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Double-headed eagle
Lol...thanks for the Info on Armenia`s coat of Arms...I overlooked the innter portion of the crest, sorry for the trouble. AdrianCo (talk) 00:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

New! BCAD drive from Milhist
Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced wiki-gnomes and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)




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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Very correct assessment. You have put the finger on the precise problem. I, for once, am working on that. (last year I rather worked on not omiting details, not so much on soursing correctly and fully) The solution is outsourcing to smaller articles: it takes much longer than I thought, and until good references are given for all those... It will be very slow process to improve the article. Come back in 6 months! :-) Dc76\talk 22:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


 * thank you very much Dc76\talk 23:08, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

SIOP and related topics
Would you mind taking another look at Single Integrated Operational Plan and reassessing the references? You won't hurt my feelings if they are inadequate, as I wasn't the original author.

The title is becoming a little problematic, since the term SIOP has been superceded. Indeed, there were pre-SIOP Air Force nuclear war plans (DROPSHOT comes to mind)--are these in scope for history?

The US also had a concept of RISOP, Red Integrated Strategic Operating Plan (I think -- we just called it RISOP), which was the best guess of US intelligence about the Soviet equivalent to the SIOP. There's a good deal of discussion of similarities and differences in US and Soviet doctrine in some of the references I added, especially from the Air University. These may be getting too far afield.

Should there be more references to arms limitation, and national means of technical verification? I mention these because some SIOP revisions reflected the constraints of arms control agreements.

What about changing doctrine as far as platforms? For example, the US gave up on high-altitude supersonic bombers (e.g., XB-70) with advances in Soviet SAMs, and changed to low-altitude penetration with reinforced B-52s. The Soviets continued development of the MiG-25, which seems to have been conceived as a XB-70 killer. Mobile missiles and large-scale cruise missile deployments affected both sides, just as much as the better-known ballistic missile defense.

Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 16:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Some diagrams should be useful, and I can draw some. IIRC, the original government public document, Glasstone's The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, is online. As it is, there's a delicate balance of the basis of casualty estimates versus getting into the physics of nuclear weapons effects. Intuitively, this is not the article that should get mathematical.


 * Actually, there are quite a few topics that this touches tangentially, but probably should be in their own articles. I'm not sure how deeply some of the command and control, positive control, etc., need to be covered, since only the higher headquarters have a real sense of what options are being executed. I understand that the land-based ICBM crews don't necessarily know the actual targets.


 * Balance is the question, as books have been written on these topics. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 01:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Stop the War Coalition‎
Given your downgrading of the StWC article within your project, do you intend to bring it to the attention of WP:GAR? The fact that you assessed the article as start class, suggests that it isn't even close to beign a GA by Wikipedia-wide standards.--Peter cohen (talk) 23:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. See what you think of the article after work has finished. But my understanding is that if an article is rated GA, then it should be at least that level by each project; and, conversely, if the projects think it's weaker than GA, then it shouldn't be rated GA. WP:GAR would just allow other editors to express their opinions, it running on the same basis as other not quite-a -vote systems in WIkipedia such as deletion.--Peter cohen (talk) 22:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Osroene
You have edited over the recently vandalized version of this page, can you please, restore the edit which had all grammar corrections, references and improvements, and then incorporate your edits. Thanks. Atabek (talk) 21:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, it's alright now. Atabek (talk) 01:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Byantine-Arab Wars (780 - 1180)
The reason why the Strategos of the Armenikon Thema was put there was bcause this commander found himself on the frontline always and the Phocas family came from here. Tourskin (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Balkan war
Let me explain. The Bulgarian active army of the war actually fielded 10 divisions. The tenth division was formed on 20th september 1912 and it had two brigades. If you calculate the divisions in each army and the two divisions which had individual task you will see that the number was ten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avidius (talk • contribs) 21:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Spelling
Are you saying to rename it Paleologos? If so I would support that. That is the common translation that I see like at church and other places. Whatever it takes to get rid of Despoina. Grk1011 (talk) 00:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, but concerning Despina, that is the accepted spelling in English. on google Despina -> 1.6 million hits, Despoina -> 180,000. You could find someone in america with their last name spelt palailogos, but i doubt there are many greeks with their names spelt Despoina in English. It falls under the category of "Use English which overides the translit rules. Despoina is just not the accepted spelling. Grk1011 (talk) 01:08, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * haha, i didnt even think of that. If so, then shouldn't we take the Despina out of the title? was that her real name that she went by? Its not like the article on George Washington is named Mr. George Washington. Grk1011 (talk) 01:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of World War II (1942)‎
Noticed you assessed the article. But you are not member of WikiProject Military history.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 12:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, can you assess the article Science and technology in Nazi Germany.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 12:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I know this. I will incorporate all the stuffs in other field including physiology, botany, zoological research, chemistry etc. I know at present the article is very much limited in its scope because it only depicts aviation and rocketry. I just want to know if the the article in its present size is stub or start class.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 13:05, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I am confused if the article is under scope of WikiProject Military history.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 13:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Greek Flags
''Hello Dragases! The form of crown in the new flags you added is very good and far more accurate! However, I would suggest using a lighter shade of blue, since the very dark colour has only recently come into official use (during and after the Colonels' regime, to be exact). Historically, and certainly during the kingdom, the colours ranged from this to this. Thank you and cheers, Cplakidas (talk) 15:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)''

Hi, Cplakidas. Thanks for the feedback. I've adjusted the colour to a lighter shade, but, without an accurate picture or illustration of the flag at the time, it's all down to guess-work. If I find one, I'll modify them to the correct colour once and for all. Cheers. Dragases (talk) 02:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:Country data Greece
It looks like Andrwsc has already done it; sorry I couldn't be of more help. east. 718 at 17:40, April 1, 2008

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Maurice's Balkan campaigns
Do you feel like doing the Greek version? Tagmatarchos (talk) 07:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC) Sigidunum was only sacked by the Avars. As the Romans always bought off the Avars, the Avars in all likelihood handed the city back. Tagmatarchos (talk) 14:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC) Citation: Even though it was possible to buy peace from the Avars and to persuade them to withdraw from Roman territory, they repeatedly violated peace terms.Tagmatarchos (talk) 14:51, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Schöne Karte, die Du da beigesteuert hast. Kannst Du sie auch in den deutschen Eintrag einfügen?Tagmatarchos (talk) 10:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Komnenian Army
Thanks for the input on the Komnenian army page.

If you feel like sorting the notes to bibliography transfer it would be most appreciated, as I don't have a feel for the bibliographic template in use.

I intend to write a section on tactics at some point.

Regards Urselius (talk) 12:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

I've seen your message on my talk page, thanks for the appreciative comments. I agree that a great deal of the arms and armour section are applicable to the whole period from c. 950 to 1204. However, there is an effect that changing sources have on the available evidence - the earlier part of the period has a number of military treatises which describe equipment, whilst the 12th century is particularly rich in images of military saints showing very good detail of armour, though the century is largely devoid of military writing. There might be some argument for a certain amount of duplication between the general and specific wiki pages, with some change of emphasis and some variation of content between them. Having the reader flicking constantly between pages to get a reasonable idea of the subject matter is probably not desirable and having a certain amount of duplication not too distracting.

Regards,

Urselius (talk) 15:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...
Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 11:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)




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Castlesteads
Hi, I noticed you mentioned in the Castlesteads' article that it could be the site of the battle of Camlann. Unfortunately you didn't provide a source and the battle of Camlann article didn't provide one either, however I think it's referring to a Castlesteads near Hadrian's Wall. As such I'm going to remove the mention of the battle from the article. It's a real shame because I think it would be really cool if Greater Manchester had a link with King Arthur. Never mind. Nev1 (talk) 22:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I can see this problem arising again, do you think the page should be moved (say to Castlesteads, Greater Manchester) and turn the Castlesteads page into a disambiguous page? Nev1 (talk) 00:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, as I'm sure you'd noticed. Nev1 (talk) 01:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Image
Hi, can you upload this image. It will be good image can be used in the article. I am still not well-versed in uploading images outside Flickr. It's probably copyrighted. In this case, a tag would be appropriate, as it is a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who took the image or the agency employing the person.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * When you are changing the flow of sentences, can you please change the position of the references at the same time. This edit resulted in information not supported by reference at the end of the sentence.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Have some patience for 5 to 10 minutes. I will explain you.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:53, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * See this version. In this version you rearranged the sentences where the reference for the fact "The anti-tobacco movement was influenced by the ideological concept of racial hygiene and bodily purity" became It's Not Just PR: Public Relations in Society. But the reference which support this fact is Nazi War on Cancer. After each single sentence, the reference which supports the sentence should be used.

Adam was a boy (1). Adam went to a public school (2). Adam died in a road accident (3). Three different sentence are supported by three different references. If the sentences are rearranged as Adam who died in road accident, went to public school (2)(3), you will say the references are supporting all the information. But care should be taken which reference supports which information. In this case, the format will be Adam who died in road accident,(3) went to public school(2).  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 18:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the questions you raised, all the information are supported by Nazi War on Cancer. The decrease in tobacco consumption during the Second World War was certainly due to Nazi measures where the laws were aggressively implemented. You can see in the Measures section that at the end of the 1930s, the Nazis enacted more and more laws which was lacking at the first half of the 1930s. This aggressive measure was responsible for declining tobacco rate, not war. Please note that soldiers were allowed to smoke, war did not prevent them from smoking, a fact on which Hitler lamented. You will find this in the Hitler's attitude section. And regarding your second query, this factor is also mentioned by Proctor. He used the word "muted" which I reworded to "silenced". I think he probably want to mean that the outcome of the health research often restricted from the public probably due to the pressure from tobacco industry.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 18:27, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I found another interesting image. It shows the graph of the total number of cigarettes produced in Germany from 1932 to 1944. I think this image will be needed. And here is another image which should be used in the Measures section. Three images are enough for the article.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 19:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Jews of Byzantium
Thank you, Cplakidas, for your compliment and suggestions. You are correct in saying that the article only deals with the legal status of the Jews of Byzantium. Maybe the solution is to expand the article, rather than move it. I think that "Legal Status of the Jews during the Byzantine Empire" would be somewhat cumbersome, especially given that there would not be a more general article for the Jews of the Byzantine Empire. Your point on "Byzantium" vs. "Byzantine Empire" is well taken. How can I change that? Saepe Fidelis (talk) 09:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll get working on it. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 12:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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Medieval Bulgarian Army
Thank you very much far that constructive comment. I think that you should move the things in the history section to the tactics because I can miss something. Those quotations from the medieval authors are taken directly from Zlatarski but I will try to find the edition. I will expand the battles in the first section and the Ottoman advance. One of the major difficulties would be to find book in English, as most of the book in the net are not free.

Good luck on the exams ;-) I just finished mine two days ago and I hope you would be successful as well. Best, --Gligan (talk) 15:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Image
Hi there, can you please upload this image for the article Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany. The article is currently for GA review, your comments will be appreciated.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 04:36, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

National Schism
Thanks for your fast edits in the article National Schism. I was planning and I will do some more improvements, however I do not wish any conflicts. So... how can we coordinate our efforts? A.Cython (talk) 11:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * ok... so this week I will have the time add some staff (mainly references + clarifications + copyedits) but after that I will leave for a conference... so feel like a true wikipedian and edit/improve my edits :D... PS: good luck with your exams! A.Cython (talk) 12:43, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Another church
Hallo Konstantinos, kalimera! I hope that everything is going ok for you (except football, of course, but this is the same for me ;-)) Can you please have a look at this, if you have time and lust, of course? Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 06:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * A small question. How can I see polytonic Greek on my Computer? I suppose that I have to import some fonts...Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 10:13, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I forgot to write that I also rewrote the article about Arap Mosque. If you have time, you can have a look also there...Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 08:36, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, Thanks! Cheers and kalispera, Alex2006 (talk) 14:46, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

RE:Polytonic fonts
Hallo Constantine! I did not disappear, I had only a lot to do on the job... :-((( I will do as you said, but actually this is another MS mistery (of course on Firefox everything works great :-)). Regarding football, Italy deserved the elimination. I hope too that Turkey will make it, a turkish victory after a greek one at the EC would really be a sign of God/Allah. ;-) About the comment, it comes from cute little book of Eyice, but unfortunately he does not explain it. Personally I found the quality of the brickwork low, typical of the decadence of the last period, but unfortunately I cannot write it on wikipedia (at least until I don't get a job at Dumbarton Oaks). :-( Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 10:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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Yet another Church
Hallo Constantine, yet another church! Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 07:16, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Good morning Constantine, and thanks for the review. Only two things. The assumption that you removed comes from Müller-Wiener. He says that the sources tells about an usage of the Imperial Palace until some years before the destruction of the church, and that it is possible that the emperors renounced to live in the Blachernae palace also because with the destruction of the church and of the relics an important reason to live there had disappeared too. Of course, with more money, they could have rebuilt the church... Another thing: in the article about the Blachernitissa, it is written that the Icon escaped the distruction of the church and was brought to the Athos. None of my sources mentions that. Do you think that this is true, or is only a legend? Many thanks, Cheers, Alex2006 (talk) 06:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Akratina and Krathiotika
Kai Patrinos, ap'oti vlepo... Akrata, sou leei tipota? Xereis tin Anna :-)?Politis (talk) 13:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, euxaristw. Pou emenes Akrata? Politis (talk) 17:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

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Andronikos Kontostephanos - Thanks
Constantine,

Thanks for the nomination. I was working on the Battle of Myriokephalon and thought it was a pity that such a prominent figure as Andronikos didn't have his own entry. Also thanks for fleshing out the references etc.

Urselius (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Persian elephants
Hi its administrator I will leave wikipeda thanks to you if you please tell me if persian war elephants artical is a good artical and pass it thank please answer on the persian war elephants page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.65.46.238 (talk) 16:10, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry from secthayrabe
I am sorry for saying those things to you and please you said you could help on making Persian war elephants a good artical thanks,please answer on my talk page.From Secthayrabe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Secthayrabe (talk • contribs) 15:34, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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Aqui Division
Thanks for the title change and the details. Division was my original choice but I thought Brigade sounded better. Your change also helped with the DYK requirements. Thanks again. Tasos (Dr.K. (talk) 23:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC))

merger of Navarch and Nauarchia
I've proposed that Navarch and Nauarchia be merged, as they seem to be about the same topic. As one of the most recent editors of one or both of the articles, please feel free to discuss the merger at Talk:Nauarchia. Thanks, Gentgeen (talk) 09:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Andronikos Kontostephanos
Hi,

I can think of at least one reason for a separate section for the civil responsibilities of the megas doux.

You and I know that Byzantine military commanders, especially aristocrats, very often had non-military responsibilities and interests: they were civil governors, sat on church councils as lay advisors, acted as judges, wrote histories etc etc. The casual reader might well not know this, and to emphasise that Andronikos Kontostephanos was not only a man of war might be advantageous.

Finding more on Andronikos' non-military life would be excellent, unfortunately while both his brothers sat on church synods etc., I don't have any record of his doing the same. I cannot even find a record of his court title.Urselius (talk) 21:19, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

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Can you urgently help Milhist please?
We've had a rather large bombshell dropped on us. The Wikipedia editorial team are aiming to release a version of Wikipedia on CD/DVD in time for the end of year holiday season. They've provided us with a list of 1333 Milhist articles they intend including.

The problem is that the quality of these articles varies considerably.

We've put together review page listing all the articles, in twenty-five article worklists. I'm hoping that 15-20 trusted editors can work through the list, weedying out problem articles and identifying suitable versions for release. The work is as far away from a tagging and assessing drive as you can imagine though, for convenience and ease of use, we've closely followed the traditional Milhist drive format.

This is, at the moment, an invitation-only review. The reason is that time is short and we can't afford too many mistakes. I'm only contacting experienced editors who performed very well indeed in the last two Milhist drives. I guess that working through a worklist of twenty-five articles will take between one and three hours to do. We're aiming to get the preliminary work done by next Sunday, so it's urgent too.

I do hope you can help but – if it's not too much trouble – if you are unable to participate at the moment, would you please let me know on my talk page? otherwise, please sign up here. Thank you for your time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 17:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

MILHIST Assessment 0.7
Please find replacement articles for the ones you suggested for replacement. Wandalstouring (talk) 11:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Goudi
Thanks for your improvements there. Question: is it worth keeping Military League as a separate article? I could go either way, but given how closely the League's history is intertwined with that of the coup, and given that we (I think) now describe it in greater detail in the coup article than in the Military League article itself, the case for a redirect seems plausible, even strong. Biruitorul Talk 17:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and I look forward to the expansion (I went right ahead with the redirect). As you may have noticed, the French have been putting out some fine articles on modern Greek history. (Indeed their Goudi article, now a GA, is itself slated for expansion in preparation for an FAC.) Révolte de Therissos seems like a good project for my next translation. There's always Histoire de la Crète (cf. our rather pitiful History of Crete), but that may take a while longer, if you know what I mean. Biruitorul Talk 19:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Roman–Parthian War of 58–63.
I have completed a GA review of Roman–Parthian War of 58–63; I placed the article "on hold" for reasons found here. Cheers! &mdash; the _ ed 17  &mdash; 19:07, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Milhist W0.7: update
Thank you very much for your help in our review of the W0.7-nominated articles, which has proved to be a very worthwhile exercise. As the number of sub-standard articles found was much higher than anticipated, the coordinators are currently considering how best to follow this up, given the project's limited resources and the short time span – under three weeks - for making improvements. The review has been a very worthwhile exercise and will lead to a major quality improvement initiative in the very near future. In the meantime, if you found any articles that you feel you could easily fix, I'd be very grateful if you invested a little time doing so. Please also feel free to nominate any articles for inclusion which you feel were overlooked. The procedure for this is here and the nominations should be made here. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)