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Requests for project input

Requested move at Talk:Italian Ethiopia#Requested move 27 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Italian Ethiopia#Requested move 27 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. FuzzyMagma (talk) 10:01, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Wings (1927 film)

Wings (1927 film) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for 102nd Intelligence Wing

102nd Intelligence Wing has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:58, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Arthur Phillip

Arthur Phillip has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Yom Kippur War#Result

What the result should be in the infobox as a reflection of the body of the article. Cinderella157 (talk) 01:49, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Request for input Talk:List of Norfolk airfields

Talk:List of Norfolk airfields has an ongoing discussion regarding the scope of this and potentially other equivalent lists, regarding the inclusion of civilian airfields to a mainly military list. List of former Royal Air Force stations already has a table that can be sorted by county. Also if the list could be replaced by a templates similar to "Template:RAF stations in Lincolnshire" Gavbadger (talk) 20:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marlin-class submarine

The article Marlin-class submarine has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Could not find reliable sources to establish notability.

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If there are reliable sources about this submarine design, some data could be upmerged to the the designer article, DCNS. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212#Requested move 9 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212#Requested move 9 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --RobertJohnson35 (talk) 16:08, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Tel al-Sultan attack#Requested move 1 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tel al-Sultan attack#Requested move 1 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abo Yemen✉ 17:56, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Bertrand_Clauzel

Sorry I am new to wiki so apologises if this is the wrong place to ask, I requested peer review following some changes I made to the linked article. LeChatiliers Pupper (talk) 18:46, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Houthi movement#Requested move 12 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Houthi movement#Requested move 12 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abo Yemen✉ 18:56, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on the infobox result and territorial changes of the Granada War

There is an ongoing discussion on Talk:Granada War about the result and territorial changes on the infobox of the article. Feel free to participate. --RobertJohnson35 (talk) 16:41, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Operation Barbarossa § Proposed lead improvements

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Operation Barbarossa § Proposed lead improvements, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. — Goszei (talk) 07:54, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Chyah airstrike#Requested move 6 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chyah airstrike#Requested move 6 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 15:15, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Behind Enemy Lines (1986 film)#Requested move 19 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Behind Enemy Lines (1986 film)#Requested move 19 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 19:19, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Pacific War § Proposed lead improvements

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Pacific War § Proposed lead improvements, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. — Goszei (talk) 23:18, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Comments

There are comments at Talk:Al-Faddayn that might be of interest to editors here. -- Otr500 (talk) 11:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Comments on Notes section

There are comments at Talk:Fourth Fitna, that may be of interest to editors, especially any on the Middle East, Medieval, or Early Muslim task forces. -- Otr500 (talk) 12:19, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Colt's Manufacturing Company#Requested move 13 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Colt's Manufacturing Company#Requested move 13 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:01, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war#Requested move 15 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war#Requested move 15 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 19:36, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for 8th Military Police Brigade (United States)

8th Military Police Brigade (United States) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:36, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Projekt TYTAN

The article Projekt TYTAN has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced and unimproved almost 15 years. No reliable sources online Google. Not enough information to merge.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 02:24, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ecgberht, King of Wessex#Requested move 28 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ecgberht, King of Wessex#Requested move 28 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 03:48, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Russian invasion of Ukraine has an RfC

Russian invasion of Ukraine has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. FOARP (talk) 17:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Supermarine Spitfire

Supermarine Spitfire has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:37, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2025 Potomac River mid-air collision#Requested move 30 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2025 Potomac River mid-air collision#Requested move 30 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 06:16, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Trebizond#Requested move 17 January 2025

An editor has requested that Trebizond be moved to Trebizond (disambiguation), which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. TiggerJay (talk) 05:14, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Edwin Donayre

Edwin Donayre has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:28, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Talk:KN-02 Toksa#Requested move 5 January 2025

An editor has requested that KN-02 Toksa be moved to Hwasong-11, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. TCU9999 (talk) 11:21, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Article bounty: Badush prison massacre

Hello,

WikiProject Human rights is posting its first article bounty! Using article bounties, we aim to improve vital articles about human rights. Currently, there are 2 top-importance and 49 high-importance human rights articles that are rated as stubs. Among them is the article Badush prison massacre, which is the subject of this bounty. You are receiving this message because this WikiProject is listed on that article's page. Editors who improve this article may be eligible for various rewards, or "bounties".

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List of your articles that are in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, 2025

Currently, this project has about ~673 307 articles in need of some reference clean-up. Basically, some short references created via {{sfn}} and {{harvnb}} and similar templates have missing full citations or have some other problems. This is usually caused by templates misuse or by copy-pasting a short reference from another article without adding the full reference, or because a full reference is not making use of citation templates like {{cite book}} (see Help:CS1) or {{citation}} (see Help:CS2). To easily see which citation is in need of clean-up, you can check these instructions to enable error messages (Svick's script is the simplest to use, but Trappist the monk's script is a bit more refined if you're interested in doing deeper clean-up). See also how to resolve issues.

These could use some of your attention

To do

1. Armenian atrocities
2. Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920)
3. Battle of Niakhura
4. Battle of Shumshu
5. Battle of the Soyang River
6. Benjamin Netanyahu
7. Christiaan de Wet
8. Crusade of 1101
9. Defense of Sihang Warehouse
10. Dutch–Mataram conflicts
11. Equites
12. Ii Naomasa
13. Israeli war crimes in the Gaza war
14. Maki Mirage
15. Military Government of the Philippine Islands
16. Military history of Japan
17. Military history of the Jin dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms
18. Military history of the Tang dynasty
19. Military of Champa
20. Military of the Bruneian Sultanate
21. Military of the Han dynasty
22. Military of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
23. Military of the Mongol Empire
24. Military of the Warring States
25. Mizo National Front uprising
26. Mohammed Yakub
27. Monarchy of Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces
28. Monastir offensive
29. Mongol invasions of Korea
30. Mongol invasions of Vietnam
31. Montevideo Naval Division
32. Moravia–Ostrava offensive
33. Morean War
34. Mountain Meadows Massacre
35. Moyuru ōzora
36. Mullivaikkal Hospital bombings
37. Muscovite War of Succession
38. Mōri Terumoto
39. Nabatieh Fawka attack
40. Nader Shah
41. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
42. Nair Brigade
43. Nakajima Homare
44. Nakajima Sakae
45. Nakazawa Koto
46. Nakba
47. Narmer
48. National Defence Commission
49. National Victory Celebration
50. National technical means of verification
51. Naval history of China
52. Naval history of Vietnam
53. Ngāti Maru–Ngati Tūwharetoa War
54. Nicolás de Ovando
55. Nikolaus Ritter
56. Ninja
57. Noel Malcolm
58. Non-U.S. recipients of U.S. gallantry awards
59. Norman Porteous
60. Northern Alliance
61. Northwest Indian War
62. Novi Sad raid
63. Nuremberg Diary
64. Odjak of Algiers
65. Oleg I of Chernigov
66. Olímpio Mourão Filho
67. Omakaitse
68. Operation Bajrang
69. Operation Kalbajar
70. Operation Krivaja '95
71. Operation Long Jump
72. Operation Pawan
73. Operation Spring Awakening
74. Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
75. Oprichnina
76. Opsikion
77. Order of National Security Merit
78. Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists
79. Origins of the Eighty Years' War
80. Ottoman Interregnum
81. Ottoman expedition to Messina
82. Ottoman–Bulgarian alliance
83. Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
84. Outline of George Washington
85. Pacification of Samar
86. Pandyan Civil War (1169–1177)
87. Paraguayan Civil War (1922–1923)
88. Paraguayan War casualties
89. Paraguayan War
90. Parakramabahu I
91. Passage of Humaitá
92. Pasto Campaign
93. Paul von Rennenkampf
94. Paulus Mopeli Mokhachane
95. Pedro Silva Gil
96. Peking Field Force
97. People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
98. People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps
99. People's Liberation Army Air Force
100. People's Volunteer Army
101. Perley P. Pitkin
102. Perpetrator trauma
103. Peruvian Civil War of 1894–1895
104. Peruvian resistance movement in the War of the Pacific
105. Petar Pešić
106. Peter II of Yugoslavia
107. Phan Xuân Nhuận
108. Philippine Department
109. Philippine–American War
110. Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre
111. Polish–Lithuanian relations during World War II
112. Polish–Teutonic Wars
113. Polish–Ukrainian conflict (1939–1947)
114. Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)
115. Poljanak and Vukovići massacres
116. Pontic Greek genocide
117. Portuguese Army
118. Portuguese invasion of the Banda Oriental (1811–1812)
119. Posadas Hospital Trial
120. Prelude to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
121. Presidency of Charles de Gaulle
122. Prewar period (Kosovo)
123. Prince Władysław's March on Moscow
124. Progonos Sgouros
125. Prytanée national militaire
126. Rashidun Caliphate
127. Reconstruction era
128. Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
129. Ridda Wars
130. SU-152G
131. Sakakibara Yasumasa
132. Samad bey Mehmandarov
133. Sandile kaNgqika
134. Sardar Chuhar Singh
135. Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
136. Second Battle of Eran
137. Second Intermedios campaign
138. Self-Strengthening Movement
139. Sena revolution of Bengal
140. Shapur II's Arab campaign
141. Shuliang He
142. Siege of Ani (1124)
143. Siege of Bijapur
144. Siege of Caizhou
145. Siege of Coron (1685)
146. Siege of Dorpat (1558)
147. Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
148. Siege of Jülich (1621–1622)
149. Siege of Kut
150. Siege of Lazarevsky
151. Siege of Mouzon
152. Siege of Namur (1695)
153. Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331)
154. Siege of Osaka
155. Siege of Paris (1435–1436)
156. Siege of Riga (1621)
157. Siege of Sirhind
158. Siege of Songping
159. Siege of Taormina (962)
160. Siege of Uruguaiana
161. Siege of Varva (1658)
162. Sierra Leone Civil War
163. Sino-Dutch conflicts
164. Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment
165. Six-Day War
166. Sixteenth Army (Japan)
167. Skanderbeg
168. Skarphéðinn Njálsson
169. Skirmishes around Vincennes (1786)
170. Slave rebellion
171. Slavic migrations to the Balkans
172. Slovak National Uprising
173. Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
174. Sogdia
175. Sohrab Khan Gorji (Iranian treasurer)
176. Soldaderas
177. Somali Armed Forces
178. Somali National Army
179. Somaliland War of Independence
180. Somali–Portuguese conflicts
181. South Sudanese Civil War
182. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
183. Southern Tang campaign against Chu
184. Southern Tang conquest of Min
185. Soviet Armed Forces
186. Soviet Baltic Sea campaign in 1945
187. Soviet Union in World War II
188. Spain during World War I
189. Spanish Armed Forces
190. Spanish colonization of the Americas
191. Spanish occupation of Tangier (1940–1945)
192. Special international tribunal for the crime of aggression (Russian invasion of Ukraine)
193. Spelling alphabet
194. Stratagem of Peshawar
195. Submarine (Clancy book)
196. Sudetendeutsches Freikorps
197. Sutton Hoo helmet
198. Syrian Arab Armed Forces
199. Syrian Hezbollah
200. Syrian civil war
201. São Paulo Revolt of 1924 in the interior
202. São Paulo Revolt of 1924
203. Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban
204. T92 light tank
205. Tachibana Dōsetsu
206. Tachibana Muneshige
207. Takeda Shingen
208. Talaat Pasha
209. Tambov Rebellion
210. Tanker war
211. Teragaki Izō
212. Territory of the Islamic State
213. Terrorism in Lebanon
214. Third Battle of Panipat
215. Timeline of the Croat–Bosniak War
216. Tirailleurs indochinois
217. Tokugawa Ieyasu
218. Torsion mangonel myth
219. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
220. Transition from Ming to Qing
221. Trial by combat
222. Tripartite Struggle
223. Trần dynasty military tactics and organization
224. Turkish invasion of Cyprus
225. Turkmen Ground Forces
226. Tōdō Takatora
227. Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
228. Uesugi Kenshin
229. Ukrainian Insurgent Army
230. Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
231. Umar ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Ma'mar
232. United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States
233. United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
234. United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
235. United States in World War I
236. United States news media and the Vietnam War
237. United States war crimes
238. Uprising in Serbia (1941)
239. Uprising in the Ural and Turgai Oblasts
240. Uralvagonzavod
241. Uroš Tešanović
242. Urus Khan
243. Ustaše Youth
244. Uzdol massacre
245. Valencian Canton
246. Valery Sablin
247. Vasić M12
248. Venetian expedition to the Levant (1099–1100)
249. Veselin Misita
250. Vijayanagara military
251. Viking Age in Estonia
252. Vimaladharmasuriya I
253. Vuk Mandušić
254. Waldemar Erfurth
255. War of succession
256. War of the Galician Succession (1205–1245)
257. Warriors of Christ the King
258. Wartime sexual violence
259. Weather events during wars
260. Wehib Pasha
261. Wehrmachthelferin
262. Wei Yan
263. Werner Milch
264. Western Fleet (India)
265. Western Sahara War
266. William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros
267. Willy Herteleer
268. World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia
269. Władysław III of Poland
270. Władysław Wiecierzyński
271. Yazid I
272. Élysée Accords

If you could add the full references to those article/fix the problem references, that would be great. Again, the easiest way to deal with those is to install Svick's script per these instructions. If after installing the script, you do not see an error, that means it was either taken care of, or was a false positive, and you don't need to do anything else. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:47, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 595 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:52, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 554 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:34, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 489 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:15, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 385 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:15, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 337 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:30, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Updated list, 307 articles remain. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:42, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

FWIW my experience with these has been that they tend to be the following issues with the following solutions:

• Sfn was copypasted from somewhere else, has no original cite. Solution: replace with either a new reference or {{cn}} tags.
• Sfn has a typo in the name and doesn't match the cite. Solution: Fix the typo.
• Sfn has an incorrect year and doesn't match the cite. Solution: Fix the typo if it's an error, add a new reference or {{cn}} tags if the Sfn is to a work missing an original cite. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 05:00, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

In my experience, about 20-25% of the time, the short footnote is copied from another, related article, without the full citation being brought over. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:11, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh#Requested move 18 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh#Requested move 18 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TiggerJay (talk) 22:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Merge Chinese destroyer Shenzhen (167) and Type 051B destroyer

Shenzhen(167) is the only member of the type 051B class, and other single-ship classes(e.g. Soviet destroyer Opytny and USS Enterprise (CVN-65)) only have one article for the ship class and the ship itself. Can someone please merge these two articles together?(i'm not the most familiar with merge protocol even though i have been here for some time already) Thehistorianisaac (talk) 04:47, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Siege of Groningen 1672

The article has been expanded and in my opinion it's not a stub anymore VidarVN (talk) 10:12, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi VidarVN. Neat! I suggest that you submit it here for a reassessment. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:00, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Lists of lists

How should we classify lists of lists, such as Lists of massacres in Palestine or List of equipment of the United States Marine Corps. I had previously thought these were closest to Wikipedia:Set index articles, however, after reading that page I am left more confused about what SIAs but it seems not to cover this. It seems a bit strange to classify lists of lists alongside regular lists when they won't (and probably shouldn't) expand beyond basic bullet points and won't ever meet b-class criteria? - Dumelow (talk) 12:38, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Do we even need a list of lists for military equipment? It could easily be moved into the appropriate template or into the see also section of the individual lists. Gavbadger (talk) 13:03, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Tahmasp's campaign of 1731#Requested move 28 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tahmasp's campaign of 1731#Requested move 28 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TiggerJay (talk) 16:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Third Anglo-Afghan War

Requesting uninvolved opinions for the discussion at Talk:Third_Anglo-Afghan_War#Changing_the_results. It concerns the result parameter of this article. - Ratnahastin (talk) 18:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

A couple of experienced editors might resolve this otherwise it will probably go to an RfC. Be warned, it is a wall of text but the issues aren't all that hard to pick out. Cinderella157 (talk) 04:55, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Scope of wikiproject military history

May I ask for topics like coast guards and gendarmerie(e.g. stuff like coast guard ships, people's armed police/russian national guard units) are they primarily under the scope of Wikiproject law enforcement or wikiproject military history? On the talk page wikiproject banner I usually put in both but if I have queries/need help on one of these topics do I find help on wikiproject law enforcement, wikiproject military history or a completely different wikiproject(e.g. wikiproject ships, wikiproject china/russia etc) Thehistorianisaac (talk) 03:48, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Query re: Royal Navy sailor

Hello. I had a query that I thought someone on this taskforce might be able to answer. I have taken this picture of the tomb of A. Smith, while died in March 1918, and was stationed on HMS President. I was wondering if anyone had a means of ascertaining whether this relates to HMS President (1918) or HMS President (shore establishment). McPhail (talk) 16:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, the ship didn't become HMS President until 1922, so will be the shore establishment. Gavbadger (talk) 19:13, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

WPMH articles which don't have short descriptions

Hi everyone. I have noticed an issue similar to the one pointed out by Headbomb re: WPMH articles which have Harv/Sfn errors. I wanted to help out with WP:WPSHORTDESC and added short descriptions to 16 WPMH articles in no time. I thought there could be a search query to automate the identification of WPMH articles which do not have short descriptions. The search query is "-hastemplate" "deepcat:battles", and the link for running this query is [1]. This query returns ~3,300 results. Of these, about 5-8% might be false positives, but there are still 3,000 articles which need short descriptions. I think we might be able to help out here significantly, since adding short descriptions is much easier than locating missing sources which cause Harv/Sfn errors.

The SHORTDESC WikiProject says there are around 781,429 articles without short descriptions. There might be more WPMH articles in this total, since I've only searched for articles which have the Battles category, but there are surely many from other categories like MILHIST biographies, weaponry etc. I think we could help reduce 4 - 10% of this absurdly large number, which would be very helpful for the project. I'm also thinking of launching an effort for WPMH articles which are orphans (those which don't have links from any other articles). Please let me know if anyone could help come up with a search query for this effort, or for finding all WPMH articles without short descriptions. Matarisvan (talk) 17:32, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, for the Military History WikiProject, (clean up list here) and (Orphaned list here) Gavbadger (talk) 19:05, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't see how it would be helpful for the project. It seems like a waste of time. They could be automatically added from Wikidata. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:31, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Infobox concern

Hi, I'm kinda new here in Wikipedia and I've been exploring a bit relating to World War II articles. But I have a little concern. The redirecting link which is Fascist Italy was used in infoboxes in World War II battles where Italy is involved in instead using the Kingdom of Italy which was the official Italian state despite under Fascist rule, which Fascist Italy was only used as a common term to describe the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist regime. While other infoboxes, like the Kingdom of Romania used this as a redirecting link instead of the Kingdom of Romania under Fascism during its period which you can see it's quite odd. Thank you for anyone who can respond this. TheManwhoNeverWasEverBefore (talk) 21:18, 6 February 2025 (UTC)