Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Martini-Enfield

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[edit] Martini-Enfield

It seemed odd that there was a Wikipedia entry for the Martini-Henry rifle, but not for the Martini-Enfield- and seeing as how the Martini-Enfield was still in service as a reserve arm as late as WWII, I figured I'd better write a Wikipedia Entry for it. It'd just be nice to get some feedback from other military historians on Wikipedia so it can be improved on, especially because British military arms are such a fascinating subject. --Commander Zulu 02:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kirill Lokshin

Very interesting article. Some general suggestions:

  • Citations (preferably using footnotes) should be liberally sprinkled throughout.
  • The newer {{Infobox Weapon}} should be used here, as we're standardizing on it now.
  • I notice that the Khyber Pass material is very similar between this article and the Lee-Enfield one. It might be worthwhile to write a separate article on the weapon copying, in order to avoid having redundant text in each of the rifle articles it's applicable to.

More generally, adding any additional material that's available would be helpful in filling out the article. (I would assume that there must be more on the rifle's use—accounts from those who used it in combat, perhaps, or official records—that might be of interest.) Kirill Lokshin 03:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

    • Thanks for the suggestions... I thought about creating a separate article on Khyber Pass rifles, but I can't find quite enough information to justify a complete article... and if you take the Khyber Pass stuff out of the Martini-Enfield article, you're left with not very much information. There's surprisingly little information on the Martini-Enfield out there, but the article is very much a work in progress. I didn't bother with spreading citations through the article, however, because the two references at the bottom are the citations for the entire article, so to speak.--Commander Zulu 03:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)