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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 27 May 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 19:30, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gog! The article should be in good shape. Parsecboy (talk) 23:16, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2019): "This is another entry in the series of articles on German battleships - I wrote the article originally in 2010 and then rewrote it with new sources last year"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda! Parsecboy (talk) 09:39, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

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• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7, Nick-D and Pickersgill-Cunliffe discuss six (count 'em, six!) works comprising eight volumes Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on a lecture by the Australian official historian

Hi Parsec, I noticed that you've reviewed an automobile FAC before and I'm wondering if you could possibly leave your comments on this FAC about the Aston Martin DB9? (This is my first nomination). The source and image review have both been passed, so I think that, because this is my first, it will need quite a lot of supports. Thanks and best, and don't feel obliged to,  750h+ | Talk  14:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sure, I'll find some time to take a look at the article. Parsecboy (talk) 12:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Parsecboy, thanks for the comments, i've addressed those ones. Thanks and best,  750h+ | Talk  05:07, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Parsecboy:, sorry for the bug, but note that the nomination has four supports! I’ve responded to your concerns, thoughts?  750h+ | Talk  16:49, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

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• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

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• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

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• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

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• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at a diverse range of works Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on the "center of gravity"

I would appreciate any positive or negative feedback at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/CSS General Earl Van Dorn. I've taken an ironclad and a tinclad to ACR and FAC and am hoping to get a cottonclad through next. Hog Farm _Talk 02:35, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Hog Farm - sure, I'll try to take a look later today. Parsecboy (talk) 10:50, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

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• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

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• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

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• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at the Tokyo war crimes trials

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

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• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
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• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at two works on logistics and one on the Battle of Arnhem

I have nominated Pre-dreadnought battleship for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm _Talk 22:58, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note, I'll try to lend a hand where I can. Parsecboy (talk) 16:57, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think I can handle most of this, except for the German stuff. It would be great if you could use a better source than Lenton for them. I'll be working sporadically one this so don't be afraid to dive in if you actually got free time!--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:10, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I should have no problem with that. As busy as I've been at work lately, I wouldn't expect immediate work from me ;) Parsecboy (talk) 00:03, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ain't nothing urgent about it. I'm just waiting on the acceptance of my bid by the seller on a new house myself. That's gonna suck up huge amounts of time once I close.

Good luck on the new house! Parsecboy (talk) 14:08, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Your good wishes made the difference. House inspection in a week and then closing in a month with all repair costs coming off the top.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:08, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear it, though I don't envy you the task of having to move. We've been in our house for 13 years, and I dread the idea of ever having to pack up and move. Parsecboy (talk) 22:09, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reversion, but DANFS is not necessarily determinative or dispositive, as I and other naval researchers have discovered. And unfortunately, the NHHC no longer has the staff or resources to make corrections (although several of us have volunteered). Mindoro III (CVE-120) was one of the Commencement Bay class of escort carriers - the Navy initially named them after bodies of water, then began naming them for significant WW II battles or invasion sites. In contrast, Mindoro I (1899 gunboat) and her PG/PR sisters were named after America's newest Pacific island possessions (e.g., Luzon, Guam, Wake, Oahu, and probably the most famous, Panay). Most notably, there were no other Commencement Bay carriers named after the lost gunboats, hence my attempt to correct the Wiki page. Drwong64 (talk) 01:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I am well aware that DANFS has issues - I've raised a few of them myself over the years to NHHC to have the corrected. My point was more that there is no source provided, but that DANFS, which is cited, doesn't support the change. Parsecboy (talk) 14:07, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to find another DANFS reader who has run into NHHC's bureaucratic brick wall. Can you revise the reference to cite to the ship's commissioning book then? http://mindoro.atspace.com/page10.htm.

DANFS is similarly inaccurate regarding the naming of Rendova (CVE-114), citing the island itself rather than the landings that took place there in the summer of '43. Thankfully nobody has reposted DANFS's inaccuracy in her Wiki page!  :-)

P.S. Speaking of the Leyte operation, will you be watching the USNI's Leyte commemoration on the 11th? Drwong64 (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the older, printed copies of DANFS, you can see how the error crept into the online version (I have a set of the '76 edition, but you can see it here in the '59 edition as well). Clearly, when it was digitized, the namesake of the first two vessels was simply copied into the third.

I don't love using the commissioning book, since it's self-published and has no publication information (though that's not to say I doubt its accuracy, it just doesn't meet Wiki's sourcing standards). I trawled through Google Books and came up empty-handed there. We might have to just omit the mention of a namesake in the absence of a better source.

I've been following Pocklington's Youtube channel for some time now (amusingly, he started it by running Wiki articles that I and others had written through a voice generator), and had seen his announcement for the panel discussion. It looks like it'll be interesting, but I'll have to watch after the fact. Parsecboy (talk) 12:21, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Drwong64: - I emailed the NHHC when we discussed this on the off chance that they'd get back to me, and as luck would have it, they did! They updated the DANFS page this morning, and I've fixed our article as well. Parsecboy (talk) 15:39, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hallelujah! That's fantastic news - thanks for following up on this! On a related note, do you want add the cruise book under the "External Links" heading (since it's not authoritative enough to be listed as a "Reference")? Drwong64 (talk) 17:41, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

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• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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