User:Andrew Gray/Notes/WWI

Resources for WWI article-writing:


 * User:Carom/Sandbox/4 - list of UK divisional GOCs. (Second attempt here
 * User:Shimgray/Brigades - list of brigades by division

It occurs to me that we might want to look at breadth as well as depth in our reference work - there's a lot to be said for having a "decent" article on every member of a set. What topics can we reasonably aim to cover comprehensively (ie an article for each member, able to be written to B class or GA) within the Wikipedia framework?


 * Battles


 * We can reasonably expect to have an article on every named engagement. The goal here is that someone reading a history of the war and finding an obscure event in 1917 can throw the name into the search box and have an article appear. Finding the list to ensure completeness here might be tricky.


 * Units


 * B-class divisional histories (perhaps subsumed into articles covering more than just WWI) are already in place for about half the German divisions, and are well within reach for American and British divisions in terms of our normal development. French, Russian, Italian, Ottoman and Austrian divisions, as well as the smaller powers, are pretty much non-existent - is it going to be possible to write these from English-language sources?
 * For ships, we can presumably get hold of a complete list of ships of all naval powers from 1914 through to 1918; we're well on the way already to having decent articles on all capital ships, though smaller vessels might prove tricky especially for the Central Powers.


 * People


 * Every army commander should have a solid article, but we've mostly discussed that already. Can we aim to cover all corps commanders (probably) or all divisional commanders (trickier)?


 * Technology

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These are some quick notes - the advantage of a five-year lead time is that we can do the groundwork of defining these sets, and researching the list of articles that they'll require. Our normal development will probably take care of most of them, but it'd be good to know where the gaps are going to be!