Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force/Archive 3

1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
Would some people be intersting in giving some supports in improving this article ? (review - correction - comments - advices - ...) ? Thank you ! Ceedjee (talk) 21:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Mattar's biography of the Great Mufti
In his biography of the Mufti, Philip Mattar writes (Page 149) : "The four cases of political violence in 1920, 1921, 1929, and 1933 were not revolts, (...) They were localized spontaneous riots that resulted in no sustained (...)" I get this from google.books but cannot get more. Would someone have his book ? (maybe p.17 ?) Could you give me more information about what he writes exactly ? I also read that Mattar writes that the Mufti was not accused of any involvment by Palin Commission. This should be in that book. Could someone check ? Thank you Ceedjee (talk) 21:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Hezbollah GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Hezbollah and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 09:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Iraqi Air Force reveiw
Can somebody review the Iraqi Air force article for a B class article? I worked really hard expanding its history as well as other parts--EZ1234 (talk) 07:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Replied here-- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:56, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Question(s) concerning scope
I've been adding task forces to articles without them, and was hoping to get an answer to a question (or two) concerning the scope of the Mid East TF. I assume that, since there is an Ottoman TF covering up to 1922, that you cover Turkish military history from '22 forward. Also, are you counting Pakistan and/or Afghanistan as being under the perview of this task force? Cromdog (talk) 01:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * You raise some interesting points. Strangely enough, I don't think many Afghanis or Pakistanis would think of themselves as "Middle Eastern" so it might be a good idea to clarify the project's scope on this. What do others think? -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 18:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I doubt they would too, but the term Middle East is sometimes used to include one or both. In high school, we counted Egypt across to Pakistan, but left out Turkey as being in the 'Middle East.' In college, I've seen Turkey and Azerbaijan, but not Pakistan in certain classes. I'm not advocating either way, just wondering, since Afghanistan and Pakistan are fairly important in modern contexts of military history if they go here or what. Cromdog (talk) 01:39, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Middle Eastern military history
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