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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.

Scope

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This 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 Land-vehicles-task-force=yes or AFV-task-force=yes (or Land-vehicles=yes or AFV=yes) to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Military land vehicles task force articles.

Open tasks

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Shorland armoured carType 59G(BD) Durjoy
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Diamond T 12-ton 6x4 truck (currently a redirect) • Laffly S20Leopard 2A4+2A4MCANTR-580 (currently a redirect) • Renault EDWhite TBCRybinsk tank
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Autocanon de 47 RenaultCategory:Military vehicle stubsKasirga rocket system
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Autocanon de 47 RenaultLAV-600
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BeutepanzerVEC-M1BRDM-2BPM-97FennekType 59G(BD) DurjoyPanzerjäger
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Category:Military vehicles

Participants

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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.

  1. A D Monroe III (talk · contribs) (first alphabetically, but not otherwise)
  2. Cavalryman V31 (talk · contribs)
  3. 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.)
  4. Cmrc23 (talk · contribs)(Big interest in IFVs and modern and cold war tanks)
  5. DPdH (talk · contribs)
  6. Elfalem (talk · contribs)
  7. Eloi Montes (talk · contribs)
  8. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk · contribs)
  9. Hohum (talk · contribs)
  10. Thehistorianisaac (talk · contribs)(kinda intresting task force)
  11. Jim Sweeney (talk · contribs) (just tagged Future Rapid Effect System for the Military land vehicles task force, so this is our first article)
  12. Kierzek (talk · contribs) Japanese tanks and AFV's and German tanks and AFV's of World War II
  13. Legosharkdan (talk · contribs)
  14. Schierbecker (talk · contribs), wrote main battle tank
  15. Mzajac (talk · contribs)
  16. Pennsy22 (talk · contribs)
  17. Peter.C (talk · contribs)
  18. Randomness74 (talk · contribs)
  19. SirGents (talk · contribs) (Tank and vehicular warfare)
  20. Stratocaster27 (talk · contribs)
  21. Sturmvogel_66 (talk · contribs)
  22. Target360YT (talk · contribs)
  23. Trekphiler (talk · contribs)
  24. Tomandjerry311 (talk · contribs)
  25. ZappaOMati (talk · contribs)
  26. UNSC Luke 1021 (talk · contribs) (Can do work on tanks, finding images and such.)
  27. Jak474 (talk · contribs) (Can do research into tank battles and campaigns.)
  28. Osian 2007 (talk · contribs) (Tanks of WWII (mostly Soviet).)
  29. Xer0 onPC (talk · contribs) (Can do research and improve articles of lesser known tanks, especially prototypes)
  30. 웬디러비 (talk · contribs) (Maybe can help edits about Korean tanks and the Asian ones)

Article statistics

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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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Military land vehicles task force assessment statistics

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Awards and templates

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Awards

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  • 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

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Guides

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Listed in this section are six sets of relevant guidelines for writing or improving articles.

References

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Resource Type Link ISBN Published Pros Cons
R. P. Hunnicutt's 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, Pershing, Sheridan, Sherman, Stuart)

Weapon Systems

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  • Pretty, R. T.; Archer, D. H. R., eds. (1969). Jane's Weapon Systems 1969–1970 (1st ed.). London: B. P. C. Publishing. ISBN 0-354-00516-2.
  • Pretty, R. T.; Archer, D. H. R., eds. (1971). Jane's Weapon Systems 1971–1972 (3rd ed.). London: Samson Low Marston & Co. ISBN 0710607253.
  • Pretty, R. T.; Archer, D. H. R., eds. (1972). Jane's Weapon Systems 1972–1973 (4th ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. ISBN 0-354-00105-1.
  • Pretty, R. T.; Archer, D. H. R., eds. (1973). Jane's Weapon Systems 1973–1974 (5th ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. ISBN 0-354-00118-3.
  • Pretty, R. T.; Archer, D. H. R., eds. (1974). Jane's Weapon Systems 1974–1975 (6th ed.). London: Macdonald & Co. ISBN 0-354-00510-3.
  • Pretty, Ronald T., ed. (1977). Jane's Weapon Systems 1978 (9th ed.). London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-531-03284-1.
  • Pretty, Ronald T., ed. (1979). Jane's Weapon Systems 1979 (10th ed.). London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-354-00574-X.

Armour and Artillery

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See Weapon Systems for AFV/Artillery prior to 1979.

Military Vehicles and Logistics

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Misc

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Recognition guides

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