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Goodwin Fire

GA nomination of Goodwin Fire

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Goodwin Fire passed

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Promotion of Goodwin Fire

Congratulations, Vami IV! The article you nominated, Goodwin Fire, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:15, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Goodwin Fire for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 June 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 22:59, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the key contributions of two Australian scientists in World War II Review essay: Nick-D reports on his recent visits to British military sites

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Working Wikipedian barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For your work in 2022 at Simón Bolívar. You are far more persistent than I could ever be. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Frye Fire

GA nomination of Frye Fire

The article Frye Fire you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Frye Fire and Talk:Frye Fire/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 08:00, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Frye Fire passed

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DYK for Frye Fire

On 17 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frye Fire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Frye Fire decimated the population of the already endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in Arizona? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frye Fire. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frye Fire), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Promotion of Frye Fire

Congratulations, Vami IV! The article you nominated, Frye Fire, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Hurray! –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 02:04, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Congrats! Bolívar quest continues I suppose? Or perhaps something else? The Night Watch (talk) 19:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Bolívar Quest does indeed continue. I am currently reading and taking notes from Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, which I had waited to get ahold of for months. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:18, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Aye, good luck! Legacy is always the trickiest part. I will do some small copyedits if I get the chance. The Night Watch (talk) 22:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Congrats on the FA! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:08, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Four Award for Frye Fire

		Four Award
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Rattlesnake Fire

GA nomination of Rattlesnake Fire (2018)

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Rattlesnake Fire on hold

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Rattlesnake Fire passed

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Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
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The Bugle: Issue 202, February 2023

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Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

You are receiving this message because you were a Good article reviewer on at least one article that is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 or you signed up for messages. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of Good articles for copyright and other problems, unless a reviewer opens an independent Good article reassessment and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information. A list of the GA reviewers can be found here. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. You can opt in or out of further messages at this page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Vami IV, have you had a look at the timeline on the GAR/Feb 2023 page above? We're trying to keep track of which articles have already been processed via a Petscan query, so we can be sure when the bot runs on Feb 23 or after we've gotten all the right delistings. GA templates that get removed now give me one more thing to have to track down and keep straight, so if you can post any GAs you submit to WP:CP at the project talk page, or hold off for a week, it will give me one less thing to keep track of for now. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Noted. Will not happen again. Please be aware that what is listed at WP:CP will be deleted after seven days. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 05:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Yep ... I'll just have to keep track of those two, as Novem Linguae has indicated they might have problems getting the bot approved in time for the planned run on the 23rd ... I realize that copyright work takes priority, but if we can hold off on the GAs, it will be less for us to keep straight. I've learned from watching you work how many others I will be able to send straight to CP after the GAR run. Up to this point, I had been working through articles-- something I had to do I guess to convince myself of how seriously bad they are, so I won't feel bad now just sending them off for deletion. There are many GAs that are 98% DC's work, and full of blatant inaccuracies as well as copyvio-- off with their heads. Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:16, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Your suffering through this shit is what allows us to so quickly dispense with it and start over. For that, I thank you. From here until the bot runs, I will avoid GAs and make note of them on the CCI page. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 06:25, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

For reference, I use the mediawiki browser extension "Who Wrote That?" to see how much of an article was written by who. If the majority of the article is written by Coldwell, I sent it to CP immediately. The template we use for this is Template:Copyvio, like so: {{subst:copyvio|url=Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315]]}}. Then, it's a matter of following the instructions in the box that appears over top of the article. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 08:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Yep, I have Who Wrote That, and took a screenshot of your templating so I'd know how to do it ... unfortunately, I had already partially cleaned most of the Ludington family articles before the AN consensus, so I may have to suffer through those and finish what I started, but from there on out, it's straight to CP on anything mostly written by him. Somewhat unbelievable that I waded through the whole Lunar display series of 30 articles, but it showed me what DC's work was about. Thx ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:29, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

NovemBot is running, so we can move forward at the CCI with the now delisted GAs (or soon to be) ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:25, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot stopped halfway through ... got to articles beginning with J. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Then let the sword bite letters A to I. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Looks like NovemBot should finish in an hour or two more. Then I shall unwatch the GA pages and thank my lucky stars I never got involved over there, and focus on the CCI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:15, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Category:Architecture in Sri Lanka by century

Please see two discussions at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 February 14 where I have nominated Category:Architecture in Sri Lanka by century and others like it for deletion. – Fayenatic London 23:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Wiki-project Prussia

Hey there Vami IV,

I saw that you are a member the inactive project Prussia, I also joined the Project a few days ago, I wanted to ask you if you would be interested in reviving the project, I recently submitted a draft of Landkreis Heilsberg, and we both together could make new pages for the project and recruit new members. Crainsaw (talk) 13:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

February stories

February songs

my daily stories

Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

A peaceful day. Like the pause, from the work in the field or at the bench, to drink some cool water. Ah, there is always so much to do. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 16:29, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the pause! - My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Tinder Fire

GA nomination of Tinder Fire

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Tinder Fire on hold

The article Tinder Fire you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tinder Fire and Talk:Tinder Fire/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 18:41, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Tinder Fire passed

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DYK for Tinder Fire

On 3 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tinder Fire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona, 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tinder Fire. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tinder Fire), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Promotion of Tinder Fire

Congratulations, Vami IV! The article you nominated, Tinder Fire, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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March 2023

Have you seen this book on McQueen from last year here: [1]. It seems to have relevant information for both the Widows article and your current nomination for Kate Moss. I'm thinking that your next article might be about his Spring 1999 collection with Shalom Harlow painted by industrial robotic arms. ErnestKrause (talk) 17:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

@ErnestKrause: I think you have me confused for my mentor, Premeditated Chaos (talk). I'm sure Ad-Mom would like to know about this book if she doesn't already :D –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 00:31, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, Vami, and for the suggestion, Ernest. I've already asked for my local library to purchase a copy and it's been on order for a few weeks now :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I crossed the signals on this. Premeditated Chaos: The book is a good read and I think you'll enjoy it when it arrives at your library both for your Widows article and for your new Kate Moss article. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:39, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Aye cheers, would love to have your comments there if you're up for reviewing yet another FAC. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:09, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

If you need someone as a third reviewer or to do a source review for it, then let me know. ErnestKrause (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Thoughts on something

Was recently handing out a Civil War barnstar to somebody, and ran across Template:ACW Barnstar. Am I the only one who is uncomfortable with the phrasing "For actions worthy of [...] Forrest"? Forrest just isn't a person I think we'd want to place as an example of good behavior.

Likewise, I find Template:Nuclear Barnstar an odd choice of image, as a hodge-podge of a good service award along with an image showing the mushroom cloud that once was a city. Hog Farm _Talk 17:13, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: The civil war barnstar was created by a, now community banned, neoconfederate. I don't think it would be a hard sell to remove the lost cause propaganda -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 17:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Yikes. Gut that shit. Sheridan's not exactly the nicest, gentlest of souls, either. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 05:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I have to admit that this barnstar seems to violate the spirit of WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND as well. (t · c) buidhe 07:19, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Sheesh. Venerating a man who committed massacres and was the first grand wizard of the KKK? How did this not get shut down years ago? Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:42, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

It must have flown under the radar. Those barnstars do not get handed out very often. I think, actually, the last time the nuke barnstar was awarded was when I gave it to you in 2021. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 17:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Indeed, that barnstar seems to have never been given out-- it was a proposed ACW barnstar which the project ended up choosing Template:ACWTF Barnstar over. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:51, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

It should be no trouble to get it deleted, then. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 18:02, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

The Forrest one is at TFD now. Hog Farm _Talk 18:50, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I've closed that. Consensus is clear from here and there, and there is no need to keep this template around for any longer. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:48, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Fort Phantom Hill

Your GA nomination of Fort Phantom Hill

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Fort Phantom Hill on hold

The article Fort Phantom Hill you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Fort Phantom Hill and Talk:Fort Phantom Hill/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 23:20, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Fort Phantom Hill passed

The article Fort Phantom Hill you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Fort Phantom Hill for comments about the article, and Talk:Fort Phantom Hill/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 15:23, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Fort Phantom Hill

On 16 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fort Phantom Hill, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fort Phantom Hill. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fort Phantom Hill), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

April songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in April! - Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

DC CCI

Vami, is it OK with you if I go through and remove all of your flags of DC GAs, now that they have been delisted? It will make the page easier to read ... Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:55, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I have no issue at all with that. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:49, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hog Farm on the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War

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Simón Bolívar

Your GA nomination of Simón Bolívar

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Half Million Award for Simón Bolívar

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Simón Bolívar (estimated annual readership: 720,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 13:41, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on this vital article! – Reidgreg (talk) 13:41, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Signups open for The Core Contest

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

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Category:7th-century churches in Austria has been nominated for merging

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March flowers

March songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in March! - Today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:06, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:7th century in Austria

A tag has been placed on Category:7th century in Austria indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

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KillerChihuahua

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Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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In your wheelhouse?

Thought Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Great Raid of 1840/1 might be something you wanted to see (although I think the article needs much work to get to GA status - a few of those sources I thought were a bit cringe-worthy). I suspect that there are many similarly-poor MILHIST good articles. Hog Farm _Talk 20:18, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Now that is one stinky article. Thanks for raising this to my attention. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 20:50, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 204, April 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Australian War Memorial and the South China Sea raid, Hawkeye7 on the 1999 East Timor intervention

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Auld Lang Syne

Hey. I seem to be editing again, though I am a pale sliver of my former gryphon self. I hope again that you can forgive me for bailing out after trying to play rainmaker a couple of years ago. The gray weight on my soul at that time was disturbing my real life. Sorry. § Lingzhi (talk) 08:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

All years and human lives have winters. I am glad to see you returned, whatever the capacity. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Featured Article Save Award

On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, Vami IV! Your work on Belton House has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:14, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Maurice Suckling

Hi Vami, as you may have seen Maurice Suckling is back at ACR. While I failed to respond to your comments during the first review, I have since made the edits relating to them anyway. I wondered whether you'd be kind enough to take another look? Thanks either way for commenting the first time around! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:46, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Sure thing! I'll have more time for general editing in a few days. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 09:49, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes

Spicy

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• Dbachmann
• DGG (deceased)
• Jimbo Wales

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Jimbo Wales

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Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Western Allied invasion of Germany Op-ed: Hawkeye7's tips for writing articles on military logistics

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The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on the Western Allied invasion of Germany Op-ed: Hawkeye7's tips for writing articles on military logistics

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Hot topic

MOS:AMPM uses pm and am. – S. Rich (talk) 03:18, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

May thanks

May songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in May. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)

I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure, and I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Pentecost was full of music, and my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

• New partner:
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• Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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The Bugle: Issue 206, June 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D review three recent works

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Snake Ridge Fire

I saw that you mentioned that "an editor has indicated a willingness to review the article" on the article's talk page, but that was unfortunately after I started the review myself. I suppose you will get a message from the bot here soon to notify you of this review. Who is this other editor that was interested in reviewing this nomination? Actualcpscm (talk) 14:06, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

I have no idea. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 20:32, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

GA nomination of Snake Ridge Fire

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Snake Ridge Fire you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Actualcpscm -- Actualcpscm (talk) 14:03, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Snake Ridge Fire on hold

The article Snake Ridge Fire you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Snake Ridge Fire and Talk:Snake Ridge Fire/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Actualcpscm -- Actualcpscm (talk) 14:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Snake Ridge Fire passed

The article Snake Ridge Fire you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Snake Ridge Fire for comments about the article, and Talk:Snake Ridge Fire/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Actualcpscm -- Actualcpscm (talk) 21:42, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

June thanks

June songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in June! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you today especially for Goodwin Fire, introduced: "I'm back with another wildfire in the great state of Arizona in 2017. This one's not quite as exciting as the previous fire, though; no holy mountains or pestilence."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

The Core Contest winners announced

The winners of the 2023 The Core Contest are announced 🎉. We had an amazing set of improvements this year, and the judges (Femke, Aza24 and Casliber) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners.

• First place goes to Buidhe for improving The Holocaust; very core, highly relevant; their work on bringing geographical balance to the article puts the topic in a whole different light. We also commend improvements to sourcing and prose
• A close second place goes to Phlsph7 for improving Education from an unstructured jumble into a well-sourced piece of instruction
• Third prize goes to Johnbod for improving Donatello, a near five-fold expansion with great sourcing and fantastic imagery
• A tie for fourth place goes to Thebiguglyalien for improving Crime, for a strong improvement in sourcing
• A tie for fifth place goes to Sammielh for International law, improved by converting contextless listicles into a proper sourced prose

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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The Bugle: Issue 207, July 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on alleged Australian war crimes and Hawkeye7 on the 1944–45 Philippines campaign and the Australian Signals Directorate

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

• Suggestion improvements
• Favorite collections tips
• Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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July thanks

July songs

my story today

On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago (thanks to you!), and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. Also: a bit about the history of QAI on my talk. Thank you for being part of it! A new member designed a user box that I adopted. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

While today's DYK highlights Santiago on his day, I did my modest share with my story today, describing what I just experienced, pictured. I began the article of the woman in green. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

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Time again

Wondering how you might feel about putting yourself in front of WP:ORCP at some point in the future. You have demonstrated you have the dedication and knowledge. Now you have a need for tools. No big deal, but we both know what a close thing it was last time and that was a long long time ago. I'm not saying run. I'm saying ask. 9.5 out of 10 from me. BusterD (talk) 22:50, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 208, August 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: Adam Cuerden on finding and using images

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Moving

All watching, I shall over the next two days be moving into a new apartment and will be without internet for a little while. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:39, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

• Update per request: move successful but internet access still limited for the time being. Responses may be slow and/or activity reduced. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:46, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Update: I have internet again but still no computer. This will likely be the case for another month or so. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Coord?

Vami, do you intend to stand for re-election as a MILHIST coord? I can mark you down for that if you're still having internet limitations. Hog Farm _Talk 04:33, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes please. I'm still without a computer, but I have internet now. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:04, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes

• Pppery
• Theleekycauldron

• Dwheeler
• G.A.S
• Royalbroil
• Ssd

CheckUser changes

Bradv

Oversighter changes

Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:05, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

TFA for Tinder Fire

I see you're having computer problems, so there's no rush on this. Does a TFA for October 14 work for you? - Dank (push to talk) 03:08, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Yes. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 19:33, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 209, September 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on the Oppenheimer biopic

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023

• New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
• Tech tip: Filters
• Wikimania presentation

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"I'll be back"

...but, please be back. Vaticidalprophet 01:41, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

seconded — ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 04:07, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Hey Vami. You've done a lot of great work here over the years and I hope you enjoy whatever break you're taking. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 04:20, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

I endorse Vat, ezlev, and Money's comments above. Please feel free to take some time off and to come back whenever you're comfortable. You've had quite a few good and featured articles, and it would be a shame not to see your good work again. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:12, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

September songs

my story today

The flowers are weeping if you look closer. Return when you feel you want to. We'll miss you until then, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

• I know I've been kind of a procrastinating collaborator in the past, but I'd still love to finish Vami's very voluminous list of birds with you. Hope to see ya back someday bud :) CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 21:50, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Yet another bad surprise this week. I can't know your reasons for retiring, of course. I suppose I could guess and understand that real life time constraints may be a problem for you. If so, I hope you are in good health and can get some relief from any other stressors. You have been a great contributor. The project will miss you. I hope you will come back if you are willing and able. Best wishes. Donner60 (talk) 22:41, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Please return whenever you're ready :) — Frostly (talk) 02:25, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for all you've done. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 02:54, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Articles to be checked for copyvio

Vami is active on WP:DISCORD and has identified some articles that likely contain copyvio. I'll be maintaining a rolling list of them here as a sort of mini CCI. Anyone is welcome to help out, of course. — SamX [talk · contribs] 12:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Further context: since becoming computer less and retiring to focus on other things, I've been browsing articles about contemporary South Korea, which are very eyebrow-raising for several reasons. Unfortunately, it appears that I am on to something. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 20:37, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

• Women in South Korea
  • I've gone through the article with Earwig and removed all of the copyright-violating text I found using the tool, but I haven't thoroughly checked the sources yet. — SamX [talk · contribs] 12:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
• Lee Jun-seok (likely translation copyvio)
• Yoon Suk Yeol (likely translation copyvio)
• Megalia

• Human trafficking in South Korea, unacknowledged PD copypasta from US Gov't. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 01:01, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

  Added by an IP with no other edits in 2019. — SamX [talk · contribs] 19:16, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

• Agency for Defense Development
  • Almost entirely written by Gasiseda. Some minor copyvio from the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History already removed, will check other sources later. — SamX [talk · contribs] 04:23, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

• Sampo generation, which has copypasta from this article. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 18:56, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

  Was added by Db9023 in this edit. The rest of the article has not been checked thoroughly. — SamX [talk · contribs] 19:12, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

  Can you also inspect N-po generation? –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 19:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

  Sure, but I'm very busy IRL so I probably won't be done for a while. — SamX [talk · contribs] 19:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 10 reviews between January and March 2022. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 06:06, 3 October 2023 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for participating in 4 reviews between April and June 2023. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 06:07, 3 October 2023 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

Hey man im josh

• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
• Rschen7754
• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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The Bugle: Issue 210, October 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on an American general and the first female astronauts, Nick-D on Roman fortifications

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TFA

October songs

my story today

Thank you today for Tinder Fire, introduced: "This is another wildfire article and another from the state of Arizona. This is also a briefer one, without any ecological tail that any sources I saw bothered to note. In April 2018, parties unknown lit a campfire in a no-fire zone of the Coconino National Forest. A month later, 16,000 acres of National Forest and 96 structures had burned. The responsible parties were never caught."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:32, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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The Bugle: Issue 211, November 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at English Civil War logistics and Peacemaker67 at Austro-Hungarian torpedo boats Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on how WP:SIZE matters

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023

• Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
• Tech tip: Library access methods

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Happy days

Welcome back -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 21:31, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

+1 Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:49, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

I'm so glad to be back. Everything seems to be going my way now, more or less. It almost makes me feel bad to have and talk about. To be back and happier and with an enlarged library. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:51, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

glad to see you back, Vami, and even more glad to hear things are going well! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:46, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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The Bugle: Issue 212, December 2023

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the Russian invasion of Ukraine Op-ed: Nick-D on writing Rhodesian military articles

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Seasons Greetings!

Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings

December: story · music · places

Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:29, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Vami IV! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. Looking forward more good discussions on Discord in the coming year! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!

Cheers,
{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk

Solstice Celebration for Vami IV, 2023, DALL·E 3.

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Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:09, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	for making the article on doom '16 better than it already was cogsan (give me attention) (see my deeds) 20:26, 28 December 2023 (UTC)