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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for participating in 6 reviews between October and December 2023. Donner60 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Hi, belated new year's greetings to you. I have nominated the article Sam Manekshaw for peer review because I have expanded it and want to take it to FAR. I have incorporated the suggestions from the last 2 FARs in 2018. You were a part of a GAR for the article in 2015 and your comments were noteworthy. I would be much obliged if you would take part in this PR, given your skills in and understanding of military history. Thanks in advance. Matarisvan (talk) 15:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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"And concluded with the opening of the German Ardennes counteroffensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge" -> I have an issue with this statement. Battle of the Bulge started on 16 December 1944, and Siegfried Line campaign ended on 7 March 1945. Saying the Siegfried Line campaign concluded with the opening of the Battle of the Bulge does not make any sense (again, that's on 16 December 1944). Siegfried Line campaign ended with the Allied forces crossing the Rhine river. Western Allied invasion of Germany started after the campaign. Am I missing something here? Thanks! 172.220.8.65 (talk) 21:47, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

We follow the organisation in the official history, which has the Siegfried Line campaign ending with the Ardennes-Alsace offensive. Are you intending to work on some of the articles? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:54, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm just passing by reader who happened to find an inconsistency and decided to fix it. If the history book says so, then I have no problem with it. However, we should be consistent. As of right now, the dates are inconsistent as I've mentioned earlier. Perhaps, "25 August 1944 – 7 March 1945" can be changed to reflect the official history? 172.220.8.65 (talk) 22:03, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Corrected the date in the infobox Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Great, that looks perfect! Have a good day, bye. 172.220.8.65 (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

"The German losses in the battle were especially critical: their last reserves were now gone, the Luftwaffe had been shattered, and remaining forces throughout the West were being pushed back to defend the Siegfried Line" (quoted from the Battle of the Bulge article) -> this clearly indicates that the Siegfried Line campaign did not end after the Battle of the Bulge. 172.220.8.65 (talk) 21:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

We are calling the campaign that follows "Rhineland". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:55, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I have made an edit to this article with the following edit summary: "add back generals.dk ref, has appointment 1950-10-01 –1950-10-31 Acting Commanding General 1st Army, no reference to predecessor, possibly could be same as October-November 1950; added as temporary reference; perhaps is in the NY Times article cited at start of next sentence but is behind paywall; Taafe does not have Woodruff in Biographical afterword, https://alchetron.com/Roscoe-B-Woodruff has the info but seems likely it is copied from Wikipedia." You may wish to delete it, change it or otherwise revise it. Donner60 (talk) 06:09, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I've added another source. I have full access to the New York Times archive. The funny date format was really annoying me on this one. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. 00:45, 15 January 2024 (UTC) Donner60 (talk) 00:45, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I am... very sorry for this. I get... detailed. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 08:20, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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hey, just saw your review of the book I've started an article about. it would be great if you can expand a bit Background and Synopsis - I must admit that I haven't read the book yet :) Happy New Year! Artem.G (talk) 12:19, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Artem.G:  Done Added a synopsis. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:43, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Nice, thanks a lot! I've added a bit to synopsis as well. I didn't read Labatut's previous books, but the Maniac was a good one for the holidays. Artem.G (talk) 21:48, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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Regarding to the removing the tag claiming are dubious, I strongly recommend that you restore it. It is not about the Wikipedia policies ---it is about a topic not resolved in the talk page. Please use the same analytic criteria than in the "GA Review" to realize the importance of the wrong statement and source where the claim was originated. Furthermore, before to undo my editing, response to my claims in the talk page.A small reminder of a superior being: "remain neutral, don't be a dick, ignore all rules" Mycoandres (talk) 03:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thought you might want to know that the high-resolution Council of Clermont image I found for Crusading movement is now a featured picture. Not exactly one of mine: it's not restored, but still. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 01:26, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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For the 65th anniversary of the announcement, I've got this listed as the April 9 TFA. No need to do anything. Let me know if there's anything I can do. - Dank (push to talk) 00:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

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The article 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:2023 AFL Women's Grand Final for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Teratix -- Teratix (talk) 02:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February 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. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I have completed a review of the article. As I suspected given the number and thoroughness of previous reviews, I had only a few comments. Donner60 (talk) 08:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I have noted a consensus to promote on the assessment page. I have changed the talk page banner shell and project template to A=pass. This is the first A class consensus note and talk page change that I have done. Please let me know if I have missed anything or made any mistake. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 00:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

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Does Template:@MILHIST include the emeritus coordinators? Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 01:56, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, sorry to bother you. I saw that you did a source review on this FAC and was wondering if you'd be interested in also doing a source review on my FAC as I think that's all that I need for it to pass. Spotchecks were already done. -- ZooBlazer 03:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

JoJo has done one for you. Best of luck with the article passing! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:28, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Greetings, since you did review Guallatiri at FAC I was wondering if you may be interested in Ojos del Salado too. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Always glad to help. I see it has now been promoted. Well done! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
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The article Neil Ritchie you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Neil Ritchie for comments about the article, and Talk:Neil Ritchie/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Pickersgill-Cunliffe -- Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 11:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

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Sorry I missed a step. You may have seen by now that Zawed supplied the missing change to the assessment on the article talk page. Great article, sure to go higher. Donner60 (talk) 01:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye7, just spotted this -- looks like FACbot didn't process it? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:04, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

Caused by this edit. Removing the template causes the article to leave the category, and the Bot cannot see it any more. I restored the template, and the bot has processed the nomination. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye7 :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you today for Mercury Seven, introduced (in 2019): "This article is about the Mercury Seven astronauts, who were selected in 1959. As late as 1998, they were the most famous astronauts, but they have been eclipsed in recent years by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Still, they include the first American in in space, the first in orbit, the first to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, and the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon. One even flew on the space shuttle, nearly forty years after being selected as an astronaut."! - Thank you also for another FA (above). - If you look at my talk today, you see three people with raised arms, under the top story (by NBC, 1939) about a great singer ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

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I have nominated 0.999... for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:03, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

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Hi Hawkeye, just to let you know that with this edit you inadvertantly deleted almost the entire contents of the FAC page...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:27, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Aaargh. My machine crashed. It must have messed up the edit. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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I think these are incomplete and biased. In form, however, perhaps a B assessment by the bot is understandable. I now think it could be more trouble than it is worth to try to reassess these, despite my thought they could be pulled back to C. I could even argue for start but that would very likely increase chances for a dispute. A change to C class might even be disputed. The talk page on one even suggests it be brought to FA. It might require more time and trouble than it is worth to reasses or deal with them, or their reappearance in another form, especially with serious resistance. There is no chance these content forks on this topic can be deleted. February ACR closures will be completed if these two are stricken on the list. I am now inclined to do that unless you disagree. Donner60 (talk) 00:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The advantage of the bot here is that it is fully automated and I do not have to get involved. It uses artificial intelligence to determine if an article is comprehensive enough for a B class rating. Re-assessing at the moment is inadvisable as the articles are being worked on and are unstabel. I suggest waiting until the fighting dies down. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I will strike the listing of the two articles, ending the February report review. Donner60 (talk) 01:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

The aclass=pass is on the talk page of the article, not the review. I have corrected this for you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:16, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I must admit that I forgot how I did this last month and misread the instructions today or may have misread the page I was editing. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 01:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I tried to clarify the instructions. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:56, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
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Well, that was about as annoying as expected. Mainly because, well, it's twenty-six images. Takes a bit of time to do the image review well. I'd say one problem that blocks A-class (you left out the source on an image you uploaded), everything else is... I'm not going to say not a problem, but not a A-class review problem, and mostly fine for FAC. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 19:59, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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story · music · places

Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:56, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

I have changed the sentence "He complaints about some of his officers rented a secluded farmhouse where prohibition and blue laws were flouted" in the Aviation section to "He complained about some of his officers' views on prohibition and rented a secluded farmhouse...." That seemed to followed from his drinking habit, although it may not be exactly what you intended. Please change it if it is not in accord. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I have noted in the ACR for closure section that I don't see a source review. I am not a reliable source although my source for this was reliable. There were more than the usual number of holdouts on Tinian as the Marines moved on and other units came in for garrison duty. Also, some of the Japanese defenders fled to the nearby small island of Aguijan from which they would occasonally use small boats to lauch night raids. This sort of harassment continued into 1945. The U.S. military thought it was not worth the trouble and losses to attack the isolated Japanese military survivors. When the 509th arrived, they used the island for target practice. Donner60 (talk) 00:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! I've opened an FAC on the composer Igor Stravinsky (a rather large article) and would much appreciate any comments you have, if you get some time- thank you! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 21:40, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I added this to WP:TFAP a while back. Is this a good time for the TFA? It's set for July 18, his birthday. - Dank (push to talk) 23:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Hope he is not too controversial. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I did run a 19th-century Republican in April ... had to balance it out. - Dank (push to talk) 01:39, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Apollogetticax (talk) 16:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

@CAPTAIN RAJU, The Herald, and Apollogetticax: Wow. It has been nearly 20 years. Thanks guys. Best wishes to you too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 August 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 14:35, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye7, I was going through the featured pictures list from WPMH. I saw that this list by the project doesn't have any pictures promoted to FP after 15 July 2022. Would it be ok if I added these myself, or is there some procedure to do so? Also, what is the pattern of listing the images on that page, is it chronological? Thanks in advance. Matarisvan (talk) 16:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Sure. The FP is not updated by the Bot, so I guess that whoever was updating the list must have left. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
• Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
• AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

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It was a pleasant surprise to your moniker, how are you keeping? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 22:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I will be at Wikimania in August. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye7, I was just going to put the Battle of Saipan up for Featured Article Review today, but saw you already put up the battle of Tinian. (My original goal was to have it featured by June 15, but didn't realize the casual rate of the A article review process.) I'll hold off for a month, as having more than one Marianas project may split attention. I'll have more time in August to be more responsive as well. If the Tinian article needs help in August, let me know what I can do to help out. Wtfiv (talk) 20:37, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

A class didn't used to be like that, but there are not so many editors around these days. One thing you can do to help is provide a review. Just stating that you reviewed at A-class and believe it meets FAC is okay. I will have very little time to work on it from early August until mid-September. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:58, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good. It sounds like A class could use more review help. Once things settle down, I'll try to pitch in there. The toughest part is trying to give meaningful feedback on some of the more esoteric topics. Wtfiv (talk) 16:37, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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I read the main article up to the target selection subheading. This sentence is in the final paragraph of that topic: "The JWPC also considered targeting, but favored shipping and the oil industry, which could more easily be attacked from bases in Australia." It seems to me that something is missing from this sentence after "targeting". If so, do you know or have information that can show what it is? Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 23:21, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Nothing is missing. I will re-phrase to make it clearer. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:25, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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Let us know if that doesn't work for you. - Dank (push to talk) 16:41, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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story · music · places

Thank you today for Hanford Engineer Works, introduced: "This article was split from Hanford Site. During the FAR of Hanford Site, I decided to create a new article on the World War II establishment. This brings it into line with the articles on Los Alamos, Berkeley and Oak Ridge, all of which have subarticles on their role in the Manhattan Project. The sources complain about how Hanford has been overlooked compared with Los Alamos and Oak Ridge."! - On the same page: a Mozart opera, an article by many. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you today for your share in John Glenn, introduced (in 2018): "Six Distinguished Flying Crosses, eighteen Air Medals. First American to orbit the Earth. Four-time Ohio senator. Oldest person to fly in space. This article covers the good and the bad of his life."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:29, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! I have a question about the table with sunken ships during the Baker test (Operation_Crossroads#Baker_target_array).

1) I didn't find in the book (Delgado, James P. (1991), The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb: A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons) the distances from the ships to point zero for the Baker test (only for the Able test).

2) According to the attached map, the distance from USS Arkansas to point zero is closer to 300 yards than the 170 yards indicated in the table.

3) I found a report (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0367496.pdf) on the Baker test and in it (page 280) some distances coincide with the table, and some do not (in particular, for Arkansas a distance of 259 yards is given).

Because I don’t understand where the numbers in the table come from, I can’t tell if they are correct or wrong. Could you help? Karavadgoo (talk) 20:55, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Footnote 68 says: "Data in the table and the map come from Delgado (1991). The Able map is on p. 16, the Baker map on p. 17, and ship damage and distances on pp. 86–87." Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Delgado is available for download from Commons. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I downloaded Delgado. But on the indicated pages (pp. 87 - 90 actually) I found data only on distances for test Able, but not Baker.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/The_Archeology_of_the_Atomic_Bomb%2C_National_Park_Service%2C_Santa_Fe%2C_New_Mexico%2C_1991_by_Delgado%2C_James_P.%2C_et_al._-_NNPS_903_D160_-38840-pg0000.pdf Karavadgoo (talk) 06:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

I almost figured out the issue. The link to Delgado appeared in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Crossroads&oldid=253024309). And the original comment was: "Data in the table and the map come from Delgado, Archeology of the Atomic Bomb. The Able map is on p 16, the Baker map on p 17, and ship damage and distances on pp 86-136. The full text of this reference is posted on the Internet (see external links below) with the unfortunate omission of the key to ship numbers in the array maps, rendering the maps useless without access to the book in hard copy."

Indeed, pages 86 - 136 describe individual ships in detail. And sometimes the distances from point 0 at the moment of explosion are indicated for them (and sometimes only the distance from point 0 to their resting place). But, for example, for the USS Arkansas, I never found the required distance (170 yards from article table) on these pages (only 170 feet from the surface of the water at the place of sinking). I propose replacing the distances in the table of the article with distances taken from the report (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0367496.pdf pp. 280-281), which most likely was the primary source for Delgado Karavadgoo (talk) 06:45, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

By the way, it’s more pleasant to use the Delgado's book at another link: https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/swcrc/37/chap4.htm Karavadgoo (talk) 06:50, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye. I am looking for a late replacement TFA for 29 August. Would you have any problems with that being Galileo project. If not, do you fancy having a go at the blurb or are you content with my having a thumb fingered attempt? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:20, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

I have created a blurb. I will be in Paris on that date, so you will need to watch the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:06, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Apologies, after some horse trading between the coordinators this will now run in October instead. I am trying to get it scheduled for 18 October to mark the 35th anniversary of it being delivered into Earth orbit, but no promises. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:20, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

No worries. That would be a fine date, and I will be back by then. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:44, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Hey Hawkeye7, I hope you don't mind my asking here as you seem pretty experienced in managing templates, in addition to being well versed in the backend of DYK and GAN.

I've recently completed a RENAME and I was curious how that would impact some of the records of the templates. Specifically, a DYK you've recently reviewed but is not yet closed, as well as an outstanding GAN that is yet to be started that has my former name on the the GAN page as well as the template on the article's talk page.

Specifically, my concerns with the DYK records are that the template maintains attribution in regard to the requirements for reviewing. I've only nominated one and haven't reviewed any so the impact there should be minimal.

And then in regard to the GAN, the review hasn't started but I believe the template has mechanisms to notify the nominator and maintain a record with wmtools as well? This, I'm even less sure about the impact. My assumption would be that I could replace the name in the templates, but I didn't want to (1) break anything or (2) miss something and then break something that is harder to track down and fix (see number 1).

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated, or if you could point me in the right direction

Thanks, Bobby Cohn (talk), formerly MicrobiologyMarcus (talk).

Bobby Cohn (talk) 13:19, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

The template does not notify the nominator; this is done by a bot.

• For the DYK, edit the nomination template to change the {{DYKmake}} card to reflect your new name. When the nomination is transferred to the prep area, the prep area builder will cut and paste this template. It gets picked up by a bot that will notify you. You can change it yourself until it reaches the queue; then you will need an admin to make the change for you.
• I am unsure as to whether simply changing the name on the GA nominations page will work or not; ask on the Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations. The notification is done by a bot, and it keeps a database.

Regards

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Hi Hawkeye,

A certain user is claiming that MOS:MILHIST does not allow for mentioning Treaties in a bullet point in the Result section of the infobox of War and Battle articles. This user has been deleting these treaties out of the infoboxes of multiple articles. This user also claims that MOS:MILHIST does not allow for the duration of the war to be stated in parenthesis after the dates that the war lasted from. For example if the Date section originally said "8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905 (1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks)" he will delete it to "8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905" and claim that MOS:MILHIST does not allow for the parathesis containing the duration of time.
Please let me know if this is truely following MOS:MILHIST and that this user is doing the right thing.
Thanks, Alexysun (talk) 03:04, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

I am not aware of any such stricture. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Therefore, based on the information I have provided at least, is it accurate to conclude that this user has an inaccurate understanding of MOS:MILHIST? Alexysun (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

I have assessed B for military history and biography. The high points of his career are noted in the lede. I have asked for a slightly longer lede for B if the article is of some length in some cases. This is about all I can see at first glance that a GA assessor might want but some assessors might add other comments, as you know. I have added

in the article Frederick Butler. There is another such tag in the Frederick Butler article. Donner60 (talk) 01:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye7, I was confused about an issue I hoped you could help out with. I was wondering if the Chalukya dynasty, Western Chalukya Empire and Western Ganga dynasty articles could be added to the WPMH FA list. I know more milhist could be added to these articles and I will surely do so. Wdyt? Thanks in advance Matarisvan (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done Normally the bot adds articles but it does not know when you add one to the project. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:36, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Also, do you think the FAs Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon and Tomb of Philippe Pot fall within the WPMH mandate, particularly the memorials task force? Both died in battle so I think they might. Thanks in advance. Matarisvan (talk) 18:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

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It was processed, but for some reason the previous nomination was improperly closed and so it thought that the nomination had been archived. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:57, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

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@Hawkeye7: The adding of sandbox, I'm srry to say, still does not allow me to nominate the SPARS article for A-Class. I hope you'll be able to help me further with the nomination. Thank you. Pendright (talk) 22:04, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I have created it manually for you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Pendright (talk) 21:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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Is there any info available on her career post 2012? LibStar (talk) 01:13, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

She has no more international caps; that was the climax of her career. Goes by the name of Alicia Smith now. Worked for Water Polo Australia for a time. Now mostly coaches. [176][177][178][179][180] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:15, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Your edit to David Greenglass states "He was honorably discharged from the Army on February 29, 1946". 1946 was not a leap year. Could you check your source please? Assuming you still have access nine years on. Thanks. Cabayi (talk) 09:46, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Hmmm. It is what it says in his FBI file [181] (p. 11) CIA says February 1946. [182] Suggest we go with that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

At least the CIA citation has the virtue of not being an imaginary date. Thanks for the speedy reply. I'll leave it to you - I'm not going to steal credit for your research. Cabayi (talk) 11:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

I have corrected the article, but since nobody checks against the Wikipedia, expect sources to continue to repeat the 29 February date. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

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The sentence starting with "Too young to see service during the First World War..." seemed possibly inaccurate to me. An article in War History Online https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-boy-soldiers-of-wwi.html entitled "Almost 250,000 Boys Under The Age Of 18 Fought In The British Army In WWI" states that the age of enlistment was 18 and the age for service overseas was 19. Unless this is wrong or there was another condition, or I don't fully understand it, it seems Lyne was old enough to have served in the last months of WWI without even being in the large group of underage boys who served despite the age requirements. (Many were mustered out as the war progressed if their parents produced a birth certificate showing their actual age but many were also casualties.) I mention this for your consideration in case you wish to remove the phrase. My guess is that someone would question it if it were included without a further explanation. Donner60 (talk) 04:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, he could have. Overseas service was consider to be leaving the UK for France, not Australia for the UK, so the AIF had an entire battalion of 18 year olds who were trained in the UK and then shipped to France as reinforcements when they reached the age of 19. In Lyne's case he did not graduate from Sandhurst until April 1919. I have re-worded the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:59, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye7, I've spotted two issues with the MILHIST articles for review template and thought I should bring them to your notice. The template still shows 4 GARs, 1 FAC and at least 2 GACs as being active, even though all of these have been closed. Additionally, on the list of open tasks page, it still lists the Thorsten Nordenfelt FPC as being active, even though it has been closed for about 10 months now. I think there may be some issue with a bot which is still leading to these reviews being marked active.

The other issue is with the MILHIST GA list. I've recently added WPMH tags to at least 15 GAs which are under the WPMH purview but the tags were never added to them. I went through the MILHIST GA category and noticed that these were not being listed over there. I think there are 10s of such GAs which can be added to WPMH, I've yet to go through the full list. How do you think this can be fixed, will it have to be done manually? Thanks in advance and cheers Matarisvan (talk) 16:21, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Actually, I went through the GA category for WPMH and the recent additions have also been added there. They weren't when I last checked, but they are now. My apologies. However, the first issue is still current. Matarisvan (talk) 16:24, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I am currently in Europe for the Paralympic Games, but will investigate when return. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 16:58, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Hawkeye7. Since you commented on a previous FLC for this article, I'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at the current FLC spearheaded by The Herald and myself? We've addressed the issues in the previous FLC and I believe this article is ready. ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 03:36, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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On a separate issue I am hoping you might suggest interested professional historians I might contact regarding my theory about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. My interest was aroused because I experienced a similar situation aboard USS Chicago on PIRAZ station several years later. I was the officer in charge of Chicago's RIM-24 Tartar missile battery and was standing the midnight to 4 AM midwatch as the combat information center (CIC) weapons control officer. It was a quiet night until the AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR picked up a surface contact zig-zagging toward us at about 40 knots in typical torpedo boat fashion from the direction of Haiphong. The CIC evaluator called the captain to CIC and the captain ordered general quarters. The contact was being tracked by the AN/SPS-43 air search RADAR, by the AN/SPG-49 fire control RADAR for the RIM-8 Talos missiles, and by the AN/SPG-25 RADAR of the MK 37 Gun Fire Control System. The contact was out of gun range, and the long-range Talos missiles were unable to engage surface ships. My Tartar missiles were theoretically capable of engaging a surface target at that range, but my AN/SPG-51 fire-control RADAR could not achieve the RADAR lock required to fire. The captain turned away from the contact at best possible speed, which was significantly less than 40 knots, so the contact kept closing the range.

We vectored a combat air patrol fighter out for a visual check, but the pilot was unable to see anything in the darkness. The gun fire control RADAR dropped track as the contact came within gun range, as did the other RADARs. Subsequent discussions with navy veterans indicated similar RADAR phantoms had been observed in the Gulf of Tonkin as early as the second world war. These were generally regarded as "freak weather events" although Admiral Stanley Thomas Counts suggested they may have been flocks of cormorants. I think Admiral Counts' suggestion deserves wider recognition. These black birds would be very difficult to see during hours of darkness, and might disappear from RADAR if the flock dispersed or the birds landed in the water.

While cormorants are seldom observed in flocks significantly seaward of coastal roosting trees, the Đàn boat people of the Tonkin Gulf used an unusual fishing method which offered roosting opportunities far from shore. In the vicinity of the Vietnam war PIRAZ station, three-generation families of Đàn lived aboard small sailboats tending fish traps our Navy called "fish sticks". I do not know the actual design of these traps, but they could be visually observed as a collection of bamboo poles floating semi-vertically. I speculate these poles would have offered perches for cormorants, and the cormorants would presumably have been attracted to any fish which might have been in the traps. I further speculate the Đàn might have tried to protect their catch by chasing away these flocks of cormorants, and our RADAR phantoms might have been wandering flocks of cormorants seeking another perch in the hours of darkness. Can you suggest someone who might be interested in investigating this speculation? Thewellman (talk) 02:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

I regret that this falls well outside my area of expertise, and I do not know anyone who might be interested in investigating. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:12, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks for that! I have corrected it. Any suggestions welcome. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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What a great article, Hawkeye7. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:16, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I started with a paragraph in the Centaur (rocket stage) article that talked about Shuttle-Centaur. I was intrigued and created an article on it. From there I went on to expand the article on Galileo, as it was one of the intended payloads. Thanks for your comment; it is always heartening to hear that someone read and enjoyed an article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:14, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hello there. As we're preparing to move from one stage to the next, this is just a quick note from one member of the test group to another, wishing you well in the process of this new alternative to RfA. It seems that there are more of us in this group than some in the community anticipated, so i hope that doesn't make the experience any the worse for all of us. Whatever our individual results, i thank you, along with the rest, for stepping up and testing this process; happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Best wishes to you too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:30, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Best wishes to you both, to all those who offered themselves up, and the entire community in this test of wikipolitics. It's not fun. Sorry if I drew undue attention to you today, dude. I couldn't just stay silent today. BusterD (talk) 20:11, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I am glad you did. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

You and I know how much is involved in high-quality reviews, so I know it's a lot of time investment. Not very many admins spend THAT MUCH time reviewing others' work. Lead Coord can be a nightmare! Thought normies should know the numbers. I'll save my second question. We actually need you to get the mop this time. BusterD (talk) 20:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Just voted for you. Good luck! 🤞 Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:48, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Optional question from SilkTork

17. Could you explain what you mean by this statement you made in response to Q9: "The third finding was particularly embarrassing to the arbs because they voted for a finding of fact that one of their number, Newyorkbrad, pointed out at the time was not true." In relation to the finding that you had been previously admonished, all the Arbs active in the case supported it, including Newyorkbrad: [227]. (NYB added a comment later in response to Hersfold's feeling that the Civility case also related to involvement, which NYB didn't agree with - but that was a side issue, and not what we were voting on). To offer some clarity to people who might take your assertion for fact, I am not at all embarrassed that I supported a clearly obvious finding of which NYB said: "that Hawkeye7 was sanctioned in the case is a historical fact" 10:05, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

A:. Why would you vote on something if you didn't feel it was germane to the case? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

That you had been admonished by ArbCom for using the blocking tool inappropriately was very clearly germane to the case, and was a significant deciding factor in you being desysopped for again using the blocking tool inappropriately. That you still don't understand the reason why you were desysopped, and feel that ArbCom were wrong, is not very encouraging. My views now are pretty much the same as my views then: that you are a valuable member of the community, and are clearly not a bad person. You made actions that you felt were in the best interests of the project; and there are many folks that would support your actions, or, at the least, understand your actions. And I feel that neither action by itself would amount to a desysop - it was the one following the other that tipped matters over. And I felt that you would be one of those rare folks who would get your tools back at a RFA because of your good work and that the desysopping was largely technical. But each time you have asked for the tools back you have acted in a manner where you want to blame ArbCom for the desysopping without showing understanding of the reasons why.

It's all water under the bridge now, as people will vote as they will based on what's already been said, but I feel that it is a shame that you cannot accept what happened, and move on. I understand your position though, because it happened to me. I failed in my first RFA because of an incident where I felt I was in the right. Indeed, I felt somewhat resentful that nobody was understanding me, and it took me a long time to realise that I was actually in the wrong. It can be hard to make that shift in thinking. I hope you do get there. SilkTork (talk) 09:48, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. I accepted the verdict long ago. Moving on is of course much harder. I hope you can move on too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Reading the election discussion and then this brought it all back to me. It was a difficult time and I don't know if I've ever directly apologised to you for my part in the events that led up to your desysop. I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, but I've had great cause to regret it ever since. I've since come to see you as a great editor and a valued colleague. I'm deeply sorry for the trouble my hotheaded mistake caused you all those years ago. I hope you're successful in the election; I've voted for you, for what it's worth. Keep well. John (talk) 13:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks John. I have long since come to see you as a valued colleague too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Since my vote and comments in the "Civility enforcement" arbitration case are being discussed, please note that I opposed desysopping Hawkeye7 in that case. I opined there, albeit in lonely dissent, that the remedy was a significant overreaction and observed that the matter would likely never have come to arbitration if not for a controversy involving a different editor. See my comments on the proposed decision page, particularly here. Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:27, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

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I was off-wiki for a time and just got wind of your administrator nomination! I missed a chance to weigh in with my endorsement. Wishing you the best of luck! Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 15:19, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Voting is still going on. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Indeed! Not too late for that. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 18:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye7, I'm disappointed that your candidacy in the recent admin elections was unsuccessful. I hope that you'll keep trying and will again be an admin someday. Acalamari 05:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:26, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, I was disappointed to see you were unsuccessful in the admin elections. I just noticed the above category has crept up to 189 articles. I can't remember if this is on MilHistBot's tasklist to assess (in which case perhaps something has gone awry) or, if not, perhaps it should be? - Dumelow (talk) 21:26, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. It means a lot to me. The bot may have encountered a problem. I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:01, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Talk about the bus factor! I really need to document the bots. Very disappointing result from the admin elections. There has been a spate of errors over the last week or two, but no indication what they are. So the number of unassessed articles piled up. I have run the bot manually to see if there was a bad article causing an issue, but none was found, and the bot wound up clearing the entire backlog. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes, eleven new admins is great but could have been so much more. Still, hopefully it's the start of something. Good news about the bot - Dumelow (talk) 06:41, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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Please check the number and name of Superfortress 42-6358 Devel May Care in the Omura and Formosa subsection. In the previous paragraph, Superfortress 42-6358 Ding How is identified with same aircraft number. Also, https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-29/index.html, Pacific Wrecks, spells this name "Ding Hao". Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 06:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for this. Devil May Care should have been 42-24454. Corrected. Dong How is spelt that way in Mays and Lee, my main sources, but is spelt "Hao" in Mann (and Wikipedia, without a reference). Pacific Wrecks also has "Hao" but Smithsonian Magazine has "How". We can resolve this with Original Research. This video shows the name as written on the side of the plane (in English and Chinese) @ 1:15. As you can see, it is spelt "How". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:52, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Great detective work. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 08:49, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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I've reverted your revert because Category:Burials in Victoria (state) is a container category, that's not defining per WP:OCLOCATION. I included it in the original edit [258] comment In the future it would have been helpful for you to explain why you thought WP:OCLOCATION didn't apply, when you reverted. ^SMason_Garrison 20:45, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

My apologies. I was making a completely different change. I am not sure how your change got reverted. It was accidental. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

No worries! ^SMason_Garrison 23:04, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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