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WikiProject Falklands War

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This WikiProject aims primarily discuss the needs of Falklands war page and all the pages related to it, and to increase the amount and quality of content on all those related pages

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[edit] Ideas for pages related to Falklands War

The ground war from the landing by the British until the surrender is not covered in any great detail in the existing page. As this forms a significant part of the conflict in military terms, the present article appears somewhat imbalanced of the armed conflict. (I have been trying to find time to address this deficiency but...) JP

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[edit] Initial Discussion

I started a Wiki project for the war. Its such a controversial war with a need for a lot of connect pages I thought it might be worthwhile.

  • A lot of articles headlines are mentioned- perhaps a page such List of Headlines during the Falklands War is warranted. This way in addition to the selected headlines that are shown, people can examine other sources
  • The early history of the war is in need of more information, but the page is already quite large. Perhaps a Chronology of claims on the Falkand Islands, or maybe History of ownership of the Falkland Islands.
  • Personal histories could use more information - Caspar Weinberger was later involved in Iran-Contra, Galtieri went to the same CIA training school in Panama.
  • Other countries involment. Such as France- the use of their Exocet missiles is noted but someone reported they may have given the plans to Britain. What of other countries involvement?
  • The Falklands war is important piece of military history in terms of use of modern weapons currently only examined in limited fashion. Perhaps a Weapons and tactics of the Falklands War discussing an analysing the weapons and the soldiers that had to use them.
  • In line with the chronology of the islands, perhaps a Timeline of the Falklands War
  • Some discussion of the various revisionist movements and disinformation after and during the war is probably worth having in some form, though I would hate to see it on the main page. perhaps Falsehoods of the Falklands War though being listed on a page of this name might cause some problems so that may not be the best name for such a page.
  • A Images of the Falklands War might be worthwhile addition.
  • And of course, increasing the quality of the main page's content. Both in the form of good English (I guess international English?) and in being factually correct. Remaining neutral is of course always difficult in relating important events especially when strong emotions may be involved because being human, a subtle bias frequently interferes with the desire to remain objective and of course how things are characterized can vary. While the facts speak for themselves, which facts are chosen is also critical to what is communicated as well.
  • Aside from that, I had taken a nicer footer from a different project. Some history pages have a "series" box to follow events, so perhaps something similar can be crafted for the Wiki page. In fact, perhaps each section of the current article can be expanded to its own page, connected by a 'series'.

--Greyengine5 03:40, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)


I'm going to have a crack at a few purely factual pages related to weapons used in the conflict, that could be expanded.

  • Infantry weapons of the Falklands War - covering both sides weapons - mostly just linking to the relevant articles.
  • Land vehicles of the Falklands War - covering the tanks and APCs used.
  • Aircraft of the Falklands War
  • Ships of the Falklands War - There is some useful info in the Max Hastings book, about the ships (when, where, who stuff).
  • One thing that is going to be difficult is finding "free" as in speech images of the conflict. Pretty much everything I've seen is Crown copyright.

Megapixie 11:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually it looks like a couple of similar pages already exist - Falklands War air forces, Argentine naval forces in the Falklands War, British naval forces in the Falklands War, Falklands War ground forces. And a nice template. I'll expand these.

Megapixie 05:48, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

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Military forces | Argentine ground forces | British ground forces | Argentine air forces | British air forces | Argentine naval forces | British naval forces
Timeline | Background | Invasion | Falklands War
Battles | Goose Green | Mount Harriet | Two Sisters | Mount Longdon | Mount Tumbledown | Wireless Ridge
Operations | Algeciras | Canbelow | Corporate | Black Buck | Keyhole | Paraquat | Purple Warrior | Azul (also Rosario) | Sutton
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