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January 11

Complete List of Every Battle on Wikipedia

Goal: Find a complete database/list of every battle on Wikipedia @WP:MILHIST coordinators:

I know there is a number of lists concerning this topic but all of them are incomplete. There is also this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_military_conflict&limit=500&hideimages=1 The List above has around 19000 entries but its quite messy.

I am currently checking around the military projects for complete lists but to no avail.

Any ideas on where I should look or if there is indeed a complete list of every battle inputted on Wikipedia thus far?

Thanks. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by UnlimitedRed (talk o contribs) 01:00, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Not sure how "complete" it is, but there's List of battles (alphabetical). 2603:6081:1C00:1187:4579:F6C6:973A:C1AF (talk) 01:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

• Yea That page has around 6200 entries. As well the other lists that are related to that one also have different numbers. I wonder if anyone has a database seperate from the lists here for general organization purposes? -- 01:17, 11 January 2022 UnlimitedRed

This search turns up all Wikipedia articles with a title beginning with "Battle" (though the first part of the listing is mostly not very helpful -- maybe you could search for articles whose title begins with "Battle of"...) AnonMoos (talk) 01:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

That won't get you just traditional military battles. Battle of Broken Hill is about what some describe as Australia's first act of religious terrorism. It involved an ice cream cart. HiLo48 (talk) 03:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Also a substantial number of battle articles have titles that begin with "Siege of..." or "Operation...". Alansplodge (talk) 19:21, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Categories are the way to go with such voluminous groupings. Start at Category:Battles --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 14:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't think that works here. You can delve into the sub-categories, but unless you're very very careful, you're going to get tons of duplications. For example, one of the main subcats is by country, so naturally every battle between two nations will be in there twice. You'd have to copy the contents of each cat into a separate document to remove the duplicates (and not just jot down the number, say) Matt Deres (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

I assumed the OP wanted to browse, rather than compile a list for its own ends. Your point is a good one. There will probably be other reasons for duplications, too. --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 10:20, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• Every battle on Wikipedia? Does anyone keep track of edit wars? —Tamfang (talk) 04:35, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

(North) American version of CBBC Newsround

Is there American show equivalent to the fantastic CBBC Newsround program for school kids? If not is there a Canadian version? I show Newsround in my class but obviously it is directed at a British audience so many of the references aren't relevant. I have a reference question (talk) 14:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

There's an NBC Nightly News Kids edition: "new episodes premiere every Thursday on NBC News’ YouTube channel. Beginning on March 6, 2020, NBC Nightly News Kids Edition started airing Saturdays on select NBC affiliates." There's also a website for CBC Kid News. Clarityfiend (talk) 17:11, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Festung Europa Digitalis

I got a promotional email from OVHcloud mentioning an article[1] titled "OVHcloud: Putting the Final Pieces in Place for Europe's Digital Fortress?".

Does that title have, er, unfortunate connotations? Or am I mis-reacting. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (talk) 23:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

You tell me... File:Demonstration against Morten Kjærum in Vienna.jpg -- asilvering (talk) 23:56, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

By the way, the word "digitalis", insofar as it occurred in Latin (it's not listed in my Classical dictionary) meant "of the fingers, having to do with the fingers"... AnonMoos (talk) 07:32, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Of course, any gardener will immediately think of a certain kind of highly poisonous plant, also not a great association... -- asilvering (talk) 09:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

To me it does (Fortress Europe). I also flinch when people propose "the final solution" of some question, and I'm not alone in this.^[2]  --Lambiam 11:17, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

I would think that depends on your point of view. It does not to me, but IT is not my forte. To me it speaks more of realism. Like putting in bullettproof glass in the windows of your house when you know there's more and more people out there with guns. Insofar, yes, you might say that's not a connotation that feels good. And that's only referring to digital. Other than that, for instance the picture linked above, seriously negative connotation. Regards from Europe, --G-41614 (talk) 11:51, 13 January 2022 (UTC)