There's one characteristic that sets writing apart from most of the other arts – its apparent democracy, by which I mean its availability to almost everyone as a medium of expression
—Margaret Atwood, On Writers and Writing
It’s a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It’s not a mass taste.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time
—Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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Military history WikiProject |
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Articles for review |
United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia • T48 Gun Motor Carriage • T30 Howitzer Motor Carriage • List of United States Army campaigns during World War II • HMS Marlborough (1912) • M15 Halftrack • Yugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik • Russian battleship Oslyabya • 80th Infantry (Reserve) Division (United Kingdom) • Halifax Explosion
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See the full list of open tasks |
- Library
- Useful online resources
- My sandbox
- Drafts1, Drafts2, Drafts3, Drafts4, Drafts5, Drafts6, Drafts7, Drafts8, Drafts9, Drafts10, Drafts11, Drafts12, Drafts13, Drafts14, Drafts15 Draft book reviews, Random drafts
- Wikipedia books I've generated
- photo gallery
- Some thoughts on Wikipedia based on my experience
- Advice on the A-class and FA review processes
Useful or interesting links:
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Special:Longpages
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
- Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- User:AlexNewArtBot/MilitarySearchResult
- {{WPMILHIST}}
- {{Coiq}}
- Special:NewPagesFeed
- Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM
- Commons:Map resources
- X!'s Edit Counter
- admin stats
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Newsroom
To do list
I intend to work on these articles in the near future:
Operation Mascot- Operation Goodwood (naval)
Operation Pamphlet- 1 May 1982 engagements (draft under development here, and suggestions for a better article name would be appreciated!)
- Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II
- World War I defences of Australia
Battle of Labuan- Kaname Harada
I also have plans to improve or start the following articles over the longer term:
- Battle of Tarakan (1945)
- German attacks on Nauru
- Bombing of Kure (July 1945) (if I can ever find enough sources)
- Australia in the War of 1939–1945
- Convoy TM-1/Convoy TM 1 (see: User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
- Various RAAF flying squadrons (see User:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
- B-24 Liberator in Australian service
- Sheila Mary McClemans - Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
- Western Australian emergency of March 1944
- Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II
- Military history of Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation
- Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies - see User:Nick-D/Drafts7
- South China Sea raid - see User:Nick-D/Drafts9
- Attack on Kure (March 1945) - User:Nick-D/Drafts8
- Sverige class coastal defence ship
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Writing an Order of Battle
- Tanks in the Australian Army - model on Tanks in the Spanish Army - see User:Nick-D/Drafts3
- Japanese home island air defences of World War II - see User:Nick-D/Drafts5
- Operation Transom
Some ideas for articles
I don't intend to work on these topics (probably!), but I hope that someone else does
- Australia and the Empire Air Training Scheme
- Consolidated PBY Catalina in Royal Australian Air Force Service
TFA anniversaries
- Operation Tungsten - 3 April 1944
- Bombing of Yawata (June 1944) - 15 June 2014
- Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy - June to August 2014
- Battle of Morotai - 15 September 2014
- Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945) - 5 November 2014
- Air raids on Japan - 9 March 2015?