Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 25

message: On behalf of the Wikiproject Good Articles I would like to request assistance in sweeping the war section of the good article list to keep the articles inline with the criteria. We ask that when you are done this that you sign your name on this list so we know that the section was recently sweeped. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.192.45.135 (talk • contribs) 
:If anybody does have the time and inclination to do this, adding any missing GAs to the worklist would be a great help as well. Kirill Lokshin 21:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GA list sweep

message: Since apparently nobody watches the cartography page itself... ;-)
I've been doing some organization of the military-related maps on Commons, and it's occurred to me that manually maintaining a list of maps isn't as efficient as letting the category sytem take care of things, and just leads to a duplication of effort.  In light of this, would anyone object to mothballing the local cartography page and just doing the relevant work directly on Commons instead? Kirill Lokshin 03:26, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea. Andreas 08:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've copied the outstanding requests to the new request page (see below) and marked the page as inactive. Kirill Lokshin 02:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cartography 

message: Template:Timeline of Russo-Turkish Wars has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. This template contains potentially useful information but is orphaned at the moment. I've suggested that the timeline be salvaged out of the template into a better place; perhaps the participants here can find a solution. John Reid 10:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:Timeline of Russo-Turkish Wars 

message: I've started a draft for a (hopefully brief) welcoming template that might be useful.  Any comments or suggestions would be very welcome! ;-) Kirill Lokshin 16:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. It's a very good idea. What do you think about including a suggestion to Project members to add the  template to their user pages, if they wish to do so? I've done it, and I find it very useful. Regards. -- Andres 14:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea; I'll add that. Kirill Lokshin 14:44, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Are there particular objections to using the current form for the time being?  If not, I'll go ahead and start using it when new members sign up in the future.  Any suggestions for improvement are still very welcome, of course! Kirill Lokshin 03:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a little extra work on the bells & whistles department? Nothing fancy, just a nice frame with an appropriate icon and an easy to read background color, you know, the works. It'll make it more appealing to newcomers. -- Andrés 04:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right, fancy colours and tables seem to be in vogue right now. ;) -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 05:41, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some basic eyecandy added; is that any better? Kirill Lokshin 16:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Added  template to my user page. Been in the group from nearly three months and still learning some. The welcoming page is a good idea.Dryzen 18:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, much better now! :) Andrés 22:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welcoming new members 

message: I believe this conflict should enjoy a Campaignbox as normal. I don't understand why it was removed, or how these hooligans secured Kirill's complicity in their misdeeds. Albrecht 20:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, sorry about that; I didn't realize it had just recently been blanked, so I assumed it was just something that hadn't been cleane up properly. Kirill Lokshin 20:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chadian-Sudanese War Campaignbox

message: I don't know, given recent comments, if the Cartography section is still open... so I'm making this here.
I'm trying to expand the Mercenary War article, and I'm not sure how to illustrate it. Does anyone know of a good map of the area around Carthage, around 240 BC? Ideally, I would like a map of that area of Africa, which lists Carthage, Sicca Veneria (modern El Kef), Tunis, Utica, and has the Bagradas River on it. Suggestions for general illustrations are also appeciated.
Additionally, if anyone who knows, or knows how to find, the geogprahical location of the box canyon known as "The Saw" in Tunisia, I would be very grateful if they could let me know. It is the site of the final battle of the Mercenary War (see Polybius, Histories 1:84-85) but I've been unable to find a mappable location for it. - Vedexent 00:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As a cartographer I can find some of these (ESRI has a nice bundle with ArcGIS) yet I'm a neophite to the esoteric ways of licencing uploads.Dryzen 18:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map and information Request 

message: Just so everyone's aware, Wikipedia:Pages needing attention is being redesigned to make use of bot-generated lists of articles that need cleanup; the physical sciences are mostly done, and the history pages should be coming soon.  In preparation for this, I've renamed the "Wanted articles" subpage to a more general "Article requests" page; once the relevant cleanup subpages have been generated, we can transclude them there for easy reference.  We can probably put image-related requests there as well.  Comments are, of course, welcome! Kirill Lokshin 02:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wanted articles subpage renamed 

message: I've listed :Category:Regia Marina battles for renaming here, but there's some question of what the new name should be, whether the category is already at the best name, and whether it needs to exist at all.  Any comments there would be very appreciated! Kirill Lokshin 11:57, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would remove the subcategory and keep them in Battles of Italy. No need for the Italian Navy to have its own subcategory, let alone one historical incarnation of the Italian Navy. (unless there's precedent for this I'm not aware of) Albrecht 15:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The general sense so far is for a "Naval battles of Italy" category, which isn't, in my opinion, strictly needed at this point, as "Naval battles" isn't that large; but at least the structure matches the other category types. Kirill Lokshin 15:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regia Marina battles 

message: Please see the proposed page move from Cavaliers (royalists) to Cavalier on Talk:Cavaliers (royalists) --Philip Baird Shearer 01:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cavaliers (royalists) to Cavalier

message: If someone is interested, Wikipedia:WikiProject Timelines is a project which has some overlap this project and needs to be taken by the scruff of the neck. It has become moribund after the previous participants could not agree on how to proceed. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia:WikiProject Timelines