Talk:Timeline of World War II
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Very good work to everyone who worked on this page in the last few days. When I last looked at it it looked pretty sparse. DJ Clayworth 15:27, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I think articles should only need to be linked once - so once Operation Overlord has been referenced and linked, further mentions of it don't need to be linked. It simply makes the article look tidier. I'll remove the extraneous links but if anyone really feels they're needed then I'll defer to their wishes. And good work to everyone who's helped. -- Chrism 10:12, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Normally I would agree with this, but I don't here because the article is extraordinarily long. Some entities are mentioned throughout the length of the article, and if I'm at the end I don't want to scroll all the way to the beginning to find the first reference to it. President Roosevelt is an example. I created a link on his death date, because if I was there and wanted to link I'd have to actually know quite a bit about WW2 to guess where he first occurs. My suggestion is that things are linked the first time they appear in a given month (with some exceptions where we link less frequently - no need to link Stalingrad twice because it occurs in the last line of a month and the first of the next).
Another suggestion I have with regard to links is that we always link to the battle rather than the place, if there is one. i.e.
- US troops [[Battle of Okinawa|invade Okinawa]]
rather than
- US troops invade [[Okinawa]]
We could link to both:
- US troops [[Battle of Okinawa|invade]] [[Okinawa]]
but I think it would be too confusing to have two links next o each other.
DJ Clayworth 02:56, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi. I started this page, because I thought it was a glaring ommision that it was missing, but I'm not entirely happy with the format. In particular I don't like the way multiple events that happened on the same day are listed. I'm not sure how to fix this other than to do the whole thing in a table. But I'm not particularly in favour of that idea. Also I think we should be listing events preceeding, but pertaining to the war too, perhaps under a heading called "Storm Clouds" or something. Mintguy 09:40, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that we try to keep the length of entries down. This article is mainly to give an overview, so we should really keep entries down to one line, two in exceptional circumstances. In most cases there should be an article that we can link to for more information. DJ Clayworth 14:26, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Page moved to Timeline of World War II to make name consistant with naming of major World War II pages. Joshbaumgartner 07:01, 2005 Jan 20 (UTC) As for format, I agree that some work should be done, and will do some shortly to help integrate more of the articles and use the page as a better picture of the order of events. Joshbaumgartner 07:01, 2005 Jan 20 (UTC)
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[edit] Cleanup
I have begun creating Timelines for the major campaigns of the war to allow entries tobe made with a level of detail that if done on this main page would create an impossibly long article. As a matter of format, I have created an entry for the campaign with a link both to the article on the campaign as well as to its specific timeline. For this page, I only retain the most major milestones. For most campaigns this will be the start and possibly conclusion of the campaign, although for some very long campaigns intermediate events such as the capture of a capital or turning point in the campaign may warrant a brief entry. Otherwise, details should be placed on the specific campaign timeline. I have completed the Timeline of the Polish September Campaign as a start. Joshbaumgartner 07:35, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
- Moving that information out of this article has not been a success, the pages Timeline_of_politics_and_diplomacy_during_World_War_II, Timeline of the Second Battle of the Atlantic have hardly been touched since the extraction of this information in February and Timeline of Allied air operations in Europe and Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II have not been touched AT ALL since February. I suggest moving this information back into this article. Jooler 12:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Discrepancy regarding date of surrender of France in June 1940
Please see Talk:Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)#Timeline. --Mathew5000 19:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg
I think this image needs to go for copyright reasons: please consult the image information page and the talk page Image talk:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg for more detailed information. No fair use rationale has been specified for the image's use on this article and AP specifically denies that fair use is available for this image. Hence, we need to be very, very careful when making fair use claims for it. As per Wikipedia copyright policy, "by permission" usage of an unfree image (even one only unfree for commercial purposes) is unacceptable unless it is merely in addition to a good fair use claim. TheGrappler 06:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Declarations of War
I'm surprised that nations such as Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvadar, etc. don't have the dates listed for their declarations of war against Germany and Japan. Multiple South American nations, as well as some Carribean nations (ie. Cuba, Haiti) immediately declared war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. If nations who made minimal contributions and declared war after D-Day (ie. Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela) have dates listed, I think it's only fair that the nations who declared war earlier be listed as well. Feedback/suggestions? Anyone agree or disagree? Ninja kid21 18:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mistake?
The same event is repeated in two places (December 28 1941 & may 27 1942 Assassination of Heydrich), even if it isn't a mistake, it confuses the reader. "Starts the Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich)" "Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague"'' Someone please fix it. --212.24.224.18 18:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
