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Contents 1 Hobart Freeman 2 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XIX (September 2007) 3 Azadari 4 RFA Thank You Note from Jehochman 5 Bluegrass Barnstar 6 Sydney is new ACOTF 7 Second Battle Group 8 MPS AFD 9 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XX (October 2007) 10 Thanks 11 Thanks 12 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXI (November 2007) 13 Minister for Education (Australia) 14 WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007 15 Redirect at WP:BANG 16 Why are you delinking? 17 Princess Leia Organa Peer Review 18 WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter 19 WikiProject Australia newsletter 20 I bestow upon you the Barnstar of Recovery 21 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007) 22 Re:Wheel and Axel 23 Thanks! 24 Banksia 25 Not Vandalism 26 Thanks 27 Other two 28 Laming 29 Military history WikiProject coordinator election

Hobart Freeman

You're latest "undo" referred to this page BUT there is no discussion on the "undo" ... specifically on the removal of the Overcomers Online as a source.

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XIX (September 2007)

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Azadari

Hi, Please write your idea about Merging Mätam, Azadari of Muharram and Majlis-e-Aza to Commemoration of Husayn ibn Ali(here) and Imambargah to Hussainia (here). Thanks--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 03:18, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA Thank You Note from Jehochman

		Ready to swab the deck!
		Another motley scallawag has joined the crew. Thanks for your comments at my RFA. Arrrgh! - - Jehochman Talk 23:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Bluegrass Barnstar

		The Bluegrass Barnstar
		I hereby award you with the Bluegrass Barnstar, WikiProject Kentucky's premiere award, for your work related to references with invalid ISBN numbers. Thank you for helping WikiProject Kentucky make articles relating to the Commonwealth of Kentucky better referenced. -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk ▓▒░ Go Big Blue! ░▒▓ 22:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Sydney is new ACOTF

Hi Euryalus. You voted for Sydney as WP:ACOTF. It recently lost WP:GA status. It has been selected, so please help to improve it in any way you can. Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Second Battle Group

Hi, not sure how to mail you direct, and sorry for any problems, but as a member of the Second Battle Group and a military employee at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst i can catagoricaly state that the Second Battle Group have never been used in any format here at the Academy. After reciveing a complaint from a member of staff, that the RMAS is mentioned on the SBG page i have deemed it justifiable to remove the incorrect comments. If you could help me in this matter that would be appreciated.

Many Thanks Turley 504

MPS AFD

Thans for notifying me. I think Bob Carr went to Matraville Soldiers Settlement School. I may have to let this one go; it was one of my first attempts at writing a page, so it was a test more than anything. Recurring dreams 21:44, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XX (October 2007)

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Thanks

Thanks for getting the vandalism on my user page. I'd love to know who it was, I have a suspicion it's someone who knows me from elsewhere playing a joke. :) Orderinchaos 21:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Mind you, their older stuff is fine. Their later stuff (80s onwards) should really just be locked in a vault and buried deep in the earth. Orderinchaos 07:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXI (November 2007)

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Minister for Education (Australia)

Y Done.—Random832 19:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007

The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 00:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Redirect at WP:BANG

Hi. Away back in August you created a redirect from WP:BANG to WP:POINT. I am interested in your view on whether a more likely redirect from WP:BANG would be to the Bangladeshi Wikiproject at WP:BANGLADESH. Euryalus (talk) 05:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

The redirection of WP:BANG to WP:POINT was done so as a gag. You are more than welcome to rerediect it to WP:BANGLADESH. -- Cat ^chi? 12:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Why are you delinking?

Why are you delinking words like British Raj or Knight Commander of Star of India? I have checked the Dhaka Nawab Family related articles, and was pretty surprised. Then I found that you are doing "minor cleanup and wikification" on a lot of pages. It seems that you are doing this in a pretty automatic way, without probably reading through the articles. Could you, please, check back and see what harm has been done already? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 10:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Euryalus (talk) 11:37, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. In fact, after this clarification you didn't need to revert those pages (silly me, always jumping at the gun). But, thanks for the reverts, too. Now, for a little request (this is a real one), can you, please take a look at two articles that need a good copywriter and evaluator? Jayne Mansfield in popular culture needs a better reorganization and rough bit of copyedit. If you feel that it needs clarification and/or other stuff, I am here. But, my writing skills may not be as good. Sitakunda Upazila has gone to peer review without much success. May be you take a look at the article and make a few comments. Cheers. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 14:52, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Sob sob cry cry... when you say that you don't understand the geography, I understand that I have failed to make it clear. Ask questions. Which part you don't understand? Which other parts should fill in the gaps? Ask away. Because, being a person from Bangladesh I can't recognize the flaws too well. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 04:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Princess Leia Organa Peer Review

I've listed this article for peer review because it right now seems oddly cluttered and, despite my adding of a lot of references, it lacks reliable source citations. Although I've already requested another peer review for another article, as long as it helps the articles get better, I've got the time. Any helpful comments are appreciated, as this should help me in expanding other Star Wars-centric articles (particularly bios like that of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, also in dire need of certain expansion). Thanks, and Happy New Year! — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 19:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008 December issue | February issue Project News There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090! The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include: Awadewit (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Elcobbola (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Kane5187 (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Wassupwestcoast (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December: Majoreditor (talk · contribs) Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) The4325 (talk · contribs) Pepsi2786 (talk · contribs) Monowi (talk · contribs) Rankun (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! GAReview Template Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer. To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article. GA Sweeps After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details. At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA. Did You Know,... ... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000? ... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"? ... that there is a bot (StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN? ... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed? ... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star? From the Editors Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA. OhanaUnited Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers! Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Impalement arts • Backlash (2007) • Fort Jackson (Virginia) • The Great American Bash (2007) • Pacers-Pistons brawl Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 213 articles (42 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 11 June 2008 | edit

WikiProject Australia newsletter

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I bestow upon you the Barnstar of Recovery

		The Barnstar of Recovery
		For your outstanding effort in making North Central Victoria into a sterling stub! JERRY talk contribs 04:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.	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
Current proposals and discussions A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.
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. 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-participants alike are very welcome and appreciated.
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Re:Wheel and Axel

My edit to that page was done because I am using a recent changes filter that detects phrases such as "hi mom" etc. I thought my rollback was removing the offending "hi jennifer...etc." from a normal article, so it was just a mistake on my part. Malinaccier (talk) 01:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I guess the article is deleted now...Malinaccier (talk) 01:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Although I haven't had much time on Wikipedia lately and am relatively new to Wikipedia, I'd like to thank you for assisting me on the Princess Leia Organa article by your steadfast reverting of constant vandalism. To show you that such edits do not go unappreciated, I hereby award you The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar! Thank you very much, Euryalus, and keep up the good work! :) — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 01:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'd hoped by giving you a barnstar that you would feel a sense of encouragement.  :) Regarding the gold bikini section in the Leia article, it's interesting to think that that whole section came about just because of piqued curiosity! Knowing my question at that article's talk page concerning the outfit probably wouldn't be answered (at least, not immediately, anway) I decided to do some research myself. I'm glad to see that the section came about so well (and that it has basically satisfied/discouraged the IP fanboys!). Thanks again! ;) — Cinemaniac (talk • contribs) 03:27, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Banksia

Articles tagged into WikiProject Banksia are already tagged into WikiProject Australia. Hesperian 11:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Plus you're tagging the talk pages of redirects. Hesperian 11:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

No need to apologise, mate. I'm just trying to save you from wasting your time. If you really want to tag them, be my guest. ;-) Hesperian 11:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say. I also think tagging is often pointless. I've been involved in small WikiProjects where it is actually possible for someone to track the progress of every article, and in those cases tagging is brilliant. But for the life of me I can't understand why we tag into big projects like WP:AUS. Categories like Category:Start-Class Australia articles are way to big to be useful to anyone for any purpose, so the only bang we get for our tagging buck is a stats box. Therefore I don't bother tagging my articles into WP:AUS or WP:PLANTS anymore. Not that it makes any difference, because gnomes like Longhair and Rkitko (and now you!) tag them in anyhow. <shrug> Hesperian 12:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

hmmmm no comment at this point see hesperians talk page - and I aint a gnome :| SatuSuro 12:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I used to do quite a lot of tagging as well. It's useful for the subprojects and useful as a measurement tool of the size of our quantum, but useless for the "Start-Class Australia articles" category and such huge things nobody could get on top of if they wanted to. Orderinchaos 12:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Not Vandalism

no vandalism happened in Gog and magog when I refer that the two people who did not agree that goths are same as Gog, were Goths themselves, hence Wikipedia should mention that unless people think they are a good reference10:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Euryalus (talk) 10:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

A belated thank you for your RFA support! Archtransit (talk) 21:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Other two

ScottDavis and CJ, although neither are currently active on political topics. I'm aware of the political views and affiliations of almost all others, but given the diversity of them (we have members or ex-members of all six of the major parties of the last 10 years, plus others with very strong views or sympathies towards one side or the other) there's a surprising lack of COI editing or positional fighting (which one sees for example on US political topics) - what one tends to see is the broader group of left-to-right moderates vs the radicals, which can get nasty when someone starts pushing a barrow too hard. Orderinchaos 11:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Laming

Keep it archived as there's too much there, any further discussion - as the archive tag indicates - can continue on the talk page from where it left off. But due to, um, certain recent events, i'm sure this will settle down from now on. Timeshift (talk) 20:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Emailed. Timeshift (talk) 21:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject 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! TomStar81 (Talk) 03:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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