be done by a bot and where to ask for it? The two flags in question are :Image:Canadian Red Ensign.svg and :Image:Canadian Red Ensign 1921.svg. While this won't be a visual issue in most cases (the infoboxes using mini flags) anyone clicking on the flag will get to see the wrong one currently.--Caranorn 12:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian Flag for WWII 

message: There's a new peer review request for Batu Lintang camp that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 18:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Batu Lintang camp]] 

message: There's a new request for A-Class status for Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 00:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for HMS Kelly (F01) that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 20:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[HMS Kelly (F01)]] 

message: There's a new peer review request for Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry that may be of interest to editors here; any input there would be appreciated.  Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 17:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review request for [[Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry]]