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Actually, I would turn that one into normal campaignboxes instead. There's really no need to have these huge templates everywhere (although{{World War II}} is far worse in this regard). 02:08, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
TheYugoslavian Front (WWII) article is progressing nicely. It makes sense to divorce it from theBalkans Campaign, which focuses mainly on German and Italian invasions of Albania, Greece in Yugoslavia ending in 1941. Not sure if it needs to be this prominent. On one hand, it certainly was strategically important, as as large as some other parts of WWII linked to from this template. On the other hand, it would make sense to create a "Balkans sub-theater" article, which would branch out to the Balkans campaign, Yugoslav front,Greek Resistance, Allied operations in the area (air raids, eg onPloesti), and Soviets entering the fray in 1944.Miranche03:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
When is it actually called this? Was Operation Dragoon part of the "North West Europe" campaign as well? The article is called western front, so why not "Western Front (1944-1945)"?john k (talk)23:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly what I was thinking, the Ecuadoran border conflict of 1941 has so relevance to WW2 other than they were fought at the same time. I am making changes now.--Az81964444 (talk)07:20, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I changed structure of this template as previous one didn't felt sufficient and had a strange scope.
Examples: Eastern Front being limited to "1941" omitting everything else happening on Eastern Front
Western Front 1940 being limited to France only ignoring other countries like Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Skipping most campaigns but including various resistance movements which weren't a campaigns.
Pacific section pointing just to Central pacific ignoring pretty much everything
I wasn't happy with that state and decide it to change.
Created Resistance a separate section for resistance movements like Polish resistance or Italian Civil War were moved to separate section with resistance movements.
You may disagree and change these
Europe Section:
Poland got expanded by addition of Soviet invasion. Soviet invasion was it's own thing and gets often omitted. Polish resistance moved to separate section which I didn't understood why it was considered as campaign.
Phoney War got expanded by Saar Offensive which was the only active offensive in this category
Finland: no change. It consist Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War
Denmark and Norway are now separated and pointing to different campaigns. Norway got expanded by Liberation of Finnmark 1944
Western Front 1940 got expanded. Showcasing now Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium and France which were omitted. French resistance moved to separate section.
Alps, no change. Featuring 1st and 2nd Battle of Alps
Britain: no change
Balkans: got expanded showcasing Greco-Italian War, German Invasion of Greece and Crete, Invasion of Yugoslavia expanded by Guerrilla Warfare. I also added pre-war Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, the only reason why I decided to add it was "pre-war Soviet Japanese border conflicts"
Eastern Front: previous just "1941" got expanded by additional campaigns: Operation Barbarossa, Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944, Crimean campaign 1941-1942 & 1944, Rzhev 1942-1943, Case Blue 1942, Stalingrad, Kursk 1943, Dnieper-Carpathian offensive 1943-1944, Operation Bagration 1944, Battle of Romania 1944, Budapest Offensive/Battle of Hungary 1944-1945, Vistula-Oder 1945 and Berlin. I tried to limit it only to major operations as Eastern Front has a plenty of
Italy: Previously only mentioned Sicily. Now I expanded it by Mainland Italy, Winter Line, Gothic Line and Spring Offensive 1945. Italian Civil War moved to resistance.
Western Front 1944-1945 got expanded. Now shows Operation Overlord, Siegfried Line, Market Garden, Bulge and Western Germany. Operation Dragoon was also moved to Western Front from Mediterranean. If Operation Dragoon is considered as Mediterranean campaign then Italy should also be moved to that section from Europe.
Asian-Pacific Section:
I focused first on Asian then moved more to pacific
China: I added Winter Offensive 1939-1940, Hundred Regiment offensive, Northern Burma and Western Yunnan campaign and Ichi-Go Operation. I felt as these operations were significant enough.
Burma, moved higher showcasing 4 stages: 1941-1942, 1942-1943, 1944 and 1944-1945
South East Asia got expanded by: Japanese invasion of Indochina 1940, Japanese invasion of Thailand 1941, Malayan campaign 1941-1942 and Fall of Singapore 1942. Franco-Thai-War 1940 is now included within South East Asian Theater instead being separated.
Philippines got added with both 1941-1942 and 1944-1945 campaigns
South West Pacific instead being a subsection to Pacific theater got expanded and features: Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 with 2nd Borneo Campaign in 1945, Solomon Islands 1942-1945, New Guinea 1942-1945, New Georgia 1943 and New Britain 1943-1945.
Pacific Ocean got moved down and instead of pointing to South West Pacific it points to: Aleutian campaign 1942-1942, Guadalcanal 1942-1943, Gilbert and Marshall's 1942-1944, Mariana and Palau 1944, Volcano and Ryukyu 1945. Yes I decided to bring back Aleutian campaign and move it to Pacific, you can also move it to "Other campaigns" next to "American theater" but in my humble opinion it fits more into "Asia-Pacific" than "Other". I wasn't sure if should I put Volcano and Ryukyu to "Pacific Ocean" or "Japan" but I decided to stick with "Pacific Ocean" to keep section below more consistent
Manchuria and Northern Korea got changed to Soviet-Japanese War section which features Manchuria and North Korea, I decided to keep "pre-war border conflicts" in this template. Japan got expanded by South Sachalin and Kurils.
Australia was moved to "Other fronts" as I didn't personally saw it fitting into Asia-Pacific section
Mediterranean and Middle East section:
Mediterranean Sea section is now moved to top and points to Adriatic Sea, Siege of Malta and Dodecanese campaign 1943
North Africa: No changes. Points to Libya-Egypt, Morocco-Algieria and Tunisia
East Africa 1940-1941. I decided to add Italian Guerrilla War in Ethiopia which continued to even after ending of East African campaign up to 1943.
Created "Middle East" which points to Iraq, Syria-Lebanon and Iran. It's a cosmetic change
That's pretty much all. I feel like this would be more complete and template now would reference more campaigns which may be more useful for newcomers. Feel free to change it but I feel it covers pretty much majority of theaters.
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