User talk:Anonymous Dissident

Hello everyone, just checking in. It's been over two years since I stated I went on hiatus. This will remain my status till November, due to university. I look forward with great anticipation to a period in which I have enough free time to contribute as substantially as I once did. — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 13:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Sydney meetup
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*waves*
Hey, I just wanted to say hello - I saw your name on Seresin's talk and just had a good long walk down memory lane about the glorious days of the TSQUAD. Good to see you around dear! :) Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 07:01, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for dropping by, Keilana! There's something indefinably pleasant about seeing old friends still here, among the ever-changing sea of new faces. :-) — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 07:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, and considering how many of those familiar faces I had found to have moved on when I returned, it's even better to see old friends still kicking around. Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 16:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello
Good lord! You've been here a very long time :) I thought of you as an early editor on julian assange - hope you're enjoying the wiki! Privatemusings (talk) 11:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

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Main page appearance: The Covent-Garden Journal
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The Covent-Garden Journal was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely financed by novelist, playwright, and essayist Henry Fielding (pictured), under a pseudonym. The Journal incited the "Paper War" of 1752–1753, a conflict between a number of contemporary literary critics and writers, which began after Fielding declared war on the "armies of Grub Street" in the first issue. His proclamation attracted multiple aggressors and instigated a long-lasting debate argued in the pages of their respective publications. Initially waged for the sake of increasing sales, the Paper War ultimately became much larger than Fielding had expected. Further controversy erupted in June, when Fielding expressed support for a letter decrying the Government's 1752 Disorderly House Act in the Journal. His remarks were viewed by the public as an endorsement of the legality of prostitution. The final issue of the Journal was released on 25 November 1752. In its last months, poor sales had resulted in a transition from biweekly to weekly release. Ill-health and a disinclination to continue led Fielding to end its run after the 72nd number. UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Precious
  road less traveled

Thank you for quality articles, such as The Covent-Garden Journal and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, for helping to understand why Wikipedia is not a sinking ship (but one under construction), for taking the road less traveled, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (10 June 2007, 25 October 2008, 1 April 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you; that's very kind! — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 12:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - it made Alpine route better ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * A year ago, you were the 357th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, co-author of Alpine route, photographer of the sapphire, missing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Three years ago, you were recipient no. 357 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 10 years, in a way ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Amazing how the time has passed! Anonymous Dissident (talk) 14:43, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Seven years precious ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi AD
Following the drama at BN, I'm trying to come up with a statement all Crats could agree to. Please take a look, below.

I am quite content to do this onwiki -we have always worked transparently, except where secrecy is essential (ie RTV). I think we should be able to wordsmith a statement acceptable to all, and I think it's an important thing to do.


 * 1) In my opinion, this issue has come about through an unfortunate proliferation of documentation: policy, guideline, how-to etc
 * 2) I am not convinced that there is community consensus on all of the points encapsulated in those various pages
 * 3) I am unhappy at what may be described as some or all of: inconsistencies, inaccuracies or lack of clarity in that documentation
 * 4) I do not believe that any of the issues we have faced have been caused by Crats trying to widen their powers
 * 5) I would like to see the issues clarified, based on consensus, and for the documentation to be updated accordingly
 * 6) I'd like to thank Griot-de for generously withdrawing the rename request

Signed

[crat sig]

Lmk what you think. Many thanks, --
 * I'm not sure what all this is about Dweller. If you can give me more context, I'll consider a signature, should it still be required. Regards, — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 12:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Sydney meetup on Thursday
Just a quick note to invite you to the next Sydney meetup this Thursday evening. Details here. Hope to see you then! (You received this invitation because you are listed here.) --99of9 (talk) 00:33, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Notification of proposal to ban Spanish articles from Did You Know?
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There is currently a proposal to ban articles concerning a large area of southern Andalusia from appearing on the Main Page of Wikipedia in the Did you know? section. This would affect a significant number of articles within the scope of WikiProject Spain. If you have a view on this proposal, please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs‎. In addition, you may have a view on an alternative proposal to lift restrictions on Gibraltar-related articles on DYK - please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. Prioryman (talk) 14:38, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

You've got mail!
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Renaming information request
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Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
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Merger discussion
Notice to significant contributors to the articles that a Merge Proposal from Alp (folklore) --> Mare (folklore) is underway.--Kiyoweap (talk) 06:06, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Steve Darcis discussion
Hi, I started a discussion on whether or not his victory against Nadal should be mentioned in the lead. I see you've edited the page so could you share your opinion on the talk? Thanks, --Sofffie7 (talk) 20:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello
Just wanted to say hi and ask how university is treating you. It seems that both of us have gone over the hill when it comes to editing here, no?  bibliomaniac 1  5  05:10, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi there, old friend. It has been a very long time indeed. University goes well. Are you yourself studying, or working, or...? I do wish I had time to edit. Maybe one day we'll ride again, hey? — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 13:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Biblio! I saw this on my watchlist and was totally delighted to see you're still around occasionally. :) AD - glad to hear university is going well, what are you studying? :D Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 17:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey Keilana! I'm studying pure maths, which I'm really loving. Are you almost done with your study? — Anonymous Dissident  Talk 10:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Ooh, that's fantastic! One of my childhood friends does game theory in Canada. She's scary brilliant. I'm one year through my undergraduate studies, I'm doing molecular biology with a smattering of Arabic and Islamic Studies and it's wonderful! I'm so glad you're enjoying university. :) Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 16:04, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It's like a little reunion up here. :) Will be entering my last year of university.  bibliomaniac 1  5  18:32, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

You've got mail!
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DYK RfC

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WP:FOUR RFC
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Please remove the Pricasso link on the main page
This is likely the most controversial article on Wikipedia right now. User:Russavia is in the process of being de-bureaucrated for trolling Jimbo with this article. There is no way this would get through the DYK process if it had been brought to the attention of large numbers of Wikipedians. In short this is a pretty "good" example of what's wrong with Wikipedia/Commons governance. Please remove asap. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 00:39, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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16 October 2013
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Invitation to Sydney editathon - Saturday 23rd November
There is a backstage pass coming up to be followed by an editathon in the State Library of New South Wales on Saturday 23 November. This is the first time that an Australian cultural institution has opened its doors to us in this way and will be a special opportunity because the Library is providing: one of its best rooms; its expert curators (along with their expertise and their white gloves); a newly launched website (containing new resources); and of course, items from its collection (including rare and usually unavailable material) which we can look at, learn from, and use, to improve WP articles. For example, on the chosen topic (Australia and WWI), the Library holds many diaries and manuscripts from the period.

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Sydney Meetup on Monday evening
There's a Meetup in Sydney on Monday (tomorrow) evening from 5:30pm at the Paragon Hotel Circular Quay. We even have an international guest. See the meetup page for more details and to sign up. Sorry for the late notice - I hope you can make it. --99of9 (talk) 05:55, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users
Dear Anonymous Dissident,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

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Heads up
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 * Please note that for the same reason, if you do not return to activity a Steward may remove your bureaucrat permissions. Restoration is handled in the same way. Thank you for your past bureaucratic and administrative contributions. – xeno talk 02:27, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in over one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. – xeno talk 04:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)


 * As advised above, I will also request that a Steward remove your bureaucrat permissions for the same inactivity. You may request restoration at WP:BN. Best regards, – xeno talk 04:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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The editathon I mentioned
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Five years on
Five years on and I think I may have come around to your viewpoint (Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats). Though is mine a novel argument for the proposal? –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 18:16, 29 June 2015 (UTC) (edit: Looks like I'd forgotten you'd gone inactive. Hope all is well.)

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That huge stack of newsletters was getting dangerous...
...so I archived to history anything not published in the current year - see here if you want to catch up on more than just 2015 and beyond. Hope all is well, –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 18:03, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015
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User page inaccuracy
Hi. This user page is inexplicably fully protected. The "sysop, bureaucrat" parenthetical should be removed. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:50, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Request noted. You are obviously right that these descriptions are no longer current. The user category actually strikes me as more of a potential issue than the parentheticals. As this is not an urgent, change, I'll leave this for a few days in case anyone else wants to comment on whether the change should be made. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:58, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The category should have been removed last year, I've done that portion. –<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b><sup style="color:#000">talk 23:13, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't notice the category. Looking at the user page again, I do notice that it's transcluding . While I guess I appreciate this request being noted, I'd prefer that the page be unprotected. Even Anonymous Dissident won't be able to edit the page currently, it's silly. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:43, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I have unprotected the page. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:24, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:55, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXX, March 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXI, April 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXII, May–June 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIII, July 2016
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Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:11, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIV, August 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXV, September 2016
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Sydney Meetup next Thursday evening
You are invited to the Sydney Meetup!
 * Thursday 15 September at 6PM at Petersham Bowling Club.
 * (a) accessible by train - Petersham station
 * (b) has some nice draught beers
 * (c) has some nice food
 * (d) has some quiet areas outside and inside...so people can chat without getting a hoarse voice by shouting over 100 decibels of muzak etc.
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:14, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

... and again today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:47, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Have your say!
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I thought you were still an admin
I never knew you were inactive. I always thought you are still an admin, also, I never knew you were a crat. But it is great to know that you back from such a long break. I hope you become admin again someday. Regards, — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  03:14, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the message! As you can infer from the delay in my response, I'm not really really back, but maybe sometime in the future. Best wishes, Anonymous Dissident (talk) 14:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is a little unfortunate in my opinion. I hope you at least log in once in a while (something like once in three months at the least?). Best wishes for real life. — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)   17:32, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:16, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Westminster Pit help
You commented on Talk:Westminster Pit blood sport, saying that it was outlawed before Queen Victoria, which apparently it was, but I am having some dificulty documenting that relative to dogs, and not cattle, as the 1835 act says. Lots of ways to follow this up, but I am not doing well with it. Maybe you know more than I do. I am busy with Guernsey and Jersey articles, and various talk page fixes for London and elsewhere.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:47, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

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Backlog Banzai
In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:17, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
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March Madness 2020
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open
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Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing
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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR of History of timekeeping devices
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Uw-ani
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced
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Survey about History on Wikipedia
I am Petros Apostolopoulos, a Ph.D. candidate in Public History at North Carolina State University. My Ph.D. project examines how historical knowledge is produced on Wikipedia. If you are interested in participating in my research study by offering your own experience of writing about history on Wikipedia, you can click on this link https://ncsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z4wmR1cIp0qBH8. There are minimal risks involved in this research.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Petros Apostolopoulos, paposto@ncsu.edu Apolo1991 (talk) 10:33, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WP Malta Collaboration (topic) (old)
Template:WP Malta Collaboration (topic) (old) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:22, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

TFA nom for history of timekeeping devices
I have nominated history of timekeeping devices to be today's featured article on January 1. You are invited to comment on the nomination by clicking here. Z1720 (talk) 02:09, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you and the whole team today for the article, introduced (in 2008!): "This is the second Tzatziki Squad collaboration up for your scrutiny." - A timely contribution! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

today, I point at two singers I whose performance I enjoyed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Melitta Muszely died, RIP - the other story is 10 years old OTD ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:08, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WP Malta Collaboration/to do
Template:WP Malta Collaboration/to do has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:29, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Eugene Krabs


A tag has been placed on User:Eugene Krabs, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Anti-draftifier (talk) 12:20, 8 October 2023 (UTC)