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Battle of Vyazma (1812): question about adding maps

Hello Hawkeye7,

I am the original author of the Battle of Vyazma. Presently I am rewriting the article, upgrading the narrative, improving its readability, and adding all necessary citations and footnotes. I would like to add two maps the article, but I anticipate problems with Wiki admins about the maps. I am hoping you can give me some guidance.

The two maps are taken directly from Edward Foord's 1908 classic Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812. Note that this book is now available online for free to anyone who wishes to read it. One map is one page 313, and the other is on page 317. I you wish, I can post GIF copies here for you to see.

My specific questions to you are:

1) Given that the book is now available to the public for free, this means I don't need to obtain the publisher's explicit permission to put the maps in my article, correct? Please advise if I am wrong.

2) Assuming I'm clear on the first question, how exactly do I credit the map on Wikipedia so that it doesn't get deleted by some zealous Wiki admin?

3) Assuming I am able to post the maps, may I simply make my own GIF copies, and upload the copies to my article? Or would that be a violation of some Wiki policy? Linking directly to the pages in Foord's book is not an attractive option for reasons of aesthetics, in my opinion. Uploading GIF copies is desirable.

4) The maps are old sketches of the battlefield and troop dispositions. If I make GIF copies, the resolution of the maps may be slightly less than perfect. How can I ensure that a zealous Wiki admin doesn't delete the maps because of less than perfect resolution?

Thanks in advance for any feedback you can offer. If you are unable to answer these questions, kindly give me the name of a Wikipedia admin who can work with me in resolving these issues. If it's easier for you, I can give you my email and we can continue the conversation that way.

Best, Kenmore (talk) 20:36, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Copyright is complicated, but for this specific case. The book was published in 1908, so is out of UK copyright. Upload to Commons and tag it with {{PD-old}}. Perfect resolution is not required. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:27, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

I uploaded the map and added the tags you advised. I am worried about two things though. 1) I downloaded the public domain map from West Point's webpage, and turned it into a PNG file. I trimmed the downloaded page so that only the map appears. I hope this is okay. 2)When asked by Wiki Commons for a date (when the image was created), I had no idea what to put. Therefore I simply put May 15, 2009. I chose that date only because the Wiki editor who did the Borodino article used that date for maps that he downloaded from the exact same West Point webpage I'm using. Does this sound okay to you?Kenmore (talk) 13:58, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

That was when it was scanned. I would have put "1976", the date when the West Point atlas was published. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:35, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

How to add West Point military atlas maps to a Wikipedia article

Hi Hawkeye7:

I would like to add a map from West Point Military Academy's Napoleonic Wars to my Battle of Vyazma and Battle of Krasnoi articles. The specific map I want to use is this one.

It's my presumption that this map is "public domain." I assume so because three maps from that same West Point website are currently embedded in the Battle of Borodino article. Am I correct in assuming this map is public domain?

Also, how can I embed the entire map - as a single image - in my article? Does doing this mean I would have to download a copy of the map to my hard drive, then reupload the map to Wikipedia Commons, and proceed from there?

Thanks in advance for any feedback you can offer. Kenmore (talk) 16:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, the West Point maps are in the public domain in the US. Use the {{PD-USGov-Army}} template. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:36, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Does that mean I can download the map from West Point's website, and then upload it to Wiki Commons? Or do I have to link directly to West Point's original webpage?Kenmore (talk) 10:32, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

I always download and then upload again, stating the original download page when prompted, except when I'm taking a file from Flickr. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:04, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – September 2021

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

Volume 1 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 12th August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles). On 20th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station. On 28th August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.
Article of the month. Apollo 7 Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.	Image of the month. Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Members New Members: Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21st August) Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3rd at 07:39) Failure Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4th at 11:01) Success Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5th at 16:30:05) Success Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10th at 22:01:05) Success GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12th at 00:13) Failure Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17th at 01:47:06) Success Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18th at 22:32) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21st at 22:13:40) Success Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24th at 11:15) Success Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24th at 15:41) Success Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28th at 22:35) Failure Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29th at 07:14:49) Success September Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Firefly Alpha – DREAM Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F) Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10 Falcon 9 – Inspiration4 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3 Atlas V – Landsat 9 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Electron – BlackSky Falcon 9 – Starlink Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1) PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A) Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 10 24 34 54 122 B 4 48 41 53 146 C 57 160 546 530 1,293 Start 34 157 1,106 2,262 374 3,933 Stub 9 244 2,197 1 234 2,685 List 14 124 79 225 1 443 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 1 49 50 File 206 206 Portal 55 55 Project 58 58 Redirect 2 1,140 1,142 Template 504 504 Other 22 22 Assessed 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 609 11,841 Unassessed 53 53 Total 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 662 11,894 Monthly Changes Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.
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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Your GA nomination of Tamper (nuclear weapon)

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Review of John Savage (soldier)

Hi Hawekeye7, I thought I would just ask for some clarification as towards the C class review of this article. It was rated C class when it consisted of a couple of short largely unreferenced paragraphs, and is now a much more in depth and extensively referenced article with more images. I would appreciate it if you could tell me what is required for this article to go from C to B and so on. Best regards, Grosseteste (talk) 00:22, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

So long as it still contains unreferenced paragraphs, it will remain C class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:06, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

That is a fair analysis. The sections which are unreferenced are the parts that I did not write, but I will endeavour to find sources to back them up. Should I submit another request once I have done that, or inform you here? Best regards, Grosseteste (talk) 11:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Submit another request. I personally find adding references to unreferenced sections as much work as writing them myself from scratch. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:31, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/National Football League/archive1

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Your GA nomination of James McDivitt

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Help with a tennis FAC?

Hi Hawkeye7, I was planning to re-nominate Suzanne Lenglen at FAC some time this month. I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing, and if you think you would have time to review it in the next few weeks or so. I'm trying to find a time to nominate when I know in advance a few editors would be available to review it. I think Casliber is on board to review, although they suggested first finding another editor to take a look at it before nominating in light of previous requests from other editors to shorten the article. Thanks! Sportsfan77777 (talk) 01:17, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Sure. I would be happy to review it for you. I have free time now that the Paralympic Games is over. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:29, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll let you know when I nominate it. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 07:25, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Hawkeye7, it's up! Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:23, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of James McDivitt

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Tech News: 2021-36

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• The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [1]

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Your GA nomination of James McDivitt

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Charles Duke scheduled for TFA

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For Featured Articles promoted recently, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon

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This Month in GLAM: August 2021

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Your GA nomination of American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign

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Your GA nomination of American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign

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Congratulations from the Military History Project

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Tech News: 2021-37

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• 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [4]
• A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

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• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [5]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
• Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [6]
• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [7]
• The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [8][9]

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15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign

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Your GA nomination of American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign

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Your GA nomination of American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign

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WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced

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Your GA nomination of American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Hawkeye7,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

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Your GA nomination of Miles Dempsey

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Your GA nomination of Miles Dempsey

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Belgium-related article

• Good evening, apologies for the delay, I've been out of town for a week. Sure I'm interested in the article you have in mind. I might find a local source if there are no translated versions. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 20:18, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

• Probably not anything you are thinking of. During World War II and immediately afterwards, the Manhattan Project attempted to forestall nuclear proliferation by cornering the market on uranium ore. The main source was in the Belgian Congo, so this involved negotiations with the Belgian government without disclosing what the uranium was for. I have a good book on the subject, Gathering Rare Ores by Jonathon E. Helmreich, and ample material for an article, but Helmreich is my only source for the Belgian side. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:33, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Miles Dempsey

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Tech News: 2021-38

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

• Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
• MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [10]
• A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

• There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
• The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [12]

Future changes

• The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [13]
• The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 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: Hawkeye7 on Australia and the UK in Iraq and Afghanistan Op-ed: Nick-D on writing about military procurement

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 13:59, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jim Lovell

The article Jim Lovell you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Jim Lovell 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 21:01, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Three-Quarter Million Award

	The Three-Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Jim Lovell (estimated annual readership: 801,041) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Three-Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 21:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ed White (astronaut)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ed White (astronaut) 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 Zawed -- Zawed (talk) 01:20, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of NASA Astronaut Group 2

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, NASA Astronaut Group 2, 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, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:08, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Confused

Hello, it is late you have reverted a bunch of copyedits, thus restoring errors. Your edit summary did not provide a reason, and it's not the kind of edit that is self-explanatory, so I am confused. I am leaving this message in your inbox in the hope you will have time to contact me tomorrow. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:AD38:10F1:B84A:6037 (talk) 01:48, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

You're using American English. The article is in Australian English. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:22, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

I'll admit I'm still puzzled. I think it most likely that you are confusing my changes with those of someone else. I guess it’s both of our fault; I neglected to link the change in question earlier, and you neglected to provide an informative edit summary which makes it easy to confuse one edit with another. This is the change in question.

I’ll start with the change from “clean up” to “cleanup”. As I explained in my edit summary “clean up” (with the space) is a verb and cleanup/clean-up is a noun. Collins indicates that “clean-up” is slightly preferred in British English and “cleanup” is strongly preferred in American English. Either should be acceptable in an international publication IMO, but “clean up” is always wrong when used as a noun or adjective. Written Australian usage does not show a strong preference for either clean-up or cleanup see grammarist, Though the Macquarie Dictionary and Australian National Dictionary both prefer the hyphenated version. However, internationally cleanup is preferred over clean-up by some margin see some graphs here, hence my earlier decision. It's a judgement call I would certainly not quibble over which of those two should be used.

My next change altered “A 91-metre (300 ft) tower was built at Maralinga for a boosted weapon test, in case sufficient lithium deuteride could not be produced in time for the Operation Mosaic G2 test” by removing the comma. There’s no good reason for it to be there and no Australian style guide recommends such a use to my knowledge.

A further change altered “that is capable of slicing open tiny samples” to “that can slice open tiny samples”. This has nothing to do with any variety of English and a preference for concision has been universally recommended by style guides going back at least to Fowler’s.

”about the history and culture of the region, the controversy and its original owners” I added an Oxford comma here to ease reading, it’s not absolutely necessary to avoid ambiguity, and Oxford commas can be controversial, but style guides tend to prefer the use of one in these cases.

If you would, please explain why you disagree with these changes. I have access to copies of the reference material mentioned above. Thank you. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:A570:C680:4ECD:9565 (talk) 14:07, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. I was concerned about having three versions of "cleanup". I have reinstated the changes. My apologies. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:12, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:4422:4160:8264:576D (talk) 23:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Again, my apologies. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:25, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting period closing soon

Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche will be closing soon. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:32, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ed White (astronaut)

The article Ed White (astronaut) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ed White (astronaut) 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 Zawed -- Zawed (talk) 07:01, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

TFA

Thank you today for British nuclear tests at Maralinga, in the 1950s! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:39, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

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Page number missing

Sorry about putting in the citation without a page number in Ed White (astronaut). I didn't have access to that edition of the book. Gildir (talk) 06:06, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

If you ever need a page number, ping me or place a message on the talk page. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:35, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Hawkeye7. Will do. Gildir (talk) 08:17, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39

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

• iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

• Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
• The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [15]
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• The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [16]

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

DYK for James McDivitt

On 28 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James McDivitt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that astronaut James McDivitt (pictured) saw a UFO during his first spaceflight? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James McDivitt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, James McDivitt), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations

		The Coordinator stars
		On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your election to the position of Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best of luck for the coming year! Hog Farm Talk 03:21, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

NASA astronaut group categories

Thanks for putting up the group 2 category (I didn't check the rest except for group 3), one of those "of course!" category groupings that everyone missed until your creation. Nice work and valuable categories for Wikipedia's NASA spaceflight collection. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

I think the only groups with categories are groups 1 and 2. You might be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Next Nine/archive1. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:50, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Good discussion. Did you plan on putting up categories on the rest, I'll be glad to help if needed. Seems a logical topic tree. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I'll create categories for the other groups too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:22, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: The James McDivitt article got 35,447 page views in 24 hours at DYK. Amazing. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:27, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Does "yo" work on pings? Cool. Yes, people are into old-timey astronauts, glad to hear about the high number of readers. Nice work. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:26, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The WikiChevrons
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the WikiChevrons for participating in 16 reviews between July and September 2021. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 03:44, 2 October 2021 (UTC)