User talk:MerlinVtwelve/Archive 5

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Brian Adcock (March 31)
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Imperial Crown Style
Thank you for helping out with some great contributions to the Imperial Crown Style article! It has improved the article and made it more interesting !! Dr.khatmando (talk) 08:17, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

2017 Imperial Crown Style
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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)

Draft:Stavatti Aerospace concern
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Your draft article, Draft:Stavatti Aerospace


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:10, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like Stavatti has dropped out of a major government program (USAF TX Trainer) so I reckon go ahead and delete the draft. Cheers merlinVtwelve (talk) 01:23, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Brian Adcock concern
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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)

User group for Military Historians
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"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


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As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Zhen Guanxuan has been accepted
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Hello MerlinVtwelve -- I'm not sure it was you who submitted this for consideration but if you are still around further expansion would be useful -- it would be particularly helpful to have a date of birth, as an adult at the end of WW2 could easily still be alive. Merging all/some of these short overlapping bios together would be an option. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Espresso Addict, thanks that's great. Yes, this is a bit of a tricky one, because some members of Five United went on later in life to become quite notable architects individually, whereas others seemed to fade from view. As a solution, maybe Five United should have its own page, with all the the five members merged together. Although I think at least one or two of them would be notable enough to have pages in their own right, separate from that page. I am on a long Wiki Break at the moment, but if no one has looked at this in the meantime, I will give it some attention when I get back. Cheers merlinVtwelve (talk) 09:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Brian Adcock concern
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Think think
Thanks for your attention, that was careless. I'd like to contribute more, but I dont quite get how WP works. Wouldnt you reocmmend to delete the line altogether? It may be the Economist, but it doesnt make any sense at all. As it stands, I dont think that would be a standard WP should strive to adhere to.EnTerbury (talk) 06:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi EnTerbury, the general guideline is that any assertion made in Wikipedia is supported by a WP:reliable source. It is probably best to do some homework on this, and read Wikipedia guidelines. I have removed the line from the article for the time being. Cheers merlinVtwelve (talk) 10:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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Have your say!
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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
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Backlog Banzai
In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

March Madness 2020
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

Copyright problem on Central Epidemic Command Center
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Oneness Temple - broken ref
Hi, I’m learning about refs. I accidentally broke a ref on the article Oneness Temple. Is it possible to revert the article back to your last version? Dharmadha2 (talk) 17:37, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries, I've fixed it, and deleted the auto-generated one instead of the original 'full' one. The auto-generated ones were probably created using Reflinks which is a handy tool. If you want to check it out, it's here. There are a whole lot of other citation tools at this page, though frankly I'm still learning about those. merlinVtwelve (talk) 19:40, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

From Dr.Khatmando
Hi MV12,

I apologise it’s been so long since we touched base or have made any contributions. I had been putting my efforts into the work the editorial board with WM foundations Wikijournal of Medicine as well, but my health declined and I haven’t had the capacity to contribute much. What is ironic is that I made more contributions when I was undergoing radiation therapy than when my health improved for a while. Despite all this I thought I’d send you this short message of encouragement. I’ve looked over those articles we worked on some years ago, and they’ve stood the test of time and had some minor improvements. I guess that when we start or expand an article with attention to scholarly rigour, it’s easier for others to put some spit-n-polish on them to further improve the quality of the articles. I was supposed to return to Japan to make a documentary with CBC Nagoya just before COVID, but many of these projects are now on hold. One of those documentaries (a smaller project), was on Japanese architecture. I’m receiving some support at home to help with some mobility impairments, but I hope that after COVID, I will be able to return to those projects as well as recommence contributing to some Japan related articles and to assist my colleagues on the Wikimedicine journal. I have fond memories of our work together and hope all is well with you and yours, and despite the times you’re getting some satisfaction from contributing to WP articles. All the best my friend. Warmest regards, (Dr. Jason Dixon) Dr.khatmando (talk) 15:42, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Dr.khatmando, indeed, great to hear from you! Very sorry to hear you're having health issues, and hope you can get firmly onto the recovery path. I've been a bit on and off WP myself. I noticed you'd been inactive, when I wanted to ask for your input last year on some other articles I'd been starting. These were a few stubs or start-class pages on Chinese and Japanese architects from the early-mid 20th century: e.g. Masatsugu Kobayashi, Jin Watanabe (architect) and Okada Shinichirō. During that era, there was a bit of overlap, as some Japanese architects worked in a Chinese-language environment, i.e. Taiwan. My technique was very rudimentary and relied heavily on Google translate either from the web or from JP and ZH Wikipedias, so I was going to ask you to take a look. Perhaps down the track, once you're feeling up to it though. I'll send you an email with my details. merlinVtwelve (talk) 01:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

File:Think Think and Ah Tsai, Presidential cats.jpg listed for discussion
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File:Tsai Ing-wen with Think Think and Ah Tsai.jpg listed for discussion
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File:Stamp Issue Taiwan 2016 Presidential Inauguration.jpg listed for discussion
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Using non-free images
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 * I was not aware of this rule, and am not sure why you are saying that I re-added the images. I have only added them once to this discussion page, a short while ago, (i.e. about one hour or so). I did do some formatting adjustments where they may have been deleted and re-added, but it was part of the page editing process, as the page is a bit messy. I am not into edit wars. merlinVtwelve (talk) 23:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Not being aware of the rule is no crime certainly. You did re-add non-free images to the page after one was removed under WP:NFCC #9, which prohibits such use. You did so here, where you removed the semi-colon which resulted in it being displayed. A semi-colon was placed on it again so that it wasn't displaying, with an even more descriptive edit summary as to why. You then un-semi-coloned another non-free image , causing it to display. Then you re-added another non-free image . Then added another . I'm sure you weren't aware of what you are doing, but File:Think Think and Ah Tsai, Presidential cats.jpg, File:Tsai_Ing-wen_with_Think_Think_and_Ah_Tsai.jpg, and File:Stamp_Issue_Taiwan_2016_Presidential_Inauguration.jpg are all marked as non-free images and can not be displayed on pages outside of actual articles. This is why they were removed multiple times from that deletion discussion, as the deletion discussion is not an encyclopedia article. If you scroll down on any of the image description pages of those images, you will see a big red "C" inside of a larger red circle. If you see that, it means the image is non-free and must comply with all terms of our non-free content criteria. If you're not certain if an image is non-free or not, certainly ask and we'll be happy to help. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:32, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, Hammersoft looking back now, technically I did re-add them. However, as shown by the timings, these were very closely spaced edits. I am using WikiText Editor 2017, combined with an offline text editor. At the time, I was having a lot of difficulty with a numbered list, and bullet points, as well as the images. I was experimenting in re-positioning the images on the page, and didn't realise that at the same time, a couple of other editors were re-editing my edits. I think those other editors were being trigger-happy, in not letting me complete the edits. To me, it just looked like the WikiText editor wasn't loading the page for some reason. User:Masem was using ALL-CAPS as if the world was ending, and I left an appropriate message on the editor's talk page. merlinVtwelve (talk) 20:10, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's not a problem! Now you know :) --Hammersoft (talk) 20:40, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2020 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2020. Thanks from the outgoing coord team, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:18, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open
G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing
G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:35, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team