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[edit] Missing bird article

Hi there;

You know what article is really missing for birds? It's one with the name of the feathers and wing structures (bird wing). As far as I can see there is no article about bird wings (wing is a general article about all types of wings). A little bit ago I initiated the article on insect wings and I think it was very useful. I couldn't find a good diagram on the commons though, that might be a bit difficult to find. Keep in touch, IronChris | (talk) 16:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Good job!

Good job on the Montagu's Harrier article, sire! I raise my horn to you!

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[edit] re: Semi-protection for Ahmed Shah Massoud

Hello. Yes I actually wanted that long time ago and requested it but it was not approved for some reason. Recently I've been getting frustrated with the large volume of vandalism from unregistered users so I decided to just do it myself, but I guess that against the rules. I'll try again, maybe due to the more recent vandalism the admins will approve it this time. Thanks alot for that tip.

And I think you are right about the poster of Ismail Khan. However, I personally think it is better in that section because the actual picture of him was taken in that era and that was his appearance during that era. But if you still disagree I personally don't mind if it is changed back to the way you placed it. Its up to what you think is best. Thanks again. --Behnam 17:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Article assessment question

On the Sentinel tank talk page you marked it Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met, I was just wondering what needs more coverage, or what was inaccurate? Since that criteria It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. doesn't really help me figure out what's wrong with it.

Well first of all, my assessment was not a criticism of that article. It just means that, IMO, it doesn't meet B-class criteria. If you don't agree, you can submit it for assessment at WP:MHA or for peer review at WP:MHPR. Concerning the article, I don't think it's inaccurate, but it is probably too short. If you look at other B-class articles, you'll find they are considerably lengthier(for ex.: Rise of the Islamic Courts Union (2006), Royal Navy CVF programme). You should add more details about the design history. It says "the Australian tank was built closely along the lines of a British Crusader": in what ways were they similar? Also there must have been a political decision to build this tank, or was it designed as a private venture? These are some details that need to be added, I think.

The main problem was clearly the references. There have to be inline citations for "all major points". I take this to mean there has to be at least one per paragraph. I see you have added some since the assessment, but I think it could still use a few more.

That's my opinion, for what it's worth, but I say again, if you want a more in-depth analysis, go to the peer review department. There's plenty of tank specialists out there who can point you in the right direction.

As a sidenote, I did not choose how the " criterion not met" appear in the checklist(with the red cross and the highlight on not), this is an inherent part of the template code.

Regards.--Raoulduke47 12:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I can see it's a template and you didn't have any choice about how it appears, it's just that since you did an assessment it made sense to me to ask what you felt was missing or needed improvement, and that point in particular. The refs was fairly straight forward although even the ones I listed contradict each other, and occasionally even themselves, it's hard to add any information to that article that someone with a different source couldn't change to be correct. For a given value of correct.

Regarding the Crusader comment, the turret layout and shape is the same, and unlike the M3 the hull doesn't overhang the tracks, the whole 'shape' of the two tanks is the same, as was their intended use. It was a political decision. Sort of. It's complicated, government-owned annexes attached to private and state owned companies. The article is short I suppose partly because the things were built and never used, so no combat history or any real use or anything.

But thanks for the feedback, I'll have a think about it and see what I can do to improve the article. Just realised I forgot to sign my last comment. Ways 13:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Harrier-hawk.jpg

Hi, I like the image of harrier-hawk that you placed in wikipedia. I would like to use it in polish article about harrier-hawk. Are you able to put this image also to wiki commons? We could then use it in other non-english wikipedias. --xRiffRaffx 00:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

OK I uploaded it to commons here[1]. However, the Flicker user who originally took this picture has since changed the license to a non-free one, so it may get deleted. Raoulduke47 13:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, thank you. We will use it, until the licence won't change. --xRiffRaffx 21:57, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mahdist War

Hey Raoulduke, I was scrolling through the articles in the campaign infobox of the Mahdist War, adding flags to the countries involved. Is there a flag or symbol for the Sudanese under the Mahdi at the time that should be next to his forces like the Union Jack is to Great Britain? SGGH 23:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Well... Not really. The Mahdists had several different flags, but none was a national flag like the British and Egyptians had. Apparently the Khalifa(sucessor of the Mahdi) flew a black flag, with inscriptions from the Coran and the recitation of the Mahdist creed. I haven't found a faithful reproduction of this anywhere. Apart from this, every Emir had a different flag. For an example of a Mahdist flag see here: [2]. And thanks for adding those flags! Raoulduke47 10:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the Khalifa's flag might look a bit like this: . Maybe we could use this one... Raoulduke47 19:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

That flag is also on Al-Qaeda, is it just a symbol for a jihad? You might have to clarify the use of that one for the Mahdi I'm afraid im not following... SGGH 12:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, personally I think that might be taking a bit of an unreasonably liberty with history, but you've put in far more work on the topic than I, and there is plenty of argument for using that flag. It's up to you :) SGGH 18:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aérospatiale Gazelle Pop Culture

Why can there be a mention of the modified Aérospatiale Gazelle used in Blue Thunder, but there can't be a mention of it as it was used in The Highwayman series? I believe it is uniquely notable enough. Cyberia23 21:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Several reasons: First of all i don't know how notable The Highwayman is, i've never heard of it, it may have been a runaway success, but that's not the impression one gets as it only ran for ten episodes. Also if there has to be a pop culture section(of which i am not convinced), then it should include only instances where the gazellle plays a significant role. This is the case in Blue Thunder, where the whole film revolves around the helicopter, but apparently not in The Highwayman where it is only one part of the Highwaymans panoply. Adding a mention for each appearance of the gazelle in a movie or series is unnessesary, it has been done before and such sections have been removed. Regarding your inference that The Highwayman is no less notable than Blue Thunder, you might well be right, but that makes me think they sould both be deleted per WP:Air/PC and Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles, "Popular Culture sections should be avoided". Regards. --Raoulduke47 00:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Just seems the military articles here are very strict in what can be mentioned and what can't. Pop Culture references are all over the place for a lot of other things. I can see cartoons and anime being ruled out, but one of the unique aspects of The Highwayman was the truck-helicopter vehicle and I thought it deserved mention. You may remember Airwolf as a popular show, which took the idea from Blue Thunder, but Airwolf was more memorable than Blue Thunder which was an action-movie and it's TV series I think ran for even less episodes than The Highwayman. But whatever. Cyberia23 21:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Assessment for Alsace-Lorraine Brigade article

Hello - noticed you assessed the Alsace-Lorraine Brigade (France) article. Is the rating as a stub still in force?
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[edit] Re: Request for info on Battle of Gallabat

My concern with tagging that passage was that there was no clue who expressed that opinion, or where it came from. (I had suspected it might be Churchill's The river war, but far too often original research or crank opinions have a way of donning a disguise in this manner & sneaking into an article. No insult intended, & my apologies if it comes across that way.) As for my Ethiopian sources, all of the standard modern accounts forget about the Mahdist-Ethiopian war after Gallabat & turn all of their attention to the growing conflict with Italy, so I honestly have no information just what happens after this battle.

I have no problem with your citing Churchill's book; I can't think of any obvious reason why it might not be reliable (besides the fact he's a dead white male -- the kind of people some Wikipedians immediately distrust as sources ;-), so if you could indicate that this is what Churchill wrote with a footnote all of my concerns are more than adequatly handled. Thanks! -- llywrch 22:47, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coup de poing

Hi Raoul, I tend to agree with you. Consulting the books I didn't have when I first wrote the article, I seem to have misread the webpage. The importance is confirmed by all the books I've got, with Ngansop giving the event a full subchapter seven pages long, titled "Le raid français sur l'aérodrome de Ouadi-Doum". Maybe I should title it Oudi Doum Air Raid? What do you think? And also, I wanted to thank you for all the work you've done with this article and more still with Chadian-Libyan conflict, an article I've been working on for quite a long time; unfortunately, my English, as you've certainly noted, is far from perfect. Ciao, Aldux 16:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Battles of Zhawar

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Cool! - Raoulduke47 18:17, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] RPD

Why do you get to decide which words the acronym predominantly stands for? Do you have a verifiable source that this firearm is the main use of RPD? There is no problem having RPD lead to a disambiguation page? It is not as though I am routing it to the removable partial denture page, which would put us on equal footing and then allow your explanation to perhaps give you the upper hand should it be true...I am merely suggesting that a search for rpd give disambiguation. Please defend your actions. :) DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Battle of Bir Hakeim

Hello !

I see you've worked on that article, correcting my numerous errors... Have you got any suggestions on it ? I'd like to improve it as much as I can, I'd need your opinion on it ;)

Also, I'm a bit lost about the ratings... it is rated as a Start-Class article, is it ok ?!

Thanks !

NicDumZ ~ 14:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Merci de la proposition, mais tant qu'à faire à contribuer sur un WP anglophone, autant papoter en anglais, surtout quand je n'ai pas à chercher mes mots (:

The article obviously needs references, I noticed that translating it : I do wonder how the original article got featured without a single reference. However I need some extra time to go to fetch the proper books, that's why I haven't done it yet !!

I was thinking at some more immediate things to do, but if you think that no other obvious things have to be done for now, well... the article will wait for my books ;) NicDumZ ~ 16:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anoshirawan

I see that you reverted the "bizarre POV edits" at Afghan Civil War made by Anoshirawan (Talk | contribs). Rangeley has commented on Anoshirawan's edits at User talk:Anoshirawan#Please Stop. where I have also left a messagee. Khampalak has asked what can be done about Anoshirawan's edits. Is Wikipedia:Requests for comment appropriate? Are there guidelines or policy that Anoshirawan is breaking/bending? He has responded on talk pages, however he seldom cites sources, and the one that I found that he cited was a work of fiction, see Talk:Hotaki#Persian Cromwell added 21:39, 17 July 2007 without signature. --Bejnar 17:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Persian Cromwell is Historical Fiction and its the only book on mirwais which was written in the early 18th century. Also for more info on Mirwais you can check Persian Books like Nader Nama of Mahmoud Mahmoud or Sana haye akher Safavi ha by Ashraf Sadeqi which mentions Hotakis being Turkic tatars and Tokhis being Uzbek.

--Anoshirawan 23:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mirrori1

The Hotaki and Durrani articles are being vandalized by the following user Mirrori1. I have provided him english and persian sources which justifies my claim but for no reason he reverts those articles. I am asking you to protect these articles. Thanks

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[edit] Request for Comment: Hotaki dynasty origin and ethnicity

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[edit] Problem with an image you uploaded

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[edit] Your accusation

Hello. You accused me of placing the WikiProject Fascism banner on the Zahir Shah article because he was a Pashtun. I am actually 1/2 Pashtun myself and also I have not placed this banner on every Pashtun's Talk page. For instance, I have not placed this on Amanullah Khan's article because he was not a fascist king. Well, he did have a few fascist policies for instance he founded the Afghan Mellat ideology, but he was not as fascist as Zahir Shah. So the reason for placing this article is not that he was Pashtun, otherwise I would have placed it on Amanullah Khan's article also. -- Behnam 08:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you aware many people who are even full Pashtun criticize Pashtun leaders like Zahir Shah? One would be Hamed Qaderi. I don't agree with everything from AfghanProfile.net. That website actually is a collection of articles written by different people. A few of the people might have resentment toward Pashtuns there, which is understandable, however most of the articles there are appropriate and have alot of good insights. As for me telling that guy about the selling of daughters, why don't you read what user:Mirrori1 wrote to me? I've been attacked with many racist insults by that user and other Pashtun users. I try to ignore them but that time I had to give him a response. -- Behnam 18:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, I'm not throwing this around as an insult lol. During Zahir Shah's reign people would disappear overnight. Anyone who criticized him was jailed. Books writing the facts about his father's crimes were burned... etcetc. If that's not facsim I don't know what is. -- Behnam 19:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

You're totally right about everything you said. I'm very amazed and grateful for the knowledge you have about Afghanistan. I am sure that we can consider Zahir Shah a fascist person, but ok I will ask some people from the fascism project since this is more of a viewpoint and needs consensus. Although the elections you mentioned have no meaning since they were not real elections, most of the government positions went to his own family members or to people of his clan or tribe. As for women rights, women in Kabul were already more liberated, Zahir Shah did not change a thing in the south etcetc. But yeah sure I'll ask WikiProject Fascism about this. -- Behnam 17:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Siege of Sangin

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[edit] Template:History of Afghanistan

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[edit] user: KabulHospital

Hello. Why did you report KabulHospital as a sock of Beh-nam? KabulHospital was only editing talk pages and cleaning things up. Secondly, do you know why Beh-nam was banned? Check his talk page here. Basically, he was banned because he was accused for proxying for another user. So even if KabulHospital was Beh-nam, considering that he was banned for no good reason and that KabulHospital is just cleaning things up and editing talk p ages, why did you feel the need to report him? While, user: NisarKand since being banned a year ago for a long racist rant, has always come back and edited Afghanistan related articles with dozens of socks. See Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of NisarKand. So why did you never feel the need to report any of his dozens of socks when he was banned rightfully, while you did feel the need to report KabulHospital when Beh-nam was banned unjustifiably? I'm very curious. Please leave an explanation here and I'll come back and check. And please make sure you look at Beh-nam's talk page to see the reason for his ban.

Look, Beh-nam, or whoever you are, creating sockpuppets to evade a ban is a clear violation of the wikipedia guidelines (see WP:SOCK). Also Beh-nams block was perfectly justified: he has been POV pushing, edit warring, and making personal attacks, and now he has created a sockpuppet. The meatpuppetry for Tajik was just the last straw. This is clearly a user who has no respect for the rules of wikipedia (and who is now edit warring on commons). Several times, lenient admins gave him a chance to amend his behaviour, but each time, he chose instead to turn wikipedia into a battleground. This ban shouldn't be a surprise. Also Nisarkands misdeeds do not excuse or justify Beh-nams behaviour in any way. --Raoulduke47 (talk) 18:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The only "personal attacks" Beh-nam was accused of making was calling out users he suspected to be socks of NisarKand. And guess? He was dead one every time and the admins ended up apologizing to him. Now him dealing with all these NisarKand socks gave him a bad block log. Why were users like you ignoring all those dozens of NisarKand socks? Thatcher just is using Beh-nam's bad block log against him, he knows Beh-nam's last several blocks were mistakes and the admins even appologized to him after ward.

The real reason Thatcher banned him was because Behnam starting making some edits that Pan-Turkists did not like. Later, user:Tajik asked Behnam to do a checkuser on one of Thatcher's friends. After Thatcher found out that Behnam did a successful checkuser on one of his friends and his friend was about to be banned for sockpuppetry... Thatcher excused his friend's sockpuppetry case and instead banned Behanm under the excuse of proxy. Take a look here. If you think Behan is pushing a POV on a talk page, then you should see what the Pan-Turkists are pushing on countless articles and how Thatcher protects these Pan-Turkist editors and finds ways to ban anyone who might be a threat to them.

Now if ArbCom could actually respond to Behnam he could convince ArbCom to unban him. But Behnam has sent many emails and they are all ignored. So what do you think he should do?

And lastly, Behnam was just cleaning up talk pages, so why is that you had a problem with this but you ignored NisarKand dozens of sockpuppets (which Behnam had to deal with and get stressed out and helped him get banned in the end). You avoided this question before, but I'd like to know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.217.186 (talk) 22:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

There is no need to mirepresent these events, as I am well aware of what happened. On two occasions at least Beh-nam was almost banned for making particularly vicious attacks against users he suspected of being socks. On each occasion, his ban was rescinded in view of Nisarkand's past, and Beh-nam apologised meekly, and promised not to do it again. But guess what, a few weeks later he started all over again. By doing this Beh-nam has clearly shown that he considers his personal vendetta against Nisarkand to be more important than respecting the rules of wikipedia. So long as he doesn't understand what's wrong about this, I see no reason why he should be reinstated.

Equally damning, in my view, is Beh-nam's association with Anoshirawan, a troll who is all too happy to edit war for months on end. This user's campaigning has caused considerable annoyance to myself and to several other editors, and yet Beh-nam has consistently supported him, by giving him advice and serving as his reverting partner on several occasions. It seems clear that Beh-nam's is very tolerant of trolls, so long as they serve his interests, and that his demands that others respect wikipedia's guidelines extend only to those who don't belong to the same culture as him...

So you see, I feel little inclination to advise Beh-nam on how to get out of the mess in which he has placed himself. However, Mr Anon., I can give you these two cents: if you're trying to make a plea of good faith and innocence, try and avoid using sectarian rethoric and pointing to imaginary pan-Turkist conspiracies, because people who talk like that are obviously looking for trouble. --Raoulduke47 (talk) 13:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

Regarding your revert made here, I have added a comment on the talk page, I would like very much for you to respond so we can avoid a silent edit war, cheers ;) Ryan4314 (talk) 22:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

As promised ;) Ryan4314 (talk) 16:42, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for consensus

Hiya mate, I dunno how much you know about the Iran-Iraq War, but if you're interested I started a request for a consensus here, to hopefully draw an end to a debate 2 users have been having.

Also regarding the consensus for our debate, I don't think anyone else is gonna add to it, but I now believe your decision is the best idea, cheers Ryan4314 (talk) 14:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Afghan

Yes the other renditions of Pashtun that Bejnar provided are referenced... but they don't belong on a disambiguation page for Afghan. The reader can see the other renditions of Pashtun on the Pashtun people article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qandahari-Pashtun (talk • contribs) 23:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks and Happy New Year

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[edit] Crowned Lapwing picture: copyvio?

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[edit] StevenLeClark

Thanks for the heads up - it looks like you are probably right, but I'll wait until seeing a bit more before blocking. пﮟოьεԻ 57 23:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

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[edit] Milhist coordinators election has started

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[edit] Careful!

Please try not to replace wikiproject banners on talk pages when you add others, as you did here. Cheers. --90.203.247.219 (talk) 19:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Afghan War editing

Nice work on the Soviet intervention in the Afghan War article. Hope you don't mind that I made a handful of corrections for the sake of objectivity and historical accuracy.

Kenmore (talk) 02:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I read your post on my talkpage and I responded to it there. You don't understand what happened in Afghanistan. You need to read more. If you want to turn Wikipedia articles into farces, well, so be it. I will get caught up in a "flame war" with you.

Kenmore (talk) 20:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Raoule, Kenmore blurted the same hurl toward me, that Wikipedia is allegedly turning into a "joke" due to my contributions in the Soviet-Afghan War article. Apparently, any edits that are adverse toward the Soviet position, becomes a "joke" or "far-fetched." What's stunning is Kenmore is demonstrating a gross POV while at the same time labeling other contributions as a "joke" since it is adverse to his Soviet/Russian slant in articles.Scythian1 (talk) 22:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Your references are not reliable. The Reuveny and Prakash argument is far-fetched; it is not echoed by any prominent scholars on the subject of the Soviet-Afghan epoch. Footnotes #1 through #4 refer to isolated remarks in books about subjects that are tangential to the war. I don't think you are thinking clearly about the authority of the sources you cite.

Truth be told, from your remarks it doesn't look like you took the trouble to read the entirety of the Reuveny and Prakash article. Even Reuveny and Prakash admit that their views are contrarian, isolated and controversial.

I could post an entire slew of widely read, first-rate sources whose writings are the basis of the views I've articulated here. It is not a "pro Russian/Soviet slant".

Why have you not read or included Mark Urban's "War in Afghanistan" as a source in this article?

It would be best for you to stick with the revisions I made to the article. Perhaps Reuvany and Prakash could be discussed in a section at the bottom of the article.

Kenmore (talk) 23:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. - There is absolutely no comparison between the Soviet position after the Afghanistan Intervention and the Argentinian government's position after the Falklands War.

The Soviet government unraveled because of political tensions that were deeply ingrained in the Soviet system and which had been suppressed by 70 years of Communist totalitarianism. When Gorbachev relaxed the Communist government's iron grip on Soviet political affairs, he opened a Pandora's Box of oppositional views. The political chaos unleashed by Gorbachev's reforms, coupled with the profound financial and economic crisis that befell the USSR, led to the discrediting of the Soviet government.

Gorbachev's controversial and convoluted attempts to change the Soviet political and economic systems were the cause of the chaos which disempowered and destroyed the Soviet government. The Afghan war had nothing to do with this. On the contrary, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was a component of Gorbachev's wider reform and retrenchment agenda.

It is believed by most authorities that the Soviet economic system was pushed to the brink of collapse by the high cost the USSR paid in trying to compete on a worldwide basis with the United States. It was this economic quagmire that inspired Gorbachev to attempt his controversial and failing reforms. Kenmore (talk) 05:00, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] New! BCAD drive from Milhist

Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced wiki-gnomes and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...

Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 13:15, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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