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A question on desysopping

Here, you say desysopping is a permanent sanction. But here, ArbCom says it may be reversed, and apparently quite easily. Were you wrong, or was there a change? I have never dealth with any WP Admin issues before. Somercet (talk) 08:01, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Two questions concerning milhistbot

I have a pair of questions for you concerning milhistbot: could the bot also track the nominators of successful A-class articles and list those contributors to help us track editors eligible for our various A-Class Medals, and if so could the bot also track FA/GA nominations in the same way? TomStar81 (Talk) 04:19, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

The Bot works out who the nominators are, and updates the A-class medal tracking accordingly. When it gets to three, it scrubs that and creates an appropriate A-class medal nomination (oak leaves, swords or diamonds). It could track FACs and GAs too, but there are no medals for these. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I know, how about tracking ACR/PR/FAC reviewers for the content review awards (if you haven't anything better to do)...?! ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:03, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Seriously, tracking ACR/PR/FLC/FAC/GA reviewers for the awards is the most time-consuming job we currently have (now that ACRs and the Announcements page are sorted thanks to Milhistbot). ;-) Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 05:10, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

That's exactly what I was going to ask: can we track the entire milhist related PR/GAN/ACR/FAC/FPC material so we can rest assured that our members get the recognition they deserve, becuase quite frankly, doing by hand (like I'm doing now) is a royal pain in my fingers. And eyes. And back. And other associated body parts that get heavily taxed during such extended times on Wikipedia. But not the ears, because I've got an outstanding hour and change collection of classical music conducted by the Philadelphia Symphony that I listen to for such occasions, and it makes these tedious works just so much easier :) TomStar81 (Talk) 06:38, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, we can do that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:13, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

The Beginning or the End

Nice work, but why change the reference format when WP:Retain should apply? FWiW Bzuk (talk) 08:19, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

As to maintaining reference formats, there is no directive that citation or bibliographical templates are the "standard", neither being sanctioned nor accepted as such. "fixing the references" as was noted, is not necessary nor mandated; this change merely represents your chosen use of a style guide. Over the last 10 years, the Wiki editors who created the templates, left in many "bugs" including that of second authors, that interfere with the output of the standard formatting that a reader would see. Most of the problems stem from simply the computer dictum of "garbage in, garbage out". The vast majority of wikipedia editors are not trained reference librarians or editors, subsequently, the templates were created as an aid, but many editors are not even aware that a wide range of templates are being employed, nearly all of them written in the APA (American Psychological Association) or simplified variant of it. The APA style guide is widely used in research papers at academic institutions for the Sciences, but the usual style guide for the Humanities and in most publishing, is the MLA (Modern Language Association)/Chicago style for bibliographic notations. Since the vast majority of what I edit is in the Humanities, i.e. history, I tend to use that style guide whenever possible. The Wiki templates do not accommodate the MLA formatting, and although they can be modified to output in MLA, most editors would not be able to make those changes. What can be done is to "scratch catalog" the "tracings" which markup does allow and will format properly. Now, just to assuage your notion that you are dealing with a Luddite, I have been using templates for cataloguing for over 30 years, with the introduction of automation in libraries, where I worked as a reference librarian and later, author and editor for publishing houses. The typical MARc record template, however, was "bullet-proof" and has been in use for decades. Whenever an article has a hodgepodge of referencing problems, it is often easier to institute a consistent style. Using templates may seem like the simple choice, but, in reality, it is often the one issue that is the hardest to correct to output properly. Understanding the MLA and Harvard citation style guides is not for the neophyte or casual editor, so templates will have to suffice. The cataloguing/referencing issue may already be a moot point as I see that the article has been already reverted to a previous version. I would be happy to continue this dialogue, if you choose. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 08:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I wasn't changing the reference format; I was expanding the article and making sure that everything was referenced. The article has more than doubled in size. I retained the language variant as US English per WP:ENGVAR and WP:RETAIN, the date format as MDY per WP:DATERET and the layout per WP:MOSFILM. I thought everything looked the same as before. I am not an editor or a librarian; I am a historian, so I don't use MLA or APA. I use the templates But if it bugs you, you can reformat the references. I never thought you were a neo-Luddite, although I was surprised that "film" is preferred over "movie", as movies are no longer shot on film. I hope we can work together to get the article through GA. Regards. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

"Movie" has been relegated to the trash bin, mainly by convention in the Wiki: Film group. It figures that "film" is not the best choice, but is more adaptable in language as productions can be "filmed" but rarely "movied". The Wiki: Aviation group has also grappled with the similar colloquialisms of "plane/airplane/aeroplane" and made a similar decision to use the mainly imprecise "aircraft" default. As to referencing, the choice to use templates does indeed change the style guide from the MLA which was previously in use to the APA style guide which the Wiki templates output. I have tried for years to get the template creators to create a MLA variant to no avail. My problem with templates is that they are most often poorly understood by the casual editor and end up with some of the problems associated with EPA style such as second and third authors, date of first publication, or editions and that the author is associated with the date of publication rather than the publisher. Only within recent changes was the place of publication even considered. Trying to shoehorn media or non-print resources really shows up the inadequacies of the templates. As to what style to retain, I can live with the templates, as the GPA and GA reviewers invariably have no idea about any other referencing or bibliographical notations. For example, the use of second author in every style guide I know is written as first name, last name but then the templates treat the tracing as last, first name. Before my foray into the editing of this article, I had actually seen the film on TCM, began a few small changes but "fixed" the referencing style to "my own taste" much as what has happened again, however, since the article is not one that I have an abiding interest in or investment, my further contributions will be to assist in its development and possible candidacy for GA/FA review. As to my background in librarianship, it's a bit of Comme ci, comme ça; I also dabble in history as the editor of an online history site, and previously the editor of an aviation publication. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:50, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I have been working my way systematically through the Manhattan Project articles. Most involve citing scientific and academic papers. The problem I have with the GA reviewers is that they demand a very high degree of consistency, which is hard for me to achieve with hand coding. But now that the citation template has been completely rewritten in Lua, it should be possible to add additional options. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I understand your rationale for editing, but let me give you a "for instance". Recently, another editor asked me to "workup" The Secret Invasion which after some research, resulted in a revision of the article, much like I had done with The Beginning or the End. (Note: I have actually added more content than any other editor as per the edit history of The Beginning or the End article). Now after all that work, if someone had come along and begun to un-do the effort because they wanted to establish a referencing style of their own, I would likely be peeved, so would any other editor.

BTW, I have passed GA/FA reviews with my relying on a combination of MLA/Harvard Citation styles, I simply do not engage often in that type of work, as, depending on the reviewer, it can become a lengthy and convoluted exercise. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:28, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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Info for Milhistbot

Hi Hawkeye, just in case it might screw around with Milhistbot, I just wanted to point out that I've archived a couple of years worth of ACM awards to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACR/Archive 3. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:24, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Hawk, it appears Milhistbot has hit this hurdle, it has autonommed Rupert for an ACM instead of whatever it is he should be getting, probably because Rupert's last award is on the Archive page. Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Zawed's was also wrong, but that might have been because his first ACM wasn't on the master list... Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 03:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed My apologies. I should have done this earlier but forgot about it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:16, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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Possible Milhistbot glitch

G'day Hawk. I've noticed that Milhistbot seems to be resetting CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder/GA3 to CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder/GA2 on the Announcements page, per this. Is there something that can be done about that? It was a problem in the pre-bot days, as ppl would forget to add a |2 or |3 after the article name when they listed it on the Announcements page. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 12:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that the Bot goes looking for the latest review. It finds Talk:CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder/GA2 exists but that Talk:CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder/GA3 does not, and concludes incorrectly that GA2 is the current one. It needs to look instead at the Talk page and extract the page number from the GA nominee template. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:08, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Fixable? Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 13:25, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, but not until I get back home. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

No worries, I'll update it manually after the bot runs until then. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 23:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed The bot now parses the GAN template on the talk pages. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Another opBOTunity...

Happy New Year, Hawkeye! UcuchaBot has been down for some time now. I've sent a couple of emails to Ucucha about it (among other things) but nothing's happened so I think it's time to look into possible replacements. The bot did four main FA-related tasks, namely bolding TFAs on WP:FA, adding a notice to FAC nominations by WikiCup participants, moving the "Older nominations" marker on WP:FAC, and notifying nominators of upcoming TFAs. All of these have been or are being done manually by various editors in the bot's absence but of course it'd be great to get them automated again. The catalyst for me asking now is WikiCup 2015 starting, and if you do think you'd like to have a go at replacing UcuchaBot's functions, the WikiCup check would be my first priority. Anyway, I know there's plenty of requests on your plate, let me know about this one when you get a chance... Tks/cheers, 12:50, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

HMS Emerald (1795)

Hello Hawkeye7, thanks for taking an interest in the above article however your edits have caused a slight problem with the heading of the reference section. I tried to remove the 0em preceding it but although the heading was reinstated, further problems were caused with the reference list. Hope you are able to take a look. Regards--Ykraps (talk) 15:57, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Already corrected by another editor. My apologies. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for British contribution to the Manhattan Project

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Great job, Hawkeye, but I'm trying to keep these closer to 1200 characters, so I deleted a phrase. Feel free to tweak. - Dank (push to talk) 21:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Unclosed FACs

Hi Hawkeye, while trawling some archived noms from last quarter, I noticed these were not closed by the bot:

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jefferson–Hemings controversy/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Love Club EP/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Walther von Brauchitsch/archive1

Also this promoted nom from last quarter:

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Briarcliff Manor, New York/archive2

As usual, nothing obvious stood out to me as to why the bot didn't catch them, so if you have a chance to perhaps re-run/check... Tks as always! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:45, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I will investigate. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:12, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

• Found another one, when you get a chance: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch/archive1. I think the article name changed during the review but thought any discrepancies were resolved... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

  The Bot says: "FAC closed but Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch/archive1 has NOT been moved to the archive page" Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:39, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

  Saw you picked up the incorrect template name at the FAC Log page -- not sure why that one ended up there. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:17, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

  The problem is that the Bot could come along when you are working on it, so it allows this. In this case the name of the candidate page on the archive page did not match, so it did not find it. Bots are very fussy. I corrected the name of the page [10] and ordered the Bot to try again. This time it handled the article. Now that all the excitement has died down, I will put some procedures in place so these things are chased up in a timely manner. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

  Very much appreciated, as always! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:54, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Little Boy

Why the reversion? I didn't change the information; I only presented it in a more logical sequence to make it easier to understand. (If the larger piece was the stationary target, the WC tamper around it would make it critical.) HowardMorland (talk) 21:27, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Terribly sorry, I was reading the change, which was a good one, on a mobile device and must have accidentally triggered the revert. I have put it back the way you had it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Milhistbot going crazy

Hi Hawkeye, Milhistbot just removed almost all of the FAC candidates from T:WPMHA. I'll revert, though I guess it will take them away again. - Dank (push to talk) 01:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Hey Hawkeye, sorry mate but I've blocked the bot. It's getting on for 2am here so I won't be up much longer; if it's fixed within the next 12 hours (but takes longer than the next 10-20 minutes, by which time I'll be asleep), grab any admin to unblock it. I'm sure Dan will oblige. Don't worry about stepping on my toes. If I'm up I'll unblock it myself the minute you tell me the problem's solved. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:52, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I've fixed the problem. It was a stray character in a regular expression. You can unblock now. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Done, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 03:55, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Had to block it again, still removing ongoing FACs. - Dank (push to talk) 04:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

No, no it is fine. I just accidentally re-ran the old code instead of the new. It's all about matching the MILHIST template on the talk page. Originally, it was going too wide, and matching any page that mentioned MILHIST, generating a false positive. Now I made it narrower, and it matched WikiProject Military History and MILHIST, but some articles use WPMILHIST. Could you please unblock? I will immediately re-run with the new version. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:29, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, done. - Dank (push to talk) 04:35, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Reload it now. It's all good. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:43, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

• Glad we got that sorted. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:48, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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Milhistbot glitch?

G'day Hawk. Milhistbot seems to be just adding and removing the structure from the ACR "Promoted" page, rather than adding each article as it passes. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2015/Promoted. Or am I missing something? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 02:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed Glitch. The Bot was supposed to create the new page, then update it to reflect the addition; but it forgot the text it just added. Corrected the Bot, and set the page right manually. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:01, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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My talk comments

Hawkeye -

I have been getting a lot of grief from SummerPhD over my talk page comments so I thought I would discuss this here since I don't know what I have permission to say. Apparently I am not allowed to ask questions, as the act of asking questions is stating an 'opinion'. I can see where some of what I have said might be construed that way, but asking a question?

Regarding the debate over the atomic bombing of Japan.

That would seem to be common sense but in Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State (1963), a Japanese court ruled otherwise.

Is the ruling of a Japanese court considered valid? Aside from the fact that the victims typically are the first ones to cry foul, it is not an international court and thus it's opinions are only enforceable in Japan?

Even the international court (read Nuremburg) has problems with validity due to some capricious and arbitrary decisions. Jokem (talk) 21:43, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk pages are strictly for discussion of the articles and not their subject. So yo cannot go on asking questions. Also, many of the answers you seek could be found by reading the articles. Take SummerPhD's advice to heart before you get into trouble. But the rules are different here on a User:Talk page.

I am not an expert on international law, but I presume that it is the same as our system, where the decision of a lower court stands unless and until it is overturned by a higher court. And Ryuichi Shimoda has been held as valid in Japan and the United States. For the purpose of the article, that is all that we need. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:41, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your response Hawkeye, and also for presenting it without Stentorian undertones. Jokem (talk)

Third Opinion

I don't know if you are the right one to ask this, but since I have been getting grief from this SummerPhD person, I thought I might ask how to go about this.

see here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SummerPhD

The responses have gotten more and more terse, so at this point I am concluding I need to either give up on being a Wiki editor, or find a third party to get this resolved.

Your opinion please? Jokem (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for James C. Marshall

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Not really vandalism, but looked like it...

I reverted your uncommented change of middle initial at PUREX as vandalism, before realizing it was probably serious. Trouble is, Herbert H. Anderson and Herbert L. Anderson look like maybe two different people. There's nothing in the Herbert L Anderson bios about PUREX, and the PUREX patent clearly shows Herbert H. Anderson. Of course, the latter could be an error and maybe they really are one person. Do you have more info on this? Dicklyon (talk) 20:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

The patent says Herbert H. Anderson was in Newton Mass (as the application date 1947, perhaps?). Herbert L. Anderson's bio doesn't show him ever in Mass., and as far as I can tell not ever at the same place/time as co-inventor Asprey. So let's leave them as two different names. Dicklyon (talk) 21:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, this is definitive. Seaborg says Herbert H. Anderson was in his Met Lab group, which is where Asprey was. Maybe there's enough for an article on H.? Dicklyon (talk) 21:11, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Pu

Hi. A stray </ref> text shows in the plutonium page. Since you are active, I just note & won't edit for now. -DePiep (talk) 21:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

I got them both. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

FAR bot processing

Hawkeye, did you see my query at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/Coordination? Nikkimaria just closed a couple, that are in the February archive, so I'm wondering if your bot is ready to process them? Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello. I see FACBot ran about 11 hours ago, but it didn't run through two demoted articles: Celine Dion and 2012 tour of She Has a Name. Did I do something wrong when I closed them? Thanks. DrKiernan (talk) 11:14, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

The FACBot runs FAR on a separate script to minimise the amount of trouble if something hits a snag. I think I only set it running on autopilot yesterday, so the next run of the FAR script would not be for another three hours. I've ordered it to run now while I am watching. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:26, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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Martin D. Whitaker reference question

I've approved your DYK on Martin D. Whitaker, although I did just want to pop over to check something on one of your references. The Hewlett & Anderson ref is cited to pages 207–208. Am I misreading things in that source, or should it be 210–211? Didn't want to change it myself just in case I'm the one misreading something. Regardless, your DYK should be good to go. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 15:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

No, that is correct,. I have corrected the reference. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:41, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Glad I could help ... and glad that's one of the sections I picked to thoroughly spot-check against the reference. Our default editing areas aren't very similar (although there actually is some overlap between military history and silent film, surprisingly enough!), but let me know if there's ever anything I can lend a hand with. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 20:03, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Well now that you've mentioned it, I have one article on a film, The Beginning or the End, which is currently at WP:GAN waiting for someone to review it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Notability hit counts

Hi. In the Ahmad Keshvari deletion discussion you mentioned that you ran a Google search and "got thousands of hits a plethora of images". Can you please explain in which manner you see Google hit counts as translating into notability per WP:NOTABILITY?--Anders Feder (talk) 01:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

They do not indicate notability. But the OP said he could not find anything with a Google search. The reason is that Google does not correctly handle searches in non-Latin scripts. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

That was actually not what he said. He said he could not find anything on "Google Books, Google Scholar, Questia and High Beam", which are other engines than the standard Google web search you did. Furthermore, the subject's last name literally translates to "state" or "country"[35], while his first name (in Latin script: "Ahmad") is extremely common in the Middle East. By searching for احمد کشوری, you are merely hitting all the pages containing the Farsi equivalents of "Ahmad" and "country". Anyway, thanks for explaining.--Anders Feder (talk) 02:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Martin D. Whitaker

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• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [50]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [51]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [52]

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DYK for Robert Brode

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WT:TFA

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DYK for Alfred Judson Force Moody

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One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

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• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [57] [58] [59] [60]
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DYK for The Beginning or the End

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• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [65] [66]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [67] [68] [69]

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [70] [71]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [72] [73]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [74] [75]
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• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

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Good, thank you, and excellent Vannevar Bush! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for George Weil

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Nice job on George Weil! Cheers! - Location (talk) 02:28, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

The Utility of Force

G'day Hawk. Any idea why this one is still on Milhist Announcements? I failed it, but... Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 13:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

It seems to be not updating the announcements for failed A class reviews. However, the daily announcements run sets it right. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:04, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 30, 2015

Hi ... once again, a summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Does the article need more work? I had to squeeze the summary down to around 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? - Dank (push to talk) 16:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the rewrite, but now it's 924 characters; it needs to be at least 1050. Should we add back the bit about where the staff came from, or something else? - Dank (push to talk) 23:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

I've increased it to 1,096 words. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Looks great. - Dank (push to talk) 23:55, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Agree, looks great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:23, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

... and sturdy, Vernon Sturdee, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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Recent changes

• The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [81]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [82]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [83] [84]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [85] [86]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [87] [88]

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• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [91]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [92]

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DYK for Frederick Reines

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Pingie thingie

Hawkeye, since those pingie-thingies don't always work, I was wondering if you saw my query at Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles#Time for new list and if that is something you might be able to do? Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:23, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

it worked. I'll try and run it off on the weekend. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:26, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

No hurry ... I just wanted to be sure you saw it. I appreciate the help! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:55, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Me again! Pinging you to Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles#Time for new list. Perhaps if you were instead to email me a spreadsheet, I could do the first pruning cut (removing those from known active editors, etc) off Wiki? Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:10, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [93]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [94] [95] [96]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [97]

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Rowley Richards

Since we loathe each other, I don't expect a reply. But I noticed an obit yesterday in the SMH for this remarkable man. He's mentioned in Burma Railway, but that's about all. He would be an interesting and worthy topic for a new article, if you're inclined. Wrote two books, too. Tony (talk) 02:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

He already has some red links, but no article. I can create one. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:10, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

That sounds very promising. I was struck by the sheer moral strength of this man—not morality in any religious sense, but as a manifestation of social cohesion at its best. Tony (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [99]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [100] [101] [102]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [103]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [104]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [105]

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• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [106]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [107]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [108]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [109]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [110] [111] [112] [113]

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rfA

just as a concerned onlooker, I am a little concerned about the nature of your question on the ongoing Rfa. Perhaps you might want to remove it, or reword it to pick a somewhat different example. DGG ( talk ) 21:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Do you have a better example in mind? I could think of some real-life examples of far more egregious behaviour, but I wanted an one that was sufficiently borderline as to make one think. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

borderline in what sense--I would think that it was so far away from our proper sphere, that it seems to actually suggest it is aimed at someone doing this. When we talk about off wiki behavior of admins, we usually mean not things disgraceful in a general sense, but off wiki behavior directly harming WP, such as using an off-wiki forum to identify an editor. (just my personal take on it) . But there's no need for us to pursue it. DGG ( talk ) 01:21, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Questioning a revert

Not sure how "MOS Soldier" applies as justification for reverting my removal of the wiki-link from a red-link in today's feature article? I didn't ask for the page to be deleted; I just removed a broken link. I did due diligence that there's not another article for a matching Thomas Roderick in the mainspace, nor one immediately apparent in draft or AFC. Am I missing something?

It was not broken, it was just a red link. Per Wikipedia:Red link: red links help Wikipedia—they encourage new contributors in useful directions, and remind us that Wikipedia is far from finished. Per WP:SOLDIER general officers are presumed notable. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:32, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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Immigrate / emigrate

A while ago we had a speedy category discussion about immigrate and emigrate, to and from. There hasn't been any activity in this discussion for a while. Could you remove the nomination and untag the category, or alternatively could you list it for full CfD? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:34, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

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• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [115]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [116] [117]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [118]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [119]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [120]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [121] [122] [123] [124]

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [125]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [126] [127]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [128]

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Prep 1 revert

• May I ask what this was for? Blue asked me to get some queues ready. Yes, one of the hooks I wrote was there, but better a little COI than having DYK run late. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:13, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

It was accidental. I only just noticed it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:26, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• I thought so, too... odd. If you were mobile, that would explain a lot. Anyways, no harm done. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:40, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [130]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [131] [132]

Problems

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DYK for William W. Havens, Jr.

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Boat Race reviews

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		Hey Hawkeye7, just a quick barnstar to say thanks for the reviews of Boat Race articles you've conducted over the past year. As of this morning, I completed my (initial) goal of ensuing that every Boat Race had, not only its own article, but one that was either of GA or FA status: we now have 158 GAs and 3 FAs that we can all be proud of! It doesn't stop here, for me at least, I'm going to keep up with improving the quality of the GAs and look for more FA opportunities. Plus, there's the small matter of 70 Women's Boat Race articles to get up and running! But thanks again, I couldn't have done it without your help. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:47, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of James Rainwater

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DYK for Ross Gunn

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 9, 2015

Hawkeye, a summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. I changed very little from the lead section. - Dank (push to talk) 02:17, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Dan, actually the co-nominator was Rupert... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:22, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Oops, nevermind! - Dank (push to talk) 02:49, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Rowley Richards

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 23:31, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Piping titles

Hello, Hawkeye! I didn't mention this point at your current FAC because it is purely a matter of personal opinion, on which the Manual of Style is silent. To my eye it breaks the flow of the prose and fractionally disrupts the reader to leave a knight's "Sir" out of the piping. Example: Major General Hastings Ismay, who consulted with Sir Henry Tizard, which I think would flow better as: Major General Hastings Ismay, who consulted with Sir Henry Tizard. A bit more work for the editor, but easier on the reader's eye, I think. Entirely your choice, naturally, but I thought I'd mention it here for your consideration. Best wishes, Tim riley talk 14:44, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for James Rainwater

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• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [150] [151]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [152]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [153]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [154]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [155]

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• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [157]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [158]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [159]

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DYK nomination of Elda Emma Anderson

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Salvio

I've no idea why you said this where you did, other than I know you are a sympathiser of LB/dislike Eric etc. Instead of stoking the flames in a cess-pit, why not take it to ANI? - Sitush (talk) 10:34, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Excuse the mixed metaphor! - Sitush (talk) 10:35, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

It's not just the metaphors that are mixed. I don't dislike Eric; he dislikes me, which is not the same thing. And, as another editor pointed out, ANI is not the correct forum. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:46, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elda Emma Anderson

Harrias ^talk 12:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Clinton Engineer Works

Harrias ^talk 12:04, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Joan Curran

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Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Impressive work

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		Your work on Rowley Richards was just one example of your remarkable contributions to Wikipedia articles. Well done indeed. Tony (talk) 12:41, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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Kinsella v. Krueger

The fist trip to the Supreme Court has a bizarre procedural status. Kinsella did not seek cert, the US Government did (the named party in the District Court case). The bizarre part is that the Supreme Court granted the writ before the 4th Circuit heard the appeal. Especially unusual in that the District Court order was only a preliminary one. I've corrected the appropriate section and added a citation. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! I don't know much about the working of the American justice system, so I don't recognize when something is unusual. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:58, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Wendover Air Force Base

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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
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The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:34, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Grete Keilson

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 20:06, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 23, 2015

Hi, Hawkeye and User:Reedmalloy. A summary of a Featured Article you guys nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. I had to squeeze the summary down to around 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? I'd appreciate it if you could check the article one more time before its day on the Main Page. - Dank (push to talk) 22:01, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I've added the bit about his role in development of the B-29 and B-47, which was much more important than his involvement in Crossroads. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, looks good. - Dank (push to talk) 22:27, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Nothing to add from me. It's always a pleasure.--Reedmalloy (talk) 01:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

It seems a shame to run it on this day when the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is coming up in August 2015. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:38, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kinsella v. Krueger

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January-March 2015 Milhist reviewing award

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FACs not archiving

Hi mate, the following were closed at least a week ago and don't seem to have archived yet via the bot, would you be able to check? Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:34, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Malvern Hill/archive1

  For some reason the (UTC) was missing from the delegate's timestamp. Don't know how that happened. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:21, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Geiger–Marsden experiment/archive2

  The Bot expects the delegate to sign off the FACClosed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:21, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Songs from the Black Hole/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stephen I of Hungary/archive2
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/St. Elmo (1914 film)/archive1
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  The problem here was an article called Sarah Geronimo. The FAC template was added to the talk page, causing it to be listed as a candidate, but the nomination was not initiated. The Bot thinks that the nomination is still in progress. Removed the template. Because the FACs are processed in alphabetical order, subsequent ones were not promoted or archived. Told the Bot to skip to the next FAC. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:42, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

  Ah, I did spot that one on WP:FACL when I was walking through open noms last night but hadn't got round to taking action on it -- tks for your quick response. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:41, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Kinsella v. Krueger

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For helping me copyedit the lead in the List of United States Army campaigns during World War II. Tomandjerry211 (Let's have a chat) 12:28, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Biographies of physicists

Hi, Hawkeye7,

I saw your comment on another editor's talk page mentioning an interest in editing articles about physicists. I see from your user page you have a huge content contribution history and a lot of interest in military history, recently including the history of the Manhattan Project. In my youth I read a lot about the Manhattan Project and recently I have had a mind to update biographies on physicists who have won Nobel prizes. I have been gathering sources about some physicists, using resources available to me from the Wikipedia Library online database access program and from the huge public and academic libraries in my town. Which biographies do you think best deserve some updating? I'd be happy to work collaboratively with you on updating some articles about physicists. I've watchlisted a few of those for years, and I'm disappointed at how bad some Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates still are, even though reliable sources about those persons are abundant. Please let me know how I can help. See you on the wiki. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 15:53, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi! As part of improving the articles on the Manhattan Project, I want to bring the biographies of all the participants who won the Nobel Prize up to at least GA level. Most have been done, but three remain: Aage Bohr, Val Fitch and Richard Feynman. I am proposing that we work through them in this order. The first two should be relatively straightforward. Bohr's article looks okay, but lacks references. Assuming that it is not a copyvio, we should be able to fix it up by adding references and some more facts (such as his death). Fitch's article has references, but is very sparse. Some rewriting is required. Feynman has an article that is both discouragingly large and unreferenced. There is plenty of literature about him, but cleaning up the article will be a lot of work. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:24, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Good. Great minds run in the same rut. I have the Gleick biography of Feynman at hand, as that was one article I have had watchlisted for a long time. I'll look at the other two and see what I can do to help on each one in turn, probably the most for the Feynman article. Thanks for letting me know about your plans. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 02:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of List of United States Army campaigns during World War II

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• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [166] [167] [168]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [169]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [170] [171]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [172]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [173]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [174] [175]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [176]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [177]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [178]

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DYK for List of United States Army campaigns during World War II

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Your GA nomination of Cyril Stanley Smith

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What a lovely coincidence...

to find you working on Val Logsdon Fitch. It just so happens that he was the great-uncle of an old friend of mine, and the family have asked me to thank you. Let me know if you get stuck on any facts or sources. Thanks again! Maralia (talk) 05:26, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Glad to hear it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:23, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Not-So-Mad Scientists

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• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

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• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [179]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [180]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [181]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [182] [183]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [184]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [185]

Meetings

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Richard Feynman article

Hi, Hawkeye7,

I see you maintain a rapid tempo of updating articles. I was very busy in my off-wiki life in the last few days, and meanwhile books I requested from the library about Richard Feynman have arrived at my home office. I've read some of the those books before, and what I plan to do now is an off-wiki draft as if there had never been an article about Feynman here before, dipping into multiple sources in turn, so as to produce a coherent, NPOV, complete draft of a Feynman biography article in my user space. I'll send you that link as I begin the draft expansion, and at some point I'll say, "That's enough," and then let you do as you wish in terms of using any or none of the draft I produce to update the mainspace article. I'm doing this because I'm curious to see how your experienced editorial judgment is applied to my effort to produce a "fresh start" draft of an article that has long had low-grade edit warring. Whatever you do with the draft I produce will be informative for how to do some similar fresh start drafts for biography articles about other deceased scientists, something I've had in mind to do for a long time. Thanks for your patience with my slower process of producing articles. Keep up the good work. See you on the wiki. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 19:00, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I've brought Aage Bohr and Val Fitch up to GA standard. Then on a re-check I found two more Nobel Prize winners, Eugene Wigner and James Franck. So I've been working on the former. For what it's worth, I think creating a new version of the article is a good idea. When you have blocks of text without references, it is hard to tell if there is a COPYVIO, so you wind up having to rephrase it. The effect is similar to a rewrite, and I've often thought it takes longer. In common with many scientist articles, most of the minor edit warring has been over stupid stuff like whether he was an atheist (and whether this counts as a religion) and whether he should be listed as being Jewish or not. Nothing likely to progress the article towards being coherent, NPOV or complete.

With an abundance of material, an FA article should be possible. I have three books on Feynman:

• Gleick, James (1992). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-40836-3. OCLC 243743850.
• Mehra, Jagdish (1994). The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853948-7.
• Gribbin, John R.; Gribbin, Mary (1997). Richard Feynman: a life in science. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-670-87245-8.

Murray Gell-Mann told people at a memorial service that Feynman "surrounded himself in a cloud of myth, and he spent a great deal of time and energy generating anecdotes about himself." (Geick, p. 11) The Gribbins' book is a good example of printing the myth. Feynman's own books have to be treated with great caution. The fact that there is also a play starring Alan Alda doesn't help.(See Kennedy, J. Michael (December 2, 2001). "The Cult of Richard Feynman: His Peculiar Immortality Springs From More Than His Scientific Achievements". Los Angeles Times.) Mehra's book is all about his science, and is packed with equations. Gleick comes somewhere in between. One of my favourite sources is his FBI file (via Wellerstein, Alex (July 11, 2014). "Who smeared Richard Feynman?".); when the light gets shone on one of his anecdotes, the result is something like this. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:00, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful comments on sources. I have most of the standard Feynman biographies (including the popular collections of anecdotes) at hand. One more library run tomorrow should gather up some general reference books about Nobel laureates in physics, for comparison of the various Nobel laureates. I agree with you that sometimes a top-to-bottom rewrite is easier to bring to the level of verifiability expected by Wikipedia policy than extensively copy-editing an existing article. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 04:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye, I've been mining the copies of the Army List at the Mitchell, inspired by your comment re. Garrett at the assessment request page. I'd earlier assumed that, like the Navy List, you'd only find current postings/seniority and so would have to go though scores of issues to build a complete picture but, lo and behold, there are historical entries, like an Army Who's Who! One thing though, when researching Pollard in the 1962 edition, I found a posting that made no sense to me and perhaps you can help: "GSO3 Trg and Gen Duties 2 DB" -- what was "2 DB"? The book kindly provides glossaries of abbreviations for honours and qualifications, but I couldn't find anything similar for units, branches, etc, so this one left me stumped... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:06, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

"District Base". I find the Army Lists invaluable. They really are like an Army Who's Who! Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Ah, many tks mate. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Reference trouble

I've made a modest addition to the Robert Bacher article, but ran into reference trouble. I am unfamiliar with the referencing system used for that article, but suspect the Pais reference I've added is missing an entry in some system. In any case, I noted you were a (sort of) recent contributor to the article...can you please fix my broken reference for me? (sounds pathetic... :) ) Thx, Bdushaw (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Nevermind - I found the problem, a dyslexic misspelling. So sorry. Bdushaw (talk) 18:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for the edit. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Leó Szilárd

Don't want to get in the way...

fought -> found

immediately bas sent -> 'was'?

usrged -> urged

Maybe at some point pause and re-read very carefully? Shenme (talk) 21:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Normally I do a semi-automated pass over the article when I've finished. The article then goes for other eyes to see at DYK or GA. If I take it further, it will get proofread in an A-class review. Do you have any interest in Szilárd? Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Leo Szilard

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Fermi

Hi, I've just undid your edit on Enrico Fermi. First of all, Segré was not Fermi' student, but he used to take some advice from Fermi. Regarding the citizenship, Italian and American would be the appropriate words. As for the alma mater, scuola normale superior refers to his "secondary education". He is graduated from Sapienza. Hope it's clear. Thanks!

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??? In fact it is you to write "secondary school" on his Alma Mater. dO you understand what you're doing?

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That's not fair

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Thanks very much...

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Lake Ontario Ordnance Works

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First paragraph of the Interim Waste section. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Please have another look. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 13:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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SSX FAC

Hi Hawkey, know you're away but when/if you get a chance, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/SSX 3/archive1 doesn't seem to have archived -- think it's the only one though. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:38, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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My RfA

Pavlov's RfA reward Thank for !voting at my recent RfA. You voted Support so you get a whopping three cookies, fresh from the oven! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:46, 16 July 2015 (UTC).

Thanks for that. Regret that your RfA was unsuccessful. Originally, desysops were considered temporary, and the bureaucrats restored without meeting arbitrary thresholds. On the last time they did so though, ArbCom effectively desysopped Kelly Martin for saying "I applaud these three bureaucrats for having the moxie to break from the stifling expectations of the pseudoconsensus that typically erupts from any given Request for Adminship and instead evaluate the broader picture and make a decision that reflects more than merely the shifting moods of a fickle and ill-informed populace." Mmmmmm cookies. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:00, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

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Vision in White FAC

Hi mate, this one doesn't want to close. It did undergo a minor naming change but I thought I ticked all the boxes to get the FAC to agree with the new name, perhaps not... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:22, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

The Bot said: "Ian closed it but did not move it to the archive page." After staring at the page for several minutes, I found that when you cut and pasted it to the archive page, "Vision in White" became "Vision In White". Aparently this was due to a page move in June. Corrected this and it worked. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Ugh, yes -- the article name when the FAC kicked off had "In", then when it was changed to "in" I moved the FAC page and changed it in the article talk page but forgot the actual template name in the FAC list... :-P Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:57, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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comment on Clinton Engineer Works (CEW)

I noticed you added a section on power generation, but deleted the (to me, fascinating) detail from The New York Times that CEW/Oak Ridge at one point consumed more than 14% of the electricity generated in the United States. I don't want to battle on your turf, but was curious whether that fact failed your sniff test. Any chance I could put it back in your new section? Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 23:52, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

I noted the reason on the review page. This factoid comes from Kenneth Nichols's (ghost-written) 1987 autobiography, which embarrassed me on another issue on the main Manhattan Project article. The claim has been refuted by recent scholarship. See [245] and [246]. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:39, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Wow — thanks for that. Looks like the New York Times got it wrong today (and star reporter James Barron no less). Almost makes me wonder if the CEW article could present both this seemingly persistent 14% myth and its well-sourced refutation(s), if only to keep future good faith editors like me from reinserting the bad info again, as it seems to come up in RS. Will the Times run a retraction? They hate doing that, and Barron at least sourced it to a third party. In any event, thanks for your thoughtful and quick explanation. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 02:50, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Congrats on the FA promotion, at long last!! Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 03:47, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

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Punctuation

You recently reverted me at Thomas C. Kinkaid with the comment "Consistent use of the straight (or typewriter) apostrophe ( ' ) is recommended, as opposed to the curly (or typographic) apostrophe ( ’ ). " I think you may have your punctuation confused. The article had been using the Prime (symbol), which is inappropriate. "The prime symbol ( ′ ) is commonly used to represent feet (ft), arcminutes (am), and minutes (min)." It is never used for possessives. "The prime symbol should not be confused with the apostrophe." So I changed all the Primes into straight apostrophes, which, as you note, "is recommended." Kendall-K1 (talk) 11:13, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Very well then. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:54, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [259]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [260]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [261]

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• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [263]

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Little Boy / Fat Man

I am familiar with the origin of the descriptives. That fact doesn't alter the fact that neither common nor conventional academic/scholarly usage would support the changes you've made in these instances. You're conflating reference to the type with reference to the individual devices qua individual devices.

That said, Wikipedia has its many conventions, many of which defy common usage, common sense, and academic/scholarly usage.

I won't contest your preference.

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Your question on Liz's RfA

Hi. I waited until Liz's RfA and the ensuing 'crat discussion were finished before raising this, so I'm sorry if this now seems like a past issue. But I don't think I'm the only one who thought the candidate question you posed on Liz's RfA was crass, or at least gratuitously indecorous. Creative questioning has its merits, but with respect, I hope you won't be doing this again. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 06:30, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Please don't block me. I was under the impression that the artwork in question, which does have its own article was famous enough for everyone to instantly recognise it. (Failing which, a Google search on "canned shit" would quickly have found it, but I guess I'm thinking like a content creator here.) I was equally surprised that no one mentioned the real-life case that it is so obviously based on. It is part of my Final exam for wikilawyers, an evil version of yours. The scary part was the difference between experienced editors over the meaning of WP:NPA. I was going to seek an opinion on this from you. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

No, I never heard of that particular artwork, which I guess makes me a feces-Philistine; and I hadn't seen your exam page, which I will enjoy now. I had actually assumed you were riffing on Russavia's actual troll of JW a couple of years ago, which raised interesting questions in a theoretical sense, but which I dealt with at the time at least for on-wiki purposes in a practical sense. I suppose my point is that something that might make an interesting theoretical discussion in one context, is out of place in the context of an RfA environment that many people already consider problematic, and much less an RfA that was shaping up as a highly contentious one (and the interjection of JW's name didn't help either). Enough said, I think. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:44, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [264]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [265]
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [266]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [267]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [268]
• JavaScript authors:
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  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [271] [272]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [273]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [274]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [275]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [276]

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• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [277]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [278]

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Jack Verge

Thanks for the review. It was extremely helpful of you to go ahead and make the necessary changes to pass the article. FunkyCanute (talk) 11:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

No worries. All that was needed was a few corrections to typos. Nice to see someone using the AIF database. Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:48, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Timothy R. Coffin

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TFA

"The image of the book is that of my own copy." - thank you for a personal one, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:01, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Draftspace

Yeah, I don't think there's any real clarity about it though. The AFC headers do help keep track of drafts that haven't been edited in six months (for G13 issues), else I've had to manually find them out. I think drafts in userspace itself are left alone as long as you're active or else it's up for MFD (which may just move them to draftspace). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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Demon Core

Sorry I stepped on your edit, Hawkeye7. I left mine up; its a bit more wordy. SkoreKeep (talk) 01:47, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but it doesn't have a reference4 to back it up. I've put my version back for now. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:53, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. I had a document once that was posted on the Los Alamos veterans site which was apparently written by someone who was there or very close by, who talked with Hemmerly afterwards, and the "reading the newspaper" came from him. Then they reorganized the site and the little essay disappeared. I called the archivist to see whether e could get it back, but she wasn't overly sanguine about it. SkoreKeep (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

We can switch back if we find it. I normally wouldn't be too fussed but I have it up for GA at the moment. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:45, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Dorothy McKibbin

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Vannevar Bush

My thanks for the notification. The link was in a list of the four founding members of the NRDC, to enable a reader to flick through all 4 side-by-side, to see the skills and experience that prompted their selection. To locate Bush required remembering where exactly he was mentioned, in a different context in a different paragraph. In a long 'essay', sometimes that can mean consideration for the reader, rather than a once-is-enough rationing system.

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A barnstar for you

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		For your rapid creation of an article to cover a much over-looked man: George William Symes. For instance, I had no idea of his role with 21st Army Group.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 17:39, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Australian Army during World War I

I'm unsure if you have it watchlisted so just letting you know that I recently made a few additions to the Australian Army during World War I article. Given the source I'd hate to have unintentionally misrepresented something. My main changes are here [288] (pls forgive my spelling, I corrected that in subsequent edits). Of cse you have your own priorities without having to check my work but I thought it only courtesy to let you know at least. Regards. Anotherclown (talk) 07:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Aage Bohr

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Problems with MediaWiki:Gadget-metadata.js

I did not remove other people's comments. I copied the whole thread, verbatim, to MediaWiki talk:Gadget-metadata.js#Problems since 19 August 2015, in accordance with the documentation for {{moved to}} and {{moved from}}. I did this because at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-metadata.js#Overhaul applied, Nihiltres (talk · contribs) specifically requested that problems be notified on that page. Making a WP:PER is not difficult, all you need to do is add {{edit protected}} together with sufficient information for an admin to address the issue. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:11, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

And when I tried to raise one, you deleted it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:35, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Per WP:TALK: Avoid posting the same thread in multiple talk pages: This fragments discussion of the idea. Instead, start the discussion in one location, and, if needed, advertise that in other locations using a link. Do not move to another, more obscure page with the objective of suppressing discussion. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:38, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

No, I moved the PER to the proper place, i.e. the talk page of the problem gadget, because you put it at Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical), which per its box at the top, is "for discussion about the village pump only". Then, it was you that deleted it.

I did not have the objective of suppressing discussion. I wanted it all kept in one place, the place where it all started, several days ago, which is why I intentionally used templates like {{moved to}}, which include links to that place. Haveing a second thread on WP:VPT goes against WP:MULTI.

Here's how a WP:PER works. You make your request on the talk page of the page that has the problem, accompanied by a {{edit protected}} - this puts the talk page into Category:Wikipedia fully-protected edit requests where an admin who is watching that category may see it. Very soon after, AnomieBOT (talk · contribs) adds a row to User:AnomieBOT/PERTable, like this, and also adds a link to the request at {{Admin dashboard}}. Any admin with that dashboard will see the request. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:53, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

The page is obscure; it has less than 30 watchers, so there is no chance of a passing admin fixing the problem. User:AnomieBOT/PERTable isn't much better; there are change requests there weeks old. Perhaps because {{Admin dashboard}} does not show the request; it just tells you that there are 83 of them in the queue. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

You don't know that those fewer than 30 watchers are not admins. Since pages in MediaWiki: space may only be edited by admins, the proportion of admins among the watchers is probably quite high.

The reason that there are weeks-old requests in User:AnomieBOT/PERTable may be deduced by examining them: in several cases, there is still debate going on.

{{Admin dashboard}} does not currently show the request, this is true: but it is because you deleted it. If you had not done that, it would be shown, but not among the 83 that you observed. The row with 83 outstanding is for pages in Category:Requested edits, i.e. all pages marked with the {{Request edit}} template (this allows a contributor with a conflict of interest to request an edit from a neutral editor), this is not at all the same thing as a WP:PER. If you had let the {{edit protected}} stand, it would be linked from the row above that 83 (i.e. Wikipedia fully-protected edit requests), whose count is presently 10. A direct link to the protected edit request would also have been displayed, in at least two places: under the heading "Administrative backlog", the same category is listed - to its left is a rightward-pointing blue triangle. If you click that, it expands to list the actual talk pages with outstanding requests. Or you can go down the page to the (misnamed) WP:UAA / WP:RFPP section, below which are some collapsed lists, one of which is headed "Protected edit requests" - if you click "show" there, you'll find User:AnomieBOT/PERTable (as well as User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable which is not relevant here). --Redrose64 (talk) 13:00, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Description of a picture in the Oppenheimer Article

Hallo Hawkeye7,

I have just read the Oppenheimer article and I noticed the picture concerning the Congress for Cultural Freedom's second Berlin conference in June 1960. There are 6 people on the panel, but only 5 names. The name of the person who was not tagged yet, on the right of Willy Brandt or rather the empty chair, is Theodor Heuss. He was the first president of Germany (1949-1959). Hope you can include him in the description.

Have a nice day! Draken87 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Draken87 (talk • contribs) 06:58, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Bohr DYK

Hey, I only just saw your response at WP:ERRORS to my change to the Bohr DYK. Sorry I wasn't around to address it while it was still on the MP, I think you made a reasonable point. Best, Jenks24 (talk) 09:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Otto Hahn

Would you like to fix your knee jerk edit of my edit before we get to the details? Juan Riley (talk) 20:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:43, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay..thank you. Now this statement "The uranium atom was first split by..." is physically and logically false. Can you think of a better way of phrasing it? That was what I was trying to correct (other than the chemist/physicist thing). It is even arguable that since they were not the first to bombard heavy elements with neutrons (altho nearly so) others had induced fission of U235. The point is they recognized (discovered) what had happened. Have fun with trying to say all of that succinctly. And if you are just sitting around hoping to correct me on things...get a life. Juan Riley (talk) 20:50, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

To supplement Hahn's Nobel prize was for: "...his discovery of the fission of heavy atomic nuclei." Juan Riley (talk) 21:11, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I am not stalking you. I start each day by checking my watch list, which includes all the Manhattan Project articles, and everything tagged under HOPAU. What do you think of this version? "The discovery of nuclear fission by German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938, and its theoretical explanation by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, made the development of an atomic bomb a theoretical possibility." Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I thanked you immediately..especially putting Meitner in. I like it. 21:23, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eugene Wigner

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:35, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Just because I am still here..not trolling...fulling understanding the Wigner-Eckart theorem was perhaps the highlight of my theoretical physics career. Juan Riley (talk) 23:40, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, I'm impressed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:20, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Arthur Moon: Contentious image deletion

Hi. You promoted the Arthur Moon article for DYK last year. An editor has recently repeatedly deleted the catalogue image that is central to the article. I would be most grateful for your input. Tomintoul (talk) 07:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your input on the deletion discussion. The guy continues to edit-war prior to conclusion of the debate. Any advice? Thanks again. Tomintoul (talk) 14:25, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Leave it. If he reverts again, I will revert and file a WP:3RR report at WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring, and he can be blocked. Don't revert again though, because then you'll be blocked too. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:58, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help and advice. Tomintoul (talk) 09:07, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Lake Ontario Ordnance Works

Thank you for your GA review of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works. I made some of the changes you recommended. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:36, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank for your help. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:21, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship

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DYK for Jordanna Bartlett

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DYK for Sophie Carrigill

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DYK for Amy Conroy

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:42, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Joy Haizelden

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DYK for Charlotte Moore (wheelchair basketball)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:42, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Laurie Williams (wheelchair basketball)

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Would you mind giving John Hoskins (officer) a second look?

I've finished the Korean war section and added a later service section, eliminating the legacy section (which, aside from the movie) didn't have any other content. I think it will pass the B-class checklist now and I'm going to put it up for GA as soon as it does. Tell me what you think. Considering I didn't know a thing about this fellow a week ago, I'm pleased with how much RS I could find. This seems like the sort of guy the Navy would name a boat or a facility after... Thanks. BusterD (talk) 13:00, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

I think it's great. One additional citation required for B class. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:46, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I forgot to use my newspapers.com account. Give it a last look. Because of your tag, the page was improved with another astounding fact about the guy's ability. Thanks, dude. BTW, you think it would pass GA as is? BusterD (talk) 20:18, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it should easily pass GA. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:34, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Looking at all the news coverage over his career, I'll bet there are some journal articles as well. Surprised not to find a book about the guy. Nothing at all on JSTOR. This is potentially A-class and FA material. It would be my first of each, after ten years of editing. Thanks again for your quality eyes. I'm really proud of this work. BusterD (talk) 20:46, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Rightly so. It is an excellent article. I have re-rated it as B class. I've also passed the DYK review. Like you, my only knowledge of him came from watching the black and white movie. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:58, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Obscure Template

I notice you indicate you have used the Subject Bar template on articles where there are links to more than one other Wiki. I'm trying to form an opinion on the subject, and the links in the discussion at MILHIST talk just lead to edit wars and single links. Could you provide a link to an article you've edited that uses this template so I can get a better idea of how it works in practice? Thanks. --Lineagegeek (talk) 22:09, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Douglas MacArthur Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:13, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for George William Symes

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The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
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6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

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Battle of Milne Bay: ULTRA vs. Magic

Hi, Hawkeye7,

Regarding the article "Battle of Milne Bay", I realize that (Drea, 1992) subsumes the U.S. Navy's decryption of JN25 under ULTRA, but I think that the average reader would be misled by the failure to distinguish between the two. I think that the average reader associates ULTRA with the decryption of German military enciphered radio traffic, not with decryption of Japanese naval enciphered radio traffic. A link to Wikipedia's article on ULTRA is therefore a bit misleading. I don't want to descend into an edit war. (This issue isn't that important.) I'm just viewing the issue from the perspective of the average reader, who'll think that the British codebreakers in Bletchley Park warned of the threat against Milne Bay, when they didn't. Best regards, VexorAbVikipædia (talk) 19:59, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

"Magic" was the codename used for the Japanese diplomatic codes. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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On your Demon Core efforts

I only saw your efforts an hour ago to lift this to GA status. I not only concur...I apologize if my edits on related articles have distracted you. Good Luck. Juan Riley (talk) 21:13, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

No worries. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:36, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

At the risk of distracting you again...this time with current nuclear issues...you might be interested in http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/irans-unsung-plutonium-concession-in-nuclear-deal.html. Nothing new here to physics..but glad to see a more comprehensive physics based article on the Iran deal. Juan Riley (talk) 23:06, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Super?

Oppenheimer security hearing is promoted to GA. Very well-written. I think one of my review comments may not have been clear. When I read the sentence, "From 1949 to 1953, Oppenheimer had also found himself in the middle of a controversy over the development of the Super", I did not realize at first what the article meant by "Super". If "Super" was replaced by "H-bomb" it would have been immediately obvious. The word thermonuclear two sentences later and H-bomb farther along cleared it up. When I said to please decipher I didn't mean explain, I meant that Americans won't understand what the term Super means. I'm 61 years old and never heard Super used to describe H-bomb. Djmaschek (talk) 01:22, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

It comes from having too much knowledge of the subject. I first heard about the Super from an old TV series. During a conference on nuclear weapon design in 1942, they spent the first day on the design of a gun-type weapon, then the rest on the design of what they called the "Super" - a bomb using fusion instead of fission. The idea was to use a fission bomb to ignite light elements like hydrogen and lithium. Edward Teller worked on it a Los Alamos through the war, with a host of others including Enrico Fermi, Maria Goeppert-Mayer John von Neumann and Stan Ulam. It turned out that the design was impractical - it really needed a hydrogen bomb to set it off - and wasted a great deal of effort. Just when all seemed lost, Stan Ulam came up with a brilliant idea, which we call the Teller-Ulam design, which is a true H-bomb. See History of the Teller–Ulam design. But the point here is that the term Super was introduced in the first paragraph. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:45, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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Please have a look at the Plutonium talk page. --Stone (talk) 22:13, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I looked into the given reference and the beryllium foil is there for an earlier experiment with element 93 not for the plutonium. I will undo the cahnges made. --Stone (talk) 21:16, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Demon core/GA1

What's going on with this?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:17, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Added a bit. Any chance of having a look at Battle of Midway? It still needs some references. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:25, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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Demon Core

Hawkeye, I note that at 3:04 on 29 Sep a sentence fragment was inserted in the end of teh first paragraph on manufacture of the core which separated the statement about the rings and the references; the fragment reads "It was alloyed with gallium and". I assume it belongs below where you expand upon the metallurgy. Since you are actively in there, I don't want to muck it up for you. SkoreKeep (talk) 04:46, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Y corrected. Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:05, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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I do not understand an edit

In this edit you added some references, some of which use the site book template and included the parameter "nopp" which is normally intended to suppress page numbers but you included, as a parameter, "This is a booklet published by the Australian Sport Commission, has a copyright notice on the page following the cover page."

Attempted to simply remove the parameter, but I'd like to check with you first to see what you are intending to do with that text.

I note that at the completion of that edit there were a number of issues, many of which were resolved but this particular one persist in the current version.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:40, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Please do. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:32, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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Kapitokhin & Voronov

Since those two articles are still C class because of references, what could I do to improve them to B class?Kges1901 (talk) 11:20, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Add more references. Every paragraph needs at least one reference covering the facts contained therein. The article when become a B only when it is fully referenced. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:56, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Every paragraph in Voronov article now has at least one reference, same for Kapitkokhin.Kges1901 (talk) 08:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Covering all the facts therein. My apologies for the ambiguity. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:59, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

that is now true for both articles. --Kges1901 (talk) 13:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Titan II retirement.

If you know of a source directly tying the incident at Little Rock to the retirement of the Titan II, I'd be happy to add to all three wing articles. However, I believe (not looking at sources) that the decision had more to do with 1. Titan was liquid fueled and took more time to launch than Minuteman. 2. Its guidance system was not as accurate as Minuteman. Tied into this was that at the time, nukes were tending toward lower yield and more accurate systems, and the Titan had about the last of the multi-megaton warheads (I don't know if it was ever MRV'ed, but I'm sure it was never MIRV'ed). 3. The source I used refers to a "strategic modernization program" (lower case, and I didn't find anything formal that would upper case this). At the time the decision was made, I believe both the Midgetman and the mobile Minuteman programs were considered viable, and the expectation was that the Titans could be replaced. But thanks for the look at the note on the lack of competition. I thought it was worth mentioning because "firsts" and "bests" are usually notable, but I felt some perspective was needed. --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

All three points are valid, and they are why Titan II was marked for replacement in 1971. It soldiered on because of the multi-megaton W-53 warhead. It was never MRV'd. The strategic modernization program was about the deployment of MX, Trident, Pershing II and cruise. The 1978 and 1980 disasters prompted congressional inquiries, which led to the 1981 announcement of the retirement. (There was also something about all the launch codes being given to the Soviet Union by a spy.) Nonetheless, it took until 1987 to get rid of them all. I think the wing articles are fine. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

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• Query I have started creating Category:Aircraft carrier units and formations after noticing that USN and IJN carrier divisions were redirecting to each other (eg. Carrier Division 5). Currently the Japanese carrier divisions are at ordinals, eg Fifth Carrier Division, rather than the numerical-at-end-of-designation USN style. I think that it's possible that IJN carrier divisions started off their wiki-existence in USN style. So my query is is ordinals correct (5th Carrier Division, *not* Carrier Division 5) for the IJN? In that case, the article links need to be updated. Meanwhile the USN World War II divisions will eventually end up as Carrier Division Five (United States) etc. Buckshot06 (talk) 02:39, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for The class the stars fell on

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You may be interested...

Hi Hawkeye7 - You may be interested in the conversation going on over here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Pacific Theater of Operations There is a move to eliminate the scholarship you and I are so interested in. I'm against it. ...best, user:JMOprof ©¿©¬ 01:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. ...best, user:JMOprof ©¿©¬ 13:12, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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Sorry about that edit...

...I'd forgotten it was a sandbox, and not a live page. The Southern France landings are one of the under-appreciated parts of the invasion of Europe; good to see that is being addressed. Anmccaff (talk) 04:54, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

No problem with editing it. I hope to get around to finishing it soon. The idea was to move the existing article to Southern France campaign and then move the sandbox to Operation Dragoon. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:40, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup

As a runner-up in the WikiCup 2013 you will know all about the competition, but I don't think you entered this year. Featured pictures has become a prominent part of the competition, last year and this.

Would you consider reviewing one of my three outstanding nominations at GAN, being Parsnip, Purple heron and Ruddy shelduck? I wouldn't ask, but the final round of the WikiCup is finishing at the end of the month and the position is finely balanced. The present leader has got all his points from Featured Pictures, and he also has a total of 1380 FP bonus points that are not readily apparent on the scoreboard. When FPs are nominated, people support or oppose them, and with sufficient support the image is promoted ten days later. With GAs, it is a much more chancy business as you know, and the nominations may hang around for months before they are reviewed. Feel free to say no if you want too, its a bit cheeky of me to ask. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:34, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

That's okay. I didn't compete in Wikicup in 2014 or 2015 because the high bonuses for FP didn't give me much of a chance. I'll have a look at your articles. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:51, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Willard Libby

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Manhattan - the TV show

Just curiosity, given the expansive work you've been doing on the real-life Manhattan Project. Has the fictional Manhattan (TV series) made it to your side of the ocean? It's starting its second season now. A dark, brooding drama that's heavy on government intrusion into, and control of, the personal lives of the people who work on the project. I'm hooked on the show, but it's an acquired taste. — Maile (talk) 21:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

No, it hasn't. I'll keep a look out for it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:19, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Demon core

Thanks for helping to bring Halloween back to life Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good to me

Very sorry I've never run into you before. Thanks.

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Hyphenation

Collins dictionary says "high-explosive shell", where "high" modifies "explosive", not "shell". That is how compound modifiers are treated. Chris the speller ^yack 02:42, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Is there some way to get you to stop and talk? Chris the speller ^yack 02:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Take it to the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history and present your military sources there. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Alhough

It's not a valid English word. Please stop damaging Wikipedia articles by reintroducing mistakes of spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Chris the speller ^yack 02:56, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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Segrè

Hallo Hawkeye7
what do you think about the renaming of the article about Emilio Segrè? In Italy he is known as Emilio (we almost never use the second name). Is it different in the U.S.? I refrain from using google count and the like, since the RS are counted as bad ones. Thanks for your opinion, Alex2006 (talk) 11:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

In the English-speaking world he is known as Segrè. Almost all famous male scientists are known by the surnames, unless they had a title of nobility. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:25, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Of course also in Italy it is known as Segrè, I was referring to his double name. I don't think that "Emilio Gino Segrè" is the correct article's name. Alex2006 (talk) 07:08, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

No, the middle name is not used. I don't know why the article was renamed. If you want to move it back, go ahead. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:34, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! what is the right procedure? Should I ask an admin, or is the rollback by a move automatically possible? Alex2006 (talk) 09:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

P.S. Oh-oh...I just see, that the Nobel prize committee calls him Emilio Gino. This is a strong argument for the double name in title. Alex2006 (talk) 09:29, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Edwin McMillan

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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

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DYK for Gladeon M. Barnes

Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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Arb nom

I won't give advice, but I would not call myself a MILHIST administrator, but rather a coordinator, just not to leave confusion in any minds. For my part, I think you're the kind of candidate for ARBCOM I might get behind. BusterD (talk) 13:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

 Done Feel free to give advice. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 5, 2015

Hawkeye, I'll get to this one tonight. Best of luck in the elections. - Dank (push to talk) 01:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Yikes!! I didn't know that one was up. I have repaired the links. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:44, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

your Battle of Sio!

I also liked your comment about the shame of appealing! I trust that if elected you will remember that fair rulings prevent that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't like appealing for things myself. Like page moves, page protections, quick deletes. The absolute limit though, was being told to appeal to myself to finish translating an article into English. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:11, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations!

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		On behalf of the other coordinators of the Military History Wikiproject, I am hereby award you the A-class medal with diamonds for your efforts in promoting the articles on Clinton Engineer Works, List of United States Army campaigns during World War II, and Calutron to A-Class standard. Well done, and thank you for your continued involvement in Milhist! Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 06:04, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

I could not decide which edit to thank you for so thanks for your expansion of CP-1. I also did not put together that you were also running, at the same time, so double thanks for the work. To the extent it can be cohesive by December 2, that would be appreciated, also. I wonder, a bit at some of the detail, as being possibly too much, but I now fully realize it is work-in-progress. Alanscottwalker (talk) 16:59, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

It has been delayed a few times by other articles like The class the stars fell on coming up for review. I also sidetracked myself by writing A. Arnim White. There is a stack of books a foot high next to my monitor, so CP-1 is getting there. It should be in shape by 2 December (Wednesday). I'll finish it on the3 weekend. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:23, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

All done now. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

If you still have time :) can you look at the intros to Walter Zinn, and George Weil, and straighten out the conflicting history? Alanscottwalker (talk) 20:05, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done Guilty of getting both articles to GA, but I didn't read the intros. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

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The class the stars fell on

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Hawkeye7, just a heads up that you forgot to sign your review. Best.4meter4 (talk) 21:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for A. Arnim White

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Tech News: 2015-50

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Thanks for running

I think we have a good result overall. Please take a rest, enjoy the holidays, and consider running next year! Thanks again and all the best. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Smallbopnes. Not quite at the point yet where I can take a break, but I'm working on it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Hawkeye, How are you? I'm the recruiter for The Signpost, and I'd like to connect with you regarding a position on our Editorial Board. There's an opening in the Featured Content section and I think you'd be a great fit. I know this is out of the blue, and that you're probably trying to get some well-deserved rest after ACE2015. But after you've had some time to think this over, please let me know if you have questions, and I'll try to answer them (or I'll have one of the other members of the EB do so). If, however, you're busy with other things, or this just isn't your cup of tea, no worries. Best, --Rosiestep (talk) 05:34, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

What does it involve? Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:08, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

There is a bot that pastes in the clerical-type stuff to start with, but it can be (and has been) done by hand. Other than that, it’s a matter of a brief intro sentence or two for each of the FAs and FLs, checking whether the week has brought any new featured topics (not often), and putting in the captions for the FP gallery. However, you can really approach it anyway you like (e.g. maybe some "featured" featured content each week?). The EB isn't emotionally invested in how that works so you would have leeway in developing it. And I am working on recruiting additional editors to the EB so that tasks are shared week by week. How does this sound? (If you have additional questions, @Go Phightins!: or I would be glad to answer them.) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:29, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-51

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Notable?

Hi, Hawkeye. Is this Kiwi notable: Arthur Leonard Downes? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:43, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Everybody with an emtry in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography is presumed notable. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Ah, so. Looks like stubs such as this one which were created from the Dictionary could use some building out. With the pedestrian description of "soldier, clerk, salesman and policeman," an article such as this could easily be speedily deleted A7 by mistake. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:44, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

FACBot hick-up

Here. Repaired it to smooth out a script running---it looks like the bot doesn't play nice with templates within templates? ResMar 20:34, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't like them, but I thought the problem had been fixed. I'll run some more unit tests. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Albert Wattenberg

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Military Historian of the Year 2015

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DYK for Jacob L. Devers

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Oppenheimer security hearing FAC

Congratulations for all your good work on this. My limited time was consumed utterly by bullshit over the past some weeks, and then I turned around and saw that you had it all done. Great work. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 23:54, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

You did most of the work. I added some background and some footnotes. Mostly I guided it through the review process. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:18, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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