Talk:Women in the military in Europe

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Orphaned references in Women in the military in Europe
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Women in the military in Europe's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ReferenceA": From Red Army: See Г. Ф. Кривошеев, ''Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: потери вооруженных сил. Статистическое исследование (G. F. Krivosheev, Russia and the USSR in the wars of the 20th century: losses of the Armed Forces. A Statistical Study'', in Russian) From Women in the military by country: http://www.nato.int/ims/2005/win/national_reports/turkey.pdf 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Critique of Women in the military in Europe
The first point I noticed about this article, was that it is researched incredibly well. With only one exception, each country outlined in the article has a wealth of solid information.

At the beginning of the article, Wikipedia has pointed out that it has not been summarized properly. One way to fix this would be to add a brief timeline to outline the history of European woman in the military. It could read like this: ‘European countries have had varying policies regarding women and military service. While some of the countries have always allowed women to participate in military activities, most began seeing the value of servicewomen during the First World War when they began losing unprecedented number servicemen. Most countries began allowing women to do clerical jobs, then drivers, and even large artillery operators in later years. In present time many of the European countries allow women to participate in full active duty, with few or no restrictions at all. ‘

The country headings of the article are very useful, but could be helped out with sub-headings. Each country has far too much pertinent information for just the single heading. This would create a greater ease-of-access for anyone looking for a quick fact, or a starting point for further research. As an example, in the Denmark portion a sub-heading could be, ‘Ground Observers Troop (Circa 1934).’ This would then be followed by any information pertaining to that in the article.

Another way to organize would be by decade within the country. This leads me to my next point; the Finland portion seems to jump around chronologically makes the article hard to follow. While the information is very informative, it is a bit hard to piece together. This could be avoided with decade sub-headings.

My last point is about the portion on Sweden. How long has Sweden allowed women in the military? Have they had any struggles within the military? There is not enough information in comparison to the other countries outlined. One point I found about their current struggles are the difficulties with army issue undergarments. I found several newspaper articles about this, including what the Swedish Military has done in the past and what they will do in the future to prevent undergarment malfunction. Nanner888 (talk) 20:52, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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