User:A D Monroe III

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This is an observation I once made about the probability of an edit being reverted, later codified into a brief essay by a couple of interested editors: WP:MONROE.

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Hi. I'm an average (few edits per week) Wikipedian.

I unwillingly contribute to the lack of cultural diversity of typical Wikipedians, except that I'm way older than most.

My profession is disk storage and software. My primary hobby is military history, specializing in how militaries change through history. My pet peeve is how little technology has to do with this, despite what many historians say. My secondary hobbies are games, science fiction, anthropology, technical writing and writing in general.

I'm not thin-skinned, and openly accept criticism. I avoid criticizing other editors, except as an unavoidable side-effect of asking an administrator if something should be done about an editor's repeated problematic habits.

In discussions about article contents, I much prefer to discuss edits without mentioning the editors. I see this as basic to WP:AGF.

Did you know...

...that materiel (ending "el") means military supply and equipment, which is different from material (ending "al"), meaning stuff to make things?

...that ordnance (two syllables) means military munitions, which is different from ordinance (three syllables), meaning a law or the like?

I wish editors would stop messing these up; it makes WP look foolish.

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To do

Maneuver warfare: disjointed, confusing, uneven
Infantry: poor in all respects; needs rewrite
Cavalry: poor in all respects; needs rewrite
Generations of warfare: self-contradicting
Conflicts between Tank#History and History of the tank
Economic warfare is just... sigh
Ancient warfare: several highly speculative theories presented as fact
Heavy infantry: says nothing about formations; incomplete
Mangonel: inconsistent and incomplete definitions; merge with Trebuchet?
Frontal assault: unbalanced, incomplete
Shock tactics: almost nothing for anything pre-modern
Artillery: tactics only covers NATO
Trench warfare: still too WWI specific
Tanks of the United States: nothing before 1919; should have US armored cars, tractors
Merge Programming language generations articles: each gen is defined only relative to others
Military tactics: now dominated by just two mediocre sources
Military: poor lede, mostly pointless content
Modern warfare: poor and unsourced lede that reflects nothing in body
Battle: lede small, body meanders without regard to lede
Armoured warfare: section Germany needs refactor for chronology and flow
Chariot: History and Eurasian Steppes sections overlap, non-chronological, confuses chariot and cart development
Battle of Prairie Grove: owner has removed context from start of lede
Howitzer: Lede simply incorrect.
Military vehicle‎: Stub of fairly significant subject
Pitched battle: Solely uses obsolete definition of "mutually agreed battle", ignoring modern definition of "dedicated, intense battle".
Talk:Peripheral#two_definitions: something I forgot to put on this list 3 years ago. Sigh.
Software engineering: this edit, part of an assignment given to a college student.

Done but monitoring

~~Skirmisher: needs lede, wider coverage~~ Fixed
~~Trebuchet: use/construction poor, ignores traction types~~ Fixed
~~Trench warfare: implies tanks ended all trench warfare~~ Fixed
~~Infiltration tactics: almost ignores German role; British and Russian roles need expansion~~ Fixed
~~Hurricane bombardment: need a home for this redirect~~ Fixed (although could be moved to separate article?
~~Soldier of fortune (all lower-case) should redirect to Mercenary, not the proper noun Soldier of Fortune dab.~~ Fixed
~~Assembly language: intro muddles one-to-one instruction def~~ Fixed
~~Merge Machine: stalled, Merger_proposal~~ Fixed
~~Erwin Rommel#World War: Unencyclopedic (and incorrect) "ironically" statement~~ Fixed
~~Maginot Line#Post-war criticism: new section needs review~~ Done

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