User talk:JKGolden

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[edit] Hi JKGolden

Noticed your great work on US Army divisions, especially on the little known formations. Have you realised through that a great number of your new articles may not be able to be anything more than stubs at any point, especially the divisions that were never actually activated? Would it not be better to write an article on the 27th Armoured Division (United States), which did serve years postwar, rather than a one line article on the U.S. 22nd Armored Division? For example, I wrote up the 50th Armored Division (United States) some time ago. It is not really too helpful to have articles which will only have three lines ever, which could be incorporated into Military history of the United States for example or history of the US Army during WW2. Please don't take these thoughts as criticism; you've made a great start! Cheers Buckshot06 11:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Good ideas. One thing that you really need to do however is stop using extra suffixes. The (United States) (or (United Kingdom) or (Brazil) or whatever) is to identify the owning country without implying the name of the unit is fully 'British 6th Airborne Division' or whatever. The (Before World War I) brackets don't work, and will have to be removed; either by merging articles or by renaming (that 'Move' tag at the top of each page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buckshot06 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Disambigating three different U.S. 11th Divisions? Not a problem. Do a page called 11th Division (United States) and list all three - 11th Div, 11th Infantry Div, 11th Airborne Division, 11th Armoured Division etc. Actually, I'll do an example for you. It will save you time and wasted effort, because you cannot change the suffix conventions within the project without consensus on the WP:MIL project talk page, and without that, even if I don't change them, someone else will. I'll set the example disambig page up. Also I should say the standard is now Xth Div (Name of Country) - the other examples are simply old entries that haven't been changed. Cheers Buckshot06 12:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Take a look now at 11th Division (United States). When or if the pre WW1 division information becomes big enough to merit a full article, the disambig tag is removed and italic disambigs are added at the top - see Task force for an example. Buckshot06 12:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Good to see you're keeping up the great work. However the Divisions of the US Army seem a big enough subject to have a main article of their own, rather than having everything split up among many smaller confusing pages. Do you feel like doing a Divisions of the United States Army main article, rather like the Divisions of the Soviet Union 1917-1945 and List of Soviet Army divisions 1989-91. It would be a great main article for Category:Divisions of the United States Army, and could have all your references and sources at the bottom. Tell me what you think. Cheers Buckshot06 15:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Great work! I suggest we have a good think about which pages can now be deactivated and merged into the new main page - my thoughts so far would include Divisions of the Mexican Revolution, for a start, as only divs are listed there and it mirrors your 1911-17 section, as well as Phantom World War II Divisions (United States), plus Unorganized World War II Divisions (United States). Would you also mind sourcing your footnotes?Buckshot06 21:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Hang on! The idea of doing one page at Divisions of the United States was to consolidate and incorporate most of the information on as many smaller less linked to the rest of project-pages as possible. What you probably don't know is that it's possible to set up a redirect specifically to a certain section of a page, for example Multi-National Division - Baghdad. Deleting? Most pages aren't deleted, they're just left as redirects. Take a look at Soviet Armed Forces for example, and when you get through to Military of the Soviet Union, click on the very small text under the title. However there is WP:AFD. Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know. Cheers Buckshot06 06:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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