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Your article count code
Hi, I just wanted to mention that I'll try looking at your article-count code when I can get time. So far I've managed to set up Python 3 on my machine and have made the necessary syntax changes, i.e, no useful progress but an interesting exercise for me. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks; I've just updated the code page to reflect what I'm currently running (slower than my older version, but I guess there's no help for it, since the oldest revisions aren't reliably placed first in the XML files). -- Visviva (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't know if you want to upgrade to Python 3, but since I made the conversion and a list of the necessary changes, fwiw those are here. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Damyang
Hi, Visviva ! I don't know how to find the Korea-group page (As in almost all Wik. things organizational, I have no idea how to find it -- I must think totally differently from the organizers of Wik.), so I am sending this comment to You in the hopes that You can either take up the cudgel or send the missive on. The Damyang page is written in quaint English. While, endearing, it is not appropriate for Wik. Maybe some-one can change it a bit. Kdammers (talk) 08:32, 12 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I see what you mean; I've done a quick slash-and-burn, but it could probably use more work. I imagine you're looking for WikiProject Korea. -- Visviva (talk) 07:21, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Back in the day . ..
Hello Visviva -- I happened notice your name attached to an edit made earlier today. So, old friend, here we are, neither of us bothering much with Wiktionary any more, but still a couple of not fully recovered wikiholics. Good to know you're out and about. -- WikiPedant (talk) 06:58, 13 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey hey! Great to see you again. -- Visviva (talk) 07:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Sexual difference article
Hello, Visviva. I see that you created the Sexual difference article; I first came across it by seeing this edit in WP:STiki. Looking at this link, you redirected the term to Sex differences in humans, and then you decided to create the Sexual difference article. From my viewpoint, your creation of the article is unneeded WP:Content forking. We already have the Sex differences in humans and Sex and gender distinction articles for this content; we don't need another article to address what you've added on the topic. Since WP:Anatomy recently got through working out how to cover sexual differentiation and sex difference topics on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anatomy/Archive 7), I will take this matter there for more opinions. Flyer22 (talk) 17:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I would have thought the hatnote would address any possibility of confusion; the topic of sexual difference, especially as developed by Irigaray et al., is well-known and has very little to do with anatomical characteristics. The sex differences in humans article doesn't deal with philosophical or normative aspects, and it's hard to see how it could without becoming entirely unmanageable. I created the article because when I first linked to sexual difference I was astounded to find it a redlink, and even more astounded to find that there was no article on the actual topic at all; I therefore redirected temporarily to the least bad alternative, but that article's coverage really has only the remotest connection to the topic. Would a move to something like "sexual difference in philosophy" be satisfactory? FR has Différence des sexes en psychanalyse, which is basically on the same topic, but it seems a bit narrow; one doesn't generally think of Irigaray et al. as psychoanalysts.  The sexual difference and gender difference could then direct to a dab page, which they probably should in any case... -- Visviva (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * In addition to philosophy, the terms sexual difference and gender difference refer to topics that are covered by the Sex differences in humans article, and that article has a Medicine, Physiology, Psychology and Sociology section; the Sociology section has subsections. Of course, that article deals with normative aspects. And a Philosophy section to address your content could easily be added to that article. I'm not in favor of unneeded WP:Content forking or creating unneeded WP:Spinout articles. Per WP:Content fork, we should strive to keep aspects of a topic in one article instead of causing readers to go to multiple articles...unless necessary. And like WP:Spinout states, there is no need for haste. A WP:Spinout article should ideally only be created when needed; I don't see that there is yet a need for a Sexual difference in philosophy article. That topic can fit fine in the Sex differences in humans article until, if ever, a Sexual difference in philosophy article is needed. Look at the other topics in that article that don't have their own Wikipedia articles. And when it comes to redirects and disambiguation pages, WP:Primary topic is a good guideline to follow.


 * On a side note: Do you mind if I transport our latest replies to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anatomy, and that we continue this discussion there instead of here at your talk page? I prefer to keep discussions centralized (WP:TALKCENT). Flyer22 (talk) 18:28, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I see that you replied there; I'll link to your latest reply there, and repeat my "18:28, 14 January 2015 (UTC)" reply there. Flyer22 (talk) 18:33, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * On a closer look: All the subsections in the Sex differences in humans article have a Wikipedia article for those topics; so I struck through part of my post above. Keeping the fact that those topics have Wikipedia articles in mind, creating a Sexual difference in philosophy article could be fine, but your content is barely more than a WP:Stub; in fact, it can be categorized as a WP:Stub. If we are going to have a Sexual difference in philosophy article, the topic should still be mentioned in the Sex differences in humans article (WP:Summary style). And then the terms sexual difference and gender difference should redirect to the Sex differences in humans article. Gender difference previously redirected there, as it should per WP:Primary topic, until you changed it. Anyway, I'll repeat this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anatomy#Sexual difference article, so that we can continue the discussion in one place. Flyer22 (talk) 18:48, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Male and female poets
I remember some of it. However, two points:


 * 1.) I think the fact that the male categories exist and are being (somewhat) populated, whereas they didn't at the time of the last controversy, puts a different spin on things.
 * 2.) This is just the first step - is definitely depreciated.  I'm doing what I can to start cleaning it up, which is going to be a mountain of a task.  Whatever can be done easily first, and all...

Thanks for your note. I'm still considering some future angles of attack for dealing with the issue. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:20, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Jinny Osborn
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What happened?
To User:Visviva/Pagecount experimental? It seems to be showing VERY old information as of today. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:43, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * A cascade of foolishness (starting with my failure to account for the non-ISO date format in the dump RSS feed). Re-running it now.  -- Visviva (talk) 16:51, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ha ha, we all make mistakes when we're overworked. Best, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:13, 1 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It seems to be happening again. Best, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:25, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Think I have deglitched it now. It's a definite problem with this approach -- the download and scan of the dump takes > 24 hours, so troubleshooting becomes a very slooowwww process. -- Visviva (talk) 18:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ha ha, looks like it wants us to give it a little loving. It's at it again. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess we can safely say this operation isn't ready for prime time. Am re-running it manually to try to figure out what's going wrong, but it's going to take a while.  (Prediction: it will run perfectly, and then fail again when I switch it back to automatic.) -- Visviva (talk) 02:26, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You know what Murphy says... FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 01:34, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

List of Wikipedians by article count
Hi. Sorry for kind of stealing your thunder re: List of Wikipedians by article count. I maintained the report for a number of years. It had been broken for about a year, but much like the edit count report, it has enough visibility that users were a bit anxious to see it updated.

Your solution using XML dumps obviously works, but downloading the full XML dump files, even keeping them compressed on the filesystem, is a heavy lift. Using the metadata from the MariaDB replicated databases on Tool Labs is probably the way to go. This is the model used by a number of database reports.

Please let me know if you have any questions about Tool Labs, Wikimedia Labs, etc. I'll likely know the answer or know who to ping. There are also forums such as WP:VPT and WP:BOTN, of course. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:02, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


 * No worries; thanks for stepping in. I'm keeping mine running for now as an exercise (always need to sharpen my data liberation skills), but the Tool Labs approach seems approximately infinitely better. -- Visviva (talk) 18:25, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Although it still counts redirects... FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:31, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Present tense
Hi there, I was surprised when you reverted my edits to PLoS ONE with the explanation that one should avoid present tense. Every sentence in the lede was present tense, yet you opted to change only mine. I would appreciate an explanation to a relatively inexperienced editor. Thank you, BlackSoxFan2015 (talk) 00:13, 13 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't believe I reverted anything, but I made the change because 2014 is already in the past, and will only become more so in the future. I guess an alternative would be to use update after, if you happen to know when the next JIFs will come out.  If you spend much time poking around the dustier corners of the wiki, especially articles about colleges or small towns, you'll find an awful lot of statements in the present (or even future) tense about events that unfolded 5-10 years ago.  Hence the general principle that "editors should avoid using statements that will date quickly."  Approaches to this problem vary, but personally I prefer to use something like "As of [year]" + past tense for these kinds of statements, so that the sentence will remain well-formed even if that ends up being the last substantive edit to the article for a decade or two.
 * (On another topic, it would be good to have a citation or two for the specific assertions in that sentence.) -- Visviva (talk) 00:50, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Present tense is correct here. IFs are always published with one year delay and the 2014 IFs were published just a few weeks ago and are the latest IFs available. Hence, these are the "current" IFs. As for referencing, there's an article cited on the talk page of Mega journal that can be used to source the claim that PLOS ONE is the largest such journals whereas the IF can be sourced to the Journal Citation Reports (a preformatted reference is on my userpage). Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 07:40, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I strenuously disagree with using present tense to describe inherently dated and temporary information, but as long as y'all are going to maintain the article I don't much care. -- Visviva (talk) 07:50, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Would you also object if the text said: "has a journal impact factor of 3.234." Because the 2014 IF is the current IF. All the "2014" does is informing the reader that this is, indeed, the latest IF. If any earlier IF would be mentioned, that would of course need the past tense. --Randykitty (talk) 08:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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User:Visviva/Pagecount experimental/Data
- Hi Visviva, Just a heads-up. Something seems to have gone awry with your experimental counter User:Visviva/Pagecount experimental/Data as of yesterday and again today. Example: Until two days ago my page creation count showed as 508, yesterday it was about 150 and today it's down to 128. Even Dr. Blofeld is down from 99,000-something to 66,122 today. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 13:03, 17 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late response; looks like it must have glitched when downloading the stub files from the latest DB dump; re-running that part of the process now. -- Visviva (talk) 19:09, 19 April 2016 (UTC)


 * No sweat! Thank you! -- André Kritzinger (talk) 20:12, 19 April 2016 (UTC)


 * No change, it's still not working right. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Turns out the problem was actually upstream of me -- the April database dump mangled a whole bunch of the stub-meta-history files. Running again on the March data, so I can merge that data back in (and hopefully end up back where things should be), but each run takes a couple days to complete.  :-/ -- Visviva (talk) 19:38, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. May is not too far off, maybe it will right itself then... - André Kritzinger (talk) 19:49, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Now back on track at last -- or at least, as close as it can be until the next dump. -- Visviva (talk) 04:19, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Better, but not quite there yet. To give an idea of when the problem may have started, if that might help: My count is down by 22, and 22 new articles ago was 18 March this year. It's most likely too much of a hassle to try to fix since the problem was not on your side. May as well just wait for the next dump and if that's still FUBAR, refer it to the "dumpster" to sort out. Keep well! -- André Kritzinger (talk) 13:23, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, cusses. I guess I'll wait this out, and if they're still borked next month I'll look for some way to restore that data via the API. Now that the horse is thoroughly gone, I've patched up the barn door by setting the script not to delete its daily files until they're at least 60 days older than the DB dump, so the data will be easier to restore if this happens again.  -- Visviva (talk) 17:41, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Update: I believe we're back in business. Let me know if things seem off. -- Visviva (talk) 00:07, 10 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Looks like it's werking again. Thank you! -- André Kritzinger (talk) 00:32, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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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)

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) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"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.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Content dispute (Justice Party SK)
Hi, I noticed that you were a part of WikiProject Korea and I was wondering if you would be willing to help solve a dispute over content on the Justice Party (South Korea) article that resulted in edit warring. If you can, participate in the discussion on the talk page. Attitudes appear to be flaring up and some facts seem to be getting ignored. Thanks! HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 00:24, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

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)

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, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 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, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 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, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Have your say!
Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Pohang logo.jpg
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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Korea
Portal:Korea, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Korea and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Korea during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 19:08, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Cheolwon County


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Cheolwon County requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Interstellarity T 🌟 13:38, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Korea icons
Template:Korea icons has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. PC78 (talk) 14:54, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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) 02:39, 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) 07:37, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

2019 US Banknote Contest
Sent by ZLEA at 23:30, 19 October 2019 (UTC) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk)

Thank you

 * Aww, thanks! Things sure have gotten bad around here. -- Visviva (talk) 20:19, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Your redlink syllogism
...I love it! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I suppose it wouldn't quite pass muster as an exercise in formal logic, but the format just felt right somehow. -- Visviva (talk) 01:14, 25 February 2020 (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

Missing cites
Hi, you have added short references to "Malkmus 2003" and "Sawyer" in Frances Shimer. Can you please provide the full citations? It is now entirely unclear what these are supposed to refer to. Thanks, Renata (talk) 05:49, 25 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) 02:07, 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)

Black-owned newspapers
Hi, thank you for your help transcribing The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (which is pretty much complete!) I wanted to make sure you're aware of our current campaign, which includes composing new Wikipedia articles about Black-owned newspapers. Our first goal is 15 new articles. More about the campaign here: WP:News On Wiki -Pete Forsyth (talk) 22:42, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

It would be good to connect with you for this effort and am a fan of your work on newspapers.Shanluan (talk) 20:31, 16 November 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) 06:46, 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

Request for Speedy Deletion
Please respond to the deletion request of the article on Kim Tschang-yeul. We both contributed to it a long time ago. Kdammers (talk) 02:59, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

new article: Adolphus D. Griffin
I saw your list of first African-American newspapers mentioned him, and I figured I'd let you know that I started his article this morning. I'd welcome edits. The cited Kimberly Mangun article is amazing. = paul2520 💬 17:30, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:26, 31 March 2021 (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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:59, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are still open, but not for long. 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! No further nominations will be accepted after that time. Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced
Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 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 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Appropriate questions for the candidates can also be asked. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:40, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting period closing soon
Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche will be closing soon. 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 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Hwandan Gogi has been nominated for merging
Category:Hwandan Gogi has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 19:34, 26 December 2021 (UTC)