Module talk:Infobox military conflict/Archive 5
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Proxy conflicts and diplomatic disputes
I spend too much time explaining to bored college kids with this bizarre flagicon fetish that this template is not suitable for topics like 2017–18 Qatar diplomatic crisis and Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict among others. My main issue with it is that almost every time you have this infobox in such articles, there will be a great deal of original research involved. It took me some time to illustrate this point on the Qatar crisis article and I was only successful because other well-established editors seemed to be in agreement with me. But I don't plan on doing this everywhere. The reason I'm saying it's not suitable for those topics is because nowhere on /doc are the words "diplomatic" and "proxy" mentioned. Thing is, I do want them mentioned, but along the lines of: "This template is not suitable for articles dealing with proxy conflicts and diplomatic disputes." I would also like to have friendly fire incidents (e.g. USS Liberty incident and 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan) included in the wording, but I can leave this for another discussion if it's too controversial right now. Should I convert this to an RfC? Fitzcarmalan (talk) 14:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Ordering of campaign boxes
Is there a preferred order for campaign boxes when there are several? Eg see Battle of Neville's Cross. The example in the template page lists the more "junior" conflict first. Neville's Cross reverses this. Is there a preference? Or can one freely choose? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:05, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Casualties and losses
I've added "and equipment losses" to the description for the "casualties" field to match current practice. The templatedata should probably be updated too. See discussions:
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#RFC: What details should be included in Vietnam War infobox casualties section?
- Module talk:Infobox military conflict/Archive 3#Casualties and losses
- Module talk:Infobox military conflict/Archive 2#Equipment losses
Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- I have tweaked this a little and added some guidance re listing equipment losses per the first of the discussions listed. I have also updated the "template data" section to mirror the edits made to the "parameters" section. Regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 22:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)