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Welcome to Wikipedia, Chris141496! I am The ed17 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Ed (talkmajestic titan) 19:41, 21 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for welcoming me, I have edited a little here and then, and I want to do more. I have joined Military History because I know a little about England's wars in the middle ages. I just have a couple questions right now. How is an article moved up from stub-class? And who moves it? Also how do you get those boxes that say your a part of so and so or that you prefer so and so?

Thanks for the helpful links. Yumm... cookies.-Chris141496 (talk) 19:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Friendly tips

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Hi there Chris141496. I see you've created a user subpage for USS South Dakota (BB-49). I don't want to wreck your plans or anything, but articles about ships that were never completed are ususally redirected to the class page(stuff like USS Kentucky (BB-66) are exceptions). To do this, a person just puts

# REDIRECT [[Name of class page]]

on the article that needs it. So as to not leave you empty handed I could suggest working on other completed (meaning they actually were built) US battleship articles in WP:OMT (like [[USS New Hampshire (BB-25)),(you can join the project also, if you wish, it's suggested). And also, the goals of OMT are to get the articles to either good articles or featured articles, which are articles that are of a much higher length and quality than stubs. Now to answer your two questions that you posted to the welcome message above. You can get the little boxes at WP:USERBOX, where you just plop the code down onto your userpage. Now about the stubs. Military history stubs can be asked to be upgraded at WP:MHAR. If it's other stubs that your looking to review, just ask another editor who you think knows about such stuff, annd if no one answers you, you can review it yourself by changing the

|class=stub 

on talk pages of the article to

|class=start,>|class=c,>|class=b,>|class=ga,>|class=a,>|class=fa 

(Note that the last four often need other people to review them). If you follow that advice, you'll be infe. Ask any other questions on my talkpage if you want (the first link to the right of Buggie111) at the end of this post). Buggie111 (talk) 01:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)Reply


(P.s.: Cookies aren't really healthy for you. Here's some broccoli with Egyptian hummus, a tasty mix)

 
Looks more like broccoli too me 
 
Sorry doesn't look appetizing!!

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Alright, thanks. Hope I didn't cause any trouble.-Chris141496 (talk) 16:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to WikiProject Military History

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Thanks! I'm only to glad to help.Chris141496 (talk) 23:32, 23 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

B-class

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Hi Chris. I noticed you assessed USS Alabama (BB-8) as B-class; this is problematic because the article is completely unsourced. Sources need to be either books/journals/etc. or reputable websites, and they must have specific footnotes for page numbers. You may want to have a look at the MILHIST B-class requirements before assessing more articles. I know it's exciting to see more boxes on the OMT page turn green or blue, but we need to make sure we turn out the highest quality we can, not just speed things through. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 13:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

I'm so sorry. I will change it back. I was under the impression, though, that references counted as sources. Please fill me in. Sorry again-Chris141496 (talk) 13:07, 24 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

It's no big deal, and I already changed it back so don't worry about it :) The problem with the article as it is now is we don't know what sources are supporting what information. For that, we need inline citations telling us specifically what pages in each book are being used. Parsecboy (talk) 13:15, 24 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, make sure to user <ref>Name of Reference</ref> to cite suorces. Military History project rules state that they should be after a period (not like you did anything wrong regarding that, just a helpful tip). Also, your tagging of USS Iowa (BB-4) was good, as it did have many inline citations. Have fun editing. Buggie111 (talk) 13:23, 24 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : L (April 2010)

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WT:OMT discussion

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Hello, Chris141496! I am informing you that there is a discussion at WT:OMT#Moving forward on whether or not to implement a reward called the Titan's Cross. As you list yourself as a member of the project, I suggest you vote in it. Have fun! Buggie111 (talk) 20:06, 24 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

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The Milhist election has started!

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WikiProject Military history coordinator election

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User group for Military Historians

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Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

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Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

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Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:09, 31 March 2021 (UTC)Reply