April 2018 MILHIST Backlog Drive edit

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On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded this stripe for your efforts during the April 2018 MILHIST Backlog Drive. Thank you for your contributions. AustralianRupert (talk) 08:44, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Heroes of the Soviet Union edit

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I finished my current project of creating all the biographies on the List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union and was wondering if you would be willing to help create a few of the articles on redlinked on the (still incomplete) draft of List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (B). I'm also trying to create more articles on Heroes of the Soviet Union of repressed peoples that received the title before the repressions and deportations, such as translating the articles on from List of Chechen and Ingush Heroes of the Soviet Union (in Russian). Would you be willing to write a few more articles? English Wiki is nearly at 800 HSU articles! I know you don't have enough time to create a 500,000-byte list of Heroes by surname, but a few articles here and there shouldn't take too much time. Let me know if you can, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 02:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC) P.S. I've been trying to recruit people to translate the articles from the List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union into Portuguese and Spanish by offering barnstars on twitter for 10+ full translations, since those lists are full of redlinks. French is very redlinked to so if you know anyone who is bilingual in any those languages please spread the word. You seem to have been on Wikipedia much longer than me so I was hoping you know a lot of people who would be up to the challenge. I managed to recruit Tuga1143 from Portuguese but that's it. Thank you again.Reply

  • Congratulations on finishing the biographies of female HSU recipients. I would be willing to create a few more articles, but sadly I don't know any bilingual users in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, having not really edited in those areas. Kges1901 (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of 102nd Division (Philippines) edit

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 102nd Division (Philippines) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 18:02, 8 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Kronstadt edit

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Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969) edit

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Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov edit

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 18:21, 8 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

article passed today. Nice job. Working on the others in the next few days. auntieruth (talk) 14:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov edit

The article Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 15:02, 10 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Kronstadt edit

The article Soviet cruiser Kronstadt you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Soviet cruiser Kronstadt for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 16:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969) edit

The article Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969) you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Auntieruth55 -- Auntieruth55 (talk) 16:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018 edit

 
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Your GA nomination of 102nd Division (Philippines) edit

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116th IBCT Change edit

Good Morning Kges1901,

I saw your changes last night on the 116th's page. They all look good, though I do have one change I wanted to vet with you first. You changed the motto and response to those associated with the 116th Infantry Regimental (the regimental affiliated unit). The 116th IBCT's motto is still "ever forward" with a response of "stonewall." If you don't have any concerns, I'll make that change back (I don't want to undo the other good updates you made).

Squatch347 (talk) 13:18, 16 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

You appear to be right, but responses to mottoes are generally not included in the infobox as it does not include a field for responses to mottoes. "Rally on the Virginians" is the motto on the old DUI that is no longer used; I guess the brigade uses the 116th regimental motto as well. Kges1901 (talk) 15:40, 16 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Would you consider assessing the issues here and putting in your thoughts? Buckshot06 (talk) 07:09, 17 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

DYK for 116th Infantry Regiment (United States) edit

On 21 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 116th Infantry Regiment (United States), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the US Army's 116th Infantry Regiment received battle honors for fighting against the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/116th Infantry Regiment (United States). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:57, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Battle of the Kerch Peninsula edit

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of the Kerch Peninsula you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 22:40, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Lots of points, queries, comments and suggestions awaiting your attention. No rush. A superb article. I wish that I could write that well. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Battle of the Kerch Peninsula edit

The article Battle of the Kerch Peninsula you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Battle of the Kerch Peninsula for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 12:04, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Amet-khan Sultan edit

Hi again. I just did a major expansion/rewrite of a former stub article, Amet-khan Sultan. It's very long now and has many sources. I have never done a featured article nomination before but noticed you do a lot of featured and good article nominations. I can't quite figure out the whole process, so do you think you could do the nomination on my behalf as a not-so-wiki-savy-person? It's one of the longest Hero of the Soviet Union articles and he remains one of the most celebrated ones in addition to being one of the top allied flying aces from WWII in addition to the incredible aviation feats he conducted as a test pilot. With the relatively recent events in Crimea and the recent anniversary of the deportation Sultan becomes more relevant than ever. Think it could be a featured article? I would really like to see his article featured.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:46, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello, great work in expanding the stub. Instructions for GA nominations are at WP:GAN/I, it is pretty simple. For GA the article needs a citation after every paragraph, and all books need page numbers cited. For FA the warheroes citations should be replaced since its nature as a WP:SPS tends to raise concerns among reviewers. Kges1901 (talk) 21:21, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
How is warheroes a SPS? I've seen no Wikipedia attributions and the text is said to be copyrighted 100% - Wikipedia is not.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
I tried to contest that when it first came up, but was unable to prove that warheroes had editorial review or were considered experts. They cite their sources, so if you can access the books they cite you can replace the warheroes citations with references to the books, then keep warheroes as an external link. However, the most important concern for GA is that the references to books do not have page numbers cited, see Wikipedia:Citing Sources for some templates that can make this more efficient (I recommend using short foot notes to include the page numbers). Kges1901 (talk) 21:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Well, rats about the page numbers. I HATE those books that don't have page numbers in them :(, I guess I take care of it later then. I think it should at least be B-class, at least for now?--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 23:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
If the book does not have a page number you can just use the chapter instead; reviewers will probably accept that as sufficient. It is definitely B-class right now. Kges1901 (talk) 23:47, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
I can do chapter, just not pages. Thanks, I will probably fix the sources later sometime. Could you please fix the assesment? I don't want anyone to think it is an "example" of a start-class article.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 01:00, 23 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018 edit

Hello Kges1901/2018, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

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Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Makarov (1970) edit

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Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Marshal Voroshilov edit

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Your GA nomination of Soviet cruiser Admiral Oktyabrsky edit

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Orphaned non-free image File:Yevgeny Petrovich Fyodorov.jpg edit

 

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