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| On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 14 reviews between October and December 2025.Donner60 (talk) viaMilHistBot (talk)00:30, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Yourgood article nomination of the articleGerald Carr (astronaut) is
under review. Seethe review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have.Message delivered byChristieBot, on behalf ofMSincccc --MSincccc (talk)18:25, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I have nominatedDouglas MacArthur for afeatured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets thefeatured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process arehere.Z1720 (talk)17:02, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
You recently gave him a support on his FAC for2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, however, when I asked him to acknowledge in the article that the President had extended sympathy for all the dead American athletes from the accident he told me that it was "grossly" inappropriate. That seems a little on the cold-hearted side and I thought to ask if there might be some middle ground you could add a comment about this.ErnestKrause (talk)15:58, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Hawkeye7: Just noticed your question. After a long period of hibernation due to working 12-hour shifts and limiting myself to copy editing, my Wikimojo has thawed out. I'm mainly into Great War articles but have been doing Arctic and Mediterranean convoys for quite a while as they aren't as long. I'm open to suggestions though. RegardsKeith-264 (talk)17:13, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Yourgood article nomination of the articleGerald Carr (astronaut) has
passed; congratulations! Seethe review page for more information. If the article iseligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you cannominate it within the next seven days.Message delivered byChristieBot, on behalf ofMSincccc --MSincccc (talk)07:04, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hawkeye, what change needs to be made to WikiProject banner atTalk:USS Romeo so that this shows up in the MILHIST FA categories instead of the MILHIST A-Class categories? It passed ACR in June 2025 and FAC in December 2025.Hog FarmTalk02:03, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Hawkeye, hope you're well? A while ago you gave some feedback onEdward Neufville Crosse, namely about referencing. I think I have made the required changes now, and would really appreciate a final check on whether it now meets B Class requirements? Thanks!BBWood1908 (talk)15:44, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Done Re-assessed B class.Hawkeye7(discuss)19:40, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] | The Downlink | TheWikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter |
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Hi Hawkeye. Sorry to bug you but I would like your help.
For the articleUnited States intervention in Syria. Some of the editors tried to remove the entire infobox. I did not create this article, but even I will admit that it is rather long. On the other hand this conflict has an extremely complex history and system of alliances, and I do not think removing an entire infobox especially without deliberation sets a good precedent.
That being said I am not 100% sure how the military project would handle or historically has handled such extreme edits before. I get sometimes infobox issues can be tricky, but if we start removing entire infoboxes, we are going to lose a lot of that on many military conflicts.
I proposed 2 comromises:
But again I am looking for information on how similar cases were handled by military project volunteers as a whole to see if I can find other solution or to find out if my compromises are good ideas or not, or maybe perhaps my compromise ideas are not acceptable for reasons I am not aware of or have not thought of.
Where do you suggest I go to find such answers? Can you send me a link or refer me to some editors?
Thank you so much. (:Historyguy1138 (talk)17:31, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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