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WikiCup Newsletter

 * 21:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Delivered for the WikiCup by  GARDEN at 21:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC). Queries to my talk.

Operation Charnwood
I passed Operation Charnwood's GAN; congrats on getting another step closer to an Overlord GT/FT! (an aside: did you see my comment on the work group's talk?) Could I ask you to review Design 1047 battlecruiser for FAC in return? :-) Thanks! the_ed17 :  Chat 03:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Food for further thoughts:
 * what makes reliable?
 * reference standardizing to "Author (year), p. 000" or "Author, p. 000" (pp.'s for page ranges though) the_ed17 :  Chat 03:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVII (March 2009)
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 01:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Canadian National Vimy Memorial
I am in the midst of an edit on the Canadian National Vimy Memorial article. We have come across a pleasant surprise, with contributor up-loading some beautiful images of the memorial. We are faced with a bit of a problem though. The vimy memorial has numerous distinct statues and we are faced with the difficultly in presenting them properly in the vimy memorial sub-section without sufficient space to mention them all. I have suggested the use of either multiple image templates or a gallery. I could really use some help on how to pull this one off given the images contributed by Tango7174 are awesome. Some admin help would REALLY be appreciated on this one for direction/ see: Talk:Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial. --Labattblueboy (talk) 07:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XI
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 21:24, 5 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Crisis
An unexpected development on Wikipedia that concerns us has been brought to our attention by Moonriddengirl. Please follow this link for more information. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:31, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XII
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 16:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Deployment of PzLehr & 2ndSSPzDiv
Greetings Climie; do you know of any sources which can add detail to the comment in Copp (Fields of Fire) that these divisions were very depleted before the move. Bearing in mind that they had been refitted before the invasion how much of their fighting power remained when they were moved west? Keith-264 (talk) 12:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIII
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 09:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

Re Op Charnwood
Will do (apologies for late reply; been away) EyeSerene talk 08:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Would you be interested in helping?
We need more input to a discussion to resolve "if Gallipoli was part of European operations or not". You can reach the discussion using this link Conflict over Gallipoli Campaign. --TarikAkin (talk) 00:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Canadians and the PIAT
Hey Cam. I'm rewriting the article on the PIAT in my sandbox; I've done Design and Development, and now I'm onto the far more difficult task of its operational history. I know that Canadian units were the first to be issued with PIATs, just in time for Sicily; I was wondering if you might take a look through your books and see if there's any mention of it? Cheers, Skinny87 (talk) 13:22, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, one more thing. In the Battle of Ortona article, it has a footnote mentioning that PIATs were used to fight through houses, and has a citation for 'Bercuson, p. 175', but he has several books. You don't happen to know which book it's from, do you? Skinny87 (talk) 14:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIV
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 14:07, 26 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

WikiCup Newsletter XV
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 08:25, 4 May 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVIII (April 2009)
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.

We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XVI
Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 09:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

WikiCup Newsletter XVII
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WikiCup newsletter XVII.V
This is just a quick reminder that the round ends this Friday, May 29, 2009. I wanted to let you guys know the current standings. If you are very close, but not close enough, work as hard as possible these next two days. Pool leaders are listed as usual, and under the 10 wildcards, are competitors that are still fighting for a spot. Also, if you currently have any un-reviewed GAN's up and you'd like them to be reviewed and counted for this round, you must place them on the appropriate thread of the WikiCup talk page.


 * Pool A
 * 1) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Shoemaker's Holiday (647)


 * Pool B
 * 1) 🇨🇴 ThinkBlue (247)


 * Pool C
 * 1) 🇸🇪 Theleftorium (455)


 * Pool D
 * 1) 🇩🇰 Candlewicke (539)


 * Pool E
 * 1) 🇲🇽 Durova (479)


 * Pool F
 * 1) 🇨🇭 Sasata (961)


 * Current Wildcards
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Useight (393)
 * 2) 🇮🇸 Scorpion0422 (372)
 * 3) 🇹🇭 Rlevse (329)
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Wrestlinglover (307)
 * 5) 🇰🇭 Paxse (285)
 * 6) Ottava Rima (248)
 * 7) Flag of Albany, New York.svg Mitchazenia (226)
 * 8) 🇮🇪 Juliancolton (181)
 * 9) the_ed17 (179)
 * 10) 🇮🇲 J Milburn (168)
 * 11)  Bedford (156)
 * 12)  Gary King (147)
 * 13)  97198 (142)
 * 14) 🇱🇺 Ceranthor (111)
 * 15) 🇮🇳 Tinucherian (106)
 * 16) 🇻🇺 Matthewedwards (98)

 GARDEN, iMatthew :  Chat  , and  The  Helpful  One   The  Helpful  Bot  00:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XVIII
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re: Epic
Thank you very much, Cam, for the barnstar. The interview request came out of the blue and as I'd done much of the drafting it seemed sensible to respond. The interview lasted about an hour so based on the amount that ended up in print, I guess there was probably a high twaddle to fact ratio :) Thanks again,  Roger Davies  talk 20:50, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XIX and XX
Delivered by The  Helpful  Bot  at 21:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC) for the WikiCup. To report errors, please leave a message on the talk page.

Congrats!

 * Thanks. Now that Asia and North America have been accounted the next runner up looks to be South America, as Ed is working very hard on Brazilian battleships. Oddly, for all the work they did in getting us to the dreadnought era, the Europeans have yet to get a battleship class up on the board. As for competition: I'll bring my six, and you can bring your three, it'll be two on one, and we can see who wins in a good ole fashion gunfight; Or if you prefer, we can simply compare the number of people who visit these pages each month to settle the issue of who has the best battleship class ;-) TomStar81 (Talk) 03:05, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoo! And, just saying here...my pre-dreadnought, dreadnought, super-dreadnought and large cruisers would swoop in during the middle of the battle between you two and be the overall victor. ;) — Ed   (Talk  •  Contribs)  03:11, 17 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey Tom, are you forgetting something? Not to mention a bevy of battlecruisers :P Parsecboy (talk) 12:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)