Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/World War I task force/Archive 2

Battle of Jutland FAR

Battle of Jutland 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. Woody (talk) 14:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

United Kingdom Home Front

I have been editing an article on the 1915 FA Cup Final, the "Khaki Cup Final" and I wanted to try and tie it in to an article I hoped would exist on the home front in the UK during the first world war. Searching didn't reveal anything obvious - does anybody have any ideas or is it one of those things that need to be done?

Thanks in advance--Gmac101 (talk) 13:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

TAG AND ASSESS 2008 QUESTION

While doing this I have come upon a us transport ship laid down during WW1 but not completed untill 1919 would you accept this as being part of the WW1 TASK FORCE ? Jim Sweeney (talk) 09:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

If the ships construction was a direct result of the war then I would say yes, otherwise I wouldn't tag it as such. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:29, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Article on Robert Nivelle on GA hold: Needs expansion before it can become GA standard.

The article on Robert Nivelle is currently on GA hold. The article requires more information about Nivelle's life, especially concerning his legacy, and his pre-WW1 service, before it can become GA-class. I would like to request that people work on addressing this issue. Your help would be greatly appreciated, and you can credit yourself with 'This user helped promote the article -- to good article status' template if the article does go up to GA status. Please try to get this information down before 7 days from now, as that is when the GA review will probably be closed. Thank you in advance. More details can be found at Talk:Robert Nivelle. EasyPeasy21 (talk) 14:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I have proposed a merge of USS Imperator (ID-4080) into SS Imperator. All interested editors are welcome to discuss the proposal here. — Bellhalla (talk) 16:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

As a followup, these articles were merged. — Bellhalla (talk) 21:20, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

German casualties

I've been trying to track down a number for the number of German (west front) casualties in the Western Front (World War I) infobox, but thus far I haven't been successful. However, I did run across the following journal article:

McRandle, James H.; Quirk, James (July 2006). "The Blood Test Revisited: A New Look at German Casualty Counts in World War I". The Journal of Military History. 70 (3): 667–701. Retrieved 2008-07-28.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

It looks promising, but unfortunately I don't have access. Is there anybody here who owns a copy, or can read the online version? If so, please could you take a look and see if it gives a German casualty value for the western front? I suspect it may be useful for other WW I articles as well. Thank you.—RJH (talk) 17:40, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I have access to it. See your talk page for details. — Bellhalla (talk) 21:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!—RJH (talk) 22:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for World War I

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World War I - Please help with citation cleanup before the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

This article has slipped to B-class in large part due to missing citations. Please consider pitching in to help clear up the needed citations before November 11 rolls around. LeadSongDog (talk) 05:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

The importance of WWI

Please do have a look at the discussion here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#A_massive_day_for_military_history The Land (talk) 16:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

World War I casualties

While checking the status of some articles listed at the Centenary drive, I came across the above article which wasn't even tagged for MilHist. I tagged it, and assessed it as almost (4/5) B class, with a hidden note that I didn't pass it on criterion 2 because "some figures missing/under dispute; ongoing discussion on talk page". An editor of the page seems to think I'm mistaken in that assessment. Would appreciate input at the article talk page. Thanks. Maralia (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2008 (UTC)