User talk:Kges1901/2016/December

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union)
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article 5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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Check-Up on Harris Article
Ahoy,

Just asking whether you have time to check out the narrative restructure I'm doing on the Cecil E. Harris article. Trying to take out the flourishes and hone the writing a bit. I haven't shortened it thus far but I think the language is becoming more encyclopedic. If you think I'm on the right track I'll keep working at it through the rest of the article. Cheers! Finktron (talk) 12:21, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You are on the right track, keep going with it and you will eventually get it to GA. When you are done making your own changes, you should submit it at GOCE as Rupert recommended. Kges1901 (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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US Air Force
Hi I saw your post on Cyberpower's talk page. I might be able to do it. I have a bot mostly written for that sort of thing just need the specifics of the URLs (an example old and new). -- Green  C  15:41, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Greatly appreciated. Here are the links:
 * http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/af_combat_units_wwii.pdf, http://newpreview.afnews.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100921-044.pdf, and http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100921-044.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf
 * http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/combat_sq_of_the_af_wwii.pdf, http://newpreview.afnews.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-101202-002.pdf, and http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-101202-002.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf
 * http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/combat_wings.pdf and http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100921-047.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330257/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-047.pdf
 * http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090529-030.pdf should be changed to http://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Studies/101-150/AFD-090529-030.pdf
 * http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100921-026.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf
 * http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100929-015.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/29/2001329785/-1/-1/0/AFD-100929-015.pdf
 * http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100526-045.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/May/26/2001330297/-1/-1/0/AFD-100526-045.pdf
 * http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-101201-044.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/01/2001329894/-1/-1/0/AFD-101201-044.pdf
 * http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100525-060.pdf should be changed to http://media.defense.gov/2010/May/25/2001330286/-1/-1/0/AFD-100525-060.pdf
 * Links at the top of the list are those most linked to. Could your bot also add these archive links:
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062523/http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-027.pdf to http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-027.pdf and http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-027.pdf; with archive date of 4 March 2016
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160917000718/http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-026.pdf to http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-026.pdf and http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-081010-026.pdf; with archive date of 17 September 2016 Kges1901 (talk) 19:00, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Ok the first part I can do. The archiving will be up to IABot. It has a new user interface which allows specifying pages to operate on, so we can trigger it to work on pages that contain those links. But this feature is new and not yet operating .. in the mean time IABot is working through every page in the system and will get it to eventually, so one way or another. -- Green  C  19:38, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

BTW if you come across URL changes in the future (or other tasks needing a bot) you can post requests to Bot requests. -- Green  C  19:42, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Ok done. -- Green  C  04:27, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Impressive
Quite impressive how you turned a redirect into a start-class article overnight! Icebob99 (talk) 15:46, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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