User:Askari Mark

Welcome to my home page! My primary areas of expertise include fixed-wing military aircraft, national air forces, and military history in general. I also have expertise in numismatics and medallic sculpture (chiefly Art Nouveau and Art Deco). If I can be of assistance, please post a note on my talk page.

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Navigation[edit]

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Wikipedia:Contents

Top-level "root" Categories: Category:Categories

References: Wikipedia reference desk · List of reference tables
Lists of topics (all) · List of topics – References · List of topics – Technology and applied sciences
Category: Military lists
List of adjectival forms of place names

Projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft; Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics; Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history; Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military aviation task force

Wikipedia:Dead-end pages

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion

Wikipedia:Template messages

Askari Mark essay: Defining Jet Fighter Generations

Askari Mark essay: Understanding aircraft unit costs

To do[edit]

Credits[edit]

Featured on Did you know

Pitot-static system

Abkhazian Air Force

Articles I’ve created, overhauled or made significant contributions to:

Domenico Selvo (FA)

Pitot-static system (GA)

Timeline for aircraft carrier service

Wesley Clark (FA)

Lists I’ve created, overhauled or made significant contributions to:

List of military aircraft of Japan

List of Albanian Air Force aircraft

List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

List of air forces

Current projects:

MiG-33

Awards[edit]

		The Original Barnstar
		For your solution to the edit war on Safiyya bint Huyayy on whether she was or wasn't a concubine of Mohammad FrummerThanThou 12:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Wikiproject Aircraft Wiki-Wings
		I, Chrislk02, award you this wiki-wings for the excellent work you do with Wiki project aircraft! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

		The Reviewers Award
		I, Staxringold, award you this Reviewers Award for your consistent responses in the 2nd featured article candidacy of Wesley Clark that has made the article quality grow in leaps and bounds! Staxringold _talk^contribs 00:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 500 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

		Armenian Barnstar of National Merit
		User:Askari Mark is hereby awarded the Armenian Barnstar of National Merit for all the work he has done to improve the coverage of Armenian Air Force article. Keep up the great work!
		this WikiAward was given to Askari Mark by VartanM (talk) 03:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For diligently improving Fighter aircraft for the W0.7 release version of Wikipedia, please accept this Barnstar of Diligence. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 12:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

		Military history reviewers' award
		By order of the coordinators, for your help with the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews April to June 2009, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award. Roger Davies ^talk 12:20, 5 July 2009 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

I award you the *Aviation Barnstar* in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -Bzuk

Administration[edit]

Multi-namespace Search

General Assistance: Requests for Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
Requests for comment (RfC) in disputes
Mediation Cabal (unofficial mediation service)
Translators · Translators available
Aircraft 3-Views – Emoscopes
Mapmaking – MapMaster
Requesting Help with Illustrations – Philip Greenspun illustration project

Cleanup resources — page & inline tags

Community: Village Pump · Signpost

Userboxes

Understanding aircraft unit costs

Flag Icons: WikiProject Flag Template
List of Countries with flag icons available

Wikiscanner

Wikichecker

General Editing[edit]

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Wikifying
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Categories: Index of Categories
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Categories needed · Stubs

Navigation boxes: Wikipedia:Navigational templates
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{{Navigational templates}} (/simpler version)
Basic {{Navbox}} template

Infoboxes: Help:Infobox · Infobox templates · Infobox examples · Infobox colors

Long articles: Breaking up long articles
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Templates: Template:Convert (Adds autoconversions)

Requests for Moves[edit]

Merging and moving pages

How to rename (move) a page

Article

On talk page: {{subst:WP:RMtalk|CurrentTitle|ProposedTitle|Rationale}}
On WP:RM: {{subst:WP:RM|CurrentTitle|ProposedTitle|Rationale}}
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Images[edit]

Extended image syntax
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Image use policy
Tips for successful release requests

Manual of Style[edit]

Layout

Wikipedia:Guide to layout

Lead section

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Other resources

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General Style[edit]

Abbreviations
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Words and phrases to avoid
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Source Citation & Footnotes (WP:FN)[edit]

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CSS[edit]

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Troll-o-meter[edit]

Troll-o-meter checklist:

Excessive use of CAPITALS – ??
Abusive toward other editors – ??
Crusading on a single issue – ??
Cites using external links – ??

Scoring:

Three out of four “checked”: Strong cause for suspicion.

Four out of four “checked”: No doubt left.

(Stolen from Guy, with all due appreciation.)

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