Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Cold War/archive1

The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Cold War[edit]

Good an interesting article, which in my opinion can be more than a B-class. I'd like to see some comments regarding it, and if there is anything to be done in it, I would be happy to do it. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 14:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Good article. A few small things: mixes American spellings (defense) and British ones (defence)—pick one and stick to it; sometimes uses U.S. instead of US (change to US for consistency with other abbreviations); uses hyphen instead of en dash (alt+0150) in date ranges; and once uses {{cquote}} (deprecated) instead of {{bquote}} (recommended). --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 14:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, i'll take care of them soon. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 15:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 16:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Check the second paragraph under 'End of the Cold War' - there are two Harvard references needing to be converted. Also the 'Cold War Veterans' is totally US-centric and cannot stay the way it is. What about the veterans from all the African and Asian conflicts, the UK, China, France, and the USSR in Korea and Afghanistan? But these are nitpicks - overall, the article is quite good, but needs sweeping through for such things. Also there's a question over what it should cover - not much mention of Middle Eastern conflicts, or the confrontation in Germany and chances of war there, for example. Buckshot06 (talk) 21:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- I converted the refs and did a minor edit in the veterans section, but I have no idea what to do else. --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 15:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I think it meets A-class standards. I feel, however, that it could still be improved. Brief mention could be made of the times when U.S. and Soviet forces did engage each other, such as the 10 - 20 U.S. reconnaisance aircraft which were shot down by Soviet forces in and around Soviet territory. Also, there should be plenty of public domain photos of U.S. fighters shadowing Soviet bombers, nuclear weapons being tested, nuclear missiles being transported or sited, NATO and Warsaw Pact forces maneuvering, etc that could be added to the article since it has room for more images. Cla68 (talk) 02:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.