User:Roger Davies

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Lead Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject
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The problem with facts is there are so many of them



STUBS CREATED, ARTICLES EXPANDED, CSDs RESCUED: Abraham Lincoln Brigade • Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial • Alex McDade • Aliens Act 1905 • Akhtar Mengal • American Battle Monuments Commission • André Marty • Andrés Pajares • Andrew Hamilton Russell • Ataullah Mengal • Aubin Vert • Ay Carmela (film) • Ay Carmela (play) • Ay Carmela (song) • Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad • Battle of Arras (1917) • Battle of Vimy Ridge • Berlin 1939-1945 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery • Brigitte Friang • British Battalion • Camp Vernet • Canadian Battlefield Memorials Restoration Project • Canon William Lummis • Cannock Chase German war cemetery • Christopher Pugsley • Dabrowski Battalion • Dimitrov Battalion • Dr. Yacob Haile-Mariam • El Paso del Ebro (song) • Flanders Field • Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial • Florent Couao-Zotti • fr:Florent Couao-Zotti • Fred Copeman • French Army Mutinies (1917) • Fricourt German war cemetery • Fritz von Lossberg • Frontier Force Regiment • Gabino Diego • Gary Sheffield (historian) • George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine • George Nathan • Gerald Oram • German War Graves Commission • Gustav Regler • Hans Beimler (Communist) • Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial • Henryk Toruńczyk • HMS Calcutta (1831) • HMS Chesapeake (1855) • HMS Coromandel • HMS Donegal • HMS Northampton • HMS Valorous • Hoàng Văn Chí • Horst Günther • In Flanders Fields Museum • International Brigades data • International Brigades order of battle • International Brigades • Ivor Maxse • Jack Shulman • James Lafayette • Janos Galicz • Jason Gurney • Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War • Jock Cunningham • Johannes Kunze • John McCrae • José Sanchís Sinisterra • Jules Dumont • Julian Putkowski • King's Affair • Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen • Kurt Julius Goldstein • Langemark German war cemetery • List of books on military executions in World War I • List of German veterans of the International Brigades • List of individuals executed by the United States military • List of New Zealand soldiers executed during World War I • List of Welsh Victoria Cross recipients of World War I • Local government in Pakistan • Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial • Louise Michel Battalions • Marcel Pagnol • Mark Lambert (actor) • Maximian • Memorial reconstruction • Mengal • Neuville-St Vaast German war cemetery • Mickiewicz Battalion • Milan Copic • Military • Milton Wolff • Museum of the Great War • Naftali Botwin Company • Nivelle Offensive • Non-Intervention Committee • Orglandes German war cemetery • Palafox Battalion • Peat Bog Soldiers (song) • Peter Hofschröer • Piet Chielens • Polish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War • Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi • Rakosi Battalion • Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando • Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial • Roshan Taqui • Sandweiler German war cemetery • Se Canta • Second Battle of the Aisne • Sonnet 117 • Sonnet 121 • Sonnet 122 • Spanish Civil War • Steve Nelson (Activist) • Stade des Ponts Jumeaux • Thälmann Battalion • The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) • The Unknown Warrior • There's a Valley in Spain called Jarama (Song) • Traffic Ramaswamy • Veinte Battalion • Vietnam War • Viva la Quinta Brigada (song) • Viva la XV Brigada (song) • Vladimir Čopič • Vladslo German war cemetery • Vuilleman Battalion • XI International Brigade • XII International Brigade • XIII International Brigade • XIV International Brigade • XV International Brigade

TRANSLATIONS: Adam Albert von Neipperg • Florent Couao-Zotti • Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza • Denis Auguste Duchêne • La Treille • St-Romain-Lachalm • St-Bonnet-le-Froid • Stade des Ponts Jumeaux

FEATURED ARTICLE CONTRIBUTIONS:  FA Battle of Arras (1917)   Issy Smith   Hamlet   Operation Camargue  FA Emily Dickinson

FAC COPY-EDITS:  FA Prince's Palace of Monaco   Wales national rugby union team   Maximian   Montana class battleship   Battle of Verrières Ridge

ACTION LIST: Tel AvivFA • Arthur Rimbaud • Saladin • Horatio Nelson • Operation Castor • Romeo and Juliet • Jackie Fisher

BACK-BURNER: Mohamed Choukri • Fritz von Lossberg • William Godwin • Marcel Pagnol Template

MY PAGES: TOOLS • DRIVE STUFF • AWARD TEMPLATES • SANDBOX I • SANDBOX II • RECALL • ADMINSHIP


The Editor's Barnstar For your excellent work on Battle of Arras (1917), now a featured article, I award you this barnstar. Carom 05:33, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Assistant Coordinator of the Military History Wikiproject, Aug 2007 — Feb 2008. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:00, 29 August 2007
The WikiChevrons For your outstanding work in organizing the 2007 Military history WikiProject tagging and assessment drive, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons. Kirill 14:39, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge

(And because this part of the page needed a splash of colour.)
The Barnstar of Diligence In recognition of your tireless and most enthusiastic work in improving the sum total of all military knowledge, and in organizing the MILHIST Tag and Assessment Drive, and most of all, even in all this hectic work, you found the time to assess articles, as well as answer all our doubts. Sniperz11talk|edits 20:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
But just the Barnstar of Diligence isn't enough. Hence, I, Sniperz11, by the power vested in me by no authority in particular, award you the Param Vir Chakra. Good Going, and keep up the great work. Sniperz11talk|edits 20:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
The Literary Barnstar For your painstaking efforts to improve both the content and the prose of The Tragicall Hiftorie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, I award you this barnstar. Few would have ventured into such "brave new worlds" as Lacan and Co. simply for the sake of a section. Awadewit | talk 16:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
The Content Review Medal In recognition of your diligent contributions towards the various reviews of military history articles, I am delighted to award you the Content Review Medal. Kirill 16:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
This Baseball Barnstar is a token of my appreciation for your help on Youngstown Ohio Works, a sports-related article that greatly benefited from your incisive comments. All the best, twelsht (talk) 01:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Military history service award

For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. TomStar81 (Talk) 18:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar For your fine work on 2000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 18:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
This Barnstar of Life is for your assistance on Jimmy McAleer, a sports-related biography that benefited significantly from your comments and support. Cheers, twelsht (talk) 17:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar For your excellent work on 3000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Working Man's Barnstar. -- TomStar81 (Talk) 23:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of High Culture For stunning work on the FA drive for Hamlet, I hereby award you this Barnstar of High Culture. AndyJones (talk) 13:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
The Literary Barnstar In recognition of your excellent work and tireless contributions to the Hamlet article, I award you with this barnstar. Literary is the closest I could get to Shakespeare / Drama / Theatre, etc. Keep up the excellent work! :-) Lradrama 13:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar On behalf of a grateful Wikipedian, I give you this barnstar as a token of my undying gratitude for the effort you made to help me and all the others who volunteered in the MHA07 drive. Thanks again! Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 01:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For warning more than 100 vandals, I, Sharkface217 hereby award you this barnstar. Good job! --Sharkface217 20:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar For your brilliant and excellent work at MILHIST Tag & Assess 2007 -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 17:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For successfully combating vandalism that has resulted in at least 20 bans, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this barnstar. Good job! --Sharkface217 04:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
WikiThanks

Thanks for your help off-wiki. Please accept my efforts at Briticising Mary Wollstonecraft and her works as a token of my gratitude. Awadewit | talk 01:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
The admin's T-shirt Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. I am glad you passed, and you are welcome for the support. Good luck! Acalamari 17:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
WikiChevrons For helping make Operation Camargue a featured article, I proudly award you these Military History Wikiproject stripes. I hope to collaborate with you again in the future, that was the most painless FAC I have ever experienced. SGGH speak! 10:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar In offering your kindness, hard work and good humor while being instrumental to Emily Dickinson's promotion to FA, you have proven yourself an indispensable asset to Wikipedia. You deserve more than a rusty barnstar, but nonetheless I offer you this modest gift of appreciation. María (habla conmigo) 03:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of High Culture Thank you for your eloquent and well-researched contributions to Emily Dickinson, for: A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is / To meet an antique book, / In just the dress his century wore; / A privilege, I think, / His venerable hand to take, / And warming in our own, / A passage back, or two, to make / To times when he was young. / His quaint opinions to inspect, / His knowledge to unfold / On what concerns our mutual mind / The literature of old... Awadewit | talk 02:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Lead Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject Feb-Aug 2008. Congratulations on your election as Lead Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Limited edition election gift. Well done Roger and thanks again on the Tag and Assess work, which was a great success. I wish you another six months of happy military mopping, more good times reading articles at WP:MHR and success with your own article writing. And hopefully another big period of growth for WP:MILHIST. Blnguyen 04:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The WikiProject Barnstar. In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from August 2007 to February 2008, please accept this barnstar.--TomStar81 16:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
The Wikiproject Films Award

Thank you for your assistance on Jack Warner. twelsht (talk) 13:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Peace

Thank you for your timely intervention in an editing disagreement. With your support, the situation was resolved amicably. Best, twelsht (talk) 03:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar

In recognition of your Copy Editing services to the Milhistry history Project and especially to the article Frontier Force Regiment, SMS Talk 09:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
The Israeli Barnstar of National Merit
Thanks for your continual committment - and assistance to improving articles on Wikipedia - and recently to Tel Aviv Flymeoutofhere (talk) 11:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Grand Tutnum This editor is a Grand Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain 06:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar

For your diligent & continual work in organizing two Assessment Drives in the months of March & April alone. It is greatly appreciated! Cheers! Cam (Chat) 06:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
The Content Review Medal of Merit To Roger Davies, for your exceptionally thorough reviews of Featured article candidates in April, the FAC community and I thank you for ... your dedication to helping assure that only Wiki's finest work is recognized on the Main Page.SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons

In recognition of your outstanding leadership of the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiChevrons. Kirill (prof) 17:04, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar

Especially for your work on Wales national rugby union team and All Blacks versus France at rugby union. Shudde talk 09:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar

For coming up with the best name for our new department I hereby award you the What a Brilliant Idea! barnstar. Congrats (you've earned it ;) TomStar81 (Talk) 16:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar

For copyediting the article Montana class battleship I hereby present you with The Editor's Barnstar. Given that my sp&g suck, I can only imagine what you found in that twilight zone. TomStar81 (Talk) 10:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
For your excellent work at Featured article candidates during May, thank you for the solid reviews of articles this month and for your thorough work towards helping promote Wiki's finest work. And an extra thanks for your help with withdrawals and in keeping the FAC page on track!
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar

Awarded to Roger Davies for long-term copyediting on Vietnamese military history FAs. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar

For your article-saving copyediting during the FAC for Battle of Verrieres Ridge. Cam (Chat) 17:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)



Some of my photographs on Commons
Patio and gardens, Alhambra. Mar 2004.
Collioure castle and lighthouse. Mar 2004.
Alcazares Reales, Seville.
Mar 2004.
Etna from the amphitheatre, Taormina. Jan 2008.
Temple near Agrigento, Sicily. May 2006.