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I always check half a dozen dictionaries nowadays - it is so easy to do so, after all. At first I thought it was a case of U.S. spelling versus everyone else but apparently both spellings are fine in both American AND English. If anything yours seems to be the "preferred" one (or at least the "most common") everywhere. Amusingly, the Wiki article on the termas used in biology uses the "alternative" spelling. English spelling is "right daft" - as my old Dad would have said. --Soundofmusicals (talk)05:09, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's adiscussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. —Smjg (talk)18:24, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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The Military history WikiProject has started its2012 project coordinator election process, where we will select a team of coordinators to organize the project over the coming year. If you would like to be considered as a candidate, please submit your nomination by 14 September. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of thecurrent coordinators on their talk page.This message was delivered here because you are amember of the Military history WikiProject. –Military history coordinators (about the project •what coordinators do) 08:57, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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HiDuanedonecker! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at theWorld Digital Library, a project of theLibrary of Congress andUNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Please sign up to participatehere. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you!SarahStierch (talk)22:15, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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(FFG-53)]] in the Caribbean (12–28 October 1988). On 19 October, Klakring and De Wert anchored off[[Vieques Island], P.R., for drills with a [[United States Navy SEALs|Navy Sea, Air, Land (SEAL)
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Thanks for inviting me to this wikiproject.However you should use <no wiki>RRD13 (talk) 07:27, 31 October 2013 (UTC)</no wiki> to put your signature ,hence avoid confusion (which you did in my talkpage).RRD13 (talk)07:27, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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WikiProject AFC is holding a month longBacklog Elimination Drive! The goal of this drive is toeliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running fromMarch 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.
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Hello Duanedonecker. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable toyou in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even whenhallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copiedfrom the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), theWayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
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Voting for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year now open!
Nominations for the military historian of the year and military newcomer of the year have now closed, and voting for the candidates has officially opened. All project members are invited to cast there votes for theMilitary historian andMilitary newcomer of the year candidates before the elections close at 23:59 December 21st. For the coordinators,TomStar81
Hi. TheWikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/IrelandWikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much likeWikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country likeWikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.05:53, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You are invited to participate in the20,000 Challenge, aiming for 20,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to theUnited States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See morehere!
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running itsMarch Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be foundhere for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.
Greetings from theMilitary history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on theelection page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators,AustralianRupert (talk)10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. We're into the last five days of theWomen in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: theMilitary Historian of the Year and theMilitary History Newcomer of the Year. Theco-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage:here andhere. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators,MediaWiki message delivery (talk)08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions atTalk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
hello DuanedoneckerDuanedonecker i wrote an article draft on JAIC (Joint Artificial Intelligence Center) and i would like you to revew it please sever top wikipedians helped me with
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Hello. You're invited to participate inThe World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It started today on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. I'm hoping to see some of our older stale US articles improved! Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! ♦Dr. Blofeld19:20, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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