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Removal of EF Typhoons afterburning thrust from specifications

Your edit to Eurofighter Typhoon https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eurofighter_Typhoon&oldid=907308787 removed the relevant afterburning thrust specification, and only left the less relevant dry thrust. Do not make edits which remove relevant information. --Hkultala (talk) 07:46, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Stick it up your ar.. Don't be so judgemental, it was obviously an oversight and not a deliberate omission.--Petebutt (talk) 13:17, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

List of aircraft (J)

RE: You recent addition here, where you added Janoir, you only provided a ref name of "Davilla" and not a full citation, and it was causing a cite error in the references section, as was mis-spelled "name", anyway I took a wild guess and figured it was James Davilla's book, French Aircraft of the First World War, Flying Machines Press (2002) and added that, but I don't know the page number. If I was right, could you add the page number or if I was wrong, please feel free to add the right citation. Thanks for your contributions. Isaidnoway (talk) 15:44, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Where the reference is in alphabetical order i don't give page numbers to avoid filling the page with un-necessary repeats of essentially the same reference. Anybody that can't access a book alphabetically would very probably not be looking at a reference in the first place.--Petebutt (talk) 18:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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Unexplained changes of referencing style?

I note edits by yourself yesterday to two Walter engine articles, although you added content with a new reference at the same time you changed the existing citation style to your own preferred style which is against the editing guideline WP:CITEVAR. This has been noted before by myself and other editors, please stop. For your benefit I have pasted the relevant parts of the guideline here to save you clicking the shortcut link. The bolding is mine.

Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change. The arbitration committee ruled in 2006:

Wikipedia does not mandate styles in many different areas; these include (but are not limited to) American vs. British spelling, date formats, and citation style. Where Wikipedia does not mandate a specific style, editors should not attempt to convert Wikipedia to their own preferred style, nor should they edit articles for the sole purpose of converting them to their preferred style, or removing examples of, or references to, styles which they dislike.

As with spelling differences, it is normal practice to defer to the style used by the first major contributor or adopted by the consensus of editors already working on the page, unless a change in consensus has been achieved. If the article you are editing is already using a particular citation style, you should follow it; if you believe it is inappropriate for the needs of the article, seek consensus for a change on the talk page. If you are the first contributor to add citations to an article, you may choose whichever style you think best for the article.

If all or most of the citations in an article consist of bare URLs, or otherwise fail to provide needed bibliographic data – such as the name of the source, the title of the article or web page consulted, the author (if known), the publication date (if known), and the page numbers (where relevant) – then that would not count as a "consistent citation style" and can be changed freely to insert such data. The data provided should be sufficient to uniquely identify the source, allow readers to find it, and allow readers to initially evaluate it without retrieving it.

To be avoided

When an article is already consistent, avoid:

• switching between major citation styles, e.g. parenthetical and <ref> tags, or replacing the preferred style of one academic discipline with another's;
• adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates, or removing citation templates from an article that uses them consistently;
• changing where the references are defined, e.g. moving reference definitions in the reflist to the prose, or moving reference definitions from the prose into the reflist.

I'm afraid the next time this happens an ANI report will be raised, to avoid that happening I politely ask that the guideline is respected. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 03:56, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes I do, usually where there are more than one style already, or bare URl refs. Apart from that, the concensus MUST be to use the wizard that is provided with EVERY edit page, or it wouldn't be there!!. If you don't like that style start a discussion to get it removed!!--Petebutt (talk) 13:06, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

In these two articles there was clearly only one style of citation and no bare URLs so even by your own standard the style should not have been changed. What is this wizard that we are forced to use? Can you provide a link? Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 13:49, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Fair point, I shall not change overall style, but I will continue to only use the supplied templates for all refs I add, then any editor that objects can change it to the prevailing style. In the toolbar select Cite and a Template drop down appears where you can select the template you want, from web, book, news or journal.--Petebutt (talk) 13:53, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

So you will continue to ignore the guideline? I don't see the compulsory citation template markup code on an editing page, it is probably an optional editing gadget selected in 'Preferences'. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 14:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Didn't say it was compulsory! but it is a standardised system supplied by wikipedia on every edit window, so I will continue to use it!--Petebutt (talk) 14:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

You said above 'MUST be to use...' with emphasis on 'must' using capital letters, sounds compulsory to me. It can't be a standardised system if it is a user selected optional gadget. In the guideline text above it clearly states that there is no mandated (compulsory) citation style across the project and equally clearly states that whatever style is established should be followed. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 14:27, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

You seem to enjoy taking things out of context. The implication is that Wikipedia supply the template so use it!!, Not compulsory but obviously recommended.--Petebutt (talk) 14:31, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm just repeating your opinion typed in black and white. There is no implication of anything, here's the first line of Wikipedia:Citation templates, Citation templates are used to format citations in a consistent way, as an alternative to formatting the citations by hand. The use of citation templates is neither encouraged nor discouraged. My bolding again, the rest of that paragraph is worth reading. At least we've established that you have little regard for editing guidelines which is perplexing in a collaborative project. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 14:53, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Have you used a cite template here accidentally? Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 17:33, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks i missed that!--Petebutt (talk) 19:56, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

You might have corrected yourself but that's not why I'm here. You have introduced a citation template where there were none before. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 21:14, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

1978 Finnish Air Force DC-3 crash image

A discussion about the removal of an image you added to 1978 Finnish Air Force DC-3 crash is on going here. - Samf4u (talk) 15:09, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make personal attacks on other people. Comment on content, not on fellow editors. This is regarding your "loony lefty" and "idiot" commentaries in the discussion above. If you can't make your point without insulting other editors, you will be blocked. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:56, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

I hear what you are saying, but the editor in question WAS both an idiot and a loony lefty. I shall bite my tongue in future!--Petebutt (talk) 19:37, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

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Turbomeca Turmo (gas producer)

When do except to have this new article completed? - BilCat (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

No timescale yet. Need more sources. The engine is based on the Palouste/Artouste with a single shaft and free-power turbine driving a gas producer compressor. Not 100% sure of its relation to the Turmo III and later turboshafts ( which are two-shaft engines),--Petebutt (talk) 23:25, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Founad another source - done--Petebutt (talk) 09:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Convert errors

Howdy. Just a friendly reminder, make sure you preview your edits... You dumped a couple of pages into Category:Convert errors. I've made MORE than my fair share of mistakes so not pointing fingers, just a friendly reminder. :-) --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:46, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

specifications templates and CITEVAR

Please respect the existing reference format per WP:CITEVAR when changing specifications templates - and please do not replace a precise citation referring to an individual page to one to a larger page range without a good reason.Nigel Ish (talk) 17:46, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Sometimes I do get carried away. However I generally ensure that my references comply with the required APA style. To do this I use the templates provided which give a consistent output. On other occasions the reference given is NOT broad enough, particularly in Specification sections, requiring that the whole sectio n of text on the subject is cited. If you feel I have gone too far feel free to discuss it, bearing in mind that WP:CITEVAR encourages improvement of citations and reference!!--Petebutt (talk) 18:02, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

As people keep on telling you, the use of templates is not required, and CITEVAR explicitly says that. The APA style is not required, as you should know from all the discussions above - in addition, you appear to be changing away from the perfectly permissible Harvard (or short style) references as widely used. That is against the spirit of CITVAR and does not represent an improvement to the article or the referencing.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

I have never said that use of the templates is required!!! I use them as it is easy and gives a consistent output which satisfies the requirement to use APA, no more, no less.--Petebutt (talk) 18:27, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

There is no requirement to use APA. What you are doing is making the referencing less consistent and less precise. Please make the effort to keep a consistent style of referencing. It the article uses short Harvard style referencing, then keep with that format.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:34, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Curtiss-Wright CW-19

Please review Curtiss-Wright CW-19#Specifications (CW-19R). I'm not sure what should be done to fix "{{cvt|0.300|2}} machine-gun". Johnuniq (talk) 07:07, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

done--Petebutt (talk) 07:09, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Yet another unilateral cite format change

How many times will it take before realizing that you need to conform to the existing citation style in an article instead of changing things to suit your own preferences. Referencing to the Douglas A2D Skyshark article--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:02, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Calm the F**k down. There was a mix and match so I just standardised. See WP:CITEVAR.--Petebutt (talk) 22:53, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Then you need to do a little digging and use the format used by whoever first added a cite, provided that it complies with the normal rules for cite formats. It would also be good to proofread your changes for capitalization, etc.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:42, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Thrust/weight ratio

Just a tip. Thrust-to-weight ratio is defined as a dimensionless quantity. Changing it to lbf/lb and a metric equivalent as in, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_P6M_SeaMaster&direction=next&oldid=896096789, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird&direction=next&oldid=901841416, and others you've changed, really doesn't help matters. Michael F 1967 (talk) 01:56, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Me again. Seriously, this isn't funny. I'm not Wiki-savvy enough to trawl through your edits and correct the seemingly rather large number of misplaced changes you've made of correct dimensionless thrust-to-weight ratios into lbf/lb. It'd help Wikipedia greatly if you undid the mistaken conversions yourself. Michael F 1967 (talk) 02:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

You are wong!! how can it be dimsionless?? It would require the same units for both halves of the ratio, which they clearly aren't lbdf is NOT lb, likewise kN are NOT kg. Go back to your maths!!--Petebutt (talk) 08:27, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

To remove confusion change the entry in the template to Propulsive efficiency. What i state still stands\! the ratio of thrust to weight is NOT dimensionless, whereas Propulsive Efficiency IS.--Petebutt (talk) 08:33, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

You are confusing mass with weight - please read at least the first paragraph of the mass versus weight article. If you stick with SI units, it becomes clear.

As the Wikipedia article thrust-to-weight ratio (which I also linked to above) states: The thrust-to-weight ratio can be calculated by dividing the thrust (in SI units – in newtons) by the weight (in newtons) of the engine or vehicle and is a dimensionless quantity.

In SI units, thrust is measured in newtons, and weight - being the force exerted on an object by gravity - is also measured in newtons. Newtons divided by newtons is obviously a dimensionless ratio.

This is explained in the article linked to by every thrust/weight ratio entry in the performance tables I've corrected. It clearly explains your mistake. Please read the article thrust-to-weight ratio and please stop making incorrect changes. It would also be helpful if you reviewed your edits and undid the mistakes you have made when changing thrust-to-weight ratio entries Michael F 1967 (talk) 15:11, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Change it to Thrust/Mass!! and i will comply, or just add Thrust/Mass. By your own argument Weight is NOT mass and vice versa--Petebutt (talk) 18:22, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

It is not my argument. Thrust is force - newtons. Weight is force - newtons. The ratio is thrust/weight, which is newtons per newton. This is dimensionless. Thrust/mass is not the quantity specified in the aircraft and engine templates we're dealing with.

Please read the explanation I provided above, and please read the linked articles. Then please adhere to reality, not your mistaken ideas. Michael F 1967 (talk) 18:44, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Thrust to weight ratio is not propulsive efficiency

I see that you have edited the Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350 article, and added a mistaken label propulsive efficiency for the previously correctly labelled thrust/weight figure. Please do not make any more such changes.

Earlier correct version - updated by you to use the Aircraft specs template. That was a welcome change.

Subsequent incorrect version - in which you incorrectly labelled the referenced thrust/weight figure with propulsive efficiency.

So far, I've corrected (I think) over 200 thrust/weight figures to which you have erroneously given units. I do not want to have to repeat that exercise with respect to you mislabelling correct thrust/weight figures as propulsive efficiency. Please read the propulsive efficiency article to understand your mistake in this case. Propulsive efficiency cannot be expressed as a single number.

Propulsive efficiency comparison for various gas turbine engine configurations

Dependence of the propulsive efficiency ($\eta _{p}$) upon the vehicle speed/exhaust speed ratio (v_0/v_9) for rocket and jet engines

As the propulsive efficiency article states, overall propulsive efficiency $\eta$ is the efficiency with which the energy contained in a vehicle's propellant is converted into kinetic energy of the vehicle, to accelerate it, or to replace losses due to aerodynamic drag or gravity.

For reasons which should be obvious, it is a non-trivial job to determine propulsive efficiency which in any case varies greatly with operating conditions. Propulsive efficiency cannot be expressed as a single figure; it can only be described by a graph or other means of showing one parameter varying against another parameter (or parameters). Propulsive efficiency is, therefore, hardly ever given in a list of aviation specifications.

If a spec list says thrust/weight, please just leave it as thrust/weight.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 17:57, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

I see that you've made the same error with:

• Myasishchev M-4
• Su-11 - and you changed the actual number in this case, and mistakenly provided a unit conversion (landing speed) to an explicit but unjustified precision of 9 figures past the decimal point. In any case, you should use the sigfig=N parameter rather than number of figures past the decimal point.
• Tu-160

I've corrected four of these new mistakes of yours. Please stop it.

Please check your thinking before making similar modifications to correct specifications in future. All you have to do is read the appropriate articles here on Wikipedia to avoid making this sort of mistake. Michael F 1967 (talk) 18:45, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Removing links to specification templates

Please stop deleting all links to the [[Template:Aircraft specifications]] and [[Template:Aircraft specs]] templates from talk pages - it makes the talk pages harder to follow and has no apparent benefit.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:12, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

And stop edit warring - such action is disruptive.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:13, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Not edir warring following the result of proper discussion--Petebutt (talk) 18:15, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

You are breaking talk page discussions - for example here you removed links to talk page discussions on another page! - even if the templates themselves are depreciated we still need to be able to link to the talk pages, or the discussions become worthless. For example - how can anyone confirm that there is a consensus to depreciate the use of these templates if all links to the discussions about them have been removed.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:33, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Aircraft thrust to weight ratio - B-47

Your edit Special:PermanentLink/913587953#Specifications_(B-47E) incorrectly appended (non-dimensional) to the previously correct purely numerical entry for thrust/weight ratio.

Since thrust/weight ratio is defined as a pure number, the correct form for this parameter is a pure number without any units or other words being involved.

Nothing anywhere suggests otherwise as you would know if you'd read up on the subject - the article linked to by every thrust/weight entry in all these spec lists explains the matter in full.

It is exactly as pointless and wrong to add dimensionless (the correct term) after giving the thrust/weight ratio figure as it is to add in units of length after (for example) the length parameter in aircraft specs.

Please leave thrust/weight entries as pure numbers. Anything else is just plain wrong and I'm getting a bit fed up with undoing errors that you've introduced.

If you think I'm wrong, please provide a reference to a reliable source that indicates otherwise.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 20:40, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Aren'twebeing just a tad OCD about this?--Petebutt (talk) 23:51, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Two things: firstly, please just stop messing things up. Yes, I know you mean well, and you do a lot of very decent work here. But I've noticed you're a bit sloppy about fine detail from time to time - and when I say from time to time, I mean I've corrected (I think) more than two hundred errors that you've introduced by changing correct specifications into incorrect specifications.

Can you say Argh! ?

Secondly, and rather more importantly:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/may/10/downside-increased-mental-health-awareness True OCD has many, often-debilitating features that put a serious dent in the individuals ability to live a normal life, and these usually have to all be present before someone is diagnosed with the condition. Again, it’s not something that comes and goes, like mild hay fever. Hence my usual response to someone claiming to be “a little bit OCD” is: “That’s nice. I’m a little bit five foot ten.” That’s not how things work.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/28/stephen-fry-ocd-eyes-tweet-mental-illness OCD is not, as Fry's tweet would nudge yet more people towards believing, a behavioural quirk. It's not an exaggerated love of order and hygiene. It's a disorder of thought: harrowing, distressing, torturing, impossible-to-shake thought. That's the O in OCD – obsession – and it's what causes most of the D from the same abbreviation. (It stands for disorder but means distress.)

OCD is a disorder that causes enormous distress. Thankfully, I don't suffer from it. For the sake of those who do, those who suffer further distress at the modern casual habit of using OCD as a put-down for anyone who (as in my case) cares about accuracy and precision, please don't use that sort of taunt again. Me? I'm not bothered; it's them I'm concerned about.

Finally, I'm pretty sure that there are Wikipedia guidelines about not getting personal about things (and for assuming good faith, as I am with respect to you). Well, I'm trying to educate you; what's your comment about me being OCD about? — that's meant as a rhetorical question, but one for your contemplation.

I recognise there's a good chance you find my interventions slightly irritating. But that sort of thing goes both ways, you know?

Michael F 1967 (talk) 01:27, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Sometimes you just haver to take therough with the smooth!! As for the "(I think) two hundred" ONE mistake repeated, so don't beat your gums up too much!!--Petebutt (talk) 01:42, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

One mistake repeated? No, more like over a couple of hundred instances of separately turning correct information into wrong information, and you were still at it yesterday.

As for taking the rough with the smooth—well, yes, that's life on an open encylopaedia project with everyone able to see what you're up to, isn't it? My beady eye is looking out. Michael F 1967 (talk) 02:03, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Your good faith changes to the Sukhoi Su-47 article

In your edit Special:PermanentLink/913783721#Specifications_(Su-47), you replaced a thrust/weight ratio entry with two specifications supposedly from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 2000–01<ref name=JAWA00-01>{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 2000–01 |editor1-last=Jackson |editor1-first=Paul|year=2000 |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon, Surrey, United Kingdom |isbn=978-0710620118 |edition=91st |pages=457-458}}</ref> which you know to be incorrect by definition since they have units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sukhoi_Su-47&diff=prev&oldid=913783721

One is supposed to use editorial discretion and apply common sense. If information supplied is plainly wrong, then it should not be included. If the information is supplied in a mistaken form for which the fix is obvious, then fix it before inclusion.

If a source credits Robert Waston-Watt rather than Robert Watson-Watt with work on WWII radar, well, correct the spelling. That's just editorial judgement combined with common sense. Same with this. It seems you've hit on a common mistake. By definition, thrust to weight ratio is a ratio. That means it's defined as a parameter which is a dimensionless pure number. Any source suggesting anything else is, by definition, wrong: either by mistake or design.

This is a matter purely of definition: by definition, ratios are dimensionless numbers. It's an established fact by definition. So by definition, anyone presenting a ratio as anything else has got it wrong either by mistake or design.

I do wonder what the actual entry in Jane's actually is: Jane's is a serious bit of work, but according to your edit they provide thrust/weight as 0.009 kN/kg or 0.0119 kN/kg, which is a bit silly when 9 N/kg-f and 11.19 N/kg-f make much more sense. Also, providing an aircraft thrust/weight ratio to three or four significant figures is highly dubious practice by definition since aircraft weight and thrust are generally not able to be specified as well as that—that's another matter of common sense.

Are you really just copying out the figures exactly as provided?

There is also the problem that you provide two figures labelled as follows:

• thrust/weight=0.009 kN/kg (0.918 lbf/lb) max
• thrust/weight=0.0119 kN/kg (1.213 lbf/lb) normal

That is also by definition incorrect. The ratio 0.918, supposedly maximum thrust/weight according to your edit, is smaller than the ratio 1.213, supposedly normal thrust to weight according to your edit.

Applying common sense and a bit of background knowledge, I'd guess you mean maximum take-off weight and normal take-off weight but I can't be sure.

So I've corrected your good faith edit of thrust/weight ratio which repeated an obvious mistake in an otherwise reliable source, and modified max and normal in line with what I think the book probably stated.

Michael F 1967 (talk) 15:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

FFS do shut up!--Petebutt (talk) 17:02, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes, dear ;-) Michael F 1967 (talk) 23:58, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 192.168.43.47 I am using my telephone asamobile hotspot, if that makes a difference. Last night there were persistent problems with connections so maybe the sim card provider has screwedthings up a bit Petebutt (talk) 23:01, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

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You moved the page Tiger Triumph to Excercise Tiger Triumph. Do try harder next time.

I know you know that if you're going to move a page, you need to get the spelling right. The dull thumping noise you can hear off in the distance is once again my head hitting my desk.

Even with the correct spelling of Exercise Tiger Triumph to which I've moved the page, it's an orphan; perhaps adding a redirection page 'Tiger Triumph' would have been a good idea since that's the short form of the name and the original title of the article.

I've had a go, but I've not found a direct way to create a new page so I'm going via the slow wizard route. Perhaps you could create the appropriate redirection page?

Or maybe it's not needed: I'm a little confused at this point.

(Tiger Triumph is entirely different to Triumph Tiger)

Michael F 1967 (talk) 21:43, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Your point being?--Petebutt (talk) 00:02, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

The important point is that you made a very silly spelling mistake which would have made it harder to find the article Exercise Tiger Triumph, if someone hadn't fixed your very silly spelling mistake. If you mis-spell something, it's harder to find when searching. The dull thumping noise is still my head hitting my desk. Please note: the previous sentence was humour. The first two sentences in this paragraph are serious, although they do contain a little sarcasm. Michael F 1967 (talk) 22:05, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

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@Scope creep: - fat chance. none in commons--Petebutt (talk) 17:29, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

@Petebutt: What about uploading a fair use image? scope_creep^Talk 17:33, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Do you have one?--Petebutt (talk) 17:37, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Petebutt, What a lively and entertaining discussion going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019 Gabriola Island crash. You mentioned elevating Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aircraft accidents and incidents to policy. Do you believe that would be possible? How would one go about starting that process? - Samf4u (talk) 14:18, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Not sure, exactly, but it would involve opening a discussion probably at the Aviation accident project talk page.--Petebutt (talk) 17:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

I have started a discussion here. - Samf4u (talk) 17:06, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Good effort!--Petebutt (talk) 02:12, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

nike sites

I don't understand why you changed the articles I started on CD-78 and PH-75 to redirect back to the huge Nike Missile Site page. I happen to have done work on these two sites and that's why I created them. There is nothing wrong with each site eventually having its own page, and I think it is useful. And in fact putting the air photos I uploaded at the bottom of the large page I think lessens their value. Jstuby (talk) 20:44, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Are they notable for something OTHER than just being Nike sites ; apply Wikipedia:Notability. Did anything happen there? Notabilty!! There is no reason why Nike sites should have individual pages and to list them is adequate, generally.--Petebutt (talk) 01:50, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Did "anything" happen there? Of course something happened there. Each site has its unique history, whether a launch or an accident or some other military activity occurred or not. It so happens groundwater is contaminated at these two and many others that I am aware of, which is of public interest. It is useful to have a page that discusses the details of that, which I was working on, but I can't do that if it is redirected to a giant list page. I would like to undo the redirects, and maybe we can revisit this in a month? Jstuby (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

If you have verifiable sources for these notable incidents then fill your boots, otherwise the re-directs would be re-instated and or article deleted. Despite your feelings very few of the Nike sites warrant stand-alone articles. Just because it was a Nike site does not warrant inclusion in Wikipedia as a stand-alone article, I re-iterate "are they notable for something OTHER than being a Nike site"?. As for Groundwater, there is a case for mention in the main Nike article and / or local articles for areas affected. Build a case for articles on every Nike site and put it up for discussion!!--Petebutt (talk) 00:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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Dear, excuse me for not finding out how to award impressive-looking xxx_wings or yyyy_stars. Still I'd like to offer my bit of laud and appreciation for your ceaseless work, especially regarding specifications of historical aircraft. Many thanks! Keep up the good work! Jan olieslagers (talk) 18:33, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

No, problem, thanks--Petebutt (talk) 18:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

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LWF

Wondering why the hypehns? The company itself, and contemporary sources used either nothing (as with their logo), periods, dots mid way up the letters, or hyphens, seemingly as their fancy struck. We don't use periods or anything else in any of the other aircraft company acronyms, so why here? - NiD.29 (talk) 08:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I understand your concerns, but in this case the Company designation was L-W-F Engineering Co Inc. (after Lowe, Willard and Fowler left). The evidence favours the hyphens, however, it might be prudent to find a concensus and add notes showing the variations. What it is almost certain NOT to have been is LWF or L W F--Petebutt (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

No-one has suggested spaces so forget that straw man, and they themselves were not sufficiently consistent to justify using hyphens (here they use periods when they write out the name, and nothing in their logo), and we don't use punctuation or other usual styling anywhere else. Lots of companies have acronyms for names, but none get periods on wikipedia, and those hyphens are nothing more than stylized periods, which is covered by MOS:POINTS. They are not an integral part of the name. - NiD.29 (talk) 16:52, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm not adding hyphens for the hyphens sake!! That is how some historians have taken to be correct. The ad that you refer to has periods, central dots are not on a strandard keyboard so are frowned upon. Leave with the hyphens and note the variations (don't forget the printer for the company ads might not have printed it correctly).--Petebutt (talk) 19:54, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Sure, and many of those same historians use periods for other company names that are formed from acronyms - but the aircraft project frowns on that. - NiD.29 (talk) 06:51, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Reference formatting

Now I am wondering why you are changing both the Buhl Airsedan and Cunningham-Hall PT-6 pages FROM the standard referencing layout to a deprecated format? - NiD.29 (talk) 06:51, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Because they weren't consistent, with bare urls, some refs not defined etc. etc. I have put them all in one format. If you want them in another feel free. I don't change ref styles, as a rule, only if there are inconsistencies and I only use one format. If you don't want me to change formats, ensure any articles you are interested in have consistent ref formats.--Petebutt (talk) 07:02, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

deprecated format??--Petebutt (talk) 10:08, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't mention deprecationhere Help:Citation Style 1--Petebutt (talk) 10:10, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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Dear, Thanks for your recent update to the Miles Aerovan article. Allow me to suggest you could further improve with an interlanguage-link to our French colleagues' page about the Hurel-Dubois company - even if it is there marked as a stub: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_construction_des_avions_Hurel-Dubois Yes, I know I could and should consider doing so myself, but these interlanguage links are quite hard on me, I am sure you can manage them better than my poor self. On the other hand, you are very welcome to ask for help in translating from French to English. Keep up the good work! Jan olieslagers (talk) 18:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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Sikorsky S-434

Hi Pete, if you get a chance, Sikorsky S-434 needs a proper specs template. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 10:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, that was fast! - BilCat (talk) 19:51, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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Aircraft Industries L 410 NG

Hi Pete, Aircraft Industries L 410 NG needs proper specs. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 00:49, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

done!--Petebutt (talk) 05:39, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Kerch Strait incident (2019)

Hi, you've recently moved Kerch Strait incident (2019) to 2019 Kerch Strait liquified gas tanker fire which is the correct title, however moving a page without a discussion is discouraged. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 14:03, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Not idf it is a naming convention - by definition already discussed.--Petebutt (talk) 14:14, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Pratt & Whitney F401

Hi Pete, do you access to any details on the Pratt & Whitney F401? It's currently a redirect to the F100 page, and never found enough details on it to warrant splitting it off. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 23:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Jane's 77-78 page 825. Not a lot there. Proposed for the F-14B (F401-PW-400 - JTF22A-24A) Prototype ran in September 1972, two flight cleared engines fitted to an F-14B development aircraft in June 1973. A larger fan than the F100, only flown in the F-14B and XFV-12A:-

Thanks. It's better than nothing, and we can use the specs. - BilCat (talk) 03:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Same info in 74-75 and 76-77--Petebutt (talk) 03:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Specifications (F401-PW-401)

Data from

General characteristics

• Type: afterburning turbofan engine
• Length: ( 191 in (4,851 mm) F-100-PW-100 )
• Diameter: 50.5 in (1,283 mm)
• Intake diameter: 42.5 in (1,080 mm)
• Dry weight: 3,649 lb (1,655.2 kg)

Components

• Compressor: LP: 21x IGV, 3-stage Fan, 1-stage IP compressor (F401 only)

HP: 10-stage (1st three with IGVs), HP PR 8:1

• Combustors: Annular with duplex atomising nozzles
• Turbine: HPT: 2-stage max gas temp 1,399 °C (2,550 °F; 1,672 K), max rpm 14,600

LPT: 2-stage, max rpm 9,600

Performance

• Maximum thrust: 16,400 lbf (72,951 N) MTO dry

28,090 lbf (124,951 N) MTO wet

• Overall pressure ratio: Overall 26.9:1
• Bypass ratio: 0.65
• Specific fuel consumption: 0.62 lb/lbf/h (0.018 kg/N/ks) MTO dry

2.45 lb/lbf/h (0.069 kg/N/ks) MTO wet

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Specifications for the BG-1 and BG-2 bomb gliders

I just got a copy of Bill Norton's book American Military Gliders of World War II: Development, Training, Experimentation, and Tactics of All Aircraft Types and you'll find drawings and specifications of the BG-1 and BG-2 bomb gliders on pages 209 and 210 of this book. I've already written a draft article Draft:Fletcher BG-2, and Norton (2008, 2012) includes a photo of the first BG-1 (built in manned configuration to test the BG-1's flight characteristics), and you may want to ask Bill Norton to provide you with 3-view drawings of the BG-1 and BG-2, because Andrade (1979, p. 59, 96) mistakenly states that the three BG-2s on order were originally to have been completed as Frankfort CG-1s, when in fact the BG-2 was a completely different design than the CG-1 and the BG-2 contract was signed in April 1942, shortly after the CG-1 contract was cancelled (Norton (2008) rightly points out that the BG-2, like the BG-1, was derived from the CQ-1 drone control plane.

Andrade, John (1979). U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909. Midland Counties Publications. ISBN 0-904597-22-9.

Bill Norton: "American Military Glider Experiments of WWII", AAHS Journal Vol. 53 No. 2, Summer 2008

Norton, Bill. American Military Gliders of World War II: Development, Training, Experimentation, and Tactics of All Aircraft Types. Atglen, PA: Shiffer Publishing, Ltd. pp. 209-210.Supercalifornication (talk) 03:50, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

OK, what are you asking me to do? Seems you have it covered and anyhthing that needs a tweak, we can do, or point it out for you to do. Just cite the references for pertinent facts and anything that might be contoversial / contested, in which case tou will need to offer both sides of the argument. Small tip with Aircraft specs, nothing will show until you save it with the units specified "imp" for mph/mi/ft (UK and US up to about 1960), "kts" for kn/nmi/ft or "met" for m/km/km/h (any nation that was using the metric system at the time). (Note that Japan confusingly mixed and matched but for our purposes use "met").--Petebutt (talk) 05:23, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I just uploaded a 3-view drawing of the Fletcher BG-2 (courtesy of George Cully) at Draft:Fletcher BG-2, which shows what the BG-2 would have looked like had it been built. I also uploaded an image of a Fletcher BG-1 at Muroc in 1942 at Wikimedia Commons.Supercalifornication (talk) 14:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Specifications for the Brochet MB.60 Barbastelle, Cierva-Lepère C.27, and DAR 3

I'm curious to see if there are any sources you're aware of that contain specifications for the Brochet MB.60, Cierva-Lepère C.27, and DAR 3, because specs for the MB.60 and C.27 have been mostly hard to come by for me.Supercalifornication (talk) 13:56, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

http://avions.brochet.free.fr/Histoire4.html is a start--Petebutt (talk) 16:58, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brochet_MB-60--Petebutt (talk) 16:59, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I shall check Gaillard in the morning and get back to you.--Petebutt (talk) 17:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Gaillard, Pierre (1990). Les Avions Francais de 1944 a 1964 (in French). Paris: Editions EPA. p. 87. ISBN 2-85120-350-9.

I just added Gaillard's reference to the reference list for the Draft:Brochet MB.60 article.Supercalifornication (talk) 21:02, 5 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

• DAR 3:- Ivan Borislavov. DAR-3 "Garvan" - A Miracle from Bozhurishte
• Konstantin Konstadinov. Aircraft built in Bulgaria
• Dimitar Nedelyakov. Breathtaking power to the kingdom of Bulgaria
• AirMagazine 20. Borislav Petrov. DAR-1 & DAR-1A
• Flieger Revue Extra No.18. Peter Korrel. Winter in Bulgarien
• Jet & Prop 1993-06. Ivan B. Petrov. Die bulgarischen Flugzeuge des deutschen Professors Herman Winter
• Le Fana de l'Avaition 1991-06. Jean Noel, Malcolm Passingham. La production aeronautique bulgare
• L + K 1991-01. Vaclav Nemecek. DAR 3A Garvan III

https://sites.google.com/site/stingrayslistofrotorcraft/cierva-lepre-c27--cl10

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/cierva-lep%C3%A8re-c-l-10-autogiro-cierva-c-27.20031/

Creating articles for little-known Cicaré helicopters

Specifications and info for the Cicaré CH-4, Cicaré CH-5, Cicaré CH-6, and Cicaré CH-8 is available at these links:

• http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/cicare_ch-4.php
• http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/cicare_ch-5.php
• http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/cicare_ch-6.php
• http://www.cicare.com.ar/cicare8/

Therefore, if time permits, you can use these weblinks to create articles for the Cicaré CH-4, Cicaré CH-5, Cicaré CH-6, and Cicaré CH-8.Supercalifornication (talk) 14:25, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Except you can't: Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Aviastar. - Ahunt (talk) 15:19, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Here are better links (not falling afoul of copyright infringement) that you can use to create articles for the Cicaré CH-4, Cicaré CH-5, Cicaré CH-6, and Cicaré CH-8:

• https://vertipedia.vtol.org/aircraft/getAircraft/aircraftID/39
• http://www.cicare.com.ar/cicare8/
• https://vertipedia.vtol.org/aircraft/getAircraft/aircraftID/40
• http://www.helistart.com/helicopters/Cicare/CH-6

That should be good enough.Supercalifornication (talk) 15:40, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

- Ahunt (talk) 16:30, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Request for pictures/drawings from Goupy Types A and B aircraft

I just created draft articles Draft:Goupy Type A and Draft:Goupy Type B, and I thought you may want to surf the book French Aerlanes Before the Great War for drawings or other info about the Goupy Types A and B that you can incorporate into those articles.Supercalifornication (talk) 19:26, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Creation of Draft:Laister-Kauffman article; specs for Naval Air Establishment airplanes

I just created the article Draft:Laister-Kauffman, and I was thinking you can improve this article by mentioning the Laister Sailplanes company, since the CG-10 was the only cargo glider designed by Jack Laister, who was involved in sailplane designs.

By the way, you can also add the specifications for the Naval Air Establishment Nin Hai, Naval Air Establishment Chiang Gaen, and Naval Air Establishment Chiang Hau, since Angelucci (2001) provides specs for the Nin Hai.

Angelucci, Enzo (2001). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft 1914 to the Present. Edison, NJ: Chartwell books. ISBN 0-7858-1359-4.Supercalifornication (talk) 03:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Specifications for the Albatros L 70

I found an online entry for the Albatros L 70 and even though it mentions the specified role and engine, it doesn't contain any other specifications. Are you aware of any source that contains specifications for the L 70?Supercalifornication (talk) 14:59, 6 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Was it really necessary to do this page move?

2019 Pilatus PC 12 crash is at AFD and looks headed for deletion in any case....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 16:24, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes! I tend not to take that into account and move articles where necessary!--Petebutt (talk) 16:27, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Moving an article during an AFD certainly isn't recommended. Per WP:AFDEQ, While there is no prohibition against moving an article while an AfD or deletion review discussion is in progress, editors considering doing so should realize such a move can confuse the discussion greatly, can preempt a closing decision, can make the discussion difficult to track, and can lead to inconsistencies when using semi-automated closing scripts. You can always move afterwards if the article is kept, and it don't matter anyway if it's deleted. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 18:38, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

oye problemo.--Petebutt (talk) 20:07, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Just asking

Hi Pete, do you think that this user could be back as new sock? Cheers. - BilCat (talk) 11:29, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I was thinking the same myself! He got banned for persistent copyvio and his style,or lack of it, is almost identical, with poor spelling bad refrerences and not even getting the info in cited references correct. I don't understand the mindset, is this like a supertroll from Putin to discredit wikipedia?--Petebutt (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I have no idea. I'll ask an admin to look at it later today. - BilCat (talk) 12:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

You don't need to. I've learned from past experience that pasting copyrighted material from other webpages into new Wiki articles is in violation of Wikipedia rules in copyrighted, so I've refrained from pasting copyrighted material, because that is plagiarism. The best thing you could do is delete Special:Contributions/Extrapolaris because I'm not pasting copyrighted material onto new pages. And besides, I'm not working as a troll for Putin.Supercalifornication (talk) 13:32, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

OK, but please slow down some more and try to get more referenced content. It does sound alarm bells when floods of articles appear which are of such poor quality, it seems to suggest a hidden agenda. Or is it me being paranoid. Don't forget you aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you!!!LOL--Petebutt (talk) 13:39, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I wanted to create a number of missing articles and supply them with one or two references so that you could subsequently add info from non-English sources. I don't feel paranoid or have a hidden agenda; I routinely create aviation-related articles for some prototype military aircraft, and I noted that when writing the Jakob Lohner article, the only thing that links Jakob Lohner to aviation is the fact that the company he headed from 1862-1887 was involved in carriage and automobile production for most of the late 19th century, but built warplanes in World War I, because Jakob himself died in 1892, decades before WW1 broke out.70.175.134.8 (talk) 14:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Great, but please be more patient and develop fewer, better quality articles and everybody is happy.--Petebutt (talk) 14:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I was wondering about the deluge of stubs. Far better to spend the time filling out the article than to leave a stub with one dubious reference almost no-one has access to. Stubs will almost never get developed, but a redlink can spur someone to write the full article. Personally I prefer being able to start from scratch, rather than work from someone else's often misdirected attempts, and I am less likely to be interrupted mid-edit stream.

In my experience, other than for Roumania, the best references for any aircraft are almost always in the language of its originating country, but English sources are needed for the English wikipedia, and a reliance on sources in other languages should be avoided if at all possible - but with some cross checking to ensure they agree. FWIW, the Internet archive, which also hosts the Wayback Machine has a considerable number of magazines and reference books available - some out of copyright, and others still copyrighted that you can "borrow" while researching something. - NiD.29 (talk) 16:40, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Forgot something - to paraphrase someone (a prof somewhere iirc) - to use one source is still plagiarism, but to use many sources is research. - NiD.29 (talk) 18:31, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I did contact an admin, and she confirmed that the user is not adding copyvios. However, the socking is still an issue, and @JJMC89: will have to be informed, as he was the admin who blocked Extrapolaris for scokpuppetry. That is something Wikipedia usually does not tolerate. - BilCat (talk) 19:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

What you can do is delete Special:Contributions/Extrapolaris and User:Extrapolaris because I'm not pasting copyrighted material onto new pages, and the original reason I was blocked was copyright violations. I carelessly sockpuppeted because the original account was blocked for copyright violations, and I've learned the hard way in understanding how I commit copyright violations. Supercalifornication (talk) 20:06, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

As I said, socking is something Wikipedia doesn't tolerate. Sorry. - BilCat (talk) 01:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

BilCat, as you noticed, I've blocked Supercalifornication for socking. FYI, NinjaRobotPirate updated Extrapolaris's block for socking, I just removed talk page access. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Relevant discussion on Talk:Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 affected by your edit

There is a discussion on the talk page for the MS406 regarding an edit you made when changing specification templates [1]- when you changed the engine power from 860 hp to 860 kW - can you check this and confirm whether it was correct? - this does seem to differ from what other references say but you did add a new reference when you made this change.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:38, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

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Zeppelin LZ 32

Is Zeppelin LZ 32 right? It is a M-class right? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 16:32, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Looks OK. For naming check the List of Zeppelins, this gives Company designation then tactical numbering. Because the Imperial German Army caused so much confusion, deliberately and successfully, their trickery echoes through to the present day!--Petebutt (talk) 23:32, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Ahh I see now. I found that the aircraft career infobox template didn't fit well with Zeppelins. Also, as a convention, it is usual to give all the alternate names/designations in the lead and for their first use to be in bold.--Petebutt (talk) 23:38, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

And another thingg (chest poke, chest poke) please don't use deprecated specs templates. Only one now in use - Template:Aircraft specs. You might find Template:WPAVIATION creator of use for any aviation article.

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Zeppelin LZ 112

Is Zeppelin LZ 112 an X-class? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 06:01, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes--Petebutt (talk) 11:43, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

What about Zeppelin LZ 64? Q-class? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 19:39, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Zeppelin LZ 39

LZ 38 is an P class. Why is Zeppelin LZ 39 an O-class -- Thats Just Great (talk) 01:14, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Zeppelin LZ 102

Is there any more specs for the Zeppelin LZ 102? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 15:29, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Infobox aircraft type

User:GraemeLeggett has being erasing the "Infobox aircraft type" template from Zeppelin articles: Zeppelin LZ 89, Zeppelin LZ 55. Which one should we be using? -- Thats Just Great (talk) 17:45, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Good question. I was of the opinion that the Aircraft type fitted best.--Petebutt (talk) 03:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Looks like he's going for career, which I tried and thought was not quite right, but I see his reasoning as the Zeppelins were individual aircraft and not a TYPE as such.--Petebutt (talk) 03:55, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

XT57 specs

Hi Pete, do you have any sources with XT57 specs that can be added to Draft:Pratt & Whitney XT57? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 19:11, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Bill, i've been looking bu no joy so far.--Petebutt (talk) 02:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Gunston, Bill (2006). World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines (5th ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. pp. 165, 167. ISBN 978-0-7509-4479-3. gives the model number of the propeller - Hamilton Standard B84 and that the propeller was with an extra turbine stage tacked on the end.--Petebutt (talk) 02:43, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

A little bit more, but not much in Kay, Anthony L. (2007). Turbojet: History and Development 1930-1960: Volume 2: USSR, USA, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Crowood Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-86126-939-3.--Petebutt (talk) 02:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I do appreciate it. - BilCat (talk) 05:58, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Handley Page Herald

Yet again, you are determined to ignore the existing reference format of articles and just force your preference. Please stop.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:47, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I use what is mandated in the edittools. i f you don't want me to use it then get it removed from edittools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--Petebutt (talk) 19:14, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Pete, you know that is not a valid answer, you simply must stop doing this. Note the words 'does not mandate' and 'editors should not attempt to convert Wikipedia to their own preferred style' from WP:CITEVAR which I am posting for your benefit again.

Wikipedia does not mandate styles in many different areas; these include (but are not limited to) American vs. British spelling, date formats, and citation style. Where Wikipedia does not mandate a specific style, editors should not attempt to convert Wikipedia to their own preferred style, nor should they edit articles for the sole purpose of converting them to their preferred style, or removing examples of, or references to, styles which they dislike.

What do we have to do to make you stop this disruptive behaviour, this has gone on for years? Has to be admin intervention as multiple polite requests are being ignored. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 19:44, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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Assessment

Hi Pete Thanks for your rapid assessment of Northern & Scottish Airways. Could you please tell me what I need to do to improve on supporting materials? Is it quality or quantity, or am I missing something? Seems like I need guidance. Lestocq (talk) 23:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

No big thing, just an image will do (of say the HQ offices or an aircraft in their livery). But it is not a problem so don't get worried.--Petebutt (talk) 02:09, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah - OK. Commons is completely bare, apart from the one one photo that I've already used, and I have nothing else myself. I'll see what I can do - many thanks Lestocq (talk) 10:47, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

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World Airways Flight 830

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New aviation article entries?

Hi Pete, for well over a month now I have been adding the new article creation dates to your entries at WP:NEWAIR per convention. Do you need assistance to find the creation date or is there another very good reason that you are omitting it? Per WP:AGF I would very much like to help, particularly with the smooth running of the aviation project. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 18:13, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

I am also curious, seems such a simple thing to do? - Ahunt (talk) 18:30, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

You were managing it in April this year, I can't fathom it. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 18:53, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

I have to confess I have just been lazy, no other reason!--Petebutt (talk) 22:22, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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Template:Nakajima military aircraft

Hi, you recently more or less duplicated Template:Nakajima military aircraft at Template:Nakajima aircraft. From your edit comments, it looks like a page move that went wrong and did not bring across the edit history of the original page, or even replace that page with a redirect. Significant tidying-up housekeeping is now required. Are you intending to do that tidying up, or will it be necessary for others to do it? There is a discussion about this here, where we would appreciate a brief update. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 14:26, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Not sure what happened there a straight page move should have taken page history with it surely Oh well It was not what I intende in any case. Never mind.--Petebutt (talk) 15:20, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Oops, I read the move in the wrong direction, apologies for my stupidity there. But it is being contested anyway. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:22, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Problematic editing

Hello. Per a report at Wikipedia:Administrators noticeboard/Incidents#User:Petebutt you appear to have engaged in disruptive editing over a long period of time. I recognize this may not have been your intention, but your editing has caused much consternation, and work, for other editors. Therefore, I have blocked you from editing any articles until you reply to the discussion at WP:ANI and find a way to reassure other editors that whatever problems have happened in the past will not keep recurring. You are still free to post to project pages, such as WP:ANI. You may also appeal this block by following the process outlined at WP:GAB. Jehochman ^Talk 04:12, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope there is no time limit to the appeal process. I feel that I am not ready and need to take a sabbattical. So, if there is the possibility of redemption in the future, I will take a break; if not please tell me now, so I can prepare. Thanks again, and sorry for any upsets I have caused.--Petebutt (talk) 06:08, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Pete, you can apply any time, no rush. Good luck with your journey, hope you are doing better soon. - Ahunt (talk) 13:56, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks I'll get back to you when I am ready.--Petebutt (talk) 14:20, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021

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 Australian artillery in World War I Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on no-win scenarios

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"½ VW engine" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42

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• New EBSCO collections now available
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• Library Card input requested
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"Tier 1b" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"M2019 US Navy MQ-4 shootdown" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021

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: Works on the Gallipoli Campaign, Battle of Perryville and US 1st Infantry Division

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021

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: Works on the Gallipoli Campaign, Battle of Perryville and US 1st Infantry Division

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Books & Bytes – Issue 42

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• New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021

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 female computers, Nick-D on the Israeli Defence Forces

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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

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) 17:26, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021

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 Montgomery's doctrine and Nick-D on Mussolini's wars

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Books & Bytes – Issue 43

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Issue 43, March – April 2021

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021

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 and Hawkeye7 look at intelligence gathering, doctrine and strategy

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pigeon Scout

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GOCE June 2021 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results) Other news Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXII, June 2021

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 RAAF aircraft, Hawkeye7 on mission command and nuclear secrecy

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Books & Bytes – Issue 45

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIII, July 2021

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: Peacemaker67 and Nick-D on World War I

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIV, August 2021

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 Commonwealth armies and an Australian spy, Nick-D on the American Revolutionary War and RAAF mine laying Op-ed: RobDuch on United States coastal defenses

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next 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 doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:59, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are still open, but not for long. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next 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! No further nominations will be accepted after that time. 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) 02:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46

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Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

• Library design improvements deployed
• New collections available in English and German
• Wikimania presentation

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021

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 Australia and the UK in Iraq and Afghanistan Op-ed: Nick-D on writing about military procurement

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting period closing soon

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September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, October 2021

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 British conscription and German warship raiders

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Proposed deletion of Muniz M-11

The article Muniz M-11 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

unreferenced for years, non-notable primary trainer aircraft (only 1 ever built)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 47

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Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

• On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021

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 Canadian junior officers in World War II

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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021

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 Franklin–Nashville campaign Review essay: Military History Wikiproject Coordinators' reading list

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Nomination of List of Slovak gliders for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Slovak gliders is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Slovak gliders until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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The WikiEagle - January 2022

The WikiEagle

The WikiProject Aviation Newsletter

Volume I — Issue 1
Aviation Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Outreach • The WikiEagle
Announcements After over a decade of silence, the WikiProject Aviation newsletter is making a comeback under the name The WikiEagle. This first issue was sent to all active members of the project and its sub-projects. If you wish to continue receiving The WikiEagle, you can add your username to the mailing list. For now the newsletter only covers general project news and is run by only one editor. If you wish to help or to become a columnist, please let us know. If you have an idea which you believe would improve the newsletter, please share it; suggestions are welcome and encouraged. On 16 December, an RfC was closed which determined theaerodrome.com to be an unreliable source. The website, which is cited over 1,500 articles, mainly on WWI aviation, as of the publishing of this issue. Luft46.com has been added to the list of problematic sources after this discussion. The Jim Lovell article was promoted to Featured Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Raymond Hesselyn article was promoted to Good Article status on 4 December after being nominated by Zawed. The Supermarine Sea King article was promoted to Good Article status on 22 December after being nominated by Amitchell125. The William Hodgson (RAF officer) article was promoted to Good Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Zawed.
Members New Members KingAviationKid (Joined on 17 December) PatrickChiao (Joined on 22 December) Wp9097 (Joined on 16 December) Number of active members: 386. Total number of members: 921. Closed Discussions Featured Article assessment Jim Lovell (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021 Good Article assessment HAL Tejas (discussion) – Closed as not promoted on 30 December 2021 William Hodgson (RAF officer) (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021 Supermarine Sea King (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 22 December 2021 Raymond Hesselyn (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 4 December 2021 Deletion Timeline of Berlin Brandenburg Airport's construction (discussion) – Closed as delete and redirect on 30 December 2021 Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17 (discussion) – Closed as keep on 25 December 2021 Requested moves Akbarpur (Ambedkar Nagar) Airstrip → Akbarpur Airstrip (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021 1983 Avensa Douglas DC-9 crash → Avensa Flight 007 (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 035 (discussion) – Withdrawn on 28 December 2021	Article Statistics This data reflects values from DMY. Aviation pages by quality Quality Total FA 142 FL 15 A 56 GA 505 B 4,573 C 11,878 Start 15,082 Stub 18,754 List 2,539 Category 11,638 Disambig 653 File 2,713 Portal 629 Project 89 Redirect 1,518 Template 2,489 NA 66 Assessed 73,339 Unassessed 1 Total 73,340 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 251,827 Ω = 4.92
New/Ongoing Discussions Featured Article review D. B. Cooper (discussion) – Since 14 December 2021 A-class Article assessment Granville Gee Bee Model A (discussion) – Since 21 April 2020 List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (discussion) – Since 22 February 2010 Good Article assessment Romanian Air Corps (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021 Jean Batten (discussion) – Since 2 October 2021 Merger proposals List of astronauts by name → List of astronauts by year of selection (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 List of cosmonauts → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 List of space travelers by name → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 Holidays Czech Airlines → Czech Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 June 2021 Bendix Aviation → Bendix Corporation (discussion) – Since 30 May 2021 Airport Movement Area Safety System → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 29 May 2021 ASDE-X → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 28 May 2021 Splitting proposals Family Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 November 2021 2021 Kabul airport attack (discussion) – Since 24 September 2021 List of military aircraft of the United States (discussion) – Since 16 August 2021 Braniff International Airways (discussion) – Since 8 September 2019 Deletion List of maiden voyages (discussion) – Since 29 December 2021 Requested moves Hot-air balloon → Hot air balloon (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021 Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 → Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 150 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 150 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 708 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 708 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 TWA Flight 800 → TWA Flight 800 (1996) (discussion) – Since 27 December 2021 Dynamic Airways Flight 405 → Dynamic International Airways Flight 405 (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021 CommutAir Flight 4281 → CommutAir Flight 4821 (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021 Thai Airways → Thai Airways International (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 Thai Airways fleet → Thai Airways International fleet (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 List of Thai Airways destinations → List of Thai Airways International destinations (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 Did you know Ravish Malhotra (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021 Alexander Tahy (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021 Veronica Volkersz (discussion) – Since 6 December 2021 Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll (discussion) – Since 3 December 2021 On The Main Page Did you know... ... that the aerobatic demonstration aircraft used by SoloTürk is also used in military operations of the Turkish Air Force? (24 December)
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"Beit Shemesh Engines Ltd." listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Beit Shemesh Engines Ltd. and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 6#Beit Shemesh Engines Ltd. until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BilCat (talk) 04:04, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022

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 Army in Somalia Review essay: Hog Farm on American Civil War sites in the South and Midwest

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Books & Bytes – Issue 48

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Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

• 1Lib1Ref 2022
• Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022

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 on World War II in Europe

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Books & Bytes – Issue 49

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Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

• New library collections
• Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022

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 Hitler as a military leader

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GOCE April 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022

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 military logistics and rebuilding Nagasaki

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Manuel VI

A tag has been placed on Category:Manuel VI 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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The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022

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 a World War II summit and the American space program

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Books & Bytes – Issue 50

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Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022

• New library partner - SPIE
• 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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June GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles. Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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"AN/PVS-20" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The Bugle: Issue CXCIV, June 2022

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 look at four recent works

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVI, July 2022

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 Falklands War artillery and Nick-D on the Battle of the Ruhr

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Books & Bytes – Issue 51

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Books & Bytes
Issue 51, May – June 2022

• New library partners
  • SAGE Journals
  • Elsevier ScienceDirect
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Information Processing Society of Japan
• Feedback requested on this newsletter
• 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022

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 Falklands War

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, September 2022

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 Australian military leadership and Nick-D on the First Crusade's Byzantine connection

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Books & Bytes – Issue 52

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Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

• New instant-access collections:
  • SpringerLink and Springer Nature
  • Project MUSE
  • Taylor & Francis
  • ASHA
  • Loeb
• Feedback requested on this newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up for our July Backlog Elimination Drive, 18 copy-edited, between them, 116 articles. Barnstars awarded are noted here. Blitz: Participants in our August Copy Editing Blitz copy-edited 51,074 words in 17 articles. Of the 15 editors who signed up, 11 claimed at least one copy-edit. Barnstars awarded are noted here. Drive: Forty-one editors took part in our September Backlog Elimination Drive; between them they copy-edited 199 articles. Barnstars awards are noted here. Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz begins on 16 October at 00:01 (UTC) and will end on 22 October at 23:59 (UTC). Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 19:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 303 requests for copy edit – including withdrawn and declined ones – since 1 January. At the time of writing, there are 77 requests awaiting attention and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,759. We always need more active, skilled copyeditors – particularly for requests – so please get involved if you can. Election news: In our mid-year election, serving coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tenryuu were returned for another term, and were joined by new coordinator Zippybonzo. No lead coordinator was elected for this half-year. Jonesey95, a long-serving coordinator and lead, was elected as coordinator emeritus; we thank them for their service. Thank you to everyone who took part. Our next election of coordinators takes place throughout December. If you'd like to help out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself or other suitable editors (with their permission, of course!). It's your Guild, after all! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tenryuu and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, October 2022

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: Meet some of the project coordinators

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The Bugle: Issue CXCIX, November 2022

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 1991 Gulf War air campaign Op-ed: Meet some more of the coordinators

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Books & Bytes – Issue 53

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 53, September – October 2022

• New collections:
  • Edward Elgar
  • E-Yearbook
  • Corriere della Serra
  • Wikilala
• Collections moved to Library Bundle:
  • Ancestry
• New feature: Outage notification
• Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since October. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz focused on July and August 2022 request months; and articles tagged for c/e in December 2021 and January 2022. Seventeen of those who signed up claimed at least one copy-edit, and between them copy-edited forty-six articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: In the November Backlog Elimination Drive, thirty editors signed up, twenty-two of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Both target months—December 2021 and January 2022—were cleared, and February was added to the target months. Sixteen requests were copy-edited and 239 articles were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our seven-day-long December 2022 Copy Editing Blitz begins on 17 December at 00:01 (UTC)*. It will focus on articles tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and pending requests from September and October. Barnstars awarded will be available here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 8 December 2022, GOCE copyeditors have processed 357 requests since 1 January, there were seventy-four requests outstanding and the backlog stands at 1,791 articles. We always need skilled copy-editors; please help out if you can. Election news: Nomination of candidates for the GOCE's Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2023 is open and continues until 23:59 on 15 December. Voting begins at 00:01 on 16 December and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Coordinators serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on June 30. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, please nominate yourself or any editor you consider suitable—with their permission, of course!. It's your Guild and it doesn't coordinate itself. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers and best seasonal wishes from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu, and Zippybonzo. *All times and dates on this newsletter are UTC. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue CC, December 2022

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 British Territorials in India Interview: On turning 200 (issues of the Bugle!) Review essay: Coordinators' 2022 reading list Op-ed: Meet some more of the coordinators

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error

The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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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Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

• New collections:
  • British Newspaper Archive
  • Findmypast
  • University of Michigan Press
  • ACLS
  • Duke University Press
• 1Lib1Ref 2023
• Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report Our 2022 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Overview of Backlog-reduction progress Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page Membership news and results of elections Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Bugle: Issue 202, February 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 translation and Eisenhower's armies Review essay: Catlemur on military museums in Athens

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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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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

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

• New bundle partners:
  • Newspapers.com
  • Fold3
• 1Lib1Ref January report
• Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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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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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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

• New partner:
  • Perlego
• Library access tips and tricks
• Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo. *All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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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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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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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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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Septermber GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. David Thomsen: Prolific Wikipedian and Guild member David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) died in November 2022. He was a regular copy editor who took part in many of our Drives and Blitzes. An obituary was published in the mid-July issue of The Signpost. Tributes can be left on David's talk page. Election news: In our mid-year Election of Coordinators, Dhtwiki was chosen as lead coordinator, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo continue as assistant coordinators, and Baffle gab1978 stepped down from the role. If you're interested in helping out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself for our next election in December; it's your WikiProject and it doesn't organize itself! June Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our June Copy Editing Blitz, 12 copy-edited at least one article. 70,035 words comprising 26 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are here. July Drive: 34 of the 51 editors who took part in our July Backlog Elimination Drive copy-edited at least one article. They edited 276 articles and 683,633 words between them. Barnstars awarded are here. August Blitz: In our August Copy Editing Blitz, 13 of the 16 editors who signed up worked on at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 79,608 words comprising 57 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. September Drive: Sign up here for our month-long September Backlog Elimination Drive, which is now underway. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 14:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have processed 245 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,066. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1930s Soviet and Russian civil aircraft

A tag has been placed on Category:1930s Soviet and Russian civil aircraft 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:17, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

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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Proposed deletion of TX2

The article TX2 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No notability, no independent sources, only primary links with pretty low subscriber and view figures. Will propose for AFD in about a week if no improvements provided.

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"StuG (Fl" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of List of Estonian gliders for deletion

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