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Contents 1 RMS Empress of India 2 Re:Montana class battleship 3 RE: GA Questions 4 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008) 5 Second Ray French

[edit] RMS Empress of India

Hi - RMS Empress of India (1908) is a new article and it claims to have been chartered to the USN. I checked several possible names in DANFS but had no luck. The ship operated under multiple names. Any ideas? --Brad (talk) 09:29, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

See DANFS here. The PFW was commissioned—not chartered—in March 1919 for returning troops from France, and decommissioned in November 1919. — Bellhalla (talk) 11:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I must need a wikibreak. I saw Prinz and was looking in DANFS under Prince! Duh. Anyway, thanks for fixing the article up. --Brad (talk) 12:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

You probably just saw it listed as "Prince Fredrick Wilhelm" (or however it was spelled) in a couple of places in the article. — Bellhalla (talk) 12:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Montana class battleship

Thanks for the copy edit. I will see about adressing your concerns as I am able to (right now the sourcing complaints are my biggest concern). I apreciate the rapid response to the request, it was just in the nick of time.

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For copyeditting the article Montana class battleship I herby present you with The Editor's Barnstar. Given that my sp&g suck, I can only imagine what you found in that twilight zone. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

You've helped out with what you can when you can, and that has made all the difference :) Thanks for the info about navsource, I have always considered the site reliable, but the FAC-based precedents for reliability you cited is a huge help. Take care, and thanks for the assist. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: GA Questions

Thanks for your response to the Review. In somewhat of a response.

• I get what you're saying about the date formatting. You are correct in that there are several different methods for wikimarkuping dates (and apparently we use different ones that are both right). As such, I'll cross that out on the page.
• As for the citations, my take on it is "I'd rather overcite than seem unclear". If you can add citations to those two sentences, we should be good.

Thanks for your response! Cheers! Cam (Chat) 03:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXVII (May 2008)
Project news Editors needed for Tag & Assess 2008. To coincide with the summer holidays, it will be gearing up from 15 June. As usual, barnstars galore! Partner peer reviews: for a thirty-day trial period, we'll be running joint peer reviews with Wikiproject Video Games. The idea is simple: we help with their reviews; they help with ours. This way both wikiprojects benefit from new reviewers and new ideas! We're notable: A new book, Simon Fowler's 2007 Guide to Military History on the Internet (UK:Pen & Sword, ISBN 9781844156061) rates Wikipedia as "the best general resource" for military research (p. 7). Of the military pages, he says: "The results are largely accurate and generally free of bias" (he also suggests people join the wikiproject). When rating WP as the No. 1 military site (p. 201) he says "Wikipedia is often criticised for its inaccuracy and bias, but in my experience the military history articles are spot on." A-Class reviews: the usual four-day review period may now be extended by up to three days (ie seven days in total) in the following circumstances: the article has no opposes but has insufficient support for promotion or the article's nominator requests more time to resolve matters arising during the review. The full text is here. The special projects department has opened. It will focus on specific ad-hoc high-priority tasks and implement them with informal, short-term groups of editors. The Contest department has completed its fourteenth month of competition, which saw 16 entries. The top scorer this month is Cam with 21 points, followed by Redmarkviolinist with 11 points. Woody, Dreamafter, Kyriakos, Nousernamesleft and Outdawg also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Tassafaronga Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood HMS Cardiff (D108) Krulak Mendenhall mission Le Quang Tung Operation Passage to Freedom Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi New featured lists: List of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army New A-Class articles: Battle of the Kalka River Battle of Verrières Ridge Brian Horrocks Byzantine navy Erich Hartmann Montana class battleship
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This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 23:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Second Ray French

Because I can only see a second Ray French, and at no point do I see the need to disambiguate straight out of the main page. Were there to be another Ray French I could agree, however Ray French is a a dual-code international, and a bit of a commentating legend in league. Alexsanderson83 05:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)