I will be especially busy in real life until mid or late May. I no longer plan to be offline for a period of five or six days. I expect to be online most days during this time, though most days only briefly. I expect to have more time online again later in May. Donner60 ( talk) 09:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
I have added a prioritized to do list to my user page. That may move along more slowly because of coordinator tasks or unanticipated editing that need more immediate attention. Donner60 ( talk) 09:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
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Please put new messages at the very bottom of the page. Thanks. Donner60 ( talk) 08:39, 13 December 2012 (UTC) To clarify, the new item should not be below this message and not below the repeated message after my introductory paragraphs but at the very bottom of the page after every other item on the page. It will help me to understand what you are talking about to add a section heading, identify the article you are concerned with (if your question or comment refers to a specific article), using a link, probably putting the article title in the heading, and sign your edit with four tildes (~~~~) so I know to whom to reply. Keep an eye on this page because I may just reply here if the answer is simple and does not seem to be time sensitive. When I notice an out of order question or comment, I will move it to the bottom of the page and provide a heading if there is none already. Donner60 ( talk) 22:32, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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The American Civil War Barnstar | ||
For all your excellent help with Gettysburg, Hobart Ward, Stonewall's arm, and many other articles. Hog Farm Talk 17:07, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
Donner, would you be able to check to see what information Eicher has for William Y. Slack sometime? I'm finishing up a rewrite of the article. Hog Farm Talk 19:13, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
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For your help in saving Battle of Gettysburg at GAR. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 11:25, 9 April 2023 (UTC) |
I will say that, having rewritten Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Old Appomattox Court House, and Sweeney Prizery to stave off deletion, there is a fair chunk of unsupported sourcing, copyvio, OR, and minor factual errors in some of his writing. As well as a lot of instances of repetitive prose to get the word county up for DYK purposes. Just as a heads-up, any of that content re-added will need to be source-checked (I can try to help track sources down - Wilson's Creek has a really good research library, and it's close enough for a Saturday trip for me). Having looked through several of his articles, the article quality tends to vary quite a bit. Hog Farm Talk 13:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Donner, I had fixed the headings to the correct case, but you changed them back in this edit. Please fix. See MOS:HEADINGS. Respond here if you have questions. Dicklyon ( talk) 14:01, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Donner - I assume you have seen the comment on the Gettysburg talk page about cavalry in the InfoBox. I've found a count of ~13,000 cavalry for the Union (Coddington, p.249). Sears says Union cavalry was some 15,000 (June 27-28) after a reorg (p.130). Sears says Confederate cavalry was 12,400 (p.57) when they crossed the Potomac, although you and I know they lost at least 100 men at the Battle of Hanover before Stuart got to Gettysburg. A problem is that Sears also says Stuart's force was about 5,000 when it moved crossed the Potomac at Rowser's Ford on June 28 (p.106)—and I can't believe that Lee had over 7,000 cavalrymen with him at Gettysburg before Stuart arrived. Any thoughts? It probably would be good to address the odd cavalry comparison in the InfoBox. TwoScars ( talk) 17:21, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm capable of chipping in a little bit, even though work is quite hectic so my overall time is limited. Just let me know if you'd like me to look into anything. Hog Farm Talk 02:28, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
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For all the work you put in checking the military history writing contest entries. Hog Farm Talk 23:02, 6 August 2023 (UTC) |
On 15 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Lewinsville, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the Battle of Lewinsville, the " Gray Ghost" wrote that he regretted "the glorious opportunity that I missed of winging their colonel"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Lewinsville. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of Lewinsville), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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Hey, among your work I see some names you removed in your first edit where I'm not sure if you've removed them accidentally. Since it is one edit there are no individual explanations and I see substantial promotions shown in the list. Could you please take a second look at (or clarify about) Lawrence P. Graham, Richard Henry Jackson, Thomas John Lucas, John J. Peck, James Hughes Stokes and Davis Tillson? Thanks in advance ... GELongstreet ( talk) 06:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello Donner - I used to use the FA Toolbox that has now been discontinued. The only tools I use for articles now are : "Find Duplicate Links" - installed over ten years ago, so I have no idea how to install it (but I use it); the Archive references tool; the copyvios tool; and the reFill tool to fix up citations. Do you know of any other useful tools for checking and fixing Wikipedia articles? TwoScars ( talk) 16:59, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Donner, thanks for adding the contest results to the Bugle. Is there any reason simongraham wasn't awarded the Writer's Barnstar for second place? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 14:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
For the identifying the 'not around' status of absent friends (sic) It is very useful, thank you for that. JarrahTree 08:29, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Donner, I cannot find a high-quality source that provides Union strength at Big Black River Bridge - I've tried Miller's Vicksburg, Kiper's bio of McClernand, Smith's work on Champion Hill, Woodworth's Nothing but Victory, Ballard's Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign that Broke the Confederacy, the Internet Archive copy of Grabau's Ninety-Eight Days, vol. 2 of Bearss's big work, the wikipedia library copy of a 2013 work that is an anthology of chapters on the campaign by various authors (Smith wrote the Big Black River Bridge chapter), and Shea and Winschel's Vicksburg is the Key. I'm assuming that this must simply not be known, especially if I can't find it in Bearss, but I was wondering if you had a source handy that might shed some light on this; no worries if you don't. Hog Farm Talk 05:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
You have marked him as missing from Wikipedia for more than a year, but just two days ago he thanked me for some messages I left on his talk page. Robin S. Taylor ( talk) 22:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Lady macbeth did not leave wikipedia.. I donate monthly to it and check in regularly though time has been limited. if you have specific things you would like done i'll be happy to do them, otherwise, just message Ladymacbeth9 ( talk) 18:27, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Donner60. I recently discovered your American Civil War library (and three related Civil War libraries, and seven unrelated ones; did I miss any?) and I was impressed. I'm working on a project to extend the concept of shared references in a given article, to sharing references across multiple articles; see {{ Reflib}} for an explanation. Your library could help in the effort to make citations more widely shareable. I'd like to discuss further with you, if you're willing. I envision a new article domain at Reflib, or more likely several of them, about subtopics of the American Civil War, that might be based on your list of works. If you're amenable, I'd have follow up questions for you on how to move forward with this. Mathglot ( talk) 10:59, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
{{sfn|Johnson|2005|p=23}}
which links to the full citations using
CS1 templates listed all together in the "Works cited" or "Bibliography" section at the bottom of the article.If you have page patrol issues I can help. I build and edit wikis of my own using this software. let me know what you need and I'll work on it. Quite frankly, i've been a professional editor and writer for 20 years. each time I made an edit that corrected grammar or spelling, or said that a page wasn't really relevant or they were not celebrities etc. someone whined about it. It just seemed like a waste of time. Ladymacbeth9 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:36, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. I added a few more articles to the Assessment requests page and also a list of articles, that are listed as B-class, but on their talk page listed as Start-class. As I wrote between 95% to 100% of the text of these articles, I would like other editors to have a look at this discrepancy. Thank you, best regards, noclador ( talk) 15:23, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for continuing to assess the articles; and I have a question on the Assessment page you wrote in regards to Talk:2nd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" "B class criteria met; assessment changed on talk page"; yet on the talk page of that article there are no changes. I don't feel like changing anything there, as I wrote the article, so could you please update it? Thank you, noclador ( talk) 10:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
You are so close to 232k edits! You have 2 more edits, and then you will have 232k!! Btw merry late Christmas and happy new year!!! -- MDK- Fan 00:21, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulations on passing 232k edits on Wikipedia!! Also happy New Year's Eve before 2024! -- MDK- Fan 20:31, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your constructive comments. I found a statement in the book by Edward H. Sims which I reworded and added to the lead. Let me know if this resolves your concern. MisterBee1966 ( talk) 11:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for assessing Flameless ration heater! Hope you're feeling better. Mokadoshi ( talk) 06:20, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the assessment of Henare Wepiha Te Wainohu but I think you forgot to update the talk page? Zawed ( talk) 09:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm kind of curious why you removed the military history assessment on Tempe. Of course, I'm not a member of that project, so I won't push it, but it was my interpretation that it did fall under their scope? The crime itself did not, but the resulting inquiry into the state of SA's armed forces seems to be quite relevant to "military history", hence why it was added. If that doesn't fall under it, what does? Only battles and biographies? I'd seen other crimes on bases/by soldiers be tagged with the project before, including a featured article, so that surprised me. Should I remove the MILHIST tag on every article that is tagged with crime? What counts?
Also, it was assessed by a member of the Crime WikiProject. So reverting it to that instead of just, removing the project, is strange to me. PARAKANYAA ( talk) 16:05, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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I was curious, seeing as I remembered you reviewing another article I did some work on, William Henry Harrison Seeley, so I decided to check the history of the Military History assessment requests section; of the past 500 edits made there, you contributed 348 of them. That to me is an absolutely incredible figure, and I think you definitely deserve this. CommissarDoggo Talk? 23:36, 3 March 2024 (UTC) |
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Hello! Ive been wondering if you could assess some of my works, cause ive put a request on the military history byt its yet to be responded with, so could i politely ask if any of these can be B-Class.
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Id be grateful for you to Assess them, and maybe suggest some changes so i can improve them. Thanks! ⵟⵓⵔⴽⵉⵙⵀⴽⴰⴱⵢⵍ ( talk) 12:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up, I will have a look. Cheers MisterBee1966 ( talk) 10:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, sorry to bother you out. I was confused wether to merge this article 1961 Batmalai raid into Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes because i was unable to find much detail about it, so i approached you wether this article should be merged or not ? Rahim231 ( talk) 10:12, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you for the comment and for taking a look at this article (and also for the Galicia Division article that you assessed a while ago). For the organization table, I think it will be best for me to go through and add citations for every individual unit, because there is not a single source that lists out everything on there on one page (from what I could find), but there are sources for the individual units. I will start on that soon, and I will reply to your note on the assessment page when I finish with this task. I don't think this will take long. Romanov loyalist ( talk) 16:49, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
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I will be especially busy in real life until mid or late May. I no longer plan to be offline for a period of five or six days. I expect to be online most days during this time, though most days only briefly. I expect to have more time online again later in May. Donner60 ( talk) 09:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
I have added a prioritized to do list to my user page. That may move along more slowly because of coordinator tasks or unanticipated editing that need more immediate attention. Donner60 ( talk) 09:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Please put comments or questions on new subjects at the very bottom of the page, use a new section heading, refer to the exact title of an article and sign your message with four tildes. If you send me an e-mail please leave a talk page notice. I am not always prompt at looking for new e-mails at the listed address. Donner60 ( talk) 09:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Please put new messages at the very bottom of the page. Thanks. Donner60 ( talk) 08:39, 13 December 2012 (UTC) To clarify, the new item should not be below this message and not below the repeated message after my introductory paragraphs but at the very bottom of the page after every other item on the page. It will help me to understand what you are talking about to add a section heading, identify the article you are concerned with (if your question or comment refers to a specific article), using a link, probably putting the article title in the heading, and sign your edit with four tildes (~~~~) so I know to whom to reply. Keep an eye on this page because I may just reply here if the answer is simple and does not seem to be time sensitive. When I notice an out of order question or comment, I will move it to the bottom of the page and provide a heading if there is none already. Donner60 ( talk) 22:32, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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Put messages at the bottom of this page, please. Please put messages, questions or comments at the very bottom of the page, i.e. after every other item on the page. If you put them here (immediately before or after this paragraph or section), I may either not see them or at least not see them very promptly. That will delay any reply from me to you. Please add a section heading, identify the article you are concerned with, and use a link, (if your question or comment refers to a specific article or edit), probably putting the article name in the heading, and sign your edit with four tildes (~~~~) so I know to whom to reply.
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For all your excellent help with Gettysburg, Hobart Ward, Stonewall's arm, and many other articles. Hog Farm Talk 17:07, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
Donner, would you be able to check to see what information Eicher has for William Y. Slack sometime? I'm finishing up a rewrite of the article. Hog Farm Talk 19:13, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
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For your help in saving Battle of Gettysburg at GAR. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 11:25, 9 April 2023 (UTC) |
I will say that, having rewritten Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Old Appomattox Court House, and Sweeney Prizery to stave off deletion, there is a fair chunk of unsupported sourcing, copyvio, OR, and minor factual errors in some of his writing. As well as a lot of instances of repetitive prose to get the word county up for DYK purposes. Just as a heads-up, any of that content re-added will need to be source-checked (I can try to help track sources down - Wilson's Creek has a really good research library, and it's close enough for a Saturday trip for me). Having looked through several of his articles, the article quality tends to vary quite a bit. Hog Farm Talk 13:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Donner, I had fixed the headings to the correct case, but you changed them back in this edit. Please fix. See MOS:HEADINGS. Respond here if you have questions. Dicklyon ( talk) 14:01, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Donner - I assume you have seen the comment on the Gettysburg talk page about cavalry in the InfoBox. I've found a count of ~13,000 cavalry for the Union (Coddington, p.249). Sears says Union cavalry was some 15,000 (June 27-28) after a reorg (p.130). Sears says Confederate cavalry was 12,400 (p.57) when they crossed the Potomac, although you and I know they lost at least 100 men at the Battle of Hanover before Stuart got to Gettysburg. A problem is that Sears also says Stuart's force was about 5,000 when it moved crossed the Potomac at Rowser's Ford on June 28 (p.106)—and I can't believe that Lee had over 7,000 cavalrymen with him at Gettysburg before Stuart arrived. Any thoughts? It probably would be good to address the odd cavalry comparison in the InfoBox. TwoScars ( talk) 17:21, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm capable of chipping in a little bit, even though work is quite hectic so my overall time is limited. Just let me know if you'd like me to look into anything. Hog Farm Talk 02:28, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
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For all the work you put in checking the military history writing contest entries. Hog Farm Talk 23:02, 6 August 2023 (UTC) |
On 15 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Lewinsville, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the Battle of Lewinsville, the " Gray Ghost" wrote that he regretted "the glorious opportunity that I missed of winging their colonel"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Lewinsville. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of Lewinsville), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your election to the position of Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best of luck for the coming year! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:27, 2 October 2023 (UTC) |
Hey, among your work I see some names you removed in your first edit where I'm not sure if you've removed them accidentally. Since it is one edit there are no individual explanations and I see substantial promotions shown in the list. Could you please take a second look at (or clarify about) Lawrence P. Graham, Richard Henry Jackson, Thomas John Lucas, John J. Peck, James Hughes Stokes and Davis Tillson? Thanks in advance ... GELongstreet ( talk) 06:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello Donner - I used to use the FA Toolbox that has now been discontinued. The only tools I use for articles now are : "Find Duplicate Links" - installed over ten years ago, so I have no idea how to install it (but I use it); the Archive references tool; the copyvios tool; and the reFill tool to fix up citations. Do you know of any other useful tools for checking and fixing Wikipedia articles? TwoScars ( talk) 16:59, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Donner, thanks for adding the contest results to the Bugle. Is there any reason simongraham wasn't awarded the Writer's Barnstar for second place? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 14:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
For the identifying the 'not around' status of absent friends (sic) It is very useful, thank you for that. JarrahTree 08:29, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Donner, I cannot find a high-quality source that provides Union strength at Big Black River Bridge - I've tried Miller's Vicksburg, Kiper's bio of McClernand, Smith's work on Champion Hill, Woodworth's Nothing but Victory, Ballard's Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign that Broke the Confederacy, the Internet Archive copy of Grabau's Ninety-Eight Days, vol. 2 of Bearss's big work, the wikipedia library copy of a 2013 work that is an anthology of chapters on the campaign by various authors (Smith wrote the Big Black River Bridge chapter), and Shea and Winschel's Vicksburg is the Key. I'm assuming that this must simply not be known, especially if I can't find it in Bearss, but I was wondering if you had a source handy that might shed some light on this; no worries if you don't. Hog Farm Talk 05:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
You have marked him as missing from Wikipedia for more than a year, but just two days ago he thanked me for some messages I left on his talk page. Robin S. Taylor ( talk) 22:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Lady macbeth did not leave wikipedia.. I donate monthly to it and check in regularly though time has been limited. if you have specific things you would like done i'll be happy to do them, otherwise, just message Ladymacbeth9 ( talk) 18:27, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Donner60. I recently discovered your American Civil War library (and three related Civil War libraries, and seven unrelated ones; did I miss any?) and I was impressed. I'm working on a project to extend the concept of shared references in a given article, to sharing references across multiple articles; see {{ Reflib}} for an explanation. Your library could help in the effort to make citations more widely shareable. I'd like to discuss further with you, if you're willing. I envision a new article domain at Reflib, or more likely several of them, about subtopics of the American Civil War, that might be based on your list of works. If you're amenable, I'd have follow up questions for you on how to move forward with this. Mathglot ( talk) 10:59, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
{{sfn|Johnson|2005|p=23}}
which links to the full citations using
CS1 templates listed all together in the "Works cited" or "Bibliography" section at the bottom of the article.If you have page patrol issues I can help. I build and edit wikis of my own using this software. let me know what you need and I'll work on it. Quite frankly, i've been a professional editor and writer for 20 years. each time I made an edit that corrected grammar or spelling, or said that a page wasn't really relevant or they were not celebrities etc. someone whined about it. It just seemed like a waste of time. Ladymacbeth9 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:36, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. I added a few more articles to the Assessment requests page and also a list of articles, that are listed as B-class, but on their talk page listed as Start-class. As I wrote between 95% to 100% of the text of these articles, I would like other editors to have a look at this discrepancy. Thank you, best regards, noclador ( talk) 15:23, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for continuing to assess the articles; and I have a question on the Assessment page you wrote in regards to Talk:2nd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" "B class criteria met; assessment changed on talk page"; yet on the talk page of that article there are no changes. I don't feel like changing anything there, as I wrote the article, so could you please update it? Thank you, noclador ( talk) 10:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
You are so close to 232k edits! You have 2 more edits, and then you will have 232k!! Btw merry late Christmas and happy new year!!! -- MDK- Fan 00:21, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulations on passing 232k edits on Wikipedia!! Also happy New Year's Eve before 2024! -- MDK- Fan 20:31, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your constructive comments. I found a statement in the book by Edward H. Sims which I reworded and added to the lead. Let me know if this resolves your concern. MisterBee1966 ( talk) 11:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for assessing Flameless ration heater! Hope you're feeling better. Mokadoshi ( talk) 06:20, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the assessment of Henare Wepiha Te Wainohu but I think you forgot to update the talk page? Zawed ( talk) 09:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm kind of curious why you removed the military history assessment on Tempe. Of course, I'm not a member of that project, so I won't push it, but it was my interpretation that it did fall under their scope? The crime itself did not, but the resulting inquiry into the state of SA's armed forces seems to be quite relevant to "military history", hence why it was added. If that doesn't fall under it, what does? Only battles and biographies? I'd seen other crimes on bases/by soldiers be tagged with the project before, including a featured article, so that surprised me. Should I remove the MILHIST tag on every article that is tagged with crime? What counts?
Also, it was assessed by a member of the Crime WikiProject. So reverting it to that instead of just, removing the project, is strange to me. PARAKANYAA ( talk) 16:05, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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I was curious, seeing as I remembered you reviewing another article I did some work on, William Henry Harrison Seeley, so I decided to check the history of the Military History assessment requests section; of the past 500 edits made there, you contributed 348 of them. That to me is an absolutely incredible figure, and I think you definitely deserve this. CommissarDoggo Talk? 23:36, 3 March 2024 (UTC) |
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Hello! Ive been wondering if you could assess some of my works, cause ive put a request on the military history byt its yet to be responded with, so could i politely ask if any of these can be B-Class.
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Id be grateful for you to Assess them, and maybe suggest some changes so i can improve them. Thanks! ⵟⵓⵔⴽⵉⵙⵀⴽⴰⴱⵢⵍ ( talk) 12:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up, I will have a look. Cheers MisterBee1966 ( talk) 10:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, sorry to bother you out. I was confused wether to merge this article 1961 Batmalai raid into Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes because i was unable to find much detail about it, so i approached you wether this article should be merged or not ? Rahim231 ( talk) 10:12, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
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Djong (ship) has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
Talk:Djong (ship) on a "History and geography" request for comment-- Merzostin ( talk) 14:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the comment and for taking a look at this article (and also for the Galicia Division article that you assessed a while ago). For the organization table, I think it will be best for me to go through and add citations for every individual unit, because there is not a single source that lists out everything on there on one page (from what I could find), but there are sources for the individual units. I will start on that soon, and I will reply to your note on the assessment page when I finish with this task. I don't think this will take long. Romanov loyalist ( talk) 16:49, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
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