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The purpose of this featured articles image survey is to better organize the images on our Wikipedia:Featured articles. This is important to ensure Wikipedia's status as a free content resource (including images) and to comply with criterion #3 of Wikipedia:Featured article criteria.
Survey goals
editAlthough our featured articles are generally of quite high quality, image issues have often been neglected in the past. The main goal of this project is to ensure that every featured article has at least one free content image and that none abuse fair use restrictions.
Instructions
editYour aim is to make a report on a featured article (any you choose), that you should sign with the date. The report should include the number of images and their free/non-free statuses. Fair use images employed in critical comment should be distinguished from eye candy images, as the latter may be restricted in future. Any potential abuses of copyright or fair use should be reported. Recommendations for possible free images would also be helpful.
It would be a good idea to also leave a brief report at the article's talk page, especially if there are any problems.
Art, architecture, and archaeology
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- All images are verified as public domain. Also, the practice of linking to some external images rather than including them is a good idea, and provides a model for how this might be done in articles with copyright problems. Chick Bowen 15:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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- All of the photographs are taken by Giano and properly released (though ideally they should be on Commons rather than here), who also created the floor plan. The two paintings are public domain. The only fair use image is Image:NT Belton book.gif. These book covers are a problem we have to address project-wide--as usual, the commentary here (and the only commentary is in the caption) is on the book, not the cover. Chick Bowen 15:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Matthew Brettingham
- Only three images. The painting is public domain, the other two claim PD release by Louisa Brown; there's no indication of copyright one way or the other on her web site, but perhaps Giano has an e-mail from her? Chick Bowen 16:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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- All images are public domain or GFDL except Image:British VE Day.jpg, which is claimed as fair use as a historically important image and illustrates the sentence, "the Palace was the centre of British celebrations, with the King, Queen and the Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret appearing on the balcony, with the palace's blacked-out windows behind them, to the cheers from a vast crowd in the Mall." This seems acceptable educational use to me. Chick Bowen 16:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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- All images are PD or GFDL. Image:Yama.jpg needs review--is this two-dimensional? Chick Bowen 19:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
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- All images are free and on commons except Image:Barlach Magdeburger Ehrenmal.jpg. This is a GFDL photograph of a copyrighted statue; see Image talk:Barlach Magdeburger Ehrenmal.jpg. The photograph illustrates this sentence: "The eradication of religion could not be accomplished, however, and weekly peace prayers were held in the cathedral beginning in 1983 in front of the Magdeburger Ehrenmal, a sculpture by Ernst Barlach." There is no commentary on the statue itself, and this would probably not be considered fair use according to WP:FUC. It also contains no fair use rationale. We should consider removing this image. Chick Bowen 19:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Adolfo Farsari
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- Article used one fair use image, Image:Picasso Painter El Greco.jpg, which is used in a side-by-side comparison with a PD painting and the relationship between them is discussed. One other painting, Image:Chicks-from-avignon.jpg, is tagged as PD-US but not on commons since its painter died in 1973. Was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon really published before 1909 (or in the US before 1923)? All other images are PD. Andrew Levine 01:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Quite possibly not. The tagger may have confused publication with creation. I believe the only Picasso works that are public domain are his pre-1923 prints, not paintings. Chick Bowen 05:54, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Article used one fair use image, Image:Picasso Painter El Greco.jpg, which is used in a side-by-side comparison with a PD painting and the relationship between them is discussed. One other painting, Image:Chicks-from-avignon.jpg, is tagged as PD-US but not on commons since its painter died in 1973. Was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon really published before 1909 (or in the US before 1923)? All other images are PD. Andrew Levine 01:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- The Four Stages of Cruelty
- All images are PD. Andrew Levine 01:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Point Park Civic Center
- Pierre Rossier
- Scottish Parliament Building
Awards, decorations, and vexillology
editBiology and medicine
edit- Action potential
- Albertosaurus
- Arctic Tern
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- 6 PD images, all correctly licensed. --Bob 23:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Thirteen images. Seven are public domain from the U.S. government and its various projects, one PD from Gutenberg, three self-released PDs. Two dual-licensed self-created images. ShadowHalo 08:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Banksia integrifolia
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- Cell nucleus
- Cochineal
- Charles Darwin
- Diplodocus
- Elfin Woods Warbler
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- 8 images. 3 PD (one user created, one US Govt created, one Australia Govt created), 3 GFDL, 1 CC-BY-2.5, 1 CC-BY-SA-2.5. All correctly licensed. --Ali'i 13:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- Fin whale
- Hippocrates
- Immune system
- Krill
- Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
- Oceanic whitetip shark
- Platypus
- Proteasome
- Psittacosaurus
- Sei whale
- G. Ledyard Stebbins
- Thylacine
- Tourette syndrome
- Triceratops
- Michael Woodruff
Business, economics, and finance
editChemistry and mineralogy
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- 11 images all PD or gfdl. One PD due to age the rest released.Geni 17:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- Aldol reaction
- Baby Gender Mentor
- Cyclol
- DNA
- Enzyme kinetics
- Lead(II) nitrate
Computing
edit- Acorn Computers
- Architecture of Btrieve
- Architecture of Windows NT
- ASCII
- Btrieve
- Color Graphics Adapter
- Markup language
- Microsoft Data Access Components
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- 7 images - 3 fair use, 4 public domain. A couple images may be issues - one is largely decorative and another is a screenshot showing an image that would otherwise have to be fair use. 74.13.60.113 01:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
- Phishing
- Quantum computer
- X Window core protocol
Culture and society
editEducation
editEngineering and technology
editFood and drink
editGeography and places
edit- Ahmedabad
- Amchitka
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Cleveland
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
- Darjeeling
- Dawson Creek
- Death Valley National Park
- Dhaka
- Dorset
- Dundee
- Gangtok
- Germany
- Gilwell Park
- Glacier National Park (US)
- Ladakh
- Larrys Creek
- Mauna Loa
- Minnesota
- Oakland Cemetery
- Paulins Kill
- Redwood National and State Parks
- Suburbs of Johannesburg
- Surtsey
- Turkey
- West Bengal
- West Wycombe Park
- Weymouth
- White Deer Hole Creek
- Yosemite National Park
Geology, geophysics, and meteorology
edit- 1928 Okeechobee hurricane
- 1933 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2003 Pacific hurricane season
- 2004 Atlantic hurricane season
- 1995 Pacific hurricane season
- Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware
- Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
- Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina
- Hurricane Claudette (2003)
- Hurricane Edith (1971)
- Hurricane Erika (1997)
- Hurricane Erika (2003)
- Hurricane Esther (1961)
- Hurricane Fabian
- Hurricane Gloria
- Hurricane Gustav (2002)
- Hurricane Irene (1999)
- Hurricane Irene (2005)
- Hurricane Iniki
- Hurricane Ismael
- Hurricane John (1994)
- Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Nora (1997)
- Tropical Storm Allison
- Tropical Storm Bill (2003)
- Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004)
- Tropical Storm Edouard (2002)
- Tropical Storm Henri (2003)
History
edit- Ike Altgens
- Aspasia
- Basiliscus
- Daniel Boone
- Joel Brand
- California Gold Rush
- Chalukya dynasty
- Elagabalus
- Carl G. Fisher
- Franklin B. Gowen
- History of the Australian Capital Territory
- History of Burnside
- History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870
- History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899
- History of the Grand Canyon area
- History of Lithuania (1219–1295)
- History of Puerto Rico
- History of Tamil Nadu
- History of Solidarity
- Hoysala Empire
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
- John W. Johnston
- Charles Edward Magoon
- Harry McNish
- William Nelson Page
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- Rus' Khaganate
- Sassanid Empire
- Theramenes
- Stephen Trigg
- Vijayanagara Empire
Language and linguistics
edit- Bengali language
- Nafaanra
- Thou
- One old public domain image. ShadowHalo 14:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Two images. One dual-licensed, the other CC-by (both made by the uploaders). ShadowHalo 15:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Law
edit- Dietrich v The Queen
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- Three images, all public domain from the U.S. Dept. of Justice. ShadowHalo 16:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Section summary of the Patriot Act, Title II
- Patriot Act, Title III, Subtitle A
Literature
edit- Ace Books
- Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
- Augusta, Lady Gregory
- James Robert Baker
- Natalie Clifford Barney
- John Day (printer)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Make Way for Ducklings
- Modernist poetry in English
- Night (book)
- Objectivist poets
- Ormulum
- Roy of the Rovers
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- Six images. One CC-by, the rest fair use. Two have incomplete fair use rationales. ShadowHalo 16:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- John Millington Synge
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
- The Well of Loneliness
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Mathematics
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- Five images, all dual-licensed and created by the uploader. ShadowHalo 15:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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- One image, public domain. ShadowHalo 16:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Polar coordinate system
Media
edit- "Abyssinia, Henry"
- Padmé Amidala
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Eric Bana
- B movie
- BBC television drama
- Blade Runner
- The Boondock Saints
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Cat and the Canary (1927 film)
- Countdown (game show)
- Bette Davis
- Diary of a Camper
- George Washington Dixon
- Doctor Who missing episodes
- Excel Saga
- Firefly (TV series)
- Henry Fonda
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Anthony Michael Hall
- Halloween II (1981 film)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
- Angelina Jolie
- Kinetoscope
- Latter Days
- The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
- Megatokyo
- Mutual Broadcasting System
- Sydney Newman
- Austin Nichols
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- All film images are PD due to failure to legally assert copyright during original release. Poster is claimed as PD since it has images from the film (would that necessarily be so? I see a derivative work there). Spanish poster is properly claimed as fair use with a sufficient rationale; screenshot from colorized version is fair use since it's copyrighted. Daniel Case 06:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- The Office (US TV series)
- Only Fools and Horses
- Palpatine
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Pilot" (House)
- The Quatermass Experiment
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Ran (film)
- Satyajit Ray
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Scooby-Doo
- The Simpsons
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Summer of '42
- Witchfinder General (film)
- The Wire (TV series)
Music
edit- 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)
- AC/DC
- "All You Need Is Love" (The JAMs song)
- Black Francis
- Celine Dion
- Enta Da Stage
- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
- Eurovision Song Contest
- "Fuck the Millennium"
- Himno Nacional Mexicano
- "Hollaback Girl"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
- The KLF
- k-os
- Frank Klepacki
- Olivier Messiaen
- Mandy Moore
- Megadeth
- Music of Athens, Georgia
- Music of Maryland
- Music of Minnesota
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- Three images and two audio files. A self-released public domain image, two attribution images, two uncopyrightable audio files. ShadowHalo 15:05, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Nightwish
- "Old Dan Tucker"
- Pixies
- "Real Love" (The Beatles song)
- Sasha (DJ)
- Slayer
- Sly and the Family Stone
- Elliott Smith
- "Something"
- The Waterboys
Philosophy
editPhysics and astronomy
editPolitics and government
edit- George Brown, Baron George-Brown
- Don Dunstan
- Fourth International
- Bruce Johnson
- Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006
- Local Government Commission for England (1992)
- Reginald Maudling
- Military career of Hugo Chávez
- Parliament Acts
- Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Ziaur Rahman
- Scottish Parliament
- South Australian legislative election, 2006
- Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- P. K. van der Byl
- Daniel Webster
Religion, mysticism, and mythology
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- All free content images, including a couple of nice user-generated maps. Includes one image whose source website (the French foreign ministry, actually) had a copyright tag, but that is clearly PD due to age (from 1866).--Pharos 03:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Jocelin
- Presuppositional apologetics
- Joseph W. Tkach
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- The "e meter" image in the template is GFDL. The "Xenu space plane" is problematic not for its copyright status (clearly free), but for its speculative nature and that its creator apparently made it "cheesy" on purpose (or perhaps that's a joke). The volcano pic is free and illustrative. The fair use BBC Panorama image (which is not apparently based on any "authentic" image of Xenu) is not used educationally; indeed the program is not discussed at all. The South Park screenshot, by contrast, is justified well by fair use. The two Dianetics book covers have very good fair use justification, as the specific images on their covers are related directly to the Xenu story. The fair use Sea Org logo is also used with its symbolism being commented on. The Hubbard handwriting sample is marked fair use, but is no more educational than would be a simple statement that Xenu writings written in his hand are known.--Pharos 03:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Royalty, nobility, and heraldry
edit- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- The lead image, Image:Bhumibol AdulyadejRamaIX.jpg clearly violates fair use as a portrait; this is not even an official photo, it's from the Associated Press. Interestingly, Image:Mahidols-1938.jpg, taken in 1938, has been donated as a GFDL family photo. There is one apparently user-created image of the royal emblem (but the only credit is "from the Thai Wikipedia"), and a fair use government poster commemorating his 60th anniversary of rule. There are three free content-licensed photos of public structures bearing his image (this would fall under Commons:Freedom of panorama if that applies in Thailand). And there's one supposedly GFDL image of his 60th anniversary celebration taken from a third-party Thai language site that I cannot confirm.--Pharos 02:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Charles Atangana
- British monarchy
- Edward III of England
- Edward VI of England
- Áedán mac Gabráin
- George I of Great Britain
- Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
- History of the Peerage
- Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
- Llywelyn the Great
- Óengus I
- Privilege of peerage
- Rhys ap Gruffydd
- Representative peer
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev
- Tiridates I of Armenia
- William III of England
- William IV of the United Kingdom
Sport and games
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- I guess I have an issue with images with the {{PD-old}} tag. How do you verify when the author died? Many images in this article have this tag. For that tag to be applicable, the author would have had to have died in 1937, or 41 years after the event. If the photographer was 40-50 years or younger at the time of the event, it is very possible he/she lived beyond 1937. It is just hard to verify. This applies to the following images: Image:Athens 1896 report cover.jpg, Image:1896 Olympic opening ceremony.jpg, Image:Masson flameng.jpg, Image:Leonidas Pyrgos.jpg, Image:Schuhmann flatow weingartner.jpg, Image:Hajos.jpg, Image:Launceston Elliot.jpg, Image:Schuhmann lotta atene 1896.jpg, and Image:1896 Olympic medal.jpg. Image:Panathinaiko.jpg: free image released to PD by author. Image:1896 Olympic games countries.PNG: user created map.↔NMajdan•talk 19:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
- Three SVG diagrams dual-licensed under GFDL and CC-BY-2.5. Two free use images of individuals, taken from Flickr, uploaded on Commons, and verified. One FU image (Image:Senna accident.jpg), a screenshot of a television program. Is of a crash during a race, so I don't believe any free image. Has rationale. Everything in this article looks good.↔NMajdan•talk 14:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2005 United States Grand Prix
- 3D Monster Maze
- Image:3DMonsterMaze.JKGS.tape-cover.jpg is a FU image but has some email and I do not know what they are trying to validate. The image Image:Malcolm-Evans-NGS98.jpeg states that the copyright holder has released all rights to it, but I wonder if this concept was fully explained to the owner of the image. Overall, 1 GFDL image, 3 game screenshots (no FU rationale), and 1 NoRightsReserved.↔NMajdan•talk•EditorReview 20:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- New Zealand national rugby union team
- Australia at the Winter Olympics
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- No issues. All images are PD or GFDL. Even includes a Featured picture.↔NMajdan•talk•EditorReview 20:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Moe Berg
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- Two GFDL images. No issues.↔NMajdan•talk•EditorReview 20:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Two problematic images. Image:Blankers koen.JPG is up for deletion from Commons since it's just a derivative photo of a copyrighted statue. Image:Cover FBK bio.jpg is a book cover with no fair-use rationale, and indeed, no possible fair-use rationale since the article's not about the book. Images removed, note left at talk page and article watchlisted. (ESkog)(Talk) 20:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
- Brabham
- Chelsea F.C.
- Chicago Bears
- Contains several fair use images including the team's helmet, jersey, and logo. All the FU images should have rationale for every individual article it is in; none of these images do. Image:Bears 1924.jpg is listed as PD but is dated 1924 and doesn't indicate the source so whether this is PD is questionable. Image:Chicago92.gif, Image:NFLClock-Bears-Large.jpg: no FU rationale at all. Total tally: 8 FU images, 1 questional PD image, 1 GFDL image.↔NMajdan•talk 19:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Had a discussion with the uploader of Image:Bears 1924.jpg on my talk page. Apparently, while he is not the originally photographer, he is the owner of the only known copy.↔NMajdan•talk 14:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Contains several fair use images including the team's helmet, jersey, and logo. All the FU images should have rationale for every individual article it is in; none of these images do. Image:Bears 1924.jpg is listed as PD but is dated 1924 and doesn't indicate the source so whether this is PD is questionable. Image:Chicago92.gif, Image:NFLClock-Bears-Large.jpg: no FU rationale at all. Total tally: 8 FU images, 1 questional PD image, 1 GFDL image.↔NMajdan•talk 19:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Chrono Cross
- Chrono Trigger
- City of Manchester Stadium
- Donkey Kong (video game)
- Dr Pepper Ballpark
- Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
- Everton F.C.
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- History of Test cricket (to 1883)
- Nellie Kim
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- Image:Koufax2.jpg: FU image of the player during a game. Has rationale but needs to specify which article. As the player is retired and 70+ years old, I believe an FU image of the athlete is permissible. Image:SandyKoufax1955Card.jpg: An image of the player's 1955 Topps rookie card. No rationale. Also not mention of the card anywhere else in the article so I don't know if this image supports "critical commentary." I believe if this image is to stay, some discussion of it should be necessary. Image:Dodger 32.png a user-created PD image of the player's number. Summary: No free use image of the player.↔NMajdan•talk 19:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Denis Law
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Metal Gear Solid
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
- New Jersey Devils
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
- Ted Radcliffe
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Gilberto Silva
- Sydney Roosters
- Ian Thorpe
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- Image:Jim Thorpe olympic.png: Image says copyright has expired due to author's life + 70 years but no verifiable proof. Very possible the author (photographer) is still alive or has not been dead for 70 years (meaning the author died in 1937, 22 years after this photo was taken). Image was published before 1923 so possibly PD in the US. Image:Jim Thorpe football.png: Possibly same issue. Image:Jim Thorpe.jpg: Looks good. Image:Jim Thorpe stamp.png: FU stamp, needs rationale. Image:WFI.jpg licensed using {{PD-retouched-user}} but no indication of original source to verify PD status.↔NMajdan•talk 19:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Transport
editWar
edit- Able Archer 83
- all PD or GDFL thanks to US gov. Sourceing is weak in a couple of cases though.Geni 19:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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- The lead (bus bombing) image has been marked PD; implied but not clear that permission may have been granted by email. There are two fair use images of political/militant organizations (the symbolism of one of which is explained in a caption). There are two free content maps which exemplify how to illustrate things without on-scene photos, one very well-done map of incidents of violence, and one electoral map which could be improved graphically.--Pharos 02:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Battle of Alesia
- Axis naval activity in Australian waters
- Battle of Bicocca
- Battle of Blenheim
- Battle of Ceresole
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- Battle of Edson's Ridge
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Moscow
- Battle of Rennell Island
- Battle of Savo Island
- Battle of Schellenberg
- Battle of the Eastern Solomons
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- Battle of Svolder
- Battle of the Tenaru
- Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo
- Battle of Warsaw (1920)
- Boshin War
- Caspian expeditions of the Rus'
- Crawford expedition
- Cretan War
- Cristero War
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Finnish Civil War
- First Battle of the Stronghold
- German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I
- Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)
- Italian War of 1521
- Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
- Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
- Russian Ground Forces
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Third Servile War
- Toledo War
- Ulm Campaign
- United States Marine Corps
- War of the Fifth Coalition
- Warsaw Uprising (1794)