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==Monroe's Law==
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]].

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

I unwillingly contribute to the [[systemic bias|lack of cultural diversity]] of typical Wikipedians, except that I'm way [[ancient history|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 [[Technological determinism#Criticism|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]]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software_engineering&diff=prev&oldid=1021679909 this edit], part of an assignment given to a college student.
 
=== Done but monitoring ===
* <s>[[Skirmisher]]: needs lede, wider coverage</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Trebuchet]]: use/construction poor, ignores traction types</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Trench warfare]]: implies tanks ended all trench warfare</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Infiltration tactics]]: almost ignores German role; British and Russian roles need expansion</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Hurricane bombardment]]: need a home for this redirect</s> ''Fixed (although could be moved to separate article?''
* <s>[[Soldier of fortune]] (all lower-case) should redirect to [[Mercenary]], not the proper noun [[Soldier of Fortune]] dab.</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Assembly language]]: intro muddles one-to-one instruction def</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>Merge [[Machine]]: stalled, [[Talk:Machine (mechanical)#Merger_proposal|Merger_proposal]]</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Erwin Rommel#World War]]: Unencyclopedic (and incorrect) "ironically" statement</s> ''Fixed''
* <s>[[Maginot Line#Post-war criticism]]: new section needs review</s> ''Done''

== Discussions I'm currently tracking ==
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