Talk:Lord Kitchener Wants You

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Lord Kitchener Wants You article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1: 4 days

Lord Kitchener Wants You has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 22, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 9, 2015.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the use of Lord Kitchener's image in recruiting advertisements (pictured) was so ubiquitous that Lady Asquith began referring to him as simply "the poster"?

Marketing & Advertising Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Marketing & Advertising, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Marketing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Marketing & AdvertisingWikipedia:WikiProject Marketing & AdvertisingTemplate:WikiProject Marketing & AdvertisingMarketing & Advertising articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

Military history: British / European / World War I

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	British military history task force
	European military history task force
	World War I task force

Archives

Index 1

This page has archives. Sections older than 4 days may be automatically archived by when more than 3 sections are present.

Denikin poster?[edit]

Anton Denikin was a soldier, there is no evidence tat he was an artist. The poster should remain, but its attribution to Denikin should be removed. Arrecife (talk) 16:22, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery[edit]

I am enthusiastic about posters inspired by this one, do you think the gallery should be expanded?Arrecife (talk) 03:07, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jacket: Wrong kind of court?[edit]

In the section "Development", the type of jacket Kitchener is wearing is linked to the article on "Court dress", even as specific as directing us to the Queen's Counsel section. But that article shows what is worn by barristers and judges. Surely Kitchener would not be dressed as a KC/QC/barrister? Shouldn't the link lead to "Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom" instead, especially the older types of jacket such as the photo of the levée suit once worn by Charles Dickens, or perhaps even better the one from the Victoria and Albert Museum? TooManyFingers (talk) 07:13, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for replying to myself, but I just thought - why should it help to refer to any kind of court dress here? Isn't it more sensible to expect a military uniform? TooManyFingers (talk) 08:24, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it is the wrong link, in that it certainly shouldn't refer to dress in courts of law. The article on court dress in the UK would be better, but that article is nearly all taken up with details of the special outfits which civilians working at, or attending the royal court for specific occasions, needed to wear, and doesn't deal with the position for senior army or navy officers. On the whole, I'd think it best to drop the link altogether. Ponsonby100 (talk) 09:37, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the link, but tried to save the (likely valid) point that the old-fashioned formality of his clothing was part of the overall effect. TooManyFingers (talk) 06:17, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]