Hello, GA Cup competitors! Thursday saw the end of Round 2. Sainsf once again took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 996 (a higher score then he received in Round 1!). In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 541 points, and in third place, Carbrera received 419 points. In Round 2, 142 reviews were completed! At the beginning of April, there were 486 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 384. Another demonstrable way in which this competition has made a difference is in the length of time articles languish in the queue. At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 9 months [1]; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased significantly, to a little over 5 months. [2] It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep lowering the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. We had an unusual occurrence happen in Round 2: because only one contestant submitted reviews in one pool, we selected the contestant with the next highest score to move forward to Round 3. (There will be a rule change for future competitions in case something like this happens again.) For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 will start on May 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on May 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:22, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Very close. I was waiting for you to claim the "15 articles destubbed on any listed building or populated settlement - 50 points" section of the bonuses. You'll have to work it out what you're claiming on that and list all of your destubs in the other claims section of the main entries page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:14, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
On this I'm of the opinion that you should both be crowned the winner as it's been extraordinarily close and you and Cwmhiraeth have both performed astoundingly well, but only one person can win the main £100 prize!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the April 2016 Military History Article Writing Contest with an incredible 240 points from 26 articles. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC) |
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Congratulations for winning the April 2016 Awaken the Dragon contest along with Cwmhiraeth!! You (and Wales) should be very proud of the quality and quantity of work that you contributed to Wikipedia this month. Amazing effort, it really makes a different to the encyclopedia, and it's paid off for you! Thankyou!:-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC) |
Congrats on the win Sturmvogel, you can proudly display these on your user page!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sturmvogel 66 congratulations on winning in the Awaken the Dragon contest! Could you please email me at karla.marte@wikimedia.org.uk from the email in which you want your prize to be sent to?. Thank you. Karla Marte(WMUK) —Preceding undated comment added 15:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber ( submissions) and one by Montanabw ( submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 ( submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned ( submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), and MPJ-DK ( submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden ( submissions) and five by Godot13 ( submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E ( submissions) and MPJ-DK ( submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK ( submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) and Cas Liber ( submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
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Hello.
Wherever did you get that idea from that numerals don't count as first word, and that the second word thus should be capitalized? Please show me the applicable guideline or style guide.
And why don't you apply it consistently throughout the article, for instanc, on the complement, "1660 officers and crewmen", which, according to you should be "1660 Officers and crewmen"?
Cheers.
HandsomeFella ( talk) 04:38, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you've been working on some for the Royal-Sovereign class battleships as well. Ramillies is up for GAR and it's about to pass, but the reviewer has queried the following phrase: "She had been constructed at such a slight tilt that it took nearly an hour and a half to travel down the slips and into the water". I can see why someone who is not versed in ship design would not get this, but I am not sure how to make it more clear to the average reader. Do you have any advice? Thanks, — Noswall59 ( talk) 11:38, 7 May 2016 (UTC).
Thanks for your suggestion.
Let me explain: I prepared the list on the whereabouts of the HMS Lancaster, to help me in my research of the History of Veracruz in 1914. I was more interested in dates and places than in events not related to my area of study. I simply thought I'd share it with Wikipedia, in the format that better suited my purposes.
As to the HMS Essex, finding her logbook in the Internet was something quite extraordinary for me. I vividly remember that Sunday morning, finding it after a Google Search, e-mailing one of the curators of the collection with a critical question (Re 21 Apr 1914, what does "US Pct B/S" mean?), getting her reply an hour or so afterwards (mind you: Sunday morning in Mexico City, mid afternoon in London), and corroborating my claim (based, of course, on US sources) that there had been no terrestrial attack on the Naval Academy that day - a key concept contrary to the official Mexican History of the es:Occupación estadounidense de Veracruz de 1914. HMS Essex and HMS Berwick, by their presence in Veracruz on those fateful days, were front-line witnesses to the events. What a delight to be doing research in times of Internet and Wikipedia! I gave a talk on this subject, at a Symposium presided by the Mexican Navy, in Veracruz, June 2014.
I've just noticed that it was I who edited the logbook reference into the HMS Essex (1901) article , on 2 Apr 2014 -- just after some of your edits!
I will be getting back to you, on other items.
Thanks again for your message. I'll keep it in mind. Wkboonec ( talk) 19:09, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:16, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
I would like to run Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier on 31 May, but as you had one of your battleship articles running earlier in the month at short notice, you may feel that another is an imposition. It won't be scheduled before next Friday, so give it a bit of thought & let me know. Brianboulton ( talk) 15:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Greetings. I was wondering if you could start a new backlog reduction drive. My proposal can be found here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Lists of Wars Backlog.-- Catlemur ( talk) 19:56, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi You added Devonport Dockyard to the core list for the WWest Country Challenge. It s a dab page - did you mean HMNB Devonport (which is already on) or Devonport Naval Base? Could I also ask a favour - when you add entries can you also add them to the relevant county pages please (as it is doing my head in trying to keep them in sync).— Rod talk 18:15, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, According to the article on the Duke of Devonshire there is only a slight connection between the the dukes and the county of Devon so this seemed too little to make a Core article. If you decide otherwise I won't object to it being added again.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 13:06, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm not finding any sources online for it? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
You may have overlooked: the "Transcript" is much more than that, it is actually the original logbook.
For instance, for "21 April 1914" (crucial for the understanding of the US Occupation of Veracruz), in the line just above the heading, the transcript shows the link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM53-41085/ADM%2053-41085-060_0.jpg
I suggest the reference "Transcript" be changed to something more meaninful like "Logbook (original and transcipt)" or "Logbook (with transcript)" or simply "Logbook".
Having the "Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1 Era" online has been quite extraordinary for rewriting the history of Veracruz in 1914.
Saludos cordiales, Wkboonec ( talk) 15:18, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey man, I archived the first 500 or so sections of your talk page because it was slowing my entire computer down. I hope that's alright! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey Sturmvogel, so I'm working on end-of-round stuff for the GA Cup, and it has been brought to my attention that three of the articles you submitted were passed to GA, right under the deadline, on the 29th. Technically, they qualify for Round 3, but it's your responsibility to mark them as passed on your submissions page. If I were to count them, it wouldn't change the results, anyway, and since they passed during Round 3, they wouldn't be eligible to count in the finals. You'd still move onto the finals even if I didn't count them, although it's possible that you'd move forward as a pool winner and not as a wildcard. All that to say that since you didn't mark them as passed before the end of the round, I'm unable to count them towards your final Round 3 score. But you moved forward anyway, so congrats! Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 05:06, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, GA Cup competitors! Tuesday saw the end of Round 3. Sainsf, for the third time, won with a sizable 487 points and a shocking 29 articles reviewed. In second, MPJ-DK had 168 points and 7 reviewed articles. In second place, MPJ-DK earned 168 points with just 7 articles, and in third place, Carbrera received 137 points with just 9 articles. Our two wildcard slots went to J Milburn with 122 points and Sturmvogel 66 with 101 points. In Round 3, 65 reviews were completed! At the beginning of the GA Cup, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 3, there were 394. Another demonstrable way in which this competition has made a difference is in the length of time articles languish in the queue. At the beginning of the GA Cup, the longest wait was over 9 months [3]; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait had decreased significantly, to a little over 5 months [4]—nothing before 2016. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Finals for the GA Cup so that are successes continue. To qualify for the Finals, contestants had to earn the highest scores in each of the three pools in Round 3; plus, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users in all of the pools. For the Finals, users were placed in one pool of the remaining five users. To win the GA Cup, you must have the most points. The Finals started on June 1 at 0:00:01 UTC' and end on June 30 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about the Finals and the pools can be found here. A clarification: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We wish all the contestants the best of luck! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Hi Sturmvogel66, You may recall that some time ago you carried out a good article review for me. That article, HMS Emerald (1795), is now at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/HMS Emerald (1795)/archive1 and I wondered if you might make some comments and even lend your support if you thought it met the criteria? Best regards-- Ykraps ( talk) 08:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Planning on runnng this without prizes on June 13-20. If you're interested in contributing put your name down at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, a community good article reassessment has been started for the article on Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, the review of which you commented on. The reassessment page can be found here, if you would like to comment on whether the article still meets the GA criteria, or to provide suggestions about how it could be improved so that it can retain its GA status. K.e.coffman ( talk) 04:47, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Just a reminder that this is now open!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:31, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
As you can see, precisely 1 week. May we please talk now? 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 13:19, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
I only wish to ask you, to try and enable me to edit. I have unique things to do, that nobody ever done before, nor do they plan on doing. Time has passed since I got banned, and I have changed. I refined my editing skills, and now I too will only edit and create based on sources, even Romanian sources at times. There are many things about my country that have been left to oblivion, and all I want is to be allowed to bring them to surface, for they do not deserve to be left to oblivion. Romanian battles, Romanian technological achievements, all need to be spread about, and as I am at the source, I think I can say that I can do it the best. We are humans, we come and go, but the Wiki will likely be here for the coming generations. I do not want those future generations not to know about Romania's great history, often overlooked for reasons I genuinely cannot comprehend. Take this for instance: After the secret was revealed in 1914 that Romania was part of the Triple Alliance, people continued to call it the Triple Alliance, despite being revealed to have a 4th member, as if we did not even exist. And that genuinely hurts me. Or sometimes ignoring Romanian military contribution and overlapping us with other powers, even though their troops had little bearing on our actions. Like calling the Allied forces on Romanian land in WW1 Russo-Romanian, as if the Russians were the majority when they were only 50,000 out of 700,000, the rest, the overwhelming majority being Romanians. Or calling "Germans" the mostly Romanian force that besieged Odessa, as you yourself saw. Or "forgetting" to mention us at the invasion of Crimea, way too often stating that "The Germans occupied Crimea", again, as if we would not even exist. This is abusive and dismissive, towards us as a nation, and especially to those who gave their lives for Romania, as Romanians, only to be ignored or labelled as something else. I want to correct this grave set of injustices towards us, and to spread about what we have good. Please, allow me to do that. Help me even, if you'd please. I know my mistakes and I regret my ways, all I ask is 1 more chance to genuinely contribute with good faith, reliable sources, and unaddressed information. I am also aware of my uncivil anger-induced behavior, but I will gladly control it if that would mean being able to edit in peace, and not having to fear that it would be undone in hours. Just please. Help me. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 13:50, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
But Mister Ed, I do have an account. I was banned due to my fury issues and careless editing, but I changed and still changing. I said some bad and hateful things, I admit, but right now, all I wish is to contribute with new things. I already got the srouces for what I want to do. Took me hours to find them. All I ask is 1 more chance. Under supervision, don't really care, just 1 more chance to properly contribute. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 10:09, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Sturmvogel 66 No problem, I will wait until Friday. Tell them that here the summer holiday just started. For the next 2 months, I will be able to do ample and meaningful and novel contributions, but the coming school year will be the toughest. I will hardly be able to have time to edit. Plus that, this autumn there will be 100 years since Romania entered WW1. To mark the event, I wish to make articles about Romanian battles and weapons of that time. It is important, because a centennial is only once. Please, just tell them what I just said, and how much I can offer Wikipedia in this period. Tell them that I am willing to accept strict and constant supervision. Please, just let me back for 2 months. Afterwards, you can ban me for an entire year if you want. But this year is crucial, this is the time to make the things that truly matter to my country. In the end, please, do your best. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 12:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Sturmvogel 66 I am willing to accept. I do not mind talking to you about the things I do, on the contrary. My immediate intentions are to correct and improve some sources on some articles and also add some more information on them, well-sourced, ofcourse. Then, I intend to greatly improve the Category:Naval battles involving Romania. It is really depressing and off-putting to see only one article there. I gathered good sources for at handful of Romanian naval battles, even a Romanian source. I wish to create articles about our naval actions that would make that category much more comprehensive. I also aim to correct pronunciation errors on Romanian names. These are my goals, for the time being. That to be full honest. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 15:59, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
No, I am not. Please, excuse my friend, I told him about my situation, showed him the sources I intend to use, and he took it upon himself to do the edits for me. I just talked to him, told him that I am currently discussing being unblocked and asked him to stop because he is doing me more wrong than good...I am sorry myself, but we all need people to confess to about what's going on in our lives. I am also sorry that my IP is changed, I wanted to keep it as it was to keep good faith, but there was a blackout yesterday, and when the power came back on my IP changed too. Please, advocate for me. Do you think I like, to live and hide here like a rat, when all I want to do is good? Trust me, I do not. You know I can offer interesting new things to the Wiki. Please, let me do so. I talked to him and there should be no longer problems at those articles, and I will keep waiting for news from you, about my blocking. I need your help. Please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 12:39, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I will read, carefully. You just please keep supporting my return. I have so, so much to do...To put it brief: I want to take already existing articles in the Romanian Wiki, and make English versions of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 13:55, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I am making those edits as a "business card", to show how many sources I can find on a topic, and how dedicated I am to make any edit be meaningful, sourced and helpful. But very well, this reply to you will be my last edit until I get news from you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 14:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I have been watching this conversation. I think we may have interacted in the past 82. You need a mentor. I would be willing to act as such. I would seriously ask you to register on the site, as it would greatly increase your credibility. I can put it no other way. Apologies for butting in Sturm. Cheers both. Irondome ( talk) 01:50, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
I corrected a little grammar mistake on Amiral Murgescu, an out of place word. Hope you're okay with that. Also, I am going to soon make an article draft, and show it to you for approval. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 16:11, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Alright, I guess I shall keep waiting then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 18:20, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
I uhh...I'm sorry. It's not that I could not wait, it's just that the time has come for this. This is the very first battle between Romanian and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front of WW2. I had to do it now, not only because it's the anniversary of it, but because it's the 75th anniversary of it. I am sorry, and please forgive me, but as a Romanian, I felt I had the moral obligation to do this, on the 75th anniversary of our entrance in WW2. Draft:Battle of the Chilia Branch 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 07:57, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Okay, okay, but 75 years...are only once. And it's not even a real article, just a draft. I don't think it displeases anyone that much. But as there are no more events to mark for a while, I'll stop. Seriously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 11:12, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Can I talk to you about an encyclopedic subject? Not with the purpose of editing, just talk with someone who can actually understand me. I really need to get it off my chest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 13:43, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
I absolutely hate seeing Japan quoted as being more important than Romania in WW1. People might argue "But Japan was a Great Power", yeah look, I don't care what Japan WAS, I care what Japan DID! Do you know what did Japan do? Mobilized in total 800,000 troops, and fought only one battle. You know what did Romania do? Mobilized in total over 1,200,000 troops, and fought almost 20 battles! There is absolutely no reason, to put Japan above Romania when talking about WW1 combatants! Even more, people SO enjoy to maliciously overlook this, but Romania actually was a main belligerent! In the treaty that bound us to join the war, it was specified that we would have equal status with the main Allies! It was all official, signed and approved by all! Equal status with the main belligerents, equals main belligerent! The fact that after the war they changed their minds does not change with anything the fact that, all the time Romania fought in the war, it did so with the official status of main belligerent. In consequence, there is absolutely no reason to have Japan above Romania in the hierarchy of WW1 Allies. Again, it doesn't matter what the status of Japan was, that was a war, not a parade of statuses! Base all your rankings on REAL military merits, because a contribution of 1,200,000 troops, and the loss of half of them, IS NOT SOMETHING TO BRUSH ASIDE!! This is the main source of my wrath: The Wiki pretends to be a fair and neutral place, yet allows and even defends such blatant acts of unjustfulness! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 19:11, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
But I AM objective. Romania's contribution is greater than Japan in any single possible way, yet Japan is still put above Romania! I feel insulted because they do it "just because". They shove Romania away to make room for Japan, "just because", with no real reason whatsoever! Article VI of the Treaty of Bucharest (1916): Romania has EQUAL status with it's allies! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 19:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, let's say it's so about the countries themselves, but I still see no reason to have Japan's leader above Romania's, Serbia's or Russia's. Get to the bottom, Emperor, that's where you belong. 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 03:45, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
But I am not a threat for anything if unblocked...That's why I tell you all this, so I could take it off my chest and not affect my editing. 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 04:24, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
To be fully honest, I fear that I am waiting in vain. That I will be denied anyway and thus my time only be lost. If this will be the case, please, let me edit in peace. I vow, that you will never find real reasons of complaint for my edits, I make sure that all I do is sourced. I just fear I am loosing time in vain... 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 15:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, why am I going trough this again? Because I had a fit over half a year ago? True, I was warned about being blocked, but I never imagined it would be for SIX MONTHS!! You people are cruel! Excuse me, did I spread ISIS propaganda or stuff like that? Did I prove myself a danger with my edits? Yeah, I made mistakes, I am sorry, doesn't worth wasting a half a year from my life! And on my FIRST block?! Don't I have the "Yeah, you've been blocked, but since it's the first you're only getting 1 month." I would be okay with that, but NO, I get an indefinite block that I can only appeal after 6 months! Like I am the public enemy number 1 or something! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 15:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I doubt there is a need for that. I try to use books in English as my primary source, taking quite a while to find what I need, but I often succeed. Hmm...can I give you what to wirte, and the adjacent source, and you make the edit? Would you be alright with that? 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 16:52, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I can make the effort to wait about most things, but there is one I just CANNOT! Please, do that edit for me! It is very important, and as a matter of fact, a question of principle. Just 1 edit to do for me. Please. 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 18:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Two more major issues are discrimination and racism. I'm serious. For instance, the Wiki staff had the time to make an article about every single shitty German submarine, no matter the size, no matter the state of completion, could even be just a design, still got it's own article! But Romania built two full-size, modern submarines in WW2, and nobody says anything! Really! Even the 2 articles about them that only recently appeared, did so only with my prompting! I ask you, is a paper submarine, a mere design, a drawing, better than 2 modern full-size submarines with action and history? What was the fault of Rechinul and Marsuinul, to be ignored like that? That they were not German? This is pure, blatant discrimination endorsed by the Wiki staff! Neutral huh? Yeah, sure. Another thing that's wrong is the over-association when talking about us. People in general when talking about us tend to ignore us proper, and instead focus on our relationship with others, like we're an identity-less vessel, like we have nothing of our own, like we don't exist! If you want to talk about us, then talk about US!! I also don't like when people brush off our achievements and put emphasis on our failures. Like the Romania during World War I article did not long ago. The article praised the Germans for leading the conquest of most of Romania, instead of praising the Romanians, for taking on ALL of the Central Powers and still surviving! They act like the 1916 campaign was all, often completely ignoring our great victories in 1917, and then after we signed the peace treaty, many put us under German control on maps, despite the fact that the peace treaty officially recognized Romania's independence, not imposing any official form of vassalage towards Germany! Not to mention how they call us shit because we re-entered the war just 1 day before it was over, as if we were supposed to know it was going to be over the very next day! We didn't! And don't even get me started on our 23 August 1944 "betrayal"! "Boo! Traitors! You switched sides!" and shit like that. Look, we merely exited the Axis on 23 August 1944, and offered the Germans a peaceful retreat. On the following 2 nights, they bombed us and tried to seize our capital, effectively declaring war to us! Are we really at fault for declaring war on them on 25 August, after they made it clear that that's what they wanted? The point is they should stop with the "They changed sides and declared war on their allies!" and be more like: "They dumped their allies and let them retreat, but declared them war after their offer was refused and they were attacked." And don't take me with "But that's what the source says", ignore it and search another one, more "neutral"! You know, there is this expression: "If you don't got something nice to say, then don't say anything at all!" In short, people go out of their way to brush us aside and make sure we're ignored, and when they do have to bring us up they try to talk shit about us as much as possible. And I am so angry and frustrated because I am the only one who seems to refuse to accept it, all of you just don't give a damn about the blatant racism that is right in front of your eyes!
Ed Yet another strong reason to unblock me. It seems I am the only one interested enough to do such things. It took a second to be blocked, why does it takes months to be unblocked?..Just because people make mistakes doesn't mean they become useless for good! It might sound arrogant on my part, but I do believe I deserve a second chance. I will share my opinions before any major edits, and I will use good sources I spend hours to find. Please, just let me back... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 10:10, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Can you do me a favor? I need you to upload some picture files... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.173 ( talk) 12:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Look, you can ignore me and all right, but I have something that really, really bothers me. I went on this category on Wikipedia Commons, that had all the picture files for warships of the Romanian Navy available, but no picture, of a WW2 or WW1 era warship, built or assembled in Romania! And yes mind you, there are plenty of them! We built 2 submarines and 1 minelayer, started to build and launched 4 minesweepers, assembled 4 river monitors, and completed 6 motor torpedo boats from Dutch-built hulls (we outfitted, engined and armed them). So there are 17 warships in total! Seventeen! And what bothers me even more right, is that you guys here, on the Wiki, had time to upload photos of all Polish-built warships of that period! Which are really 6 puny minesweepers and 2 even more puny river monitors, that are even lighter than some tanks and in total less than half of the warships we took part in building, or built fully! Like, look, Amiral Murgescu was the Romanian warship with the most kills, the first large warship fully built in Romania, and she saved the ass of highly decorated a German general when Crimea was evacuated in 1944! Yet you "serious" and "neutral" people, couldn't be bothered to upload a picture of her, thinking that dealing with a handful of puny Polish minesweepers, that were lost in the first days of the war, is somehow much more important! And don't even get me started on the submarines! According to you guys, two modern full-size submarines, the only ones built in a whole quarter of Europe at that time, are completely brushable aside! "Romanian submarines? Pffft, please! I got this little German barge to make a file for!" This is the main reason I was so obsessed with Elisabeta, picture-wise, she is the closest we could get! We fitted her with her main guns, at least it's something! all that bother could be avoided, if you could have bothered to post at least 2-3 pictures! Tell me, do I really ask too much? Is it really a super-human effort for you, to post 1 minelayer and 2 submarines, or maybe even a river monitor? 4 photos man! And all of you guys who are watching! I don't think I ask you to push a mountain, when I request a few minutes of your time to post 4 photos, for some really deserving, and wrongfully disregarded warships! 79.113.133.11 ( talk) 09:17, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Because we need snacks after this week, and because American stroopwafels are boring. ;-) Katie talk 20:08, 18 June 2016 (UTC) |
Snicker. I like mine with cream cheese and strawberry syrup.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 06:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I've translated Erzherzog Karl-class battleship article to polish and during GA Review (on our Wiki it's more like GA Voting) someone mentioned, that Erzherzog Karl had been ceded to France, but it had ran aground during voyage to Britian, and it didn't make sense. This information refers to Hore's "Battleships". I would do it myself, but closest library that has this book is about 1000 kilometeres from my home and I am afraid, that if i buy this book, it won't be delivered to me before the end of voting or my trip on holidays. So I would like to ask if You could tell me what really Hore wrote about this event. Maybe it wasn't cruise to Britian but actually to France? I would be very grateful if You would answer me. You can leave message to me here or on my en.Wikipedia user talk page. Thank You! Mati7 ( talk) 20:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Just curious on Pennsylvania-class battleship as to why you moved the Portal:Battleships link to "External links"? It isn't outside of Wikipedia. Just want to make sure I'm putting things in the right places. I was copying what I'd seen on another page. Should I not have added it yet? Is it only added to pages that are up to par, so to say. On the New York-class battleship page its in the "See also" section. I'd rather get it right the first time than have you have to follow me and correct me. No disrespect indended, I value your opinion. Thanks. Pennsy22 ( talk) 09:36, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [5]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [6]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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On 17 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Revenge (1892), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1915, the HMS Revenge, the ninth ship of the Royal Navy with that name, became the first ship to be fitted operationally with anti-torpedo bulges? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Revenge (1892). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, HMS Revenge (1892)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Sorry to be a bother, just need a judgement call here. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on the draft for the contest here: User:Dominic/Challenge. I'd love if you could take a look. I am borrowing ideas for the points system from other contests, and offering both cash and merchandise prizes (hoping to secure more of those, if possible). Let me know if you have any thoughts—and feel free to edit it. I was thinking this could be a MILHIST project, and that the WikiProject could help facilitate it in terms of judging, promotion, etc. I don't have a name yet, either. Dominic· t 18:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi, since I've posted about this elsewhere I would like to address this directly, since continuing on that thread would be off topic. I've recently seen commentary that made me somewhat uncomfortable such as:
"I've also had encounters with the diehard anti-Nazis, to my chagrin", while the rest of the participants looked on.
I am concerned about this discourse, suggesting that my alleged "anti-Nazi" attitudes are "detrimental" to "en Wikipedia" and that "all coordinators [should] keep an eye out for this behaviour.
" Do you have any thoughts on how this can be resolved amicably?
K.e.coffman (
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"Problem is that if we start scouring through the pile we will inevitably get ourselves dirty". I've handled a book by Kurowski on the Afrika Korps -- it had no footnotes / endnotes, 1/2 page of references (I recall seeing The Rommel Papers), and plenty of dialog. If Kurowski (or another neo-Nazi author) is the only one who has covered an intricate detail, perhaps it's not worth including in Wikipedia? If the event / personality were important, would not have RS covered them?
I don't think that it's a matter of style; my biggest concern is the sourcing in the articles in question and the WP:Own atmosphere. The major difference being that I don’t use sources, which have been described by editor ADA - DAP as neo-Nazi, in the articles I work on, nor do I defend their continued inclusion when other contributors point out that these works are problematic. Similarly, if I became aware that a source was perceived as neo-Nazi, my first reaction would be: “Wow, I did not know that. Let’s fix it”. I would not demand an RfC and “consensus”. In other examples, I don’t push for a work by a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi to stay in an article (this was before I knew about WP:Further, so I finally removed these books earlier this week; I hope it sticks). Nor would I dismiss concerns over a hagiography by a neo-Nazi Patrick Agte, with " removal of sources does not help”. I don't refer to anyone using the established AfD processes as “ effectively vandalising WP with [their] deletionist zeal”. Frankly, I was relieved when MrB retired because I knew I would no longer be on the receiving end of their false “vandalism” labels, applied in violation of policy BTW. Nor do I describe anyone’s concerns as a “campaign” or a “crusade”, and issue orders to “take it to MilHist” because editors there “ have a clue about such things”.
Good point on my user page -- 95% of this stuff has already been fixed, either by me or by other contributors. I don’t just complain, I do the work too :-). The problematic language one sees is the “before” version; the “after” version is provided in the linked diff. And that’s probably .1% or less of what has already been fixed; the material is too vast to include even a small fraction. These are just the more striking examples of dubious / POV / erroneous / atrociously sourced material that I’ve encountered. On the content creation side, I expanded the HIAG (post-war Waffen-SS lobby group) article, from a stub to GA status, and created several new articles, including Rommel myth, Waffen-SS in popular culture, and The Myth of the Eastern Front, for which I got several awards and kudos.
Where you correctly perceive some frustration is the areas where progress (IMO) has stalled or is being actively opposed, especially in the GA and A-class articles. Many of these articles use problematic sources and non-encyclopedic prose, yet my improvements are blocked on the ground that these articles have been "promoted by consensus". In another example, the Wehrmachtbericht section is quite large due to the amount of effort that was involved. To illustrate the process, I did the following, starting soon from the time I joined the project (Nov 2015):
So yes, I save the best examples of the transcripts onto my Talk page as I remove them from articles, and I've even turned one into a haiku :-).
To sum this up, none of this dismissive and borderline abusive behaviour that I outlined on the thread has come from outside of the MilHist coordinators' circle. Since you are the lead coordinator, I suggest that it may be a good idea to raise these issues with other coordinators, as I believe they impact the project overall. The perception is that MilHist "has its own rules for what’s encyclopedic” and engages in WP:OWN and WP:LOCALCONSENSUS behaviours. It may be the wrong perception, but as a participant of the project that is the impression I am getting, especially after the Hard Line Anti-Nazi(TM) thread. I don’t believe I’m an outlier; I’m just more involved in WWII topics to observe this day to day. Going forward, I would like to see a more positive and a more inclusive atmosphere, and not “us” vs “the outsiders”(?), if possible.
...as a relative virtual-SPA newcomer with no known military biography FAs or even GAs (to my knowledge, and with this account)"). How would you handle this situation, if you were me? K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:53, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Sturmvogel 66:
I ran across an article entitled "Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign" which is characterized in its Talk page as weak and needing expansion/improvement.
I would probably be able to provide some improvement along the lines suggested by "MooperVeltresleex's Checklist." Actually, I would probably find it rather amusing to describe the "Background- Geography" of this campaign particularly. So just to have discussed this with someone, and that someone seemingly indisputably someone in the know about many things Wiki related, I might try improving this article along the lines mentioned above by MooperVeltresleex. Of course I would do so tentatively so as not to make a big mess out of it. I know how to use the "preview" option when editing a page so that is a help. I know very little about how to mark up a text so it will appear a certain way so I just go with how I've seen others do it. Really the safest thing.
So I shall peruse the article, and see what I might find in my library to include. Now just to be sure, any book that is published by a mainstream publisher would be accepted reference. Is that correct? The kind of books I buy are published by houses such as "The University of Chicago Press," "Yale University Press", "Penguin" and the like. All mainstream stuff really. Make sure that all facts are referenced of course.
So . . . I've been a military history buff for a good time. Perhaps if I added my name to the "Military history WikiProject!" membership list I might receive a newsletter or the like, make acquaintances with like minded people. Best Regards, TDurden1937 TDurden1937 ( talk) 23:18, 25 July 2016 (UTC)TDurden1937
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Working on this one now, feel free to hop in. Btw I've had a little drama in my life lately ... a difficult surgery. I mentioned it on my talk page. - Dank ( push to talk) 19:50, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello I'm translating in Italian the page, but I received a suggest that the HMS Fortune wasn't at Mers-el-Kebir. There you write participated in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir [7], but in 2.1 Force H, 1940–41 you didn't mention the operation Catapult, also in some reference ( [8]) HMS Fortune isn't listed in the order of battle of Mers-el-Kébir, can you help me? -- Demostene119 ( talk) 13:39, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges ( talk) 22:08, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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I translated one of your articles ( HMS Crescent (1931)) to pl.wiki. During GA review one of users asked me About this part: Struck forward of the bridge by the cruiser's bow, Fraser was cut in half and sank immediately. All but 45 of the ship's crew were rescued by Restigouche and other nearby ships. . What happened with soldiers that (maybe/probably) were refugees and present on ship. Do you have any information about them? Or this destroyer didn't have any of them on board? PMG ( talk) 16:30, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.
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Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I'll update that main list once the West Country challenge is complete though so don't worry about adding your entries fro the contest to it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
Can I pick your brains as you know a lot more about ship articles (HMS XXX in particular) than I do. "Coordinates needed" has been added to HMS Somerset (1748) - presumably for the site of the wreck, but is this normal or needed?— Rod talk 19:56, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sturm, sorry to be MIA for so long. It's been a hectic summer: new job and the culmination of a 3 year family crisis. The crisis seems resolved, and I think the job will work out okay, so I'll get back to my usual slug of reviewing within a couple of weeks. Cheers! auntieruth (talk) 14:50, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Elucidate! Do the screen readers, by definition, not read what is on the screen. If so your argument is bogus!!-- Petebutt ( talk) 14:57, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, As a quick reminder, will you be able to follow up on the Operation Paravane GAN? Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 11:01, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Sturm, here's another one of your FAC nominations at TFA, I'm working on the TFA text now. - Dank ( push to talk) 18:35, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, since you participated in the review of the article Joachim Helbig, I'm letting you know about the community reassessment that I initiated.
The discussion is at GAR:Joachim Helbig, with the goal to reach a consensus whether the article satisfies the good article criteria. Any input would be welcome. K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello, your edit here refers. Bibliography is generally for books written by the subject of an article in the same way that 'filmography' relates to movies appeared in and 'discography' to records made. Please see WP:FURTHER (within MOS:LAYOUT), WP:BIBLIOGRAPHY and MOS:FOOTERS (Works and publications) for more information. Thank you. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 03:08, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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Just giving you a heads-up on this one ... Brian hasn't officially scheduled it yet, but it's in one of his sandbox pages as the TFA on 8 November. The lead was below the minimum characters for TFA, so I expanded it a little in my main sandbox. Hopefully this will turn into something official soon. (I'm mentioning it now because I like to give everyone at least 2 weeks notice when possible). - Dank ( push to talk) 20:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
I understand the surprise (and the deception) that took you when you read my proposal to rectify the text describing the layout of the flight decks of aircraft carrier Akagi (it would also the same for Kaga). On the article, it is mentioned for the first time on 21 January 2008 (at 22:13) under the pen name of the contributor Orpy15. :
"As completed, the ship had two hangar decks with a capacity of 61 aircraft. The hangars opened onto two superimposed flying off decks at the bow.". No doubt he was inspired by what all we read about it in many publications. If the justification then provided ("In theory, this permitted aircraft to take off directly from the hangars," is accurate it is only true for the lower deck. A similar arrangement was existing on the British aircraft carriers Furious, Glorious and Courageous.
Because it is a very common mistake (not only on the "net" but also in the "paper" works) to believe that the intermediate platform (middle) was a flying off deck. Indeed it does not correspond to reality. Just carefully observe the pictures and drawings to find that this hypothesis is unrealistic.
Besides a (legitimate) doubt is discussed later:
"The utility of her middle flight deck was questionable as it was so short that only some lightly loaded aircraft could use it …" … and the reasons for that are obvious: reduced length of the platform (60ft), and not any communication with the upper hangar (separated from the platform by the forward lift) - which prohibits any direct flight of a plane from this hangar - and the presence of the bridge and two turrets 8in.
If we assuming that use this platform as a flying off deck was needed, it would have required to lift the plane, from the upper flight deck (get it with a crane) or from the deck of lower flying off deck (hoist with a crane); which removes the whole point of a flying off deck located at the hangar level. Except, in a pinch, if the lower flying off was unavailable or inaccessible (as result of a battle damage?). But with the price of a complicated acrobatics, which does not seem like a good backup.
No. In conclusion, the purpose of this platform is quite obvious: it is a simple extension of the lower hangar roof.
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Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time. The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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Hello. Is there any chance you would be interested in reviewing Liliuokalani for GA status (like now)? I haven't nominated it yet since I don't want to bog it down in the GA review waiting process unless I can secure someone to review it. I am looking for an attentive and quick (but not sloppy) review that can struck up all the problems. Let me know what you think. Thanks. I'm asking a few other regular GA reviewer as well.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 07:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Since you obviously "own" the page USS Arizona (BB-39), I will let you take the responsibility to make the necessary changes. My point was that the sentence, "The explosion killed 1,177 of the 1,512 crewmen on board at the time...," needs clarification. The figure of 1,177 dead on the Arizona is indeed the accepted figure, but do we know that the explosion killed all 1,177? Isn't it possible that any of the other three bombs that hit the ship could have killed even one? My other edits were secondary to the attempt to clarify this issue. A few simple editorial corrections could remove vagueness and avoid any misrepresentation of facts, which I assume is the point of allowing user edits, at least in part. Just because the page was vetted by multiple editors during the Featured Article Candidacy process doesn't make it perfect. If self-appointed primary page editors suppress edits to protect their own egos, then the entire enterprise is diminished as a result. I respectfully ask that you please take your responsibility more seriously! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.171.29.225 ( talk) 19:28, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
It's me, Romanian-and-proud. Look, I...I had enough. I realized that editing as an IP will never truly get me anywhere. I love Wikipedia, I truly do, and I've been loving it for years, and I regret unspeakably the way I acted before. But I'm not the sock of someone else! I swear to God I am not! Yet I was labelled as such, and I feel hopeless now...I wish to have my block commuted to 6 months instead of indefinite. I wish few things more than being given a second chance to bring my contribution. And yes, I will wait the 6 months out this time, I vow to do so. Please..Help me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.196.73.171 ( talk) 17:41, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hello User:Sturmvogel 66, you are hereby invited to a newbie wikiproject: WikiProject Tanks! We are a group of Wikipedians who help improve tank articles (i.e., generally). Check us out at our main page! UN$¢_Łuke_1Ø21 Repørts 16:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Sturmvogel 66, I thought you might not have seen that the nominator has responded to your review, and seems to be ready for you to check what she's done. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 03:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, please carefully read the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon for collecting your prize. I will need you to send me an email, your wiki name, what I owe you and your preference for currency in dollars or pounds/country of residence.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
I've sent you the reward, you just need to claim it and confirm you've got it on the destubathon talk page, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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For your modesty in declining a nomination for the 2016 Military Historian of the Year I present you with the Right Half of the Half Barnstar. It seems at times that modesty is in ever decreasing supply here, so it is refreshing to see worthy candidates decline in favor of others in a given year's field. TomStar81 ( Talk) 09:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC) |
Wishing good health and happiness as we start the new year! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 20:13, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, GA Cup competitors! December 29th marked the end of the first round, after it was extended from its previously scheduled conclusion at the end of November. Because of the smaller pool of contestants this year, it was decided to keep sign-ups open throughout the month of December. This extension proved to be very helpful as we saw that more users signed up and completed many reviews. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 402 points, followed by Cartoon network freak with a close 338 points. Shearonink who signed up after our extension was in third with 170 points. We had a rule clarification in Round 1 which was that many articles were being passed with blatant copyright violations and plagarism occurring in the articles. Thus, the judges have concluded that if an article is passed even if it has a copyright violation/plagarism, we will not provide points for that article as it wouldn't be considered a "complete review" under the scoring rules. In the end, 94 articles were reviewed by 14 users who will all advance to Round 2. The judges had planned on having 16 contestants advance but since only 14 did, we are changing the pools in this round. We will be having 2 pools of 3 and 2 pools of 4 in Round 2, with the top 2 in each pool advancing to Round 3 as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 will begin on January 1 at 00:00:00 UTC and will end on January 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase! To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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The Epic Barnstar | ||
For your contributions to history related articles in 2016, I have the honor of presenting you with this Epic Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:49, 3 January 2017 (UTC) |
WikiProject Ships Barnstar | ||
For your contributions to the Featured Article Peresvet-class battleship, I hereby present you with this WikiProject Ships Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:49, 3 January 2017 (UTC) |
The World War Barnstar | ||
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The Reviewer Barnstar | ||
In appreciation of you reviewing 8 Milhist articles at GAN over the Oct - Dec 16 period, I hereby present you with this Reviewer Barnstar. Thank you for your commitment to Wikipedia's content review processes. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 02:52, 7 January 2017 (UTC) |
This is to let you know that the Courageous-class aircraft carrier article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 5 February 2017. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 5, 2017. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:28, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the "large light cruisers"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I know it was only a stub, and years ago, but do you recall why you labelled the Wasserman radar as a height finder? It appears to be a pretty bog-standard Freya with a fancy antenna. A height-finder is a radar dedicated to that task, this does not appear to be that at all. For instance, CH could find the height, but it was not a height-finding radar. 20:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings 66, I saw "No need to make things harder for our visually impaired readers" and wondered what difference the refbegin templates make? Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 09:18, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday saw the end of Round 2. Shearonink took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 499. In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an astounding 236 points, and in third place, Cartoon network freak received 136 points. Originally, we had plans for one wild card for 9th place, however it appears that both Chris troutman and J Milburn were tied for 9th place. Therefore, we have decided to have both advance to Round 3. In Round 2, 91 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased to a little over 6 months. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep decreasing the backlog. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 has already started and will end on February 26 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Also, we'd like to announce the departure of judge Zwerg Nase. We thank him for all his hardwork and hope to see him back in the future. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that you reverted my edit to the I-class destroyer article, with the comment
Nope, single letters get single quote marks, everything else gets double.
I just checked the appropriate section of the Manual of Style ( MOS:QUOTEMARKS), and I did not find any mention regarding single letters. Source, please? — DocWatson42 ( talk) 05:03, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. There is a reason I keep avoiding the block. Some while ago, my account was labelled as a sock of some other user named Iaaasi, or something like that, by a user that has Silver Barnstar. I don't think I have to explain how hopeless my plight is: who can argue with Mister Silver Barnstar? I swear to God though, I am not a sock of that user. I kept editing afterwards because I felt hopeless, anytime I paused to consider stopping the edits I remembered that I was already labelled a sock by a high-ranking user, so I thought "What's the point?". However, I really do not want to remain an elusive IP forever, and make my edits in fear. I really do wish to legally return, but what hopes do I have with that label there? Look, I swear and I mean it this time: If that label is removed, I will stop editing for 6 months right away. It worths the wait if the alternative is to keep hiding like a rat. Can you please help me?... 86.123.126.168 ( talk) 13:05, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.
For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) & MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
I've been (slowly) translating French documents on the GPF and had thought to edit the existing GPF article. The present article may as well be entitled the GPF in US service. There's nothing about the GPF-T (Toussant), 164.7mm and 194mm variants of the GPF. My question is whether I'll just get edits reverted if I start using French documents? And why not get rid of the existing 194mm GPF article (which is total rubbish) and fold it into the GPF article. Charlie Landships ( talk) 03:13, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:
The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.
So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the February 2017 Military History Article Writing Contest with an impressive 94 points from 11 articles. Well done and congratulations, AustralianRupert ( talk) 14:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC) |
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday, February 26 saw the end of Round 3. Shearonink finished in first with 616 points, which is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 152 points, followed by Sturmvogel_66 in third with 111 points. Chris troutman and Kees08 each received a wild-card and were able to advance to the Final Round. There was a major error on the part of the judges, and initially, 8 users were advanced instead of 5. This has been corrected, and we sincerely apologize for this confusion. In Round 3, 71 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait is still holding steady at a little over 6 months, the same as for the previous round. By the end of all three Rounds, the total number of nominations increased slightly - this suggests that users are more willing to nominate, knowing that their articles will be reviewed. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Final so we can keep tackling the backlog. In the Final Round, the user with the highest score will be the winner. The Final has already started and will end on March 31st at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Finals and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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How do you suggest we proceed? I agree the evidence is weak in the sense that few air scholars discuss this in relation to Kursk, but is one sufficient for it to be mentioned? I have not yet looked too far and wide, I might be able to find more that supports Muller. Perhaps a sentence to say there was a general effort to support land ops this way; Citadel included. Any detail could be taken to a separate article. Dapi89 ( talk) 09:51, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
What are you talking about in Murray? Searching Kursk in the link you provided leads right to the sentence that I was referring to about OKW, not OKL. 2nd paragraph. As for Vol. 7, I was referring to a direct link to Zitadelle; it does give good background info on the strategic bombing campaign that they tried to mount.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 17:03, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
You seem to have a lot of experience with Good Artilces, so I was hoping that you would be able to review Germanicus at GAN. I understand if you don't want to do it - it is time consuming. Psychotic Spartan 123 09:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
How about becoming an admin? There's a 200% pay rise in it! Seriously, you have what it takes to become an admin. Am aware of your feelings that you don't want to get involved in the drama and prefer to concentrate on content work. I had similar misgivings myself, particularly re the content work. You do not have to get involved if you don't want to, but having the extra tools is useful. I'd be happy to nominate you, and am confident you'll pass a RFA. Think about it, no rush to decide. Mjroots ( talk) 20:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi Sturmvogel, Building on some emails we've shared, I wanted to follow-up with you regarding the WMDC Women's Destubathon Contest. Can you please clarify contest dates, and if you'll be creating a contest page soon? WikiProject Women in Red would like to support the contest (if contest rules allow for new article creation, e.g. from stub to start class), but as we're fast approaching April, we have to firm up our calendar's events in the next day or two. I'd be glad to handle contest promotion, e.g. invites. Do you need me to do anything else? For quick reference, here are some links:
P.S. While I'm attending Wikimedia Conference (Berlin; March 27-April 5), I'll have limited availability. Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
SS Ampere and USS Mindoro have been nominated as GA. I'm concerned that they are fairly skimpy. Asked for a second opinion. may be that there is nothing of use in various sources, but you always seem to find material. auntieruth (talk) 16:19, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
The Reviewer Barnstar | ||
FAC can't function without people like you contributing reviews. Thank you for the six FAC image and source reviews you did during March. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article HMS Centurion (1911) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 20:40, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Military history service award | ||
For your efforts during March Madness 2017, you are hereby awarded this barnstar. Thank you for your contributions. Cheers. Catlemur ( talk) 07:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC) |
Greetings from Germany, Karsten Schulze ( talk) 02:44, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
The Military history A-Class medal with diamonds | ||
For your work in promoting Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō, Lion-class battlecruiser, and HMS St Vincent (1908), I am pleased to present you with the A-class Medal with Diamonds. For the Coordinators of the Military history Project. Zawed ( talk) 10:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi! How to know the number of Wikipedias an article appeared on? :P Adityavagarwal ( talk) 03:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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In the article on HMS Barham, you write "The destroyer Hotspur rescued some 337 survivors, including Vice-Admiral Henry Pridham-Wippell and the pair who later died of their wounds, while the Australian destroyer Nizam reportedly rescued some 150 men." Who would this pair be? It sounds like the reader is supposed to know. -- Jtle515 ( talk) 15:59, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the March 2017 Military History Article Writing Contest with an impressive 132 points from 17 articles. Well done and congratulations, AustralianRupert ( talk) 08:38, 7 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hey. You wouldn't know (or would you), or know who might know, whether or not anyone ever wrote a dissertation or book etc. that might have attempted some authoritative response to the question, "Did the Allies have sufficient shipping during WWII to dedicate several grain ships for famine relief for India? Many thanks in advance. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
( ←) Nick-D, I'm looking at Collingham in both Amazon and googlebooks, and I can't seem to find where it makes the assertions you suggest. The criticism of not getting int'l food is impplied strongly, esp. when it argues that grain was sent quickly to the Middle east (p. 152 I think), but I don't see mention of the inter-provincial trade barriers blocking domestic supplies. Tks. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 02:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 32 Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period January to March 2017. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. AustralianRupert ( talk) 13:23, 8 April 2017 (UTC) |
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The article HMS Centurion (1911) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:HMS Centurion (1911) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 16:41, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Saturday, April 1 concluded the 2016-2017 GA Cup. 64 reviews were completed by our finalists. Although the backlog increased by 42 over the reviewing period instead of declining, the increase suggests that the contest is encouraging editors to nominate articles for review. Congratulations to Shearonink, who is the winner of the Cup, finishing with 672 points! Once again, just as in last round, this is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! It was a close race for second place between Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, who achieved 164 points, and Sturmvogel_66, who earned 150. Though Sturmvogel_66 reviewed one more article than Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga managed to earn 14 points more due to reviewing older articles. Our two wildcard competitors, Kees08 and Chris troutman, came in fourth and fifth, respectively. There were some bumps in the competition this time: The sign-up deadline and the first round were both extended due to fewer competitors signing up then was planned for. And there were delays in tallying points and getting out the newsletter. The judges apologize for this latter difficulty. Lastly, mid-way through the competition we bid farewell to Zwerg Nase, who stepped down from their position as judge due to other commitments. Information about the Final can be found here. Thank you to all of our competitors, and congrats to our winners! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article King George V-class battleship (1911) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Japanese aircraft carrier Taiyō you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, not sure what has happened with this one, were you holding it for use in competition or something? I'm not in any special hurry, but it would be good to know what your plans are for the review. All the best and Happy Easter, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:43, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
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For your excellent review of INS Vikrant (R11) at GAN, which is now a featured article. Thanks for helping me towards my first FA. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 04:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi, Sturmvogel. I'm just posting to let you know that List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 5. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 01:21, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Sturmvogel 66, I was wondering if you had any plans to go for an FAC on the Borodino-class battlecruiser. It seems like its improved a lot since it got failed six some years ago. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 22:06, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, do you have an update on the contest? Thank you. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas#Geo focus: US, Puerto Rico, Guam -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:54, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Sturm, we're closing in on a month and you haven't left any comments on the review yet. Can you take a look? Thanks. Parsecboy ( talk) 12:04, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Sturm, I nominated "Battle of Prokhorovka" for Featured Article. Thought you might be interested. EyeTruth ( talk) 22:22, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Japanese battleship Mutsu article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 31, 2017. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 31, 2017, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:28, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
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Aye Sturmvogel, long time no 'see'. Just came across a relatively new book and thought you might be interested:
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Rewrite from scratch is (slowly, so slowly) in progress in my sandbox. Have discovered along the way that I added some material (post-FAC, but still 2009) to Alaska-class cruiser with the wrong sources, and now I can't find where I got the info from. Sigh. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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You reverted the Captain table I added with the note "work it into Text"
In my opinion while yes it may be useful to flesh out the text and add to the ship's biography that such and such a captain took over on such and such a date, the table is still a useful appendage at the end.
Similar tables are found in places like for the command history of US Civil War Armies and Corps, for elections of Politicians and successions of kings. Why would militarily significant warships not also have a table listing their commanding officers at the bottom?
The Japanese versions of the articles provide this information and so I was in the process of translating it and reformatting it to add to English. I'm curious why you don't find that information worthwhile so that I don't waste effort on a project that's going to get deleted.
-JustRadical 27 May 2017 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justradical ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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The article King George V-class battleship (1911) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:King George V-class battleship (1911) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 23:41, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
I realize you are probably very busy, but since we've talked about this before, I'd appreciate you're opinion. I'd like to nominate the USS Omaha (CL-4) article for GA but would really like to have you once-over it for major problems before I do that. I know in the past you've been critical on some of my edits, for good reason, so that is why I'm asking this favor. I realize that we have different points of view on how much info should be in the infobox, but I also don't think I'm in violation of any rules, so unless I am I'd like to leave what I have in there in. I used your advice on the armament section. Anyway, if you can't, or won't, I understand, I'd just like an expert opinion before submitting it. Thanks. Pennsy22 ( talk) 03:42, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
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Amusing that Singora thinks so highly of you and so lowly of me. Of course he doesn't know that you were one of the biggest contributors to the contests I've run. Singora refers to Wikipedia as "WikiCrappo" and generally talks about it and its editors in a malicious way, something which I'm sure you wouldn't approve of. He highly regards some "megapedians" though, and you're near the top of his list, I'm sure you're honoured ;-). Any developments with the DC women contest BTW? I'll be running the world women one in October I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:39, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.
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Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:11, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, GA Cup competitors! Thursday saw the end of Round 2. Sainsf once again took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 996 (a higher score then he received in Round 1!). In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 541 points, and in third place, Carbrera received 419 points. In Round 2, 142 reviews were completed! At the beginning of April, there were 486 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 384. Another demonstrable way in which this competition has made a difference is in the length of time articles languish in the queue. At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 9 months [1]; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased significantly, to a little over 5 months. [2] It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep lowering the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. We had an unusual occurrence happen in Round 2: because only one contestant submitted reviews in one pool, we selected the contestant with the next highest score to move forward to Round 3. (There will be a rule change for future competitions in case something like this happens again.) For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 will start on May 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on May 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Very close. I was waiting for you to claim the "15 articles destubbed on any listed building or populated settlement - 50 points" section of the bonuses. You'll have to work it out what you're claiming on that and list all of your destubs in the other claims section of the main entries page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:14, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
On this I'm of the opinion that you should both be crowned the winner as it's been extraordinarily close and you and Cwmhiraeth have both performed astoundingly well, but only one person can win the main £100 prize!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the April 2016 Military History Article Writing Contest with an incredible 240 points from 26 articles. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC) |
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Congratulations for winning the April 2016 Awaken the Dragon contest along with Cwmhiraeth!! You (and Wales) should be very proud of the quality and quantity of work that you contributed to Wikipedia this month. Amazing effort, it really makes a different to the encyclopedia, and it's paid off for you! Thankyou!:-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC) |
Congrats on the win Sturmvogel, you can proudly display these on your user page!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sturmvogel 66 congratulations on winning in the Awaken the Dragon contest! Could you please email me at karla.marte@wikimedia.org.uk from the email in which you want your prize to be sent to?. Thank you. Karla Marte(WMUK) —Preceding undated comment added 15:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber ( submissions) and one by Montanabw ( submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 ( submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned ( submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), and MPJ-DK ( submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden ( submissions) and five by Godot13 ( submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E ( submissions) and MPJ-DK ( submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK ( submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) and Cas Liber ( submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
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Hello.
Wherever did you get that idea from that numerals don't count as first word, and that the second word thus should be capitalized? Please show me the applicable guideline or style guide.
And why don't you apply it consistently throughout the article, for instanc, on the complement, "1660 officers and crewmen", which, according to you should be "1660 Officers and crewmen"?
Cheers.
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Hi, I notice that you've been working on some for the Royal-Sovereign class battleships as well. Ramillies is up for GAR and it's about to pass, but the reviewer has queried the following phrase: "She had been constructed at such a slight tilt that it took nearly an hour and a half to travel down the slips and into the water". I can see why someone who is not versed in ship design would not get this, but I am not sure how to make it more clear to the average reader. Do you have any advice? Thanks, — Noswall59 ( talk) 11:38, 7 May 2016 (UTC).
Thanks for your suggestion.
Let me explain: I prepared the list on the whereabouts of the HMS Lancaster, to help me in my research of the History of Veracruz in 1914. I was more interested in dates and places than in events not related to my area of study. I simply thought I'd share it with Wikipedia, in the format that better suited my purposes.
As to the HMS Essex, finding her logbook in the Internet was something quite extraordinary for me. I vividly remember that Sunday morning, finding it after a Google Search, e-mailing one of the curators of the collection with a critical question (Re 21 Apr 1914, what does "US Pct B/S" mean?), getting her reply an hour or so afterwards (mind you: Sunday morning in Mexico City, mid afternoon in London), and corroborating my claim (based, of course, on US sources) that there had been no terrestrial attack on the Naval Academy that day - a key concept contrary to the official Mexican History of the es:Occupación estadounidense de Veracruz de 1914. HMS Essex and HMS Berwick, by their presence in Veracruz on those fateful days, were front-line witnesses to the events. What a delight to be doing research in times of Internet and Wikipedia! I gave a talk on this subject, at a Symposium presided by the Mexican Navy, in Veracruz, June 2014.
I've just noticed that it was I who edited the logbook reference into the HMS Essex (1901) article , on 2 Apr 2014 -- just after some of your edits!
I will be getting back to you, on other items.
Thanks again for your message. I'll keep it in mind. Wkboonec ( talk) 19:09, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
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I would like to run Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier on 31 May, but as you had one of your battleship articles running earlier in the month at short notice, you may feel that another is an imposition. It won't be scheduled before next Friday, so give it a bit of thought & let me know. Brianboulton ( talk) 15:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Greetings. I was wondering if you could start a new backlog reduction drive. My proposal can be found here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Lists of Wars Backlog.-- Catlemur ( talk) 19:56, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi You added Devonport Dockyard to the core list for the WWest Country Challenge. It s a dab page - did you mean HMNB Devonport (which is already on) or Devonport Naval Base? Could I also ask a favour - when you add entries can you also add them to the relevant county pages please (as it is doing my head in trying to keep them in sync).— Rod talk 18:15, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, According to the article on the Duke of Devonshire there is only a slight connection between the the dukes and the county of Devon so this seemed too little to make a Core article. If you decide otherwise I won't object to it being added again.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 13:06, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm not finding any sources online for it? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
You may have overlooked: the "Transcript" is much more than that, it is actually the original logbook.
For instance, for "21 April 1914" (crucial for the understanding of the US Occupation of Veracruz), in the line just above the heading, the transcript shows the link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM53-41085/ADM%2053-41085-060_0.jpg
I suggest the reference "Transcript" be changed to something more meaninful like "Logbook (original and transcipt)" or "Logbook (with transcript)" or simply "Logbook".
Having the "Royal Navy Log Books of the World War 1 Era" online has been quite extraordinary for rewriting the history of Veracruz in 1914.
Saludos cordiales, Wkboonec ( talk) 15:18, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey man, I archived the first 500 or so sections of your talk page because it was slowing my entire computer down. I hope that's alright! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey Sturmvogel, so I'm working on end-of-round stuff for the GA Cup, and it has been brought to my attention that three of the articles you submitted were passed to GA, right under the deadline, on the 29th. Technically, they qualify for Round 3, but it's your responsibility to mark them as passed on your submissions page. If I were to count them, it wouldn't change the results, anyway, and since they passed during Round 3, they wouldn't be eligible to count in the finals. You'd still move onto the finals even if I didn't count them, although it's possible that you'd move forward as a pool winner and not as a wildcard. All that to say that since you didn't mark them as passed before the end of the round, I'm unable to count them towards your final Round 3 score. But you moved forward anyway, so congrats! Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 05:06, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, GA Cup competitors! Tuesday saw the end of Round 3. Sainsf, for the third time, won with a sizable 487 points and a shocking 29 articles reviewed. In second, MPJ-DK had 168 points and 7 reviewed articles. In second place, MPJ-DK earned 168 points with just 7 articles, and in third place, Carbrera received 137 points with just 9 articles. Our two wildcard slots went to J Milburn with 122 points and Sturmvogel 66 with 101 points. In Round 3, 65 reviews were completed! At the beginning of the GA Cup, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 3, there were 394. Another demonstrable way in which this competition has made a difference is in the length of time articles languish in the queue. At the beginning of the GA Cup, the longest wait was over 9 months [3]; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait had decreased significantly, to a little over 5 months [4]—nothing before 2016. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Finals for the GA Cup so that are successes continue. To qualify for the Finals, contestants had to earn the highest scores in each of the three pools in Round 3; plus, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users in all of the pools. For the Finals, users were placed in one pool of the remaining five users. To win the GA Cup, you must have the most points. The Finals started on June 1 at 0:00:01 UTC' and end on June 30 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about the Finals and the pools can be found here. A clarification: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We wish all the contestants the best of luck! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Hi Sturmvogel66, You may recall that some time ago you carried out a good article review for me. That article, HMS Emerald (1795), is now at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/HMS Emerald (1795)/archive1 and I wondered if you might make some comments and even lend your support if you thought it met the criteria? Best regards-- Ykraps ( talk) 08:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Planning on runnng this without prizes on June 13-20. If you're interested in contributing put your name down at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, a community good article reassessment has been started for the article on Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, the review of which you commented on. The reassessment page can be found here, if you would like to comment on whether the article still meets the GA criteria, or to provide suggestions about how it could be improved so that it can retain its GA status. K.e.coffman ( talk) 04:47, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Just a reminder that this is now open!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:31, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
As you can see, precisely 1 week. May we please talk now? 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 13:19, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
I only wish to ask you, to try and enable me to edit. I have unique things to do, that nobody ever done before, nor do they plan on doing. Time has passed since I got banned, and I have changed. I refined my editing skills, and now I too will only edit and create based on sources, even Romanian sources at times. There are many things about my country that have been left to oblivion, and all I want is to be allowed to bring them to surface, for they do not deserve to be left to oblivion. Romanian battles, Romanian technological achievements, all need to be spread about, and as I am at the source, I think I can say that I can do it the best. We are humans, we come and go, but the Wiki will likely be here for the coming generations. I do not want those future generations not to know about Romania's great history, often overlooked for reasons I genuinely cannot comprehend. Take this for instance: After the secret was revealed in 1914 that Romania was part of the Triple Alliance, people continued to call it the Triple Alliance, despite being revealed to have a 4th member, as if we did not even exist. And that genuinely hurts me. Or sometimes ignoring Romanian military contribution and overlapping us with other powers, even though their troops had little bearing on our actions. Like calling the Allied forces on Romanian land in WW1 Russo-Romanian, as if the Russians were the majority when they were only 50,000 out of 700,000, the rest, the overwhelming majority being Romanians. Or calling "Germans" the mostly Romanian force that besieged Odessa, as you yourself saw. Or "forgetting" to mention us at the invasion of Crimea, way too often stating that "The Germans occupied Crimea", again, as if we would not even exist. This is abusive and dismissive, towards us as a nation, and especially to those who gave their lives for Romania, as Romanians, only to be ignored or labelled as something else. I want to correct this grave set of injustices towards us, and to spread about what we have good. Please, allow me to do that. Help me even, if you'd please. I know my mistakes and I regret my ways, all I ask is 1 more chance to genuinely contribute with good faith, reliable sources, and unaddressed information. I am also aware of my uncivil anger-induced behavior, but I will gladly control it if that would mean being able to edit in peace, and not having to fear that it would be undone in hours. Just please. Help me. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 13:50, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
But Mister Ed, I do have an account. I was banned due to my fury issues and careless editing, but I changed and still changing. I said some bad and hateful things, I admit, but right now, all I wish is to contribute with new things. I already got the srouces for what I want to do. Took me hours to find them. All I ask is 1 more chance. Under supervision, don't really care, just 1 more chance to properly contribute. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 10:09, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Sturmvogel 66 No problem, I will wait until Friday. Tell them that here the summer holiday just started. For the next 2 months, I will be able to do ample and meaningful and novel contributions, but the coming school year will be the toughest. I will hardly be able to have time to edit. Plus that, this autumn there will be 100 years since Romania entered WW1. To mark the event, I wish to make articles about Romanian battles and weapons of that time. It is important, because a centennial is only once. Please, just tell them what I just said, and how much I can offer Wikipedia in this period. Tell them that I am willing to accept strict and constant supervision. Please, just let me back for 2 months. Afterwards, you can ban me for an entire year if you want. But this year is crucial, this is the time to make the things that truly matter to my country. In the end, please, do your best. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 12:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
User:Sturmvogel 66 I am willing to accept. I do not mind talking to you about the things I do, on the contrary. My immediate intentions are to correct and improve some sources on some articles and also add some more information on them, well-sourced, ofcourse. Then, I intend to greatly improve the Category:Naval battles involving Romania. It is really depressing and off-putting to see only one article there. I gathered good sources for at handful of Romanian naval battles, even a Romanian source. I wish to create articles about our naval actions that would make that category much more comprehensive. I also aim to correct pronunciation errors on Romanian names. These are my goals, for the time being. That to be full honest. 79.113.130.4 ( talk) 15:59, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
No, I am not. Please, excuse my friend, I told him about my situation, showed him the sources I intend to use, and he took it upon himself to do the edits for me. I just talked to him, told him that I am currently discussing being unblocked and asked him to stop because he is doing me more wrong than good...I am sorry myself, but we all need people to confess to about what's going on in our lives. I am also sorry that my IP is changed, I wanted to keep it as it was to keep good faith, but there was a blackout yesterday, and when the power came back on my IP changed too. Please, advocate for me. Do you think I like, to live and hide here like a rat, when all I want to do is good? Trust me, I do not. You know I can offer interesting new things to the Wiki. Please, let me do so. I talked to him and there should be no longer problems at those articles, and I will keep waiting for news from you, about my blocking. I need your help. Please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 12:39, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I will read, carefully. You just please keep supporting my return. I have so, so much to do...To put it brief: I want to take already existing articles in the Romanian Wiki, and make English versions of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 13:55, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I am making those edits as a "business card", to show how many sources I can find on a topic, and how dedicated I am to make any edit be meaningful, sourced and helpful. But very well, this reply to you will be my last edit until I get news from you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 14:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I have been watching this conversation. I think we may have interacted in the past 82. You need a mentor. I would be willing to act as such. I would seriously ask you to register on the site, as it would greatly increase your credibility. I can put it no other way. Apologies for butting in Sturm. Cheers both. Irondome ( talk) 01:50, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
I corrected a little grammar mistake on Amiral Murgescu, an out of place word. Hope you're okay with that. Also, I am going to soon make an article draft, and show it to you for approval. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 16:11, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Alright, I guess I shall keep waiting then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 18:20, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
I uhh...I'm sorry. It's not that I could not wait, it's just that the time has come for this. This is the very first battle between Romanian and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front of WW2. I had to do it now, not only because it's the anniversary of it, but because it's the 75th anniversary of it. I am sorry, and please forgive me, but as a Romanian, I felt I had the moral obligation to do this, on the 75th anniversary of our entrance in WW2. Draft:Battle of the Chilia Branch 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 07:57, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Okay, okay, but 75 years...are only once. And it's not even a real article, just a draft. I don't think it displeases anyone that much. But as there are no more events to mark for a while, I'll stop. Seriously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 11:12, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Can I talk to you about an encyclopedic subject? Not with the purpose of editing, just talk with someone who can actually understand me. I really need to get it off my chest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 13:43, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
I absolutely hate seeing Japan quoted as being more important than Romania in WW1. People might argue "But Japan was a Great Power", yeah look, I don't care what Japan WAS, I care what Japan DID! Do you know what did Japan do? Mobilized in total 800,000 troops, and fought only one battle. You know what did Romania do? Mobilized in total over 1,200,000 troops, and fought almost 20 battles! There is absolutely no reason, to put Japan above Romania when talking about WW1 combatants! Even more, people SO enjoy to maliciously overlook this, but Romania actually was a main belligerent! In the treaty that bound us to join the war, it was specified that we would have equal status with the main Allies! It was all official, signed and approved by all! Equal status with the main belligerents, equals main belligerent! The fact that after the war they changed their minds does not change with anything the fact that, all the time Romania fought in the war, it did so with the official status of main belligerent. In consequence, there is absolutely no reason to have Japan above Romania in the hierarchy of WW1 Allies. Again, it doesn't matter what the status of Japan was, that was a war, not a parade of statuses! Base all your rankings on REAL military merits, because a contribution of 1,200,000 troops, and the loss of half of them, IS NOT SOMETHING TO BRUSH ASIDE!! This is the main source of my wrath: The Wiki pretends to be a fair and neutral place, yet allows and even defends such blatant acts of unjustfulness! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 19:11, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
But I AM objective. Romania's contribution is greater than Japan in any single possible way, yet Japan is still put above Romania! I feel insulted because they do it "just because". They shove Romania away to make room for Japan, "just because", with no real reason whatsoever! Article VI of the Treaty of Bucharest (1916): Romania has EQUAL status with it's allies! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 19:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, let's say it's so about the countries themselves, but I still see no reason to have Japan's leader above Romania's, Serbia's or Russia's. Get to the bottom, Emperor, that's where you belong. 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 03:45, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
But I am not a threat for anything if unblocked...That's why I tell you all this, so I could take it off my chest and not affect my editing. 82.79.46.80 ( talk) 04:24, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
To be fully honest, I fear that I am waiting in vain. That I will be denied anyway and thus my time only be lost. If this will be the case, please, let me edit in peace. I vow, that you will never find real reasons of complaint for my edits, I make sure that all I do is sourced. I just fear I am loosing time in vain... 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 15:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, why am I going trough this again? Because I had a fit over half a year ago? True, I was warned about being blocked, but I never imagined it would be for SIX MONTHS!! You people are cruel! Excuse me, did I spread ISIS propaganda or stuff like that? Did I prove myself a danger with my edits? Yeah, I made mistakes, I am sorry, doesn't worth wasting a half a year from my life! And on my FIRST block?! Don't I have the "Yeah, you've been blocked, but since it's the first you're only getting 1 month." I would be okay with that, but NO, I get an indefinite block that I can only appeal after 6 months! Like I am the public enemy number 1 or something! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 15:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I doubt there is a need for that. I try to use books in English as my primary source, taking quite a while to find what I need, but I often succeed. Hmm...can I give you what to wirte, and the adjacent source, and you make the edit? Would you be alright with that? 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 16:52, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
I can make the effort to wait about most things, but there is one I just CANNOT! Please, do that edit for me! It is very important, and as a matter of fact, a question of principle. Just 1 edit to do for me. Please. 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 18:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Two more major issues are discrimination and racism. I'm serious. For instance, the Wiki staff had the time to make an article about every single shitty German submarine, no matter the size, no matter the state of completion, could even be just a design, still got it's own article! But Romania built two full-size, modern submarines in WW2, and nobody says anything! Really! Even the 2 articles about them that only recently appeared, did so only with my prompting! I ask you, is a paper submarine, a mere design, a drawing, better than 2 modern full-size submarines with action and history? What was the fault of Rechinul and Marsuinul, to be ignored like that? That they were not German? This is pure, blatant discrimination endorsed by the Wiki staff! Neutral huh? Yeah, sure. Another thing that's wrong is the over-association when talking about us. People in general when talking about us tend to ignore us proper, and instead focus on our relationship with others, like we're an identity-less vessel, like we have nothing of our own, like we don't exist! If you want to talk about us, then talk about US!! I also don't like when people brush off our achievements and put emphasis on our failures. Like the Romania during World War I article did not long ago. The article praised the Germans for leading the conquest of most of Romania, instead of praising the Romanians, for taking on ALL of the Central Powers and still surviving! They act like the 1916 campaign was all, often completely ignoring our great victories in 1917, and then after we signed the peace treaty, many put us under German control on maps, despite the fact that the peace treaty officially recognized Romania's independence, not imposing any official form of vassalage towards Germany! Not to mention how they call us shit because we re-entered the war just 1 day before it was over, as if we were supposed to know it was going to be over the very next day! We didn't! And don't even get me started on our 23 August 1944 "betrayal"! "Boo! Traitors! You switched sides!" and shit like that. Look, we merely exited the Axis on 23 August 1944, and offered the Germans a peaceful retreat. On the following 2 nights, they bombed us and tried to seize our capital, effectively declaring war to us! Are we really at fault for declaring war on them on 25 August, after they made it clear that that's what they wanted? The point is they should stop with the "They changed sides and declared war on their allies!" and be more like: "They dumped their allies and let them retreat, but declared them war after their offer was refused and they were attacked." And don't take me with "But that's what the source says", ignore it and search another one, more "neutral"! You know, there is this expression: "If you don't got something nice to say, then don't say anything at all!" In short, people go out of their way to brush us aside and make sure we're ignored, and when they do have to bring us up they try to talk shit about us as much as possible. And I am so angry and frustrated because I am the only one who seems to refuse to accept it, all of you just don't give a damn about the blatant racism that is right in front of your eyes!
Ed Yet another strong reason to unblock me. It seems I am the only one interested enough to do such things. It took a second to be blocked, why does it takes months to be unblocked?..Just because people make mistakes doesn't mean they become useless for good! It might sound arrogant on my part, but I do believe I deserve a second chance. I will share my opinions before any major edits, and I will use good sources I spend hours to find. Please, just let me back... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.91.223 ( talk) 10:10, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Can you do me a favor? I need you to upload some picture files... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.79.46.173 ( talk) 12:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Look, you can ignore me and all right, but I have something that really, really bothers me. I went on this category on Wikipedia Commons, that had all the picture files for warships of the Romanian Navy available, but no picture, of a WW2 or WW1 era warship, built or assembled in Romania! And yes mind you, there are plenty of them! We built 2 submarines and 1 minelayer, started to build and launched 4 minesweepers, assembled 4 river monitors, and completed 6 motor torpedo boats from Dutch-built hulls (we outfitted, engined and armed them). So there are 17 warships in total! Seventeen! And what bothers me even more right, is that you guys here, on the Wiki, had time to upload photos of all Polish-built warships of that period! Which are really 6 puny minesweepers and 2 even more puny river monitors, that are even lighter than some tanks and in total less than half of the warships we took part in building, or built fully! Like, look, Amiral Murgescu was the Romanian warship with the most kills, the first large warship fully built in Romania, and she saved the ass of highly decorated a German general when Crimea was evacuated in 1944! Yet you "serious" and "neutral" people, couldn't be bothered to upload a picture of her, thinking that dealing with a handful of puny Polish minesweepers, that were lost in the first days of the war, is somehow much more important! And don't even get me started on the submarines! According to you guys, two modern full-size submarines, the only ones built in a whole quarter of Europe at that time, are completely brushable aside! "Romanian submarines? Pffft, please! I got this little German barge to make a file for!" This is the main reason I was so obsessed with Elisabeta, picture-wise, she is the closest we could get! We fitted her with her main guns, at least it's something! all that bother could be avoided, if you could have bothered to post at least 2-3 pictures! Tell me, do I really ask too much? Is it really a super-human effort for you, to post 1 minelayer and 2 submarines, or maybe even a river monitor? 4 photos man! And all of you guys who are watching! I don't think I ask you to push a mountain, when I request a few minutes of your time to post 4 photos, for some really deserving, and wrongfully disregarded warships! 79.113.133.11 ( talk) 09:17, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Because we need snacks after this week, and because American stroopwafels are boring. ;-) Katie talk 20:08, 18 June 2016 (UTC) |
Snicker. I like mine with cream cheese and strawberry syrup.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 06:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I've translated Erzherzog Karl-class battleship article to polish and during GA Review (on our Wiki it's more like GA Voting) someone mentioned, that Erzherzog Karl had been ceded to France, but it had ran aground during voyage to Britian, and it didn't make sense. This information refers to Hore's "Battleships". I would do it myself, but closest library that has this book is about 1000 kilometeres from my home and I am afraid, that if i buy this book, it won't be delivered to me before the end of voting or my trip on holidays. So I would like to ask if You could tell me what really Hore wrote about this event. Maybe it wasn't cruise to Britian but actually to France? I would be very grateful if You would answer me. You can leave message to me here or on my en.Wikipedia user talk page. Thank You! Mati7 ( talk) 20:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Just curious on Pennsylvania-class battleship as to why you moved the Portal:Battleships link to "External links"? It isn't outside of Wikipedia. Just want to make sure I'm putting things in the right places. I was copying what I'd seen on another page. Should I not have added it yet? Is it only added to pages that are up to par, so to say. On the New York-class battleship page its in the "See also" section. I'd rather get it right the first time than have you have to follow me and correct me. No disrespect indended, I value your opinion. Thanks. Pennsy22 ( talk) 09:36, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors! Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 [5]; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months [6]. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal. The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both! The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup. MrWooHoo should receive special recognition for acting as our main judge, and for stepping in for the rest of the judges when real-life busyness took over. He reviewed the majority of the submissions during our final round. Thanks for your hard work, and for the hard work of all our judges. We look forward to the next competition. Again, thanks to all our competitors, and congrats to our winners. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Five years now! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:57, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
On 17 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Revenge (1892), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1915, the HMS Revenge, the ninth ship of the Royal Navy with that name, became the first ship to be fitted operationally with anti-torpedo bulges? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Revenge (1892). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, HMS Revenge (1892)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Sorry to be a bother, just need a judgement call here. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on the draft for the contest here: User:Dominic/Challenge. I'd love if you could take a look. I am borrowing ideas for the points system from other contests, and offering both cash and merchandise prizes (hoping to secure more of those, if possible). Let me know if you have any thoughts—and feel free to edit it. I was thinking this could be a MILHIST project, and that the WikiProject could help facilitate it in terms of judging, promotion, etc. I don't have a name yet, either. Dominic· t 18:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi, since I've posted about this elsewhere I would like to address this directly, since continuing on that thread would be off topic. I've recently seen commentary that made me somewhat uncomfortable such as:
"I've also had encounters with the diehard anti-Nazis, to my chagrin", while the rest of the participants looked on.
I am concerned about this discourse, suggesting that my alleged "anti-Nazi" attitudes are "detrimental" to "en Wikipedia" and that "all coordinators [should] keep an eye out for this behaviour.
" Do you have any thoughts on how this can be resolved amicably?
K.e.coffman (
talk) 02:37, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
"Problem is that if we start scouring through the pile we will inevitably get ourselves dirty". I've handled a book by Kurowski on the Afrika Korps -- it had no footnotes / endnotes, 1/2 page of references (I recall seeing The Rommel Papers), and plenty of dialog. If Kurowski (or another neo-Nazi author) is the only one who has covered an intricate detail, perhaps it's not worth including in Wikipedia? If the event / personality were important, would not have RS covered them?
I don't think that it's a matter of style; my biggest concern is the sourcing in the articles in question and the WP:Own atmosphere. The major difference being that I don’t use sources, which have been described by editor ADA - DAP as neo-Nazi, in the articles I work on, nor do I defend their continued inclusion when other contributors point out that these works are problematic. Similarly, if I became aware that a source was perceived as neo-Nazi, my first reaction would be: “Wow, I did not know that. Let’s fix it”. I would not demand an RfC and “consensus”. In other examples, I don’t push for a work by a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi to stay in an article (this was before I knew about WP:Further, so I finally removed these books earlier this week; I hope it sticks). Nor would I dismiss concerns over a hagiography by a neo-Nazi Patrick Agte, with " removal of sources does not help”. I don't refer to anyone using the established AfD processes as “ effectively vandalising WP with [their] deletionist zeal”. Frankly, I was relieved when MrB retired because I knew I would no longer be on the receiving end of their false “vandalism” labels, applied in violation of policy BTW. Nor do I describe anyone’s concerns as a “campaign” or a “crusade”, and issue orders to “take it to MilHist” because editors there “ have a clue about such things”.
Good point on my user page -- 95% of this stuff has already been fixed, either by me or by other contributors. I don’t just complain, I do the work too :-). The problematic language one sees is the “before” version; the “after” version is provided in the linked diff. And that’s probably .1% or less of what has already been fixed; the material is too vast to include even a small fraction. These are just the more striking examples of dubious / POV / erroneous / atrociously sourced material that I’ve encountered. On the content creation side, I expanded the HIAG (post-war Waffen-SS lobby group) article, from a stub to GA status, and created several new articles, including Rommel myth, Waffen-SS in popular culture, and The Myth of the Eastern Front, for which I got several awards and kudos.
Where you correctly perceive some frustration is the areas where progress (IMO) has stalled or is being actively opposed, especially in the GA and A-class articles. Many of these articles use problematic sources and non-encyclopedic prose, yet my improvements are blocked on the ground that these articles have been "promoted by consensus". In another example, the Wehrmachtbericht section is quite large due to the amount of effort that was involved. To illustrate the process, I did the following, starting soon from the time I joined the project (Nov 2015):
So yes, I save the best examples of the transcripts onto my Talk page as I remove them from articles, and I've even turned one into a haiku :-).
To sum this up, none of this dismissive and borderline abusive behaviour that I outlined on the thread has come from outside of the MilHist coordinators' circle. Since you are the lead coordinator, I suggest that it may be a good idea to raise these issues with other coordinators, as I believe they impact the project overall. The perception is that MilHist "has its own rules for what’s encyclopedic” and engages in WP:OWN and WP:LOCALCONSENSUS behaviours. It may be the wrong perception, but as a participant of the project that is the impression I am getting, especially after the Hard Line Anti-Nazi(TM) thread. I don’t believe I’m an outlier; I’m just more involved in WWII topics to observe this day to day. Going forward, I would like to see a more positive and a more inclusive atmosphere, and not “us” vs “the outsiders”(?), if possible.
...as a relative virtual-SPA newcomer with no known military biography FAs or even GAs (to my knowledge, and with this account)"). How would you handle this situation, if you were me? K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:53, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Sturmvogel 66:
I ran across an article entitled "Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign" which is characterized in its Talk page as weak and needing expansion/improvement.
I would probably be able to provide some improvement along the lines suggested by "MooperVeltresleex's Checklist." Actually, I would probably find it rather amusing to describe the "Background- Geography" of this campaign particularly. So just to have discussed this with someone, and that someone seemingly indisputably someone in the know about many things Wiki related, I might try improving this article along the lines mentioned above by MooperVeltresleex. Of course I would do so tentatively so as not to make a big mess out of it. I know how to use the "preview" option when editing a page so that is a help. I know very little about how to mark up a text so it will appear a certain way so I just go with how I've seen others do it. Really the safest thing.
So I shall peruse the article, and see what I might find in my library to include. Now just to be sure, any book that is published by a mainstream publisher would be accepted reference. Is that correct? The kind of books I buy are published by houses such as "The University of Chicago Press," "Yale University Press", "Penguin" and the like. All mainstream stuff really. Make sure that all facts are referenced of course.
So . . . I've been a military history buff for a good time. Perhaps if I added my name to the "Military history WikiProject!" membership list I might receive a newsletter or the like, make acquaintances with like minded people. Best Regards, TDurden1937 TDurden1937 ( talk) 23:18, 25 July 2016 (UTC)TDurden1937
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Working on this one now, feel free to hop in. Btw I've had a little drama in my life lately ... a difficult surgery. I mentioned it on my talk page. - Dank ( push to talk) 19:50, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello I'm translating in Italian the page, but I received a suggest that the HMS Fortune wasn't at Mers-el-Kebir. There you write participated in the attack on Mers-el-Kébir [7], but in 2.1 Force H, 1940–41 you didn't mention the operation Catapult, also in some reference ( [8]) HMS Fortune isn't listed in the order of battle of Mers-el-Kébir, can you help me? -- Demostene119 ( talk) 13:39, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges ( talk) 22:08, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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I translated one of your articles ( HMS Crescent (1931)) to pl.wiki. During GA review one of users asked me About this part: Struck forward of the bridge by the cruiser's bow, Fraser was cut in half and sank immediately. All but 45 of the ship's crew were rescued by Restigouche and other nearby ships. . What happened with soldiers that (maybe/probably) were refugees and present on ship. Do you have any information about them? Or this destroyer didn't have any of them on board? PMG ( talk) 16:30, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I'll update that main list once the West Country challenge is complete though so don't worry about adding your entries fro the contest to it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
Can I pick your brains as you know a lot more about ship articles (HMS XXX in particular) than I do. "Coordinates needed" has been added to HMS Somerset (1748) - presumably for the site of the wreck, but is this normal or needed?— Rod talk 19:56, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sturm, sorry to be MIA for so long. It's been a hectic summer: new job and the culmination of a 3 year family crisis. The crisis seems resolved, and I think the job will work out okay, so I'll get back to my usual slug of reviewing within a couple of weeks. Cheers! auntieruth (talk) 14:50, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Elucidate! Do the screen readers, by definition, not read what is on the screen. If so your argument is bogus!!-- Petebutt ( talk) 14:57, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, As a quick reminder, will you be able to follow up on the Operation Paravane GAN? Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 11:01, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Sturm, here's another one of your FAC nominations at TFA, I'm working on the TFA text now. - Dank ( push to talk) 18:35, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, since you participated in the review of the article Joachim Helbig, I'm letting you know about the community reassessment that I initiated.
The discussion is at GAR:Joachim Helbig, with the goal to reach a consensus whether the article satisfies the good article criteria. Any input would be welcome. K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello, your edit here refers. Bibliography is generally for books written by the subject of an article in the same way that 'filmography' relates to movies appeared in and 'discography' to records made. Please see WP:FURTHER (within MOS:LAYOUT), WP:BIBLIOGRAPHY and MOS:FOOTERS (Works and publications) for more information. Thank you. Regards, Eagleash ( talk) 03:08, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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Just giving you a heads-up on this one ... Brian hasn't officially scheduled it yet, but it's in one of his sandbox pages as the TFA on 8 November. The lead was below the minimum characters for TFA, so I expanded it a little in my main sandbox. Hopefully this will turn into something official soon. (I'm mentioning it now because I like to give everyone at least 2 weeks notice when possible). - Dank ( push to talk) 20:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
I understand the surprise (and the deception) that took you when you read my proposal to rectify the text describing the layout of the flight decks of aircraft carrier Akagi (it would also the same for Kaga). On the article, it is mentioned for the first time on 21 January 2008 (at 22:13) under the pen name of the contributor Orpy15. :
"As completed, the ship had two hangar decks with a capacity of 61 aircraft. The hangars opened onto two superimposed flying off decks at the bow.". No doubt he was inspired by what all we read about it in many publications. If the justification then provided ("In theory, this permitted aircraft to take off directly from the hangars," is accurate it is only true for the lower deck. A similar arrangement was existing on the British aircraft carriers Furious, Glorious and Courageous.
Because it is a very common mistake (not only on the "net" but also in the "paper" works) to believe that the intermediate platform (middle) was a flying off deck. Indeed it does not correspond to reality. Just carefully observe the pictures and drawings to find that this hypothesis is unrealistic.
Besides a (legitimate) doubt is discussed later:
"The utility of her middle flight deck was questionable as it was so short that only some lightly loaded aircraft could use it …" … and the reasons for that are obvious: reduced length of the platform (60ft), and not any communication with the upper hangar (separated from the platform by the forward lift) - which prohibits any direct flight of a plane from this hangar - and the presence of the bridge and two turrets 8in.
If we assuming that use this platform as a flying off deck was needed, it would have required to lift the plane, from the upper flight deck (get it with a crane) or from the deck of lower flying off deck (hoist with a crane); which removes the whole point of a flying off deck located at the hangar level. Except, in a pinch, if the lower flying off was unavailable or inaccessible (as result of a battle damage?). But with the price of a complicated acrobatics, which does not seem like a good backup.
No. In conclusion, the purpose of this platform is quite obvious: it is a simple extension of the lower hangar roof.
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For your contributions to the Featured Article Peresvet-class battleship, I hereby present you with this WikiProject Ships Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:49, 3 January 2017 (UTC) |
The World War Barnstar | ||
For your contributions to the article Peresvet-class battleship, and by extension World War I, I hereby present you with this World War Barnstar. Congratulations! For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:49, 3 January 2017 (UTC) |
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In appreciation of you reviewing 8 Milhist articles at GAN over the Oct - Dec 16 period, I hereby present you with this Reviewer Barnstar. Thank you for your commitment to Wikipedia's content review processes. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 02:52, 7 January 2017 (UTC) |
This is to let you know that the Courageous-class aircraft carrier article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 5 February 2017. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 5, 2017. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:28, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the "large light cruisers"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
I know it was only a stub, and years ago, but do you recall why you labelled the Wasserman radar as a height finder? It appears to be a pretty bog-standard Freya with a fancy antenna. A height-finder is a radar dedicated to that task, this does not appear to be that at all. For instance, CH could find the height, but it was not a height-finding radar. 20:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Greetings 66, I saw "No need to make things harder for our visually impaired readers" and wondered what difference the refbegin templates make? Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 09:18, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday saw the end of Round 2. Shearonink took out Round 2 with an amazing score of 499. In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an astounding 236 points, and in third place, Cartoon network freak received 136 points. Originally, we had plans for one wild card for 9th place, however it appears that both Chris troutman and J Milburn were tied for 9th place. Therefore, we have decided to have both advance to Round 3. In Round 2, 91 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 2, the longest wait had decreased to a little over 6 months. It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 3 so we can keep decreasing the backlog. To qualify for the third round, contestants had to earn the two highest scores in each of the four pools in Round 2; plus, one wildcard. For Round 3, users were placed in 3 random pools of 3. To qualify for the Final of the 3rd Annual GA Cup, the top user in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 4th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 3 has already started and will end on February 26 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Also, we'd like to announce the departure of judge Zwerg Nase. We thank him for all his hardwork and hope to see him back in the future. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to
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Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that you reverted my edit to the I-class destroyer article, with the comment
Nope, single letters get single quote marks, everything else gets double.
I just checked the appropriate section of the Manual of Style ( MOS:QUOTEMARKS), and I did not find any mention regarding single letters. Source, please? — DocWatson42 ( talk) 05:03, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. There is a reason I keep avoiding the block. Some while ago, my account was labelled as a sock of some other user named Iaaasi, or something like that, by a user that has Silver Barnstar. I don't think I have to explain how hopeless my plight is: who can argue with Mister Silver Barnstar? I swear to God though, I am not a sock of that user. I kept editing afterwards because I felt hopeless, anytime I paused to consider stopping the edits I remembered that I was already labelled a sock by a high-ranking user, so I thought "What's the point?". However, I really do not want to remain an elusive IP forever, and make my edits in fear. I really do wish to legally return, but what hopes do I have with that label there? Look, I swear and I mean it this time: If that label is removed, I will stop editing for 6 months right away. It worths the wait if the alternative is to keep hiding like a rat. Can you please help me?... 86.123.126.168 ( talk) 13:05, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.
For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) & MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
I've been (slowly) translating French documents on the GPF and had thought to edit the existing GPF article. The present article may as well be entitled the GPF in US service. There's nothing about the GPF-T (Toussant), 164.7mm and 194mm variants of the GPF. My question is whether I'll just get edits reverted if I start using French documents? And why not get rid of the existing 194mm GPF article (which is total rubbish) and fold it into the GPF article. Charlie Landships ( talk) 03:13, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:
The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.
So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the February 2017 Military History Article Writing Contest with an impressive 94 points from 11 articles. Well done and congratulations, AustralianRupert ( talk) 14:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC) |
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday, February 26 saw the end of Round 3. Shearonink finished in first with 616 points, which is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 152 points, followed by Sturmvogel_66 in third with 111 points. Chris troutman and Kees08 each received a wild-card and were able to advance to the Final Round. There was a major error on the part of the judges, and initially, 8 users were advanced instead of 5. This has been corrected, and we sincerely apologize for this confusion. In Round 3, 71 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait is still holding steady at a little over 6 months, the same as for the previous round. By the end of all three Rounds, the total number of nominations increased slightly - this suggests that users are more willing to nominate, knowing that their articles will be reviewed. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Final so we can keep tackling the backlog. In the Final Round, the user with the highest score will be the winner. The Final has already started and will end on March 31st at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Finals and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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How do you suggest we proceed? I agree the evidence is weak in the sense that few air scholars discuss this in relation to Kursk, but is one sufficient for it to be mentioned? I have not yet looked too far and wide, I might be able to find more that supports Muller. Perhaps a sentence to say there was a general effort to support land ops this way; Citadel included. Any detail could be taken to a separate article. Dapi89 ( talk) 09:51, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
What are you talking about in Murray? Searching Kursk in the link you provided leads right to the sentence that I was referring to about OKW, not OKL. 2nd paragraph. As for Vol. 7, I was referring to a direct link to Zitadelle; it does give good background info on the strategic bombing campaign that they tried to mount.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 17:03, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
You seem to have a lot of experience with Good Artilces, so I was hoping that you would be able to review Germanicus at GAN. I understand if you don't want to do it - it is time consuming. Psychotic Spartan 123 09:14, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
How about becoming an admin? There's a 200% pay rise in it! Seriously, you have what it takes to become an admin. Am aware of your feelings that you don't want to get involved in the drama and prefer to concentrate on content work. I had similar misgivings myself, particularly re the content work. You do not have to get involved if you don't want to, but having the extra tools is useful. I'd be happy to nominate you, and am confident you'll pass a RFA. Think about it, no rush to decide. Mjroots ( talk) 20:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi Sturmvogel, Building on some emails we've shared, I wanted to follow-up with you regarding the WMDC Women's Destubathon Contest. Can you please clarify contest dates, and if you'll be creating a contest page soon? WikiProject Women in Red would like to support the contest (if contest rules allow for new article creation, e.g. from stub to start class), but as we're fast approaching April, we have to firm up our calendar's events in the next day or two. I'd be glad to handle contest promotion, e.g. invites. Do you need me to do anything else? For quick reference, here are some links:
P.S. While I'm attending Wikimedia Conference (Berlin; March 27-April 5), I'll have limited availability. Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
SS Ampere and USS Mindoro have been nominated as GA. I'm concerned that they are fairly skimpy. Asked for a second opinion. may be that there is nothing of use in various sources, but you always seem to find material. auntieruth (talk) 16:19, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
The Reviewer Barnstar | ||
FAC can't function without people like you contributing reviews. Thank you for the six FAC image and source reviews you did during March. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article HMS Centurion (1911) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 20:40, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
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For your efforts during March Madness 2017, you are hereby awarded this barnstar. Thank you for your contributions. Cheers. Catlemur ( talk) 07:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC) |
Greetings from Germany, Karsten Schulze ( talk) 02:44, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
The Military history A-Class medal with diamonds | ||
For your work in promoting Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō, Lion-class battlecruiser, and HMS St Vincent (1908), I am pleased to present you with the A-class Medal with Diamonds. For the Coordinators of the Military history Project. Zawed ( talk) 10:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi! How to know the number of Wikipedias an article appeared on? :P Adityavagarwal ( talk) 03:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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In the article on HMS Barham, you write "The destroyer Hotspur rescued some 337 survivors, including Vice-Admiral Henry Pridham-Wippell and the pair who later died of their wounds, while the Australian destroyer Nizam reportedly rescued some 150 men." Who would this pair be? It sounds like the reader is supposed to know. -- Jtle515 ( talk) 15:59, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons, for placing first in the March 2017 Military History Article Writing Contest with an impressive 132 points from 17 articles. Well done and congratulations, AustralianRupert ( talk) 08:38, 7 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hey. You wouldn't know (or would you), or know who might know, whether or not anyone ever wrote a dissertation or book etc. that might have attempted some authoritative response to the question, "Did the Allies have sufficient shipping during WWII to dedicate several grain ships for famine relief for India? Many thanks in advance. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
( ←) Nick-D, I'm looking at Collingham in both Amazon and googlebooks, and I can't seem to find where it makes the assertions you suggest. The criticism of not getting int'l food is impplied strongly, esp. when it argues that grain was sent quickly to the Middle east (p. 152 I think), but I don't see mention of the inter-provincial trade barriers blocking domestic supplies. Tks. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 02:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 32 Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period January to March 2017. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. AustralianRupert ( talk) 13:23, 8 April 2017 (UTC) |
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The article HMS Centurion (1911) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:HMS Centurion (1911) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 16:41, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, GA Cup competitors! Saturday, April 1 concluded the 2016-2017 GA Cup. 64 reviews were completed by our finalists. Although the backlog increased by 42 over the reviewing period instead of declining, the increase suggests that the contest is encouraging editors to nominate articles for review. Congratulations to Shearonink, who is the winner of the Cup, finishing with 672 points! Once again, just as in last round, this is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! It was a close race for second place between Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, who achieved 164 points, and Sturmvogel_66, who earned 150. Though Sturmvogel_66 reviewed one more article than Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga managed to earn 14 points more due to reviewing older articles. Our two wildcard competitors, Kees08 and Chris troutman, came in fourth and fifth, respectively. There were some bumps in the competition this time: The sign-up deadline and the first round were both extended due to fewer competitors signing up then was planned for. And there were delays in tallying points and getting out the newsletter. The judges apologize for this latter difficulty. Lastly, mid-way through the competition we bid farewell to Zwerg Nase, who stepped down from their position as judge due to other commitments. Information about the Final can be found here. Thank you to all of our competitors, and congrats to our winners! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article King George V-class battleship (1911) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Japanese aircraft carrier Taiyō you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 12:20, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, not sure what has happened with this one, were you holding it for use in competition or something? I'm not in any special hurry, but it would be good to know what your plans are for the review. All the best and Happy Easter, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:43, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
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For your excellent review of INS Vikrant (R11) at GAN, which is now a featured article. Thanks for helping me towards my first FA. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 04:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC) |
Hi, Sturmvogel. I'm just posting to let you know that List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 5. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 01:21, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Sturmvogel 66, I was wondering if you had any plans to go for an FAC on the Borodino-class battlecruiser. It seems like its improved a lot since it got failed six some years ago. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 22:06, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, do you have an update on the contest? Thank you. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas#Geo focus: US, Puerto Rico, Guam -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:54, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey Sturm, we're closing in on a month and you haven't left any comments on the review yet. Can you take a look? Thanks. Parsecboy ( talk) 12:04, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Sturm, I nominated "Battle of Prokhorovka" for Featured Article. Thought you might be interested. EyeTruth ( talk) 22:22, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Japanese battleship Mutsu article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 31, 2017. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 31, 2017, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:28, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
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Aye Sturmvogel, long time no 'see'. Just came across a relatively new book and thought you might be interested:
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Rewrite from scratch is (slowly, so slowly) in progress in my sandbox. Have discovered along the way that I added some material (post-FAC, but still 2009) to Alaska-class cruiser with the wrong sources, and now I can't find where I got the info from. Sigh. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:50, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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You reverted the Captain table I added with the note "work it into Text"
In my opinion while yes it may be useful to flesh out the text and add to the ship's biography that such and such a captain took over on such and such a date, the table is still a useful appendage at the end.
Similar tables are found in places like for the command history of US Civil War Armies and Corps, for elections of Politicians and successions of kings. Why would militarily significant warships not also have a table listing their commanding officers at the bottom?
The Japanese versions of the articles provide this information and so I was in the process of translating it and reformatting it to add to English. I'm curious why you don't find that information worthwhile so that I don't waste effort on a project that's going to get deleted.
-JustRadical 27 May 2017 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justradical ( talk • contribs) 06:12, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 26 June 2017. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 26, 2017. Thanks! Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:51, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
The article King George V-class battleship (1911) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:King George V-class battleship (1911) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges ( talk) 23:41, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
I realize you are probably very busy, but since we've talked about this before, I'd appreciate you're opinion. I'd like to nominate the USS Omaha (CL-4) article for GA but would really like to have you once-over it for major problems before I do that. I know in the past you've been critical on some of my edits, for good reason, so that is why I'm asking this favor. I realize that we have different points of view on how much info should be in the infobox, but I also don't think I'm in violation of any rules, so unless I am I'd like to leave what I have in there in. I used your advice on the armament section. Anyway, if you can't, or won't, I understand, I'd just like an expert opinion before submitting it. Thanks. Pennsy22 ( talk) 03:42, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
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Amusing that Singora thinks so highly of you and so lowly of me. Of course he doesn't know that you were one of the biggest contributors to the contests I've run. Singora refers to Wikipedia as "WikiCrappo" and generally talks about it and its editors in a malicious way, something which I'm sure you wouldn't approve of. He highly regards some "megapedians" though, and you're near the top of his list, I'm sure you're honoured ;-). Any developments with the DC women contest BTW? I'll be running the world women one in October I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:39, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.
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Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert ( talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:11, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
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