User:Nick-D
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There's one characteristic that sets writing apart from most of the other arts – its apparent democracy, by which I mean its availability to almost everyone as a medium of expression
— Margaret Atwood, On Writers and Writing
It’s a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It’s not a mass taste.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Axis naval activity in Australian waters
Australian Defence Force
Timor Leste Defence Force
Tom Derrick (significant contributor to this article)
Take Ichi convoy
Military history of Australia during World War II
Convoy GP55
Operation Teardrop
Battle of Morotai
No. 1 Wing RAAF
Dutch 1913 battleship proposal
Bombing of Yawata (June 1944)
Black Friday (1945)
Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945)
No. 79 Squadron RAAF
Operation Kita
John Treloar (museum administrator)
Battle of Arawe
Air raids on Japan
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in Australian service
Australian contribution to the Battle of Normandy
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in Australian service
McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk
Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III in Australian service
No. 38 Squadron RAAF
Operation Tungsten
Operation Mascot
Battle of Labuan
Operation Goodwood (naval)
Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II
Operation Paravane
Operation Pamphlet
Vultee Vengeance in Australian service
Operation Inmate
South China Sea raid
Boeing CH-47 Chinook in Australian service
Second Australian Imperial Force in the United Kingdom
Bougainville counterattack (co nomination with AustralianRupert)
Western Australian emergency of March 1944
Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
Operation Obviate
Operation Catechism
Bombing of Obersalzberg
Operation Boomerang
Peter Raw
M113 armoured personnel carriers in Australian service
Battle of Saint-Malo
Operation Transom
Operation Sportpalast
Operation Berlin (Atlantic)
Project Waler
Rhodesia Information Centre
Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces
Operation Title
British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War
Australian light destroyer project
Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short
Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands
Action of 28 January 1945
Convoy Faith
Australian Army in World War II (co-nomination in which I played a relatively minor part)
4th Armoured Brigade (Australia)
John Hines (Australian soldier)
Operation Leader (with very substantial input from Manxruler)
New Britain campaign (co nomination with AustralianRupert)
Landing at Jacquinot Bay (co nomination with AustralianRupert)
1st Armoured Brigade (Australia) (supporting role only, assisting AustralianRupert)
Operation Cockpit
No. 80 Wing RAAF
No. 457 Squadron RAAF
Demobilisation of the Australian military after World War II
No. 75 Squadron RAAF
No. 1 Long Range Flight RAAF
General Dynamics F-111C (significant contributor to this article)
German attacks on Nauru
No. 6 Squadron RAAF
No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron RAAF
Indian Ocean raid (1944)
Attack on Yokosuka
Australian Army ship Crusader (AV 2767)
No. 78 Squadron RAAF
First Australian Imperial Force (co-nomination in which I played a relatively minor part)
Operation Pig Bristle
56th Independent Mixed Brigade
1 November 1944 reconnaissance sortie over Japan
Kaname Harada
Borneo campaign (1945) (co nomination with AustralianRupert)
Grumman S-2 Tracker in Australian service
Concrete bus shelters in Canberra
Operation Nordseetour
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This user is a member of WikiProject Timor-Leste .
- Library
- Useful online resources
- My sandbox
- Drafts1, Drafts2, Drafts3, Drafts4, Drafts5, Drafts6, Drafts7, Drafts8, Drafts9, Drafts10, Drafts11, Drafts12, Drafts13, Drafts14, Drafts15, Drafts16, Drafts17, Drafts18, Drafts19, Draft book reviews, Random drafts
- photo gallery
- Some thoughts on Wikipedia based on my experience
- Advice on the A-class and FA review processes
Useful or interesting links:
- Special:Longpages
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
- User:AlexNewArtBot/MilitarySearchResult
- {{WPMILHIST }}
- Special:NewPagesFeed
- Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- X!'s Edit Counter
- admin stats
- FAC statistics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military History//FA-Class military history articles/Popular pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Newsroom
- Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
- User:Skysmith/Missing topics about World War Two
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Military
- Wikipedia:Guidance on source reviewing at FAC
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Internet Archive books
To do list
I intend to work on these articles in the near future:
- Battle of Tarakan (1945)
- 1 May 1982 engagements (draft under development here, and suggestions for a better article name would be appreciated!)
- Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II
- Operation Title
- Operation Source
I also have plans to improve or start the following articles over the longer term:
- Battle for Brest - User:Nick-D/Drafts12
- Bombing of Kure (July 1945) (if I can ever find enough sources)
- Australia in the War of 1939–1945
- Convoy TM-1/Convoy TM 1 (see: User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
- Various RAAF flying squadrons (see User:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
- B-24 Liberator in Australian service (User:Nick-D/Drafts6)
- Sheila Mary McClemans - Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
- Margaret Irene Lang
- Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies - see User:Nick-D/Drafts7
- Attack on Kure (March 1945)
- Recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees from Japanese captivity (draft under development at User:Nick-D/Drafts11)
- Japanese home island air defences of World War II - see User:Nick-D/Drafts5
- Allied air raids on Hokkaido and northern Honshu
- Operation Inmate
- Liberation of Strasbourg
- Operation Counterblast
- Australian contribution to the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II (1943-45)
- Battle of Trier
- Battle of Luzon re-write (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
- Pacification of Rabaul - needs a new title for starters
- Battle of the Mons Pocket
- British re-occupation of Hong Kong (at User:Nick-D/Drafts17)
- Manpower Directorate (Australia)
- Atlantic pockets
- Operation Argos
- 1st Army Tank Brigade (New Zealand)
- Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
- Australian military deployments to Europe since 1945 (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
- South African forces in the Rhodesian Bush War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts8)
- Royal Air Force attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz (1940–1942) (at User:Nick-D/Drafts9)
- British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts18)
- Conscription in the Rhodesian Bush War - User:Nick-D/Drafts18