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		2012 "Military historian of the Year"
		By order of the Members of the Military History WikiProject, for I award you this Golden Wiki in recognition of placing first in the 2012 Military historian of the year.   AustralianRupert (talk) 09:07, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh. My. God. Wow. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:53, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations, Hawkeye! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:02, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Ed. I've been going through a rough patch lately, and coming from people like you, this award means a lot to me. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Belated congrats mate -- this award is long overdue...! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Well done Hawkeye, really well deserved. I've appreciated your guidance in reviews. And happy new year! Peacemaker67 (send... over) 05:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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		The Military history A-Class medal with swords
		On behalf of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, I'm pleased to award you the A-Class medal with swords for your work on the Leslie Morshead, Hugh John Casey and Operation Sandstone articles, which were promoted to A-Class between November and December of this year. Kirill [talk] 01:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

History of the US space program

Dropping by your talk page as I wanted to ask you what you know about the history of the US space program? The reason I ask is that I have recently been reading about various space missions, including the Mariner program, and just tonight watched a biographical documentary on Neil Armstrong. What you said about biography at the James Bryant Conant FAC really struck a chord with me, and the biographies you have worked on in relation to the Manhattan Project remind me a lot in some ways of some of the biographies of those who worked on the space program (i.e. individuals working within, leading, or overseeing, a massive team). Like the Manhattan Project, the US space program (and the one in the USSR) was a massive outpouring of technology and engineering, with military connections, and I was wondering if you have an interest in articles related to the history of the US space program? Is there a techno-military equivalent of the article on Big Science (maybe military–industrial complex)? I see the Manhattan Project is mentioned there, but not the space programs, should they be mentioned there? Anyway, on that subject, I recently created two articles on people from JPL (then part of NASA) who worked on the Mariner program: Jack N. James and Robert J. Parks (the early history of JPL does involve missiles, so there is a military connection). The number of people quoted for Mariner 2 is about 250, nothing like the numbers that worked on the Manhattan Project or the Apollo program. But the tension between telling the story of individuals (both scientists and engineers), and the story of a large program with many (largely anonymous) individuals contributing to the overall mission, is still there. I did also find some final bits on Conant, but will drop those on the article talk page. Carcharoth (talk) 22:44, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

I have long had a fascination with the US space program, especially its technical and administrative aspects, and have several shelves of books on the subject, along with biographies of most of the early astronauts. The space program is a classic example of Big Science, so of enormous interest to me. It was definitely my intention to develop some of the space articles over the next year or so, although I've already bitten off two projects that are too big to chew. James B. Conant is part of a mini-series of articles of the administrators of the Manhattan Project. I've done the military ones - Groves, Farrell, Nichols and Parsons - and now the civilians - Bush, Conant and Oppenheimer. I brought Conant to FAC early because I wanted to put him on the front page on his 120th birthday in March 2013. The Manhattan Project articles have years of work ahead of them. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:42, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Years of work, yeah... It is difficult to know where to start and when to stop. Best of luck with that, and I'll keep an eye out for some of the articles. Out of interest, apart from the astronauts (though I have read about Armstrong and Gagarin among others), which do you think are the most famous engineering/administration names from the US and Soviet space programs? So much is focused on the astronauts and the technology that I don't know as many of the names of the managers and engineers as I should. Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev spring to mind, but after that my mind goes blank a bit (though one of the names from Apollo 11 stuck in my mind - Deke Slayton is who I was remembering). But looking through Apollo program I see numerous mentions of generals, managers, and aerospace engineers, though that is likely only scratching the surface (and of course there are many 50th anniversaries coming up for the space program). Anyway, as I said, all the best with whatever you end up working on next. Carcharoth (talk) 02:03, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Well James Webb obviously. Don Ostrander, Samuel C. Phillips, Donald L. Putt... Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

2 Aust Corps?

Hello - first, congratulations! Second ☺ , what is the appropriate wikilink for Berryman's "2 Aust Corps"? See the letter on Morton C. Mumma if curious as to why. JMOprof (talk) 18:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Tank you. Much appreciated. The link you want is II Corps (Australia). I wrote Berryman's article, which is featured. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:10, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Tank you, too ☺ Link made. You may be interested in this for brother Al on M. C. Morton Sr. Jr is coming along. He was in Life magazine. Happy New Year. ...best, JMOprof (talk) 21:04, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

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Morton C. Mumma

Hello, Hawkeye - Anything more I'd think to do for Morton would be polishing cannon balls, but I am sure there are things I've missed. I'd appreciate a critical hawk's eye view of it for anything that occurs to said hawk, if you have the time. I haven't finished reading Bulkley, but I'm past the time of Mumma and New Guinea. ...best, JMOprof (talk) 18:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

And that is why you are Military Historian of the year. Thank you. I'll start with the citation dates needed. Is it a legacy that Mortons III and IV are also shooters? Is there a way to get this in the public domain, maybe as free use? Thank you again. If you ever need submarine help, please think of me first. I have a copy of this, as well as Blair and Roscoe (my expansion). ...best JMOprof (talk) 21:40, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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Just as an FYI: your 2012 archive is linked to the 2011 archive page. Might want to look into fixing that :) TomStar81 (Talk) 11:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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Split trail merger

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Date formats

Apologies - I did not realise that the US military used the British format of '7 January 2013' as opposed to the US format of 'January 7, 2013'. GiantSnowman 10:51, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

No worries! It was drilled into us at the Hood. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:54, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

You know what rhymes with Ray?

"GA". GA rhymes with Ray.

Anyways, Herbert Ray is now a GA.

Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 22:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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Douglas MacArthur

I "parked" him here, on the 50th anniversary of his death, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Pessimistic about its chances. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:34, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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Australian Army in World War II

Hello again Hawkeye7. The review for this is here Talk:Australian Army in World War II/GA1. You've done quite a bit to improve this article over the years so if you are interested your involvement in the review would be most welcome. Thanks again. Anotherclown (talk) 13:05, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

G'day, Hawkeye, this has passed GA now. Do you have any objections to the article being nominated for A-class this weekend? Sorry to rush you, but I'm heading away for six-seven weeks in February, so I'd like to try to get this one through ACR before then. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 21:30, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

No, none at all. Go for it! Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Cheers, Nick is going to make some tweaks to the POW section today, so I will look to nom tomorrow. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 21:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup

I've noticed you've been doing a lot of quality work lately, have you ever considered joining the Wikicup? You would certainly be in first place right now if you did. —Ed!^(talk) 19:31, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I have signed up. I don't think I stand much of a chance against someone like Sturmvogel_66. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:54, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

B-class review

Hi Hawkeye, would you mind having another look at Samuel Frickleton which you assessed as start class earlier today? I have added a cite to the paragraph that was missing one and also fixed the inconsistency about the number of brothers if that was the hiccup with it getting to B-class. Cheers. Zawed (talk) 10:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Zawed (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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I've addressed all but the last issue, and I'm looking for the source on that one. If you could take another look, I would appreciated it. Thanks, GregJackP Boomer! 15:33, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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James Gwyn

Hi Hawkeye, did you have any comments regarding the citations in specific such concerns over sources, sections, quotations, material? I used James Longstreet as a baseline. This was my first attempt at a historical and civil war related article so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! Mkdw^talk 07:20, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I classify dozens of articles at a time according to a rigid set of rules. Go through the article and replace all the {{citation required}} tags with references. And while you are at it, find out what Smith (1892) is. Then come back here or to the review page and I'll reclassify the article as a B. have fun! Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:46, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye, thanks for adding those. That helps me a lot in where my attention should be. I read the criteria but wasn't sure exactly where specifically, so thanks for that. Phew, it's been a long while since I last edited an article extensively. I ended up removing a lot of the sentences with {{cn}} as the details were trivial such as the address of his dried goods business or overall outcomes of a campaign (where the 118th was not directly involved). I've been in contact with some sources such as the Woodlands Cemetery where they forwarded me some historical documents via email. What is the standard practice to use these as a reference? (Upload them and link the file in the reference?) I fixed the Smith reference so it properly links to the full reference if you click on Smith; its a book, mainly eyewitness accounts from soldiers, from the 118th published by John L. Smith hosted at The Library of Congress. Once again, much appreciated for you taking time to answer my questions. Regards, Mkdw^talk 22:28, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

There are restrictions on primary documents; they can only be used for facts. If you have a site that you can upload to, fine. Otherwise you can try WikiSource and then link from there. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't even know about WikiSource. Yes I'm aware; they're mainly records like immigration, burial cards, and business/banking receipts for land/plots. Do you have any recommendations that I should undertake in preparation for A? Mkdw^talk 03:15, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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Gun carriage

Re: first section. It does seem out of place, but the purpose needs to be somewhere, one would think. What would help? Buster40004 Talk 00:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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Sector Clock

Thanks Sector clock Please re assess modified stub, maybe B class? Cmpltd (talk) 19:14, 15 January 2013 (UTC) Not a chance. It needs to be fully referenced. Also: correct the raw URLs. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC

Sharp response! This is a very limited subject. 'Referencing?' are you referring to the final portion about the plotting table? If so I can expand but it is not directly relevant to the topic of the clock.Cmpltd (talk) 14:26, 19 January 2013 (UTC) Got it..! correct the circular referencing.. Cmpltd (talk) 14:50, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

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Big problem with infobox

Hello Hawkeye, during the browsing of Wikipedia, I found page Commandant of Cadets in very bad condition. Some inexperienced user damaged it and I dont know how to revert his changes. Please, can you check it and possibly repair it?

Thank you in advance --AntonyZ (talk) 23:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Done. Amazing how a simple blunder can cause all that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:19, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• • Thank you very much Hawkeye :)

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DYK for Nello Carrara

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Question

I know you've been doing a lot of work on Pacific War American commanders, do you have any designs on any of the Fleet Admirals? I've been collecting sources to do more military biographies and didn't want to step on your toes. —Ed!^(talk) 16:51, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Only Ernie King. I've been meaning to get back to him. But we can collaborate on him if you like. Hawkeye7 (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2013/Submissions/Hawkeye7

Hi there- I'm afraid I removed your featured article, as it's very much "last year's" article. Sorry about that. J Milburn (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Chain Home

This is a B article which I've been working on. Suggestions for further improvement please.Cmpltd (talk) 11:10, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

RE:Fermi

Hallo Hawkeye,
thanks for your kind appreciation, and for your very good job on Enrico's :-) page. This is a very good question, since outside Italy there is much confusion about the Italian University system. First of all, in the last 30 years much has changed, and now the Italian system resembles much the American one. At Fermi's time (and also my time, I graduated in the early eighties), in Italy there was only the so called Laurea, that is, there was NO graduate school. The Laurea in scientific and technical subject (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Engineering) followed always the same pattern:

• The first two years ("biennio") devoted to basic studies (Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, etc.) and basically the same for all the faculties;
• The second two (for Physics and Mathematics) or three (for Engineering and Chemistry) years devoted to specialized courses (but not "equivalent to graduate school" as it was erroneously written in the article);
• In the end, a Thesis work with final examination;
• After that, the student got the title of "Dottore";

This last point brings a lot of confusion among foreigners, since they think automatically that the person holding this title completed a Ph.D., which was NOT the case.

Although at a first glance this could have resembled an undergraduate study (for example in the U.S.), there were differences. The courses were mainly held yearly (October to May), they were time intensive and very hard (in my case, for example, 36 people started Calculus I, only 2 passed) and the examinations (no mid-term) were always written and oral. The Thesis work could have taken a long time (also a couple of years for experimental work) being so comparable with a Ph.D. Thesis. This explain why for a good italian student attending a graduate Study abroad was often an easy task (I got an M.S. in USA in 9 months, and was like vacation :-)).

Regarding Fermi then, you should consider that he was a "Normalista". Students enrolled at the Normale were (and still are) automatically enrolled also at the University of Pisa, and they follows always two courses (and take two examinations) per each subject, one at the Normale and one at the University. They cannot fail an exam, and their score must be consistently high (I think at least 27/30), otherwise they must quit the normale. This, together with a very hard admission test, the exceptional academic body, and the very small number of students, explains why the Normale is the University which holds worldwide the highest ratio between future Nobel laureates and students.

I hope that with this I answered your question. Otherwise, ask me again! Bye, and keep the good job! Alex2006 (talk) 07:56, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you very much. That cleared up a lot of questions for me. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:50, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Hawkeye,

always glad to answer to your questions! Well, the answer is simple: in Italy one or more university chairs were assigned after a "Concorso", that is a public and official (i.e., held by the State: due to that, the result could be appealed in front of an administrative court) competition among several candidates. Usually the "Concorso" was "per esami e titoli" . The latter were degrees (in the case of Fermi, a "Laurea" in Physics), published papers, and so on, which each candidate should have necessarily held. The former was one or more examinations. At the end, the examiners (other university Professors) compiled a ranking list of the persons who are considered "idonei" (capable) for this chair. The first n candidates among the "idonei" got the n chair, the others went away empty-handed. Fermi failed to win the first "Concorso" (if I remember well, it was for a chair in Cagliari), but won the second, thanks to the important aid of Corbino. Moreover, there was also the "Libera docenza", which allowed someone to give lectures at the university without being a professor. This was analogue to the German "Habilitation". Alex2006 (talk) 09:08, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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United States v. The Progressive

Very interesting read and quite well done. Thanks for writing it. NW (Talk) 02:20, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) My favorite line: "It now began to occur to him that his hobby might not be legal." Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 10:14, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks both of you. I will be nominating it for featured. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:59, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

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Yes, I did. (1) I am not an admin. (2) I will have a look at the page. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:40, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

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Happy Australia Day

Thanks Hawkeye7 for your kind thoughts. Much appreciated - :D though I do try to be balanced. If the infantry war diaries were available on the web it would help enormously. All the best, kind regards, --Rskp (talk) 22:10, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and a happy Australia Day to you too. But why use exactly the same message that Laura used last year, complete with the grammattical error (is -> are) and the emoticons (which I didn't think were part of *your* regular editing style on WP)? Graham87 00:33, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

not only that but some are not even regular editors anymore and some of the weirder hard cases of the australian project have never been thanked ever... sats 02:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

If you have somebody in mind, let me know. The day is not over yet. {smiley}} Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. It's especially nice when such acknowledgement comes from people with whom I've really had little interaction. To be honest, I didn't notice the grammattical[sic] error, the spirit of the message is what matters. Cheers. --AussieLegend (✉) 07:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Hehe, touché! Graham87 09:38, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

The template that laura sent out last year was when there seemed to be a need to acknowledge editors workand it seemed like a good day in the year to acnowledge australian editors (I fail to see how the reading of the item as flag waving and mis-directed nationalism, but hey thats wikipedia for you) - the point I was trying to make is the general appraisal of some of the more outlandish bad tempered and obsessed Australian Afd participants, or other very weird corners of the australian project rarely get acknowledged.. (mind you some would probably revert with an edit summary of bugger off - spam) - even for some who have 25,000 + watchlists they might not even pickup on the obscure corners. There a very few high edit people left, but lots of small edit people who would probably have appreciated acknowledgement - but then it would probably take up a lot of time to sort through the mass of currently active Australian editors, then you get those who dont even acknowledge their state or their australianness to be appreciated. sats 14:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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flag-waving

Hawkeye, please don't send me one of those templates. I find the whole thing cringe-inducing. Nationalism goes nowhere but bad places, sooner or later. Tony (talk) 11:15, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

However I appreciated the greeting. There is no need to cringe. Happy 27/1/2013! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:16, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, I for one appreciated the sentiment. Hope you had a pleasant (and less wet than mine) Australia Day! Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:11, 28 January 2013 (UTC).

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Your name came up at Talk:Audie Murphy

Over on the Audie Murphy talk page, an IP editor suggested you might be helpful. In a nutshell, the Audie Murphy article needs a lot of cleaning up and reconstructing. I'd like to see this be a FA on the front page, but it will take a lot to get it there. I set it up for Peer review, and user MarcusBritish has made a number of suggestions. I can do a lot of clean-up and general editing on Wikipedia, but I have no experience with military subjects. Is there is anything you can edit on the military section of the article to help bring it along? Anything you feel you can do is appreciated. — Maile (talk) 01:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

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