Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/News/December 2012/Interview
Hmmm, so this interview got answers from CCCCP :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:09, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Why am I not informed of this? XD My specialty is also an obscure part of military history, I think. No offense. :) Arius1998 (talk) 09:25, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
- Fair comment! The names we picked were a sample of quite a few possibilities but we felt that five or so respondents was enough for one sitting. Rest assured that we're already thinking of another interview along the same lines in the first half of next year... :-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:44, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Very interesting interview, guys! Thanks for doing it; I feel like I've learned a lot. I would like to second the mention of the Google News Archive; even though they have stopped adding new papers to it (and don't really have a home page anymore; this is the closest I've found), the sheer amount of searchable articles is a great help for just about every 20th century topic. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
- Not quite useful for Indonesian sources... international takes, maybe... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:39, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
- I could have specified that... I used it for international perspectives in South American dreadnought race and found it invaluable for that. Also many of the Australian newspaper archives are online, though that is certainly a well-covered area in Milhist. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm, yes, you'd have to shoot quite a few editors to make Australian military history "under represented"... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:02, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- I could have specified that... I used it for international perspectives in South American dreadnought race and found it invaluable for that. Also many of the Australian newspaper archives are online, though that is certainly a well-covered area in Milhist. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- Working in a fairly obscure area myself, it was interesting to see the similarities. Thanks for agreeing to do the interview, it was enlightening to say the least. One thing I have noticed about myself particularly when doing reviews is that I look really closely for POV issues as they are so common in the area where I work. Thanks again. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 11:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
- I think sometimes it's because we're stuck to the sources. If we only have access to a single point of view, the article will naturally follow that. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:05, 25 December 2012 (UTC)