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The template looks really good. Great work! Some of the campaigns need revising; the primary African campaign was East Africa, not South-West Africa - can someone write up an article at East African Campaign (World War I)? It would be cool if Template:WWITheatre could be, somehow, incorporated into this template. The "Theatres" part in Template:World War I could be removed and the blank space at the bottom could be used to add all the topics in Template:WWItheatre. I'm not sure if its possible, though - is it? Anyway, again, great work Dna-webmaster! SoLando 01:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Some of the miniature flags are wrong. India's flag in 1914-1918 was not the current, post-independence flag, but rather one looking like this. Canada's flag is also wrong. It should look like this. Newfoundland ought to be this; the Italian flag should have the cross of Savoy, as such; and there's a coat of arms in the old Romanian flag, as such. I'm not sure how to deal with this. john k 21:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
My regards, Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis talk - contribs 20:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I like the idea of having the flags, but I think they need to be correct...I suppose we need to find public domain images of the older flags. Someone could write to the proprietor of worldstatesmen.org to see if the flags he uses are public domain images? john k 20:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Just to note - the ones that definitely need changing are Canada, India, and Newfoundland. It would be nice to find new images for Romania and Italy, but the tricolor images are essentially correct, so it would, I think, be acceptable to use the current images. john k 22:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
A discussion about possibly converting large footer templates for wars—such as this one—into portals has been started here; comments and suggestions would be very welcome! Kirill Lokshin 02:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I've changed all fixed width images to templates. All flags are identical, but some were changed from old GIF versions to better SVG ones. I've kept flag but maybe it should be changed to . Piotr Mikołajski 08:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Regardless that they were smaller wars, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian wars of independence should be added to this template. Besides, Estonian war of indpendence had a lot more casualties than Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence combined. H2ppyme 13:14, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Why this template does not include Arab revolt part of Middle Eastern theatre. It is part of Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. I this exclusion is injects biase against the Middle Eastern theatre. Specially, and rightfully Siege of Tsingtao is part of this template. --GoegAvachelli (talk) 17:21, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
The North African Campaign (World War I) geologically located as North African but the African theatre of World War I rightfully does not include it as part of its operations. As rightfully, it was a different operation waged as a side operation in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I includes the operations in this geographic location. The readers who want to learn Middle Eastern theatre could not see North African Campaign under the operations as somebody without knowing what they were doing classified wrongly. This has to be fixed. It needs to be classified where the operations belong to. --GoegAvachelli (talk) 17:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I added a category on prisoners to the "aspects" section of the template. At the moment the only available internal link I can find is to German POWs in the United States, but I am working on other WWI POW populations and will add them shortly. Please do comment on, edit, rename or re-arrange the edits I did on this template if it enhances clarity; you certainly don't need MY approval and it looks like this template is infrequently discussed anyway. Leidseplein (talk) 21:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
User:RoslynSKP seems to either overestimate importance of middle-eastern battles or misunderstand obvious limitations of template space. With his latest additions year 1917 has 11 battls from middle-east (previously was 1), while rest of the world has 6 battles (3 western front, 1 eastern front, 1 italy, 1 romania) + 1 armistice. Obvious scales of battles are completely different too, most of those middle-eastern battles don't break 10k casualty mark, from the rest of battles its very hard to find anything below 50k, with most going solidly over 100k casualties. Considering that adding similarly less important battles from other theatres too isn't really viable, because it would make those lists extremely long and not very readable, only logical solution is to limit list only to most important battles and remove all those trivial minor clashes.--Staberinde (talk) 14:09, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Umm, if its question about balance then I would say that previous balance was quite solid counting battles:
1914: west-4, east-3, serbia-2, caucasus-1
1915: west-2, east-2, italy-1, serbia-1, middle-east-1, gallipoli-1
1916: west-2, east-2, italy-1, midle-east-1, macedonia-1, caucasus-1, romania-1, naval-1
1917: west-3, east-1, italy-1, middle-east-1, romania-1
1918 west-3, east-1, italy-1, middle-east-1, macedonia-1, caucasus-1
Total: west-14, east-9, italy-4, midle-east-4, serbia-3, macedonia-2, caucasus-2, romania-2, gallipoli-1, naval-1
I would say that middle-east already had very solid presence considering peripherial importance of the front.
With your last version it changed to:
1916: west-2, east-2, midle-east-2, italy-1, macedonia-1, caucasus-1, romania-1, naval-1
1917: west-3, east-1, italy-1, middle-east-9, romania-1
Changing total to: est-14, east-9, italy-4, midle-east-13, serbia-3, macedonia-2, caucasus-2, romania-2, gallipoli-1, naval-1
So yeah, its question of balance, but your version doesn't really have one while previous one was quite solid. I dont see how you could argue that middle-east was any more important then for example Italian front.--Staberinde (talk) 15:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
The red links resulting from the use of Interlanguage links appears out of place for a centralized topic template particularly when there doesn't appear to be any prospect of the article being created in English. Labattblueboy (talk) 21:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)