User talk:Catalan/2009

Greetings (and some Milhist business)

First, happy new year!

Second, I've raised a couple of things here which could use swift responses. May I trouble you please to check them out?

Thanks! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts for collaboration on Little-Saturn & Uranus

Ok, so here's my thinking for Operation Uranus and Operation Little-Saturn and the process for it. I've already started adding to Uranus, and I have less information on Little-Saturn. My thinking is that I'll start with Uranus, while you start with Little-Saturn, and then we'll switch and add anything the other misses on the article we didn't do. That way, there's some method to the madness (and we won't drive one another nuts by continuously adding over one another and reverting each other's edits) and we can build on one another's work.

One more thing, how will we work this for the wikicup? Are we both able to claim an article we jointly worked on, or does that not work?

Happy New Year! Hope everything's warm down there in San Diego! Cam ^(Chat) 05:50, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sounds good to me. Cam ^(Chat) 05:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would I be correct to guess that I have the liberty to make slight modifications afterwards as well? Cam ^(Chat) 05:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

sounds good. Cam ^(Chat) 17:51, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Holy crap! Very impressive work so far. Cam ^(Chat) 00:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work - once again

		The WikiChevrons
		For continually-excellent FA-Contributions in the field of Military History (now ranking you 28th all-time at WP:WBFAN), I am pleased to award you another set of Wikichevrons. Best regards, Cam ^(Chat) 21:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And no worries about the Uranus/Little Saturn. Take your time (I've gone off and am now working on Operation Windsor in the meantime). Cam ^(Chat) 21:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cam's rfa and articlehistory

Hi, I noticed that you didn't sign your support in Cam's RFA. Would you mind signing it? It is number 41 at time of writing.

On another note, if you ever need any help with the articlehistory template, just leave a note on my talkpage. Once you get the hang of them, they are easy. The hardest part is finding the oldid, the rest is on Template:ArticleHistory/doc. So, if you have any questions, just leave them on my talkpage, regards. Woody (talk) 20:19, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Winter Storm

I'm impressed (as are others I see here) with your work - so much so I'm a little intimated to note that the lead section of Operation Winter Storm seems longer than I would expect on a Wikipedia article. Do you think that much detail is necessary in the lead in this case? I've seen campaign article's much shorter. I'll look for a reply here - not need to travel to my talk page. (John User:Jwy talk) 20:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My leads tend to be rather long; for example, Third Battle of Kharkov, has a fairly long lead (although shorter than Winter Storm). It will be shortened as I copyedit it to make sentences simpler and all of that. Basically, what I do is I make a lead by taking information from each section. Then I go through it many times over and take out what I think isn't really necessary. Thanks for the comments and for your compliments, JonCatalán^(Talk) 20:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. Keep it up! (John User:Jwy talk) 20:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Ping! me when you are ready for Operation Little Saturn to go through GAN, and I'll review that. Cam ^(Chat) 23:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Operation Winter Storm

On January 7, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Operation Winter Storm, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conversion templates

As I said, I really think that putting a conversion template in every time "12-inch" is mentioned in a section in dreadnought is rather over the top. The MOS agrees in respect of science articles, why not military history ones? The Land (talk) 13:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive

The article Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Terrakyte (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. :) Terrakyte (talk) 16:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wehrmacht

Hi, I just went to do the review you request and found that it had already been done! I think the article is excellent and would also have passed it would significant comment, but I do have a query about the title: its a little confusing grammatically. "Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive": Does this mean German forces in the Ardennes Offensive or German forces prepared for the Ardennes Offensive. The article seems to cover both and my immediate reaction is that "German forces in the Ardennes Offensive" is probably the most grammatically correct title. I could be wrong, and it might be worth gathering further opinions on this, but it is the one thing that stands out from the article as a potential problem. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reading the discussion you link to, my preference is probably "deployed for", although its current position will do until wider consenus can be developed.--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Operation Uranus

On January 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Operation Uranus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 18:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Request for involvement

Dear Catalan

I was hoping I could get a return on that GA nomination I passed. ;) In all seriousness, I noticed you are a coordinator for WP:MILHIST, and I was hoping I could employ your expertise. Would you mind if I ask for your input on a discussion I've started regarding the Iran-Iraq War article? Recently, text on the prosecution and aftermath of the war was moved to other articles to cut down the size of the main one, but there still remains a huge amount on how Iran and Iraq were supported by foreign powers. I have cited the MOS on war articles to argue that the text on the prosecution and aftermath should be moved back, and that the text on foreign support should be trimmed instead. The discussion can be found here: [1]. If you do get involved, thank you very much. Terrakyte (talk) 22:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. Terrakyte (talk) 22:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hey, would you be able to GA-Review Yamato class battleship for me? In exchange, I'm more than willing to GA-Review Operation Little Saturn when it gets to that stage. Cam ^(Chat) 21:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Response to A-class review comments

I've responded [2]. I appreciate the feedback. Cla68 (talk) 01:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Golden wiki

		2008 "Military historian of the Year"
		By order of the Members of the Military History WikiProject, for your "extensive contributors, including 12 featured articles as well as a featured topic and a featured picture" I award you this Golden Wiki. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 03:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 03:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much indeed for the barnstar and kind words :) Much appreciated, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 12:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possible images for Operation Uranus

While looking through other Wikipedias' articles on Operation Uranus, I found some exceptional Bundesarchiv images on the Russian version of the article. I just thought to let you know, in case you thought any would make a worthwhile addition to the article. And congratulations on your MILHIST award! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emw2012 (talk • contribs)

Portal:Tank

Hi,

Congrats on ur latest award, and may you continue to get many more.

The commons link on The portal page links to Italian Wars on commons. I wonder if you were wanting to link it to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tank and not the Italian Wars?? CHeers. Sniperz 11_@^CS 12:36, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hi Jon, in light of your work for MILHIST would you like to collaborate on restoring some material from the Spanish Civil War? A reasonable amount of it may be public domain under the life plus 70 year rule by now, but I'm not sure which items that would be. There's a handful of material at the Library of Congress (the best online source for high res. historic graphic files), and probably more at your disposal. Ping me at my user page and let's talk. :) Durova^Charge! 22:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As I saw that you were getting interested in restoration, Jon, I was just about to leave a message that you might want to work with Durova. I've seen some of her excellent restorations over at Portal:Feminism. Awadewit (talk) 16:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have actually been looking up Spanish copyright laws. I think protection of Spanish images extends until 70 years after the death of the author; I would have no idea when the author of any given photograph died (let alone who the author is). So, arguing PD is going to be difficult. :( Like I said on Durova's talk page, I also lack a scanner (mine broke). Well, actually, maybe I could do it at the university. JonCatalán^(Talk) 16:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War

Hot damn you're actually doing it. Suh-weet! Gary King (talk) 04:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish images

There are certain people responsible for images who can be contacted directly. My experience with the German military is that you always find a nice bored bureaucrat. The problem is finding this wo/man. I suggest to first establish contact for a small scale transfer with a limited purpose. The smaller and easier to handle the task seems the more likely is our bureaucrat to do the job. If we have established precedence it's much easier to launch the next request and refine the way we ask. After a series of successful requests from the different institutions we can launch a big deal. So, for getting starting, you have to provide me with some small tasks and a bit of background information on them. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 13:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You did that before and it didn't work. The fact that you're Spanish doesn't help. The problem is how you write the email and what you ask for. As I said, give me a list of small topics and some background information. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

		The Milhist A-Class medal
		For prolific work on – Panzer IV, Third Battle of Kharkov and Tanks in the Spanish Army – promoted to A-Class between August and November 2008, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal. -MBK₀₀₄ 19:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive

On January 16, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 05:42, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations - it's a great article. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 19:02, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Messines

You've got yourself a deal. Cam ^(Chat) 06:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Best of luck with the semester, the course-load you described gives me nightmares just thinking about it.

IS Tanks

I can't think of much else. I also have Zaloga (1984) Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, and the less-useful Perrett (1987) Soviet Armour Since 1945. Glad to look up anything for you in these. —Michael Z. 2009-01-16 19:38 z

Congratulations!

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Dreadnought

Would you mind taking another look at Dreadnought and its A-class review - I think you'll find it much more to your liking. Regards, The Land (talk) 18:44, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! What do I need to do to get you to support it? ;-) The Land (talk) 19:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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re: A-class review

Sorry again for my slow response to your prompting. I had another read of the article when you prompted me on the 12th, but something else came up and I forgot to update my comments. I'm afraid that I still don't think that the article is quite at A-class yet - in essence, I think that the article needs a thorough copy-edit from a fresh set of eyes. Please let me know if you'd like me to expand my comments. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:11, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War

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DYK for Battle of Aachen

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Supermarine Spitfire

Hi Jon,

Having come across you dealing with the peer review of the Junkers Ju 87 article and seeing you are an experienced editor, I was hoping you would have some input on the above. Some recent reversals are in progress over some "facts" on the Elliptical wing design section. As far as I can see the "cited" data (which I have marked with a verification tag) is not from a published source. Could you take a look? Regards, Dapi89 (talk) 00:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Good luck...

I saw this. Good luck with taking a break...kudos that you can get yourself off. Hope to see you around sometime! Cheers friend, —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 19:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since you are taking a break, should Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War be withdrawn? Dabomb87 (talk) 22:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I took care of the archiving. Have a nice Wikibreak, and come back soon! Dabomb87 (talk) 23:22, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Something for you

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congrats!

On being military historian of the year! Just found out via The Bugle.--Cerejota (talk) 04:21, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looking to be adopted !!

I have been a contributor on and off for some months but could definitely use help, especially regarding in article referencing, redirects to other inter-Wikipedia articles, and so forth. I consider myself a relatively good writer but would certainly accept constructive criticism there as well.

You can see my profile...I hold a Masters in Business Administration and am currently working on my Masters in Military History. My strongest areas are probably WWII European theater and Russian History. I also am an expert in baseball (sorry to brag, but I have been following it avidly for 32 years and have over 200,000 cards).

Anyway, look forward to hearing from you!

Wayne

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Photo qusetion

File:Ger Inf Russia 1941 HDSN9902655.JPEG

We spent hours posing for this shot. Are we PD or not?

Hi,

Third Battle of Kharkov is headed for the front page shortly, and I wanted to clarify the PD-or-not status of this image - see Talk:Third Battle of Kharkov. Thanks - Tempshill (talk) 16:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations

...on today's vandal-magnet ;) Nice article, I enjoyed the read. EyeSerene^talk 12:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats....

...on getting Third Battle of Kharkov to the main page! :) I hope that RL is treating you well... —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 20:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Nevado del Ruiz FAC

Could you conduct a review? Ceranthor 18:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Battle of Dunkirk

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Imperial Napoleonic triple crown

Your Imperial Napoleonic Majesty, outstanding work! Especially on Arena Active Protection System - I would recommend formatting the Notes subsection using {{Harvnb}}. Cirt (talk) 20:18, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please trim your entry at User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle/Nominations to either 5 per DYK/GA/FC line, or make them so there they each have the same number per DYK/GA/FC throughout? In other words, if 11 DYKs, GAs, FCs, etc. Cirt (talk) 20:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since Jon is pretty much inactive at the moment and the nomination was done on his behalf, I have tried to fulfill your request. -MBK₀₀₄ 20:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but this is not what I meant. The request was not about having some kind of formatting spacing issue - but rather an uneven number of nom entries per DYK/GA/FC. In other words, do not submit 5 DYKs, 4 GAs, and 2 FCs. If it is a regular triple crown nom, submit one of each. If it is an Imperial, submit two of each. etc. Get it? Cirt (talk) 20:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know where the uneven number of FC/GA/DYK is coming from, there are 12 for each type. -MBK₀₀₄ 21:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So there are. Sorry about that, my apologies. I'll go and update the main list now. Cirt (talk) 21:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File:AssaultonKharkov.jpg

Hi Catalan
Do you by any chance remember where exactly you found File:AssaultonKharkov.jpg? I know that there was no free alternative at the time, but a short while later the Bundesarchiv released 100,000 images under a free license and uploaded them to us, and consequently I've switched your fair use image by one with a free license.
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Cheers, Amalthea 13:41, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's been deleted now, but if you do remember I'd be glad to restore it. Cheers, Amalthea 15:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:UStankParis-edit1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-08-25. howcheng {chat} 08:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This is just a quick reminder that the round ends this Friday, May 29, 2009. I wanted to let you guys know the current standings. If you are very close, but not close enough, work as hard as possible these next two days. Pool leaders are listed as usual, and under the 10 wildcards, are competitors that are still fighting for a spot. Also, if you currently have any un-reviewed GAN's up and you'd like them to be reviewed and counted for this round, you must place them on the appropriate thread of the WikiCup talk page.

Pool A

Shoemaker's Holiday (647)

Pool B

ThinkBlue (247)

Pool C

Theleftorium (455)

Pool D

Candlewicke (539)

Pool E

Durova (479)

Pool F

Sasata (961)

Current Wildcards

Useight (393)
Scorpion0422 (372)
Rlevse (329)
Wrestlinglover (307)
Paxse (285)
Ottava Rima (248)
Mitchazenia (226)
Juliancolton (181)
the_ed17 (179)
J Milburn (168)
Bedford (156)
Gary King (147)
97198 (142)
Ceranthor (111)
Tinucherian (106)
Matthewedwards (98)

GARDEN , iMatthew : Chat , and The Helpful One The Helpful Bot 00:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup Newsletter XVIII

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XXXIX (May 2009)

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WikiCup Newsletter XIX and XX

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WikiCup Newsletter XXI

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WikiCup Newsletter XXII

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WikiCup Newsletter XXIII

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WikiCup Newsletter XXIV

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XL (June 2009)

The June 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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WikiCup participates in the Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout

Hello all, iMatthew here. I just wanted to let you know about "The Great Wikipedia Dramaout" which starts this Saturday. The goal of the Dramaout is to spend five days working on improving articles and abstaining from any of Wikipedia's drama. I don't think that any of you will have a problem focusing on articles for five days, because of course, any work you get done during the Dramaout will count towards your score in the WikiCup. Details are on the page; hope to see you all signing up! :) iMatthew ^talk at 00:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: your contest

Note: I've decided to add your contest page to Wikipedia:Contests if you don't mind me doing so. -- œ ^™ 02:05, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup Newsletter XXV

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WikiCup Newsletter XXVI

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WikiCup Newsletter XXVII

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLI (July 2009)

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== WikiCup Newsletter XXVIII ==

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== WikiCup Newsletter XXVIII ==

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Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 12 September!
Many thanks, Roger Davies ^talk 04:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup Newsletter XXX

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLII (August 2009)

The August 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Military history coordinator elections: voting has started!

Voting in the Military history WikiProject coordinator election has now started. The aim is to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of sixteen candidates. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on 26 September!
For the coordinators, Roger Davies ^talk 22:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup Newsletter XXXII

Looking for an adopter

Hi Jon!

I saw that 'Adopt' project, thought I would need it and your name was listed. I have about 30 articles done (mostly in French, but this one and this one in English) but now I'm trying to start a WikiProject and a Portal with it (the subject is Java, a language for computers) and I'd like some tips, especially on the administrative side of it (members, tasks, templates for it, toolserver bots, etc.). Thanks for any help,

^{^AlainR345}_{_{TechnoWikiGeek}} 04:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIII (September 2009)

The September 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Some recent comments about the "TAM" article

Hi Jon, so long since our last correspondence, wish you're doing well.
Just letting you know that I just left a couple of comments in the "Talk" page of the TAM tank wikiarticle, maybe you can help answering them?
Thanks & regards, DPdH (talk) 15:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup Newsletter XXXIII

WikiCup Newsletter XXXIV

WikiCup Newsletter XXXV

WikiCup Newsletter XXXVI

WikiCup Awards

		The 2009 WikiCup Participant Award
		This WikiCup Award is presented to Catalan for their participation in the 2009 WikiCup. Your contributions along the way have greatly improved the quality of many articles, pictures, and sounds on the English Wikipedia.

Congratulations! Hope to see you sign up for the 2010 WikiCup, here, if you haven't already! iMatthew ^talk at 22:54, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Test your World War I knowledge with the Henry Allingham International Contest!

As a member of the Military history WikiProject or World War I task force, you may be interested in competing in the Henry Allingham International Contest! The contest aims to improve article quality and member participation within the World War I task force. It will also be a step in preparing for Operation Great War Centennial, the project's commemorative effort for the World War I centenary.

If you would like to participate, please sign up by 11 November 2009, 00:00, when the first round is scheduled to begin! You can sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here!
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIV (October 2009)

The October 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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