User:Nick-D

"There's one characteristic that sets writing apart from most of the other arts – its apparent democracy, by which I mean its availability to almost everyone as a medium of expression"

- Margaret Atwood

"''It’s a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It’s not a mass taste."

- Sue Gardner

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time"

- Neal Stephenson


 * Library
 * Useful online resources
 * My sandbox
 * Drafts1, Drafts2, Drafts3, Drafts4, Drafts5, Drafts6, Drafts7, Drafts8, Drafts9, Drafts10, Drafts11, Drafts12, Drafts13, Drafts14, Drafts15, Drafts16, Drafts17, Drafts18, Drafts19, Draft book reviews, Random drafts
 * photo gallery
 * Some thoughts on Wikipedia based on my experience
 * Advice on the A-class and FA review processes

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 * Special:Longpages
 * List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/MilitarySearchResult
 * WPMILHIST
 * Special:NewPagesFeed
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 * X!'s Edit Counter
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 * WikiProject Military History//FA-Class military history articles/Popular pages
 * WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Newsroom
 * Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
 * User:Skysmith/Missing topics about World War Two
 * WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Military
 * Guidance on source reviewing at FAC
 * WikiProject Military history/Internet Archive books

To do list I intend to work on these articles in the near future:
 * 1) Battle of Tarakan (1945)
 * 2) 1 May 1982 engagements (draft under development here, and suggestions for a better article name would be appreciated!)
 * 3) Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II
 * 4) Operation Title
 * 5) Operation Source

I also have plans to improve or start the following articles over the longer term:
 * Battle for Brest - User:Nick-D/Drafts12
 * Bombing of Kure (July 1945) (if I can ever find enough sources)
 * Australia in the War of 1939–1945
 * Convoy TM-1/Convoy TM 1 (see: User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
 * Various RAAF flying squadrons (see User:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
 * B-24 Liberator in Australian service (User:Nick-D/Drafts6)
 * Sheila Mary McClemans - Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
 * Margaret Irene Lang
 * Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies - see User:Nick-D/Drafts7
 * Attack on Kure (March 1945)
 * Recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees from Japanese captivity (draft under development at User:Nick-D/Drafts11)
 * Japanese home island air defences of World War II - see User:Nick-D/Drafts5
 * Allied air raids on Hokkaido and northern Honshu
 * Operation Inmate
 * Liberation of Strasbourg
 * Operation Counterblast
 * Australian contribution to the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II (1943-45)
 * Battle of Trier
 * Battle of Luzon re-write (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
 * Pacification of Rabaul - needs a new title for starters
 * Battle of the Mons Pocket
 * British re-occupation of Hong Kong (at User:Nick-D/Drafts17)
 * Manpower Directorate (Australia)
 * Atlantic pockets
 * Operation Argos
 * 1st Army Tank Brigade (New Zealand)
 * Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
 * Australian military deployments to Europe since 1945 (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
 * South African forces in the Rhodesian Bush War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts8)
 * Royal Air Force attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz (1940–1942) (at User:Nick-D/Drafts9)
 * British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts18)