Template talk:World War I

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Contents 1 Suggestions 2 Flags 3 Conversion to portal?

[edit] Suggestions

The template looks really good. Great work! Some of the campaigns need revising; the primary African campaign was East Africa, not South-West Africa - can someone write up an article at East African Campaign (World War I)? It would be cool if Template:WWITheatre could be, somehow, incorporated into this template. The "Theatres" part in Template:World War I could be removed and the blank space at the bottom could be used to add all the topics in Template:WWItheatre. I'm not sure if its possible, though - is it? Anyway, again, great work Dna-webmaster! SoLando 01:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Template:WWITheatre is already incorporated. It was the first thing I thought of:). But thank you very much for your kind words, SoLando! Regards, Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis 20:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flags

Some of the miniature flags are wrong. India's flag in 1914-1918 was not the current, post-independence flag, but rather one looking like this. Canada's flag is also wrong. It should look like this. Newfoundland ought to be this; the Italian flag should have the cross of Savoy, as such; and there's a coat of arms in the old Romanian flag, as such. I'm not sure how to deal with this. john k 21:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing this, John! I was not the one who added the flags, and I am not sure whether I like to have them in the template. Since many of them are wrong, I think it's better, for now, to remove all the flags. I have done this, but I put a backup of them here:

• Entente Powers
  • Russian Empire
  • France
  • British Empire
    • Australia
    • Image:Ca-1868.png Canada
    • Image:Flag of the Viceroy of India.JPG India
    • Newfoundland
    • New Zealand
    • South Africa
    • United Kingdom
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • USA
  • Serbia
  • Portugal
  • Japan
  • more...

• Central Powers
  • German Empire
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Image:Late ottoman flag.png Ottoman Empire
  • Bulgaria

My regards, Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis ^{talk - contribs} 20:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of having the flags, but I think they need to be correct...I suppose we need to find public domain images of the older flags. Someone could write to the proprietor of worldstatesmen.org to see if the flags he uses are public domain images? john k 20:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Just to note - the ones that definitely need changing are Canada, India, and Newfoundland. It would be nice to find new images for Romania and Italy, but the tricolor images are essentially correct, so it would, I think, be acceptable to use the current images. john k 22:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I've replaced the Canadian and Indian ones, since we seem to already have images. On inspection, the Newfoundland flag appears to possibly be correct.

[edit] Conversion to portal?

A discussion about possibly converting large footer templates for wars—such as this one—into portals has been started here; comments and suggestions would be very welcome! Kirill Lokshin 02:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)