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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Hawkeye7,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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Would you be willing to help Leonard W. Murray

Admiral Murray was a very important WW2 Admiral - not just my opinion - he was the only Canadian to command a theatre of war in WW2, and he is hoping to get to FA status in the next month. In time for the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. I am trying to get a good peer review going before nominating for FA, and I really need an experienced peer reviewer who knows military history (not necessarily Canadian though). I would be most grateful if you could review the article and suggest improvements of any sort (we think it is pretty good already but an experienced second opinion is super helpful). Thanks Friendofleonard (talk) 03:15, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Sure. No problem. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:55, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Friendofleonard (talk) 13:32, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 I will make some edits in the next couple of days (I am going to Navy archives tomorrow) and would you be ready to give it a review at the end of this week. Friendofleonard (talk) 03:07, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

I can have a look at the weekend. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:38, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

I have removed the peer review status and plan to get it into the FAC queue this weekend. I found it a little hard to navigate last time. Friendofleonard (talk) 03:13, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Hawkeye. The article has been given a thorough scrubbing, with many thanks to you for your detailed review - from which learned a lot. The comparison with Leahy was very helpful. I have now posted it for FA nomination in the nomination queue, and would appreciate further advice or support at this point. Thanks again. Friendofleonard (talk) 14:16, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10

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Omaha Beach

The article is currently a featured article removal candidate. I heard you are good with this stuff, but I also heard you are busy, so you can ignore this if you want. Please fix the article. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:26, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Did PM Chris Watson support or oppose federation?

Hi Hawkeye7, I recently came across a clear contradiction in the artcles on the ALP and Chris Watson. The ALP lead says he supported federation, but the Chris Watson lead says he opposed it, both without cites. My knowledge of Australian history would barely fill Captain Cook's bicorne, but I don't think we should have a contradiction like that in two articles on important topics. I know you mainly do military history, but could you take a look at the messages I left on the edit pages? Thanks, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:08, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

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Howard Florey

Hi. I agree that 'further reading' is for books not cited in the text. But the section listing items that are cited in the text is entitled 'References' (see this article for example Joseph Banks). My edit was therefore to correct the heading from 'Notes' to 'References' Thanks Point of Presencetalk 20:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

MOS:NOTES permits different styles. For examples, see USS Marmora (1862) and William D. Leahy, currently at FAC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Ok thanks. I'll resist the temptation to 'tidy up' in future then ;-) Point of Presencetalk 10:44, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACM/Eligibility tracking

Shouldn't this have triggered an ACM nomination for Auntieruth and myself? I wonder if that from a few months ago is cropping up again. Hog Farm _Talk 14:14, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:39, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Getting the Bot to process these is a bit of work so I've processed them manually. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:07, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 14 reviews between October and December 2022. Hog Farm (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 04:45, 11 March 2023 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Infobox at Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aye, Hawkeye. I went ahead and restored the original infobox that has been in use for some time. As I think you agree, we should have more than a passing, day old, marginal consensus to make the sort of change proposed --by an editor with an apparent Single-purpose account who has a history of making veiled statements with this sort of thing. See these Talk page sections: 1, 2 and 3. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:36, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:55, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion affecting AFL Women's season seven

Hey Hawkeye7 – hope you're doing well. There's a discussion happening at WT:AFL regarding the sequencing of sections in Australian rules football season articles, and thought I'd reach out in case you wanted to weigh in given you helped promote AFL Women's season seven to GA status and it would affect this article. Thanks! 4TheWynne (talk • contribs) 00:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-11

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DYK for Esmond Venner Keogh

On 18 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Esmond Venner Keogh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Esmond Venner Keogh. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Esmond Venner Keogh), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

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DYK for Bonnie J. Dunbar

On 18 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bonnie J. Dunbar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar (pictured) flew on five space missions and has spent more than 50 days in space? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bonnie J. Dunbar. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bonnie J. Dunbar), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

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TFA

Thank you today for Jim Lovell, "about the second oldest living American astronaut after his Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 crew mate Frank Borman. He also flew the Gemini 12 mission with Buzz Aldrin, who is two years younger. Lovell was part of the Next Nine group of astronauts selected in 1962 that also included Neil Armstrong, and he was Armstrong's backup for the Apollo 11 mission. Today he is probably best known for his unsuccessful final mission, Apollo 13, which was made into the 1995 film Apollo 13, in which he appeared."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:33, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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trivial diffs

Hawkeye7, are you aware that the diff that FACBot provides when closing a nomination sometimes compares an old version of a nomination with itself? for example, in this diff, FACBot provides this diff, which shows no difference between the two versions compared because they are the same version of the fac nomination. if this was the intended behaviour, please ignore me. dying (talk) 15:26, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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April 2023

I've gone ahead with th4e re-nomination of the James Madison article. There is a rewritten Slavery section now per some of your comments from 2 months ago. Possibly you could finish the Source and Image review which you had started 2 months ago if time allows. Cheers. ErnestKrause (talk) 14:32, 4 April 2023 (UTC)