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DYK for Shirley E. Flynn

On May 24, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shirley E. Flynn, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Jamie^☆S93 12:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

GA reviews for O'Brien class destroyers

Hello Bellhalla, how are you? Just to let you know, I will make all GA reviews for O'Brien class on this Saturday (30 May). Sorry for this delay. Maybe by that time, you will also manage to write the remaining destroyer and the main class article. - DSachan (talk) 13:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the update. I should have the other pair finished by then, too. By the way, there's no reason to apologize. We all can be busy from time to time :) — Bellhalla (talk) 13:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

re: great free image for United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I)

Hi Belhalla, in regards to your painting by Burnell Poole (which I've thought about adding to the article before) I was wondering if you might have some insight into another painting of the Division by an artist named A.B. Cull, who died in 1931. The painting and info can be found here. On the surface it seems like this should be PD because he's been dead for more than 70 years, but the website says that the painting is copyrighted by Publication Right. Do you have any idea if this is for real or if they're just trying to scare people off?

Impressive work on the O'Brien class destroyers btw. Any plans to work on other destroyer classes? Jrt989 (talk) 23:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

(TPS'ing) I think that it would be; the Commons' {{PD-Art}} says that the position of the Wikimedia Foundation on older art is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain." Also, hopefully he will work on some of the large cruiser classes. :D —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 03:09, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Ed is correct: For any artist that died before 1939, all of their works should be PD for the purposes of Wikimedia (Commons, Wikipedias, etc.). Also, thanks for the kind words. I'm starting up on the Aylwin-class destroyers next. — Bellhalla (talk) 04:21, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I hope that you aren't planning on going up the rather VERY long list of U.S. destroyers. :) That'd be a 20–year job... also, considering that I forgot to say it before, I also think that the O'Brien articles are quite good. Please keep writing, as I love to read your articles :))) —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 04:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Nah. I think I'm just going to do Good Topics for all five of the "thousand tonner" classes (and then a topic of topics of the thousand tonners, maybe?). I will offer you, as I did with Jrt, many thanks for the kind words. — Bellhalla (talk) 05:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

And, what next after that? I am curious to know your plan. German submarines again or something else, maybe Nimitz class aircraft carrier topic with 10 ships in the class? Your stuff is impressive and amazing, not that you haven't heard this thing thousand of times before already. - DSachan (talk) 08:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Updating the article history

Hi, I alread asked Roger Davis without a response so far so I try again. Who updates the talk page history of the following articles: List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service, List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service and List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine? They all passed A-class review but the histories have not yet been updated? MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm guessing it should have been the closing MILHIST coordinator (who might have thought no action was needed since they were already at FL status), but, regardless, I've learned how to do it and updated the pages of each. While individual coordinators are usually happy to respond to queries like yours on their own talk pages, sometimes we get busy in RL and don't always see them in a timely manner. Please feel free to post any question like this to the Coordinators talk page, here, or even to the project's main talk page if you need a faster response. Thanks for bringing it to attention. I learned something out of the deal today, so that makes it a good day! :) — Bellhalla (talk) 14:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

LST-542 class tank landing ship template

The "LST-542 class tank landing ship" template seems to have gone missing overnight, replaced with Wikiproject tags rating the template but with no navbox left. Can you restore the template? (A lot of work went into creating it, and a do-over would be depressing.) I'd restore it, but I'm not good enough at Wikipedia to do that correctly. Thanks! Mdnavman (talk) 14:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)mdnavman

Not sure I know what's going on. I know that {{USS}} (used extensively in the template) and other closely related templates were ever-so-briefly nominated for deletion. Maybe that had something to do with something funny going on? I looked at the template and the edit history suggests that nothing has been edited on it since 26 May. Is there a particular page where it is not working? Or maybe the talk page was transcluded, perhaps (like {{Template talk:LST-542 class tank landing ship}})? (That doesn't work.) — Bellhalla (talk) 18:19, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XXXIX (May 2009)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXXIX (May 2009)
From the coordinators With end of year exams beckoning for many members, this has been a quiet month on the talk pages for Milhist. (If you are facing exams yourself, we all wish you the very best of luck!) During this quieter period, some of our most active reviewers are busy revising so it would be really appreciated if you can help with peer reviews or A-Class reviews. You can easily track articles needing review, by copying {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your userpage. This month sees our first newsletter editorial. The idea is to provide regular tips and hints to help editors get up to speed with our large (and sometimes complicated) project. This month's piece, by EyeSerene, explains the workings of the project's main template, which is at the core of the project's tagging and assessing activities.  Roger Davies talk 20:26, 3 June 2009 (UTC)	Articles of note New featured articles: 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash Arthur Henry Cobby Battle of Barnet Fort Ticonderoga Fountain of Time Neil Hamilton Fairley Operation Perch SMS Seydlitz SS Pennsylvanian New featured lists: List of United States Military Academy alumni (Medal of Honor) List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents) New featured topics: New featured pictures: The Battle of Schevening USS West Virginia (BB-48) New A-Class articles: Albert Kesselring Frank Bladin Henry Burrell (RAN officer) List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service Midshipman SM UB-14 SM UB-16 SS American (1900) Teddy Sheean Tucker class destroyer Yorktown-class gunboat
Project news The Contest department has completed its twenty-sixth month of competition, with 83 articles entered by 15 editors. This month's top scorer is Bellhalla with 123 points followed by Sturmvogel 66 with 101 points. They receive the Chevrons and the Writer's Barnstar respectively. Parsecboy commendably came third with 47 points, with honorable mentions going to Ian Rose (38), Ed (28), Abraham, B.S. (15), the_ed17 (12), Amore Mio (11) and Kirk (11). Thanks also go to Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus, DPdH, Lordoliver, Belissarius, Wild Wolf, Gaia Octavia Agrippa and mynameinc, who also fielded entries. In a welcome addition to a long under-represented area, this month saw the creation of the Pakistani military history task force, which hits the ground running with 11 participants. In another task force development, please help recruit members for some of our smallest and quietest task forces. If you know anyone who may be interested, or are interested yourself, please see the drive discussion. The affected task forces are (with numbers of particpants in brackets): Taiwanese military history (2); Polish military history (4); Dutch military history (6); Military historiography (6); New Zealand military history (7); Baltic states military history (8); National militaries (8); Southeast Asian military history (8); War films (8); Early Muslim military history (9); Intelligence (9); Lebanese military history (9); South American military history (9); and Spanish military history (9).
Awards and honours Bellhalla has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oakleaves for SM U-10, SM UB-14 and SM UB-16. MisterBee1966 has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine, List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service, and List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service. Ian Rose has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Arthur Henry Cobby, Frank Bladin and Henry Burrell (RAN officer).
Editorial: "How to use the Milhist template" Welcome to a new occasional feature of The Bugle, where over coming issues we'll be exploring some of the roles, tasks, and technical functions that go into creating what archivist and researcher Simon Fowler has described as the best general resource for military history on the internet.† As a project we can rightly be proud of that accolade, and we gratefully acknowledge the debt we owe to those dedicated editors from across Wikipedia that have helped to make the Military history WikiProject what it is today. Many editors' first inkling of milhist's existence is when they spot our project banner on an article talk page. The banner can be easily added to appropriate articles by any editor, by typing {{WPMILHIST}} at (or near) the top of the talk page on a new line, and saving the page with an appropriate edit summary. This short form of the template will add the article to our project, and also flag the article as needing assessment and assignment to a task force by automatically adding it to the unassessed articles and articles with no associated task force categories. As with many templates in use on Wikipedia, additional parameters can be specified. Possibly the most useful to include is the class parameter, because this will help out any editors who come along later to assess the article. To add the class parameter, edit the template markup to look like {{WPMILHIST|class=}}... and if you wish, have a read through the assessment guidance on milhists's quality scale and assign a rating from Stub- to B-Class yourself. A banner template with, for example, a Stub-Class article rating will look like {{WPMILHIST|class=stub}}. Because B-Class is assessed against a checklist it has some additional parameters, so when adding the project banner to an article talk-page, even if you don't intend to assess the article yourself it can be a real help to subsequent editors to include these too. This version of the template can be entered as {{WPMILHIST|class=|B1=|B2=|B3=|B4=|B5=}}. For detailed guidance on exactly what the five B-Class criteria are, see the B-class checklist. Finally, when adding the milhist banner it's useful to assign the article to one (or more) of our task forces. This will help to bring it to the attention of those editors most likely to be interested in, and knowledgeable about, the subject. As with assessment, task force assignment is accomplished by adding a parameter to the template—in this case, simply the name of the task force followed by =yes (or =y). For example, to assign a Start-Class article to the Second World War and Canadian task forces, the template should read {{WPMILHIST|class=start|B1=|B2=|B3=|B4=|B5=|WWII=yes|Canadian=yes}}. For a full list of all the banner template parameters and more detailed usage instructions, see Template:WPMILHIST; if you are unsure as to whether or not an article belongs with milhist or what task force(s) might be appropriate, or if you have any other questions, you are welcome to ask at our main project talk page. Happy templating! EyeSerenetalk †Simon Fowler, Guide to Military History on the Internet, UK:Pen & Sword 2007, ISBN 9781844156061, p. 7
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		I hereby present you with the WikiChevrons for your outstanding effort (19 articles, 123 points) in the May 2009 Military history WikiProject Contest. Well done! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

History of the United Kingdom during World War I

As one of the few people in the intersection between the copyeditors' camp and the military history people, would you mind having a look at this one? Its deficiencies lie in the brilliant prose area, I think, and I would appreciate the outside help. No problems if you can't, I gather you're a busy person (he looks at the barnstar awarded above), yes, very busy. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 08:48, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

MoS discussion

Hi there, I open a discussion on the use of small caps in acronyms here. Please comment if you are so inclined, especially if I misrepresented your position in any way. My interest here isn't being "right"; I'm just curious what other people have to say about it and if the MoS should address it. Thanks for all your hard work. --Laser brain (talk) 22:27, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Review request

Hi there! You've probably never seen my edits on Wikipedia, but that's exactly why I sought you out. I'm trying to get some fresh eyes on my FAC for Yukon Quest, and if you've got a bit of extra time, I'd appreciate any comments, questions, or anything else you'd care to add to the review going on right now. I'm trying to get editors unfamiliar with mushing so I can ensure the article is clear to the widest possible audience. Thanks! JKBrooks85 (talk) 05:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Question

I am working on an article (USS South Dakota (BB-57)) that quotes the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships verbatim in places, and almost word-for-word in others. Is this acceptable for a GA, an A, or an FA article? Thanks, mynameinc (t|c|p) 22:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

TPS'ing here For GA/A it should be ok, but I'm not so sure about FAC... —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 20:30, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Ed, for catching this; I missed it the other night. I agree with Ed on the GA portion, assuming the DANFS text has been cleaned up to remove the sometimes jingoistic, pro-American bias (Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/DANFS conversions offers some good advice). My personal preference for A-Class articles I write is to rework the DANFS material using my own words. For FAC, large blocks of DANFS text are frowned upon, and would probably not meet the prose requirements. — Bellhalla (talk) 11:03, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Ed and Bellhalla. This should be fun, considering how much DANFS text the article quotes verbatim. mynameinc (t|c|p) 17:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

uboat.net

Hi Bellhalla, in the FAC for Military history of Australia during World War II another editor has asked whether uboat.net is a reliable source. I note that you've used it in SM U-66 and I'm sure that I've seen it used in other FAs. Would you be able to provide any comments about the site's reliability (or otherwise!) at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Military history of Australia during World War II/archive1? Thanks, Nick-D (talk) 00:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Just checking this before bedtime, so will comment tomorrow. In the meantime, the list I used to help make the case for the reliability of the website is at User:Bellhalla/uboat.net reliability. — Bellhalla (talk) 04:10, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments Nick-D (talk) 23:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

BatDiv9

Hey Bellhalla. I've reviewed United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I) for GA here; as the reviewer in the first GAN, would you be able to stop by and comment? Thank you! —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 22:18, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

LT or tonnes?

Would you happen to know if the displacements of naval vessels in the Miramar Ship Index are in long tons or tonnes? —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 02:42, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I think it could be either, depending on the navy and/or era. USN ships, for example, typically use long tons. The best thing, if you can't tell, is to list it as "tons" and note the ambiguity. Which ship in particular were you wondering about? — Bellhalla (talk) 10:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

ARA Rivadavia... —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 23:39, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Colton (an RS, by the way) lists 27,566, which I'm interpreting to be in LT, matching Miramar. Given that Conway's… 1906–1921 lists "27,940t normal, 30,600t full" (p. 401) for Rivadavia and the (typically?) metric ton/tonne figure there 27,940 tonnes (27,500 long tons) is pretty close to 27,566 long tons (28,008 t). I'm going to say LT for Rivadavia. Since it seems the Conway's… numbers are in metric tons/tonnes, then the 30,600 full displacement, or "DWT" on Miramar, would also be in metric tons/tonnes, in which case I'd list it as:

• 27,566 long tons (28,008 t), standard
• 30,100 long tons (30,600 t), full

Hope this helps. — — Bellhalla (talk) 12:01, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot; that does help! I should have thought of checking Conway's myself haha... :) Cheers! —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 21:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

USS Parker (DD-48)

Hi, just in case you missed it, this article has been under review for the last few days, you have seven days from now to make the few requested improvements.--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

The Military history Wikiproject A-Class medal with Swords

		The Military history A-Class medal with swords
		For excellent work on Tucker class destroyer, Yorktown class gunboat and SS American (1900), all promoted to A-Class between May and June 2009, you are hereby presented with the first-ever A-class medal with swords. Well done, Bellhalla! For the Coordinators of the Military history Project, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:37, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

*Bells and Whistles* way to go, dude. Thanks for all of the excellent articles you have written. Cheers, —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 03:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Template conversion

Was there a discussion held about changes like this somewhere? Because I'm really not persuaded that the new style template is an improvement. Gatoclass (talk) 13:36, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

No discussion I'm aware of. About half of the military ship navbox templates I've come across were using the default navbox style (as in the "before" of your link) and about half using the WP:MILHIST style (in the current version of the template you linked). One advantage of the latter style is that ship infobox bars—which already use the MILHIST styles—match the title bar in the {{military navigation}}-style navboxes.

Given that other MILHIST articles use a variety of navigational boxes based on the same style specifications, it gives military ship articles a more consistent style within the spectrum of MILHIST articles. — Bellhalla (talk) 14:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Can you point me to an example of the inconsistency you mention? I can't say that I've ever noticed it, which suggests to me the effect is probably not all that jarring. Gatoclass (talk) 04:54, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

This table below shows the differences.

	Shipbox color	Navbox colors
		title bar	"below" bar
All MILHIST infoboxes
Mix of ship infobox/Standard navbox

It's not a huge difference, but from a design perspective, it gives the article more consistency. Using the default navbox colors, you end up with three different shades of blue. Is there a particular aspect of the MILHIST design that bothers you? — Bellhalla (talk) 12:12, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Well I'm not especially in love with the colours, as I find them dull and I felt the purple was more noticeable. But now that you mention it, I dislike the way the MILHIST template has a blue band at the top and a grey one at the bottom. That looks untidy to me, since it would seem to detract from the integrity of the template as a unitary structure. I don't know if it would actually look better with the bottom band the same colour as the top one, but in theory it should do (although as I'm sure you are aware, such things can usually only be determined by trial and error). Gatoclass (talk) 18:16, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

USS Porter (DD-59)

Hello

Porter had two Curtis steam turbines that drove her two screw propellers, and an additional steam turbine geared to one of the propeller shafts for cruising purposes.

So that destroyer has two turbines (and one was used to cruising) or he has three turbines (and one was used to cruising) ? I am asking because in infobox there is information that this ship has only two turbines. PMG (talk) 10:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes,the ship had three turbines. I've amended the infobox to display the correct information. — Bellhalla (talk) 10:43, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

USS Conyngham (DD-58) the same class, the same problem. He also has third turbine ? And rest of that class ? PMG (talk) 13:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Hop hop? PMG (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Lists of Empire ships

Why the removal from Category:Ministry of War Transport ships? Mjroots (talk) 05:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I was trying to streamline the categories a bit. I set up Category:Lists of Empire ships as a subcat of Category:Empire ships, which I set up as a subcat of Category:Ministry of War Transport ships, so in effect, the list articles are just moved down in the hierarchy. If you think Category:Lists of Empire ships should be directly in Category:Ministry of War Transport ships, it's easy enough to add the whole category. — Bellhalla (talk) 05:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah right. Presumably all the individual ships' articles will be added to the cat then? Mjroots (talk) 05:43, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

That's the plan… :) — Bellhalla (talk) 05:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reviews

		The Content Review Medal of Merit
		By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews April to June 2009, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal.  Roger Davies talk 12:10, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

USS Duplin (AKA-87)

You've been doing some good edits to this ship. The one on DANFS doesn't look so good, though. Look at the References section. "The entry can be found here" seems to be messed up. I don't know what it's supposed to look like, but if this is it, IMHO it needs some improvement. Lou Sander (talk) 00:19, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

You're right. There was an extra space, which ordinarily doesn't bother templates, but given that this one generates a link, it screwed it all up. But, I've now fixed it. Thanks for the kind words and the heads up on my goof up. — Bellhalla (talk) 00:26, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

USS Benham (DD-49)

Hi. Just to let you know I have done the GA review on USS Benham (DD-49). Pending a few minor improvements, the article is ready to pass GA. -Ed!^(talk) 02:29, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

First, do no harm ;-)

USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100) has the same DANFS error that messed up the References section of USS Duplin. I think there are more of them. Maybe lots of them. IMHO you should revisit all the ships you've recently worked on and look for this bug. I'd do it myself, but I'm hugely busy with non-Wiki matters. Lou Sander (talk) 13:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

User page comments

Great page, reporting on a lot of good work! Keep it up. Suggestion: Your lists of featured articles, etc. talk about articles you've "written." Since an article is "written" by many people, there's probably a better word to use. I use "started" if I started it, or "made substantial contributions to" if I didn't, or "started and substantially maintain," etc. Just my two cents' worth. Lou Sander (talk) 14:13, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

That may be true for most articles, but the vast majority of the articles that I have listed were, indeed, written by me. I certainly don't mean to minimize the contributions of other editors, nor am I intending to imply ownership over any of the articles. But in my view, if there's redlink before, and there's an article afterwards, I say it's reasonable to say that I have written it. — Bellhalla (talk) 20:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Copyedit assistance requested

Hello Bellhalla! It has been suggested at peer review that Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 could use a going-through by a native-language editor for details of style. If you are interested, your help would be welcome! Regards, Constantine ✍ 07:22, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XL (June 2009)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XL (June 2009)
From the coordinators The big news this month is the launch of the Academy content drive (see below if you want to help). But otherwise it has been a very busy month for both reviewing and contest department entries, surprisingly so considering the wind down of the academic year. If you'd like to do some wiki-gnoming over the holidays, please help with the huge backlog (currently 1 articles) at Category:Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists.  Roger Davies talk 11:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Vimy Ridge Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay Military history of Australia during World War II Otto Becher Moltke-class battlecruiser Yamato-class battleship New featured lists: List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz) List of Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipients List of United States Military Academy alumni (athletic figures) List of United States Military Academy alumni (engineers) New featured pictures: Governor Davey's [sic] Proclamation to the Aborigines Test Baker, Operation Crossroads Tuskegee airmen New A-Class articles: Army of the Tennessee Battle of Bosworth Field Battle of Corydon Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Ticonderoga (1777) Helgoland class battleship Operation Sky Monitor Rupert Downes Sd.Kfz. 10 Werner Mölders
Project news The Cold War task force has been created. New members are welcome! Congratulations go to Patar knight and Cool3, who have both successfully passed RfA. Feel free to chime in on the longrunning discussion about the firearms article structure. The Contest department has completed its twenty-seventh month of competition, with 54 articles entered by 10 editors. Sturmvogel 66 placed first this month with 64 points, followed by Parsecboy on 49 points. They receive the Chevrons and the Writer's Barnstar respectively. Ed! commendably came third with 44 points, with honorable mentions going to AustralianRupert (38), Mynameinc (11) and The ed17 (10). Thanks also go to Gaia Octavia Agrippa, Bernstein2291, Piotrus and Wild Wolf, who also fielded entries.
The Academy content drive Introduced in February, The Academy is an online school for new members. This month, we're launching a drive to increase the breadth and depth of its content. If you can help, by writing four to six paragraph articles, please do so! Barnstars galore to be won!
Awards and honours Our top Peer and A-Class reviewers over the last quarter are: Joe N (38), The ed17 (38), YellowMonkey (24), Cla68 (22), Jim Sweeney (22), AustralianRupert (21), Nick-D (19), TomStar81 (19), Abraham, B.S. (15) and Ian Rose (12) who each receive the WikiChevrons. The following editors received the Content Review Medal of Merit for their help: Patar knight (9), Piotrus (7), Patton123 (6), Sturmvogel 66 (6), Bellhalla (5), Skinny87 (5), Ed! (4), Magicpiano (4), Maralia (4), Wandalstouring (4), Cool3 (3), Hawkeye7 (3), IceUnshattered (3), Jackyd101 (3), MBK004 (3), Simon Harley (3), and Vantine84 (3). Thanks also go to: EnigmaMcmxc, Kyriakos, Saberwyn, Brad101, Dhatfield, Kirill Lokshin, Kirk, Mm40, Admiral Norton, Askari Mark, Benea, Binksternet, Brianboulton, Btphelps, Cam, Cuprum17, Geoff Plourde, Guyinblack25, Hartfelt, HLGallon, Juliancolton, La Pianista, Nosedown, Ost316, Parsecboy, Redtigerxyz, Rosiestep, Ruhrfisch, Socrates2008, Sumanch, TechOutsider and Xatsmann.
Editorial: How to prepare an A-Class Review Perhaps the most important—and, indeed, most respected—aspect of the Military History project is our rigorous A-Class Review (ACR) system, which puts articles through the most robust review outside of WP:FAC. Although reviewing might seem daunting to newcomers, this article will give you an outline of three popular reviewing methods so you can actually start contributing yourself. General nit-pick - this is one of the easiest - and one of the most common - reviewing styles seen throughout Wikipedia. It is a similar approach to that you would see in proofreading and classroom marking. Basically, it is a general overview of the article, not getting too specific on aspects of the prose. The most common statements include This article could benefit from a light copyedit before going to FAC or You might want to check the endash and emdash placement in the article. It's a style that is incredibly easy to manage, and one that requires little-to-no experience in previous reviewing. Specialization - it often is the case that those who have been reviewing articles for a long time will move away from the general review towards more specific areas of articles. As an example, Tony usually stays within the realm of prose and copyediting while reviewing Featured Article Candidates, Tom used to focus almost entirely on external links and disambiguations, while others specialize their focus exclusively on copyediting, reference formatting, dashes, punctuation and flow, image licensing, and a host of other areas. This is a review method that is not nearly as time-consuming as other methods, as it allows you to quickly scan an article, spot the things that you work on, and how they need to be fixed. Sectional - My preferred style of reviewing, this is one of the most informative styles. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most time-consuming and exhaustive styles. Essentially, it involves going through the entire article, section by section, and pointing out every major (and often many of the minor) flaws present within each section. Everything from prose to reference formatting to content. It is a reviewing style that is exhausting, and often takes two or three goes through the article to get everything (sometimes even more), but it gives the article's main contributors two benefits. First, everything is well organized, mostly under section headers like this one, and it often makes finding individual sentences or refs much easier, as they are within that section. Secondly, it points out a lot of the problems from a lot of the areas. Best of luck, and happy Reviewing! Cam (Chat)
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Re: Destroyer pages...

Here's the link: it was in Military history, not Ships... sorry about that... [1]... And, you're right, I got carried away and didn't stop to think whether I was helping or hurting the article, but I didn't realize (14:56) was the standard 24-hour time format, since I've seen it both with and without a colon... as for the other errors, my apologies... I'll correct them immediately... Magus732 (talk) 20:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, here's the thing: you were right, I agreed with you, and you're still harping at me about it... I have been using kn as an abbreviation for nautical-miles-per-hour since I first edited here, and you are the first person ever who has shown any concern about me using it... now, either no one else has noticed, or it isn't a problem; I can't say... but what makes it worse is that you approach the subject as if you are the only one who can edit these articles... look, I appreciate that you pointed out my MoS errors to me, but quite frankly, I don't answer to you... I agree that I have made mistakes... however, that is no excuse for the possesive tone you and others use in conjuction with ship articles... I've been getting that a lot around here, and I'm really getting sick of it... I realize that you're just trying to make the page better, but you must realize, so am I, and it is difficult to do so if someone yells at me from over my shoulder every five minutes... I am human; I will make mistakes... I realize that I'm not perfect... but biting my head off will not help make me a better editor, or, perhaps more importantly, prevent future screw-ups... Magus732 (talk) 02:32, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Heinkel He 111

Hi,

You may remember me from the Junkers Ju 87 article which passed GA some months back. I have nominated the He 111 page for GA but a month later it still has not been actioned by anyone. Could you have a look? Dapi89 (talk) 15:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

USS Lake Champlain (CG-57)

Hi, Belhalla! I happened to see you refining cats on this boat. Any interest in developing that article? My best friend's son is on that boat, so I've been watching the article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Bellhalla: keeping our articles in ship shape one page at a time

		The Categorisation Barnstar
		In recognition of your outstanding effort to improve the consistency and standardization of our ship categories and navigational templates, I hereby award you this Categorization Barnstar! Keep up the fantastic work! — Kralizec! (talk) 16:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:MILCON

I can see you are doing the assessing run now, just a note that List of First World War Victoria Cross recipients is FL, Gimmebot hasn't gone through yet. Thanks and keep up the good work, Regards, Woody (talk) 12:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! — Bellhalla (talk) 12:22, 1 August 2009 (UTC)