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Contents 1 A minor question about project scope 2 Edinburgh Castle 3 Several articles about forts 4 A-Class review for Fort Ticonderoga now open 5 Article alerts 6 Featured article candidacy for Fort Ticonderoga now open 7 Featured article candidacy for Maiden Castle, Dorset now open

[edit] A minor question about project scope

Hi all. I just tagged belt armor and torpedo bulkhead for WP:MILHIST, and was wondering if they were within the scope of this task force. I've already tagged them as such, but if I am in error, please let me know. Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 21:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

This one is more about castles, defensive lines, trenchworks and so on. I've tweaked the stubs to change to the technology task force, which may be more appropriate. Feel free to revert if you disagree! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 00:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

That's what I was thinking. Thanks for your quick answer. Parsecboy (talk) 00:21, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edinburgh Castle

I have put Edinburgh Castle up for Peer Review, any comments welcome here. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 20:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Several articles about forts

Hello there! I have a few questions and the Fortifications task force sounds like the experts I was looking for. Recently, I started a few new articles about forts, they were split off from longer articles in order to shorten them. They are all stub and start class for the Wikiproject Tennessee plus one list class article.

Fort Adair, Fort Assumption, Fort Prudhomme, Fort Randolph (Tennessee), Fort Wright (Tennessee) and the List of forts in Tennessee are the articles in question. First of all I am not sure what the standards are to include articles in the WikiProject: Military history or if it is desired that the article creator adds the banner and picks the task force, so I did not include that banner on the talk page. If you find time to check the articles for obvious errors and decide whether they are in the scope of the military history project, that would be great!

The List of forts in Tennessee I split off the List of forts. That list is pretty long and I decided to transfer the Tennessee section to an article of its own. It seems that there are several dozens more forts in Tennessee, so there is a great potential to add new items to the list. I have only included those forts that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. What I do not like is that the list does not have a proper introduction. A few sentences about what a fort is and what kind of forts there are in Tennessee. It looks like there are many technical terms and if I, as a non-expert, tried it myself I would probably mess up more than I would help. As I said earlier, if someone finds the time to look over it and let me know suggestions for improvement or for a short text as an introduction, that would be great. Thank you very much! doxTxob \ ^talk 23:57, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

They're in our scope for sure, but I don't know anything about forts, so I can't help with the second thing. :/ —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 01:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt reply! I have placed the template {{WPMILHIST|Fortifications-task-force=yes}} on the talk pages of the articles mentioned above and on the talk page of three articles that were on the List of forts in Tennessee and that were not included in the Military history project. Those that were tagged already, I left unaltered. I have added the banner to these articles not mentioned above: Tellico Blockhouse, Fort Southwest Point, Bledsoe's Station. I hope that's the right way to do it and the three additional candidates are appropriate. Thank you for your assistance! doxTxob \ ^talk 02:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A-Class review for Fort Ticonderoga now open

The A-Class review for Fort Ticonderoga is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Magic♪piano 14:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Article alerts

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[edit] Featured article candidacy for Fort Ticonderoga now open

The featured article candidacy for Fort Ticonderoga is now open. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! — Bellhalla (talk) 17:18, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article candidacy for Maiden Castle, Dorset now open

The featured article candidacy for Maiden Castle, Dorset is now open. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Nick-D (talk) 08:19, 20 June 2009 (UTC)