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Im going on holiday until June 5 hopefully someone else will look after the portal until i get back. Regards Hossens27 03:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
A proposal with regards to this portal has been made here. Comments are welcome.-- cj | talk 04:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello all -- my apologies straight away if this is against protocol or the usual way of engaging in talk about specific pages covered by this portal. I'm quite new to the Australian military wikipedia community but I've loved editing the ADF, Army, RAN, RAAF, Special Forces, and ADF leadership templates as well as updating the VCDF page and some others.
Also I would strongly propose the merging of Senior Australian Defence Organisation Positions and Current senior Australian Defence Organisation personnel -- having both is immensely duplicative and I don't really see any value in both especially when there more than 70 individual office holders in the 2 star level (which will hard to track the names of each holder). I would propose keeping the Senior Australian Defence Organisation Positions page as a listing of all 2, 3 and 4 star positions (rather than names of the personnel) in the Australian Defence Organisation. Welcome to any and all thoughts. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.165.162.100 ( talk) 00:10, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
This portal should probably be renamed Portal:Australian Defence Force given that is correct in both common and official usage. Moreover, "military of Australia" is an obscure term which even lacks a corresponding Wikipedia article.-- cj | talk 09:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Fair enough, but I don't agree that Portal:Australian Defence Force would be restrictive – it still comprises the services and thus covers their accompanying histories.-- cj | talk 16:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
On my 17" monitor the message at the top of the portal takes up a full screen. As it never changes and is basically a description of the Australian military I think that it should be greatly shortened, or perhaps even removed altogether. I think that the length of the introcution at Portal:NATO works very well. My suggestion would be to reduce the message to:
This could then be illustrated with the current ADF flag rather than the current 4 flag. I've created a mock-up in my sandbox at: User:Nick Dowling/sandbox. What do you think? -- Nick Dowling 11:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Please ensure that this portal contains no red links in content sections (that is, sections aside Things you can do) per the featured portal criteria. Currently, both Selected anniversaries and Daily unit have no entry, and there is a dead category in the Categories section. Thanks,-- cj | talk 02:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I can't get Portal:Military of Australia/Nominate/Selected picture to work, but it's probably just me. Anyway, I wanted to propose Image:Desert Mounted Corps.jpg, which I have just uploaded, as a selected picture. Cheers, Grant | Talk 13:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Its been suggested that this new article does not merit an article of its own. Keep or Delete? Comments here please. Ephebi ( talk) 11:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I have just finished the final bit of the tables that contain all of the relevant information on VFL players who are known to have died as a consequence of their active service (see [1]). The list also includes the only VFL field/boundary/goal umpire known to have died in active service. Lindsay658 ( talk) 04:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Who knows the unit depicted on her shoulder patch? I need the image of that symbol on Commons or Wikipedia (nice colours). Thanks, -- 77.4.35.76 ( talk) 16:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me what "53 Australian BIPOD PLN" would be? It was the WWII unit (or whatever it would be called) that someone I am writing an article on was posted to. Cheers -- Roisterer ( talk) 00:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia, can somebody please fix, redo, check & correct the Military of Australia Portal, and also align the military flags of Australia to the centre of the article?! Thank you very much! Regards... Markab1975 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:46, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject Portals is back!
The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.
As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.
There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.
Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.
And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.
From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. UnitedStatesian: all subpages moved except one where the following error occurred: The page Portal:Military of Australia/Selected anniversaries could not be moved to Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries ( closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 08:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Military of Australia →
Portal:Military history of Australia – The current title implies that the scope is only the
Australian Defence Forces, when the actual scope is much broader. Also, the proposed name aligns the portal both with those of other portals such as
Portal:Military history of France and of the
military history WikiProject. Pinging @
BusterD: since you said you were interested (although as a result of your input this is a different move than what I had earlier contemplated; thanks for that) NOTE TO CLOSER: If the Portal is moved, please ensure the move is done by someone with the appropriate permissions to move all of the subpages without leaving redirects; please ping me if you seed help with that.
UnitedStatesian (
talk)
17:51, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
@ StraussInTheHouse, UnitedStatesian, and Nick-D: G'day, the recent move of this portal appears to have created a lot of red links for subpages and errors on the portal page now at Portal:Military history of Australia. Is there some way to fix this? Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 05:54, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Nick-D, Hawkeye7, and UnitedStatesian: WRT the new articles list contained within this portal, I wonder if there is a way to make this automated. Does anyone know? If not, maybe it should be repurposed into a "new and recently improved articles" list, as this would probably be easier to maintain. Thoughts? AustralianRupert ( talk) 10:01, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Should the services be in seniority order, RAN, Army, RAAF, then Special Forces? Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 10:31, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
![]() | This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
portal about
Military history of Australia.
Content dispute discussions should take place on the appropriate article's talk page. For discussions about general portal development, please see the
WikiProject Portals talk page. If you are a regular maintainer of this portal, please add yourself to this list. |
![]() | The Military history of Australia Portal is a featured portal, which means it has been identified as one of the best portals on Wikipedia. If you see a way this portal can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. | ||||||||||||
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Current status: Featured portal |
![]() | This portal does not require a rating on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() | Text and/or other creative content from Military history of Australia was copied or moved into Portal:Military history of Australia. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
![]() | Automated portal content suggestions ( ) The following suggestions have been automatically generated as content that might be suitable for the portal, subject to review by a human editor. Please do not mindlessly copy items to the portal page without first checking that the suggestions are appropriate.
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Im going on holiday until June 5 hopefully someone else will look after the portal until i get back. Regards Hossens27 03:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
A proposal with regards to this portal has been made here. Comments are welcome.-- cj | talk 04:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello all -- my apologies straight away if this is against protocol or the usual way of engaging in talk about specific pages covered by this portal. I'm quite new to the Australian military wikipedia community but I've loved editing the ADF, Army, RAN, RAAF, Special Forces, and ADF leadership templates as well as updating the VCDF page and some others.
Also I would strongly propose the merging of Senior Australian Defence Organisation Positions and Current senior Australian Defence Organisation personnel -- having both is immensely duplicative and I don't really see any value in both especially when there more than 70 individual office holders in the 2 star level (which will hard to track the names of each holder). I would propose keeping the Senior Australian Defence Organisation Positions page as a listing of all 2, 3 and 4 star positions (rather than names of the personnel) in the Australian Defence Organisation. Welcome to any and all thoughts. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.165.162.100 ( talk) 00:10, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
This portal should probably be renamed Portal:Australian Defence Force given that is correct in both common and official usage. Moreover, "military of Australia" is an obscure term which even lacks a corresponding Wikipedia article.-- cj | talk 09:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Fair enough, but I don't agree that Portal:Australian Defence Force would be restrictive – it still comprises the services and thus covers their accompanying histories.-- cj | talk 16:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
On my 17" monitor the message at the top of the portal takes up a full screen. As it never changes and is basically a description of the Australian military I think that it should be greatly shortened, or perhaps even removed altogether. I think that the length of the introcution at Portal:NATO works very well. My suggestion would be to reduce the message to:
This could then be illustrated with the current ADF flag rather than the current 4 flag. I've created a mock-up in my sandbox at: User:Nick Dowling/sandbox. What do you think? -- Nick Dowling 11:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Please ensure that this portal contains no red links in content sections (that is, sections aside Things you can do) per the featured portal criteria. Currently, both Selected anniversaries and Daily unit have no entry, and there is a dead category in the Categories section. Thanks,-- cj | talk 02:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I can't get Portal:Military of Australia/Nominate/Selected picture to work, but it's probably just me. Anyway, I wanted to propose Image:Desert Mounted Corps.jpg, which I have just uploaded, as a selected picture. Cheers, Grant | Talk 13:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Its been suggested that this new article does not merit an article of its own. Keep or Delete? Comments here please. Ephebi ( talk) 11:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I have just finished the final bit of the tables that contain all of the relevant information on VFL players who are known to have died as a consequence of their active service (see [1]). The list also includes the only VFL field/boundary/goal umpire known to have died in active service. Lindsay658 ( talk) 04:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Who knows the unit depicted on her shoulder patch? I need the image of that symbol on Commons or Wikipedia (nice colours). Thanks, -- 77.4.35.76 ( talk) 16:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me what "53 Australian BIPOD PLN" would be? It was the WWII unit (or whatever it would be called) that someone I am writing an article on was posted to. Cheers -- Roisterer ( talk) 00:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia, can somebody please fix, redo, check & correct the Military of Australia Portal, and also align the military flags of Australia to the centre of the article?! Thank you very much! Regards... Markab1975 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:46, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject Portals is back!
The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.
As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.
There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.
Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.
And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.
From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. UnitedStatesian: all subpages moved except one where the following error occurred: The page Portal:Military of Australia/Selected anniversaries could not be moved to Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries ( closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 08:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Military of Australia →
Portal:Military history of Australia – The current title implies that the scope is only the
Australian Defence Forces, when the actual scope is much broader. Also, the proposed name aligns the portal both with those of other portals such as
Portal:Military history of France and of the
military history WikiProject. Pinging @
BusterD: since you said you were interested (although as a result of your input this is a different move than what I had earlier contemplated; thanks for that) NOTE TO CLOSER: If the Portal is moved, please ensure the move is done by someone with the appropriate permissions to move all of the subpages without leaving redirects; please ping me if you seed help with that.
UnitedStatesian (
talk)
17:51, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
@ StraussInTheHouse, UnitedStatesian, and Nick-D: G'day, the recent move of this portal appears to have created a lot of red links for subpages and errors on the portal page now at Portal:Military history of Australia. Is there some way to fix this? Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 05:54, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
@ Nick-D, Hawkeye7, and UnitedStatesian: WRT the new articles list contained within this portal, I wonder if there is a way to make this automated. Does anyone know? If not, maybe it should be repurposed into a "new and recently improved articles" list, as this would probably be easier to maintain. Thoughts? AustralianRupert ( talk) 10:01, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Should the services be in seniority order, RAN, Army, RAAF, then Special Forces? Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 10:31, 20 July 2019 (UTC)