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Recent move

Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Flow testing

Hey Andrew :). As mentioned on the Milhist coordinators talkpage, we've opened Flow up for community testing. I'd be really grateful if you could hammer on the system (if you haven't already!), let me know any bugs you find, and leave a note at the 'first release' page explaining what you, as a member of Wikiproject Military History, would need to see to be okay with it being deployed on that wikiproject's talkpage.

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Hi Andy. Nothing there - am I missing something? (I'll put up the BBC one just now, though) Andrew Gray (talk) 20:45, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Doh! It was the BBC I meant. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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Geonotice poke

Hi Andrew! So to poke you again so soon, but I was hoping that our Geonotice could go out by this weekend. The event is still a week away, so no rush, but I just wanted to get it on your radar. -- Gaurav (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Done! Andrew Gray (talk) 16:43, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much! :-D -- Gaurav (talk) 21:34, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Oops, I just discovered a mistake in MediaWiki:Geonotice.js -- you've set the end date to "14 January 2013", so the notices won't display. It should be December 14, 2013 for us, but there are a couple of other events which need their year changed to 2014. Thanks for dealing with all this! -- Gaurav (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
I blame Sunday evenings! Fixed. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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