Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 69

message: At noon GMT today, with 63 editors participating, and 35,679 articles assessed, the Top Twenty is as follows:
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1.  Bedford – 5,600
2.  FayssalF – 3,500
3.  TomStar81 – 3,410
4.  Cromdog – 2,200
5.  BrokenSphere – 2,000
5.  Parsival74 – 2,000
5.  Roger Davies – 2,000
8 . Maralia – 1,750
9. Jacksinterweb – 1,510
10. JKBrooks85 – 1,250		
11. MBK004 – 1,088
12. Raoulduke47 – 1000
13. Woodym555 – 800
14 Colputt – 760
15 Eurocopter tigre – 750
16. Askari Mark – 500
16. DSachan – 500
16. OhanaUnited – 500
16. Sniperz11 – 500
16. Welsh – 500
:--ROGER DAVIES talk 12:03, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:MHA07|''Tag & Assess 2007'']] '''Top Twenty''' 

message: These two articles has been reviewed as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force for GA sweeps. I think the articles currently don't meet the requirements of the Good article criteria concerning sourcing. Although the articles are well-sourced in many areas, other areas are lacking. For that reason, I have listed the articles at Good article reassessment to get a better consensus on the articles' status. Issues needing to be address are listed there. Please join the discussion to see how the articles can be improved to prevent delisting. If you have any questions about the reassessement, leave me a message on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Regards, --Nehrams2020 (talk) 01:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Battle of France]] and [[Battle of Britain]] [[WP:GAR|Good Article Reassessment]]

message: The A-Class review for Truong Dinh is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated!  Thanks! Kirill 10:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Truong Dinh]] now open 

message: The A-Class review for Yen Bai mutiny is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated!  Thanks! Kirill 10:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Yen Bai mutiny]] now open 

message: If an article seems to be within the project's scope, do we simply add the templates to the page or is there some 'process' to go through? I tried to find this on the project pages, but I am probably being dense and didn't spot it. Thanks. Narson (talk) 14:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, just add the template.  I think it's mentioned somewhere in WP:MHA#FAQ. Kirill 19:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding articles 

message: The peer review for Dreadnought is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated!  Thanks! Kirill 19:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review for [[Dreadnought]] now open 

message: Bit of a dispute at Webley Revolver; I was under the impression that British Commonwealth oriented articles would use the terminology "Second World War" rather than World War II, which is the American term for that conflict?68.144.31.71 (talk) 16:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War II 

message: A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Truong Dinh; please stop by and help review the article!  Thanks! Kirill 02:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Truong Dinh]] needs attention 

message: A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Yen Bai mutiny; please stop by and help review the article!  Thanks! Kirill 02:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[Yen Bai mutiny]] needs attention 

message: I'm considering creating a few military maps for some of the battles of the Great Northern War. Is there a wikpedia military map template/style guide available for this? It would be nice if the maps I draw have a consistent look. jkl (talk) 08:49, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there isn't one yet, we could probably create one. JKBrooks85 (talk) 15:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates for military maps

message: The A-Class review for C-5 Galaxy is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated!  Thanks! Kirill 20:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-Class review for [[C-5 Galaxy]] now open 

message: I'm not sure how many of you might already know this, but there is now a new award available, specifically for WikiProjects, at User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle#Special edition WikiProject triple crowns. Somehow, I dunno why, I think you all have probably done enough to qualify for one, if someone were to want to nominate the project for one. John Carter (talk) 20:48, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for mentioning that, John.  This is such an active WikiProject that I wouldn't be surprised if it qualifies.  So draw up a chart of how close you are and I'll see what I can do.  FYI there's one WikiProject that's almost there so I've designed an award for them.  It'd be fun to do another variant on a military theme. DurovaCharge! 08:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the wide selection of articles within the scope it may be best to wait and see which articles are selected to enable the project to qualify, the customize the triple crown using elements of the slected articles. For example, if we have an airplane article, a firearm article and a sub article you could create an award on those elements to show that these articles enabled the project to qualify for the triple crown award. Just a thought. TomStar81 (Talk) 08:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd prefer to see much more emphasis on bottom-end awards, to encourage people to contribute. Dishing out various levels of triple crown is giving awards to people who mostly already have them. As a project, we give out far fewer awards than others. The biography and literary people often have user pages that look like Christmas trees/Hannukah bushes. I may post a reminder about general awards that are appropriate to Milhist editors later. --ROGER DAVIES talk 10:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There actually are quite a few barnstars and other rewards out there. You can look at my own userpage to see what are probably a few too many for one person already. However, this award, as I indicated above, isn't for individuals, but rather for the WikiProjects themselves. To the best of my knowledge, it's the only award for WikiProjects out there, and I think the remarkable success of this particular project is such that it almost certainly should be one of those which receives such recognition, for PR purposes if nothing else. John Carter 17:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New project award 

message: Could editors please take a look at this article and comment on its talk page? It is mostly the work of one editor and I have concerns about neutrality. It is also looking increasingly unencyclopedic and probably contains excessive detail (such as on the 1903 coup). Your opinion may differ, of course. --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm, Roger, should this not go on the main WT:MILHIST page? Woodym555 (talk) 11:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]]

message: The nesting feature no longer works, see here. Or am I doing something wrong? Can someone direct me to where this can be resolved. Folks at 137 10:08, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a carryover from the merger of the Castles WikiProject here; if you replace the  template with , all the parameters will work again. Kirill 17:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nested projects