User talk:Kges1901/2019/September

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

477th Rifle Division
This division turned up in Poirer and Connor/FHO, I believe, and on many sources later. We don't list it now; do you know what the various sources argue about its existence? Buckshot06 (talk) 11:17, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I made a mistake there, not meaning 477th as there as been no proof of its existence in post-Soviet sources. 474th is the highest as that is what can be verified in Goff who actually looked at Soviet records. But I think that the nav template would be ok without including short-lived divisions that are covered at other articles like the 412th RD (became the 24th) and anything above 422. Kges1901 (talk) 11:57, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Just wondering if we should include a paragraph saying that 477th and any other odd higher ones are attributed in P&C etc but not listed because they haven't been confirmed in post-Soviet publications. Thoughts? Buckshot06 (talk) 12:54, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't that be undue weight to P&C? The point really is that there were gaps and errors in German intelligence data, but that would be expected since analyzing enemy strength generally ends up not being entirely accurate. Kges1901 (talk) 12:57, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Undue weight wouldn't be the issue in my mind; just trying to avoid people coming along later and adding units they read about it in pre-1992 sources.. Buckshot06 (talk) 13:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I've just never seen that happen in the last few years, though, given the obscurity of the topic. Kges1901 (talk) 15:13, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Крымско-татарский коллаборационизм во Второй мировой войне
Can you please vote for deletion here? There are some strangely well organized editors who strongly beleive in keeping it, despite there being no article for Kalmyk or Chechen collaboration. I strongly suspect some political interference here.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 12:25, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 68th Mountain Rifle Division
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Svobodny (1940)
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Your GA nomination of 68th Mountain Rifle Division
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Smyshleny (1940)
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Sovershenny (1940)
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Smyshleny (1940)
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Svobodny (1940)
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Sovershenny (1940)
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
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Reversal of removal of text re 33 RD (II Formation)
The Russian language sources place great emphasis, even splitting articles, on the I, II, III etc formations of various divisions. It is simply not complete of us to not list these formations in the correct numerical place; the article "33rd Rifle Division" needs to, at the *very least* refer to all formations which had that designation, of all numbered formations. We could split if it became too long, but we need to list every formation that existed under that designation - if there are reliable Russian sources, as we seem to believe now with Feskov et al 2013. It's not about the lineage of one particular formation, traced through honorifics, otherwise we could have an entry for "Transbaikal-Dnepr Rifle Division" or some such (in this case, "Холмско-Берлинская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова" Rifle Division), the article title is "33rd Rifle Division", so we need to be all-inclusive.. Hope this explains what I've done. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:04, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * My rationale for removing the mention of the brief 1955-1956 reusage of the designation is that the primary topic of the 33rd Rifle Division article should be the 1923-1945 unit, which saw combat service under that designation and has mentions in English RS sources (because this is en wiki, most readers will likely be searching for the WWII unit, not the brief 1955-56 formation with a mention in Crofoot & Avanzini, a self-published book that is long out of print). With the hatnote, the 1955-1956 unit is still mentioned and readers that may be looking for it are directed to the 215th RD article, which contains the combat history of that unit. Kges1901 (talk) 20:15, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Therefore, where we disagree is that I would say the '33rd Rifle Division [Soviet Union]' article, to do the whole subject justice, needs to cover in the text and in the infobox, however briefly, all formations which have existed under that title (not just focusing on the 1923-45 formation). No problem with most details being somewhere else (like for the 215th) but without one or two lines, the history is simply not complete. Thoughts ? Buckshot06 (talk) 18:59, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree. This came up recently with the article for the 417th RD. Kges1901 was good enough to add info in the Postwar section from Feskov on its 2nd formation in 1953-55 which I was unaware of. So I added the dates of the 2nd Formation to the header of the infobox, the active dates, and a sentence at the end of the intro. This division was renamed the 78th RD in 1955, which is mentioned in the Postwar section of that division's article. Wreck Smurfy (talk) 19:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * On this question, we have to consider what defines a separate formation. The Soviet General Staff's perecheni generally start a new formation for each rifle division after the division ceases to exist as an organized unit or is converted into another unit (ex guards conversions). For example, the officially declared disbandment of a division destroyed in the encirclement battles of 1941-1942 is the end of one formation. If a division is converted into a Guards unit then its history is continued by the Guards unit and the number is re-used for a unit that really has no connection with the unit that first used the number other than the number. This system is essentially based on organizational continuity - consider, for example, the 11th Rifle Division, which had to have suffered very heavy losses in 1941 given its positioning, yet its headquarters survived and so the 11th RD has only one formation during WWII. Conversely, the 24th Rifle Division ceased to exist as an organized unit and so the second formation had no connection until the NKO made it so. So the divisions reduced to brigades and re-expanded into divisions do not count as separate formations because of the organizational continuity, and therefore sources (really only Feskov et al 2013) do not refer to these as second formations.


 * However, I don't think we necessarily should by default split articles on different formations as ruwiki does because that would not work for units like the 396th Rifle Division, where both formations have relatively short histories. However, I think some deserve to be explicitly split between formations, such as the 161st Rifle Division, where 161st RD (I) can easily be covered as the predecessor to the 4th GRD and the 161st RD (II) as that of the Ukrainian 161st Mechanized Brigade. I also would prefer for that units renumbered in 1955 get the detailed mention at the division that they represent the organizational continuity of and the one-line hatnote on the article for the designation that they briefly held. My reasoning for this is that a couple-line mention of the 33rd (former 215th) on the 33rd RD's article would be out of place after I expand the 33rd RD article to address the most important formation in detail (which I plan to do down the road). Apologies for the long response, but I have thought much about this subject. Kges1901 (talk) 00:09, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Soviet destroyer dab moves
I just got a query as to why a bunch of Soviet destroyer which were launched in '39 had their disambiguators moved to 1940. Your comment says something about avoiding an anachronism; can you expand that so we can understand what you were trying to do?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:52, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * For example, saying Soobrazitelny (1939) would be anachronistic because Soobrazitelny was only renamed in 1940. Kges1901 (talk) 20:21, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations!

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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940)
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