User talk:Hawkeye7/Archive 2017

Military historian of the Year

 * Completing the Aussie trifecta with Rupert and PM -- great work, Hawkeye. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:09, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Hawkeye. Well deserved. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:32, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Seconded. Well deserved mate and happy new year! Irondome (talk) 22:42, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year Hawkeye7!


Happy New Year! Hawkeye7, Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

--Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 20:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Hawkeye7!


Happy New Year! Hawkeye7, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Request for comment/review
Hi Hawkeye7. Just letting you know I have a trifecta of M2M articles up for review: Shades of Purple is nominated for GA, M2M (band) is nominated for peer review (I intend to nominate it for GA once the peer review is closed), and The Big Room is nominated for DYK. I thought you might be interested in at least having a look at the improvements to the articles, if not commenting/reviewing one. I would be most happy to review one of your active nominations in return if you like. Have a nice day. :) Freikorp (talk) 07:24, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you for the Clinton Engineer Works, "the Manhattan Project's largest facility"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:45, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jean Tatlock
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jean Tatlock you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 凰兰时罗 -- 凰兰时罗 (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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DYK for S-50 (Manhattan Project)
 Schwede 66  00:02, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02
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Your GA nomination of S-50 (Manhattan Project)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article S-50 (Manhattan Project) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:20, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of S-50 (Manhattan Project)
The article S-50 (Manhattan Project) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:S-50 (Manhattan Project) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of S-50 (Manhattan Project)
The article S-50 (Manhattan Project) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:S-50 (Manhattan Project) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 10:41, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Salt Wells Pilot Plant
 Schwede 66  00:01, 11 January 2017 (UTC)


 * In this diff you added a sentence:
 * Lauritsen pushed for a decision, and in April it was decided to use the meting and casting method.
 * Was that supposed to be "melting and casting"? Shenme (talk) 01:16, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes. Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:33, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jean Tatlock
The article Jean Tatlock you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Jean Tatlock for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 凰兰时罗 -- 凰兰时罗 (talk) 01:21, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Hawkeye7, may I trouble you for a favor? I noticed that you are very experienced with GA nominations both on reviewing and being reviewed sides. Could you possible review my recent review of Jean Tatlock nomination? I'd like to know how my efforts conform to the "standards", and what were strong and weak points. If you feel you'll be more candid in private communication, please shoot me a short email. Thanks, 凰兰时罗 (talk) 18:47, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I think you did a good job. I had no argument with your suggestions, but in some cases I was unsure about what you wanted. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Did it become clear eventually, or you are still having black spots on some of my suggestions? 凰兰时罗 (talk) 23:09, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * First of all I would like to say that the article is better for our interaction, which is all-important. Secondly, resolving problems like giving the wrong impression, or implementing NPOV invariably require another pair of eyes, which is why I put the article up for review. Such problems are hard to spot because I know what I meant when I wrote it. On the other hand, I sometimes employ the full force of the English language to address issues without noting them explicitly or to skate over controversial points by being ambiguous. Your suggestion to add the suicide note was most welcome, but I suspect is what you were referring to by "already moved beyond GA criteria". Jean Tatlock is as good as I could get it but I don't think it will ever proceed any further. I often submit articles which have been written as featured articles (although they may be unlikely to get there due to the restrictions at FAC) and reviewers often get carried away and start reviewing as it it were a FAC. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:43, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for a more detailed explanation. I completely agree with your approach, i.e. with the benefits of a second opinion. Here is what I meant by "already moved beyond GA criteria". I believe that a reviewer should not try to impose her/his style beyond GA criteria. So, when I see an issue, I'm often tempted to fix it in a particular way that is congruent with my style. However, I remind myself that my approach is no panacea, and the article's editor(s) can do the fixing in a way they are most comfortable with. In essence, by writing this phrase I was stopping myself from being too prescriptive. BTW I would apply this same logic to FA criteria. I think that there are infinitely many ways to write a featured article which will (a) satisfy all the criteria (b) will be enjoyed by the readers (c) will make the editor(s) and wiki-community proud. So, from my standpoint, a good GA/FA reviewer knows how to separate what objectively needs to be done from what he/she would do to achieve that. 凰兰时罗 (talk) 05:24, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Template:Round8
The current template is somewhat screwed up. One of the lines contains a break, which ruins the aesthetics of the bracket. See here. It's specifically on that third semi finalist entry spot. Any thoughts? - J man708 (talk) 03:10, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It works fine for me but I have a 3rdplace=yes card. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I've adjusted your article (yes, I know) Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm so confused at what caused that! - J man708 (talk) 04:21, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Email
Hi Hawkeye7, I sent you an email.  Go  Phightins  !  04:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Page mover
Would you like the page mover user right? I noticed your comment at ORCP that you'd prefer not to fiddle with redirects when moving pages, and that user right helps in many of those situations. You obviously qualify. ~ Rob 13 Talk 22:36, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes! I feel embarassed. I wasn't aware of this. I remember voting for it, but hadn't noticed that it had been created. It would have come in handy this morning. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:17, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for SS Broompark (1939)
 Schwede 66  00:01, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Bug report
Thx for the bot, it's very helpful. See WT:TFA (not the part about Jan 4, the rest of it). I initially thought this wouldn't be an issue because it would be infrequent and I could fix it by hand ... and I can, but it's happening more often than I remembered that part of a title is italicized and part isn't, and I keep forgetting to do it. If this is going to be a pain, don't worry about it. - Dank (push to talk) 13:18, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

S-50
Thanks for the note about S-50 (Manhattan Project). Nice work! --Orlady (talk) 15:20, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Pioneer Cabin Tree
Were back and a full review is needed. Thank you. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 17:24, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John Clive Ward
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John Clive Ward you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 03:40, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017
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Your Rio Photo
Just wanted to drop a quick note, great photo of you from Rio but if you attend a future major games event please don't post a photo that includes your accreditation/credentials. SportsMedGuy (talk) 19:02, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Mary Jackson
Hi! I saw your edit to Mary Jackson (engineer), and was just curious what your change accomplished. The edit summary says "rm annoying error messages," but I wasn't seeing errors on the previous version. I looked at the documentation of citation and still have no idea what  does. GorillaWarfare (talk) 07:10, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The error messages I got looked like warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFCzarneckiJackson1958. By default the citation template creates an anchor equivalent to that created by when you are using cite journal or cite book. But with them  (ie do not create an anchor) is the default. The anchors are normally used with references; the harvnb and sfn templates create nice links to them. So that when you click on the link in an inline reference, it takes you down to the book in the references section and highlights the book. You don't need them in a list of publications, because there are no inline references to them. (Note that I didn't add one to the journal citation, because it didn't need it.) The  form is in the documentation of citation: see Template:Citation.
 * As to why I can see the error message and you can't, the reason is that I seem to have a Javascript that runs a JQuery to spot these errors called User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js It's been in User:Hawkeye7/common.js since 13 November 2011; I guess I had forgotten all about it. It normally warns me that a reference is wrong. I should have marked the change as "minor", since it is invisible to the readers. My apologies for that.
 * Great job on the article! Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:28, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * (Belated) thanks for the explanation! I'll have to look into that script... Thanks for the DYK review also! GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:29, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for John Challens
 Schwede 66  00:01, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04
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Herb Chen
Hey H., Noting your interest in physics biographies, I wonder if you might have a quick look at some point at the article I have been working on the past month:  Herbert H. Chen. There are still some missing pieces (I have an inquiry in on Chen's dissertation title), but mostly I am sometimes foggy on some of the technicalities of Wikipedia articles. The Chen article is a little challenging - I knew him and by all accounts he was a brilliant and accomplished physicist; but he was struck down by leukemia at age 45 - hence did not become as notable as he might have. Cheers and thanks for all of your hard work on articles! Bdushaw (talk) 12:11, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The main thing is that everything needs to be referenced. I have added his doctoral thesis. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:58, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Jean Tatlock
Hello! Your submission of Jean Tatlock at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Andrew D. (talk) 18:31, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John Clive Ward
The article John Clive Ward you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:John Clive Ward for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 02:21, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

A belated welcome!
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Feynman
My only remaining question is about that photo with the Swedish PD tag, but it's not a show stopper so I'll ask it here. Given the response by the other person who said it can go to Commons, do you now agree or disagree with him? ie, should it go to Commons or not? HalfGig  talk  20:42, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The image is definitely in the PD. Copyright expired in Sweden, therefore also in the US. But I went through this with James Chadwick. In that case, another (but slightly different) photograph of Chadwick was taken at the same session, but it was published in the UK, and therefore was not in the PD. We had a debate on Commons and the image was kept. Then one of their cowboy admins just deleted it anyway. So the rule is: don't move images to Commons if don't have to. If we do have to, we can substitute the OTRS image (the one in the Physics section) that everyone else uses, but I'd rather not.
 * It's two other images that are problematic; the one of the CalTech bookstore and the Feynman Lectures on Physics. They are on Commons, so all we can do is remove them from the article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:56, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm no super image license expert, but I'd lean to keeping those two in the article.   HalfGig   talk  21:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for James N. Post III
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:41, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Carl Linnaeus
I read an article on the web that said this is the most viewed article on wiki, or at least most viewed bio. It's also a Top level article at WP:Plants. I was wondering what you think it'd take to get it to FA. Or as an alternative, who you'd think would be good to take a quick look at it. And congrats on getting Feynman to FA! HalfGig  talk  15:45, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Request
This past July you reviewed and promoted the article on SPARS to a GA. Its talk page indicates this, but the article page does not. Might you consider fixing this apparent ommssion? Thank you. Pendright (talk) 00:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * A Bot is supposed to do that but did not for some reason. I've done it manually. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:50, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

CSS styling in templates
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Tech News: 2017-06
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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017
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Your GA nomination of High Explosive Research
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Your GA nomination of High Explosive Research
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DYK for David Hawkins (philosopher)
<small style="color:#999;white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:lightgrey 0.3em 0.3em 0.15em;">&mdash; <big style="color:#ffa439">Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 12:01, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for John Clive Ward
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07
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DYK for Jean Tatlock
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:01, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK for High Explosive Research
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:01, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Can you help me at FAC?
King Kalākaua's world tour has stalled after two supports and a couple of pretty hefty reviews. Can you add anything to the review? Either way, thanks. — Maile (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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Niels Bohr
Hi, the additional citation that I added in the article Niels Bohr about the invitation by Lord Cherwell was reversed by you. The reason given was that it's already covered by existing link. Can you please let me know that existing link, because I could not find it? Thanks for your information.--老陳 (talk) 22:17, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The sentence was sourced to Thirsk (2006), p. 374. You are claiming that you checked that book and it did not cover the sentence? I don't have a copy on hand, so I'll have to take your word for it. I did check Powers, and the claim is supported on p. 237. Looking back through the change history, I have restored the original source, which is Jones (1985). p. 280. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:45, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply! Those 2 books do not have Google previews and Amazon look-insides.  The source that I added has Google preview.  It would do reader a service if that source can be included also.--老陳 (talk) 06:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Hurricane
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DYK nomination of Operation Hurricane
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March Madness 2017
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
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GA on Hurricane
Congrats, Hawkeye. Well done. SkoreKeep (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and I suppose that column sort on Hurricane was somewhat superfluous. Thanks for that, too. SkoreKeep (talk) 23:43, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09
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Closure of Lead FAC!
G'day Hawkeye7, I think my ping to you, here, may not have registered. Thank you. Sandbh (talk) 01:55, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Now that's Lead FAC is over, problems raised remain?
Hi, Hawkeye. I would want to clarify a few points regarding your comments on the FAC page so we can make sure we'll get it there the second time.

First, you have listed a number of paragraphs we needed to "find citations for." Most of those paragraphs had some---that noted---citations at that point. I assumed there could be particular claims that were sort of asking for a source to refer to, and I checked around a half of them (maybe more) and couldn't find it. I assumed then I wouldn't act unless you explain me what must be done. I suggested it then---and I am suggesting it now---that you list the claims needing citations or add cn tags. May I ask you to do so?

Then, to quote the subsequent WT:FAC talk, "I also wanted to see locations for the books, publishers for the web sites and - although I'm willing to yield on this point - ISSNs for the journals." I genuinely don't understand a few points here. First, locations? They could be helpful when there are multiple publishers sharing the same name and there's some bibliographical tradition to include them. On the opposite side, we have the amount of work needed to put those in and my personal feeling that this is superfluous information. This, surely enough, would matter nothing if I had to put them in---there was a requirement or something---but to my knowledge, there isn't. And unless there is (please tell me if this is the case), this is a "what I like and what I don't" thing that you surely could agree are not things to influence the process of a FAC. (You did not reply to my original response, and I assumed this review this one of those partial reviews that were not aimed at supporting but only raising some prerequisite points. I was unpleasantly surprised that you in fact were watching the progress but stayed away from replying and then this "unresolved" issue came up at the WT:FAC talk as if it was something we had to do but didn't.) So please clarify why this is a requirement to comply with (aside from "a reviewer wanted it," as I see nothing more at the moment).

Then, publishers for the web sites. I see you're probably referring to this comment: "FN 64, 164 publisher?" If that is the case, then I satisfied your call for no. 164. This leaves one. I specified that according to Template:Cite web, I should not have provided a publisher for no. 64 (though I have reviewed my stance on this one since, so we must be good on this now. Are we?).

And then, the ISSNs. Again, why is this a requirement aside from personal preferences? As for me, I am reluctant to spend time on this one unless I have to---I don't see the point: hardly anyone wouldn't be satisfied with a DOI and, in general, I don't want that to be TMI. One such code helps uniquely define an article.--R8R (talk) 10:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * It doesn't matter at all that the paragraphs have some references. Nobody cares about that. Everything has to be cited. Every last thing. This is a sine qua non. And the refusal to do so is an immediate failure at FAC or GAC. We didn't proceed with the next step of verifying the claims cited against the sources.
 * You're sort of missing the point. I have nothing to reply to this with but with what I've already written. Let me repeat myself, "I assumed there could be particular claims that were sort of asking for a source to refer to, and I checked around a half of them (maybe more) and couldn't find it. I assumed then I wouldn't act unless you explain me what must be done. I suggested it then---and I am suggesting it now---that you list the claims needing citations or add cn tags." Just saying generic "everything" does not help in a particular case.
 * Added. But I provided a like of paragraphs with unreferenced claims. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's a quote from WP:FAC: "Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed [bold in the source]". That is what I am asking for. What claims do we need references for?--R8R (talk) 13:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. That was what I was looking for.--R8R (talk) 13:13, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * The claim that according to Template:Cite web you don't have to provide a publisher for web sites is utterly wrong. It isn't what it says at all! All web site citations require a publisher. As with the above, it either gets fixed, or the article will not pass FAC.
 * I was referring to this particular quote: "Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, website)." Nevertheless, I did specify what you wanted here was done. Why are you still threatening with not passing FAC?--R8R (talk) 13:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm only reviewing. It's up to the delegate to pass it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * It is traditional to provide locations for books. It is the normal citation style. The reason is that when the book is looked up manually, the location is required. Nowadays, the ISBN can be used to look up a book, so it is redundant. It is still the style to provide it anyway.
 * I don't see how "the style" is anything more than a personal liking. There is no particular style we have to follow here in Wikipedia as far as I know.--R8R (talk) 13:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but to look up a book you need either location-publisher-year or isbn. But not all books have isbns. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)


 * DOIs aren't much use really, but the ISSN is just a preference, like alt text, so I was willing to waive it. It is required by other language Wikipedias and is used when we translate the article.
 * Okay, noted. Won't act now but will have in mind in future.--R8R (talk) 13:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

It is good we've framed the amount of work to be done clearly. Thank you.--R8R (talk) 21:22, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
 * 🇪🇺 Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
 * 🇯🇵 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
 * Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Fair Use in Australia discussion
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Your GA nomination of Leon W. Johnson
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John Glenn article
John Glenn's article has passed GA; do you think it is ready for an A-class review, or does it need significant changes beforehand? Kees08 (talk) 21:16, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Project E
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Years of birth and death of N. Bohr's wife/widow
You undid (Niels Bohr 769071112) an edit by me where I added years for the wife/widow. What style would be more appropriate for this information? An individual who is not notable enough to have her own article? Should it be in the infobox at the beginning of the article? /JeppeSN (talk) 13:01, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

S-1 Executive Committee and the Manhattan project
There was no confusion with the Manhattan District. Mark Oliphant flew to the USA in August 1941. The US project was called The S-1 Executive Committee. This mission caused the S-1 Committee to take seriously the concept of a practical atomic bomb in December 1941. James Marshall chose 240 Broadway in Manhattan in June 1942 to be close to one of the main contractors. The names 'Manhattan District' or 'Manhattan Project' did not exist until then. Ref Pulitzer Prize Winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It is impossible that a project that did not yet exist could be expanded. This logic is irrefutable. Please restore my edit. JMcC (talk) 09:32, 9 March 2017 (UTC).
 * That's right. The Manhattan Project was codenamed S-1. The Army formed the Manhattan District in August 1942, named, as you note, after where it was located (as did all the engineer districts). The project continued to be codenamed S-1, but gradually the name "Manhattan Project" came to be applied to it, but even in 1945 you can still see documents referring to "S-1". The Manhattan Project came to an end on 31 December 1946, and its functions were assumed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. The Manhattan District continued until 15 August 1947, when it was inactivated. The director of the Manhattan Project was Leslie Groves; the commander of the Manhattan District was Kenneth Nichols. The article is very carefully written to not confuse the Manhattan Project with the Manhattan District. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:51, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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FAC William Pūnohu White
Hello, I don't know if you came across Featured article candidates/William Pūnohu White/archive1. It was closed today because of no traffic and only 1 review after a month. The quality of the article is FAC material in my opinion. I did not ask anybody (except two users) in the initial run to review it since I was trusting that it will receive reviews. Now I am asking a couple of people here and there to see if there is enough interest to renominate it again as recommended by the closing admin. I will only go ahead and renominate it once I find a few people who wants to give it a review. Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks either way.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:37, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I know what it's like. Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was closed for lack of reviews twice. I'll give it a review next time it comes up, although it's outside my area of expertise. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:01, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. Here is the second nomination Featured article candidates/William Pūnohu White/archive2. Look at it when you can. Thank you.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Do you have a fiat from the co-ordinator? You usually cannot re-nominate for two weeks after closure. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:33, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, the closing admin Sarastro1 said "I've no problem if you want to renominate at once" on their talk page.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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FACbot
Out of mild curiosity, is there any reason why the bot did not today run on the recently promoted/archived FAC pages? I only ask because I usually get pinged when it runs, and I just realised that I wasn't pinged! Sarastro1 (talk) 00:14, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
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DYK for Operation Hurricane
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DYK for Project E
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DYK nomination of 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash
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DYK for Robert Lyste Thornton
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Another FACbot query
Just noticed in passing that this was never closed by FACbot. Not sure if it was something that I did, or just a glitch, but I thought I'd mention it as the article was renominated so there are technically two nominations open at once which might cause a meltdown somewhere. Sarastro1 (talk) 15:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The nomination was closed and then reopened on the same day, before the FACBot could deal with it. I have closed it by hand. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

John Glenn A-class
Hey there. Would you have time to give me guidance or perhaps even conominate the John Glenn article with me? There are some answers that seem basic that I do not know (like should NASA's website be cited as website=NASA, and therefore italicized). Let me know, I would appreciate it if you did. Thanks either way! Kees08 (talk) 21:06, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Alright. I'll have to do a pass through it and adjust the references. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:35, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That would be great. If you just let me know which path is the right path forward to take, I can take a stab at fixing the refs more too. Kees08 (talk) 04:27, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I've done one pass through it. I'll do another tomorrow. In answer to your question: NASA is a publisher, not a website. The main problem, though, is inconsistency, with "publisher", "website", "work" and a couple of other being used for the same thing. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:41, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
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St Vincent-class battleship ACR
I've responded to your comments at WikiProject Military history/Assessment/St Vincent-class battleship a while ago, but I suspect that you've forgotten about them.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:55, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash
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DYK for Robert F. Travis
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Manhattan
G'day mate. I'm watching Manhattan (TV series) and thought of you. don't know if you've seen it? All the best, HJ Mitchell  &#124; <span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts?  19:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I watched it. Almost of the characters are fictional (with odd takes on Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Tatlock and Kitty Oppenheimer), but the sets and costumes are very authentic, and the issues are quite real. In their misfit status the team in the series does resemble Seth Neddermeyer's implosion group, but it even more closely resembles Edward Teller's Super group. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:42, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm quite enjoying it. It's entertaining but doesn't need so much attention that I can't dip in and out. I've been cross-referencing details with your articles! They do a good job of showing the strains of living under that sort of secrecy and the toll it took on family life. They also seem to be having a lot of sex (well, what else is there to do in the desert in the middle of a war!) and I'm not sure if that's a vital plot point or just a Game of Thrones-style cutaway to keep the viewer interested! HJ Mitchell  &#124; <span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts?  15:31, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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WIR-YOS
? Diff please to previous warning, as I've no idea what you're talking about. According to this, we've never even intersected on an article talk page and the only diff of yours on my talk page is unrelated. The article is listed at WP:WIRYOS, in the list of improved/created articles. I added the template created to add to those articles. In this case it appears to have been added because an image was restored and added to the article as part of the event. &mdash; <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"> Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk  \\ 22:03, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The article was created in June 2003, and I improved it to GA status in June 2015. I complained to Rosiestep about the attribution of articles that I have worked on in Esino Lario in 2016. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:10, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you mistook my username for Rosie's (re: warning), or assume that we talked about your [presumably offline] conversation in Esino Lario? Regardless, the template says "This article was created or improved as part of...", similar to all the other WiR tags, education program assignments, edit-a-thons like Art+Feminism, etc. The bar is low to add such banners, and I don't think anybody reads them as necessarily meaning "the lion's share of work done to this article was done via this event" (and, of course, the vast majority of non-Wikipedians never see it).
 * If you would like there to be a higher bar to add it, or perhaps template parameters which allow whoever adds it to specify the sort of work done (e.g. "One or more images were added to this article as part of..."), that's a very sensible discussion to have, and I'd probably support some version of it. "Credit" on Wikipedia is obviously fraught and all kinds of sensitive (as an aside, I keep meaning to write an essay born of frustration with people creating articles when a draft with the same name of similar quality already exists), but I don't think it makes sense to use it on the talk page of every article edited as part of an event ... unless a major contributor to the page thinks it takes away from their own contribution. Granted, it's probably a gray area, since I don't know that there's ever been any linkable form of consensus that these should be added everywhere. Thoughts? (to be clear, I'm not so much arguing this particular article -- and don't intend to restore it there -- as much as general principle). &mdash; <span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"> Rhododendrites <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk  \\ 22:32, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Each project is free to tag whatever articles it chooses as part of its project, so go ahead if you want to. And yes, it has been taken as meaning "the lion's share of work done to this article was done via this event" in the mainstream media. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:15, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Milhistbot
G'day Hawkeye, I think Milhistbot didn't pick up that Kragujevac massacre was a joint nom at ACR. It seems to have credited 23 editor but not me. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:36, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Tech News: 2017-15
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 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
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Battle of Madang
G'day Hawkeye7, as we look to wrap up the Huon Peninsula articles, is there anything that you would like to add about that campaign to the Battle of Madang? AustralianRupert (talk) 05:45, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't have my books at the moment, so I can't do anything myself until I return in May. The Madang article is a little incoherernt in parts "which had been secured by US and Australian forces in January – February 1944 by troops assigned to the Huon Peninsula campaign". Furthermore:

Regards Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:54, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The main problem here is that the key point - that Madang was secured by forces moving along the coast in boats of the 532nd EBSR is obscured
 * The Japanese were not withdrawing from Saidor, but from the Finschhafen area past Saidor
 * Where were the Japanese withdrawing to? From memory, it was the Sepik
 * The article should state when Madang was occupied, as this was far from obvious too
 * G'day, Hawkeye, thanks for these points. I have tried to adjust the article to deal with these points now. Thank you for your time. Regards, 08:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * G'day again, Hawkeye, as I am now on Christmas leave, I am looking to do a bit more content work. I was thinking of putting this one up for GA. Would you mind taking a look to see if there is anything else you feel should be covered? Thanks for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 02:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of John Gellibrand
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Tech News: 2017-16
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Recent changes
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X-10 Graphite Reactor
I was at a bit of a loss where to put this in the FA list; I went for history, but if you want it moving somewhere else, let me know. Sarastro1 (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17
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Recent changes
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 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
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Changes this week
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 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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DYK for John Gellibrand
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Harold Edward Elliott
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And another FACbot query
For some reason, the bot never ran on Featured article candidates/Philippine Competition Commission/archive1, which was archived a few days ago. Thanks, Sarastro1 (talk) 21:22, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm away at the moment, so it will take a few days. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:55, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18
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Archived FAC
Hi -- just doing some stats analysis on April FACs, and I found this, which doesn't seem to have been processed. Looks like the FAC is not linked on the article talk page -- is that why? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:13, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The problem is that it was removed from the FAC category with this edit. I restored it to the category, and the Bot has processed it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:47, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * This is also unprocessed, though the FAC is linked on the talk page. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:16, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I will investigate. I can't tell what is going on without checking the logs, and I can't do that until I return home. (I may get the Bot to put them in the drop box in future so I can read them remotely.) The Bot sends me error reports with logs when it has a problem, but it has not detected one. I will have to get back to you in a few days. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Now that I can see the log, the Bot says: "WARNING: FAC closed but Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Philippine Competition Commission/archive1 has NOT been moved to the archive page". This is true; I have made this change, and it was processed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:38, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * OK; if I see more untranscludede archives I'll look for those issues before checking with you. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 09:53, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Bismuth phosphate process
Mifter (talk) 05:48, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Harold Edward Elliott
Mifter (talk) 05:34, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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Tech News: 2017-19
<section begin="technews-2017-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on  in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off   in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
 * There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.

Changes this week
 * When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say  and   instead of   and  . This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If  is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use   in a template:  . This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis.

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Edit summary
Can you please explain this edit summary:. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:05, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20
<section begin="technews-2017-W20"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid.
 * The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.

Problems
 * The  library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding   as the first line in the file and   as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue.

Changes this week
 * The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If   is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use   for transclusions and   in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix.

Older unreported changes
 * Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word  to your Meta user page to stop this.

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Your GA nomination of Landing at Saidor
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Landing at Saidor you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 06:40, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Landing at Saidor
The article Landing at Saidor you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Landing at Saidor for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 00:02, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21
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Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a  tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this.

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Thank you
Thank you for your follow up question on my RFA. It made me look at the situation in a different light and think about aspects of it I missed the first time. There might still be layers there that I'm missing.~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 12:37, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * You still have my support vote. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:15, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

FAC bot
Have you considered expanding the capability of FAC bot to include GAN? From what has been discussed on the talk page, the current GA bot is not really maintained and the owner does not want to, and your bot already interfaces with GAs already. Just a thought. Cheers.  Kees08  (Talk)   01:15, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It wasn't contemplated, because there was already a Bot that does GA work. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22
<section begin="technews-2017-W22"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta.

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Op-Ed?
I was looking through the World War I timeline page for inspiration for this month's Bugle op-ed piece and found the Battle of Messines (1917) and the introduction of the Gotha G.IV to be interesting enough for an op-ed; however, the more I read about the Battle of Messines the more I encountered Australian units. I recall that earlier you had written a particularly fine piece concerning the Australians on the Somme, so I thought I would drop you a line and see if you wanted to take this month's op-ed and discuss the Australians at the Battle of Messines. If not, then I will take up the Gotha G. IV and run with it for our June op-ed. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:05, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'll write one on Messines for you. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:08, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't forget that there are still two book reviews at User:Hawkeye7/Book Reviews. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:58, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Oops I'd missed them - posted, and thanks again. It's good to see the papers from the Kokoda conference published - I attended it, and the standard was very high. Nick-D (talk) 02:02, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, you can find the Op-Ed at User:Hawkeye7/Sandbox5. Suggest moving it to the required location without redirect. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Hawkeye, many thanks for the op-ed and book reviews. In the latter, on the Kokoda book, was wondering if it might be worth clarifying just how "The consensus of historians has swung behind Generals Douglas MacArthur and Thomas Blamey" -- I have to admit some ignorance on this point and our readers might be in the same boat... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:38, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British hydrogen bomb programme
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article British hydrogen bomb programme you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:41, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23
<section begin="technews-2017-W23"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
 * When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
 * You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
 * New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences.
 * You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
 * When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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Your GA nomination of British hydrogen bomb programme
The article British hydrogen bomb programme you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British hydrogen bomb programme for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:21, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:52, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 June 2017
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your copyediting help at The Plot to Hack America !
Thank you for your copyediting help at The Plot to Hack America ! Sagecandor (talk) 23:36, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Strategy
As you were at the Melbourne meetup - and have probably fed back into the system in more than one way or other regarding the strategy - is there anything you would like to add in any way to the Australian conversation in reletion to the Cycle 2 stage - either on wiki or off? I do think your contribution is important due to your profile amongst the milhist community, and the foot in either community would be an interesting perspective - I am trying up my report in the next day or so - so I am not asking for an essay - any words in relation to what Katherine was talking about - or anything that you think is important relative to strategy, I would be interested to hear about - thanks JarrahTree 01:38, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24
<section begin="technews-2017-W24"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
 * When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
 * Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding  to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete.

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Today's featured article/July 29, 2017
Hi Hawkeye, how's it going? Isidor Isaac Rabi has been scheduled for the above date as Today's Featured Article. I'd appreciate it if you could check the article one more time to make sure it's up-to-date. You can edit the text that will appear on the Main Page if you like; I'll be trimming it to around 1100 characters. Thanks! - Dank (push to talk) 00:45, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed it down to the usual character count. Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:30, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Leslie H. Martin
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Leslie H. Martin you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:40, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Leslie H. Martin
The article Leslie H. Martin you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Leslie H. Martin for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:20, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Leslie H. Martin
The article Leslie H. Martin you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Leslie H. Martin for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25
<section begin="technews-2017-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Problems
 * ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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DYK for British hydrogen bomb programme
IronGargoyle (talk)) 05:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 June 2017
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Tech News: 2017-26
<section begin="technews-2017-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The <inputbox> has a new  parameter. You can add values like  . It will add that to the user's search query.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
 * Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC.

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DYK for Alfred Starbird
Gatoclass (talk) 00:04, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27
<section begin="technews-2017-W27"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue.

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Precious five years!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:35, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Has it been that long? Gosh. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:53, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes ;) - Thank you for Project Y for TFA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:00, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ... and for Isidor Isaac Rabi on his birthday! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ... today for Chicago Pile-1 of which you said: "I find it fascinating that you can pile rocks in a heap, and strange and wonderful things happen. Based on the science of neutrons, whose existence was demonstrated just ten years before, and which cannot be seen, only inferred."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Have a Merry Christmas Gerda.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  08:06, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 07:34, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Landing on Long Island
Alex ShihTalk 12:03, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28
<section begin="technews-2017-W28"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
 * We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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DYK for Richard H. Carmichael
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 July 2017
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Tech News: 2017-29
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 * "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services.

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not sure
whether you take it any particular way - close to a doppelganger there   JarrahTree 10:47, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30
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 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.

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DYK for Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign
Alex ShihTalk 00:02, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Moses
Alex ShihTalk 12:02, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Martin F. Scanlon
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Quote at end of Oppenheimer article
This may seem like a bizarrely late comment, but I was just looking at the J. Robert Oppenheimer article, and I wanted to thank you for adding the Bhagavad Gita quote at the very end of the article on 27 February 2011. The quote provides the perfect conclusion to the article and helps give it the literary distinction which Wikipedia articles are often accused of lacking. Gildir (talk) 03:40, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Never too late. Thank you!  Hawkeye7   (talk)  06:10, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31
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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 13:38, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32
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 * You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized.
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 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like  instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
 * Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.

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Milhistbot
G'day Hawkeye. Ian Rose passed Talk:Bill McCann at ACR earlier today, but Milhistbot doesn't seem to have run as yet. He also passed a couple of others at the same time, and Milhistbot doesn't seem to have run for them either. Am I being impatient or is there a glitch? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:58, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Not sure. I may have been holding it up with some work I was doing here. It has run okay. I will keep an eye on it.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  06:10, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33
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 * Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.

Problems
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Base development information
G'day, Hawkeye, hope you are well. Recently, I've done a some work on a couple of articles: Battle of Cape Gloucester and Land Battle of Vella Lavella. I wonder if you have any more information on base development (or any other aspect), that you might be keen on adding to either article? Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:56, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can add a section to each article. Give me a few days.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  06:16, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:52, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I have added sections on base development to both articles.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  08:24, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Hawkeye. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:07, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * G'day, again, I've expanded a couple more that could do with the Hawkeye touch if you are keen: Battle of the Green Islands and Battle of the Treasury Islands. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:51, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I have added a couple of paragraphs on base development to each article.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  04:57, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * G'day, Hawkeye, as part of my own island hopping campaign, I've finished working on the Landings at Cape Torokina article for the timebeing. If you get a chance, would you mind taking a look and adding the base development information as per before? I will move on to the battles of the perimeter shortly, with a view to finally rounding out the Bougainville campaign articles but it will probably take me until the end of the year at the my present rate of effort. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:43, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * G'day again, Hawk, sorry to bother you with this one again, but I wasn't sure if you've seen this or not. Would you be keen to add something to the Landings at Cape Torokina article? Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 00:01, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I missed it. I will have a look.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:43, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:10, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Shepards Grove
Happy to assist and recreate as a skeleton any pages that have to be deleted for copyvio purposes in the future. Deletion and recreation is much easier than rev-del'ing up to hundreds of revisions. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 06:21, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I've just deleted Hahn Air Base for the same reason. I'll wait a day and recreate a skeleton article. Buckshot06 (talk) 01:18, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that is a good way to do it.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  03:16, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34
<section begin="technews-2017-W34"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon.
 * Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
 * If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
 * The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
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 * The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

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DYK nomination of Project Emily
Hello! Your submission of Project Emily at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Dl2000 (talk) 00:35, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Project Emily
Hi Hawkeye7, 3 poss tweaks Best regards, JennyOz (talk) 10:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) ) "Implicit in Wilson's to develop..." - missing word?
 * "decision" Added.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  14:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) ) "Its first Thor missile arrived at RAF Lakenheath on a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II transport aircraft on 19 September, and was delivered to RAF Feltwell on 19 September." - same day?
 * The first date should be 29 August. Corrected.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  14:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) ) "McNamara's decision Skybolt..." - something missing?
 * "to cancel". Adfded.   Hawkeye7   (talk)  14:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Much appreciated.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  14:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for John William Alexander O'Brien
Alex ShihTalk 00:02, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Mervyn Brogan
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Grapple
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Operation Grapple you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:00, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35
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Recent changes
 * Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror.
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 * New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
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Your GA nomination of Operation Grapple
The article Operation Grapple you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Operation Grapple for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 00:20, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Operation Grapple
The article Operation Grapple you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Operation Grapple for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 02:41, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

I broke FACBot's featured content announcements
I changed Template:Announcements/New featured content to a tableless layout. Since I didn't touch the  lists, I didn't think I'd mess up FACBot. So this diff is my fault, sorry. I've added newlines after each list, like it was before &mdash; diff. I hope that fixes it. If not, I'll revert my changes. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 05:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I thought it would be okay too. But I'm kind of lazy, which is why I use Bots. Your proposed fix should be okay. The Bot looks for the "Articles (15, most recent first)" line. It obtains the number to keep from that line. It adds the new entry, and then counts the lines from there. So ones beyond 15 are omitted. (This allows you to change the number of entries.) It assumes it has reached the end of the section when it reaches a blank line or the "Topics (15, most recent first)" line. I have just now told it to respond to your card as well. So you shouldn't need the blank lines.   Hawkeye7   (talk)  05:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Looking good now &mdash; diff. Thanks! Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 00:28, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Ngo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia
Hi Hawkeye, this FA article is currently proposed to be included in On This Day on main page tomorrow, 2 Sept. In the last section, Aftermath, it has "Edwards and his deputy Jim Cairns led large anti-war protests." It looks to me like edits done 19 June 2011 made it read as if referring to the previously mentioned "Peter Edwards, a military historian at the Australian War Memorial". Can you please have a look at/reword it? JennyOz (talk) 06:16, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It was referring to him. Originally it said " In 1970, Labor leader Gough Whitlam posed with the Vietcong flag, and his deputy Jim Cairns led large anti-war protests. " The first clause is untrue, misrepresenting the source, and then poor edits trying to correct this mistake mixed up the footnote with the text. I remember Jim Cairns. When I was at Monash Uni in the 1990s he used to show up on Fridays and sell books. But he was not Peter Edwards' deputy. I can only imagine the look on Peter Edward's face if he read this! Anyway, I have corrected it, and made some minor changes.  Hawkeye7   (talk)  07:15, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for so promptly fixing the nonsensical bit and for the extra changes. JennyOz (talk) 09:40, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36
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The Signpost: 6 September 2017
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DYK for Wilfrid Oulton
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:33, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Bugle article
"In the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, General Sir Hubert Gough attempts to break through the German defensive positions, and then push forward. The planned advance is still a limited one, the final objective about 5,000 yards (4,600 m) distant."

No, no a thousand times no! The green line was the objective, 3,500 yds distant at most. An extra (red) line was added to mark the limit of possible exploitations by fresh troops, where German resistance had collapsed or ground was undefended. The red line was not the objective. Troops who advanced beyond the range of their divisional artillery according to this scheme, were to be protected by medium and heavy artillery instead. It was a break-in not a breakthrough attempt. See the Pilckem article for the details. ;O)Keith-264 (talk) 10:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I can't comment on the distance question but I will have to take responsibility for changing Hawkeye's original "break into" to "break through", simply because the original sounded like a burglary attempt to my ignorant ears...! I've since reverted the wording to "break into". Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:51, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * That term seems to have as many definitions as people who use it, which causes endless confusion. There's no doubt that the plan was for several bite and hold attacks but the truth of the matter is buried by decades of derivative garbage following Lloyd George et al. See History of the Great War 1917 Part II, not that I'm bitter mind. ;O)Keith-264 (talk) 12:49, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right. Corrected the article. The use of the medium artillery (the 60-pounders and 6-inch howitzers) was a Gough touch. During the advance to the Hindenburg Line it had been found that they could displace as fast as the field artillery.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:51, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh that's a good point, I'll work it into the article. Regards and thanks. ;O)Keith-264 (talk) 21:07, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Frederick Brundrett
Hello! Your submission of Frederick Brundrett at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! &mdash; Vensatry (talk) 12:24, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37
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Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

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Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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Non-diffusing subcats
Re: Category:American women mathematicians please read the language of WP:GHETTO and non-diffusing, particularly [emphasis added] "It includes mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent." Someone in Category:American women mathematicians must also be in either Category:American mathematicians (the parent) or another subcategory of Category:American mathematicians (i.e. in the case of Nancy Farley Wood, Category:20th-century American mathematicians and Category:Mathematicians from Illinois and Category:Mathematicians from Missouri.) Since Category:American mathematicians is otherwise diffused by century and state (in addition to sub-field of study, such as Category:American geodesists), it is not necessary for the parent category to house any articles and can instead be fully diffused using at least two schemes. Please ping me if you respond here. Thanks. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * We've been through this before. Category:American mathematicians is a marked as a non-diffusing category of Category:American mathematicians. All the articles in it must also be in the parent category. Any attempt to move them into an ghetto will be regarded as misogyny, and I will have to report you to ANI.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:00, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Did you read anything I wrote above? First off, Category:American mathematicians is not marked as non-diffusing of itself. Secondly, if you look at Category:American women mathematicians and also look at WP:GHETTO, you will see that biographies can be in a different scheme to diffuse the parent. Which this one is. Do you understand the language of the template itself? Why is it you think that Category:American mathematicians cannot be fully diffused by century, state, or some other scheme aside from gender? ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:13, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Alternately, let me put it this way: If you were to post to WP:ANI, what would you write? If you tell me your thought process, I may be able to address your concerns. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:28, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This seems to defeat the whole point of marking the category as non-diffusing. We came under severe criticism for this sort of categorisation, which was portrayed  in the mainstream media as proof that Wikipedia is misogynist, threatening my ability to contribute. Categorisation by state seems arbitrary and reduces the value of the categorisation. Confronts anyone looking at the category with precisely the view we wanted to avoid. Most states have only one person in them. Physicists are not categorised this way. Looking at Richard Hamming, I note that he is not categorised this way.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:46, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * They only have one because I am making it now. They will be more full soon. I think the criticism was that women were somehow segregated away and men were seen as normative in the parent category. (I don't agree with the assessment but still, that was the problem.) Subcategorizing by field/genre, century, or state provides a way to keep the parent category empty in the first place, which is precisely what will resolve the complaint. Some categories (e.g. Category:American mimes) are too small to need any diffusion but if there is a diffusion by men/women, there can be one by some other scheme as well. Again, I'm sorry if you misunderstood but please look at the actual text of the tag: subdividing by another scheme is entirely consistent with a category being non-diffusing and is exactly what WP:GHETTO calls for. Finally, as an aside, a category like "Category:Mathematicians from Ohio" also serves to diffuse up a larger hierarchy like Category:Scientists from Ohio → Category:Academics from Ohio → Category:People from Ohio. We don't need it so granular as Category:Geometers from Ohio but having it as broad as Category:People from Ohio would make for unnavigable categories. So a triple intersection of nationality, occupation, and location is very useful for subdividing all three of those parent schemes. Does that make sense? Are we on the same page? If there's something I'm missing, please let me know. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:22, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * We're on the same page.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  23:02, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Carry on then. Sigh.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  01:30, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks man. Cooler heads prevailed. Onwards and upwards. Etc. I'm glad that we could discuss it. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:59, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail
Whiteghost.ink (talk) 03:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Naval Air Station Albany
I've just deleted this page, which was the former Turner Air Force Base, as a likely copyvio (Bwmoll3), unfortunate as it is. Happy to recreate a skeleton on request. Buckshot06 (talk) 05:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming book on Operation Grapple
Hi, Have you seen that the ANU Press will release a book on Operation Grapple later this year? (probably quite soon as they've started promoting it). The details are here. I think that the ANU press puts PDFs of all their books on the internet for free. Cheers, Nick-D (talk) 10:24, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No, I hadn't seen it. Thanks for that!  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  10:55, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The book is now available here, Cheers Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

The Italian nationalist impostor
I can't remember if you were involved but a while back, several of us went through a lot of Western Desert Campaign articles removing his interpolations. There was a list of articles to check and I wonder if Second Italo-Ethiopian War was one? The Analysis section looks a bit dodgy, could he have had a hand in it?
 * PS if it was Oz Rupert or someone else apols. Keith-264 (talk) 12:31, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Project Emily
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38
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Recent changes
 * You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

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 * We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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Your GA nomination of Lorna Arnold
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Revolutionary War listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Revolutionary War. Since you had some involvement with the Revolutionary War redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Appah Rao (talk) 05:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lorna Arnold
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Freedom of Navigation operations
I'm looking for a couple of wise Milhist heads to provide a little outside expertise at Talk:USS John S. McCain (DDG-56). Would you please mind taking a look and putting your point of view? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 01:24, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election
Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

GA reassess
Rommel myth, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. LargelyRecyclable (talk) 13:42, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Frederick Brundrett
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-39
<section begin="technews-2017-W39"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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DYK for 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
Alex ShihTalk 01:33, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40
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Recent changes
 * You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

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Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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DYK for Lorna Arnold
Alex ShihTalk 03:32, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Submissions for The 10,000 Challenge (Canada)
The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada is approaching its first anniversary. We'd love to have more featured content submitted, such as your article Montreal Laboratory, or any other well-sourced Canada-related articles you have created or expanded since November 2016.

You can use this link to submit articles to the challenge. Thank-you, and please spread the word to those you know who might be interested in joining this effort to improve the quality of Canada-related articles. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:19, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:42, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41
<section begin="technews-2017-W41"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

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Your GA nomination of Project Emily
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Your GA nomination of Project Emily
The article Project Emily you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Project Emily for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 05:41, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Project Emily
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DYK for John D. Hoffman
Alex ShihTalk 01:02, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes
Hi Hawkeye, thank you for reviewing all of these articles! I don't think I have ever had so many GA reviews on the go at once before. I was wondering if you wanted to sort out this 'first sentence' issue here rather than me try and discuss it in multiple places at once. Like I said before, that opening line is included as a quick introduction separately from the article overview per WP:TVLEAD, as is also done on the main series and season articles for the show. It is pretty basic information that can be confirmed by checking Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and/or watching the episode, and it has never been challenged before, so it never seemed worth trying to work into the body of every single episode article. - adamstom97 (talk) 21:08, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Since they were all pretty similar, I thought it best to review them all at once. The lead is fine. All we are down to is a reference for the series and episode number. I realise that this is pretty basic information. But the whole Plot section is based on the assumption that the reader hasn't watched the episode. Furthermore, I'm not sure where the episode number is in the credits. But as long as we can find this fact somewhere it is okay. I have looked through the Production sections, and I concluded that enough information is there.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:43, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The episode number should be sourced in the development section where the title is first noted, and many references in the articles will note the series so adjustments could be made there if you felt that was necessary. - adamstom97 (talk) 21:59, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I have passed all six. I had some trouble with the GA page. Suggest that in future that all episodes be disambiguated with "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" whether they need it or not.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  22:03, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! I think there would be some blow-back from other editors if I started over-disambiguating articles. All of the articles for the series are collected in Template:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes anyway, and at List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes. - adamstom97 (talk) 22:08, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42
<section begin="technews-2017-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's  configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
 * The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems
 * There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
 * Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
 * Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017
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Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial
Hey! Looking for some help with this. I want a short paragraph on the Lancashire Fusiliers in WWI for background in the war memorial article, but I can't find anything reliable. Essentially I want a distilled version of Lancashire Fusiliers or something similar, but with less shitty sourcing (ie, not hobby websites). Can you suggest anything? Thanks, HJ Mitchell  &#124; <span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts?  11:50, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Nvm, I think I've found what I wanted.  HJ Mitchell  &#124; <span style="color:Navy; font-family:Times New Roman;" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts?  21:46, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * That's good. There was a book on their activities in the Great War, which is available online. Anecdotally I have been told that the Lancashire Fusiliers being nearly wiped out on 25 April 1915 was a traumatic experience for the local community.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  22:23, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43
<section begin="technews-2017-W43"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can use  when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation.
 * When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it.

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Your GA nomination of Salt Wells Pilot Plant
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Tech News: 2017-44
<section begin="technews-2017-W44"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

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Halloween cheer!
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Happy Halloween!

Hello Hawkeye7: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  Linguist un Eins uno 21:08, 31 October 2017 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
 * Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
 * Featured List – and  both produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
 * Featured Topic – has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
 * Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
 * Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
 * In The News – had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
 * Good Article Review – completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - please send  an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

WP:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Statement_by_Dank
Hi Hawkeye, it's been too long since we've chatted. I've decided I want to say something there, but first, I'm in search of clue. One way to get clue is to talk with people who disagree with me (particularly if they're making a statement at WP:RFAR, because people often truncate their statements drastically, and actually know a lot more than they're saying). You arrived at the opposite conclusion to mine. I don't think it's fair to say that Arbcom shouldn't take the case because they're not the best venue and they can't solve the whole problem, because there are parts of the problem that they and only they can solve. Arbcom is much more likely not to fix something that they could actually fix than the other way around; there is little chance that they will go all bull-in-a-china-shop. They may go the other direction, and do something minimal and limited to just the two principal parties. But even a minimal ruling can be one important step along the way, as people grapple with this very extensive and tough problem.

So, I'm leaving this note for both you and GoldenRing, for two reasons: 1. you guys are the only two who disagree with me (although we do have a few noncommital statements from others), so you're the ones in the best position to explain to me why I'm wrong, and 2. Arbcom is hesitating, and I can understand that ... they're not masochists. But I think it would be good to apply peer pressure to get them to step up and do the right thing, the necessary thing, and a unanimous case request would be a suitable form of peer pressure. IMO, Arbcom is a kind of single point of failure for Wikipedia ... if they turn away from disputes that can legitimately be framed as policy violations and that can't be solved elsewhere, then the whole dispute-resolution system fails. - Dank (push to talk) 19:04, 3 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Actually, my position is much closer to that of, but he can say that because he's an admin.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  23:44, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the strike, I appreciate it. Keeping my fingers crossed. - Dank (push to talk) 23:49, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Famousbirthdays.com as a source
Hi Hawkeye7. I'm in the process of removing famousbirthdays.com as a source from Wikipedia, because it's not reliable (See Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_153). I noticed that you've added it, and wanted to make sure you understood why it's being removed. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 00:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45
<section begin="technews-2017-W45"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it.

Changes later this week
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:  instead of  . This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 13:29, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Something with MilHistBot?
Hi Hawkeye, looks like the bot is overwriting Nick's and my updates to the Bugle issue on Template:WPMILHIST Announcements -- see the edits on 7 October for examples... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The MilBot doesn't update that. I checked the log, and your update occurred while it was running. It took about a half an hour to collect all the information on the announcements page. It took a copy of the page at the start of the run and modified it, then updated the page. No edit conflict was reported. Hence, your edit was lost. There are two ways we can go:
 * I can modify the run to assemble the information first, then get the page and update it, which will reduce the window down to a minute or less.
 * I can modify the run to update the Bugle issue for you, based on what WikiProject Military history/News says is the latest edition
 * Hawkeye7  (discuss)  21:04, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hawkeye7  (discuss)  09:11, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

DYK for 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Your opinion about WW II
I added another reference about desertions in Italy in September 1943.I already edited Cassibile armistice to improve it.Thanks again.Kingofwoods (talk) 11:11, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Possible need for Milhistbot tweak
G'day Hawkeye, I see that you will shortly receive your last Diamonds. When that happens, Milhistbot will need to know that your next award with be an A-Class Cross. Is the bot set up for that as yet? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:47, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, the MilHistBot is set up for this; but my next award will only be my 34th, so it should still be the A-Class medal with Diamonds.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  09:08, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Great. I meant the next one. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:26, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46
<section begin="technews-2017-W46"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator.
 * A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
 * Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki.

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Another bot question
The bot does not seem to have run on Featured article candidates/Carol (film)/archive1. I'm not sure why, thought some indecision over who the nominator was might have something to do with it. Sarastro1 (talk) 21:01, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The problem was [this edit]. The Bot couldn't work out the name of the nomination page. I have given it an extra hint to allow it to deal with cases like this.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Annabelle Lindsay
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 13:40, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Salt Wells Pilot Plant
The article Salt Wells Pilot Plant you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Salt Wells Pilot Plant for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:41, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

British logistics in the Falklands War
This sentence — "The loss of the helicopters forced the 3rd Commando Brigade to advance across East Falkland on floor." — strikes me as very odd. I would have corrected the phrase "on floor", but perhaps its a British dialect that I don't understand as an American reader. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 18:53, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * A typo. Corrected.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  19:14, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 19:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47
<section begin="technews-2017-W47"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter now has a function called . You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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New page reviewer granted
Hello Hawkeye7. Your account has been added to the " " user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk. The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:59, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Please consider helping get the huge backlog down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
 * Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
 * You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
 * Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
 * Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.
 * As a personal note, I was very happy to see this request come through. Thank you for volunteering, even if it is only to help out in doses. Your content work is really remarkable :) TonyBallioni (talk) 20:01, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As additional note, per your comments on the request page; while there are hundreds of users with the New page reviewer user right, almost all of the reviews are done by a very small number of reviewers, and the majority of users with the flag are not active. Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  22:18, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

FL count
Hi, Hawkeye. I saw your edit here where you moved the total featured list count up by 3 and can't tell where you got the number from. The list you added had been present in another place (and under a different name), but I don't know how the figure would change otherwise. Where did you come up with the total? I looked through the most recent FL additions to see if one of us had forgotten to change the count, but it looks like we updated it properly, unless I'm missing something. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 16:30, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I counted them. My problem is that Petscan indicates that there are only 3,224 featured lists. I removed several from the category yesterday that had been marked as featured lists but were not. (The creator had used another article as a template and copied the featured list template.) So the numbers don't add up. There could be duplicates, or (more likely) some lists that have been de-listed but are still there.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:35, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * That's odd. I'll alert the FL community on FLC talk and hopefully somebody there will be able to resolve the problem. Thanks for your diligence. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 16:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 November 2017
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Band of Brothers
Probably fifteen more AfDs.-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  01:18, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Polaris Sales Agreement
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Polaris Sales Agreement you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sp33dyphil -- Sp33dyphil (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Polaris Sales Agreement
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

MacArthur’s Knighthood
Thanks for the link to the earlier discussion, however I think as it’s now written the article is inaccurate, as it suggests that the Order of the Bath is an Australian honor, which it simply isn’t. Perhaps it would make more sense to just include the fact that it was given on the advice of the Australian Government over the British Government’s objection? JCO312 (talk) 03:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It was an Australian honour. The official position is: "The Imperial system of honours and awards was applied across many countries in the Commonwealth of Nations but the system was administered independently in each country. Awards within the system were bestowed by the governments of each of those countries. Australians who received Imperial campaign medals for service in the Australian armed forces received these awards from a grateful Australian Government and people."


 * Hawkeye7  (discuss)  03:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

I actually still don’t think that answers the question. Campaign medals are different from orders of chivalry. Thus, while a Victoria Cross would be appropriately interpreted as an Australian honor if awarded under the circumstances you’re describing, the Order of the Bath is simply a British order. Put it another way, there is no such thing as the “Australian Order of the Bath.” JCO312 (talk) 02:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC) JCO312 (talk) 02:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The text of the article is crystal clear: the Australian government had him appointed an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  02:10, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Australia was a full participant in the Imperial honours system so the recommendation and issue of campaign medals are no different from orders of chivalry. If the 'Victoria Cross would be appropriately interpreted as an Australian honor' then there should be no dispute about a lessor award. 83 Australian general officers receive the KCB or the CB, Macarthur received an honorary GCB and three other American officers received honorary CBs in the Second World War. They were all Australian honours. Anthony Staunton (talk) 09:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48
<section begin="technews-2017-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
 * You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
 * You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

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Doug Davis (aviator)
I'm not sure what you mean by "un-reviewed it again". I didn't review it, I wrote it. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

P.S. I have the autopatrolled user right. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:07, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know either. I know you wrote it. It wasn't on the New page patrol list; I went out there from a link you added to Paul Tibbetts. I mustr have donew something accidentally. My apologies for any inconvenience caused.
 * PS: Submit the article to DYK.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  05:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gen 75 Committee
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Gen 75 Committee you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:21, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gen 75 Committee
The article Gen 75 Committee you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Gen 75 Committee for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 00:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gen 75 Committee
The article Gen 75 Committee you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Gen 75 Committee for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 01:02, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
The article 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 15:00, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

FYI
recreation 1 | ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n | noun [mass noun] activity done for enjoyment when one is not working: she rides for recreation | [as modifier] : sport and recreation facilities | [count noun] : his recreations included golf and rugby. ORIGIN late Middle English (also in the sense ‘mental or spiritual consolation’): via Old French from Latin recreatio(n-), from recreare ‘create again, renew’.

recreation 2 | ˌriːkrɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n | noun [mass noun] the action or process of creating something again: the periodic destruction and recreation of the universe. • [count noun] a re-enactment or simulation of something: they enjoyed television's recreations of more confident times.
 * - Oxford American Sictionary
 * Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:19, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * "Re-creation" is mandated by the Commonwealth Style Guide. (6.119) My (British) Oxford did not have the two under the same entry, and Debrett's had them as different. So thanks for that. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:34, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
The article 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 16:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49
<section begin="technews-2017-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files.
 * You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
 * There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
 * Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.

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 * The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development.

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Your GA nomination of Polaris Sales Agreement
The article Polaris Sales Agreement you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Polaris Sales Agreement for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sp33dyphil -- Sp33dyphil (talk) 22:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Landing on Long Island
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Landing on Long Island you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AustralianRupert -- AustralianRupert (talk) 03:01, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for you help on Vietnam Veterans for Factual History
I appreciate the help. If you think the page is worth saving, please comment on the Afd page. Txantimedia (talk) 03:02, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Donn Eisele flight experience
I am having issues finding a source for Donn Eisele's flight experience. Do either of you have a book source or better Google fu than I have?  Kees08  (Talk)   03:11, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I checked his book, and another I have here, but I cannot find a source for the first two sentences. Thewy were inserted by an IP in 2016. They are probably correct, but I cannot find a source and suggest that they be removed.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  05:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the prompt help. I have removed the sentences. When I work towards taking these articles to GA/FA, I plan on gathering as many books as I can for sources, which should fill any holes I am make by removing unsourced content. Thanks again!  Kees08  (Talk)   07:21, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Mario Alberto Avilés
Hello Hawkeye7,

After creating the last 30+ new Catholic Bishops' pages, clearly I don't see what the problem is. I use the same template to create them and use two distinct references to corroborate the fact. The only thing missing from this one is the date of consecration(installation). It hasn't been announced yet since he was only appointed yesterday morning by the Pope. Roberto221 (talk) 10:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * My thinking was that he isn't a bishop, and won't become one until next year.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  10:36, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to join Women in Red
--Ipigott (talk) 12:24, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Landing on Long Island
The article Landing on Long Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Landing on Long Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AustralianRupert -- AustralianRupert (talk) 23:02, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Review request
Thank you for your quick message Hawkeye7. I'd just like to ask you for a favour – could you please have a look at the short article Sukhoi Su-37, which is up for A-class review atm? The review page hasn't seen any activity for two weeks. Thank you, --Sp33dyphil (talk) 22:17, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Query re: pending ACCs
G'day Hawkeye, just wondered if I should create a new section on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards for ACCs, or whether you see them going under the existing Nominations for the A-Class Medal section with new wording? Given the different qualification requirements, it might be clearer to separate them, but I don't want to create work for you in tweaking Milhistbot. Let me know? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:35, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd need to alter the way the Bot processes them. Since I'm going away, this would have to wait until January. OTOH, it is unlikely that this will be needed before then.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  04:47, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree there is no rush, you need another five before it kicks in, but I thought I'd create the section now while I think of it. Is that OK? Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:06, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:36, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hi, I suspect that you need new ideas for articles about as much as you need a hole in the head, but there's scope for a really interesting article on the logistics for the 1999 INTERFET deployment. As you may have seen, over recent years a number of historians and military officers have published fairly detailed works arguing that INTERFET was actually a near run thing due to the state of the ADF's logistics capabilities (though they're over-egging things a bit IMO given that the operation was highly successful) and it does seem to have lead to some important improvements. Nick-D (talk) 23:27, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There was a hopelessly misguided effort to increase the Army's teeth-to-tail ratio. I do have the material to write this, but I'm away at the moment, and do not have access to my books. I will do it in the New Year.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:33, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Only if you see fit! I'd be happy to help. Nick-D (talk) 07:04, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Milhistbot not running?
G'day Hawkeye, sorry to disturb you on holidays, but I think there might be a glitch with Milhistbot not running. Rupert passed WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Waterloo Bay massacre a day or so ago, but the bot hasn't done its thing as yet. Is it running less often with you away or something? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The Bot stopped running. I have processed it with a special run.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  04:32, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017
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Tech News: 2017-50
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Your reversions
Hi Hawkeye,

I am attempting to categorize the notable members of the Century Association. There have been about 11,000 total. 1,700 already have been identified and categorized. This is a large endeavor that will help people to identify members and their professions, affiliations, etc. through cross-category searching, and will also help me to develop the Century's articles. If you doubt any person was a member, perhaps search their name here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006068741, at the yearbook for any date they were a member (especially, usually, the year of their death). As an example: Vannevar Bush (appears in every book from 1939 to 1962). That should give you some verification. Some of these yearbooks are not fully public online, and yet that text search should pretty much confirm. However, the publicly-accessible Century Association Archives Foundation has these books as well; you could verify there in-person as well (WP:OFFLINE). I could go there myself and take photos of book pages as well, if you wish. Is that okay for you? ɱ (talk) · vbm  · coi) 03:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Citations for Bush, Compton, Conant, and Pegram ca be found on pages 369, 372, 372, and 397, respectively. How would you prefer to implement? ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 03:53, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Further discussion takes place here: Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_December_12. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:25, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I had overlooked that you already participated in that discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

S-50 (Manhattan Project) scheduled for TFA
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WWII
FYI Talk pages discussions at World War Two have re-opened. You contributed relatively recently, so please chime in. -Chumchum7 (talk) 15:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Gen 75 Committee
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The Signpost: 18 December 2017
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Tech News: 2017-51
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Your GA nomination of Rudolf Peierls
The article Rudolf Peierls you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Rudolf Peierls for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 05:41, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of MAUD Committee
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article MAUD Committee you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 11:01, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frisch–Peierls memorandum
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Frisch–Peierls memorandum you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:21, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 04:21, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Bot query
Featured article candidates/Golden jackal/archive1 wasn't closed by the bot, but not sure why. Sarastro (talk) 18:47, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The Bot is looking for a FACClosed card on the review page, and cannot find one. I can't find one either.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:40, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, my mistake! For some reason, I never saved the page when I added the closed template. I'll either blame my computer or seasonal exhaustion. Whichever is less embarrassing. Sarastro (talk) 20:45, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Landings at Cape Torokina
G'day Hawkeye, I hope you are well. I am thinking about putting the Landings at Cape Torokina article up for GAN and was wondering if you would like to be a co-nominator. Depending on how the nom goes, I would also look to potentially put it up for A-class review in early 2018, as well. Please let me know what you think. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 22:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure. No problem with that.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  02:55, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Cheers, Hawkeye. The review page will eventually be here: Talk:Landings at Cape Torokina/GA1. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:12, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign
The article Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 01:01, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Template:WPMILHIST Announcements
G'day Hawkeye, just checking if Milhistbot is maintaining this template at present. I've manually removed some passed and failed GANs, but it doesn't seem to be adding new GANs either since about 9 December. I'm happy to add them manually while you're away if necessary. Let me know? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:24, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like the announcements run needs to be run manually as well. I will ensure that it runs daily from now on.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  04:27, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:31, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign
The article Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 04:41, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians
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Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas gift
Hawkeye7, any chance you can return to your review of this Christmas hook and check the new ALT hooks? We're running out of time to get this onto the main page. Many thanks for anything you can do; I realize you're on vacation, but was hoping you'd be editing again soon based on your recent contributions. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:52, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  01:33, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * And to you and yours! I never knew you were from the North until now.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:04, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Buzz Aldrin citations
Hey Hawkeye. I am close to getting Buzz Aldrin to a B-class article (nowhere near a GA though IMO), but I am having issues finding the awards he won during his military career. Do you have a good source for this?  Kees08  (Talk)   06:36, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * His citations here. Then there's his own list. But it falls short... I have an awful feeling that the medal bar is based on File:Buzz Aldrin black and white dress uniform photo portrait.jpg. (There is a full list of these here).  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:01, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Your work on the astronauts has been very impressive. It would be nice to have at least the 1959, 1962 and 1963 ones all up to GA.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:04, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I had noticed those two sites but I was not sure if the first was reliable and if I could use the second because its a primary source. I suppose they are better than nothing, I will try to find a book source for the rest. I couldn't find anymore citations for his awards.
 * Thanks! I have been working really hard on them, trying to get the first five or so classes to B. I do plan on getting them to GA, but life is pretty busy right now so I have not had time to sit down and work on them. I should start having time in a couple of weeks.  Kees08  (Talk)   19:14, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frisch–Peierls memorandum
The article Frisch–Peierls memorandum you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Frisch–Peierls memorandum for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:02, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and All That
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and best wishes in all things! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 11:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Quebec Agreement
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Your GA nomination of Nassau Agreement
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nassau Agreement you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 02:41, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nassau Agreement
The article Nassau Agreement you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Nassau Agreement for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 06:41, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nassau Agreement
The article Nassau Agreement you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nassau Agreement for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 23:41, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Rudolf Peierls
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

DYK for British logistics in the Falklands War
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive
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