User talk:Internationed
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Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards
[edit]Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2024! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2024. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Hey Internationed! I came across your profile over on WikiProject Military history, where you indicated you enjoyed editing topics around modern day military history. I've been working on a big project over the last few weeks: List of attacks on the United States. The aim is to have a list of every time the U.S. (government/military) was attacked, but not when the U.S. was attacking. My hope is to create list of attacks by the United States once this list is finished.
Well anyway, I wanted to see if you would be interested in helping me put together some of the summaries for the list. I am fairly sure most if not all of the attacks themselves are on the list. But, I'm still working to get the summaries and references put together for each of them. If you are interested or have any questions, feel free to message me back here or on my talk page anytime! If not, I completely understand. Keep up the good work on Wikipedia! Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 19:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, Internationed! I saw this pop up on my recent changes page. Is this perhaps a content fork of a page like Romania in World War I? If so, you may be better off simply expanding that page (as your new page is currently unsourced and could be made a draft). jellyfish ✉ 01:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- I just realized that it may be one! I saw a request for someone to create an article for this, but now I realize it's better off part of Romania in World War I. I'll take your advice and expand it, thank you for pointing that out! Internationed (talk) 01:47, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- No problem! It may very well end up as a spinoff article (an acceptable content fork) later on, so I hope this doesn't discourage you from potentially working on that as a draft. However, new page creation and especially military history are a bit beyond my knowledge. Happy editing! :) jellyfish ✉ 01:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
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