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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XIII - March 2007
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIII - March 2007
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- Project news
- The project's scope has been updated to include depictions of military history in cultural media.
- The Spanish military history task force has been created.
- The project now has a publication department, which will work on producing collections of military history articles for offline publication.
- There is now a list of military-related deletion nominations available.
- Two new sets of guidelines have been introduced:
- Two new templates are now available:
- {{Infobox National Military}}, a primary infobox for use on articles about an entire nation's military establishment.
- {{Service record}}, an auxiliary infobox for documenting a military unit's or ship's service history.
- The old requested articles page and the automation department have been discontinued.
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- Current proposals and discussions
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XIV (April 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIV (April 2007)
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- Project news
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- Current proposals and discussions
- A fresh discussion about the by-nation category system for military personnel has begun; suggestions are very welcome!
- The use of flag icons in templates is currently being discussed.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battleship
- British anti-invasion preparations of World War II
- Domenico Selvo
- Knights Templar
- Lochry's Defeat
- Puerto Ricans in World War II
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Thomas Crisp
New A-Class articles:
- Benjamin Franklin Tilley
- Cambodian Campaign
- List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons
- Operation Igloo White
- Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
- Russian-Circassian War
- Tupolev TB-3
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- Awards and honors
- Cla68 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his many valuable contributions to military history articles, and, in particular, his leading role in the creation of numerous featured articles on the topic of the Pacific Theater of World War II.
- RM Gillespie has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his massive efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Vietnam War, and, in particular, his development of a substantial portion of the project's A-Class articles.
- Wilsbadkarma has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his work on lists (included two featured lists) and portals (including one featured portal). Lists especially are an undermanned area of work, and his excellent efforts deserve commendation.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XVI (June 2007)
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[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator selection
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are looking to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by August 14! Wandalstouring 11:49, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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The Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators from a pool of fourteen candidates to serve for the next six months. Please vote here by August 28! Wandalstouring 09:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XVIII (August 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XVIII (August 2007)
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- Project news
- The fourth project coordinator elections have now concluded. Nine coordinators have been selected to serve for the next six months: Kirill Lokshin, Carom, FayssalF, LordAmeth, Kyriakos, TomStar81, Cla68, Eurocopter tigre, and Roger Davies. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all of the candidates who put themselves forward for this responsibility, and to the retiring coordinators for all of their efforts to improve the project!
- The contest department has completed another month of competition. The leader for this month, with 23 points, is Blnguyen; JKBrooks85 is in second place, with 17 points, and Carom is in third place, with 13 points. Carom is also the overall leader, with 45 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
- The project's article tagging and assessment drivecontinues; project members are cordially invited to assist with this effort.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Attack on Sydney Harbour
- Augustus
- Cædwalla of Wessex
- Confederate government of Kentucky
- Ine of Wessex
- Harry S. Truman
- Hispanic Americans in World War II
- Ironclad warship
- Pham Ngoc Thao
- Victoria Cross for New Zealand
New featured lists
- Surviving veterans of World War I
New A-Class articles:
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Enfield revolver
- Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)
- Ho Chi Minh Campaign
- Jacques Le Gris
- Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Current proposals and discussions
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- Awards and honors
- Wandalstouring was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his long and dedicated service as a project coordinator and his many contributions to the structure and operations of the project.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XIX (September 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIX (September 2007)
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- Project news
- The Taiwanese military history and War films task forces have been created.
- The contest department has completed its sixth month of competition. The leader for this month, with 57 points, is JKBrooks85; Kyriakos is in second place, with 16 points, and Blnguyen and Woodym555 are tied for third place, with 10 points each. The overall results for the past six months show JKBrooks85 in first place, with 92 points, followed by Carom, with 45 points, and Blnguyen, with 38 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
- A stress hotline is now available for project members' use.
- The bulk of the project's guidelines have been moved to a separate subpage.
- New guidelines for flag icon use have been adopted.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
- Battle for Henderson Field
- Battle of Greece
- Battle of Ramillies
- Egbert of Wessex
- Frederick Russell Burnham
- Freedom Monument (Riga)
- Issy Smith
- Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Omaha Beach
- Victoria Cross (Canada)
- Winfield Scott Hancock
New A-Class articles:
- Barton S. Alexander
- Battle of Barrosa
- Byzantine-Arab Wars
- Cleomenean War
- Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.)
- Fort Corcoran
- Fort Runyon
- George Jones (RAAF officer)
- Jean de Carrouges
- Operation Passage to Freedom
- Smolensk War
New Featured lists:
- Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army
- Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War
New Featured topics:
- Victoria Cross
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- Current proposals and discussions
- A proposal to formalize the project's style guide as part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style has been made and is being discussed; comments and suggestions would be very appreciated!
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- Awards and honors
- SandyGeorgia was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the instrumental role she plays in the featured article process, both by checking the project's featured article candidates to ensure that citations are formatted correctly, and by helping clear out the backlog of featured articles that no longer meet the criteria. Sandy is the first non-member of the project to receive this award.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XX (October 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XX (October 2007)
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- Project news
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
- BAE Systems
- Battle of Barrosa
- Prince Louis of Battenberg
- Second Ostend Raid
- Thomas C. Hindman
New A-Class articles:
- Alexandru Averescu
- Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
- Fort Jackson (Virginia)
- Richard Williams (RAAF officer)
- Tet Offensive
- Wallachian Revolution of 1848
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- Current proposals and discussions
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- Awards and honors
- JKBrooks85 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his diligent efforts to improve our coverage of fortifications in the American Civil War, and, in particular, his creation of a substantial number of A-Class articles.
- Tony the Marine has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his considerable efforts in raising Puerto Rican- and Hispanic-related military history articles to featured status.
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What is Tag & Assess MMVII? We'd better explain. A month or so back, we ran a script to list all the articles in categories related to military history. This gave us about 165,000 articles. Some of these are already tagged and assessed as military history; some are military history but not yet tagged and assessed; some are not military history articles at all. This huge project — working thorough 165,000 articles — is called Tag & Assess 2007. To make it manageable, the list has been broken down into 330 ranges each of 500 articles. This is where you can help.
Just... adopt-a-range from the available worklists then keep track of your tally on participants' list. The tagging is easy, just follow the simple instructions. Afterwards, as our way of thanking you, you'll be presented with service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles you process. Remember... the ranges are broken down into sub-sections of ten articles, so you work through them at twenty or thirty articles a day if you wish. To make Tag & Assess 2007 a success, we need your help. Please sign up now. Thanks.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXI (November 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXI (November 2007)
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- Project news
- The military history style guide has been integrated into Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
- The contest department has completed its eight month of competition. The leader for this month, with a massive 92 points, is Blnguyen; Woodym555 is in second place, with 32 points, and Cla68 and TomStar81 are tied for third place, with 15 points each. Overall, Blnguyen is now in first place, with 140 points, followed by JKBrooks85, with 120 points, and by Woodym555, with 63 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
- The American Revolutionary War and Baltic states military history task forces have been created.
- Tag & Assess 2007—the project's first major article tagging and assessment drive—is continuing; all project members—and anyone else who's interested—are invited to assist with this effort.
- The number of articles tagged as being within our scope has now exceeded 50,000.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Battle of Red Cliffs
- James II of England
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross
- Pre-dreadnought battleship
- Thomas C. Hindman
- USS Kentucky (BB-66)
New featured lists:
- List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients
- List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients
New featured portals:
- Military of Greece
New A-Class articles:
- 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
- Battle of the Gebora
- Battle of Vaslui
- Le Quang Tung
- Morotai Mutiny
- Phan Dinh Phung
- Truong Dinh
- USS Illinois (BB-65)
- Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
- Yen Bai mutiny
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- Current proposals and discussions
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- Awards and honors
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
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- Project news
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Battle of Albuera
- Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
- Battle of the Gebora
- Constantine II of Scotland
- Francis Harvey
- Vasa (ship)
- Wulfhere of Mercia
New A-Class articles:
- 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
- Evacuation of East Prussia
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- Current proposals and discussions
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- Awards and honors
- Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
- Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
- For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
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- Tag & Assess 2007
Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:
- 1. Bedford — 7,600
- 2. TomStar81 — 5,500
- 3. Parsival74 — 5,200
- 4. FayssalF — 3,500
- 5. Roger Davies — 3,000
- 6. Ouro — 2600
- 7. Kateshortforbob — 2250
- 8. Cromdog — 2,200
- 9. BrokenSphere — 2000
- 9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000
- 9. Maralia — 2,000
- 12. MBK004 — 1,340
- 13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250
- 14. Sniperz11 — 1100
- 15. Burzmali — 1000
- 15. Cplakidas — 1000
- 15. Gimme danger — 1000
- 15. Raoulduke471000
- 15. TicketMan — 1000
- 15. Welsh — 1000
- 15. Blnguyen — 1000
Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.
We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-particpants alike are very welcome and appreciated.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXIII (January 2008)
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- Project news
- The project coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14!
- The contest department has completed its tenth month of competition, which saw an unprecedented 44 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 95 points, followed by Cla68, with 42 points, and Ed! and Woody, with 21 points each. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 182 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
- A new auxiliary infobox, {{operational plan}}, is now available.
- A new page for military history essays has been created; project members are encouraged to post their own advice and opinions on matters within the project's purview.
- New guidelines concerning precision and ship pronouns have been added to the style guide.
- Featured picture candidates and picture peer reviews are now accessible through the project's review department.
- An effort to convert deprecated infoboxes has begun; any assistance is welcome!
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
- Battle of Musa Qala
- George Jones (RAAF officer)
- Italian War of 1542–1546
- Jim Bowie
- Józef Piłsudski
- Matanikau Offensive
- Offa of Mercia
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- USS Illinois (BB-65)
New featured lists:
- List of Knight's Cross recipients
- Order of battle at the Glorious First of June
New A-Class articles:
- 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
- Cold War
- Hans-Joachim Marseille
- Krulak Mendenhall mission
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- Current proposals and discussions
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- Awards and honors
- Bwmoll3 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his superior contributions to a variety of articles about the United States Air Force, including a great number of those dealing with wings and installations.
- Bedford has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the outstanding contribution he has made to the project's organization by going above and beyond the call of duty in tagging, assessing, and classifying a massive number of articles during the 2007 assessment drive.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIV (February 2008)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXIV (February 2008)
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- Project news
- The fifth project coordinator election has now concluded. Roger Davies has been elected to serve as the project's Lead Coordinator, and Blnguyen, Eurocopter tigre, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Wandalstouring, and Woody will occupy the eight Assistant Coordinator positions. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!
- In the simultaneous referendum on project organization, you voted almost unanimously for a primus inter pares structure. As a tangible reflection of this, Assistant Coordinators are now known as Coordinators.
- The contest department has completed its eleventh month of competition, which saw 10 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 28 points, followed by Smsarmad, with 13 points, with Blnguyen, Ed! and jwillbur also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
- The National militaries task force has been created.
- A new automatically-generated clean-up list is available to track articles that have various clean-up tags applied to them.
- A new logistics department has been created. The aim is to provide a pool of useful article creation skills that anyone can draw on. These include copy-editing, photograph retouching, and reference material sourcing. If you can contribute, please do so.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
- Carlson's patrol
- Coenwulf of Mercia
- Glorious First of June
- Koli Point action
- Operation Camargue
New featured lists:
- List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality
New A-Class articles:
- 51st Army (Soviet Union)
- Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999)
- Le Paradis massacre
- Military of East Timor
- USS Bridgeport (AD-10)
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- Breaking news
- A new B-Class Assessment Drive ("BCAD") will go operational no later than 11 March. Of great interest to experienced wiki-gnomes, it is small in scope, about 4,500 articles, and will be supported by the usual awards, including a golden wiki. To keep up to date with developments, and to get off to a flying start when it opens, add WP:MHA-BCAD now to your watchlist.
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- Awards and honors
- Kirill Lokshin has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding organizational work, his painstaking maintenance work, and his unstinting advice, throughout his two years of project leadership.
- MBK004 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding effort to improve our compliment of naval ships by updating infoboxes, replacing deprecated infoboxes, and locating sources for ships in the employment of their respective countries' navies.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIV (February 2008)
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXV (March 2008)
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- Project news
- The Crusades task force has been created.
- The main project talk page is now automatically archived; MiszaBot II will archive any sections that have had no comments for 21 days.
- The contest department has completed its twelth month of competition, which saw 13 entries. The top scorer this month is Woody, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter with 13 points, with Ed!, jwillbur, Redmarkviolinist and Borg Sphere also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
- A Sources section has been added to the Logistics department, for help tracing and locating JSTOR articles and other source material.
- A Linguistics section has been added to the Logistics department, for help with non-English language sources and translation of snippets. It supports 19 languages so far.
- An Administrators section has been added to the Logistics department, for help with admin related tasks. Administrators willing to help out are cordially asked to list their names in the section.
- Reminder: Editors are always needed to review various military history articles at all levels.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Æthelred of Mercia
- Cannon
- HMAS Melbourne (R21)
- Huldrych Zwingli
- Timor Leste Defence Force
- USS Bridgeport (AD-10)
New featured lists:
- List of countries without armed forces
- List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross
- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima
- List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
New featured topics:
- Atlantic campaign of May 1794
New A-Class articles:
- Armia Krajowa
- Heuschrecke 10
- USS Siboney (ID-2999)
- William Stacy
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- Awards and honors
- Kirill Lokshin has been appointed coordinator emeritus to reflect his on-going involvement in the project. The appointment ends concurrently with the other coordinators' terms in September 2008.
- The following editors have been awarded the Content Review Medal for their work on reviews at various levels of military history articles: Carom, Cam, Blnguyen, Howard C. Berkowitz, Kevin Myers, Maralia, MrPrada, SoLando, and Wandalstouring. Similar awards were made last December to: Buckshot06, Cla68, Eurocopter tigre, Hawkeye7, Ian Rose, Jackyd101, JKBrooks85, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, Roger Davies, The Land, TomStar81 and Woody, most of whom are still active reviewers.
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[edit] WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2008
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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue I - May 2008
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- Project News
- One of the new aims of the project was to produce a monthly newsletter to be circulated to members. This is it!
Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
- Currently there are nine Yorkshire featured articles:
Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade
- There are also seven featured lists:
List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (3343 on April 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
- As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
- Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 2 new members that have joined us since March:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list may need trimming to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months.
The format of the member list has been altered to:
- allow easier editing for new members
- assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
- allow member to keep up to date with each other's contributions
- Thanks
- A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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- New Aims
After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.
Specific aims for the project are:-
- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
- To recruit more active editors
- To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
- To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
- To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
The top priority articles that have been identified to date and their current ratings are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
- Don't Forget...
- Monitor
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
- Images!
There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need.
- Assessment
"Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
- Last but not Least...
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do.
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXVI (April 2008)
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- Project news
- Tag & Assess 2008 launched on 24 April and will run until 4 July. We have around 60,000 articles to check, so all assistance is very welcome. As usual, there are barnstars galore and service awards for contributing editors.
- The project scope has been amended to include specific reference to historically accurate video games. Songs and music with long military associations are also now included.
- The Contest department has completed its thirteenth month of competition, which saw 27 entries. The top scorer this month is Ed! with 37 points, followed by Cam with 22 points. Woody, Howard C. Berkowitz, Redmarkviolinist, 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.
- The coordinators have "adopted" task forces to act as prime point of contact. A list of which coordinators have adopted which task forces is here.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
- 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
- Lazare Ponticelli
- Maximian
- Peterloo Massacre
- The Third of May 1808
- USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
- USS Siboney (ID-2999)
New featured lists:
- List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients
- Order of battle at the Battle of Tory Island
New featured portals:
- Portal:American Civil War
New A-Class articles:
- 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
- Battle of Bonchurch
- Battle of Tassafaronga
- Early thermal weapons
- HMS Cardiff (D108)
- USS Comfort (AH-3)
- USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
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- Current proposals and discussions
- An interesting proposal to set up teams to deal with specific tasks, like taking the Top Ten most frequently read military history articles to featured articles status is here.
- The coordinators are exploring ways of developing and improving our fifty or so task forces. More information is here.
- All editors are invited to contribute to a discussion about the naming of military operations in an endeavor to reach consensus.
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- Awards and honors
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVII (May 2008)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXVII (May 2008)
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- 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.
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- 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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- Current proposals and discussions
- A discussion has been opened into the structuring of top level operational categories, starting with Category:World War II. All interested editors are invited to help establish a consensus.
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- Awards and honors
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[edit] WikiProject Yorkshire - June 2008 Newsletter
The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter |
The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 2 - June 2008
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- Project News
Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
- Currently there are ten Yorkshire featured articles:
Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon
- There are also seven featured lists:
List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
- Lealholm was nominated for GA Status on May 1st and has just received the review comments
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3343 last month to 3509 on May 28th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
- As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
- Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 4 new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list has been trimmed to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months. However it is the exam season :-)
Retiono Virginian (talk · contribs) has been permanently blocked
and
Malcolm Bryant (talk · contribs) does not seem to have registered on Wikipedia.(Let me know if I am wrong.)
Last month the format of the member list was altered to:
- allow easier editing for new members
- assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
- allow members to keep up to date with each other's contributions
It had to be changed again before the May Newsletter went out to allow easier, more efficient, circulation by the ENewsBot. The Bot worked like magic last month but slightly complicated the signing up process, particularly for novice users.
- Thanks
- The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.
- The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most. if not all, of the top clubs.
- User:Cyberdemon007 has made a lot of edits to North Yorkshire settlement infoboxes. Thank you.
- There have been more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist , just lately. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.
- A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.
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Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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- New Aims
After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.
Specific aims for the project are:-
- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
- To recruit more active editors
- To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
- To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
- To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
The top priority articles that have been identified to date and their current ratings are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
- Don't Forget...
- Monitor
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
- Images!
There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.
- Assessment
"Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
- Last but not Least...
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.
Yorkshire
articles |
Importance |
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
Total |
Quality |
FA |
2 |
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6 |
2 |
10 |
FL |
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7 |
7 |
GA |
1 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
15 |
B |
7 |
35 |
84 |
43 |
169 |
Start |
5 |
35 |
284 |
523 |
847 |
Stub |
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10 |
170 |
2294 |
2474 |
List |
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2 |
10 |
42 |
54 |
Assessed |
15 |
87 |
559 |
2915 |
3576 |
Total |
15 |
87 |
559 |
2915 |
3576 |
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