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Military Missions

there are a lot of pages about military missions (personnel sent to a country to help train another nations military) yet the page about military advisors is threadbare. it would be difficult to accurately list all military missions, so i suggest the following:

i propose a new category called "military advisors" be created, under which military missions pages, and pages on notable people who took part in these, so its properly organised. Bird244 (talk) 20:45, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Do you mean Category:Military advisors, with the subcategory Category:Military advisory groups? Buckshot06 (talk) 07:01, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

yes Bird244 (talk) 21:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Bombing of country X = battle involving country X?

Quick question: should articles about the bombing of a location in country X by the airforce of country Y be categorised as a battle involving country X? One could argue that, aside from using air defences against country Y's airforce (if X forces did so), the location bombed in the country X is not an active participant in the combat, but rather passively undergoing it. I'm asking because Category:World War II strategic bombing of the Netherlands is not directly in Category:Battles and operations of World War II involving the Netherlands (which is a second-cousin category); but through its parent Category:Netherlands in World War II, it is nevertheless in Category:Wars involving the Netherlands.

I'm not necessarily in favour or against it; just wondering if there are conventions about this, because I'm considering creating a List of battles of World War II involving the Netherlands, and I'd like to know if strategic bombings of the Netherlands by the Axis or Allies, without any Dutch aircraft involved, should 'count' as "involving the Netherlands". (Perhaps a precondition is that Dutch air defences on the ground were somehow involved in order to "count"?) That is going to be important for my selection criteria. Thanks in advance! NLeeuw (talk) 05:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Best not to widen the definition of 'battle' into any old skirmish unless the RS call it one. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 08:44, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Sentient (intelligence analysis system) - expanded this article substantially, what now?

Hello, can I ask please if the members of this project can go to the talk page of this article I've been expanding and review it? It is still listed as a Stub on the Talk page and I'm still not quite sure on the Project-type and back-end work necessary here.

This is the article:

• Sentient (intelligence analysis system)
• Talk:Sentient_(intelligence_analysis_system)

I had expanded it from 2606 bytes long on January 1, 2024 to now 30,669 bytes long as of June 6, 2024. I updated a variety of related/connected pages as well.

I'm not quite sure what to do next and still have a variety of sources to still go through, but I may be running out of usable collateral (TBD, what I think I have left is here).

What's next? Refinement? Wikipedia:Good articles? I would definitely welcome some help on Talk:Sentient_(intelligence_analysis_system). Thanks all. -- Very Polite Person (talk) 18:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

1. The first step in our peer review process is to obtain a B-class assessment. This can be accomplished by posting a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Requests. An editor from the project will provide an assessment based on our B-class criteria. (If it is not already assessed, our MilHistBot will provide an assessment.) In this case, this step is already completed, because I have re-assessed the article as B class.
2. You can submit the article for a Good Article assessment. See Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions for how to do this. This is an English Wikipedia-wide assessment. A single editor will conduct a review based on the Good Article criteria. When it passes, you can nominate it at Did You Know? See Template:DYK nomination header#Instructions for nominators on how to do this. When the article runs on the front page, it will attract many readers.
3. The next rung is an A-class assessment. This is conducted by the project. At least three editors from the project will provide an assessment. Nomination instructions can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class review
4. Finally, you can submit the article as a Featured Article candidate. (See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for instructions on how to nominate.) This is an English Wikipedia-wide assessment. Multiple editors will conduct a review based on the Featured Article criteria.

Any of these steps can be skipped, but I would recommend going through them all to familiarise yourself with the processes. Great work! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll start reading up on all that. -- Very Polite Person (talk) 23:00, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Chang Hsueh-liang#Requested move 6 June 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chang Hsueh-liang#Requested move 6 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 12:25, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Chang Hsueh-liang#Requested move 6 June 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chang Hsueh-liang#Requested move 6 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 12:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Chinese conflicts

Template:Chinese conflicts has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.244.143 (talk) 05:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Loss of Air Force Historical Agency links

It would appear that links to many sources for articles dealing with United States Air Force history will have to (again) be changed or relinked tp archived pages. www.afhra.af.mil, which for some time has been the web site for the Air Force Historical Research Agency now redirects to dafhistory.af.mil, which (at east on my computer) cannot be reached. This means links to unit and establishment factsheets, numbered AAF and USAF studies, and a number of works published by AFHRA are no longer valid. Strikes me as something a bot is needed to solve (at least for pages that were archived). Lineagegeek (talk) 23:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Misplacement

Since Haile Selassie I has passed the Good article status can someone add the article as a GA class for Military history? CtasACT (talk) 00:10, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

No need. This occurs automagically. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:52, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

The reason why is the article passed the GA criteria a couple months ago, and it still is listed C class to which i have been troubled by. CtasACT (talk) 01:58, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

• Sometimes the Wiki project banners have to be updated or corrected manually (GA listed for all). The WP:MilHistory banner had its own rating which needed to be removed or synced with the overall rating (in banner shell). -Fnlayson (talk) 02:17, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

  Understood CtasACT (talk) 02:25, 9 June 2024 (UTC)