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A barnstar for you!

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

Thank you very much for your extensive copyediting of the Fortification of Frankfurt article, and thank you very much for adding the beautiful infobox as well. Your work gave me the enthusiasm to do a re-verification of the historic sources and to buy the book the original author had mainly used for creating the article. I'll happily take the kind GAN mentoring offer. It may take a while until I feel ready for that, but I'll definitely do so. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:38, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

ToBeFree FWIW, I heartily endorse Gog's mentoring skills - he's been a great tutor for me, you won't be disappointed! (Gush, gush. I hope you're suitably embarrassed Gog...) GirthSummit _(blether) 22:42, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

@ToBeFree and Girth Summit: Aw shucks guys. You're making me so embarrassed that I have had to turn the heating down. TBF: many thanks for the barnstar. I have a rather childish weakness for them and appreciate the gesture. Re a GAN, you are a lot closer than you think. Follow my suggestions on the article talk page and then ping me: you will probably be nominating within a week of that. Every new admin is required to submit a GAN within 3 months, didn't you know? And GS, shouldn't you be working you know which article up to FAC status, rather than stalking the talk pages of innocent editors? Well, innocentish. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:19, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:34, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Fair comment Gog - I am justly rebuked. I've been reading the (lengthy) sources that SusunW found, I'll get onto changing the content soon, I promise! GirthSummit _(blether) 15:37, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Now I feel like the snappy teacher everyone dislikes. Ah well. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Triple Crown

Congratulations on upgrading from the standard Triple Crown to the Alexander the Great Edition Triple Laurel Crown in under a year. An outstanding achievement! Damien Linnane (talk) 11:31, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

2005 ACC Championship Game

Hello:

Just a quick note to say I went through 2005 ACC Championship Game and fixed a number of issues. I think it's now good to go as a TFA.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:03, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Twofingered Typist. Thank you for that. I wasn't entirely sure if you would still be up for this after last month's slightly bruising experience. For your information, the coordination of each month's TFA copy editing takes place on that month's talk page: ie Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2019. If you would like to drop in, please feel free. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:16, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Water off a duck's back! Somebody had a bad day, that's all. Apart from a few tweaks the article is untouched since my work on it**, so I guess I didn't do too badly after all. I do like your idea of adding a note to the Talk Page to head off possible trouble. I will check out the TFA page, thanks for pointing me to it. Cheers Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:41, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

 •  • 26/11 Correction. It's obviously just appeared on the page and now has dozens of edits! I spoke too soon. Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:55, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: That's because it's on the main page today. TFAs always get lots of edits, most of which are reverted once the dust dies down. One of my FAs was up yesterday, it got 54,000 views (up from an average of 30 a day) and look at the edit history. I'll give it another couple of days then revert virtually everything; so far the only beneficial edit I have seen is the addition of a single comma. SN will no doubt do the same with today's offering. All of that said, the main page gang have a rapid reaction unit, which squelches the more obvious nonsense pretty quickly. So your edits will survive, but most of the current chaff won't. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:06, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

I'm sure some of the edits will improve the article which is what we're all about. It's gratifying to see we don't work in a vacuum and that people do pay attention to what we've done - 54,000 views is remarkable! Cheers Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:08, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Usually there is a helpful residue. Indeed. This article was on the most minor of events. I only created it in June, and there is little of any significance in military history which doesn't already have at least a stub. Last month the better known Battle of Neville's Cross got over 150,000 views in three days. Taylor Swift and Hillary Clinton, articles you copy edited, got over 400,000 views in four days and 80,000 in two days respectively. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:50, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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A favour

G'day Gog, I am going to be effectively incommunicado 8-18 December, so am wondering if you would mind starting the voting phase of MHOTY and MHNOTY on 15 December? A quick look at last year's archives [1] will show you what to do, which is basically adding a subsection for voting and spots for the votes for each nominee. I'll be back for the end of voting and am happy to tidy up at the end. Let me know? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 10:05, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi Peacemaker67. Of course, not a problem. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Map of route of Black Prince chevauchée of 1355

Hi Gog, the image en:File:Map of route of Black Prince chevauchée of 1355.svg is ready for use if you wish to use. If you need references on image, let me know and I will add. This will prevent any problems with creator. Regards Newm30 (talk) 10:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi Newm30. It looks superb. Thank you very much, and please pass these on to whoever created the map. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class medal with oak leaves
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class medal with Oak Leaves for Battle of Sluys, Battle of Calais (1349), and Battle of Lagos. CPA-5 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 3 December 2019 (UTC)