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what about South America? 73.76.106.53 (talk) 19:09, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Canada???

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Wtf????


we lost porportionaly

as much as England yet no mention of Vimy or nfld’s lost the first day of the somme

what geocentric ass wrote this! 156.34.18.35 (talk) 13:37, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

wp:agf. Slatersteven (talk) 13:53, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This article says "Operating as a separate unit for the first time, the Canadian Corps' capture of Vimy Ridge is viewed by many Canadians as a defining moment in creating a sense of national identity", accompanied by a photograph of a Canadian tank and soldiers at Vimy. DuncanHill (talk) 13:56, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“The war to end all wars”

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My revision altering the introduction of the article from calling this war "the Great War" to "the War to End all Wars" has been reverted.

However, I think the title of "War to End all Wars" is a much more appropriate description of this war than "the Great War", because the first was more widely used at the time. I think we should replace the current title with this. DementiaGaming (talk) 21:41, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The term "war to end all wars" is discussed in the article. The wording of the lead resulted from extensive discussion and consensus here on the Talk page. Unless a new consensus emerges, the current version will stand. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:48, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also the "war to end all wars" term is wrong because it didn't prevent World War II from happening. So the term "Great War" is more appropiate.84.54.70.120 (talk) 09:57, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You are ignoring the fact that this term was the most popular way to describe the war during the time. It was a global war that people struggled to understand so they dubbed it the war to end all wars, and the term has since become synonymous with WWI. Besides, this term has its own article and the "Great War" term does not. DementiaGaming (talk) 17:11, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No we are not, we just do not think that is relevant to an encyclopedia being written for today's audience, using up-to-date sources. Slatersteven (talk) 17:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
More or less the above, the "war to end all wars" was an aspirational name coined out of a hope that 20 years later was proved to be futile. Slatersteven (talk) 10:03, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in World War I

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of World War I's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Britannica":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT 02:15, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]