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Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

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Your interest in Sports and Paralympics

Your interest in sports and paralympics articles has brought me to ask if you might have some time to look at the Yuzuru Hanyu article which I have recently nominated for GAN. With nearly 300 footnotes it looks like it would be a nice article to improve for good article approval in anticipation of the Winter Olympics taking place next February. If it looks ok to you then possibly you could consider doing the GA review for the nomination. Any interest? ErnestKrause (talk) 19:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't look like there'll be any Paralympics for me this year. I would have asked Figureskatingfan myself, as she is our resident expert on figure skating, and is responsible for everything I know about it, but I can take it on if she's busy. At a glance though, despite having 370 citations, there are still multiple uncited blocks, which will require referencing. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:31, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

After asking her last month, she was and is still busy with grad school exams for another month or two. Uncited blocks which you mention would need to all be addressed if a checklist could be set-up, in order for the article to be comparable to what Figureskatingfan did for Tara Lipinski in her efforts there. It would be nice for you to take on the article while Figureskatingfan is still busy with exams, if that sounds ok? ErnestKrause (talk) 20:47, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Hey guys, what an honor to be called a figure skating expert. Yah, I'm busy but checking in every couple of days, so I saw your ping. Hawk, no Paralympics? How come? I watched it really for the first time in 2018 and loved it. I'm looking forward to watching it again this summer. I've put Yuzuru on my watchlist, and will try to do some work on it when my semester's finished in early May. He's so great, right? I think a better model would be Johnny Weir, Yuzuru's hero, because there was more information about Johnny than there was about Tara, since her career was pre-internet. The other issue with Yuzuru's article is that so many of the sources are in Japanese, so I'll have to depend upon bad google translations, but at least we can get the gist of them. Anyway, I'm sure we'll talk more over the summer. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:32, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

No air flights to Japan. I have media accreditation, but no official permission to travel. (No chance of getting a vaccination either, but that's not required for Japan.) So it looks like I'll watching it all on TV. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:15, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Greetings Hawkeye. From the GA review for this article, it appear that Jasper has departed for real world obligations without leaving any note for us. It has been over a week without any message. I am writing because the article appears to be ready to move forward for pass-fail since all the edit issues have been addressed and there are no size issues with the article at this time, and there are other editors waiting for a response. Since you have still listed in some sense as the original review editor, could I ask you to take a look to see if you could do a pass-fail at this time? ErnestKrause (talk) 15:30, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

I still have some issues with the referencing of the article. If these are resolved I will pass it. Let me know if you would prefer a fail. I have placed the review on hold for now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:59, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Nice of you to do such a thorough job at the Yuzuru Hanyu article leading to the positive outcome. When I had read through your Talk page last month, there appeared to be some articles you helped edit dealing with the Manhattan project and nuclear arms. Have you kept up any of this interest in the associated and related fields of strategic nuclear arms, tactical nuclear arms control, etc? ErnestKrause (talk) 15:12, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

This was a major project I took on in 2021-2020, but it is all but complete now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:17, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

The 3 related pages I was looking at were: Nuclear deterrence, and, Nuclear optimism, and Nuclear proliferation. These pages did not look that well put together and I was wondering if you had thoughts about improving them, or if you are finishing up with this topic? ErnestKrause (talk) 20:47, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

None of them was ever on my worklist, and being a military historian, only nuclear deterrence is in my field. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:59, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

The current status of the subject of a nuclear deterrence article is that it does not exist except as a short, almost negligible section of the larger article on Deterrence which is not very well maintained or well written. The criticism section of that article seems also to lack a coherent organization. If you have thoughts for improving the article from the standpoint of nuclear deterrence then possibly let me know, unless you have moved on to your other articles. ErnestKrause (talk) 21:47, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Future Perfect at Sunrise

I'm glad you've called him out. The problem is that he inserts falsehoods into articles then protects them so that no one can take them out. Gregorian calendar was protected by him five years ago. Can you prevail upon an administrator to unprotect? Failing that, can you remove the falsehoods if they are flagged? Here's one example. Prior to 2017 the article claimed:

The Council of Trent approved a plan in 1563 for correcting the calendrical errors, requiring that the date of the vernal equinox be restored to that which it held at the time of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and that an alteration to the calendar be designed to prevent future drift. This would allow for a more consistent and accurate scheduling of the feast of Easter.

This was then changed to

In 1545, the Council of Trent authorised Pope Paul III to reform the calendar, requiring that the date of the vernal equinox be restored to that which it held at the time of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and that an alteration to the calendar be designed to prevent future drift. This would allow for more consistent and accurate scheduling of the feast of Easter.

The Council opened in 1545 and closed in 1563 so it appears these dates were plucked out of the air to give these unsourced falsehoods an appearance of authenticity. You can read the actual decrees at [1], from which you will see the claims are a complete fabrication. 89.240.117.137 (talk) 16:27, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-17

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• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [2][3][4]

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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

MAUD Committee scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 30, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:25, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for MAUD Committee, about the committee, "which performed a feasibility study of the claims in the Frisch-Peierls memorandum that an atomic bomb was practical. It led to the establishment of the British, American and Russian development projects."! - DYK that I share the page with the lead DYK], "useless but meaningful"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – May 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 7
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 successfully launched from Baikonur Site 31 with Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark T. Vande Hei arriving at the ISS 3 hours later to join Expedition 64 members. April 12 marks the 60th year of human spaceflight, since Vostok 1 launched in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin onboard. April 12 also marks 40 years since the first space shuttle launch. STS-1 spent 2 days, 6 hours in space in 1981 landing on April 14. On April 16, NASA selected the SpaceX Starship Human Landing System for crewed landing on the Moon. On April 17 at 01:34 (UTC), Soyuz MS-17 departed from the ISS and landed at Kazakh Steppe over 3 hours later ending Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Kathleen Rubins mission of 184 days and 23 hours. Also on the 17th, Expedition 64 on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65. On April 19, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed the first powered flight using atmospheric lift on another planet. Earth Day came around for another year, 51 years after it was first held on April 22, 1970. On April 23 at 09:49:02 (UTC), SpaceX Crew-2 launched at LC-39A with Shane Kimbrough, K. Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet arriving at the ISS 1 day later to join Expedition 65 members. Michael Collins who was the Apollo Command Module pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90. On April 29, China launched a Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.
Article of the month. Michael Collins Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.	Image of the month. The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.
Members New Members: Anshuman~Potu~Tipu (Joined on the 1st April) DrifAssault (Joined on the 6th April) BeachFire (Joined on the 13th April) Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15th April) Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19th April) ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20th April) TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27th April) StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29th April) Number of active members: 112. Total number of members: 325. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7th at 16:34:18) Success Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8th at 23:01) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9th at 07:42:40) Success Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23rd at 22:14:08) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25th at 22:14:08) Success Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26th at 20:47) Success Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27th at 03:20) Success Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29th at 01:50:00) Success Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29th at 03:23:15) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29rd at 03:44) Success Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27th at 03:20) Success May Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1 Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5 Soyuz – OneWeb 7	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 35 53 121 B 1 49 37 48 135 C 56 160 534 489 11 1,250 Start 37 158 1,115 2,235 373 3,918 Stub 7 244 2,191 226 2,668 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,131 1,131 Template 495 495 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 611 11,733 Unassessed 56 56 Total 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 667 11,789 Monthly Changes Since March, 39 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There is 1 less GA-class, with 3 more files, 4 more B-class, 6 more C-class, 7 more start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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The Space Barnstar

		The Space Barnstar
		Awarded in recognition of your incredible work creating Shuttle-Centaur and bringing it up to GA/A-class standards. Good luck at FAC! SalopianJames (talk) 08:59, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Wow. Thank you! Drop in a the review if you can. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:00, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

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Tech News: 2021-18

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• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

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• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [5]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [6]

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• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [7][8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of Lisa Nowak

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, Lisa Nowak, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Adding my congratulations on the promotion. Good work and well done Hawkeye7! You preserved through a long process. If I may make a suggestion, I think it would be best if the article not be added to the "Today's featured article" queue, as Nowak is now a private person out of the public eye, and it may not be appropriate to bring the spotlight back on her again. Anyway, again, well done! LK (talk) 04:38, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank You!

I thanked you on the edit] but that wasn't enough. Really appreciate the link you added to CFD about the RFC on award categorization. Even if we disagree on some of the particulars, I'm glad to be able to participate. - RevelationDirect (talk) 15:45, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

In appreciation

		The Reviewers Award
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II

On 10 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when arguing for a narrow front, Monty called Ike's messages, "nothing but balls"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:04, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

• Good to see that you got there in the end. As it took three months, we see that DYK is more of a broad-front process than a narrow one, eh? Ike-like equanimity is the best way through... Andrew🐉(talk) 08:49, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

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• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final

On 12 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kate Lutkins (pictured), the best on ground at the this year's Aussie Rules Football Women's Grand Final, played with a painful foot injury that required surgery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2021 AFL Women's Grand Final. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IV, April 2021 Headlines Albania report: WikiGap 2021; Workshop “When State Security was engaged in Science”; Women in STEM; International Roma Day Edit-a-thon Australia report: A Wealth of Wiki Women Belgium report: Projects by Wikimedia Belgium Brazil report: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia celebrates Wikipedia 20 Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2021 report DRCongo report: WMDRC - UG report: Wikipedia in library Estonia report: Finding new ways of making art visible + 360° panoramas of Estonian museums Finland report: Saami place names France report: Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2021; French open content report Germany report: Northern Exposure for cultural heritage data India report: Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2021; Museum Daerah Deli Serdang is now on Commons Italy report: A Wikipedian in residence at the Civic Museum of Modena: report Netherlands report: WikiVrijdagen with Atria and IHLIA, Wikimedians in Residence will increase the visibility of media art on Wikipedia, Wikimedia training: shared heritage, Papiamentu and Papiamento: Wikipedia is up and ready to go! New Zealand report: West Coast WikiCon and Performing Arts Aotearoa Serbia report: Great impact of cooperations Spain report: New partnerships Sweden report: More music; Enriching GLAM photos with SDC; Swedish GLAM survey Switzerland report: GLAMhack 2021 & more UK report: University of Edinburgh Library Wikimedia Community of Interest; Khalili Collections; British Library USA report: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season Wikipedia Library report: Fostering Connections: Wikimedia and Libraries Global Meetup Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Extended Date Time Format for Wikibase WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Hackathon, Product Updates, and Office Hours Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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DYK for Paul Odgers

On 13 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Paul Odgers, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Paul Odgers was the last survivor of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's tactical headquarters who was present at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Odgers. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Paul Odgers), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Freddie de Guingand

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Freddie de Guingand 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 Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 08:17, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Discovery of nuclear fission

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Your GA nomination of Freddie de Guingand

The article Freddie de Guingand you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Freddie de Guingand for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 02:41, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [10] [11] [12]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [13][14]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [15]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick- D and Hawkeye7 look at intelligence gathering, doctrine and strategy

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Standarse

It's a shame standarse isn't a word [17] because it seems like it could come in right handy all over the project. EEng 03:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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Recent changes

• The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Galileo project

The article Galileo project you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Galileo project for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Therapyisgood -- Therapyisgood (talk) 19:21, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Battle of La Haye-du-Puits

Thanks, and you're on. Although this could be a bit of a slow burner. I am currently trying to wrap up two unrelated articles. (Third English Civil War and Battle of Halidon Hill.) Once I have put them to bed I'll open a draft page and outline some ideas. How does that sound? Gog the Mild (talk) 10:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

What sources do we have apart from Blumenson? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Hard copies of:

• The Battle of the Hedgerows: Bradley's First Army in Normandy, June–July 1944 by Leo Daugherty
• To the Last Man by Randolph Bradham, which is trite.
• Battle for St-Lo by Peter Yates
• St Lo 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Stephen Zaloga
• The Germans in Normandy by Richard Hargreaves which is not bad.

Plus several more general works which may be handy for background, weapons, opposing forces, prelude, aftermath etc.

I haven't started searched for on line or official sources yet, so that is just what I have to hand. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

And Nafziger's German Infantry OoB and other bits and pieces. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

And 82nd Airborne: Normandy 1944 by Stephen Smith and Simon Forty.

I'll stop now. You get the idea. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

I have created a page for the outline here - User:Gog the Mild/Battle of La Haye-du-Puits. Feel free to add, delete, change comment and make notes. Probably best to use the talk page there going forward. It will be a few days before I can give it a lot of attention and start filling in, at least in outline, some of the blanks; not that there is any rush. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:20, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – June 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space. A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean. One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure. Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14th May. Featured Content The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021. The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius & Hawkeye7. The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Katherine Johnson Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".	Image of the month. Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Members New Members: NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13th May) LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13th May) Dulliman (Joined on the 22nd May) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29th May) Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success June Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Long March 3B/E – Fengyun 4B Falcon 9 – CRS-22 Falcon 9 – SXM 8 Minotaur 1 – NROL-111 Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05 Atlas 5 – STP 3 Soyuz-2.1a – Progress MS-17 Long March 2F – Shenzhou 12 GSLV Mk.II – GISAT 1 Falcon 9 – Transporter 2	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 4 7 37 FL 4 4 8 FM 98 98 GA 11 22 35 54 122 B 2 48 38 49 137 C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258 Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917 Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,034 1,034 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135 Template 501 501 Other 1 38 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762 Unassessed 1 71 72 Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834 Monthly Changes Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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