Talk:15th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Suggestions for improvement

This article has lots of good information, however, I would like to make the following suggestions for improvement:

• Introduction - the intro could be expanded to summarise the article more clearly;
• Structure - the article could be improved with a more definite structure (i.e. a History section that includes subsections for major time periods, detailing the unit's role in these conflicts), a Battle Honours section, a section listing Medal of Honour winners, etc.;
• Citations - the article desperately needs in line citations;
• Notes and References sections; and
• Images from conflicts the regiment has fought in (not a requirement for B class, though, as the infobox meets this criteria).

Anyway, that is just my opinion. I have added the B class checklist above to assist with development. AustralianRupert (talk) 02:29, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.usregulars.com/usarmy/15us.html
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--JeffGBot (talk) 18:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Reference Section

Rather than simply removing references located after the reflist, perhaps it'd be better to move the reference list below all references. Is there a specific WP guideline stating the location of the reflist? Bullmoosebell (talk) 09:32, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

I didn't remove the references, I removed the <ref></ref> tags, the presence of which after the {{reflist}} or <references /> template causes the mediawiki system to throw giant red errors, and left behind the re-formatted links. I generally migrate references if they're simply misplaced after the reflist; in this case they were added to the "Further reading" section as (one assumes) they are further reading, so all I did was remove the ref tags so that they worked. The reflist is intended to display the contents of inline references used in the article, not a set of external links to things like further reading pages, so in this case it wouldn't be appropriate to shuffle around the reflist so that it displays something it's not intended to display. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:18, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Hm, to clarify that and answer the question you actually asked: per WP:FOOTERS, the references section should generally come above the further reading section. So we have a two-fold reason here to a) not shuffle the references section and b) not use unnecessary ref tags in the further reading section. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 13:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Understandable, but the problem is how the Further Reading section no longer maintains a pleasant aesthetic, given your recent edit. The link referencing the book PROUD TO SERVE MY COUNTRY is no longer cited simply as a number but as the whole link. Also, the 15th Infantry Association is reflected as a separate bullet rather than the reference for the book When The Odds Were Even. So, should links referenced in the Further Reading section be deleted altogether, or perhaps added to the External Links section? Bullmoosebell (talk) 04:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)