User talk:Kges1901/2018/December

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)
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Your GA nomination of Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov
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The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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Your email
You sent me an email about HMS Cattistock? I don't have access to the email account anymore so could you ask me the question here or on my talk page?Nigel Ish (talk) 18:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I noticed that you have English's book on Hunt-class destroyers, and I would like to expand that article, which I created years ago as a stub. Since English isn't easy to get access to on this side of the Atlantic, would it be possible for you to send scans of the entry for Cattistock in English's book? Thanks, Kges1901 (talk) 18:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but no - as I've stated on the WP:MilHistory talk page, I'm done with Military History topics here. I'm not prepared to waste time in a field where certain editors are prepared to drive anyone who disagrees with them off the project.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:37, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)
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A certain disruptive user with no USSR/CIS knowledge
I'm really close to leaving Wikipedia because of this disruptive editor -thewolfchild. Can you please back me up in support of having the plainlist? I linked to ~100 photographs of Meklin, and she wears ribbon racks in exactly zero of them, including photos taken long after the war. (Plus I did not include russian-language videos where she was speaking, not wearing ribbons) It is incredibly obnoxiuos that someone with clearly little or no knowledge of the topic is getting in the way of article development - wolf ended up removing important information like her native name, mission numbers, and punctuation in his/her rush to revert my edits. Even another user expressed support for having the plainlist since it is a comprimise between fighting between different icon formatting. I want to including infomation about Meklin's media apperances in the article, like that she was featured on the cover of Smena in 1943, in KP when she was declared a hero, and in Ogoniok, and in a documentary interview, but I had to request it to be locked to prevent wolf from messing it up. Now wolf is outraged that I switched ribbonracks in the infobox to plainlists and got really angry...can you please give me some backup here? I want to [|write these articles], but I do not want to deal with such a person on a regular basis. I even recruited a new person to Wikipedia to translate articles from Russian to English and Uzbek, but I'm very worried wolf is going to bite this newbie. (I'll tell you more about this newbie in an email...I really don't want wolf to "bite" them just to spite me. This person has lots of knowledge about world history in all kinds of CIS topics, from biography to architecture. They will be very valuable to the project.) Thank you for you support, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * You have done much productive work, as many editors have pointed out before, and I would caution you against giving up because of the actions of one user on one article. This dispute on the Meklin article is being inflated out of proportion. Don't worry about biting because wolf is not, to my knowledge, interested in Uzbek topics, which your new editor is interested in (and there are no ribbons there anyway). There's no problem with you switching ribbons to plainlists, though, and wolf seems to have reacted hastily there. Kges1901 (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No other article on a night witch, member of a sister regiment (125th dive bomber or 568th Fighter), or from list of female heroes of the Soviet Union has the formatting wolf insists on having. I may be a little OCD, but changing such precedent is absolutely intolerable. I now realize what DR means, but do you really think it is best to bring in more editors who have little or no knowledge of the subject that are just seeking another quid-pro-quo vote for the next time they get into a dispute? Wolf didn't hesitate to ping many people at once, but I generally prefer to try not to bother people unless necessary. The new editor I emailed you about is not just interested in Uzbekistan topics but also most of Central Asia, Russia, the Caucuses, Eastern Europe too. But wolf doesn't seem to be hesitant to disrupt topics he is unfamiliar about.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 02:18, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Because wolf is incredibly insistent (to say the least) for having ribbons in the mainspace, can you please just make a clear-cut comment on the talkpage for Natalya Meklin directly that supports the use of a plainlist without icons in the article? (Because talking to wolf is like talking to a wall).--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Turns out he is very hostile to many other users - can you join in at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Hostility_toward_other_editors_from_User:Thewolfchild --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 22:38, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
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 * Training video

No. 3 Training Command RCAF
We have these two embarassingly named 'XX SFTS BCATP' articles (Category:Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons (BCATP)), both for training schools that were a part of 3 Training Command. Can you collect enough reliable sources to help me write an article on No. 3 Training Command, listing all the schools and formation/disbandment dates for all, so we can upmerge them? Buckshot06 (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Will do. Kges1901 (talk) 18:09, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Many thanks Kges. Can you recheck your sources please for No. 2 Air Navigation School RCAF? It's in New Brunswick, which is in the Maritimes, but your sources do not list it in 3 TC. The original article from the internet sources however does list it in 3 TC. Which TC was it in? Did it move? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 09:39, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hatch lists it, but Kostenuk does not because it was closed before January 1944. Kges1901 (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Which TC does Hatch list it in? Would you mind amending the article for 2 ANS? Buckshot06 (talk) 13:43, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hatch doesn't list schools by TC, but it is a fair assumption that it was in No. 3 TC. I have already edited the article to reflect the info in Hatch. Kges1901 (talk) 13:50, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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Your GA nomination of Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov
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Merry Christmas
Been good working with you this year!! Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you for all your contributions and the advice you gave to me back when I started into Russian/Soviet topics three years ago. Kges1901 (talk) 14:21, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the 367th RD / 111 MRD article. Holm's data seems incomplete at the end; Andrew Duncan, drawing on CFE data circa 1998, reports it became 20 MRB before disbandment. Data and sources are all at the Leningrad Military District article. Buckshot06 (talk) 19:58, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Nezamozhnik
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Your GA nomination of Soviet destroyer Nezamozhnik
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Western MD spetsnaz companies
https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2018/12/22/return-of-independent-spetsnaz-companies/ Worth a note in Western Military District, with identification of training at Tambov, which reinforces the likelihood that it's 20th rather than 6th Army.. Buckshot06 (talk) 18:43, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Have added the sentence to the district article. Kges1901 (talk) 18:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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