User:Sp33dyphil/MILHIST questionnarie

MILHIST Military Aviation questionnaire edit

This is a short questionaire I am conducting to give me an idea of what others would like the task force to achieve and their capabilities that might contribute positively to the task force. The four questions of this questionaire are:

What are your strengths on Wikipedia?
Which four military aviation articles would you like to see be promoted to at least GA?
What detailed resources (books, journals, etc) about military aviation do you have access to? Please provide the publications' authors, titles and ISSNs/ISBNs.
Which three military aviation articles are you wiling to provide assistance? This can be expansion, copyediting, reference formatting, etc.

Please reply by pasting the following below the previous user's comments before filling it out with specific examples for points 2 and 4.

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LanceBarber (talk)
My strengths

Century Series, USAF sqdns, wings, bases, aviation museums, aviation historical societies

Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

aviation historical societies
aviation museums
aviation hall of fames

Sources which I have (short list)

Yenne’s Spacecrafts, a/c walk-arounds/profiles on many USAF, 4-5 other a/c encyclopedias
USAF Magazines for 15-20 yrs
USAF Reference Series(hardbound)- Bases, Bases Overseas, Chiefs of Staff, USAAF, WWI
USAF T.O.s for F-100C, D, B-24, Sabreliner
Navy carrier books, +
Jone’s:, US Bombers, Fighters, Nav Fighters

Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

any of the above mentioned topics

LanceBarber (talk) 20:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

DPdH (talk)

Pleased to meet you, and thanks for contacting me for this valuable initiative! As I'm very busy currenmtly in "real life", it will take me some time to gather the details on the sources I have (they're in "long-term" storage and not at hand); maybe I'll have some time over the Xmas break. When do you need the full questionnaire responded, please? Regards,DPdH (talk) 06:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Harrison49 (talk)

My strengths
Historical research
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
RAF Bentley Priory

RAF Fighter Command

RAF Bomber Command

Battle of Britain Bunker
Sources which I have
Bristow, Mark. (2005) A History of Royal Air Force Northolt. RAF Northolt: No. 1 AIDU
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
Royal Air Force stations

MoRsE (talk)

My strengths
I have some deeper knowledge of aviation subjects relating to Finland, to a somewhat lesser degree I am also interested in German, Russian/Soviet and Nordic aviation subjects. I have also tried to follow up on new aircraft projects. I know several languages so I can also translate entire articles or paragraphs from other language wikipedias. I have been a wikipedian for quite a long time, and currently I am an administrator on enwp (I have also had oversight and admin rights on other language wp's). I used to work with smaller code-writing projects such as creating infoboxes and such but this has diminished due to time constraints.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Finnish Air Force and its aces

Warsaw Pact air forces

Generally air force history from the cold war period, most articles have neglected sections on this time period

Editing many of the articles involving Italian aircraft. These have lots of information, but are in many cases poorly written (the same is rquired also of French Navy ships, but this is not of interest here).
Sources which I have
Too many to mention, I have quite a lot of printed resources, but most are currently stored in Finland (I am spending 95% of my time in Norway and Germany due to my work)

I like to think that I also have skills for finding necessary information from different resources other than printed books (contacts, electronic references and snippets of information from available electronic publications etc)
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
I suspect that my future contributions will mostly involve Finnish Air Force-related subjects, as most of the avaition articles outside my scope (see question 1) now have reached a certain level of maturity. I am not sure I can devote so much time to the project that I could contribute to more to these in any significant manner. I do know what is expected from a new aircraft article, and if I stumble upon one that doesn't live up to the standards I will try to do the necessary work to improve it.

Poliocretes (talk)

My strengths
Israeli Air Force, Israeli aviation and aerial warfare in the Middle East.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Israeli Air Force

Arab Air Forces

Everything about the Dassault Mirage III

Air force histories are generally neglected
Sources which I have
Numerous sources about the Israeli Air Force and Arab-Israeli air wars, plus assorted military aviation titles.
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
Anything really, though I think I can best contribute to articles about aerial warfare in the Middle East. Not limited to Arab-Israeli though, but also WWII, Suez Crisis and other conflicts.

Petebutt (talk)

My strengths Aircraft, Aviation history, Miltary aviation, Gliders / gliding, Aero-engines
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Aichi M6A

Antonov An-22

Avro York

Avro 504
Sources which I have
A wide range of books including Janes AWA, Putnams (most of them). The Red Star series from Midland Publishing (Russian/Soviet aircraft),

Aircraft weapons books, Aero-engine books, Aircraft manufacturer books
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
Any Aviation related

Marcus Qwertyus

I'm a Flickr poweruser and can find or request photos on any topic.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Chengdu J-20

Sukhoi/HAL FGFA

Sukhoi PAK FA

Joint Multi-role Helicopter
Sources which I have
Google News sections like this one are easy to set up. This one is about fighter aircraft [1]

Also a stack of Boeing's Frontiers magazine dating back to May 2002.
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
F-35 Lightning II

Sukhoi PAK FA

American UAVs

Sabre ball (talk)

I actually have a BA in History. That should count for something.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Grumman F-14 Tomcat

VFA-103

Any article included in this book Book_talk:United_States_Navy_Aircraft_Squadrons
Sources which I have
Not sure. Will have to check.
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
Grumman F-14 Tomcat

VFA-103

Any article included in this book Book_talk:United_States_Navy_Aircraft_Squadrons

Potentially any other if I'm able and you ask nicely.

Fnlayson (talk)

My strengths
Teen Series fighters; most US, some European and some Soviet/Russian aircraft from 190s to present.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Grumman A-6 Intruder, LTV A- Corsair II, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

Lockheed A-12, Lockheed YF-12, especially SR-1 Blackbird

Boeing 3 AEW&C

See User:Fnlayson#Long term for some others
Sources which I have
Many of the Warbird Tech book series

Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft and other encyclopedia/directory books

See User:Fnlayson#Sources for a summary of what I have.
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
The above mentioned items. I will try to help with others if asked and am available.

The Bushranger _{One ping only}

My strengths
Oddballs - I like digging into the obscure and unusual, whereas things like P-51s do little to nothing for me.
Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
Fisher P-5 Eagle

Grumman FF

Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress

Dornier Do 335
Sources which I have
Angelluci and bowers' The American Fighter.

Several "...In Action" series books.

Google Books. ;P
Articles I'm willing to provide assistance
I can chip in with reading and copyediting wherever.