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Wikidata weekly summary #138
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66th Division (United Kingdom)
Just wanted to thank you for all your hard work on this article - great to see! Happy New Year 2015!! Buckshot06 (talk) 06:07, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks - the higher-numbered ones are, unsurprisingly, easier to do a comprehensive job on! Must start working down the list again... Andrew Gray (talk) 10:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

63rd Naval
Thanks for your interest in the article, I only began dabbling because I exhausted my wikimojo about a month ago and it's just started to come back. I thought that a bit of cutting and pasting would help the page but I never expected it to blossom like this. I suppose I'll have to cross the line into 1918 though, to justify another B class.Keith-264 (talk) 13:13, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Glad to help. I made a stab at it last year (or possibly 2013?) when I was doing some other divisions; got as far as the end of 1914 and stalled with the realisation I don't really know Gallipoli very well! More reading for me to do there, I suppose... Andrew Gray (talk) 13:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Krithia looks promising for a summary hence the hidden header and I have the divisional history to fill gaps but I tend to meander so much that I decided that military operations 1918 really needed full-time attention; I'll see what I can do though. If it's any help I have all of the OH except for Mesopotamia II-IV and most of the div-hists if you need any citations. I had a quick look at the 66th Div too, gave it a blast of auto-ed and edited a couple of red-ons (using User:Keith-264/common.js).


 * I forgot to mention that History of the Great War has the archive org pdf links for the army, navy and air force histories etc.Keith-264 (talk) 16:39, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #139
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