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Battle of Marciano

There's work for you at Battle of Marciano. I need the whole afternoon to write it!! However my English is poor, so you should clean up it a bit if you've time (also I've inverted the strength listing). In the link listed at the bottom there are also some maps, if you're able to wikify them it would be great. Bye and good work.

Disagreement over name

Hello. Thanks for your edit to Military History of the 1974 Invasion of Cyprus, but I'm afraid I disagree strongly with the change of name, particulalry the placing of 1974 in brackets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User383739 (talk • contribs)

Pauli or Paoli

As for the references in Italian Wars, if it is written in Latin it should be "Pauli Iovii". Bye. --Attilios 15:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I told you to be careful with Anglophone sources regarding Italian stuff. You should also cleanup the War of Urbino and Francesco Maria della Rovere I've just written. Bye and good work. --Attilios 16:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Of course typos have no geo origin. But I seem that Anglophone are (or mostly were) rather confused with format of Italian names (maybe scholars went sometimes confused between the Latin, English or Italian forms. You cannot imagine the horrors I am noticing here, especially from 1911 Britannica articles: they are not typos, they are total misunderstandings due to complete ignorance of Italian matters (I mumble if someone of the guys who edited the Italian articles of that Britannica even made a trip or Italy or knew any of Italian language), often with comical effects. Examples: name in... Spanish and surname in Italian, even for periods when Italy had nothing to share with Spain!! Bye.

Thanks for reply

Dear sir, thank you for your previous reply, and apologies for deleting "Disagreement over name" addition, this was me attempting to withdraw the remark. Respectfully, I request your instruction for requesting a peer review for the following article: Military Operations during the Invasion of Cyprus (1974). I am having trouble with the syntax peer-review=yes, and would like criticism so as to improve the article. Thanks again. User: User383739

Thank you

Thank you for the warm welcome Kirill. Since August 27, 2006 I contribute to the Wikipedia by creating articles regarding Sri Lankan military. Hope you would like these articles that I have started.

Problem resolved

Dear sir, regarding previous problem with syntax for peer review, this is now resolved. (User383739 16:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Longsword Article Peer Review

I'm considering putting the longsword article up for peer review at WPMH after adding a little more information on hilts (currently a stub section). Before I did, and wasted people's time, I wanted to know if you saw any immediately revolting elements to the article. I'd like to have it "on par" before peer review so it could come out shining. Eventually, I want to push it up to GA and FA (it's B, atm). Thanks for you time and commitment! - xiliquiernTalk 17:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand military history task force

Hi Kirill, thanks for creating the New Zealand task force! I started tagging articles but it doesn't seem to be working (See Talk:New Zealand Army).--James Bond 23:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Higher ranking Opinion needed

The page CVN 78 has been moved to Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), and all information about the name of the ship has been cut out save for the part where the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007 officially named the ship. OK, thats fine, BUT:

  1. The article is incorrectly named (it should be located at USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)),
  2. No sources (inline citations or otherwise) have been provided for the alleged information,
  3. No official announcement has been made by the Secratary of the Navy (or anyone else for that matter) that the name is now Gerald R. Ford, and
  4. Things change. The space shuttle Enterpise was originally named USS Constitution until the Star Trek fans purswaded NASA to rename the vehical Enterprise. The same thing could happen here.

I feel that these circumstances warrent maintaining the article under the name CVN 78, with the name specualtion section included, until someone (preferably the Secratary of the Navy) makes an official press release or otherwise publicly announces the name of the carrier, but I want an expert opinion before taking any drastic measures. What are your thoughts on the matter? TomStar81 (Talk) 02:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The female members of the Scouting project would like to advertise that we cover Scouting. Some countries consider Girl Guiding as a bit different from Scouts and some project members want to recruit more females to work on the Girl Guide/Girl Scout articles. Our portal and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_society#Social_organizations listing say we cover Guiding, but what else can we do? THanks. Rlevse 18:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent idea. I shoulda thunk of that! I just did that. I already have us listed, and mention the Guiding, on the WP Council page and our portal. If you have more suggestions, please let me know.Rlevse 22:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Operations of the South African Border War

Hi Kirill: Please see my latest comments at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 November 24#Category:Operations of the South African Border War for the reasoning why you have made a mistake. Thanks. IZAK 19:59, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While I am thinking about it...

...should the articles USS Missouri (BB-63) and Iowa class battleship also be put through a Featured Article Review when I get around to citing them, or should I go with the peer review option instead? I ask because there seemed to be some confusion about that on the FAR page for USS Wisconsin when I added the 300+ inline citations for the material, and I would rather not repeat that experince again for the other two articles. TomStar81 (Talk) 10:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

template

Well the project is technically apart of the indian project. I've try to generate more interest in it. I like how the koreans did their nav template.--D-Boy 23:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll ask about making it smaller.--D-Boy 23:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks- RE: Land warfare feedback

Thanks heaps for your assesment on the land warfare article-as you can see I'm rather new to Wikipedia and your feedback is greatly appreciated. :-) Bennyboyz3000 (talk). 06:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crécy Campaign

Hi, I understand why you merged the Crécy campaignbox into the Edwardian War one and thankyou for contacting me about it. However, I'm not sure why the original Hundred Years War box was broken up in the first place. It covered the major operations and would have allowed the creation of smaller campaignboxes for specific campaigns. As it currently stands, the Edwardian War box has the four closely linked battles of the Crecy campaign and two largely unconnected operations seperated by six years in one direction and ten in the other. Would it not be more sensible to go back to the original larger box and then branch down by campaign rather than era - I can think of several campaigns from this war which could merit their own box but currently don't have one? I also notice a lot of very small boxes on the American Civil War (including several with only one action in them), which seem to breach the guidelines you mentioned, should these be merged into one large one?--Jackyd101 17:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the speedy reply, I see your point, your last sentence in brackets was the closest to what I was thinking, but I'll leave it for now and try to expand the articles on Hundred Years War battles as a lot are onr line stubs and others are missing completely. Maybe when there are more entries in the boxes it will be more practical to use the boxes by campaign rather than by historical era. A box is needed for the Breton Civil War which made up a substantial part of the early Hundred Years War and currently has no box, I'll add one for that if there is no objection. Thanks--Jackyd101 18:01, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Military Brat name

Hi Kirill, I was hoping to get your thoughts/input on the new name. Is "Military brat (U.S. subculture)" the best name or should it be "U.S. Military brat" or do you have a better idea? I've started a discussion on the talk page on this.Balloonman 22:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Amstetten

I have completed the article on the Battle of Amstetten. Can you please verify the infromation (esp. numbers) and add additional information to it? I do not have many resources on that specific battle. --Ineffable3000 01:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portfolio for ArbCom

On Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Summary table, I added a column "Examples" with links that exhibit a candidate's arbitration skills. My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well. Since you were one of the first candidates to register, I included some links which you provided on your questions page. You may want to check if you're OK with them. — Sebastian (talk) 23:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Cambodian Civil War A-class review

Kirill, I've started reviewing the article. I made some copyedits. I'm about halfway through the article. I've left some requests for clarification on the talk page. I'll return to it tomorrow to complete my review. As earlier reviewer have noted, there are some tone issues. — ERcheck (talk) 06:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Part 2 of my review completed. Editor has found the comments and is addressing. — ERcheck (talk) 02:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Afd Discussion

I have started an important AfD discussion related to lists of battles. Please share your opinions. --Ineffable3000 02:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Caspian expeditions of the Rus

Hi, this article was peer-reviewed some time ago, but since then it has significantly progressed, and it is now a good article. The reviewer said we may consider nominating for FA, but I'm not sure whether the article should go through another peer review before nomination. Your advice will be greatly appreciated. Beit Or 18:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your advice would be appreciated

Hi, I'm trying to get the LGBT Wikiproject back off the ground and I was wodnering, as co-ordinator of easily the most successful WikiProject out there, if you could give some advice as to how to go about it. How did MILHIST build itself up? Were there lots of members from the beginning? How did you recruit new ones? What can we do to ensure maximum productivity without wasting time on stuff we don't have the manpower for? Do you have any simple ideas we can try? Your advice would be deeply welcome. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I'm so glad you said that, because I was planning to make a project template, and develop article assessments and the Wikiproject banner anyway - I feel like I'm definitely on the right track now. :) Thankyou for your reply. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 06:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to bother you again, but the WikiProject Council's guide is slightly confusing me. I want to get the bot automated assessments, and the guide says to add a parameter to our banner - but our banner code looks nothing like the example. Is it already there, or do I need to put it in, and if so, where? Does the bot simply then just create all the pages needed? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
K, I added all the code and fiddled with it: the guide mentioned categories. Do I need to create them, or does the bot do it, or what? Maybe you could add this to the guide? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 17:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've created and beautified them all. Thanks for your help. I discovered what I needed to know at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot - you might want to add some information to the Guide from it. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crusades

Hi - I strongly prefer this format for the Crusade box, but noticed on the discussion page of Template:Crusade that you chose the current format so it could be used in conjunction with another type of template (a battlebox?). The thing is, the two or three Crusade-linked articles that I checked don't actually use that other box. So, maybe you could help me add them, or maybe you would reconsider your thoughts about this version of the template?[1] Best, Kaisershatner 15:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

manually created template of task force list

at least I managed to understand enough coding to get such a template at this place. That was the hardest part. Wandalstouring 14:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User FrummerThanThou and Leads

Hi Kirill, notice you reverted this editor's tag at Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942). He's doing the same to my Russian Ground Forces, also under FAC consideration, which, as far as I can see, meets all WP:LEAD requirements. Would you mind reverting the tag - or seeing if it is actually applicable, and if so, appreciate how you think I should redo it. Thanks Buckshot06 17:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Ghazni

Hi Kirill,

I just created this new article, Battle of Ghazni which took place in 1839 during the First Anglo-Afghan War. I was wondering if you could help link this article around so that it generates traffic.

thank you. Mercenary2k 20:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MedCab

Hiya, glad to see that your ArbCom bid is going well.  :)

By the way, do you remember that "WikiProject autonomy" issue that came up at the Village Pump? The dispute that I was referring to, at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television), continues to escalate, and it's looking like it's having a good chance to proceed to ArbCom.  :/ Formal mediation was rejected, but we're making a last-ditch effort via MedCab to see if we can work things out. Would you be interested in offering a statement? If you'd rather stay low-key while the ArbCom proceedings are taking place, I understand, but I did want to make you aware since we'd discussed this before. So it's definitely your call.  :) If you would like to participate (and I'd really love additional opinions on the matter), it's at: Wikipedia talk:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-12-05 Naming conventions (television). Thanks, Elonka 21:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, you're right, it went to ArbCom earlier today.  :/ However, I'm a bit distressed to see that the person that submitted the request chose to list in the "parties" list, themselves, 3 of their allies, and me alone as "the opposition" (sigh). I'm feeling a bit out of my depth here, since I've never participated in any way in any Wikipedia ArbCom case. Would you be willing to act as an advisor, as I prepare my statement? I definitely feel like I need some assistance navigating this process. Thanks, --Elonka 00:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Krasnoi

Could you take a look? --Ghirla -трёп- 10:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you think that "unreadably choppy" is way too harsh? I believe you should leave your prejudice towards Kenmore in the past. Best, Ghirla -трёп- 13:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Kiril:
By "density of citations", are you saying that certain sections need more footnotes, or that the sections currently containing footnotes are too densely covered with footnotes? Note that I have not yet added the footnotes to sections one and two, so there will be 15 more citations or so coming up.
Sometimes I wonder if it's presently too densely footnoted in other sections, as in some paragraphs I've footnoted almost every sentence. I felt compelled to do this, because I literally had to put the narrative together fact-for-fact (chronologically), sentence-by-sentence, by drawing upon a variety of sources.
I'm planning to see an academic writing coach in the future for non-Wikipedia reasons. I'll bring all five of my Wikipedia articles as material to work on.
Just for the record, I have seen one sentence paragraphs used often in history books, and to good effect too.


Ghirla:
Kiril was not being harsh or vindictive by calling the narrative "unreadably choppy". American teachers routinely use such terms in grading student's papers, and students here use such words to contructively criticize each other's work. Sometimes bluntness is a virtue.
Assuming the critics know what they're talking about, I encourage them to be as harsh as they can in criticizing my work. It helps me to strengthen the article.
Kenmore 17:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)kenmore[reply]

I've now added a navigation pane, similar to yours, to all our project pages, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting. We formed our first task force, too, for female Scouts. Rlevse 13:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Category:Military of Cornwall

I don't know if you're still watching this discussion, but there are some (one, at least) Cornish studies editors who have made a proposal to rename the category to Category:Military in Cornwall as a child of Category:Military of the United Kingdom and Category:Cornwall - to me, this seems like an unnecessary breaking of the category tree, but your input would be appreciated. Carom 16:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In case you have nothing else to do and you're not fed up with me co-editing

I have been thinking about a way to get a viewers' evaluation of articles. Naturally only Featured and A-class articles would be candidates for this. The idea is to create a form(possibly template) where the viewer can very simple give a grade to the article. The trick is that these grades should be readable by an automated process and procceeded into an evaluation of the article (like e-bay customer profiles). A possible solution could be that the grades are bot readable. Additional to the grade an optional comment can be made. The idea of this system is to present the degree of participating viewer satisfaction with the article to us and the viewer. There are two aims of this system: We can take a close look on articles with comparably bad grades and read the comments. While wikipedia often gets often dissed for not being unreliable and low quality information, this possibility for very easy viewer participation would also serve as a quality sign for articles. The A-class currently holds no visible sign such as the FA. Wandalstouring 17:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CfD - Category:Battles of the Somme 1916

Hi Kirill,
I've just closed the above and tried to anticipate its result here, here and here. I'm not sure, though, that I've done so correctly/consistently; for instance, I note First Battle of the Somme redirected to "Battle of the Somme (1916)" (now Battle of the Somme) but that this is also described as the "First Battle of the Somme"... I fear I may've confused matters further rather than clarify them, so I'd appreciate your assistance/reassurance!  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 00:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS Category:Battle of the Somme Victoria Cross recipients... Suggest Category:Victoria Cross recipients (Battle of the Somme) (and thus "Victoria Cross recipients (BattleName)" in general) as (1) less of an eyeful; (2) placing the category's subject at the title's head...?  David (talk) 00:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...As far as I can tell, things are correct now; the naming is pretty confusing, as there are three battles...
Understood; I almost suggested "First Battle of the Somme in 1918" (ditto Second)...
...VC recipients: MILHIST is currently discussing the entire structure (and attendant naming conventions) for all the military personnel categories...
Understood; in general, I'd certainly favor names that managed to present their categories' subjects at or near the start of each name. In the case of recipients (and maybe other categories) I wonder if "from" a battle is more conventional; i.e., for example, "Victoria Cross recipients from the Battle of the Somme"...?  Yours, David (talk) 02:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Houston peer review

The Houston, Texas article is currently being peer reviewed. Your advice on how to improve the article is appreciated. Thank you for your assistance. Postoak 05:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

Dear Kirill—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers. Tony 14:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stolen Valor Act of 2005

I've started this article at ERcheck's request, please look it over for categories, task force tag, etc. Rlevse 17:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New battle to add to the Iraq war campaignbox

I have recently added five battles to the Iraq war campaignbox:Husaybah,Haditha,Mosul and both battles of Ramadi, because people have been neglecting all those battles that ocured during the war. Now I have come up of an idea for an article about the first Shia uprising from april 4th 2004 to the midle of June. Not to include the August uprising because that was mainly concetrated on Najaf and there is already an article about that. So I wanted maybe a few suggestions from you about what to include in to the article what engagements, events etc. Of cours I will not include the fighting in Anbar or north of Baghdad because that was part of the Sunni insurgency, but the fighting in Baghdad, no matter Sunni or Shia and south of Baghdad I think should be included. What do you think. Top Gun 21:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Hello Kirill. You are famous for your work as a writer on military topics, but I never see you at DYK. Come on down to Template talk:Did you know and grab yourself a piece of the action! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Fish Portal

Hi, User:Melanochromis has done a great job getting the Fish Portal up an running. At this point, more sets of eyes can help make it even better. If you can offer some tips on the portal talk page about how to improve Fish up to "featured" quality, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbietalk 13:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE Khe Sanh

Sorry about the screw up, evidently were were editing simultaneously. Thanks. RM Gillespie 16:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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USSPACECOM

Could you please weigh in on this? What's the call on something like this? --ScreaminEagle 19:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Third Italian Independence War

If you've time, I've created Third Italian Independence War (translation from Italian Wikipedia), and some connected articles:

I've furthemore updated the templates of Austro-Prussian War to cope with the new articles structure. Also Siege of Gaeta (1860) has been marked as needing cleanup. Let me know and good work. Bye. --Attilios 22:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People by war subcategories

Hi Kirill,
Some template updating has brought this category to my attention (again) and I'm thinking of tagging then posting the following to WP:CfD – unless you/WP:MILHIST wouldn't support the idea:

Subcategories of Category:People by war

Propose renaming all those subcategories whose names end "...people" to "People of the...", as the former:

  1. causes bulky adjectivals (i.e. all words before "people" become a (long) adjective);
  2. might, in some cases, cause confusion (e.g. "War of the Confederation people" = "[War of the Confederation] people", not "War of the [Confederation people]"; etc.)

Thanks for your thoughts!  David Kernow (talk) 22:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's the convention we're intending to adopt anyways ... Please drop a note at WT:MILHIST when you make the listing. :-) Kirill Lokshin 22:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Roger that!  Yours, David (talk) 22:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal tips

I have done a lot of extensive work (and so has Rfrisbie) to Portal:Business and Economics. I would like to bring it to Featured Portal status and I am seeking your opinion! Please leave your suggestions at the the Portal talk:Business and Economics about how to get this portal to featured status. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Nishkid64 04:41, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal review volunteers

Hi, based on your previous good deeds, please consider becoming one of the portal review volunteers and adding your name to the list. :-) Regards, Rfrisbietalk 18:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sieges in...

'In' makes more sense, a siege has a geographic location and cannot have two, whereas a battle or war has multiple participants. The siege should remain in 'battles of' if done by a foreign country Tim! 23:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NCCAT should take priority over wikiproject style guides. You can list them on CFD if you wish to take a general sounding. Tim! 23:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Firearms naming conventions

Hi, Kirill. The discussion about firearms article naming conventions on Weaponry task force is still going, and while there seems to be an agreement among myself and the task force members who replied, Deathbunny (the autor of the moves) is still contrary to a more flexible convention, and appears to want a strict convention for all name types. I'm requesting your input to (hopefully) get things settled so we can put together a convention and apply it on the articles involved. Thanks in advance! —Squalla 03:21, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Within the scope of WPMILHIST

Kirill, In your assessment, do the following fall within the scope of the Military history WikiProject — "Military historiography, including major historians and their works":

— ERcheck (talk) 22:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent

Uh, Kirill, our Iran Ajr article seems to have been copied entirely from this website. I think this is a copyvio, and if so needs to be dealt with quickly, but I want a second opinion before pointing any accusing fingers. What do you think? TomStar81 (Talk) 01:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On an unrelated note, I was wondering if there was any way for an admin to recover the image descriptions on deleted image pages. In this case the image is Image:Missouri post refit.JPG, which was originally uploaded here (with all essential information included) and then transfered to the commons. Unfurtanetly, the user who transfered the image to the commons did not transfer the source information, and now that the page here on wikipedia has been deleted I have no way of knowing where I found it originally. Anything you can do to help? TomStar81 (Talk) 03:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thats what I was looking for. The picture in question is usually used for the "Todays Featured Article" section in a number of portals, and I was worried about it being deleted. Thank you for providing the source needed to keep it here. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Task Force Proposal

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but I propose a task force about military psychology. I know that term is very broad, but the psychology of engaging in combat is somewhat important. I'm sure pages like Shock and Awe could fit under it.

Thanks! Sharkface217 22:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that. If in the future there ever is a Military Medical task force, I will be sure to consider joining it. Sharkface217 01:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People by war's subcategories now on CfD

Hi Kirill,
The ["...people" → "People of..."] rename proposal for Category:People by war is now in place here and I've left an announcement here. I'm now going to take some keyboard leave, but should be back later. Yours, David (talk) 02:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good ... Some of the cases (e.g. the veterans one) are rather peculiar; but they're likely to be renamed once we finally work out the whole scheme for Category:Military personnel...
Understood; have removed the one veteran nomination. (Whatever the format finally agreed for veteran category names, however, I reckon "Enduring Freedom" ought to become "Operation Enduring Freedom".)  Best wishes, David (talk) 03:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
PS re closing this CfD

I was looking to close this CfD but see there are two or three distinct lines of thought. One, leading to the use of "Thirteen Colonies" seems to've arisen after your contribution; what do you make of it...?  (I suppose I could close it as "no consensus" but I feel there is one there...)  Thanks, David (talk) 03:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Using the "Thirteen Colonies" version is entirely fine with me (actually, I think I was the first person to mention that possibility...
So you were; I must've forgotten by the time I reached the end of the discussion. The category (American colonial wars) now slated for renaming to Military history of the Thirteen Colonies.
One more thing: if it's not too much trouble, might you be able to take a look at this category naming discussion? ...
Have just completed a first read of the discussion and I see what you mean; no magic-bullet solutions jump to mind, but I'll read it again as I catch up CfD scanning – hopefully something might suggest itself then. For now, though, I wonder if some use of "by" might work – perhaps with reference to a country's army/navy rather than the country itself... David (talk) 04:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Units and formations of the United States Air Force" category tree renaming

I hope I wasn't being assumptive, but I put in a CFR for the USAF categories so they match the "X of Y" naming convention. Just trying to help get the USAF articles lined up (and, of course, get a few of them up to FA status!). If you would please share your thoughts about this with me. Thanks. -Dan AKA NDCompuGeek 02:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um, I thought I did to a speedy rename on these articles.... I guess I did something wrong - What did I do incorrectly? Thanks.... -Dan AKA NDCompuGeek 04:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Deletion? (urgent)

Kirill, I just posted some this article (Air Force Doctrine Center), and 2 minutes after it was posted it was flagged with a copyvio speedy deletion! Have I done something wrong by using the USAF public domain as a "template" for this article (I have changed it from what they have on their web site), or is it a case of "looks kind of like it, so better safe than sorry" kind of thing? I would really like to save this article if at all possible. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks! -Dan AKA NDCompuGeek 04:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I didn't realize .mil sites were public domain, and didn't find the statement to that effect that they've hidden under "Privacy and Security." My bad. PsyMar 05:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested in being an assistant corrdinator

Dear Kirill,

I am interested in being an assistant corrdinator and helping out with Asian Military History projects. How does one progress to this level? Please let me know, thanks. -WangKon936 05:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Wargames and Co.

I have been discussing with Lord Ameth on how to retrieve historic maps of battles. One possibility would be to use wargames which often try to be highly accurate(reenacting historic battles) and show the different maneuvers. For our purpose showing the different troop types with correct equipment and their way of movement on the battlefield is enough, at least in the premodern warfare. This would open up great possibilities to improve our ability for maps of battle deployment. Naturally I argue for strict controls on the accuracy. If this works and we get more wargames(there are quite a lot out there and the guys seem happy to have someone watching their stuff) I would suggest to establish a review process for self-made diagrams, maps and wargames to ensure accuracy and quality. Possibly some guidelines would also be helpful. Wandalstouring 03:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is professional and we do show things from a contemporary point of view this way. Read Miniature wargaming and its external links. Wandalstouring 05:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photo Question

Hi again, I have another question for you. I am in the process of overhauling the battleship Missouri page to bring it up to current FA standards (you can see the progress made so far by checking my sand box if you like), and while cruising the net for pictures of Missouri I happened across this photo of New Jersey. I have my eye(s) on bring New Jersey up to featured status next, and images like this would definately help that effort, but for the life of me I can not find the author of the image. The link I gave above states that the picture in question was obtained from "a sailor serving on her"; so my question is is this a PD image, or a fair use image? TomStar81 (Talk) 07:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi Kirill! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 20:16, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

some issues

You could have warned me earlier that there is a wikiproject maps that produces quite good stuff.

Could you help me to push my ego with the external images template? At the moment it is stuck as request to add to the manual of style and there is little resonance. Perhaps you have an idea how to proceed. Wandalstouring 01:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The map project did some work on battle of Chalons quite recently, so they are active.

OK, now I know what ideas some people have about it and possible alternatives. Wandalstouring 02:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

War Portal oopsie

Kirill, I was just at the War portal, and I noticed you have already added the USAF and Coast Guard - thanks! I also couldn't help but notice that the pictures and captions are reversed - I don't think the Air Force is changing from parachutes to anchors to stop their planes.... Actually, it IS somewhat humorous, but nonetheless inaccurate. Just thought you should know.

By the way, if you have ANY suggestions for the Air Force portal, your advice is always welcome (and desired)! -Dan (AKA NDCompuGeek 04:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC))[reply]

And now, the Air Force portal....

Kirill, after a thorough I think that's how it's spelled,um, detailed lookthrough of the War portal, I would like to ask you if I can "borrow" the 'WPMILHIST Announcements' layout for the USAF portal? I like the layout, I'm a (hopefully valuable) member of the military history project, and I think it's a way to tie them even tighter together. Thoughts? NDCompuGeek 06:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

XMAS gift

Lots of good intentions flying around, but not much in the way of useful stuff. Here is a nice template I found to organize your ever-growing collections of awards :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  14:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Salad'o'meter™
put barnstars here (no thumb or direction)
n00b involved been around veteran seen it all older than the Cabal itself

I found three featured lists(on animals) Wikipedia:WikiProject_Caribbean#Features_Lists

We could use them as a model for our own lists. Personally I prefer the table style. Possibly this could also by done with templates. What's your opinion? Wandalstouring 16:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

admin stuff

Could you protect Hannibal Barca if our anonymous editors go on to revert edits without providing proper sources. Wandalstouring 19:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man I was curious if you could take a moment and take a look at List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons I want to get someone elses opinion on where im going with it. I still have lot to go. I also have a concern as to the size it starting to get pretty big and im maybe a third of the way though. anyway just when you get a sec if you dont mind. --Wilsbadkarma 03:00, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • RE: Yeah I kinda took Loopers idea and ran with it on the navy side. and you know it never really occured to me that the nicknames and dates dont really have to be like that. I just took the layout the way he had planed it. thanks oh and I nomed the portal a few minutes ago. Thanks for the help --Wilsbadkarma 03:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lifted your barnstar design

Kirill, I lifted the design of your userpage to clean up the messy formatting I had on barnstars - I hope that's OK with you. Best, Sandy (Talk) 16:21, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the fix: since it was added at the top, and since there were no other interwikis on the page, I wasn't certain what to do with it - glad you noticed. Sandy (Talk) 20:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User: ed g2s and Infobox road

seems to me like he's abusing his sysop privilege if he's doing the reverts the way you described it in his discussion page IMHO? This is just a statement - not intended to be an attack of any type 8) • master_sonLets talk 21:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. • master_sonLets talk 21:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

nationalistic bot

Thanks for the good arguments. Frankly it seems logical to add India wikiproject tags to Indian actors. I dont see what the argument is but thanks anyway for being level-headed about the issue.Bakaman 01:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lepanto galley number

Hey, the list of ships in the battle gives 216 or so, not 230 (although there is one section on the muslim side which has an incorrect number i haven't changed that) SpookyMulder 04:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oversight

Hello. Congratulations for your election. You now have oversight access on the English-language Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia:Oversight before using this feature. Cheers! guillom 10:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kirill. In addition, please subscribe to Oversight-l. And congratulations on your new status. Redux 13:12, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

more "portal-ology" questions

Kirill, You had mentioned "rotating articles" or something like that when we were last discussing the Air Force portal. Umm, how do I do that? -Dan (AKA NDCompuGeek 20:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC))[reply]

US M# Weapons...

I've been trying to bring the pages discussed "on-line" with what everyone agreed on but there are some pages requiring an admin. What is the procedure to get that done? I want to get the linked pages fixed but I don't want to leave a lot of redlinks or "missed links", especially in pages where they go directly to the variants portion of the page.

Also, does the "to do list" on the Talk page go there or is there a better location for this "temporary" tool?

Thanks. Deathbunny 21:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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War-campaign-battle struture

Hello. Congratulations! I’m really impressed with war portal, but I have one issue to discuss about structure of information concern military conflicts. I think it will be much more convivient to use “three-level” structure “war-campaign-battle” then “two-level” “war-battle”. A lot of military conflicts (especially medieval) really was just isolated raids or campaigns organized by separate military leaders (not by states or even tribe), for example viking campaigns, nomad campaigns. Long medieval wars (Hundred Years' War, Wars of the Roses, ...) often were series of campaigns with long quasi-peace interval. List of wars 1000–1499 is very shot and uncomplete because of this reason. Term "invasion" is too POV and lead to long edit wars. So I’d like to know your opinion about structuring medieval (and partly ancient) military history as series of campaigns, not always cover by any war. Really I’d like create article about viking raids using this approach. --Ioakinf 09:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC) P.S. Example of some arguments you may see on Talk:Rus'-Byzantine War --Ioakinf 10:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for prompt reply. I can prepare some tables of content with referencies as examples (Wars of the Roses,Hundred Years' War). But I'm newcomer here and don't want to create any chaos with existing well-prepared articles, so shall I place these examples on your talk page or somewhere else (talk pages of articles, or project, or ...) for further discussion? Sorry to trouble you --Ioakinf 18:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for advice. I'll go this way. --Ioakinf 18:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Shot-down aviators

Hi Kirilll: What is Category:Shot-down aviators for? For only those killed, or also for those who survived? Thanks. IZAK 21:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will this infobox proposal work?

Kirill, could you look at my proposed ship infobox at User:TomTheHand/test and tell me if the method used will work or break in the future? From what I understand about what you said, if Brion turns on a particular extension, it will no longer be possible to open a table in one template and close it in another. However, can you open a table, use some templates to define the rows, then close the table? Your proposal on WP:SHIPS seems to indicate that you can. Though you're having the editor make one template call, behind the scenes that template is opening a table, filling it with rows using other templates, and then closing the table.

I know that you favor a different approach, but I think it would be better to leave backwards compatibility behind if the solution is easier to use. "Easier to use" is subjective, certainly, and maybe my easy-to-use proposal is a pain in the butt to someone else, but nobody's really spoken up about it. TomTheHand 18:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

random JROTC question

Kirill, I don't know if this is up your alley, but I've been trying to edit New York City public schools pages, and stumbled across a bunch of uncategorized pages for various high schools' JROTC chapters. They're all uncategorized, and I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, they ought to be categorized. The list is at Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps#Selected JROTC units, although there may also be some that aren't listed there. It's not urgent (of course!), but any help you could give would be appreciated. Thanks! Semisomna 04:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll categorize them there for now, and put merge tags to the relevant high school articles, where they exist. High school articles are a mess — you know there should be enough information for an article on every one, but most of them have about as much content as those silly JROTC pages. But someday, everything will make sense. Semisomna 05:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Military brat

Kirill, I was trying to get Military brat peer reviewed one last time before nominating it for FA again, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. When I started to set it up, it pulls up the old review. Could you tell me how to fix this? Balloonman 06:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks... figred it out... I think Balloonman 06:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Unit Naming Conventions

Hey Kirill, I realize you're busy, but I have a question about the unit renamings. I have been going through and renaming a lot of the U.S. units when I find them, removing the U.S. at the beginning when necessary and adding the (United States) on the end (later I'll go back and fix the redirects, as well). I figured I'd run into some people who didn't agree or understand the logic, but one fellow brought one of them to my attention and I think it could go either way. He says the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team is a unique name and the addition of the (United States) is redundant and unnecessary since there is only one 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team in all the world (I'll take his word on that since I know nothing about it). However, it is a numbered unit with no indication of the country in the title, either. Seems both of those go against each other per the new unit naming guidelines. Which way does this go?

Also, when a unit has "# th Infantry Regiment (Airborne)" as the title, where do we stick the (country)? Wouldn't "(Airborne) (United States)" look strange? I could have sworn you already covered this, but I've forgotten what you said and now I can't find it. --ScreaminEagle 20:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)

Last May, I think, you rated this article as a "B": you may want to have another look. There's been many changes since and one section is littered with "citation needed" tags. I don't feel at all comfortable at rating articles myself. BTW, I find it interesting that a relatively obscure unit attracts so much attention, whereas major formations, eg various UK and US armies and army groups don't. Happy New Year. Folks at 137 23:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Or should I say, my sympathies.  :) I just saw the announcement on your appointment to the ArbCom. Wear the hat well. User:Zoe|(talk) 17:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Guettarda 18:51, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just heard the news, congratulations! --InShaneee 00:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, I'm sure you'll do a great job. Walkerma 02:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please allow me to add my congratulations also. I look forward to watching your work on the committee. Cla68 06:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! --Ideogram 08:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Several people said that you were their first choice of all the candidates, me among them. I can well understand why. It's hard to imagine a more fair and calm editor, and I can't imagine how you would be anything less than exemplary. (That's supposed to be positive, by the way; sometimes my language gets so complicated that I have no idea what I've actually said.) Badbilltucker 21:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You never cease to amaze me...for instance I had no idea you were barely of legal drinking age. Up until this election...I placed you at least 8-10 years older...enough to fear the Sandmen more than being carded:). Again, I have no doubt you will excell as an Arb.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 08:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hezbollah

Hi, I want to rearrange this category on the basis of recent discussion in talk:Hezbollah. I found you put a comment in [[Category:Wars of Hezbollah]] few days ago.[2] Please participate in our discussion and help us with this issue. Thanks a lot.--Sa.vakilian 04:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!

Congratulations and best wishes on your elevation. :-) SlimVirgin (talk) 18:54, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your appointment to the ArbCom! – Chacor 03:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on the recent appointment, all the best. Terence Ong 05:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats for making it to ArbCom, Kirill! All the best for your term in the posistion. :) Kyriakos 08:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats Kirill.. All three people that I voted for got into Arbcom! I must have good judgement;) <pats self> — Lost(talk) 10:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. I'm very glad you were chosen for the ArbCom, though I don't know you well, in what has been perhaps the best election yet. I'm sure you'll make a great arbitrator. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 11:35, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grats Kirill! -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 13:16, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all for the kind words! I'll try not to disappoint you. :-) Kirill Lokshin 15:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Notability standards for military personnel

Re: Notability standards for military personnel

I have proposed a standard for military personnel at Wikipedia talk:Notability (people). I am forwarding this information to you because you are invloved with the history project and may be able to rally some discussion on the topic. I see problems with defending military and other historical biographies in the AfD process where G-hit are the "king"

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks.

--Kevin Murray 19:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox for Airstations and such

Hello, I'm wanting to create an infobox specifically for air stations, AFB's, airfields, and heliports. Since the military structure infobox doesn't doesn't provide all the information that an airport infobox does and an airport box doesn't have fields for the military information. I made a variation of the airport box a while back when I created alot of air stations but I think it would be better if it had the same look as the military structure info box with the added fields. Here are some examples of what I'm talking about;an air station that I created Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake an airport Los Angeles International Airport and of course you know what the Military structure box looks like. Anyway my question is before I go through the trouble do you think this would be something that could be considered for use by all? --WilsBadKarma (Talk/Contribs) 00:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This old page

I started a page for Merchant Ship Fighter Unit a while ago and I forgot to see if it qualifies under the Wikipedia Military history project. The page could use some work, but I think it falls under this Wikiproject. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 01:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Military of Greece

I have just created this portal and I was looking at the Italian Wrs portal for ideas when I saw the selected events and biographycomponent you put in where when you click on more select events it automaticly changes. Could you please tell me how to had that to my portal. And I have also tried to change the title of the portal to Military history of Greece but I have some problems. COuld you please help me fix it. Cheers. :) Kyriakos 07:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of specializing more the historical aspect of the military history eg. wars, battles and historical figures instead of weapons etc. Kyriakos 07:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've screwed everything up is it OK if you do it for me and I just place the selected biography's and events. Thanks for the help. Kyriakos 07:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to disturb you again Kirill but when you click on more articles it goes to a redirect is it possible for you too fix it. And also could you please fix the more biographies. Thanks. Kyriakos 07:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please fix the related conent portal sub page because I doesn't seem to be appearing. Thanks. Kyriakos 23:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you think the portal is looking now and do you have any tips on how to improve it. Kyriakos 05:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ye, I must going to start that now. Thanks for the help so far. :) Kyriakos 05:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to disturb you again but I think I finished the portal and I you don't mind having a look and telling me can be improved. Thanks :) Kyriakos 10:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, I was thinking of ways to improve the portal and would it be doable to place the assessment chart and show the figure of article's that have to do with the Military of Greece. For example: 8 FA, 200 stub etc. Do you think it would work? Kyriakos 21:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've got the time as I'm on summer holidays what do I have to do? Kyriakos 22:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way I can do it manualy. Kyriakos 23:10, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do it manually. Can you please help me set up the system and then I'll go therough the categories and subcategories manually. Kyriakos 23:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be possible to have one like the current status? Kyriakos 23:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think now. I went throug a few hundred articles and I made a chart. :) Kyriakos 06:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He he he. I know what you mean by time consuming. I've spent quite a few hours and I'm expecting to find around another 100 to 150 articles at the least. :) Kyriakos 06:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year. I just wanted to tell you that I've found another 150 articles since yesterday and I think I can find some more. Happy New Year! :) Kyriakos 22:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As you know I have the Portal up for featured and currently have three supports and no objects and I would love to get a few more supports in the effort to get this thing featured. I noticed that you have reviewed many portals So if you have a sec can you review it. oh and I'm making the list for the airfield addition to the structure infobox and will send it to you shortly. --WilsBadKarma (Talk/Contribs) 19:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hezbollah

Hi, We are waiting for your opinion. Please hurry up.[3]--Sa.vakilian 14:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(state) in the American Civil War categories

I understand you were once interested in subcategories of these categaries to contain the people involved from each state. Something like 'People of (state) in the American Civil War' Scott Mingus says he no longer minds if such subcats are created. What would you think is the best name for such subcats? Also for subcats of battles in the states, such as 'Battles in (state) of the American Civil War' Thanks Hmains 18:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding people, I will create the subcats. Regarding battle locations (by state), I just note that the battles are already organized by state in the '(state) in the American Civil War categories', they are just not further suborganized with the name battle in the category name. This precludes creating an overall category named 'Battles of the American Civil War by state' which might be useful to some WP users. Hmains 18:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So, you would just leave the battles as they are or ? By the by, at least one state category already has a (poorly named) battles subcategory. Hmains 18:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Side subject: the Main Article of these categories should, I think be named to follow the category: 'American Civil War' not just 'Civil War'. Can I do this just using the 'move' tool available to editors? Hmains 19:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The 'moves' appear to have worked ok. Back to battles: It was the "Battles in Virginia" catgegory that I was thinking about. Hmains 20:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Military brat

Well, somebody beat me to the category of military brat, but I went through last night and updated all of the brats on the List of famous military brats to have the category on their page. Well, the category has already been nominated for deletion. The reasoning is because it is a "non-neutral" term and parental occupation is irrelevant. Thus, I'm letting people who have contributed to the Military brat article know so that they can support keeping the category. Here is the link to the discussion [4] Balloonman 20:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kirill, you didn't actually vote to keep or get rid of the category, you just indicated that you thought brats was the better option ;-) Balloonman 21:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Requested articles list

Although i do prefer shorter lists in those templates that is not the reason, In the MIL of Australia Portal it looked kinda wrong with such a long list of red links. Hope it didn't cause any problems. Hossen27 04:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Treaties

I've been looking at some articles about treaties and I was wondering if treaties are considered part of Military history? Kyriakos 05:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So the Treaty of Devol would be a MIl hist article. Kyriakos 05:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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WWI portal

I was wondering if you might take a look at my efforts so far in Portal:World War I and let me know what you think I could do to improve it. I've incorporated a lot of ideas from Portal:Italian Wars (mostly in organization, but I think I stole a couple of ideas for content as well). I'm also wondering how often you would recommend updating the various components.

Congrats on being elected to ArbCom, btw. Carom 06:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the chevrons (or whatever we're calling them these days)! I'll work your suggestions into the portal at some point. Also: how, exactly, would we go about replacing {{World War I}} in the articles? Just point the way... Carom 16:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any way to produce a list of the articles that use the WWI template? Or would one have to comb through all the articles in Category:World War I? Carom 19:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
D'oh! (And the worst part is, I've been using "what links here" to fix redirects for all the page moves I've been doing...) Carom 20:35, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The good news is, we're only talking about 80 articles or so, which shouldn't take to long. I've posted on the talk pages of both the WWI article and the WWI task force, so I'll give it a day or so and then make the switches. Carom 21:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've replaced the template on all the articles with a link to the portal, with the exception of an article that probably wants a merge/redirect. So far, no complaints. I've also incorporated some of your suggestions on the portal - what would I need to do if I wanted to bring it up to featured status? Carom 20:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that most of the photographs I've used are reproductions from on online archive which (according to the image pages) claims the right to be credited, although the images themselves are drawn from public domain sources - I'm not an expert on copyright law, and I'm uncertain if their claim to be credited is valid, or if I can just indicate that the image is in the public domain. Any advice? Carom 21:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I thought - if I am unable to determine the photographer (which seems like it might be a problem) would it be appropriate to just leave a notation along the lines of "Photographer unknown"? Carom 21:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK. I'll get on that - although maybe not until the New Year ; ) Carom 21:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Another question (they just don't stop, do they?) - if I want to remove sections from the related Wikis (I want to get rid of the link to Wikinews), I would I do this? Is it necessary to create a new template with only the content I want to link? Carom 16:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, got it. Thanks again! Carom 16:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pastorwayne: Arbitration needed?

Please see WP:ANI#Pastorwayne and category creation. Several of us have had problems with Pastorwayne and his rapid category creation, which is out of control. On 1 January 2007, he stopped actually creating category pages after multiple complaints, but he has not stopped adding red linked categories to articles, which is the first step in a technique for creating categories according to WP:CAT. The notice at WP:ANI has not received appropriate administrative attention. I left a request for information at WP:MEDCAB (see Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-02 Pastorwayne category creation), but it looks like the Mediation Cabal may not act quickly on this request.

At this point, I am wondering if arbitration is needed. Since you are on the arbitration committee, could you please tell me whether this would be appropriate? If arbitration is not appropriate, could you instruct me on how to get some type of definitive administrative action in a relatively short time period?

(I will be asking several members of the arbitration committee just to get some type of feedback.) Dr. Submillimeter 16:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jc37, an administrator, has now taken a stronger action regarding this situation. Hopefully, I can discuss future concerns regarding this situation with him. If you have additional comments for me, please contact me. Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 18:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject advice

Hi, I know you're busy but as WikiProject Military history is both highly regarded and covers many featured articles, I wonder if you could take a look at WikiProject Universities and suggest any basic organisation tips. This project has been somewhat stalling for a while and an outside perspective might help to get a good structure in place. Timrollpickering 21:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal War

Hey man just wanted to let you know that one of the pictures in your rotation is missing. Portal:War/Featured picture/14--WilsBadKarma (Talk/Contribs) 05:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A-Class - Biography project

Hi, Kirill! Because of your experience in the WP:MILHIST, I'd like to pose a question. I proposed in the Biography project here a procedure similar to the A-Class nomination in the MILHIST project. What I want to ask is: How are such decisions (change of the way A-Class are assessed) are taken in MILHIST? Should a consensus be reached? Is there a poll? Thanks!--Yannismarou 15:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know all that. And I wouldn't propose such a thing, if I did not feel able to carry the burdain. The fact that Plange is inactive (for reasons I ignore) is really unfortunate. A project running so well, is now trembling IMO. And such a good work is going awaste! The program hasn't issued a newsletter for 3 months! If I was not doing the job, peer-reviews wouldn't be performed! Assessments are back!
For the last months (especially after Plange's inactivity), I'm running almost on my own the Peer review section of the Biography section. Reviewing, archiving, assessing etc. Now I have also started to be involved in the assessment section as well. At the same time I've started and I'm still doing almost all the administrative work (I have some help from Aldux and NicoSilver) of the Wikiproject History of Greece. So, I do have some experience of administrative work.
Thinking also of my availability of time, I think I can do administrative work is WP:BIOGRAPHY as well, if I collaborate with a group of people willing to undertake with me the job - I don't think I have the time to do all that alone, taking into consideration my interest in the History of Greece project and of my occupation with editiing articles (projects are nice, but articles is the essence of this effort IMO!). But I really felt sorry for the current standstill and stagnancy in WP:BIOGRAPHY, and that is why I officially raised the issue. I hope more users will engage my worries and show their willingness to do something. Thanks for the advice!--Yannismarou 15:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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