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Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ed!, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Havok (T/C/c) 05:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warcraft barnstar

Thank you very much. Much appreciated. Havok (T/C/c) 05:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warcaft Barnstar

Thanks a lot for the barnstar. I'm glad my efforts haven't gone unnoticed! Welcome to the WikiProject I can't see what you have to add in some of the discussions. This AfD thing is getting really big and we could use another voice. Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrcShaman42 (talk • contribs)

Clean-up

Check out the changes I made to the Warcraft WP ToDo list. I could use a little support as you and Havok are the only ones active in the project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrcShaman42 (talk • contribs)

I need some help

I need some help on learning about editing on wikipedia. If you can post it here. I am willing to help you guys out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.75.158.149 (talk) 01:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I dont know how you can get to my account but if you can it is Drizzt Do'Urden11 THz plez post back.Drizzt Do'Urden11 01:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)Drizzt[reply]

Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill 22:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I've already gotten started. -Ed! (talk) 22:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)

Project news

The Intelligence task force has been created.
The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome!
{{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

New A-Class articles:

Current proposals and discussions

A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.

Awards and honors

Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.

Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600

2. TomStar81 — 5,500

3. Parsival74 — 5,200

4. FayssalF — 3,500

5. Roger Davies — 3,000

6. Ouro — 2600

7. Kateshortforbob — 2250

8. Cromdog — 2,200

9. BrokenSphere — 2000

9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000

9. Maralia — 2,000

12. MBK004 — 1,340

13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250

14. Sniperz11 — 1100

15. Burzmali — 1000

15. Cplakidas — 1000

15. Gimme danger — 1000

15. Raoulduke471000

15. TicketMan — 1000

15. Welsh — 1000

15. Blnguyen — 1000

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

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36th Infantry Brigade (United States)

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I have removed the offending passage from the article. I was not aware that it couldn't be copied directly. -Ed! (talk) 21:28, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

27th Infantry Brigade

Hi Ed!, good work on all these brigade pages. Noticed that at 27 IBCT, you've got a ref to a CINCUSACOM contingency plan. Are you sure this is the current, up to date federal mission statement? I ask because as you probably know, U.S. Atlantic Command became Joint Forces Command several years ago. Best regards and keep up the good work! Buckshot06 (talk) 04:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The wording was somewhat odd. The plan was, I believe, originally designed by CINCUSACOM, before they changed the command. I reworded it. -Ed! (talk) 21:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Fair Use Images

Anything produced by any agency of the federal government—which includes the US Army—is automatically public domain, and can be uploaded under those terms. Kirill 02:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you very much. -Ed! (talk) 01:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)

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16th Engineer Brigade (United States)

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Candela

Regarding this edit: What did you have in mind? You seem to be adding the refimprove tag to a lot of articles today. Are you simply assuming that any article with fewer than a set number of references must need more, or is there some more specific concern with each of these articles?--Srleffler (talk) 22:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, most of the articles I have been adding tags to have litte to no frame of reference about them, and articles such as this one could use more sources because sections of it (such as the "Origin" section) have a lot of statements that can and should be referenced, mostly I think parenthetical citations would improve things substantially. -Ed! (talk) 22:24, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should slow down. At a quick glance through the references, most of what is in the "origin" section seems to be covered in the article's references. Additionally, the Origin section directly refers to several sources (inline, rather than through a citation template). I think that in your rush to add these tags, you are failing to carefully evaluate whether the articles have sufficient references already.

Beyond that, I do not think that adding large numbers of refimprove tags to Wikipedia is very helpful. Almost every article's references could be improved. It's better to save the tag for cases where something specific is needed. .--Srleffler (talk) 22:34, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would tend to agree, to an extent. But a large number of these articles have only a few external links to provide proof that everything on them is true. It doesn't seem very professional to me to have a lack of parenthetical sources, but if I have misused the template, I will stop. -Ed! (talk) 22:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28! --Eurocopter tigre (talk) 12:32, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fernao Pires de Andrade

Thanks for passing it as GA! I'm glad you enjoyed the article.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 06:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing! You did very good work on it. -Ed! (talk) 03:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On "Irreplaceable"

Thanks for the review. --Efe (talk) 09:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing! -Ed! (talk) 23:00, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also for "Ring the Alarm". --Efe (talk) 01:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm trying to clear out the congestion in the GA nominations and get as many of them going as possible. You've done very good work on both articles! -Ed! (talk) 02:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You've done a great job on GAN as well. Thanks for the compliment. Cheers! --Efe (talk) 08:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Opeth

Thank you for the review! That is the first time I have had an article with no fixes that were needed in the GAN. —Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 03:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it was an extremely well-done article, and very deserving of GA status. Good work on it! -Ed! (talk) 23:00, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Timberlake article GA review

Ed!:

I'm not sure I'll get a chance to work on the Henry Timberlake article this week to bring it up to par for GA. Would you mind giving us another week to complete it?

Thanks, and we appreciate your peer-review effort. Bms4880 (talk) 22:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing! I imagine other editors will come along and review it also. It is very close to GA status. -Ed! (talk) 23:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Image:4th Sustainment Brigade.jpg

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Washington Park Race Track

I believe I have responded to your comments. I remain willing to address further concerns. I note that my co-author is unavailable until Tuesday.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Night of the Sentinels

Yo Ed, thanks for reviewing the Night of the Sentinels article, I have fixed everything in that article, at least I think i did, could you check it out and see if everything you wanted fixed is done. Gman124 (talk) 01:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]