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This user helped promote HMS Cardiff (D108) to featured article status.

This user helped promote 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident to featured article status.

This user has graduated from the adoption program by J-stan! Kudos!

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Falkland Islands work group.

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This user votes Delete regularly for the Article Deletion Squadron.

For those interested in HMS Cardiff (D108), I originally came across her article after a request for help from one of her former crew, Griffiths911. He has some amazing photos of her service during the Falklands War that you should check out. It took me just over three months to achieve FA, involving lots of research.

After taking another article up to FA (against my previous advice), I can confirm that you shouldn't push past the GA mark. The FA process's strict guidelines boil down to nitpicking that hurts an article's content. Improve your articles to educate, not win glossy awards. Having an article on the main page is pretty unpleasant too. A lot of anons edit the article's lead, in the hope that their bad grammar will show up on the main.

To see the photos I've uploaded click here...

AFD
I hate the large amount of unsourced trivial crap there is on Wikipedia, I do not believe that it "doesn't do any harm".
If something is rubbish then it's mere existence drags the encyclopedia down. Articles about "Knuckles the Echidna"[1][2] should not be longer William Shakespeare, The Internet and Echidnas!

**Falklands War books I've read/have:**
Title	Author	Coverage of XX377
Battle for the Falklands	Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins	0 (Roll of honour)
Four weeks in May	David Hart Dyke	0
Hostile skies	David Morgan	0
Official history of the Falklands campaign Vol I	Lawrence Freedman	0
RAF Harrier: ground attack Falklands	Jerry Pook	0
Razor's edge	Hugh Bicheno	Lost my copy!
The red and green life machine	Rick Jolly	3 pages
Sea Harrier over the Falklands	Sharkey Ward	0
Sink the Belgrano	Mike Rossiter	0
Sod that for a game of soldiers	Mark Eyles-Thomas	0
Through fire and water	Mark Higgitt	0
Vulcan 607	Rowland White	0
Watching men burn	Tony McNally	0

		The Original Barnstar
		Congratulations on getting your article up to GA! Keep up the good work! *Justin*^(Gmail?)_(u) 17:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		About time someone decorated your user page with a barnstar, expecially with all your work on HMS Cardiff (D108). Well done mate. Justin talk 15:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

		The WikiChevrons
		For working on HMS Cardiff and promoting what I believe to be the first destroyer ever to achieve Featured Article status I herby award you with the WikiChevrons. Congratulations, and keep up the good work. TomStar81 (Talk) 04:37, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Content Review Medal of Merit
		In recognition of your contribution in improving Military history articles through A-Class and Peer Reviews, during the period March-May 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal of Merit, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 02:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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-'''I got [[HMS Cardiff (D108)]] up to [[WP:FA|FA]] class''' and she got over [http://stats.grok.se/en/200806/hms%20cardiff%20%28D108%29 '''50,000''' hits on the main page!]
-For those interested, I originally came across her article after a request for help from one of her former crew, [[User:Griffiths911|Griffiths911]]. He has some [[commons:User:Griffiths911|amazing photos]] of her service during the [[Falklands War]] that you should check out. It took me just over three months to achieve FA, involving lots of research, but it all paid off when I was able to impress Griffiths with some facts even he didn't know! [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Cardiff_%28D108%29&oldid=189701341 Here's] what she looked like before I got started, if you fancy a laugh ;)
-After taking [[1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident|another article]] up to FA (against my previous advice), I can reaffirm that you shouldn't push past the [[WP:GA|GA]] mark. The FA process's strict guidelines boil down to nitpicking that hurts an article's content. The point of this encyclopaedia and our improving of articles is to educate, not win glossy awards. Having an article on the main page is pretty unpleasant too. A lot of anons edit the article's lead, in the hope that their bad grammar will show up on the main.
+For those interested in [[HMS Cardiff (D108)]], I originally came across her article after a request for help from one of her former crew, [[User:Griffiths911|Griffiths911]]. He has some [[commons:User:Griffiths911|amazing photos]] of her service during the [[Falklands War]] that you should check out. It took me just over three months to achieve FA, involving lots of research.
+After taking [[1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident|another article]] up to FA (against my previous advice), I can confirm that you shouldn't push past the [[WP:GA|GA]] mark. The FA process's strict guidelines boil down to nitpicking that hurts an article's content. Improve your articles to educate, not win glossy awards. Having an article on the main page is pretty unpleasant too. A lot of anons edit the article's lead, in the hope that their bad grammar will show up on the main.
 ''To see the photos I've uploaded click [[commons:User:Ryan4314|here]]''...
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 '''AFD'''<br>
-I hate the large amount of unsourced trivial crap there is on Wikipedia, I do not believe that it "[[WP:NOHARM|doesn't do any harm]]". <br>If something is rubbish then it's mere existence drags the encyclopaedia down. This project will not be taken seriously unless we stop articles like "Knuckles the Echidna"[http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/f/the-wtf-world-of-wikipedia/a-2008062510326553058][http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/awful-link-4103.php] being longer than ones about; The Internet, William Shakespeare and Echidnas!
+I hate the large amount of unsourced trivial crap there is on Wikipedia, I do not believe that it "[[WP:NOHARM|doesn't do any harm]]". <br>If something is rubbish then it's mere existence drags the encyclopedia down. Articles about "Knuckles the Echidna"[http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/f/the-wtf-world-of-wikipedia/a-2008062510326553058][http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/awful-link-4103.php] should not be longer William Shakespeare, The Internet and Echidnas!
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