Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Swarming (military)

Swarming (military)

Completing request for Hcberkowitz (talk · contribs). Kirill 17:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Esskater11

One thing i noticed is that while the article states its about military swarming the article has all kinds of things about non military affairs. I suggest either the title needs re-working or the non military stuff cut out that isn't needed. Esskater11 18:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there are much more detailed articles about biological swarming, so the military aspect had to be disambiguated; that's the reason for the title. The insect behavior described in this article, for example, is strictly in the context of how it is being used in current military research. I'd welcome specific comments about general swarming that does not support the military research aspect. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 19:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

ERcheck

There is a confusing mix of citation styles used. Both <ref> and {{Harv}} tags are used. The use of the "id" entry in the {{cite book}} is for unique identifiers, commonly the ISBN; I've not seen it used for an editors identifier. The editor's identifiers, such as "Rand-Edwards-2000" seems to be fitting for the "name" in the "ref" tag. — ERcheck (talk) 19:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

In light of the extensive use of "ref" tags, I'm beginning to make the citations consistent. — ERcheck (talk) 19:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Done. Very interesting and well-referenced article. — ERcheck (talk) 00:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Blnguyen

The way the article is set up in the lead, it seems as though two different articles have been put into one place

• If you are looking to get this to GA or above, you will need more sources everywhere, there are many unsourced paragraphs.

• "Instead the best investment for third world nations and groups is to adapt swarming. History has shown that massed swarming has actually had more success than swarming through firepower. The United States is intensely reliant on firepower. As the Viet Cong showed, attacks from all directions, in close quarters can be highly effective" this will sound like OR without attribution and sources, for example

• The article is at times like a discussion paper or textbook with a rehtorical style, the article explicitly poses questions to the reader "...?" etc
• At times the article segues into lecturing "Swarming should be adapted, for appropriate missions, but is not a panacea." and especially the header of that given section.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:11, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

• There are MOS violations in the headers since "Swarming" is not a proper noun and should not be capitalised unless it is the first word in the header.