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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

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)

[edit] Krasnoi

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

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)
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

[edit] Nav pane

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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

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)

...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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] RE Khe Sanh

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

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