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[edit] Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

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[edit] Article category sorting

{{helpme}}

Just wondering why the article I created for John Gunby is falling under J rather then G? Did I do something incorrectly when creating the article? --dashiellx (talk) 11:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
You did nothing incorrectly. You just need to know about how categories sort. When you place a category it automatically sorts alphabetically by the article's name, i.e., by whatever the first letter of the title is. The software is not smart enough to recognize that an article is about a person and so should sort by last name. There are two ways to deal with this. The old method was to pipe ("|") the name the category should sort under into each category link. For example in the article at issue you would place each category like this [[Category:People from Maryland|Gunby, John]]. However, an easier way was later invented. Now we place just above the list of categories the following template: {{DEFAULTSORT:Gunby, John}} which tells the software to sort all the categories below it by the name you supply. I have added that to the article. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Categorization. By the way, as you can see I moved your helpme post from the category talk page to here where such posts are better placed. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. I have also removed the helpme tag. --dashiellx (talk) 16:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for rating French support to Iraq

It's always nice to know someone is reading.

I am a fellow devotee of alternative history. Somewhere, perhaps in an alternate history, there is a wiki or such to discuss such. While I enjoy the political what-ifs, I am especially intrigued about technology transfer. On one visit, I was lucky enough to be able to sit down with a coppersmith who was willing to go out of character. Much to my surprise, the wire-drawing technology was such that I could have built a generator and a very basic radio.

Alternate medical history is interesting as well; there are some things that could have been done earlier if one had the knowledge, but other things where a huge amount of work would have had to precede it. Given an appropriate culture, though, I probably could make penicillin with 18th or 19th century technology.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 22:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome. Good luck with your article. dashiellx (talk) 16:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Van Capellen

Thanks for rating the Theodorus Frederik van Capellen article. I could do with some more elucidation of the no-scores on the first three items, though. Would help me to improve it--Ereunetes (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I have changed the score for the referencing, you have done a decent job on that. The main reason it is classed as a start is that there is only a short lead section and only one other section. Take a look at the B classed article for Benedict Arnold. You will see that the Arnold article has more structure, an early life section, a later life section, etc.... It is a biography, so you want to cover as much as you can. The lead section should be more fleshed out to give the read a better idea as to why they want to read the rest of the article. You could break up the Career section into subsections to illustrate the different phases of his career and notable events. As far as the coverage and accuracy, it is a short article so I couldn't see how it really covered the full life of someone who appears to be quite notable.
If you disagree with my assessment or would like another opinion, please feel free to ask by posting a request in the Requests for assessment section of the Military history/Assessment department. --dashiellx (talk) 13:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Henry W. Howgate

I just added the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history template and assessed the article as B-Class. But I need help with the syntax as it's reflecting: "??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale." Thanks in advance. Rosiestep (talk) 16:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Fixed it. Part of the problem was that you had a priority rating syntax and the Military History Task Force doesn't use that. Also, even though you completed the check list, you still need to include the class=B. --dashiellx (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Ah ha! I see what you mean. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
No problem. Glad I could help --dashiellx (talk) 00:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A friendly reminder

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Hello. I noticed that your edit to Talk:Forrestal class aircraft carrier did not include an edit summary. Please remember to use one for every edit, even minor ones. You can enable the wiki software to prompt you for one before making an edit by setting your user preferences (under Editing) to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". There is also a tool you can check to see your current usage of edit summaries. Thanks, -MBK004 18:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
P.S. when assessing, make absolutely sure to to do this. -MBK004 18:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fort Wood

Thanks you for your attention to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and Fort Leonard Wood (military base). You'll notice that I changed the name of the latter article to correctly reflect the official name of the base, "Fort Leonard Wood"; there is no such place called "Fort Leonard Wood Military Base". I think the new name correctly reflects Wikipedia's conventions for disambiguating article names. I also added a {{For}} template at the front of the placename article since Fort Leonard Wood redirects there. If you do more article moving, please consider where similar aids to the reader would be helpful. Thanks again for your work on Wikipedia. --Kbh3rdtalk 18:27, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Good call on changing the name. --dashiellx (talk) 11:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Tag and assess comments

Hi there, thanks for all your work for the Military history project in the current T&A drive. Just a little note, please make sure that you do not delete parameters from the template such as this one. The old-peer-review is needed, without it, the template is broken and is added to this category. There is also no need to add a section saying you have reassesed if you haven't actually reassessed. Thanks for all the hard work. Regards. Woody (talk) 18:20, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for deleting the tag. I will make sure not to do so in the future. As far as adding the comments, I am actually reading every single article. I am noting that the article was reassessed based on my review of the article regardless of changes, or lack thereof, of the previous assessment. --dashiellx (talk) 18:29, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 116th Air Control Wing (United States)

This article actually seems to have some pretty good content. The issues are with links to other wiki articles (None to speak of) and grammar (Short incomplete sentences). I'll clean these up. Not sure if you also expected more content?Marathi_Mulgaa (talk) 00:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The article's content is sufficient, in my opinion. What is really needed to improve this article are some more references and and appropriate inline citations. --dashiellx (talk) 10:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup

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[edit] Brazilian Military Police

The Policia Militar are nothing to do with the military, nor are they provost corps ;). I removed the tag. ninety:one 20:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. I didn't add the tag, it was just there and I wasn't familar enough with the subject to say with 100% confidence that the tag should be removed. --dashiellx (talk) 12:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 10th SFG

Hi Dashiellx. You assessed the 10th Special Forces Group (United States) article about a month ago for Tag and Assess '08, and kept it at Start class for referencing issues. I and another user have added several references; would you mind taking a look again, and see if it's up to snuff for B class? Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 14:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Reassessed the article and gave it a B. Before this article could move up to GA some of the paragraphs would need to be expanded as well as references that aren't websites. Let me know if you have any questions or a more specific critique. --dashiellx (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lists and DAB class

Please don't assess pages as DAB-Class unless they're formally disambiguation pages (i.e. they have the "This is a disambiguation page..." wording on them); all lists—even very crude ones—should get normal article assessment grades. Thanks! Kirill (prof) 15:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Mark Wright (GC)

I'm slightly confused as to why you don't think this meets B-class referencing, in general a signle reference covers a whole paragraph, which is a fairly stadard form of referencing, since the alternative is to put the reference after every sentence within the paragraph. David Underdown (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Although every paragraph does have a reference, I feel there are several facts within some of the paragraphs that should be further referenced. For example: "He completed 3 tours in Northern Ireland within 3 years, and was Number One in a mortar detachment by 2003." I feel this should have some sort of reference.
Besides the referencing issues, the article does not meet the B class criteria for coverage, other then his having lived in Edinburgh, there is nothing outside of his military career describing whom this person was. Also, the article is only one section. For it to meet B Class criteria, there should be a lead paragraph as well has at least one other section, but really two - three other sections.
If you disagree with my assesment, please feel free to request a formal B class assesment at [for assessment section of the Military History Assessment Department. --dashiellx (talk) 11:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't disagree with the overall asessment, but the examples you've mentioned are precisely things that are included in the overall ref for the paragraph. I also think that if you feel there are things that are under-referenced, it would be helpful if you could tag them - simply saying that it's under-referenced without giving specific examples (or there being existing fact tags in the article) doesn't help improve the article. David Underdown (talk) 12:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Micah Jenkins

Just to let you know I expanded this article some and upped its class to start, which you had accessed (as a stub) a few days ago. I left some comments on the talk there for further improvement to it, filled out the B-class checklist, and would like to hear from you if there are any concerns with what I've done. Kresock (talk) 05:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Definitely start class now. I'm not sure I would have passed it for referencing since there is only one reference, but once the Coverage of his early life and military service are expanded, I'm sure it will be brought up as well. Well done. --dashiellx (talk) 11:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Reassessment of Pavel_Dybenko

  1. . Thank you
  2. . A lot of work has already been invested by me in referencing and citations. Any advise /hint of yours in this matter will be appreciated.

AbuAmir (talk) 22:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I found it to be an interesting article. Everyone knows about Lenin and Stalin, but the less well know Bolsheviks who actual fought and were "in the trenches" so to speak I don't know that much about. The main advice I would give is to make sure that every paragraph has a specific reference to the page of the source material it is from. Then have a main section where all the works are listed. --dashiellx (talk) 02:38, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] With thanks

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[edit] Discussion about the next DC Meetup

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[edit] Thanks

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Incidentally, if you're keen to keep your assessing skills honed, we are currently very short of reviewers for Milhist A-Class reviews. Broadly, the five A-Class criteria are just beefed up versions of the B-Class criteria and anyone with B-Class experience should have no trouble with them. Also, as a reminder, in the wide-ranging A-Class review, it is not necessary to comment on all five criteria: if you're short of time, you can simply focus on the aspects that interest you most (sources, comprehensiveness, prose, graphic content or whatever). You can track which articles are up for A-Class using this template: {{WPMILHIST A-Class Review alerts}}

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[edit] Can you urgently help Milhist please?

We've had a rather large bombshell dropped on us. The Wikipedia editorial team are aiming to release a version of Wikipedia on CD/DVD in time for the end of year holiday season. They've provided us with a list of 1333 Milhist articles they intend including.

The problem is that the quality of these articles varies considerably.

We've put together review page listing all the articles, in twenty-five article worklists. I'm hoping that 15-20 trusted editors can work through the list, weedying out problem articles and identifying suitable versions for release. The work is as far away from a tagging and assessing drive as you can imagine though, for convenience and ease of use, we've closely followed the traditional Milhist drive format.

This is, at the moment, an invitation-only review. The reason is that time is short and we can't afford too many mistakes. I'm only contacting experienced editors who performed very well indeed in the last two Milhist drives. I guess that working through a worklist of twenty-five articles will take between one and three hours to do. We're aiming to get the preliminary work done by next Sunday, so it's urgent too.

I do hope you can help but – if it's not too much trouble – if you are unable to participate at the moment, would you please let me know on my talk page? otherwise, please sign up here. Thank you for your time, --ROGER DAVIES talk 17:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to trouble you but would it be possible for you to wrap up your worklist today please? If you find yourself unable to do so, it's no problem but I'd appreciate it if you let me know you won't be able to complete on my talk page. Many thanks! --ROGER DAVIES talk 07:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hobkirks hill

I placed it as a c because I considered it too good to be simply a start. I am not arguing it fails as a B, but as a general editor I feel competent to bump it up to C whereas I am not sufficiently familiar with the B grading on History to unilaterally make it a B. I suspect some history project members might argue with my more general conception of what qualifies as B. Sandpiper (talk) 17:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Milhist W0.7: update

Thank you very much for your help in our review of the W0.7-nominated articles, which has proved to be a very worthwhile exercise. As the number of sub-standard articles found was much higher than anticipated, the coordinators are currently considering how best to follow this up, given the project's limited resources and the short time span – under three weeks - for making improvements. The review has been a very worthwhile exercise and will lead to a major quality improvement initiative in the very near future. In the meantime, if you found any articles that you feel you could easily fix, I'd be very grateful if you invested a little time doing so. Please also feel free to nominate any articles for inclusion which you feel were overlooked. The procedure for this is here and the nominations should be made here. --ROGER DAVIES talk 07:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regt.

Thanks very much for your review comments. I've now beefed up the presentation, adding start text, figures, and notes. I had to devise a way to cite national and state archive documents for the reference list -- I could find no style instructions in this regard. I'd greatly appreciate your further thoughts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfhentz (talk • contribs) 14:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Peltast

I noticed you rated the artice I (mostly) wrote as Start Class - so I guess you must have an idea that it should be laid out differently or something else? Have you a suggested template or anything for ancient military troop types that you want people to use? Dan.M.McLaughlin (talk 21:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

The article itself is good and I really have no opinion on any sort of template for the article. The reason it was marked as a start was that the article is missing any kind of in-line citations as detailed in the Military History Manual of Style. This this were correct, I'm sure the article would be rated higher. --dashiellx (talk) 12:20, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
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