User talk:Kirill Lokshin

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June 2005–June 2006
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T-34 for FA

Hi. Thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/T-34. I've addressed some of your concerns with the article, and posted an update on the comments page. I wonder if you'd mind reviewing your objections and maybe crossing one or two out—help keep up the troops' morale?

Thanks, Michael Z. 2006-07-08 07:33 Z

I think I've addressed all of the reference issues at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/T-34 (details at talk:T-34#Drive for Featured Article quality). Please have a look, and let me know if there's anything else you think needs attention for you to withdraw your objections. Thanks for the critical eye—the FA review has already resulted in some notable improvements to the article. —Michael Z. 2006-07-13 17:21 Z

Please meet Grafikbot

Hi Kirill,

Please meet my new bot, Grafikbot. He will perform the MILHIST newsletter delivery once a month and some template replacing (I saw it is necessary to deprecate these old shortcuts to WP:MILHIST because it potentially creates two WP:MILHIST entries (dunno why)).

If he screws up on something, block him and warn me please :)

Cheers, Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 13:02, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Medal of Honor

Did you notice this is up for FA removal? One person said there was "no progress". One thing that jumped out at me is that the refs are all out of whack. I'd hate to see this get de-FA'd. I'll try to help on the refs. Rlevse 01:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just fixed the refs. There may be a few stragglers.Rlevse 02:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar WikiProject

Hey Kirill, I saw that you recently had to drop out of the Avatar: The Last Airbender WikiProject due to lack of time, and I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to the project. I hope you'll keep it in mind if you ever have more time in the future! Prototime 06:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging of Cyrus the Great

Hi, I noticed you tagged Cyrus the Great with the Military history WikiProject tag. First off, thanks! I never knew whether or not it belonged in there. However, I've changed it from Ancient Near East task force (4000 BC - 700 BC) to Classical warfare task force (700 BC - 500 AD), as Cyrus lived in the 500s BC. Just wanted to clarify with you if this was the right thing to do; if not, please let me know. ♠ SG →Talk 16:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, glad to know I didn't make a mistake. I'm not involved with the MILHIST project, so I had no idea. Thanks again. ♠ SG →Talk 16:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hiwis - request for guidance

This is a request for guidance. I don't know whether it's me that's in error or the other person or whether we're just marching to different drums. I added text to the article on Hiwis; Mikkalai removed it. In the talk page, I have quoted my source, which I think is reliable, but Mikkalai discounts it or is rude about my ability to understand it. It sounds trivial, I know, but it's got under my skin. I usually back off arguments but .... Your advice would be valued, particularly if I'm at fault. I added a similar appeal to the Military history talk page, without response. Folks at 137 17:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. I'm away for a few days, so that will give "chill" time. Then maybe it can get resolved. Folks at 137 22:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You could also file a Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal request. --Ideogram 18:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

May try this. Thanks. Folks at 137 22:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Thanks!!!! I'm so pleased it finally made FA!

*Hops around the room singing "как была чиста дорога, как горел звездой закат, и только кони меня в бездну у-у-у-у-у-у-у-у-носили!!!"*

Off to thank everyone who copyedited it! :)

Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 22:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I forgot! It is the 100th WPMILHIST FA!!! An announcement by our lead coordinator maybe? :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 23:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, keep up the good work guys! Walkerma 04:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America

A very nice lady wikipedian asked me to look at this for her. I come across her from time to time. I've made suggestions at User_talk:Phaedriel in a section named after the portal. Since you have so much experience at this, I was wondering if you'd look at this before she noms it for FP too, especially the technical side. Rlevse 12:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: July newsletter

The bot is ready, but can this wait for tomorrow? It's nearly 3am here... -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 00:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scope of WPJ military history

OK, I'll bite, if it's not military history, or indeed military in general, then what exactly is it? Other than apparently, "inevident" and "fluid"? Alai 06:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But "subtly different" isn't a great basis for robot-population of what's likely to be a very large category of Wikiproject articles, so I'd rather have a clearly defensible statement of which cats (and stub types) clearly are, rather than which "might be", even if it errs on the conservative side. Not for the purpose of limiting the scope of project to those, simply the initial actions of the 'bot. Alai 06:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, Abe is not simply under military, he's under military history, in terms of article-space categories. I don't think fiction is the main issue, I think "current" is (if we ignore the "stuff outside of military", which I don't imagine you'd be proposing to automatically tag in any case). e.g. are the X-46 and William E. Ward automatically to be included on the basis of categorisation? Alai 07:12, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - July 2006

The July 2006 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot.

Newsletter delivery

Delivery started at 13:31, completed at 14:29.

Overall time: just below one hour. (don't want to set the bot timer to less than 5 seconds)

Wewt? :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 12:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Martel

Thanks Kirill - it seems to me, personally, that since Tours is of top importance, since the vast majority of historians rate it as a conflict that literally determined the fate of mankind, that the primary actor in that Battle should also be of top importance. (and that does not even factor in that additionally he essentially gave birth to western civilry, the Carolingian Empire, which is named after him, went on to further drive out the Islamic invasions of 736-37, protected Saint Boniface and made possible his missions, and far more!)old windy bear 15:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Imjin War

Can you at least move Imjin Wars back to Imjin War? Taeguk Warrior 17:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MOH Status

I've gone through every one of Melchoir's, very good, inputs. Let's see what happens. I've put this on ERcheck's page too. Rlevse 19:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pennant Numbers in the RN

Couldn't find any guideline mentioned (apologies if I missed them). The consensus I've seen on Wikipedia for Royal Navy pennant numbers seems to be the class number (e.g. R) then a full stop and then the number...Outside Wikipedia the fullstop/period is omitted - a practice which I concur with. What is the official Wikipedia way of handling them? Thanks, -Harlsbottom 22:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide a link for the Ships WikiProject, please? I just did a search and the only thing it came up with was a page which hadn't been created!Cheers, -Harlsbottom 00:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bricker Amendment

You were kind enough to comment on the previous FAC for the Bricker Amendment. I have now proposed it as a featured article after extensive revisions and would appreciate your vote here. PedanticallySpeaking 17:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yeah u were right

yes i just wanted to do that only on the page. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment

but by the time i went to correct it u already did it. thanks anyway. nids 22:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Election message

OK Kirill, can you just tell me when the msg is ready and post it somewhere so I can deliver it? :) -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 23:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delivery started. -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 18:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delivery complete at 19:39 (wonder what took so long). -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 20:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that

It's one of those things that when I see it I can't help but correct it. I realize I probably should have asked you first though, so I apologize. But in case you're curious, periods and commas are the only punctuation that always go inside quotations marks, without exception. Exclamation points and question marks only go inside quotation marks if they are actually a part of the quotation itself--otherwise they go outside the quotes. I certainly don't know every punctuation rule, but that's one of the ones I learned pretty well (probably because it was easy to remember for once). :-) --ScreaminEagle 05:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

mathbot

do you know why the mathbot didn't run last night? Rlevse 13:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index Rlevse 16:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Coordinator Elections!

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are looking to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by August 11!

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot - 18:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator

You are a worthy opponent. I hope that neither of us lose.Geo. 21:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Coordinator Elections

Sir, aye-aye, sir!^_^ -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 21:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Military history WikiProject coordinator elections

Kirill, I must admit that your suggestion that I run brought immediate chuckling. I believe you have a well-deserved lock on the position. I can't imagine anyone else with the dedication, technical knowledge, organizational skills, ability to contribute to/balance multiple projects (War Portal, admin, admin coach, etc.) (OK, so there is a need for assistant coordinators...) I won't reject your suggestion out of hand. I'll give it some thought. — ERcheck (talk) 00:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator elections

First, let me say I'm flattered that you would suggest I run. I'm always wary about nominating myself for anything. If someone puts my name up, I'll accept the nomination (a "Draft Nobunaga24" campaign, haha), but to be honest, I think you've been doing a great job. Are you not interested in doing it any longer? My strongest qualification right now is tons of free time - my job, teaching English in Japan, consists of about 2 hours of teaching and six hours in front of a computer with nothing else to do. However, my interest in military history is pretty narrow in scope - Japanese and modern U.S. military history, and even though I don't usually edit articles in these areas, age of sail naval warfare and early jet age fighter aircraft. As far as a self-nomination, I'll think it over, however if you want to throw my name up there, go ahead, and then I'll make my case as to why I should be "The Man" :-) --Nobunaga24 02:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Coordinator Elections!

Well, while I've been a bit tardy these recent times, yes, I will probably stand again now that the pressures of life are easing off! I'm also going to put in some graft and finish the last chunks of my pet project, Military history of New Zealand. Good luck to you! --Loopy ^e 04:45, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]