Talk:Military history of the Aleutian Islands

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Military history of the Aleutian Islands has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 7, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
March 12, 2011	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 5, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that at least 21 American troops died as a result of friendly fire during the recapturing of Kiska in 1943, despite the island being uninhabited at the time of the assault?

Current status: Good article

Russian Administration

This article is missing an entire portion of its subject matter, it covers nothing of the Russian Administrations military history and its interactions with the natives. As it is now it focuses almost entirely on world war two, and most of it could likely be merged into the Aleutian Campaign. It also lacks details on the cold war period, and the islands important air bases and early warning stations that were critical during the time period.XavierGreen (talk) 22:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this up. I couldn't find anything on the Web about these topics that wasn't trivial - if you are able to find anything (and I mean anything - anything at all), please link to it here or incorporate it into the article yourself. I also object to your assertion that the article focuses almost entirely on WWII - I'm estimating half of the article focuses on other things, and considering that WWII made up a big chunk of the Aleutians' military history, this is a pretty good summary. Arctic Night 16:11, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Military history of the Aleutian Islands/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 01:55, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments I will list comments beneath this comment:
- Zoom in on the map or else tweak it a little; currently the rivers and the bright green coastlines detract from the red dot... (besides, that isn't the entirety of the Aleutian Islands...) WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 01:55, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Perhaps File:North-Pacific-air-routes.png would be better (minus the text, red lines and triangles (and the legend... hope lives on)) WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 01:57, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - My image skills are really sub-par - are you able to do this at all? I honestly have no idea... Arctic Night 02:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - Nope... my image skills are sub-sub-par. Request at the MILHIST project would be my recommendation. WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 02:31, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Done. Arctic Night 02:44, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The American burials were undertaken at Massacre Bay as well as at Holtz Bay - in the former case, the bodies of the soldiers were buried in individual graves of size one foot deep in groups of eight soldiers.... ...of size one foot deep...? Clarify. WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 02:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Clarified - I hope this is clearer. Arctic Night 02:47, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Good job. I will wait for the image for a week or so, if the attempt proves unsuccessful, could you contact the creator of the current map. WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 03:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - OK thanks. I have created a fairly atrocious map by myself - when I go to upload it, however, I get File extension does not match MIME type. I think I'll wait for MILHIST instead! Arctic Night 03:31, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Perhaps you could email it to me via this link. WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 03:43, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Done :) I hope my image skills haven't broken your computer monitor yet! Arctic Night 23:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Good humor is good... to an extent... *AHEM*. :) WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 03:07, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I changed the image for you. You could also use it on the Aleutians article. WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 04:06, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK, thank you very much. Did you have any more concerns? Arctic Night 09:46, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - Pretty good, I will pass. It was great chatting with you! WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 17:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Thanks - a pleasure! Arctic Night 18:35, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]