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Happy New Year 2016!
Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.
   – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:45, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Hawkeye7!

Happy New Year!

Hawkeye7,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 22:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)


Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to send this message

George Grimson Article

Hawkeye7,

Hope you had a good New year. Recently, you assessed the George Grimson article as "C-class", but yet it remains a "stub-class" article. Adamdaley (talk) 23:39, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jacob L. Devers

The article Jacob L. Devers you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Jacob L. Devers for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Djmaschek -- Djmaschek (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Arthur V. Peterson

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Seth Neddermeyer

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Seth Neddermeyer you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ian Rose -- Ian Rose (talk) 05:00, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

WP:NOPIPE and WP:NOTBROKEN aside, a redirect in a navbox is broken, as it does not display correctly on the target page. The link is supposed to be a bold 'non-link' on the page in question - if the link is a redirect, it doesn't do that, but instead is still is an active link, making it look like there is a different page for the subject. - The Bushranger One ping only 10:59, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

But... I am looking at it, and it does wok that way. I have put it back. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:29, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

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Oct - Dec 15 Quarterly Article Reviews

 Military history service award 
On behalf of the WikiProject Military history coordinators, I hereby award you this for your contribution of 4 FA, A-Class, Peer and/or GA reviews during the period October to December 2015. Thank you for your efforts! AustralianRupert (talk) 02:49, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Seth Neddermeyer

The article Seth Neddermeyer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Seth Neddermeyer for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ian Rose -- Ian Rose (talk) 04:01, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Hawkeye7. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Sharyn Canyon.
Message added 06:54, 10 January 2016 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Request to revisit the discussion. North America1000 06:54, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [4]

Changes this week

  • The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [5]
  • New file uploads will now be patrollable. [6]
  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [7] [8]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [9]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [10] [11]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [12] [13]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Norman Hilberry

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Chicago Pile-1

The article Chicago Pile-1 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Chicago Pile-1 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:01, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [14]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [15]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [16]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of X-10 Graphite Reactor

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article X-10 Graphite Reactor you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 07:40, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of X-10 Graphite Reactor

The article X-10 Graphite Reactor you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:X-10 Graphite Reactor for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 08:40, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of X-10 Graphite Reactor

The article X-10 Graphite Reactor you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:X-10 Graphite Reactor for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 22:41, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Ok, so one of them is still wrong.

I refer to this RV. "commenced construction of the plutonium semiworks, codenamed X-10" or "[X-10] was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor". The lede bounces back and forth. I don't believe the chemical extraction side was referred to as X-10, and since that is definitely part of the semi works then my edit was correct, or the rest of the lede is wrong. So which is it? Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:29, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

The first one is right. X-10 was the codename for the plutonium semiworks, of which the reactor was part. So what do we have?
"The X-10 Graphite Reactor was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor"
"In September 1942, Compton asked a physicist, Martin D. Whitaker, to form a skeleton operating staff for X-10"
"By March 1944, there were some 1,500 people working at X-10"
"Exterior of the Graphite Reactor at the X-10 site"
"the cost of construction at X-10" (Clear here that we are talking about the entire facility)
"X-10 operated as a plutonium production plant until January 1945"
"X-10 supplied the Los Alamos Laboratory with the first significant samples of plutonium"
"The X-10 chemical separation plant"
"The X-10 Graphite Reactor was shut down on November 4, 1963"
"One reactor of similar design to the X-10 Graphite Reactor is still in operation today"
I think the wording is consistent. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:03, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
So the chemical plant beside the reactor is also known as "the X-10 Graphite Reactor"? Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:23, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
No, it is the "X-10 chemical separation plant". (Am I missing something here?) Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:09, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

"German Air Force" or "Bundeswehr Luftwaffe"

I think it would be good if you would voice your opinion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 January 20. Thanks MisterBee1966 (talk) 07:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Salamaua–Lae campaign

G'day Hawkeye, I've been trying to reference the Salamaua–Lae campaign article this weekend, but have come up blank with the base development information in the Aftermath section of the article. Given the sources you were able to bring to the Battle of Milne Bay article, I was wondering if you might be able to check your library to see if you can add the last couple of references. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 08:53, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

No worries. Looks like I wrote it back in March 2007. I know where it all comes from. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:41, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Great! Thanks. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:45, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:55, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 January 2016

Whenever you're ready

—Ready whenever you are. Don't feel any need to rush. And good luck. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:46, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [18] [19]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [20]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [21]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [22]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [23]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [24]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

This is a very special beer. It refills daily for those in the midst of a request of adminship. Cheers! MurderByDeletionism"bang!" 18:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Just what I've always wanted! Thank you! Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:49, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Edited your nom

[25] I'm assuming you didn't actually memorize Russian poetry by a small Iranian village. But notifying you, just in case you actually did. (I guess there could have been an anonymous Russian poet known only for living there, so becoming known by...) --GRuban (talk) 22:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. In the wake of the Vietnam War, the educational authorities decided that the Cold War was lost, and that we should all learn Russian. I found it a difficult subject, not least because I missed a term as a result of a surgical operation. You could pass by passing the exam, or by memorising and reciting a Pushkin poem. So that's what we did. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016

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Congrats

Congratulation Hawkeye7, you're gonna be an admin! (N0n3up (talk) 04:04, 29 January 2016 (UTC))

It's not over yet. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:07, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Sorry

I've opposed your bid to become an admin, with a degree of regret and awkwardness. My best to you all the same. Tony (talk) 13:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Sorry here, too, for not voting, but I won't be voting in any 2016 RfAs because of my work with relevant RfCs. (I suspect we'll be seeing several more big ones this year.) Best of luck, Hawkeye (and Tony, good to see you here). - Dank (push to talk) 16:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Dan. One thing that is worth a second look is what bits are needed for ArbCom. There was a couple of hasty RfCs when it was thought that I might win a seat; but it looks now like it has been shelved until next year. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
I've considered closing RfCs related to Arbcom, mostly because what Arbcom does and doesn't do has a big impact on RfA (as you may have recently noticed). But I'm probably out of my depth there. - Dank (push to talk) 22:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey, whaddaya trying to do? Make me change my vote?

diff | hist) . . Bill Mauldin; 22:40 . . (-2) . . Hawkeye7 (talk | contribs) (Have their own article now)

For shame, for shame! Anmccaff (talk) 23:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Neumann

Sadly I don't have the time to review the article in a way that would do it justice, but congrats on tackling it looks fantastic. --Errant (chat!) 11:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [26]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [27] [28]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [29]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [30]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [31] [32]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [33]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [34] [35] [36]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [37] [38]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [39]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

no need for thanks <g>

I was proud to support your RfA. Collect (talk) 21:14, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Per your inquiry, the answer was probably in part here. But I'll be trying again, probably next spring or so...maybe summer, probably after the Belmont Stakes and the flurry of horse article editing surrounding the triple crown races concludes. I'd most certainly by interested in your input on how I might do a better job next time or if there are ways I could handle things better. Montanabw(talk) 23:04, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
I am in total agreement with the above sentiments. It was my pleasure to support your candidacy. I don't quite understand the process or why things work out the way they do, but I tend to believe that timing has a lot to do with it. Atsme📞 📧 23:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Congrats! Ditto on Collect's comment. I still think you'd be a good arb - go for it next year. Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

RfA

I expected the decision to go against you. I hope the Bureaucrats come to the right decision. I will ask one to have a look at your RfA...SethWhales talk 23:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Does this mean it's in the bag?Keith-264 (talk) 07:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hawkeye7 2/Bureaucrat chat Nick-D (talk) 09:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Ah wellKeith-264 (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Working at DYK absent the full toolset

I wonder if the DYK-relevant pages could be set to template-protection, and you could leverage your template-editor rights? Do you think that would fly, from a technical or consensus perspective? Or am I completely off the mark... –xeno talk 02:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't think so. Why don't you do it? Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:34, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Do what? Certainly not present the argument for it, I'm a relatively unknown around those parts. Which pages would need to be template-protected instead of fully-protected for you to work there? –xeno talk 13:50, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't know if we can do that, as the protection comes via the cascading protection from the main page. I don't know enough about such things? I guess it could be request to lift that cascading protection? If possible, it would definitely be a very good idea at looking at. Harrias talk 17:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes, it would involved lifting the cascading protection on the main page, so I don't think it is practical. By "do it", I meant "approve the DYK hooks". Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
We could probably change the cascading full-protection to cascading template-editor protection, but the question then becomes - is the community comfortable opening up editing of the mainpage to another 187 users who weren't specifically vetted for such a role? –xeno talk 00:21, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Not sure if that's appropriate

Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, I can see how this could have happened unintentionally. But I don't think it's entirely appropriate to notify/thank among others the 4 bureaucrats ([40] [41] [42] [43]) who were positive towards your nomination, because they are still in the process of deciding the result. Anyway, I just felt I had to get that off my chest, and I don't want to cause any hassle. Feel free to remove this comment after you have read it. -- intgr [talk] 11:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hawkeye thanked Avi for his work on the RFA, not his support (which Avi did not offer in any case), and the other three crats have recused themselves from the discussion, so the point, however well-meant, seems moot. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:11, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't make this offer to everyone

You're a great editor who's feeling rather cheesed off at the moment. I get it. RfX is tough, even for successful candidates.

Take the advice on my usertalk and come chat with me in March. Because if you choose to, you can turn this around, and I'll happily turn this into a bluelink with a nomination in a few months if you do. --Dweller (talk) 13:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Retirement..... really?

So what if you don't get the position as an admin? Think of all of the readers you help out/make smile when you improve articles on the topics that interest you. Shouldn't that be enough motivation? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:20, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Please don't leave over it. Take some time out if you need to but don't leave for good. You'll be sorely missed :)--5 albert square (talk) 20:33, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
It would be more motivating if I got some feedback from them. As it is, all I can see is page hit counts. But thanks. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
1. Did you really join the project just to be an admin? Surely you joined to edit articles? --GRuban (talk) 20:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I did. But I do everything. Without I admin toolbox, I am constantly stymied. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
We once had such a feedback mechanism, but it had flaws. Maybe this is something we should look back into? Mz7 (talk) 22:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

2007

Back in 2007, one RfA was basically not deemed successful with 201 supports and 71 opposes, but the usual RfA in those days had far more votes than any recent ones - even with auto-notification to editors. The issue then was (get this) how opposed the candidate was to off-Wiki sites that must not be named <g>. Collect (talk) 14:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Your RfA results

I regret to inform you that your recent request for adminship was closed as "no consensus to promote". I encourage you to review the comments in the discussion and on the talk page to see if there are areas in which you could make changes. This may allow you to have a successful RfA in the future. Thank you for your patience during the bureaucrat chat and during the RfA process itself. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

You will make a fine admin. Must give it another go! - Ret.Prof (talk) 13:51, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Sorry about the result, but thanks for bearing "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" for the betterment of Wikipedia. And thanks for your note. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 19:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

To cut the b.s., I think the reason for the failure was because you were in the lower half of the 65-75% discretionary zone, it's probably as simple as that. Whatever the 'crats might say it's basically a numbers game. A no consensus result means you could try again, and probably pass, in six months time. Now I do think you could answered the questions a little differently, please contact me if you like for my views on a strategy. But if you've had enough of RfAs I understand, you have to be pretty brave to put yourself through that. Which makes you a bigger person than many. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 19:17, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Bugger

Sorry to see it went the way it did. I didn't expect it to be plain sailing but I wouldn't have nominated you if I didn't think you had a chance, nor if I didn't think you'd be a good admin. Okay, you got a lot of opposition; some of it we foresaw, some of it we didn't. There is certainly a feeling that you haven't learnt from the evens of four years ago, or haven't moved on, or haven't shown enough contrition. But remember very nearly two hundred of your peers supported you. That's quite an incredible turnout. The lengthy and well thought-out rationales from many of those editors, among them some of the most respected editors on Wikipedia, show that you have the trust of a significant majority of the community. Beyond that, even most of the opposers spoke highly of you and praised your work and your dedication to Wikipedia. To me, it says a lot about you that even many of your detractors went out of their way to praise your contribution. Besides, most admin work is boring grunt work that's forgotten about in seconds whereas you article work will be around in one form or another for decades. People will remember Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia—not necessarily a perfect one, but one that could at least provide a decent overview of any subject imaginable—not for all the vandals that were blocked, and that's down in no small part to you. So my advice would be not to focus on the final tally, but to dust yourself off and do what you do best. And if you find yourself in Blighty, let me know and I'll buy you a drink. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:20, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Harry. I'd really like to take you up on that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:40, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

And your retirement plan is......????

I'm sorry the RFA didn't work out. This time. You're the reason I got my first FA. Absolutely the reason, because you encouraged me to go forward with the effort. I was at the point of completely throwing in the towel. If it wasn't for your being there at the exact correct moment to encourage me, I'd still be diddling around in the shadows somewhere. And besides that, you're a coordinator at WP MH - fulfill the term. Your content contributions on the Manhattan Project have been somewhat extraordinary. So, what's more important - the small handful who opposed at RFA, or those educators out there who are quite probably using your articles to teach students about the Manhattan Project. Carry on and try again later. We salute you for your tireless contributions. — Maile (talk) 22:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Well put, Maile. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Charles V. Shank

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Commiserations...

G'day Hawkeye. I am sorry to see your RfA ended up as it did. I followed it closely and winced at every new oppose – it truly can be a dreadful and unforgiving process. I hope that the last week or so hasn't dampened your enthusiasm for Wikipedia, content creation, or your eventual return to admin ranks. Just remember... we all love you at Milhist! Warm regards, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Do we ever... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:35, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I'd third Peacemaker and Ian. I hope that you don't let the folks with an ancient grudge and love of piling onto admins get you down - you're a better editor then them all stuck together. Nick-D (talk) 07:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I am sorry that your request for the tools did not succeed; although the !vote was about two to one in favour, we do know that it is not a simple mumerical majority decision. unfortunately, while a number of well-respected admins supported you, a similar number opposed. I would be happy to support again after a reasonable interval. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 13:11, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Hawkeye7 I too am saddened that your Request had a no consensus. Sometime in the future. I will definitely cast my vote for you later. Anyways, keep on updating this Wikipedia!

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Other fun banners are available at [44]

And Hawkeye7, I want to extend an invitation to you (it's actually a plea for help) to collaborate on a new project I just created, WP:Project Accuracy, for which I'd like to recruit other FP/GA/DYK editors to join. I'm in the embryonic stages of development - just now working on the header but I'm not very well-versed on changing syntax in templates, so I will probably just create a page header of my own design. I'm not sure why the TP isn't connecting or what categories to include or .... well, any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Atsme📞 📧 03:07, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

A tribble! Always wanted one. Always willing to help out. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
I've got an ~in use~ template at the top of the page but you can ignore it if you see anything that needs fixing. Oh, and what I'd like to do is establish a 5 person PAC = Project Accuracy Coordinators who will oversee the project, and vet the fact-check promotion candidates who apply. This project is actually the foundation for a much bigger plan I proposed to WMF during their current community consultation re: their "Reach strategy. My suggestion was in regards to protection and promotion of articles that have passed stringent reviews and accuracy checks (and will carry our project seal which you can see at the project page). I tested the waters a tiny bit at Drmies TP, and now I'm hoping to get a good team together comprising content creators/FA participants/reviewers for PAC. Let me know if you're interested. Atsme📞 📧 07:48, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Landing at Lae

Are you keen to take this to GAN? If you are, I will put in the nom as a co-nom. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Sure. I thought the entire Huon Peninsula campaign could become a Good Topic, but we are still a couple of articles short. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
G'day, I'll have a go at improving Battle of Finschhafen, but I might have to try to get a few books from the library, so it could take a while. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 02:06, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
I was intending to have a go at it too, but I am still bogged down on the landing at Scarlet Beach. My idea was the Battle of Finschhafen would cover everything between Scarlet Beach and Sattelberg. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [59] [60]
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I was under the weather yesterday, but hopefully I'll get to this one today. - Dank (push to talk) 12:52, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Battle of Wareo

G'day, Hawkeye, I was thinking of taking Battle of Wareo to GA next as part of the effort to get all the Huon Peninsula battle articles to GA. One concern I have, though, is the Japanese logistics section, which seems quite limited. I wonder if you have anything that you would like to add to the article before I nominate it. It was many years ago that I worked on it last, so I will need to get my head back into the article over the next week or so. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:53, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Sure. I have plenty of information on this. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:58, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Cheers, hope you are having a good weekend. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:11, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
G'day, Hawkeye, I've nommed this for GAN now with you as a co-nom. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:46, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
G'day, Hawk, not sure if you are still keen on working on the Wareo and Finschhafen articles, but I have the Coates book for another couple of weeks or so, then I have to return it, unfortunately...I also have to go away for a week or so with work at the end of next week. If you have the time, Wareo still needs a bit of work regarding logistics, and Finschhafen...well, I'm completely out of my depth and it probably needs a considerable effort to bring it up to GA. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 12:41, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

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  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [70] [71]

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  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [73]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [74]

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One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

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Re:Pronunciation

I'll be glad to help you, if you tell me the correct pronunciation. Let me see: it's pronounced as if spelled Deevers, isn't it? イヴァンスクルージ九十八 （会話） 20:56, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh, wait, sorry; I saw it later :) イヴァンスクルージ九十八 （会話） 20:58, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Done! Happy I could be helpful!! イヴァンスクルージ九十八 （会話） 21:02, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Australian sports

I'd like to find someone to help with TFAs on Australian sports (such as Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 18, 2016). Any suggestions? - Dank (push to talk) 03:46, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Sure. I can help you with that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:45, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Great, give it a few whacks. We're aiming for roughly 1150 characters in the text the readers see (not counting "Full article" and below); this page gives you a character counter. - Dank (push to talk) 13:15, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
That's 1409 characters, I usually aim for 1150, I'll have a look now. - Dank (push to talk) 18:27, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
1171 according to the counter. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Your corruption of article on John von Neumann

You have made many changes to the article John von Neumann, including adding statements directly contradicted by the cited sources and removing statements supported by cited reliable sources. I reverted two changes, then realized how many other problems you had introduced. I do not know what your purpose is, but this is really an extraordinary harm that you have made.
81.158.250.223 (talk) 19:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

The purpose was to properly reference the article. Nothing properly referenced was removed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Then use "citation needed". Additionally, making up a story about the cause of his divorce, etc., does not fall under "properly reference the article".
81.158.250.223 (talk) 22:51, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Never. I have supplied references. And the text has a reference. Did you check the reference? Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:29, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
[76] No idea about the other problems, but at least about the divorce the IP is correct, the source does not support your statement that the car crash had anything to do with the divorce. Fram (talk) 10:04, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

You can readily confirm that the book does not attribute the divorce to the car accident, but rather to Mariette wanting to party more: page 172 and following. Additionally, the book does not state that they had two parties per week, at least not on the pages cited.

Those are two examples of false claims that you have added to the article. An example of a true claim that you removed from the article is that von Neumann was fluent in Greek.[77] That von Neumann did know Greek is stated in the same book: page 48.

True, but the following sentence was about the professor of Byzantine history, and I couldn't find it in the reference given, or in Macrae. So I removed it while I went looking for it. I did eventually find it somewhere else, but forgot to put it back into the article. Now I guess I need to find it again, unless you happen to have a source. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:12, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
The "Professor of Byzantine History" thing is in the source given (Life magazine)[78], but as it there is said that he made the statement "jokingly", that part is better left out. Fram (talk) 10:22, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
That's it!!! Thanks for that. I remember now. That's why I didn't put it back in. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:01, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Macrae also says that the rest of the family denies that Johnny and Max could converse in ancient Greek at age six. So I thought it best to leave that whole sentence out. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Macrae does not say that the rest of the family denies that he knew Greek. Rather, Macrae says that the rest of the family denies that Johnny "converse[d] at the lunch table with his father in [Greek]" and the rest of the family did not understand; perhaps such conversations occurred only a few times and the rest of the family did not recall. The same page tells that his father instilled in him a love a Greek (and that Greek was a required subject in high school). A google search readily turns up other reliable sources: e.g. [79] which cites Poundstone (1993)—which is already cited in the article. 81.158.250.223 (talk) 00:15, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

I have now looked at five of your edits and found three in serious error. 81.158.250.223 (talk) 22:26, 7 March 2016 (UTC) s.

You have now repeatedly demonstrated that your edits to the article should not be relied upon. What should be done? There seem to be two approaches: either someone needs to go through all your edits, checking each individually, or the article needs to be reverted to what it was before you started editing it. 81.158.250.223 (talk) 00:15, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

The article is up for review, so the former will occur. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:47, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [80]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [81]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [82]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [83]
  • Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [84]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [85]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [86]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [87]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [88]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [89]

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  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [93]

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DYK for Landing at Scarlet Beach

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Nafziger

[94] I downloaded it from carl, it looks like a RS but I'm unsure how much to include in OOB articles, since some of the pdfs are 20 pages long. Is there a rule of thumb or a WP: on OOBs? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 03:43, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Wow. What a source. I don't know of any rules about OrBats. I would toss it all in. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:05, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I've seen individual pdfs from it but never realised that they were part of this. I shall fill my boots. RegardsKeith-264 (talk) 04:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military History is pretty good

I visited a bunch of WikiProject Military History articles and they are pretty good. :D Winterysteppe (talk) 01:56, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicide in the Trenches

Hi Hawkeye, I kind of hate to say this, but there was still one good-faith delete vote in that AfD. I'm not sure it can really be speedily closed. Take a second look, please? LadyofShalott 01:00, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! LadyofShalott 01:23, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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H, I see you're into the Manhattan Project. Too bad we have a minor disagreement about a comma. Both of my wife's parents worked on the Manhattan Project. See Larned B. Asprey, where you can see me, second from left, in the photo I took with self-timer. My mother-in-law is still sharp, if you need someone with recollection from Met lab days. She gave a speech about that time when she got the Walter H. Zinn Award in 2005. Dicklyon (talk) 04:01, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Only a minor disagreement. No big. You are the fourth family member of an Atomic pioneer to contact me. I have written or improved about 100 articles related to the Manhattan Project, bringing a dozen or so all the way to featured status, including the main article. There were lots of biographies. Some are famous; some ought to be famous, but are not; and some are obscure. Isidor Isaac Rabi is currently a featured article candidate. Drop by and post a review. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:51, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
I added an infobox, some references and some commas, harmonised the date format, and repaired some link rot. Sent the article of for a MilHist B class assessment. Changes are here. As always, revert anything you don't like. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:02, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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Take a look at Chicago Pile-1

Seen as you've done the lions share of work on the article, I thought it best to run this edit that I've made, by you. Essentially, prior to this edit, the article suggested that the rod removal was done by hand, however the reference below suggests that in the final moments it was not in fact done by hand. So I was wondering if you could clarify this ambiguity?

Richard Fox, who made the control-rod mechanism for the pile, remarked that the manual speed control that the operator had over the rods was simply a variable resistor, controlling an electric motor that would spool the "clothesline" wire over a pulley that also had two lead weights attached to ensure it would 'fail-safe' and return to its zero position when released.[1]

  1. ^ [1]

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Battle of Kaiapit

Was just having a look at ANZAC Day and saw you've got a rather nice Australian Military History today's featured article set for it. Nice work! I had hoped for a good Australian MILHIST article to pair with a Maori Battalion image I prepared for POTD. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

That sounds great! Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:22, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey! relatively new editor here. I wanted to comment on the military history WikiProject. I think its one of the best and biggest one. Perhaps even more extensive than others. Looks good. Quite expansive. I'll be ha ppy to just read through everything. DesertGrass (talk) 04:09, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [114]
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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Lede structure

H, I don't think that saying "The Metallurgical Laboratory or 'Met Lab' was the code name ..." makes any sense. You need to either use the term or refer to it (see Use–mention distinction), but this mixes them up. You could say "Metallurgical Laboratory or Met Lab was the code name", or you could say "The Metallurgical Laboratory or 'Met Lab' was part of ...". Yes? Dicklyon (talk) 02:23, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. @Dank: Paging the expert. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:13, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
I get what you're saying, Dick, but I have a hunch it's not going to fly, because Wikipedians (at least the ones who write FAC-level history articles) aren't used to starting an article that way. Fortunately, the article is currently at A-class (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Metallurgical Laboratory) ... float the idea there and we'll see if it sinks or swims. (P.S. Yes that was a humorous exercise in mixed metaphors.) - Dank (push to talk) 12:12, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Actually, starting an article that way is not very common, and is often fixed by wikignomes. I think there's something in the MOS about it.. I'll look. Dicklyon (talk) 17:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Agreed, Dick. What I'm saying is that "X was the code name" is a less common way to start one of the articles I normally copyedit, regardless of whether X is italicized or not. FWIW, my call would be "The Metallurgical Laboratory was part of" or "The Metallurgical Laboratory of the (whatever) was part of". - Dank (push to talk) 18:02, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I made an edit; see if you like it, and chip in at conversation I started at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Use versus mention in lede sentences. Dicklyon (talk) 18:38, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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Arthur MacArthur, Sr.

The Library of Congress, the U.S. Federal Judicial Center, the Wisconsin Historical Society, MacArthur's own tombstone, and other reputable sources all give his birthdate as 1815. Care to rethink your edit? 32.218.34.11 (talk) 21:39, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Hawkeye, I'll start work on this one today. You nominated the article at WP:FAC. - Dank (push to talk) 14:23, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

A great edit, thanks. Sorry for the mixup. - Dank (push to talk) 21:53, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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This is the article before I began updating it in May. It was already there. In fact, it was in the oldest version of the article from 1 June 2007. It is possible that it did absorb the Quebec Agreement article at that point, given that it was inserted into that article in November 2005. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:19, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Okey dokey, looks like it was a false positive. Sorry for the mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 23:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
I ran an automated search, and it looks like I did lift four sentences from another article I wrote, British contribution to the Manhattan Project, which I have acknowledged on the talk page. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:17, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Adding attribution is not mandatory when copying your own prose from one article to another, but it would help me if you did so, as such copying can trigger a bot report, and it speeds up checking the items if the edit summary mentions the copying. User:EranBot/Copyright/rc is the bot report I am working from. — Diannaa (talk) 13:46, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
I have done so. I think what happened with the Quebec Conference material is that I moved another paragraph, and it thought that the material was new. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:39, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [140]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [141]

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  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [142]

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And Gower quotes who?

If she quotes Baxter on anything it is not a RS. You as a supposed historian should know this.Juan Riley (talk) 23:27, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Margaret Gowing was the official historian. She is a reliable source. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:43, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
She was, yes, an "official" historian. Which means she was paid to be official. Where does she say someone other than Baxter told her he was invited back by Groves? Without that just a government sponsored questionable source. No? Juan Riley (talk) 23:47, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
An official historian is given access to the documents, which have not yet been opened to the public. The original manuscript is footnoted with the documents used as references, similar to the Wikipedia. If you have the required security clearance under the Official Secrets Act, you can go to the Public Record Office in Kew and get the manuscript. You can then request the file containing the footnoted document, which is probably a formal request from Groves to Wallace Akers. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:06, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Ah now 'tis all secret? Sorry I tried to discuss matters as if you were a real historian. Nothing of this material would be subject to security clearances. (Psst I have one.) Will dissect your article on the factotum in the coming days. Have a nice day. Juan Riley (talk) 00:15, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Please think about your reputation before you proceed further. Juan Riley (talk) 00:18, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
If anyone has to worry about their reputation, I don't think it's Hawkeye. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 15:16, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

British contribution to Manhattan project.

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Main page

Excellent article yesterday - many thanks. Ignore the self-appointed "experts" (even those who claim to be so important as to have "security clearance"): it's a very good piece of work. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 12:06, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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John von Neumann...

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  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [156]

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Not necessarily disputing your revert of that comment, as I personally am opposed to IPs being involved in discussions of this kind. However, I cannot find anything in the reassessment instructions saying it is only for registered users, only that closing is only for registered users. Can you point to where that's stated? Not seeing anything at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/guidelines. Thanks. Coretheapple (talk) 14:47, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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Jack Verge

Hi there.... Jack Verge, which you passed for GA, is currently a FAC. If you have the opportunity to review it, I would be extremely grateful. FunkyCanute (talk) 10:41, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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British pounds (£) to US dollars ($)

Thanks for your response HERE. I found it very useful and have already used it to solve my problem.

Also, I attempted to edit the template Template:Convert to reflect the currency conversion information you provided me (perhaps a note like "For currency conversion into US dollars, please see Template:To USD" under a heading like "Currency conversion to US dollars") but, despite my additional rights, I cannot edit this template (no surprises here...). If you have template edit rights, you might want to add the link you gave me (Template:To USD) into the documentation area of the Template:Convert template, as I found it very useful and suspect other editors may find it useful too. Thanks.Mercy11 (talk) 18:58, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:18, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Great! Nice to have people like you in the "staff". Mercy11 (talk) 02:18, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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HMS Aquilon

Thanks for reviewing this, it's much appreciated. Just checking what the referencing gaps are, as I may have underdone the multi-sentence citations. If it's the table, would it be preferable for me to add a reference for each line, or for each field (this last might be overkill).

Am idly keen to get this to B so am happy to go back through and add more reference points as required. -- Euryalus (talk) 09:03, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

You don't need a reference for each line, just each paragraph. At the moment the Caribbean service and Peace and decommissioning sections have unreferenced sentences at the end. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:12, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Sorry about that - a consequence of using one ref for two sentences, then forgetting I'd done it when moving paragraphs around. Should be fixed now. -- Euryalus (talk) 15:31, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Prep building

"I've charged three more prep areas". Thank you. You make it look so easy. Yoninah (talk) 09:14, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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Your articles are such a pleasure to read, thank you! Incredible work. Gareth E. Kegg (talk) 08:11, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

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Apollo astronaut pages

Hey there Hawkeye! Awhile back, for some reason (probably stemming from the Apollo program article) I stumbled across your userpage. I liked the boxes that you had for various categories, and then noticed the astronaut pages. I work in aerospace and have a strong interest in improving the Apollo era astronaut articles. I took your info boxes, updated them, and put them on my userpage. My plan was for users to sign up for individual astronauts with the goal of improving their articles to a minimum of B-class.

By chance, you happened to assess the first of those articles!

I was hoping for your advice on how I should continue with this. I am relatively new to Wikipedia. I was planning on including it as a subpage on WikiProject Spaceflight, but the project is pretty inactive. I can't really add it to MilHist because not all of them were pilots (although its pretty close...).

Have any thoughts for how I could proceed with this? Let me know, thanks!

Kees08 (talk) 23:30, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Long ago I intended to bring them up to Good Topics. The boxes are the ones used for Good Topic nominations. I did more than assess one; I brought Alan Shepard up to Good Article status. If you would be willing to co-nominate it with me, we could send it to FAC. I am willing to collaborate on projects like this. While WikiProject Spaceflight is pretty inactive, it would be best to locate it there, as that would be the most likely spot for someone else to find it. I am willing to sign up to do Gus Grissom. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:46, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
I would be willing to collaborate on that effort. I didn't even know Good Topics were a thing....if there is a better format for me to use let me know.
I have located the page on WikiProject Spaceflight. I think I have Gus under my name because I just grabbed the Purdue astronauts, but you are more than welcome to put your name there.
I'll do a bit of light recruiting by looking at what users have been editing astronaut articles. Should be able to make a pretty big impact with this project! Feel free to edit the project page with any of your thoughts or suggestions, I did the best that I could but again am pretty new to editing. As a side note, I have been finding citations for the Apollo Program article off and on, but that has been quite the project. Hopefully I can close that out soon. Cheer! Kees08 (talk) 03:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
No worries. I'll take Scott Carpenter instead. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:25, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Roger that, I have moved the page to WikiProject Spaceflight and it is now located here Kees08 (talk) 06:09, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Rita Harradence

On 20 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rita Harradence, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rita Harradence and her husband synthesised penicillamine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rita Harradence. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rita Harradence), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:01, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Montreal Laboratory

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Your GA nomination of Margaret Gowing

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  • The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [177]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [178]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [179]

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  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [182]

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  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [188]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [189]

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DYK for K-25

On 28 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article K-25, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant was once the largest building under one roof in the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/K-25. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, K-25), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:38, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Margaret Gowing

The article Margaret Gowing you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Margaret Gowing for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ian Rose -- Ian Rose (talk) 08:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

WWI directory and Bugle articles

Hi there. You may have already seen my note on the MilHist talk page, but I am sending this short note to the regular writers and the editors of The Bugle to point them to a WWI projects directory that I've started (in my userspace for now). Would you be able to look and see if there is anything you might be able to add or advice on what is most useful? You'll note that I've pulled together WWI-related book reviews (I think you wrote some of them), so please feel free to add to that if I missed any (plus any more that get written in the future). Carcharoth (talk) 22:24, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...
people in sports and battles
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no. 171 of Precious,
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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

QBQ?

Hi, Thanks for looking over my DYK nom. My only quick question is what is QPQ? It's been a while since I've done a DYK. :) Couldn't find any info on that page either. Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:21, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

See WP:DYKRULES: For every nomination you make you must review one other nomination (unrelated to you)— this is called quid pro quo or QPQ.
So you need to review someone else's nomination. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:37, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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DYK nomination

Hi Hawkeye, If you think that List of public art in the City of Sydney is now resolved enough to have its DYK nomination restored, could you please do that and request the afternoon of Thursday August 4 (Sydney time)? I will continue adding geocodes to it and of course, there are more items that can be added to the list in future. Thanks! Whiteghost.ink (talk) 13:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

I have posted to the DYK nomination page why I think this would not be appropriate. It's best if someone else reviews the article at this point. Thank you for your understanding. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:47, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Margaret Gowing

On 9 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Margaret Gowing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Margaret Gowing became the University of Oxford's first professor of the history of science, despite not having a degree in history or science? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret Gowing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Margaret Gowing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:49, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [192][193][194]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [195][196][197]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [198][199][200]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [201]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Writer's barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
I think Richard Feynman was awesome, I have three of his books plus the Gribbin biography. Such a worthy project! — Diannaa (talk) 03:23, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Also pinging the co-nom, Reedmalloy. How does the TFA text look? - Dank (push to talk) 22:54, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Should we say that Bockscar is the one pictured? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Sounds good. Done. - Dank (push to talk) 00:04, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Brendan Finucane

Thanks. I'll be able to have a look next week. Dapi89 (talk) 15:22, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [205][206]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [207]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

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Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [209][210]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [211]

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Template:Did you know nominations/Madeline Groves

Hawkeye7, this was initially requested to be saved for the Olympics, but the date you eventually specified, 9 September, is well after the Olympics will be over. Did you perhaps mean 9 August, which appears to be one of the swimming competition dates? Please let me know here; I can move it if so. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:06, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Oops. Wrong Athlete. I mean 7 August. Sorry bout that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Jane Hamilton Hall

On 22 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jane Hamilton Hall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jane Hamilton Hall oversaw the construction of the Clementine, the world's first fast reactor, the first to be fueled by plutonium and the first to use a liquid metal coolant? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jane Hamilton Hall. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jane Hamilton Hall), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 15:16, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Quarterly Milhist Reviewing Award

 Military history reviewers' award 
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for reviewing a total of 3 Milhist articles during the period March to June 2016. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:27, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

James Whiteside McCay

Ranks may not be hyphenated today, but they were most certainly hyphenated when McCay was alive and the rank he held was Lieutenant-General, not Lieutenant General; they actually knew how to spell then! We do not do revisionism here. It would be like calling a WWI Brigadier-General a Brigadier because "that's what they're called now". -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:00, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

The article is written in Australian English, per the Commonwealth Style Guide. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:35, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Did you actually read what I wrote? I'm not disputing that Australia (and indeed Britain) spell it without a hyphen now. We don't revise terms to their modern equivalent. I have raised the issue on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:34, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
A brigadier is not the same rank as a brigadier general. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:35, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
It is an entirely equivalent rank. Brigadier-General was abolished and replaced by Colonel-Commandant, which was itself abolished and replaced with Brigadier. The only difference was in the rank insignia and the lack of general officer status. As I'm sure you're fully aware, Commonwealth brigadiers are considered to rank alongside non-Commonwealth brigadier generals. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:34, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Neo-Nazi publications

Would you care to enlighten me why you think, Neo-Nazi publications (e.g. Range, Kurowksi, Schaulen) are needed in WWII articles? ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 06:34, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I've pinged you about these two books earlier today: please see Talk:List_of_Knight's_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_recipients_(Schu–Sz). K.e.coffman (talk) 06:33, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Mass changes require an RfC. You need to secure consensus for them. Take it to WP:MILHIST. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:38, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Not a policy or a guideline I'm aware of. Please also see: WP:NOCONSENSUS. These books are not used for citations, so the onus is on those who advocate the inclusion of the disputed sources in the articles. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:40, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Fair enough. Go ahead, citing WP:FURTHER as the reason, so long as they are only used in the Further Reading section. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:22, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
This has been discussed ad nauseam, so there is no need for another RfC. The removal is merely quality control or implementation Of WP:REFSPAM. ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 06:43, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
You're saying that they were inserted by a spammer? That would be a valid reason, but I'm not seeing that. In the page above, they were inserted by MisterBee, one of our best and most highly regarded editors, back in 2007. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:22, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
I did not say that anyone in particular is a spammer. I have pointed out the problematic nature of the source some time back. The general consensus was not to use them if possible. No matter why and by whom they were introduced into the articles at the first place, they are not RS and therefore should be removed unless there is a good reason to do so. In the recent drive to remove non-RS, I was careful not to remove them, if they were used for inline citations. Now, for what ever reason MisterBee used publications not meeting RS criteria is a mystery to me, the result is - in fact - a considerable amount of spam in German WWII biographies. ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 16:57, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
May point you to a relevant section of my user page for some background? Please see: Vandal's Cross of the Iron Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds. K.e.coffman (talk) 07:31, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Would you self revert please? Separately re: "so long as they are only used in the Further Reading section", if these sources were used for citations, would an RfC be required to remove these sources and citations? K.e.coffman (talk) 22:54, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:21, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, but it looks like not all of them got done. Could you address this? K.e.coffman (talk) 01:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Not if it was done individually, and the source was replaced with another. On any mass edit, we expect to find an edit text referring to the decision or policy. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:58, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Re "if the source was replaced with another" — what if a neo-Nazi source was the only one available, such as Franz Kurowski at Otto Kittel article? K.e.coffman (talk) 23:01, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
They must have used some source. Replace with their original source. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:21, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
"Replace with their original source" appears to be a suggestion that an editor procures a neo-Nazi source in question so that they could look up the sources this publication used. Is that correct?

Hi, in you are unfamiliar with this aspect of German WWII historiography, these two threads from the MilHist archives are good for background:

It's hard for English speakers to understand the intricacies of the German publishing scene, to see which books are reliable sources and which come from dubious authors and publishers, so the threads above provide a good overview. I've also been collecting right-wing German publishers on my user page. Here's the link for reference:

I've only become aware of this fringe space once I started doing research for the HIAG (Waffen-SS lobby group) article. Hope this helps! K.e.coffman (talk) 03:46, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Barak Mizrachi

On 24 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Barak Mizrachi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Barak Mizrachi represented Australia at the Maccabiah Games four times before being selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barak Mizrachi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Barak Mizrachi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:17, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

References for Rabi and Von Neumann added

Done

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  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [215]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Bot query

Hi mate, your MilHist and FAC bots continue to make life easier for the coords, but one of them could use another tweak when/if you get time: I noticed just now that the A-Class Showcase is being populated with new A-Class articles but extant articles that have since progressed to FA are still there, e.g. No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF, No. 1 Squadron RAAF, No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF, just to name some in which I have a personal interest. I guess it's the same situation and potential solution as removing articles from the GA lists when they progress to FA. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:48, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

I released a set of bug fixes last week. I will fix this one next week. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:11, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
checkY Tricky because of the use of templates by the ship articles. Ran a script to remove them. I have equipped the FACBot with the means to carry this out from now on. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:03, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Could you please check Wikipedia:Featured article review/Enceladus/archive1? Not sure what's gone wrong there. Thanks. DrKay (talk) 11:33, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

checkY The coordinator set the FAR status to "keep" instead of "kept". I told the Bot that "keep" means "kept", and it processed the closure. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:54, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [220]

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Thanks Hawkeye

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For the continuing upgrades, and prompt attention to change requests for, your brilliant bots that streamline the FAC and MilHist ACR processes! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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Jeffrey Grey

Good work on the Jeffrey Grey article - only one typo for me to copyedit! I've updated his Wikidata entry based on the article, and updated the de.wp article with his death as well, but you did the hard work. Thryduulf (talk) 22:53, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I hadn't noticed that he had an article on the German Wikipedia. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:10, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Madeline Groves

On 7 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Madeline Groves, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Madeline Groves (pictured) was an inaugural recipient of the Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship to study at Bond University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Madeline Groves. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Madeline Groves), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 19:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

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  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [221]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [222]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [223]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [224]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [225]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [226]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [227]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [228]

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Your GA nomination of Matthew Sands

The article Matthew Sands you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Matthew Sands for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Pax85 -- Pax85 (talk) 05:01, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Jeffrey Grey

On 10 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jeffrey Grey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jeffrey Grey was the first non-American to become the president of the Society for Military History? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jeffrey Grey. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jeffrey Grey), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 11:12, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

GAN review

I know that technically it's not over yet, but how'd I do for my first GAN review? I notice you've been around the GAN block a few times, and many of the mentors seem to be inactive, so I thought you might be able to provide some feedback. It won't affect whether the article passes or fails, unless you give me negative feedback of course. ;) -Pax Verbum 15:08, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I just promoted the article. Thank you for introducing me to Prof. Sands and for your prompt attention! Apparently the bot will be along shortly to deliver the "official" message... As my first review, I hope it didn't give you too much of a headache! -Pax Verbum 19:55, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Your GA review was really well done; you covered all the bases. The most common problem I have with GA reviewers is a tendency to go overboard and conduct a Featured Article Candidate review. In the case of Sands, the article was not on my list of Manhattan Project articles that I needed to fix; I just thought that it deserved improvement. Alas, the image is the only one we have; higher resolution images were only created for the most prominent Manhattan Project figures. The real problem is the United States, which does not promote the use of creative commons for images. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:29, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Ah yes, that happens to me as well - I stumble upon an article that I had no intention of working on, then an hour or two later.... Thank you for the kind comments. I will try to keep that in mind as I work on other reviews! I just wish FAC had the nice organized templates that GAN uses. I know that FAC has many more editors who focus on specialities, but some of us just like the nicely defined boxes. :) In any case, thank you again, and happy editing! -Pax Verbum 15:24, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Matthew Sands

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DYK nomination of Matthew Sands

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Source check on FAC

Hey Hawkeye, sorry for interrupting you again, but can you do another source check on Ride the Lightning? I've nominated it again for FA, and there are few new references such as the Glenn Pillsbury book (ref 27), the Metal Hammer cite (ref 23) and two reviews in "Reception" (Rock Hard and Uncut). Here's the FAC and hope you can do the check. Have a nice day.--Retrohead (talk) 19:01, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [229]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [230]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [231][232]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [233]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [234]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [235][236]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [237]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [238]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Operation Infinite Reach

Thanks so much for reviewing the article - I really appreciate it. As I am planning on taking it to FA, could you please offer me any thoughts on what improvements to make prior to this grueling process? Thanks, GABgab 20:37, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

It's pretty much there. Go through the references and double check them. Footnote 10 is a journal, so probably best down the bottom with the books; it is volume 125 issue 8, p. 38. Make sure the web references have access dates (ie footnotes 11, 12, 13, 14 etc) The likely point of contention is the International reactions section. Think about why it is there and what it does. If you want to keep it, prepare to defend it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:10, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Not sure if U.S. News and World Report is really a journal, per se, but thanks for the advice. The "international reactions" section may indeed be better as prose. Best, GABgab 00:56, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
I've adjusted the "Reactions" section by stripping out superfluous elements and integrating it into the "Aftermath" section; the article is now up at FA (fingers crossed!) Best, GABgab 16:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Nicole Moerig

On 19 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nicole Moerig, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nicole Moerig has competed in road races such as the Amgen Tour of California, Silver City's Tour of the Gila, the Tour de Bretagne Féminin, and the 2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nicole Moerig. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nicole Moerig), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

FAC Bot

Hello Hawkeye, while updating HMS Emerald (1795) to FA, your bot appears to have messed up the DYK entry on on the talk page [[239]]. I would fix it myself but I'm not sure what needs doing. I also thought you might like to know in case this is a recurring problem. Best regards --Ykraps (talk) 06:20, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

checkY I have fixed the article talk page, and the problem. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I think I can see now what needed to be done. Thanks for that.--Ykraps (talk) 08:28, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-25

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DYK for Ashleigh Gentle

On 20 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ashleigh Gentle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the wake of her podium finish in Yokohama, Ashleigh Gentle (pictured) was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ashleigh Gentle. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ashleigh Gentle), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye, here's another one of yours at TFA, I'm working on the TFA text now. - Dank (push to talk) 18:35, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Looks fine. I made some small tweaks. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:27, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-25

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Canberra meetup invitation (August 2016)

I'll be in Canberra from the 29-30 August, there is a planned meet-up at King O'Malley's (though I'm open to suggestions) from 6pm on the 29 August. Sorry for the short noticed, only had the trip confirmed this afternoon. Bidgee (talk) 11:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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Recent changes

  • The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [240]
  • The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [241]
  • The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [242]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [243]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [244]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [245][246]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [247]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Roman and Byzantine Military History task force

As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges (talk) 23:23, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

FAC Bot

Hi Hawkeye, three more FAC promotions don't seem to have been recognised by the bot:

FYI, two others promoted at the same time were closed by the bot:

Pls let me know if there's anything Andy or I can do to try and prevent issues for the bot -- generally I've expected probs if the article name changes mid-FAC but we generally spot that and alter the nomination accordingly. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:04, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

  • It didn't like the GA template on Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?, which was in an invalid form. I will have to make it more tolerant of stuff-ups like that. Unfortunately, I am away at the Paralympics in September, and don't want to fiddfle with it at the present time. So I just corrected the talk page, and let it run. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:30, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Matthew Sands

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I've pretty much completed the review. It's in a collapsed section at the bottom, to visually separate it from the prior stuff. We just need to discuss a hook you want, whatever that is. — Maile (talk) 22:14, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Military Unit Number

Yes, we should add the military unit number field to the infobox template. Kges1901 (talk) 08:04, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [248]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [249]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [250][251]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Project Y

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FAC voluntary mentoring scheme

During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.

Would you be prepared to take on this role occasionally? If so, please add your name to the list. By doing so you incur no obligation; it will be entirely for you to decide how often and on which articles you want to act in this capacity. We anticipate that the scheme will have a trial run for a few months before we appraise its effectiveness. Your participation will be most welcome. Brianboulton (talk) 18:44, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Matthew Sands

On 31 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Matthew Sands, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Richard Feynman's work The Feynman Lectures on Physics was co-authored by Matthew Sands and Robert B. Leighton? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Matthew Sands. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Matthew Sands), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Richard Feynman

On 31 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Richard Feynman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Richard Feynman's work The Feynman Lectures on Physics was co-authored by Matthew Sands and Robert B. Leighton? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Richard Feynman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Chianti

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Chicago Pile 1 Chianti bottle was signed by everyone present. If true, that fact would go well in the caption of the bottle, don't you think? Alanscottwalker (talk) 00:47, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

This is mentioned in the article, which contains a picture of the bottle, with the caption It was signed by the participants Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:44, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Ah, sorry. (weird that i missed it). Alanscottwalker (talk) 13:38, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

spaced dashes and nbsp

Regarding your edit to Dicklyon's comment here:

(I realize that in this edit you made a substantive comment of your own, much later on the page. But this is about your edit to Dicklyon's cmt.)

I'm a little puzzled why you would edit someone else's comment, and not for any reason that I can see is covered by WP:TPOC. But that aside, the markup you changed it to was incorrect: When using a "spaced en dash" (an en dash with a space on either side), if you want to use a non-breaking space, you would use the nbsp in place of the first space. Not the second.

Should the line be wrapped at that point, then the way you had it, the word before the dash would end the preceding line and then the next line would begin with the dash and a space. No, no, no. You don't want the reader to have to scan to the beginning of the next line to realize that the dash is there! You want the line to end with the preceding word, then a space, then the dash, and then the next word after the dash would begin the next line. i.e. you want the dash "attached" to the preceding word, not the following.

Practically, of course, for this particular edit it makes no difference. The word preceding the dash was the very start of a graf, so the chances are just about zero that the line would be broken at either of those spaces (unless the reader has a screen width of about an inch). But the point remains: If you're going to use the nbsp it should be in the correct place. You can also get the desired result with the {{spaced en dash}} template.

Thank you for reading. Jeh (talk) 06:47, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

I have no idea what happened there. It looks like an semi-automated edit, but I have no script that does that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:05, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Maybe something got dropped in from your paste buffer while your text cursor happened to be there? Whatever... sorry for the lecture! Jeh (talk) 08:22, 5 September 2016 (UTC
The same thing happened to me except the "Phantom" placed them correctly. Debouch (talk) 20:30, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Wow! I was debating reporting this to Hawkeye7. Now I'm glad I did, but not because Hawkeye7 needs the advice! Were either of you using the Visual Editor? Jeh (talk) 21:45, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
I was not using the Visual Editor. Debouch (talk) 22:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Me neither. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:29, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
"'Curiouser and curiouser', said Alice." Jeh (talk) 02:00, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [252]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [253]
  • When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [254]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [255][256]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [257][258]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

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Military page referencing help

Hi Hawkeye7,

I have noticed you have edited the Land Warfare Centre page recently and was hoping you could provide some assistance.

I am currently creating a page for the Warrant Officer and Non Commissioned Officer Academy at Canungra. I was hoping you could help me with strategies to get better referencing material as there is limited information on the Academy itself beyond it's history tied to the Land Warfare Centre and its current operations. I have submitted an article twice for review and it is being rejected on lacking reliable and verifiable sources. There is a lack of direct referencing of the Academy in open source mediums.

Could you please provide some advice on how I could get some good information to support this page as the Academy is a significant institution for the Army, particularly for soldiers. Rinkin2016 (talk) 02:09, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:31, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
@Rinkin2016 and Anotherclown: G'day, I can see a lot of hard work has been put into the WONCO-A article, but to be honest (unfortunately) I don't think it meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. As stated above there "is a lack of direct referencing of the Academy in open source mediums": that statement drives at the very heart of Wikipedia notability, I'm afraid. Outside of the Army, I suspect few people would have heard of it. Compare that to Kapooka or Duntroon, though, which most likely the average Australian is more likely to have heard of having either seen the ads on television, or met someone who has been there etc. WONCO-A should, in my opinion, be covered in the LWC article. Please don't get me wrong, I know that it is an important part of the Army (I've been posted to, or trained at, Kapooka, Duntroon, LWC, and WONCO-A), but the level of coverage should be commensurate with the level of coverage in open sources. In that regard, I would suggest potentially beefing up the "Structure" section in the Land Warfare Centre (Australia) article, but we need to be careful to be even handed in our coverage of all of its wings. Essentially then, I would suspect that no more than a 3-5 sentence paragraph on each would be sufficient (so long as it is covered by an appropriate reference). Anyway, that is just my opinion. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:44, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for the assistance and advice. Will keep looking for better references if they can be found. Might have to roll into the Land Warfare Centre page. Rinkin2016 (talk) 08:50, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Madison Janssen

On 7 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Madison Janssen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Madison Janssen, a national and world champion as a junior BMX rider, set a world record and won a world championship on a tandem bicycle with skier and athlete Jessica Gallagher? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Madison Janssen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Madison Janssen), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXV, September 2016

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Advice For Improving Cecil E. Harris References

Ahoy! The only criterion Cecil E. Harris doesn't currently meet according to your review is referencing. I am still relatively new to Wikipedia so I was hoping you could give me some pointers on improving the current references. It's hard to clean up the current list because so much is culled from primary sources. Thanks for any suggestions/criticism! Finktron (talk) 19:57, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

The main lesson is that it's easier to write an article from scratch than to add references later. Each paragraph requires a reference, a source stating where the information came from. This is usually the page number of a book, or a web site. My guess is that much of it is sourced from the war diary, which is apparently on Ancestry.com. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:10, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
There are definitely paragraphs that don't end in citations, but they lead into paragraphs continuing the narrative—and those are referenced accordingly. There are currently 55 unique references in the page; about 40 citations point to a number of different primary sources which include War Diaries and Histories at the squadron, ship, task group and command level, as well as Aircraft Action Reports and other wartime statistical references. Besides these I've included contemporary news sources and Navy magazine links documenting his exploits/citations for valor. There are fewer references from books, I admit, but they do number around 10 citations from 5 distinct works. If you have time, I'd appreciate [citation needed]s where you feel I'm missing documentation. I'm sure everyone on Wikipedia feels this way, but judging from what I've seen, I've gone above and beyond the referencing standards of other B-Class articles even within MilHist. Thanks again for your time. Best Regards, Finktron (talk) 23:17, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rosalie Lalonde

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DYK for Sharon Jarvis

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DYK for Lisa Martin (equestrian)

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DYK for Katie Umback

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DYK for Emma Booth (equestrian)

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  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [263]
  • A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [264][265]
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Daniel Michel

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DYK for Rosalie Lalonde

On 14 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rosalie Lalonde, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rosalie Lalonde is the youngest player on the Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rosalie Lalonde. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rosalie Lalonde), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Milhist bot and the awards page

Hi Hawkeye, just doing some pre-election tidying up and wanted to check about the operation of Milhist bot and how it works out what number it is up to for a given editor. I was looking at doing some archiving of ?awarded awards? but didn't want to screw up the bot operation. Would it be ok if I archived awards, but left each editor's last award on the awards page for the bot to work off? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that it searches backwards for the last award. To be 100% certain I would have to check the code, and I don't have it here in Rio. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:23, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Probably safest to leave it till you get back. Hope you're having a fun time! Great place. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 10:27, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Have fun in Rio, Hawkeye. - Dank (push to talk) 21:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks guys. Things are very hectic here. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:57, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Hawkeye, if you're back and available, can you advise on this? Once I know, I'll include some instructions somewhere for future reference. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:11, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Okay, the awards are already being archived into Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACR/Archive 1, 2 and 3. The Bot starts at the the main pages and then searches backwards through the archives. If we want to add a fourth archive, I have to updatethe Bot. I will do so in a manner that it will recognise new archives in the future. Not that while I am back in Australia, I am not yet back in Canberra. I'm taking a break after the Paralympics in Melbourne. Cheers. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:39, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
It isn't automatic, I last did it manually, creating the third page when I did it. I've now archived page 3 into pages 1 (A-H) and 2 (I-Z), and page 3 is blank. Will it affect the bot if I now delete page 3? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Yes. The Bot will throw an error when it can't find page 3. It won't then update the ACM, except in those cases where the recipient is found on the main page. Best to leave page 3 empty until I get back, which isn't for another week. I can then tell the Bot to ignore a not found situation. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Roger. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
G'day Hawkeye, let me know when I can delete page 3? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:25, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Yes, it can be deleted now. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:10, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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DYK for Joshua Allison

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DYK for Adam Deans

On 17 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adam Deans, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison, Adam Deans, Matthew McShane, Tom O'Neill-Thorne, and Shawn Russell, who will be playing in their first Paralympics? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Adam Deans), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Matthew McShane

On 17 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Matthew McShane, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison, Adam Deans, Matthew McShane, Tom O'Neill-Thorne, and Shawn Russell, who will be playing in their first Paralympics? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Matthew McShane), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Tom O'Neill-Thorne

On 17 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tom O'Neill-Thorne, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison, Adam Deans, Matthew McShane, Tom O'Neill-Thorne, and Shawn Russell, who will be playing in their first Paralympics? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tom O'Neill-Thorne), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Shawn Russell

On 17 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shawn Russell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rollers selected to compete in Rio include Joshua Allison, Adam Deans, Matthew McShane, Tom O'Neill-Thorne, and Shawn Russell, who will be playing in their first Paralympics? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Shawn Russell), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Four Award

Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines. -- samtar talk or stalk 20:54, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Helen Freeman (basketball)

On 18 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Helen Freeman (basketball), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Helen Freeman (pictured) was an Athletic All-American in each of the five years she was at the University of Illinois, and an Academic All-American in three of them? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Helen Freeman (basketball). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Helen Freeman (basketball)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

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  • Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [268]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Project Y

On 20 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Project Y, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Project Y designed an atomic bomb that used explosive lenses (depicted) to focus an explosion onto a sphere? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Project Y. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Project Y), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Major updates to Pageviews apps

In response to your inquiry a few weeks ago, I wanted to inform you that thanks to super awesome Analytics team, Massviews now processes up to 5,000 pages (before it was 500), and is about five times as fast :) Here is the last 20 days of pageviews data on all pages in Category:History of the Paralympic movement in Australia articles, taking only around 20 seconds to process.

PS – you've surely heard this before so sorry for the repeat, but if you could kindly archive your talk page to some degree that would be nice! It really slows down my browser :)

Cheers — MusikAnimal talk 19:46, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much!
PS: I archive my talk page every year whether it needs it or not. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:45, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Robyn Love

On 25 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robyn Love, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Robyn Love played in her first wheelchair basketball game in 2014, her first international in 2015, and took part in the Paralympics in 2016? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robyn Love. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Robyn Love), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi

Any help with the Helene Ripa article would be appreciated. regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 21:55, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Was it auto-translated from Swedish? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:04, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Judith Hamer

On 26 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Judith Hamer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a few months after having her right leg amputated, Judith Hamer trekked across the Andes for a reality television show? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Judith Hamer. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Judith Hamer), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

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  • If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [269]
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  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [271]

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  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [274]

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  • Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [275]

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MilHist Bot query

Hi Hawkeye, was just double-checking the bot's actions re. the Dick Cresswell ACR, which you kindly closed, and for some reason it doesn't seem to have updated the ACM tracking list (although it did for SMS Grier closed at the same time) -- all other steps look to have been executed. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:49, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Very odd. I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:43, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of John Cockcroft

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Tech News: 2016-40

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

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  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [277]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016

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Tech News: 2016-41

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  • You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [278]
  • The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [279]
  • Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [280]

Changes this week

  • Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [281]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

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  • Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [282]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Kudpung. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 150 metre individual medley SM3, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:23, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Kudpung. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:23, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I know who you are Kudpung. But I didn't review the article or curate it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:32, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Quarterly Milhist Reviewing Award: Jul to Sep 16

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  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [283]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [284]

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Hawkeye. I'm just posting to let you know that The class the stars fell on – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for November 11. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:17, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Wow! I was looking at it this morning and noticed that it had never been selected. I think it is a great list. The fun bit is clicking on the "rank in class" column and seeing how far down the class order you could be and still be a general. Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:03, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves

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Your GA nomination of John Cockcroft

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Renamed FAC article

Hi mate, a FAC I promoted yesterday, Heavy Metals, was renamed during the nomination and although I fixed a few things I forgot to rename the nomination file name. I've corrected it now but only after FACBot ran on the other noms promoted at the same time. Will it pick it up tomorrow or do we have to run the bot manually on this one? I probably should know the answer but can't recall now... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:26, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

It should pick it up tomorrow, but I can run it manually. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:31, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 Done Run successful. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:37, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ernest Titterton

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Tech News: 2016-43

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  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [287]
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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Otto Bock

On 25 October 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Otto Bock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ottobock technicians at the 2016 Paralympic Games carried out 3,361 repairs for 1,162 athletes, including 2,745 repairs to wheelchairs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Otto Bock. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Otto Bock), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:21, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Recentlist

As a reward for your great job on FACbot, I'd like to offer you another job (heh). On every TFA page (for instance Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 8, 2016), there's a "recentlist" at the bottom. These are a pain to do manually, but I bet someone (you?) could figure out how to generate a script to generate the recentlist one page at a time. It could take the styling (quote marks, italics) from the first words of the previous TFAs, but if that's too hard, it would be a big help if it just added the right links in the right order, and I could add the styling. - Dank (push to talk) 19:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Seems straightforward enough, but I'll have to raise a BRFA. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:41, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks!! Your call, bot or script. I wouldn't mind just running a script as I create each page. - Dank (push to talk) 10:55, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Great, I'll be scheduling a lot of articles soon, so we'll have more output to look at. Thanks again. - Dank (push to talk) 01:09, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

We can update the creation template (Template:TFA preload) so it does not insert the recent list. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:20, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Done. - Dank (push to talk) 01:30, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I'm finished fiddling with things for the moment through the 18th, if you want to run the bot again. In other news, WP:TFARP had Fermi penciled in for the 28th. I'm about to propose articles for the rest of the month to Brian and Chris, but I don't think I can run with Fermi on the 28th, because I've only got 2 sports articles with a date connection for the month, and one of them is on the 28th. Fermi is a great article and I'll run it before too long if Chris doesn't beat me to it. - Dank (push to talk) 23:19, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

The Bot has updated the latest lot. Let me know if there are any problems. Note that you do not have to create the entries in chronological order; the Bot will fill them in when it has the previous three days. From now on it will run at 0046Z, and I'll be checking the output. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:06, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Outstanding. It missed the italics on Vampire. It doesn't look right to me to lowercase "bluebuck", and we haven't done that before, I think. If this helps, I always provide the correct article title, capitalized, in the TFAFULL template. (Of course, I can do by hand whatever it doesn't do.) - Dank (push to talk) 01:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Do you want it to capitalise the first letter? I've changed it to do that, and to italicise Mughal-e-Azam and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:42, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Bug report: Art LaPella fixed the italics yesterday ... you can stalk his contribs to see what he did. The only other thing I see is that the bot listed "Hurricane Kate" (it's Hurricane Kate (1985)) and "Keith Miller" (the article title is much longer). I'll fix those now. - Dank (push to talk) 13:57, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Fixed the italics. Hurricane Kate is more interesting. When do you want the real title, and when do you want the piped one? Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:45, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! Always the real title. FWIW, the real title is repeated just before the recentlist. - Dank (push to talk) 20:47, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:03, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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Recent changes

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [289]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [290]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [291]

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  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [293]

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

  • Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
  • Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
  • Featured List – England Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
  • Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
  • Featured Portal – Yakutsk SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
  • Featured Topic – Connecticut Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
  • Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
  • Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
  • In The News – India Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and New York City Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
  • Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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About a Feature article candidate

Hello Hawkeye7. I just nominated this article:Game of Thrones(See: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Game of Thrones/archive1). And I would truly apreciate if you have time, could you have a look and maybe give some comments. Thanks. - AffeL (talk) 22:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

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GTRC

You may interested in this GTRC about a topic you were involved in promoting. — Yellow Dingo (talk) 05:13, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ernest Titterton

On 6 November 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ernest Titterton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ernest Titterton performed the countdown for the American Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, and witnessed British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Titterton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ernest Titterton), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FACBot 4

Your bot task #4 has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 01:47, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

(Sound of Champaign corks popping) Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:44, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
While you're in a celebratory mood ... did you see the two tasks I mentioned on Chris's talk page at "two new FACBot-generated pages"? Chris emailed me to say he's enthusiastic about this, if someone can get it running. The first one would I think be simply copying the task that creates WP:FANMP, and skipping the alphabetizing part, so that the results are grouped first by category (Milhist etc.) then by year. The second page would subtract out the articles that appear at WP:FADC ... or if it would be easier, I could subtract those out by hand, and then when someone wants to add something to FADC, they could add it to a special page that the bot is watching, and the bot would simultaneously add the entry to FADC and subtract it from the new page. Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 03:35, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Take your time ... in another couple of days, I'll start asking around for help with this, sorry to give you so much at once. - Dank (push to talk) 17:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
It's okay. I had to first remind myself of how this was done. Wikipedia:Featured articles is added to manually; the Bot removes each one as it appears as TFA. Then it regenerates Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page. So now I need to generate two more pages:
  1. A page like WP:FANMP, but with articles sorted by date of approval;
  2. A page like the previous one, but with the FADC articles removed.
I think I can do this. I will work on it tomorrow. Do you have proposed names for the two pages? Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:54, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Not sorting would be fine, just adding them to the end within their category. If I need to manually add the year markers (which would be fine), then I don't know what the sort operation would do with those, it might make a mess. I can't think of names at the moment, I'll still recovering from the election. - Dank (push to talk) 10:27, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Sorting is the easy part. A sample of the generated first page can be found at User:Hawkeye7/Sandbox5 Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:16, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Chris, there are different formats you and the new guys might want to consider. - Dank (push to talk) 22:32, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
A sample of the second page can be found at User:Hawkeye7/Sandbox6 Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Project Y

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A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
For your work on Leclerc. Buckshot06 (talk) 13:09, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Gosh, that was a while ago. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:44, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Kenneth Le Couteur

On 7 November 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kenneth Le Couteur, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Second World War, Kenneth Le Couteur worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kenneth Le Couteur. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Kenneth Le Couteur), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016

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Tech News: 2016-45

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Recent changes

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [295]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [296]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [297]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [298]

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Meetings

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Talkback

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Problem with closing of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/List of National Defence Academy alumni. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 10:19, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

checkY Resolved. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Project Y

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  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta shift k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [303]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [304]

Meetings

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19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye, some time ago you had expressed interest in taking over the operation and maintenance of User:VeblenBot, which handles many of the day to day functions of Peer Review. Are you still interested? If so, please see here. In any case, thanks for your all you do here, and for your time, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:03, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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Recent changes

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [306]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [307]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [308]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [309][310][311]

Meetings

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Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [312]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [313]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Hawkeye7. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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re: Joseph Rotblat

re: [314]. It is an argument for him being the first Polish Nobel Peace prize laurate. It argues in the second half that JR can be seen as a Pole as until his death he spoke fluent Polish, stressed that he has ties to Poland, calling himself a Pole with a British passport, and disliked when his first name was anglicized as Joseph instead of Polish Jozef. Regarding source reliablility, the website is maintained by Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author, Bartłomiej Kozłowski, Bartłomiej Kozłowski, does not appear to be notable. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I wanted to be sure. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:38, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-48

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Changes this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [315]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [316]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bruno Pontecorvo

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  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [319]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [320]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [321]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [322]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for your nomination! I never expected editing Vietnam War Stubs would be so rewarding. Enjoy a beer on me. Cheers! ---acfrue "clink!" 18:37, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016

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Your GA nomination of Wilhelm D. Styer

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John Glenn article

Thank you for your help thus far. Do you have any interest in working with me to try to get it to GA? Would be one more Mercury 7 astronaut down for the Good Topic.

Also, do you know of any way for me to advertise or otherwise generate better participation for the Adopt an Astronaut task force for Wikiproject Spaceflight? It is just me working on those articles, and I am mostly trying to prevent what just happened (notable astronaut passes away, article in poor shape). Let me know if you have any thoughts there either. Cheers! Kees08 (talk) 19:04, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [326]

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

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Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

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Montreal Laboratory for TFA

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  • Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [327]
  • Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [328]

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  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [329]

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Triple Crown nomination

Hi Hawkeye7. Regarding your Triple Crown nomination, can you please provide DYK credits in the relevant section? For an example see Imzadi1979's nomination here [330]. You can link to either recieving the credit on your talk page like he has, or linking to the original nomination. It would take too much time for me to search for all the DYK credits manually. Imzadi1979 has also gone to the trouble of providing credits for his GA and Featured content, however, while this is nice it is not necessary as far as i'm concerned as it's quite easy to check who nominated a GA or piece of featured content, in comparison to checking a DYK credit anyway. Cheers. Freikorp (talk) 08:07, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Done, but note that it is for the Timeless crown. The DYKs will not have changed of course, so you only have to check that the GAs and FAs have retained their status. (I normally keep all the DYK records here). Have you thought of writing a script? Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:24, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
Oh right, sorry I overlooked that. Thanks for linking the other stuff anyway, it was helpful in verifying everything, which I have now done. So anyway I haven't processed a lot of Timeless triple crown's for more than one GA/FA set, so considering you have 15 sets are you happy for the award to say it is a Timeless Alexander the Great Triple Crown with the regular Timeless image? Freikorp (talk) 00:52, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Yes, that would be fine. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:15, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
It is my pleasure to award Hawkeye7 this Timeless Alexander the Great Triple Crown for an impressive selection of articles that have stood the test of time. Well done. Freikorp (talk) 10:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Rotblat

On 21 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Rotblat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project during World War II, won the Nobel Prize for Peace? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Rotblat. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Rotblat), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Clinton Engineer Works for TFA

This is to let you know that the Clinton Engineer Works article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 6 January 2017. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 6, 2017. Thanks! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:46, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I've trimmed it back to the required length. Odd that you chose the lie detector image. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:30, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:51, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Winnipeg eh? Merry Christmas! Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:06, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup!

Here's some Poutine
Thanks for your hard work on the Montreal Laboratory and for letting me discover some hidden history of my home city! Tinss (talk) 01:21, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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