Talk:Milblog

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While the term "warblog" may have been used at one time (I've only heard the term on Wiki), it is not a popularly used term inside the United States. (I cannot attest to usage elsewhere.) This article should be retitled "Milblogs" and I'll work to improve this article, with citations on motivations of the authors of such, definitions of such, and examples of their work. (AmericanVet (talk) 21:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC))

Want to add a mention of first warblog?
For the sake of history, I'd like to add a mention of the first known warblog that I have found, which I made public on the Internet at the same time as the 6 June 1996 website launch of www.birzeit.edu [1]. It had been written and coded since November 1995, but was not available online internationally until 6 June 1996. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine didn't pick up the blog for another four months, on the same day it picked up the main university website, 22 October 1996.

At that time it was located in a privately maintained subdirectory off Birzeit University's main website at birzeit.edu/diary/. LOL, can you imagine a university allowing that these days?

Here's a link to the blog homepage "A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", from the Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022110437/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/

Here's a link to the *dated* diary entries from the Internet archive at the time of the first Internet Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022075829/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/index2.html

Here's a link to the *dated* diary entries as of 1999 (pretty much the end of the warblog) from the Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991128043733/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/index2.html

"A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" was cited in TIME magazine's end-Millenium online "Visions of the 21st Century" feature. Again, way before September 11th.

[1] Referenced on the university homepage at: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022073730/http://www.birzeit.edu/index.html

Anyway.... Flyingmonkeyairlines (talk) 17:53, 13 July 2019 (CST)

Weakly sourced generalisations
I've pulled a few weakly sourced generalisations from the article:

New entries range from those currently serving in Afghanistan to spouses dealing with military life and sharing secrets on surviving it as a couple and family. Older entries include mothers who lost their sons in war, wives of the wounded, veterans reporting world news and war news, and citizens of other Nations that support the Honor of troops of many nations Readership of milblogs varies from family members to millions a year.

Feel free to put them back in with better sourcing. ARK (talk) 12:18, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Remarkable blog post on the history of milblogging
[http://www.redbullrising.com/2015/02/mil-blogging-is-dead-long-live-mil.html Mil-Blogging is Dead? Long Live Mil-Blogging!]ARK (talk) 11:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 21 July 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:17, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Warblog → Milblog – More WP:COMMONNAME, especially in recent years. (ngrams.) GnocchiFan (talk) 23:44, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Note (per nom): The outcome of this will also effect Category:Warblogs; not aure how to add that on to this discussion. GnocchiFan (talk) 00:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * After a successful move, you or the RM closer or anyone can go to Categories for discussion/Speedy, cite WP:C2D, and typically it'll be approved uncontroversially. Adumbrativus (talk) 03:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support. I also tried a few variations of the ngrams (mainly the plural) and the proposal seems reasonable to me. Adumbrativus (talk) 03:07, 31 July 2023 (UTC)