Talk:1st Military District (Australia)

Article consolidation suggestion

@Anotherclown, Nick-D, Ian Rose, and Newm30: G'day all, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to consolidate all the small military district articles into an overarching one, with the individual MDs redirecting to the parent article. I was thinking something like "Military districts of Australia", or "Australian Army military districts", in a similar style to RAAF area commands. Potentially that might be able to be worked into a single B class article on the wider topic, rather than several stubs. Thoughts? AustralianRupert (talk) 13:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Well, I'm probably biased but it makes sense to me...! When I first thought of RAAF area command articles I didn't think there'd be enough material for separate articles on more than a few of the individual areas, so I conceived of RAAF area commands as somewhat more list-like than it is -- my first drafts (outside of WP) had an overview followed by eight mini-articles on the individual commands, each with its own abbreviated infobox. After a while I found enough info to abandon the list/mini-article approach, leading to the nine articles we have today. For the moment though I think the one consolidated military districts article makes sense -- even if some or all of the districts eventually justify their own articles, an overview of the whole system (origin, development, demise/supersession -- as in RAAF area commands) would still be useful. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 15:50, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Gday. Yes this sounds like a good suggestion to me (and its something I'd been thinking of in the past and never got off my backside to do). I'm not opposed to either of the proposed titles but lean towards Military districts of Australia (not an informed opinion, just sounds better to my ear). If / when a merge occurs I'd be prepared to do some work on any article but cant promise too much. Anotherclown (talk) 23:25, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, I don't have a strong pref for either title -- "Australian Army military districts" follows the "RAAF area commands" format but I see nothing wrong with "Military districts of Australia" (or perhaps "Australian military districts"?) but I think you army types should probably do what sounds logical to your ears... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:51, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Just thinking Hawkeye7‎ might have an opinion on this too... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:59, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Well, there's definitely more that could be said about each military district. For a start, Australians will notice that they don't exactly correspond to the state boundaries (the 1st MD, for example, includes Tweed Heads). They could state which units were raised in which district. And when the districts were created and abolished. All readers would come in through the names of the districts rather than the main article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:26, 21 August 2016 (UTC)