Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military memorials and cemeteries task force

Welcome to the Military memorials and cemeteries task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers all military memorials, monuments, and cemeteries, regardless of the country or conflict to which they relate. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Memorials-task-force=yes or Memorials=y to the {{ project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Military memorials and cemeteries task force articles .

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The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by WP:RECOG for configuration options. Featured articles Arch of Remembrance Canadian National Vimy Memorial Southampton Cenotaph The Cenotaph AHS Centaur Civil Service Rifles War Memorial USS Constitution Devon County War Memorial Equestrian statue of Edward Horner Fountain of Time Freedom Monument Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood Great Western Railway War Memorial Charles Holden Hove War Memorial International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial London and North Western Railway War Memorial Manchester Cenotaph Mells War Memorial Midland Railway War Memorial USS Missouri (BB-63) Nelson's Pillar USS New Jersey (BB-62) North Eastern Railway War Memorial Northampton War Memorial Norwich War Memorial Portsmouth War Memorial Rochdale Cenotaph Royal Artillery Memorial Royal Naval Division War Memorial Shrine of Remembrance Southend-on-Sea War Memorial Spalding War Memorial Tower Hill Memorial Fabian Ware USS Wisconsin (BB-64) York City War Memorial Featured lists List of works by Charles Holden A-Class articles HMS Belfast Herbert Hart (general) USS Texas (BB-35) Good articles USS Alabama (BB-60) Albert Pike Memorial Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial HMS Belfast Bikernieki Memorial Boot Monument Civil War Memorial (Sycamore, Illinois) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Confederate Defenders of Charleston Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia) Confederate Memorial State Historic Site Dr. Samuel Mitchel Smith and Sons Memorial Fountain Dupont Circle Fountain East Knoyle War Memorial Equestrian statue of Ambrose Burnside Equestrian statue of Charles Devens Equestrian statue of George B. McClellan Equestrian statue of John A. Logan Equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon Ouvrage La Ferté Fountain for Company H George Gordon Meade Memorial Groton Monument Herbert Hart (general) Hokitika Clock Tower Imperial War Museum Duxford Indiana World War Memorial Plaza Intrepid Museum Israel Putnam Monument James Oglethorpe Monument King Alfred's Tower Lafayette Square (Buffalo, New York) Liberty Arming the Patriot Littlefield Fountain USS Massachusetts (BB-59) Nathanael Greene Monument National War Memorial (South Australia) USS North Carolina (BB-55) Peace Monument Equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan (Washington, D.C.) Robert E. Lee on Traveller Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument Skull Tower South African War Memorial (South Australia) St Symphorien Military Cemetery Statue of David Farragut (Washington, D.C.) Statue of George H. Perkins Statue of Israel Putnam Statue of John Aaron Rawlins Statue of William Francis Bartlett Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial USS Texas (BB-35) Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (Portland, Oregon) Equestrian statue of George Henry Thomas United Nations Memorial Cemetery Vietnam Women's Memorial Wellington Monument, Somerset Wilson's Creek National Battlefield World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island) World War I memorials World War II

Military memorials and cemeteries task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 39 FL 1 A 3 AL 0 GA 61     B 250 BL 2 C 821 CL 28 Start 1,266 List 48 Stub 321     Total 2,761 Total 79 Other pages Category 359 Disambig 5 Draft 2 File 54 Portal 0 Project 0 Redirect 31 SIA 1 Template 14 User 0 Total 466 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 12,773 Ω 4.498 category

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Contalmaison Chateau Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Corbie Communal Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery and Cemetery Extension • Couin British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Courcelette British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Dantzig Alley British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Daours Communal Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Extension • Dartmoor Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps (Dollis Hill, London) • Neptune Military Cemetery

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Masnieres British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • National War Memorial, Colombo • AIF Burial Ground Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Paseo Los Próceres • more...

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Twelve Tree Copse Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Unknown Sailor Monument • War Dog Memorial (Bristol Township, Pennsylvania) • War memorial locomotive • West Hartlepool War Memorial • World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial • World War I Memorial (Tiruchirappalli)

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Did you know

• 17 Apr 2024 – Boot Monument (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Relativity (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 19 Feb 2024 – 1864 Washington Arsenal explosion (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by APK (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 09 Apr 2023 – USS Wisconsin (BB-64) (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Hog Farm (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 27 Mar 2024 –
  Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington National Cemetery) by PK-WIKI (t · c); see discussion

• 12 Feb 2023 – French Resistance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fred Gandt (t · c); see discussion

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission website – the best official source for information
• Holt T and V, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient Barnsley:2003 Leo Cooper Pen and Sword
  ISBN 0850525519
• Holt T and V, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Somme Barnsley:2003 Leo Cooper Pen and Sword
  ISBN 0850524148
• The Great War 1914–1918
• ypressalient.co.uk CWGC pages