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Welcome to the Military land vehicles task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. ScopeThis task force covers all military land vehicles, including tanks, tankettes, tank destroyers, SPGs, APCs, IFVs, military trucks, and military light utility vehicles. It can be considered to be a subgroup of the Military science and technology task force. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |
Open tasks
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (1,371) • ...to coverage and accuracy (1,013) • ...to structure (265) • ...to grammar (68) • ...to supporting materials (179)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Shorland armoured car • Type 59G(BD) Durjoy
- Requested articles
- Diamond T 12-ton 6x4 truck (currently a redirect) • Laffly S20 • VAE (vehicle) • VAPE • Leopard 2A4+ • 2A4MCAN • TR-580 (currently a redirect) • T-Rex (tank) • Renault ED • White TBC • Killen-Strait Armoured Tractor • Rybinsk tank • ABI (Military land vehicle)
- Expansion needed
- Autocanon de 47 Renault • Category:Military vehicle stubs • Kasirga rocket system
- Images needed
- Autocanon de 47 Renault • LAV-600
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- Beutepanzer • VEC-M1 • BRDM-2 • BPM-97 • Fennek •Type 59G(BD) Durjoy • Panzerjäger
- Translation needed
- Add an article here!
- Tagging needed
- Category:Military vehicles
Participants
If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.
- A D Monroe III (talk · contribs) (first alphabetically, but not otherwise)
- Cavalryman V31 (talk · contribs)
- CIB2008 OEF (talk · contribs)(US Army combat vet, Armor School grad, 16 yrs service, 4 yrs GW-11 MIL technician, own technical library, access to military libraries. Can do research, mainly US Cold War era.)
- DPdH (talk · contribs)
- Elfalem (talk · contribs)
- Eloi Montes (talk · contribs)
- FockeWulf FW 190 (talk · contribs)
- Hohum (talk · contribs)
- Jim Sweeney (talk · contribs) (just tagged Future Rapid Effect System for the Military land vehicles task force, so this is our first article)
- Kierzek (talk · contribs) Japanese tanks and AFV's and German tanks and AFV's of World War II
- Legosharkdan (talk · contribs)
- Mark Schierbecker (talk · contribs), wrote main battle tank
- Mzajac (talk · contribs)
- Pennsy22 (talk · contribs)
- Peter.C (talk · contribs)
- Randomness74 (talk · contribs)
- SirGents (talk · contribs) (Tank and vehicular warfare)
- Stratocaster27 (talk · contribs)
- Sturmvogel_66 (talk · contribs)
- Target360YT (talk · contribs)
- Trekphiler (talk · contribs)
- Tomandjerry311 (talk · contribs)
- ZappaOMati (talk · contribs)
- UNSC Luke 1021 (talk · contribs) (Can do work on tanks, finding images and such.)
- Jak474 (talk · contribs) (Can do research into tank battles and campaigns.)
- Osian 2007 (talk · contribs) (Tanks of WWII (mostly Soviet).)
- Xer0 onPC (talk · contribs) (Can do research and improve articles of lesser known tanks, especially prototypes)
- 웬디러비 (talk · contribs) (Maybe can help edits about Korean tanks and the Asian ones)
Article statistics
| The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force.
A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below:
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Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 29 Mar 2021 – Portuguese Pandur (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Johannes Maximilian (t · c) was closed as merge by Aseleste (t · c) on 14 Apr 2021; see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Requested moves
- 08 Mar 2021 – Next generation combat vehicle (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Next-Generation Combat Vehicle by RadiculousJ (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 08 Aug 2020 – Bison (armoured personnel carrier) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicle by Burnsnet27 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Aug 2020 – Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bison (armoured personnel carrier) by Burnsnet27 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 03 Sep 2019 – Tanks in the German Army (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by BrownHairedGirl (t · c); see discussion
Awards and templates
Awards
- The Tank Award. This award is the main award of the task force. To award it, paste the following code on the recipient's talk page:
{{subst:TankAward|1=Put your reason here}}. - The Raseiniai Award. The Raseiniai Award should be awarded more sparingly than the Tank Award. To award it, paste the following code on the recipient's talk page:
{{subst:TheRaseiniaiMedal|1=Put your reason here}}. It is presented to editors who make a significant contribution to the task force or who do especially well in any of the following situations:
- Improving an article;
- Handling edit warring;
- Handling a personal attack;
- Helping to establish the notability of an MLV-related article if it is challenged; or
- Scouting MLV-related articles proposed for deletion.
- The Char Award. The Char Award is presented to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the task force. Use it only in the most exceptional circumstances. To award it, paste the following code on the recipient's talk page:
{{subst:Char award|1=Put your reason here}}.
Templates
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- Userbox. If you wish to identify yourself as a participant of this task force, simply copy and paste this userbox to your user page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Military land vehicles task force}} - Top icon. Members can add top icons to their userpages to show that they are members of the task force. Paste the following code anywhere on your userpage to display the icon:
{{MLV task force topicon}}.
Resources
Portals
Guides
Listed in this section are six sets of relevant guidelines for writing or improving articles.
- How to create and manage a good lead section. This page covers how lead sections should be written.
- Notability guide. This page covers the notability of all Wikipedia articles.
- Military history notability guide. This page covers the notability of military history articles in general.
- MLV notability guide. This page covers the notability of topics specifically related to this task force.
- Manual of Style. The MoS is a style guide for all Wikipedia articles.
- Military history style guide. This page covers naming conventions, usage and style, sourcing and citation, templates, and categories.
References
| Resource | Type | Link | ISBN | Published | Pros | Cons |
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| A History of American Tank Anthology | Books | None | Varying | 1990-1997 | Extremely comprehensive, covering development histories and specifications. | Consists of several different books (Abrams, Firepower, Patton, Perishing, Sheridan, Sherman, Stuart) that must be bought. |
| Jane's Tank Recognition Guide | Book & web | Jane's Armour and Artillery | ISBN 0007183267 | Since 1996 (2007) | Every tank and AFV in use today | URL is behind a paywall |
| Gary's Combat Vehicle Reference Guide | Website | Gary's Combat Vehicle page | Self-published, Not always up-to-date | |||
| American Fighting Vehicle Database | Website | AFV Database | up-to-date specifications | No combat history information | ||
| The Tank Museum | Website | The Tank Museum Vehicles | Published by the Bovington tank museum | Not a lot of information | ||
| TANKS! Armoured warfare prior to 1946 | Website | Web archive http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ | Summary and specifications for most AFVs built prior to the end of WWII |