Template talk:WikiProject Military history

A-class reviews

The A-class review note currently accepts the following values:

• pass, keep, kept
• fail, demote, demoted
• current

I am wondering if we could change the "keep/kept" to "pass" and "demote/demoted" and "fail", in order to simplify this slightly? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:17, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Will make a bot request in a day or two — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Unassessed military history articles

Category:Unassessed military history articles is full of Category talk, Template talk and File talk pages. These cannot be assessed. Would it be possible for them not to be placed in this maintenance category? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: If you visit one of the miscategorised pages and perform a WP:NULLEDIT, then return to Category:Unassessed military history articles and reload it, the page that you nulledited disappears; visiting e.g. Category:Template-Class military history articles shows that the page has moved to the correct category. This tells me that the template code is presently working as intended.

What you are seeing is probably fallout from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Weird ghost category redlinks. If you wait, they should all be fixed as the pages pass through the job queue, but it won't be straightaway as there are several hundred to fix. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

That cleared up that category, but I still have a problem with Category:Military history articles with no associated task force being cluttered with File and Draft space articles. Any chance of being able to remove them? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:24, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

This is now fixed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:08, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

A class preload boilerplate

@MSGJ and Jonesey95: When you click on the "is currently undergoing" link to create a new A-class review, it is not preloading the template Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Review/A-Class_review_preload_boilerplate

It currently has

|action=edit

it should be:

|action=edit&preload=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Review/A-Class_review_preload_boilerplate

Any assistance would be appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:14, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ and Jonesey95: Any ideas? I believe the following needs to be changed in Module:WikiProject_banner/templatepage. However, we really need another config parameter. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

---------------------------
-- Assessment link --------
---------------------------
if raw_args.class or raw_args.importance then
	local url = mw.uri.fullUrl(banner_name.prefixedText,{
		action = 'edit',
		summary = cfg_tp.assessment_link.edit_summary
	})
	if args.ASSESSMENT_LINK then
		if not mw.title.new(args.ASSESSMENT_LINK).exists then
			table.insert(notices, string.format(
				cfg_tp.assessment_link.missing,
				wikilink(args.ASSESSMENT_LINK),
				tostring(url),
				parameter_format('ASSESSMENT_LINK')
			))
		end
	end
end

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:12, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Easy enough to add another parameter. What do you suggest, |ACR_BOILERPLATE=? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:20, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Sure. Can you make this change? I don't know how this is done. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:03, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

No problem. How about you fix your bot for PIQA and I'll do this for you :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:25, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

The bot has been fixed and now knows about our PIQA! A new C# version is now running on Toolforge! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:03, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: Can you please fix this? A class nominations have dwindled because people do not know how to nominate them. (For some reason A-class=current isn't working at all any more.) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I have started to code this in Module:WikiProject banner/auxiliary/sandbox. Not tested yet. Shouldn't take too long though — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

It seems to be working well. Can you try {{WikiProject Military history/sandbox}} and see if it's working as expected? There is also a test on Module talk:WikiProject banner/testcases — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:54, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that works for me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:17, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Okay I will deploy it later today then — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:32, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

no-task-force

@MSGJ: Having a problem with Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Military history |no-task-force=yes but the 'No existing task force includes this article" error message is still appearing. Any ideas? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that is the message which is supposed to display when the no-task-force parameter is set to "yes". See NOTE_3 in the code — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:16, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 5 January 2025

Add row Ukrainian military history task force Микола Василечко (talk) 22:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Can you make the changes in the sandbox to make it easier to process this request? Sohom (talk) 07:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

To editor Микола Василечко: I've searched and researched, and I cannot find a task force for Ukrainian military history anywhere, not even on the Ukrainian language Wikipedia. If this task force does exist on enwiki, and it should exist on enwiki before it can be added to this template, please supply a link to it, and then we should be able to add it to this template. Thank you for your edits! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 22:22, 7 January 2025 (UTC)