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The Bugle: Issue CLXV, January 2020
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The Bugle: IssueICLXVI, February 2020
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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

The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Senior British Naval Officers of the Royal Navy


A tag has been placed on Category:Senior British Naval Officers of the Royal Navy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Commodores Commanding divisions of the Royal Navy


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The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020
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The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
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A.D. Read, *not* J.P.L. Reid
Cleaning up Flag Officer, East Africa, I have just come across your listings of "Flag Officer East Africa". Notwithstanding that your original source 13 quite clearly links to a citation for "Flag Officer East Africa and Zanzibar," as is verifiable through other web citations, you then via edit linked the sourced officer Rear Admiral A.D. Read to Peter Reid (Royal Navy officer), whose initials are J.P.L. Reid, rather than A.D. Read!! The two officers are clearly distinguishable via the listing at. I have fixed this, but I must warn you again: Competence is required to edit this site!! Buckshot06 (talk) 01:53, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Senior Naval Officer, West Indies was the title from 1956, NOT Commodore WI
I have just reviewed your edits at North America & West Indies Station and seen your inaccurate replacement of SNOWI with Commodore West Indies at on 7 June 2018. I inserted the correct data on 15 June 2008 - that the A & WI station was replaced by SNOWI. While the reference supporting the edit disappeared (UK Chiefs of Staff Committee, Command in the Caribbean, DEFE 5/188/4, January 1971, via The National Archives) another clear reference can be seen here - https://ziladoc.com/download/the-naval-review-3_pdf - page 68 of that issue of the Naval Review. I would kindly ask you again to ensure that any of your wholesale copying over from Colin Mackie's site is carefully checked - I am losing my patience running around cleaning up after your edits of dubious competence!! Buckshot06 (talk) 01:24, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

categorizing redirects
why would you categorize redirect pages (mainly to Category:Defunct tennis tournaments) when the target article already is the same category? Pelmeen10 (talk) 13:19, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020
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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) 02:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue Issue CLXXIII, September 2020
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIV, October 2020
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Category:BBC Radio 1 Awards templates has been nominated for merging
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, November 2020
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Category:Named squadrons of the Royal Navy has been nominated for merging
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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)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, December 2020
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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

Inactive userpage draft
Hello, Navops47, I saw that you made a draft for a new article at User:Navops47/sandbox1882tennisSeason. Short term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable. But in this case, you haven't edited your draft for a long time. If you wish to improve the draft yourself, please do. Otherwise, you may consider donating it to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts (a participant can help). Thank you. Halfadaniel (talk) 17:30, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021
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WP:PRIMARYSOURCES
Primary sources are original materials that are close to an event, and are often accounts written by people who are directly involved. They offer an insider's view of an event, a period of history, a work of art, a political decision, and so on. Primary sources may or may not be independent sources. An account of a traffic incident written by a witness is a primary source of information about the event; similarly, a scientific paper documenting a new experiment conducted by the author is a primary source on the outcome of that experiment. Historical documents such as diaries are primary sources.[c]

Policy: Unless restricted by another policy, primary sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.[d] Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. A primary source may be used on Wikipedia only to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. For example, an article about a novel may cite passages to describe the plot, but any interpretation needs a secondary source.


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Just thought this kind of reminder might be helpful, as, far as I can see, you have created multiple articles based on interpretations of the Navy List, for example, Rear-Admiral, Alexandria, and then edit warred with me when I attempted to bring the articles more in line with policy. Buckshot06 (talk) 18:31, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021
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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXII, June 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIII, July 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIV, August 2021
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, October 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Royal Navy forces


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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022
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Category:Battles involving the Kingdom of Alashiya has been nominated for merging
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Military history of the Kingdom of Alashiya


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The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022
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The Bugle: Issue CXCIV, June 2022
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The Bugle: Issue CXCVI, July 2022
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Nomination of 1876 Women's Tennis Tour for deletion
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 * Please see my reply at the talk page.--Navops47 (talk) 17:07, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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Happy Twelfth First Edit Day!

 * Thanks!--Navops47 (talk) 04:15, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Tennis Archives
Hi Navops! Sorry to pounce on your edits so quickly at Ip Koon Hung. Something to keep in mind with the Tennis Archives website is that the data is very much incomplete. There are some editors here that discourage using it as a source completely, but I've usually found that what is listed to be reliable (except for how every second player was apparently born in Scotland, eg Ip) Tournaments appearances for example are selective and limited to singles draws. As such, any claim of a player's career span is dubious if based on that data, as for example they may have featured in an earlier or later tournament in doubles only.

Thanks a lot for your brilliant work on creating tournaments articles. They're filling an important information gap and have been of great use to me personally.

Cheers. Jevansen (talk) 07:23, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello its no problem the reason I added the start date for his first tournament the US Champs was that it started in September and the HK Nat Grass Courts were usually held in October per TA and confirmed in this SCMP newpaper report source from 1971. Throughout its run was staged at the HK Cricket Club. Also  we can confirm he was playing till at least 1964 per HK Tennis Association. In regard to the tournaments thanks.--Navops47 (talk) 07:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Tennis Wales. I noticed that you added an image to the article's infobox as a thumbnail. In future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox, as this is against the Manual of Style. When adding an image, supply only the filename to the image parameter and the caption to the caption parameter instead. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using; please consult the Template page for the infobox being used on that page for proper instructions and documentation. Thanks!  Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:17, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Noted!--Navops47 (talk) 01:11, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Apologies and noted a slight oversight, my enthusiasm got the better of me.--Navops47 (talk) 04:50, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * No objections it was a glitch on my PC caused me to create that wrong name for the category.--Navops47 (talk) 07:33, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Definatley notable for historical reasons the USTA had only existed 4 years so any club incuding the two ive done small pages for that were member of the USTA during the 19th centry warrants a page IMO. Also meets WP Tennis Project Notability historical tournaments. To remind eveyone an encyclopedia defination from Oxford Univerity. noun a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically. In this case Tennis and therefore tours circuits tournaments tennis promoters tennis players are the many aspects of the one subject. Otherwise readers are not getting a complete history of tennis. --Navops47 (talk) 15:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Lucius Pond Ordway, tennis player?
Do you have a source for him as a tennis player? It certainly seems plausible, but I haven't been able to find anything online that mentions his tennis playing. Brianyoumans (talk) 17:23, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello yes he's in Valentine Gill Hall's book Lawn Tennis in America (1889) here page 12. winner of the Minnesota Lawn Tennis Club tournament, July 6th 1886 singles event.--Navops47 (talk) 17:33, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Incidently that tournament was unofficially the first Championship of Minnesota (state level tournament).--Navops47 (talk) 17:40, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Hello Liz apologies I created that category in error but obviously could not delete it no objections to deletion.--Navops47 (talk) 03:23, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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