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The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018

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: Recent external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on a supergun of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Kges1901, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Can you help me with a very disruptive editor?

Hi there. You've probably noticed that User:Zeemoney's articles always need extra attention (to put it nicely). He keeps on creating super-incomplete Hero of the Soviet Union lists faster than I can keep up with. By the time I fix one list he creates two more, causing obvious problems. As you can see here, here, here, and here, I have had to repeatedly make MAJOR edits to his original lists due to incompleteness, but he just created 3 more even though I asked him to stop publishing incomplete versions. Would you please have a talk with him (preferably a stern talking-to involving several other high-ranking editors like yourself)? He seems to be more of a googletranslate-copy-paste-publish editor than a read-write-cite-proofread editor. (Just see how much I had to ce an he pasted from google translate) Thanks.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:22, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Last time he did similar things with Russian generals, military units, and Chinese politicians there was an WP:ANI thread and his autopatrolled right was taken away. Now that he's been around for years doing the same thing with little improvement...I'll open another thread. Other editors have told him to change, but it has not actually worked. Kges1901 (talk) 21:38, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

PING FAC, one more for the road

Thanks for your quick response to primarily questions, one more. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For 4th Guards Airborne Division - great work!! Buckshot06 (talk) 04:39, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

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: This month's external reviews Op-ed: TomStar81 on the murder of the Romanovs Timeline: This month in World War I

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1st Pennsylvania

@Kges1901: Thanks so much for helping with the edits on the 1st Pennsylvania. Just as a bit of background, I realize that timelines aren't the preferred format and that they aren't written in present tense, but because this article was barely even a stub when I started working on revising it, I opted to initially format the first part of the regiment's history (3 months' service) as a timeline with the plan that I would go back in and put it into paragraph form after I had posted additional text with further details about the regiment's service. (I've been researching the Civil War Widows' Pensions for the 1st Pennsylvania for additional data via Fold3, historic newspapers, and other resources about the 1st Pennsylvania while working on redrafts of this article on and off in between doing other things for Milhist and Women in Red.) I've also posted this message to you to the article's talk page, but am posting here so that we're not accidentally interfering with each other's edits on this article. Again, many thanks for your support. Kind regards. 47thPennVols (talk) 16:56, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For the data on the 177th IAR's warehouse fire [1]!! Buckshot06 (talk) 14:43, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of South Australian Mounted Rifles

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article South Australian Mounted Rifles 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 Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 13:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of South Australian Mounted Rifles

The article South Australian Mounted Rifles you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:South Australian Mounted Rifles for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 18:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Kges1901, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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The Writer's Barnstar

		The Writer's Barnstar
		On behalf of the WikiProject Military history coordinators, I hereby award you the Writer's Barnstar for placing second in the July 2018 Military History Article Writing Contest with 124 points from 21 articles. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:36, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018

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 looks at a classic US official history Op-ed: TomStar81 on belated declarations of war in 1916–18 Timeline: This month in World War I

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Russian military biographies

Hi again. I have complied a (still somewhat incomplete) list of biographies present in Russian but missing in English; over 90% of the redlinked names are military, and they are pre-screened to be super-notable. Did you know that the Soviet record for most shootdowns in one sortie does not have an article in English? Or that 22 double Heroes of the Soviet Union don't have articles? And that Major-General Ivan Semyonovich Nikitin was wanted for treason by the Soviets, but executed by the Nazis first? Please do dig in (Barnstars will be awarded for high numbers of full articles).--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 17:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for compiling the list. I am already aware about the missing double heroes and had listed them on one of my to-do lists last year. I eventually will create some new ones, but right now I am trying to improve the quality of existing articles (we have too many Russian military history-related stubs right now). Kges1901 (talk) 17:23, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

In that case, please do take a look at Category:Hero of the Soviet Union stubs. Cheers!--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 19:36, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Alabama Secondary Sources

What would be the secondary sources for the 55th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. What would be the secondary sources differ from 55th Regiment United States Infantry? I'm trying to get these done properly and I've got other people doing the opposite. Adamdaley (talk) 02:14, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

• uses 55th United States Colored Infantry. Also, the result of these [2] [3] google searches - the fact is that the majority of secondary sources use [number] [state/organization] [unit type] [unit size] to refer to units and not Dyer's order of [number] [regiment] [state] [Volunteer] [unit type]. Kges1901 (talk) 09:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

American Civil War: Alabama Regiments

The only problem I see at the moment (and I'm not bringing up anything from a few days ago) is the Category:Alabama Union Civil War Regiments is there is the 55th Regiment United States Colored Infantry is in italics. This shouldn't appear this way compared to the others (106th, 110th Regiment United States Colored etc). Then there is the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment (Colored) appears not only in italics but this shouldn't be appearing there at all this would be the 55th Regiment United States. So we need the 1st Alabama to be removed and the 55th Regiment Unite States unitalics. Does that sound fair? Adamdaley (talk) 01:40, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

The italic formatting is automatically used for redirects; it is a default setting for category appearance and cannot be changed. Honestly I'm not sure if the Federal USCT designations should be included in the state unit categories. Ideally I would keep the 1st Alabama Colored redirect in the state category, and remove the Federal designation USCT units from the state category. Kges1901 (talk) 01:48, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• Is there a Federal designation USCT Category? Adamdaley (talk) 01:52, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, it is Category:United States Colored Troops Civil War regiments. Kges1901 (talk) 01:54, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• We are naming Union Civil War Units with what source? Adamdaley (talk) 01:58, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• For the titles of the articles I have worked on, I have used a combination of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion and the US NARA's Compiled Service Records of the USCT. Kges1901 (talk) 02:00, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• It appears to me to be very similar to what Dyer Compendiums has. Adamdaley (talk) 02:06, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• It is similar, but the difference is the order of regiment in the designation. Some of the entries in Dyer have regiment as the second word in the designation, as with your recent page moves, but the sources I am using have 'Regiment' last. Additionally most secondary sources have regiment last as well, so would you be fine if the word order of the USCT designations was standardized to have 'regiment' last? If you are not I will open up a wider discussion on the MILHIST talk page. Kges1901 (talk) 10:11, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I agree with Regiment being the last word in the titles, this is standard practice on WP. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 10:15, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• I remember Peacemaker67 wanting the word "Regiment" to differentiate it from "Division(s)". I'll get used to it eventually where-ever you put the word "Regiment". Adamdaley (talk) 11:02, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Elands River (1900)

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Your GA nomination of Battle of Elands River (1900)

The article Battle of Elands River (1900) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Elands River (1900) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 21:01, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Source

http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00087466_00010.html?prox=true&phone=true&start=30&context=besatzungspolitik&ngram=true&hl=scan&fulltext=besatzungspolitik&rows=10&mode=simple Xx236 (talk) 10:27, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks. Kges1901 (talk) 11:05, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

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: Indy Beetle and Nick-D on the Katangese Gendarmes and India during World War II Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at two important treaties of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Kges1901, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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DYK for Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)

On 26 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Thomas Hawker (British Army officer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a successful Peninsular War charge led by Thomas Hawker (pictured) was said to prove that the use of carbines by cavalrymen was "nothing short of insanity"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Hawker (British Army officer). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Have your say!

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class medal
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class medal for 57th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov, and South Australian Mounted Rifles. MilHistBot (talk) 01:17, 27 September 2018 (UTC)