Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive

WikiProject Battles:

• October 2002–December 2003: original discussion; battle taxobox.
• August 2003–November 2004: old taxobox instructions; military operations; color schemes; battlebox images; naming conventions; categories; image captions; infobox for battles; battle before/battle after.
• December 2004–July 2005: Pacific campaign; warbox; battles versus operations; battle categories; ugly battleboxes.
• August–September 2005: dates in battle names; categorization; pictures; project notice tags; deciding the fictiveness of a battle; capture/surrender icons.
• September–October 2005: "Battles in" categories; new warbox design.
• October 2005: infoboxes; Napoleonic Wars stubs; project merger.

WikiProject Wars:

• March 2004–April 2005: campaigns in modern warfare.
• October 2005: warbox colors; war stubs; project merger.

Military history WikiProject:

• October–November 2005: merger completed; battle maps; warboxes; articles for divisions.
• November–December 2005: nationality categories for wars; naming conventions for battles; war categories; battle categories; announcements section; warbox formatting; War of 1812 naval actions; warbox implementation.
• December 2005: military unit infobox; meta-templates; wikifying ranks.
• December 2005: open tasks template; science and technology of World War II; industrial warfare.
• January 2006: military biographies; "Dead" versus "Killed"; Sengoku period campaignboxes.
• December 2005–January 2006: template conversion process; task forces; World War II German categories; project coordinator positions; stub pictures.
• January–February 2006: coordinator elections; automated tools; campaignbox review; notes field in warbox; World War II categorization; succession boxes for battles; articles for WP1.0; relative project sizes.
• January–February 2006: future plans; drawing the line between fact and fiction; AFD; American Civil War battle names.
• February 2006: Army or Armee?; capitalization in operation names; naming conventions for unnamed battles.
• February 2006: campaignbox review results; US DoD military definitions; boxes for related wars; military aircraft infobox; consolidation of "aerial bombing" articles.
• February–March 2006: collaboration of the fortnight; project template renaming; project consolidation and new task forces; units in battle infoboxes.
• February–March 2006: project award; tagging good articles; ancient warfare task force; cartography and translation departments.
• March 2006: countering systemic bias; peer review; list copyrights; order of entries in infoboxes.
• March 2006: collecting references; results in military conflict infoboxes; infobox for long-term conflicts.
• March–April 2006: categories for military people; infoboxes on stubs; naming of World War II; orders of battle.
• March–April 2006: project newsletter; "Islamic battles".
• April 2006: top-level category structure; welcoming new members.
• April–May 2006: project newsletter; project award; worklist changes; consolidated project banner template.
• April–May 2006: article importance ratings; member list maintenance; last stands.
• May 2006: potential task forces; summarizing battles; project icon; scope of military aviation; overlapping projects.
• May–June 2006: categories for military people; conflicts by year; task force emblems; WikiProject ADF; assessments and "good articles"; importance ratings; wargames.
• June–July 2006: talk page layout; maritime warfare task force; War on Terrorism task force; military award infobox; automated newsletter delivery; aircraft in popular culture.
• June–July 2006: "good articles" and "A-Class"; Far East task force; assessment statistics; project banners; "military history"; importance ratings; ahistorical images; alternate names.
• June–July 2006: using operational codenames; project coordinator elections; Indian taskforce; German taskforce; Japanese taskforce; Dutch taskforce; removing importance ratings.
• July–August 2006: military unit categories; new open task template; military websites; task force icons; style of operational names; project banner size reduction; intelligence agencies; primary and secondary sources; small unit articles.
• July–August 2006: project scope and tagging by bot; Wikimania report; Society for Military History 2007; citing translations; military personnel categories; userboxes; listing combatants in infoboxes.
• August 2006: task force ideas; "warrior kings"; military history of Europe; nested campaigns; image requests.
• August–September 2006: new coordinators; future plans; mothballing departments; A-Class review; core biographies; map bases; task force announcements and discussions; interwiki links.
• August–September 2006: military operation categories; A-Class reviews; regimental/battalion history; project mergers; article showcase; cavalry charges.
• August–September 2006: featured article advice; "wars by country" categories; two-article disambiguation; collaborations; criticism of articles; featured articles with citation problems; military operations by war.
• August–October 2006: new project award designs; Russian and Latin American task forces; Early Modern warfare task force; ranking military strength; project page length.
• August–October 2006: military unit categorization; popular culture section guidelines; "conflict" versus "war"; stub sorting; navy definitions; military technology/science/historiography task forces; task force names; project directory.
• October–November 2006: battles/operations; African military history task force; notability of military people; old featured articles; infobox documentation; project talk page layout.
• October–November 2006: citation and referencing guidelines; Balkan military history task force; divisional category names; wars by century templates; merging battle stubs.
• November–December 2006: lists versus prose; museum categories; large navigation templates versus portals; "military" people; writing contests.
• October–December 2006: military unit naming conventions; categories for military personnel; external image links; military bases and installations; British Commonwealth forces; articles needing attention; lists of battles; orders and decorations.
• December 2006: uncategorized articles; requests page; terminology issues with military personnel.
• December 2006: categorizing military conflicts by country; KIA and POW icons in infoboxes; flag icons in infoboxes; A-Class versus GA; Muslim military history; LARP equipment.
• December 2006–January 2007: Ukranian military history task force; reference styles; FAC nomination guidelines; by-era category names; task force assessment statistics.
• December 2006–January 2007: Nordic military history task force; South American military history task force; Southeast Asian military history task force; B-Class criteria and reviews; laws of war task force; "siege" versus "battle"; Commonwealth military units; unit histories; combatants in infoboxes; citations in infoboxes.
• January 2007: Greek and Punic names; B-Class criteria and reviews; "Germany" versus "Nazi Germany"; war faction template; military exploration.
• December 2006–February 2007: military unit naming conventions; project page length; popular culture and illustrations; articles on national militaries; "military veterans" categories.
• February 2007: military personnel categories; Southeast Asian task force; Harvard-style references versus footnotes; standards for biographies.
• February 2007: campaign and operation categories; diplomatic incidents; foreign maps; consolidated review department; infoboxes for armed forces; missing topics.
• February–March 2007: Wikipe-tan; selected articles on portals; campaign categories; classifying military conflicts; national military infobox; task forces creation; service record box; navigation box show/hide; friendly fire incidents.
• March 2007: citation guidelines; task force ideas; navy paymasters.
• February–March 2007: project scope and cultural depictions; expanded project award system; contest department; publication department.