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Hello, Detroit4, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to RuneScape gods, one of the RuneScape-related articles on Wikipedia. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hello, Detroit4. I am Tranquil.night. I see we have had some differences concerning the Churchill Heights wikipedia page, and I must apologize for carelessly reverting every single edit. I guess I have been too accustomed to the random and inappropriate vandalism, and havent looked clearly at the edit. Now I know that you have made some edits before that may not have been the most appropriate edits, but I see now that you do work for the better of the page. I hope we can work together to create an informative page about the school. Tranquil night 22:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we could have it semi protected, but we need to find someway to make sure that actual users cant vandalize it. Tranquil night 16:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Semi protection makes all new users, and non users unable to edit the page. Btw, can I have your msn..if you dont know who I am already, just ask!Tranquil night 17:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I believe headings are: " == (title) == " for the line across the page, as it is for all other Wikipedia articles. Correct me if I'm wrong =) Tranquil night 11:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject MMO Newsletter - April 2007

WikiProject MMO Quarterly
April 2007 Issue I
About Us
WikiProject MMO Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter posted on the first of January, April, July, and October. The newsletter is written by any and all interested members of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games for members of the project and interested Wikipedians outside of the project.
Questions, comments, and concerns
For general questions, comments, and concerns, leave a message on our talk page here. For questions, comments, and concerns about our newsletter, leave a message on the talk page for the newsletter section of our Outreach Department here.
New good articles and featured articles
Good articles and featured articles are a great way to see what major acomplishments we have made over the last quarter.

Good articles

Featured articles
None this quarter!

Role call
We ask that within a month, all members sign our role call to show that they are still active participants in the project. More information is available on the role call page.
Major news
WikiProject RuneScape, our former child project, was moved to become a task force of this project in January as it had a small scope but the task force is still going strong to this very day.

This past quarter marks the beginning of our new collaboration system MMOGCM. Past collaborations thus far have been World of Warcraft and MMORPG, both of which made it to GA status while it was the MMOGCM.

As well, we now have an Outreach Department which works on this newsletter as well as spreads the word of our project.

WikiProject MMO is also now a participant in the Work via WikiProjects division of Wikipedia 1.0 and as such, we will be helping decide which are the best (based on quality and importance) articles within our scope. Project members can discuss which articles are to be included here.

News from the RuneScape Task Force
We are currently trying to improve this task force so that we can edit all RuneScape-related articles in an organized manner. To do that we started a massive overhaul which we invite all task force members to participate in.

We have also gotten our main article, RuneScape to good article status this quarter. All this, and the task force was only created in January.

Signed...
Greeves, Ed

On behalf of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games.

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Military history WikiProject announcements and open tasks
watch · edit · discuss

Articles needing attention • Article logistics • Article & other content reviews • Special projects • Stress hotline • Writing contests

  • A trial collaboration for peer reviews has begun between the Military history Project and the Video Game project with the aim of improving the review process by getting cross project input on articles. It will run until June 30, at which point an evalutation of the program will take place to determine its fate.
  • A discussion has been started on how to restructure Category:World War II. All input welcome!
  • 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 May newsletter is now available!
  • Tag & Assess 2008 has been launched. All editors are very welcome as we've got 60,000 articles to work through. As usual, barnstars galore, plus a friendly competition for the coveted bronze, silver and gold wikis. See here.
Featured article candidates 
Angus Lewis MacdonaldBattle of Lissa (1811)Lince (tank)Cold WarBrian Horrocks
Featured article review 
Isaac BrockStructural history of the Roman militaryWar of the Spanish SuccessionTheodore RooseveltAK-47
Featured list candidates 
List of Crimean War Victoria Cross recipients
Other featured content candidates 
Portal:World War IIAustralian Red Cross poster, WWIVietnam Tunnel RatTank schematic diagramH.M.S. Pinafore
A-Class review [Attention needed!] 
Operation BrevityGreco-Persian WarsNguyen Van Nhung
Good article candidates 
Full list...
Peer review 
Military history of Australia during World War IIUSS Wisconsin (BB-64)Uriel SebreeTankRoman-Persian WarsOperation BrevityUSS Lenape (ID-2700)USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290)USS Finland (ID-4543)USS Mercy (AH-4)
Articles needing attention 
...to referencing and citation (11,949) • ...to coverage and accuracy (5,202) • ...to structure (3,093) • ...to grammar (721) • ...to supporting materials (3,255) • ...to tagging (5)
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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XV (May 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XV (May 2007)
Project news
Current proposals and discussions
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines
  2. B-52 aircraft crash at Fairchild Air Force Base
  3. Pontiac's Rebellion
  4. Russian-Circassian War
  5. Shen Kuo
  6. Webley Revolver

New A-Class articles:

  1. AHS Centaur
  2. Operation Lam Son 719
  3. Ronald Niel Stuart
  4. Zveno project
Awards and honors
  • Kevin Myers has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on early modern warfare in North America, and, in particular, the creation of four featured articles on the topic.

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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XVI (June 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XVI (June 2007)
Project news
Current proposals and discussions
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. AHS Centaur
  2. Battle of Cape Esperance
  3. USS New Jersey (BB-62)

New A-Class articles:

  1. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
  2. Battle of Arras (1917)
  3. Battle of Red Cliffs
  4. Ironclad warship
  5. Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident
  6. Victoria Cross
Awards and honors
  • Noclador has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on structural graphics for land-based forces worldwide, his contributions to the Alpini and other regiments, and all his other military graphics.

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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XVIII (August 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XVIII (August 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Attack on Sydney Harbour
  2. Augustus
  3. Cædwalla of Wessex
  4. Confederate government of Kentucky
  5. Ine of Wessex
  6. Harry S. Truman
  7. Hispanic Americans in World War II
  8. Ironclad warship
  9. Pham Ngoc Thao
  10. Victoria Cross for New Zealand

New featured lists

  1. Surviving veterans of World War I

New A-Class articles:

  1. Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  2. Enfield revolver
  3. Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)
  4. Ho Chi Minh Campaign
  5. Jacques Le Gris
  6. Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Current proposals and discussions
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)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
  2. Battle for Henderson Field
  3. Battle of Greece
  4. Battle of Ramillies
  5. Egbert of Wessex
  6. Frederick Russell Burnham
  7. Freedom Monument (Riga)
  8. Issy Smith
  9. Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  10. Omaha Beach
  11. Victoria Cross (Canada)
  12. Winfield Scott Hancock

New A-Class articles:

  1. Barton S. Alexander
  2. Battle of Barrosa
  3. Byzantine-Arab Wars
  4. Cleomenean War
  5. Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.)
  6. Fort Corcoran
  7. Fort Runyon
  8. George Jones (RAAF officer)
  9. Jean de Carrouges
  10. Operation Passage to Freedom
  11. Smolensk War

New Featured lists:

  1. Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army
  2. Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War

New Featured topics:

  1. Victoria Cross
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!
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)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
  2. BAE Systems
  3. Battle of Barrosa
  4. Prince Louis of Battenberg
  5. Second Ostend Raid
  6. Thomas C. Hindman

New A-Class articles:

  1. Alexandru Averescu
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Fort Jackson (Virginia)
  4. Richard Williams (RAAF officer)
  5. Tet Offensive
  6. Wallachian Revolution of 1848
Current proposals and discussions
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.

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)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Red Cliffs
  2. James II of England
  3. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
  4. Pre-dreadnought battleship
  5. Thomas C. Hindman
  6. USS Kentucky (BB-66)

New featured lists:

  1. List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients
  2. List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

New featured portals:

  1. Military of Greece

New A-Class articles:

  1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
  2. Battle of the Gebora
  3. Battle of Vaslui
  4. Le Quang Tung
  5. Morotai Mutiny
  6. Phan Dinh Phung
  7. Truong Dinh
  8. USS Illinois (BB-65)
  9. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
  10. Yen Bai mutiny
Current proposals and discussions
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)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
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.
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.

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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXIII (January 2008)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
  2. Battle of Musa Qala
  3. George Jones (RAAF officer)
  4. Italian War of 1542–1546
  5. Jim Bowie
  6. Józef Piłsudski
  7. Matanikau Offensive
  8. Offa of Mercia
  9. Suleiman the Magnificent
  10. USS Illinois (BB-65)

New featured lists:

  1. List of Knight's Cross recipients
  2. Order of battle at the Glorious First of June

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  2. Cold War
  3. Hans-Joachim Marseille
  4. Krulak Mendenhall mission
Current proposals and discussions
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)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
  2. Carlson's patrol
  3. Coenwulf of Mercia
  4. Glorious First of June
  5. Koli Point action
  6. Operation Camargue

New featured lists:

  1. List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality

New A-Class articles:

  1. 51st Army (Soviet Union)
  2. Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999)
  3. Le Paradis massacre
  4. Military of East Timor
  5. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)
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.
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 XXV (March 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXV (March 2008)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Æthelred of Mercia
  2. Cannon
  3. HMAS Melbourne (R21)
  4. Huldrych Zwingli
  5. Timor Leste Defence Force
  6. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

New featured lists:

  1. List of countries without armed forces
  2. List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross
  3. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima
  4. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy

New featured topics:

  1. Atlantic campaign of May 1794

New A-Class articles:

  1. Armia Krajowa
  2. Heuschrecke 10
  3. USS Siboney (ID-2999)
  4. William Stacy
Awards and honors

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[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXVI (April 2008)
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.
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  2. 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
  3. Lazare Ponticelli
  4. Maximian
  5. Peterloo Massacre
  6. The Third of May 1808
  7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
  8. USS Siboney (ID-2999)

New featured lists:

  1. List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients
  2. Order of battle at the Battle of Tory Island

New featured portals:

  1. Portal:American Civil War

New A-Class articles:

  1. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
  2. Battle of Bonchurch
  3. Battle of Tassafaronga
  4. Early thermal weapons
  5. HMS Cardiff (D108)
  6. USS Comfort (AH-3)
  7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
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.
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)
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:
  1. the article has no opposes but has insufficient support for promotion or
  2. the article's nominator requests more time to resolve matters arising during the review.
The full text is here.
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Tassafaronga
  2. Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
  3. HMS Cardiff (D108)
  4. Krulak Mendenhall mission
  5. Le Quang Tung
  6. Operation Passage to Freedom
  7. Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

New featured lists:

  1. List of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo
  2. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
  3. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army

New A-Class articles:

  1. Battle of the Kalka River
  2. Battle of Verrières Ridge
  3. Brian Horrocks
  4. Byzantine navy
  5. Erich Hartmann
  6. Montana class battleship
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.
Awards and honors

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