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Assessment Note
You did fine, thats what the page is for, so everything worked out alright. FYI: upgrades or downgrades in assessment can be assigned by anyone provided they do not list an article as GA, A, or FA class (those are assessed through reviews, not by individuals). The citation level does, as you noted, warrent a B, so thats what I reassessed for, although I did not check the grammar becuase mine sucks. TomStar81 (Talk) 18:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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102nd IW
I fixed everything that you thought should be fixed on the page. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

With thanks
Thank you very much indeed for your help with and commitment to the drive. May I please trouble you to comment at the post-drive workshop? Your feedback will help us to improve the next drive. Thanks in advance, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 09:53, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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Assessment of [[SS El Oriente]]
Just to let you know, I follow the guidelines listed at WP:LEADCITE in regard to citations in the lead. Can you identify what exactly you believe needs to be cited in the lead? — Bellhalla (talk) 14:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

A problem with recently passed A-class article
A major rewrite (up to and include a renaming) has significantly changed the Kiev Expedition (1018) article, which you recently supported for A-class. I've commented on talk, but so far we have a revert war in mainspace and comments would be much appreciated. I belive the rewrite has a potential to significantly improve the article, but currently the article has destabilized. Your comments would be much appreciated at Talk:Boleslaw_I%27s_intervention_in_the_Kievan_succession_crisis,_1018.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Incidentally, good work at ACR! For info, you can now track which articles are up for A-Class using this template:

All the best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:33, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Harry Murray
Hi, I would just like to thank you for your supporting the promotion of the article Harry Murray to A-Class status. I have addressed the issues you raised and will now attempt to take the article to featured status. Thanks, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 07:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Military history/Assessment/USS Nevada (BB-36)
Have I addressed all of your concerns? -talk- the_ed17  -contribs-  03:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

FYI
Featured picture candidates/The bathtub aboard the battleship Iowa. Thought you might like to know. Not sure if it will pass, but as they say "nothing ventured, nothing gained." TomStar81 (Talk) 23:11, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
Here is a discussion involving the grim edit war over List of battles by casualties. Your edits have been reverted. Wandalstouring (talk) 17:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

Milhist W0.7: update
Thank you very much for your help in our review of the W0.7-nominated articles, which has proved to be a very worthwhile exercise. As the number of sub-standard articles found was much higher than anticipated, the coordinators are currently considering how best to follow this up, given the project's limited resources and the short time span – under three weeks - for making improvements. The review has been a very worthwhile exercise and will lead to a major quality improvement initiative in the very near future. In the meantime, if you found any articles that you feel you could easily fix, I'd be very grateful if you invested a little time doing so. Please also feel free to nominate any articles for inclusion which you feel were overlooked. The procedure for this is here and the nominations should be made here. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:41, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Dnepr-Carpathian
I have replied to your query on the name in the article talk.

Truly, I am not ordinarily a naturally conflict-oriented person, and I would like to offer my assistance to your editing of the article. I had cooperated with another editor successfully before to produce articles that covered the Operation Bagration and several others. I do go to some length to verify my sources, including keeping in contact with David Glantz, and contacting individuals in the former Soviet Union for information in the case of the Eastern Front. I am pedantic about detail, and citing sources.

I withdrew from the Military History Project because I do not see the participants as being able to administer the project as a project, reach decisions, or follow policies of Wikipedia as they concern the articles in the scope of the Project. This does not greatly hinder me in contributing except where voting is introduced to shove something down my throat which is not supported by authoritative sources.

I do refuse to become a part of the Wiki Sphere by having my behaviour modified to something approaching pastel colours. I have a strong personality that helps me to achieve results. Those I have worked with in real life have always appreciated this feature of it, and my willingness to speak my mind regardless of hurt feelings (mine or those of others). I do not place my ego above my rational faculties.

Cheers--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 22:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Joe, in case you are interested and have not seen one, here is the official Soviet map of the operation. I find that a map always helps--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 09:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Joe. The map is in the public domain in Russia, but Wikipedia enforcement of copyright make use of any images difficult. I can translate it, and we can work through it together because remember, it is a general map created in the Soviet era, so one needs to treat it as a general guide. Same by the way applies to many post war German maps that have been drawn to reflect "best version" of what happened. What I wanted to do is to learn how to colourise maps and edit the text bits, and if I can do that, I can claim copyright so can use them because unfortunately current maps used in articles are quite poor.
 * Do you have a plan on how you want to approach expansion of this article?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 21:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Citations in Dnepro-Carpathian Strategic Offensive (aka Battle of West Ukraine)
I noticed that you have combined both Krivosheev citations into one. There is a small issue with that, as the citations were to different parts of that work (a section dealing with strategic operations and a section dealing with weaponry losses). IMHO, this is not crucial, but perhaps you didn't realize that and thus now may want to reconsider. With respect, Ko Soi IX (talk) 01:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

re: Template:Campaignbox Stalin's ten blows
My primary concern was fixing the redirects so the dashes was really just an afterthought. That said, I didn't think it was fixed anywhere, though I may well be wrong. All the dashes separating the names, with all the dashes in the names as well, just looks awful. Perhaps spaced endashes instead of unspaced emdashes? -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 21:07, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * All right, I see that. Also, now that I think about it, some of the offensives have multiple constituent battles which have separate articles (for example, current tenth one on Budapest is really Budapest and Belgrade, so the points look better and make it easier to distinguish between the ten offensives, so I suppose I'll leave it for now unless someone else complains. Joe  ( Talk ) 21:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators
You have been mentioned here as a possible coopted Milhist coordinator. You may wish to comment :) -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 09:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

You're My Best Friend.
So, uh, how ya' doin'? Good? That's good. I am also good. I appreciate you asking. We are very considerate fellows, you and I. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zacharybcollins (talk • contribs) 15:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)
I have responded to your comments at WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell).--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 01:30, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Bruce Kingsbury
Hello. I have made the improvements you suggested at the A-class review, do you mind having another look? \ / (⁂ | ※) 00:41, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Tetrarch (tank) ACR
Hi there! Thanks so much for the comments, really appreciate them; ACRs can be a tad long-winded at time. I've addressed each of your points in the review, although I was hoping you might give me some advice on the wikilinking and the line-breaking (I'm fine with writing but the little technical things always get me when I go to reviews!) Thanks for your help! Skinny87 (talk) 20:44, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for that, that's real kind of you. Skinny87 (talk) 21:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, glad to help. – Joe Nu  tter  21:34, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment
Thanks for your "blessing" of the article. I may now shoot for Featured Article status. Could you recommend what I may need (if anything) to improve it for the FA review. One editor suggested adding a bit of explanatory prose (i.e., "color" background) here and there on some topics -- to keep the average reader engaged. An example could be a short blurb on the tactical role of riflemen in the Rev. War relative to that of the musketmen. I appreciate any insights/suggestions.Tfhentz (talk) 20:47, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, something like that sounds like it would make it more interesting. Otherwise, I'm really bad at thinking of that kind of stuff, so I can't be of too much general help - I'm better at pointing out errors than thinking of new improvements. However, if, before you're ready for FAC, you would like, I can take a look at it and tell you if there are any problems that I see. Good luck! – Joe Nu  tter  21:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Iowa turret explosion
I believe I've addressed your concerns at this A-class review. I appreciate the helpful feedback. Cla68 (talk) 07:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up "doctor" in Board certification. I just wanted to add that whenever you see that word being used to mean physician, you can simply replace "doctor" with "physician" if you prefer. Thanks again for your valuable work! WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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20:27, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II)
Hi Joe,

I believe I have addressed your concerns on this article at this A Class Review. I'd appreciate your feedback and support. Thanks Perseus71 (talk) 18:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, everything looks good now. If you aren't taking it to FAC it more than meets the A-Class criteria, good luck on your next improvement project. – Joe Nu  tter  18:59, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I was wondering if you might be able to lend some support for this article on Military Aviation Project ? Its rated B there and has got two votes for A rating. You may find them here. Thanks Perseus71 (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I should have mentioned before. After the A class review on WP:MIL, the article did undergo a copyedit by the MILHIS Copy Edit Editor USER:Patton123. Thanks Perseus71 (talk) 03:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Polish culture during World War II
You have a reply waiting for you.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)