User talk:Bigroger27509

OK I am starting this for real now. I am trying to update all of the information that I can say is wrong or missing. I hope that if anyone finds something wrong will tell me. Big Roger 18:36, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Christianity newsletter: New format, new focus
Hello, I notice that you aren't currently subscribed to Ichthus, the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. Witha new format, we would be delighted to offer you a trial three-month, money-back guarantee, subscription to our newsletter. If you are interested then please add your name tothis list, and you will receive your first issue shortly. From June 2013 we are starting a new "in focus" section that tells our readers about an interesting and important groups of articles. The first set is about Jesus, of course. We have also started a new book review section and our own "did you know" section. In the near future I hope to start a section where a new user briefly discusses their interests.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 21:05, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership Newsletter
Hi ! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:
 * We have an easy way to now cite WDL resources. You can learn more about it on our news page, here.
 * Our to-do list is being expanded and features newly digitized and created resources from libraries and archives around the world, including content from Sweden, Qatar, the Library of Congress, and more! You can discover new content for dissemination here.
 * WDL project has new userbox for you to post on your userpage and celebrate your involvement. Soffredo created it, so please be sure to thank them on their talk page. You can find the userbox and add it to your page here.
 * Our first batch of WDL barnstars have been awarded! Congratulations to our first recipients: ProtoplasmaKid, ChrisGualtieri, TenthEagle, Rhyswynne, Luwii, Sosthenes12, Djembayz, Parkwells, Carl Francis, Yunshui, MrX, Pharaoh of the Wizards, and the prolific Yster76!! Thank you for your contributions and keep up the great work. Be sure to share your article expansions and successes here.

Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot (talk) 16:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Kirill [talk] 16:09, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:15, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 29 September. Yours, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:21, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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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Would like your input in a discussion
Hi,

I would appreciate it if you could give your input regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_naval_ship_classes_in_service#Split_this_article_into_multiple_articles Thanks in advance Dragnadh (talk) 21:18, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:37, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

2019 US Banknote Contest
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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

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:03, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

ASK: review for B-Class article status

 * MY ASK OF YOU TWO IS, please review the article American Revolutionary War as a candidate for a B-Class rating in the Military history Project, without necessarily first resolving any meta-issues you may see. OF COURSE, any that you do see that might hinder advancing the article to ‘Good Article’ status would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 * - I’m writing the two of you from among the 48 ‘active’ editors at the Military history Project. As the two of you, east coast and west coast, have expressed interest in American history, the American Revolution, the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail, and US Navy history. Your stated interests seem to align with my wp:editor-partner and myself, so I’d like to ask for advice, direction and maybe an assist.
 * - Over the past seven months, we have been trying to bring the American Revolutionary War forward in its article status. Although Gwillhickers is an active editor at the Military history Project, we sought another editor to advance the rating from C-class to B-class.
 * - Seven projects now rate it as B-Class, and over the past 2-3 weeks, it has been assessed by one or another editor at the Military history Project as B-Class, then C-, now Start-class. Three phases of improvement, before a review was conducted, during, and after are described at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history.  - TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * BACKGROUND ISSUE #1. Not a problem this week. An ongoing multi-month editor conflict over ARW scope seems to have been resolved by separating out great power conflict with Britain under the section Peace of Paris. Lots of detail and accommodating rationale to copy-paste to you if you are interested, rather than fight through the four (4) lengthy and wandering Talk Archives.
 * BACKGROUND ISSUE #2. The August article-reviewer was unhappy with the ARW Infobox citing any participants other than nation-states with diplomatic treaties of military alliance. His paradigm is the Infobox for the War of the Austrian Succession, a conflict among Euro great power nation-states. However, the colonial rebellion by an independence Congress in 1778, ten years before the US-Constitution, was not that of a world great power yet. It could not effectively tax its own citizens, its state ‘requisitions’ were largely ignored.
 * - A more apt comparison for the British-subject conflict of rebellion and civil war is the Infobox at Spanish Civil War, with belligerents, “supporters” without organized military units, and “international brigades” without independent commands, viz: Soviet Union, Mexico, France; Germany, Italy, Portugal; and the “Pope (diplomacy)”.
 * - Page-editors of all persuasions disagreed with the reviewer, arguing for including the organized military units in the Infobox under independent command with their own officers at the regiment level among Hessians (Col. Johann Rall), et al, State militias (Col. George Rogers Clark), et al, Indian tribes (Brit. Col. Joseph Brant, US Col. Joseph Cook, et al), and co-belligerents against the British , the Dutch most importantly for 50%+ all supplies via Sint Estatius] in the Caribbean, and the Spanish monies via Havana, and operations under command of Governor-General [[Bernardo de Gálvez, for clearing the Mississippi to supply Washington via Pittsburg, and cutting off British support of interior Indians via Mobile and Pensacola, and supplying Clark to conquer British Western Quebec (US Northwest Territory).
 * BACKGROUND ISSUE #3. There remains a disagreement among editors, spilling onto the Talk pages related articles of the same period. Generally speaking this disagreement has left the ARW article pages for over a month, although adversary editors there are now contesting whether the Infobox should characterize German troops as ‘Auxiliaries’ or ‘Mercenaries’. But I do not think that unsettled issue, while making a “GA-class” rating impossible (stability?), should not make attaining a “B-Class” rating out of reach.
 * - FIRST, “Editor Group A” sees the American Revolutionary War as primarily a rebellion or civil war among British subjects and their allies, for and against American independence, in a shooting war overwhelmingly encompassed in the time span Lexington 1775-1781 Yorktown, taking place substantially in North America and the Caribbean Sea.
 * - SECOND, “Editor Group B” sees an “imperial” American Revolution (Lockwood 2019, p. 13) (see also Roger Shaw 1953-54, “bourgeois-nationalist war”), “spreading” worldwide creating a category of historiography comparable to the Second Hundred Years' War: all five mid-1700s British-related wars into one 'MEGA-worldwide’, “War-of-the-American-Revolution” (see British almanac Clodfelter, p. 134) where the Anglo-American rebellion-civil-war embraces four theaters of war under discussion now ongoing elsewhere.
 * - But as I say, that has passed the ARW by for over a month, with the page-editor accommodation focusing the international military and diplomatic events touching on the American Revolution, discussed in the Peace of Paris section.
 * MY ASK OF YOU IS, please review the article as a candidate for a B-Class rating in the Military history Project, without necessarily first resolving any meta-issues you may see. Any that you do see that might hinder advancing the article to ‘Good Article’ status would be appreciated, of course. Thank you to the both of you in advance. - TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I apologize for never replying or following through with the requests asked here a few years ago. As a teacher during the lockdown portion of the pandemic, I was consumed with teaching online at that time and didn't even notice this message had been sent. In reviewing old messages, I just came across this, and I'm glad to see that the issues were resolved and that The ARW article now as B-Class status. Cvalin (talk) 04:51, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2020 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2020. Thanks from the outgoing coord team, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open
G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing
G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

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)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!
Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)