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GA of LG Mobile World Cup

I've passed the GA for this article after doing some research. However, one problem remains. I can't quite figure out under which subtopic at Wikipedia:Good_articles#Engineering_and_technology the article belongs. If you could find an appropriate place to add it, that would be great. Good work! --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 17:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVIII (February 2010)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XLVIII (February 2010)

From the coordinators

March, as you know, is an election month for our project, when we pick the coordinators for the next six months. We are seeking motivated individuals willing to devote some of their time and energy to the project so it continues to grow and prosper.

Also, I am making a personal appeal to each of you, the members of this project, to come out and vote for the candidates that run. These users will be responsible for managing the assessment process, answering questions, and making sure that the project's other needs are met. We have approximately 1,000 users who identify as being a part of our project, yet on average only about one-tenth of that number participate in elections. Moreover, as we typically hold referendums on major issues affecting the project along with these election, those who do not vote miss the opportunity to give their opinion on matters affecting the project as a whole. Remember, one vote always makes a difference. For the coordinators, TomStar81 (Talk) 23:47, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles of note

New featured articles:

New featured lists:

New featured pictures:

New A-Class articles:

Project news

A discussion has begun concerning our military history manual of style's guideline recommending preemptive disambiguation on the naming of military units. As the outcome of the discussion will likely effect a number of pages within our scope we are seeking input from the community on whether the guideline should be changed.
Late last year, several largely inactive task forces were merged. However, the mergers of the Australia and New Zealand task forces did not take place as there was no consensus for a new name. To resolve this, a discussion has begun and all editors are encouraged to participate.

Contest department

The Contest Department has completed its thirty-fourth month of competition; and its sixth month under the new scoring system. A total of 82 articles were entered by eight editors. Kumioko came first with 110 points, followed by Sturmvogel 66 with 87 points. They receive the Chevrons and Writer's Barnstar respectively. Honorable mentions go to Auntieruth55 (59) and Ian Rose (36). Binksternet, Cirt, Radeksz and YellowMonkey also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for the March contest.

Awards and honours

Brad101 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his excellent reviewing and work on a sizable number of nautical articles that fall within our scope, producing a number of high-quality articles for the Military history and Ships WikiProjects.
The A-Class medal has been awarded to Anotherclown for his work on Operation Coburg, Battle of Bita Paka and First Battle of Maryang San.
The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to MisterBee1966 for his work on Max-Hellmuth Ostermann, List of Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves recipients: 1940–1941 and List of Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves recipients: 1942.

Editorial: Reliable sources in military history

Across Wikipedia, guidelines have been set up so that editors can vet sources for themselves. Links to some of these and a guide for checking if a source is reliable can be found in an excellent Signpost dispatch written by Ealdgyth (talk · contribs). However, for the majority of military history-related topics, we strive for more than just a basic reliable source. Specifically, we aim for peer-reviewed articles and books over, for example, most websites.^{[N 1]} Contemporary news articles or accounts can and should be mixed in (if possible) to give a picture of the general view point of the time—were they calm, afraid, unsure of what was going on?

Another major tenet is neutrality. If an editor rewrote the article Dieppe Raid using only the official Canadian history,^{[N 2]} we would have a problem; while it does contain a thorough and in-depth overview, a point-of-view can still be read. For one, it gives an undue amount of focus to Canada's input in the planning of the landing, and it would probably give an undue focus to their troops if a majority of the landing forces hadn't been Canadian. Granted, this is a book written to document that country's role in the Second World War, so you would hope it focuses on them, but this same reason makes it unusable as the primary basis for an article.

In this case, you would like to utilize a few recent, peer-reviewed books and journals, the official British, Canadian and German histories, possibly a few books written by historians from the aforementioned countries, and newspapers from that time period.^{[N 3]} Obviously this is ideal, but you need to represent all three sides in this (the United States would be a fourth, but they played only a minor role in the planning and invading). This neutrality aspect applies especially for battles and to a lesser degree biographies, but it can be utilized in virtually every article in our scope. For example, it could be beneficial to obtain Japanese accounts of B-29 Superfortress bombing raids or non-Puerto Rican peer-reviewed sources for that insular area's role in the Second World War. —Ed (talk • majestic titan)

Notes

^ It should be noted that certain sites like Combined Fleet or Navweaps, which are authored by recognized or published experts in the field, are not "most websites."
^ Stacey, Colonel C.P. Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific. 1, Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1955.
^ For example, some of the Canadian newspaper articles written about the raid are listed on their War Museum's website here, while a London Gazette supplement written after the war can be seen on their website. Anyone with access to the archives of The New York Times can view the stories printed by that paper on the raid by searching their archives, and the Google News archive lists many newspapers, some of which were scanned by Google and are available at no charge; most of the non-free material requires a subscription to ProQuest.

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVIII (February 2010)

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File:Marvin Heemeyer.jpg listed for deletion

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To follow up on this: As I say on the FfD page, I agree that the video you found establishes proper sourcing, so I've withdrawn the nomination. Thank you for finding the History Channel program; I'm pretty good at tracking down sources, but all I could find was dumps of an older version of the Russian Wikipedia article, and the trail went cold at that point. If you would, please try to establish enough details of the History Channel broadcast that we can list that source rather than relying on NNDB or YouTube - but as I said, I consider it established at this point. Thanks for doing the work; I would never have found such a source. — Gavia immer (talk) 02:40, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Steve Titus#Requested move

Hi, NativeForeigner. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Titus (2nd nomination), you may be interested in Talk:Steve Titus#Requested move. Cunard (talk) 18:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Majorca Sheepdog

On 11 March, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Majorca Sheepdog, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Glad to be of help.

Since I've basically run out of ideas for new content, I spend entirely too much time on NPP. :P Anyway, I'm logging off, so have a great weekend! Best, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 04:21, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Health Issues

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Was this you?

[1] [2] —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 15:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm on wifi right now. Didn't mean to make it bold and italic though :| NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs/^Vote! 22:24, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Probably wasn't well said though, go ahead and keep it off. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs/^Vote! 22:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Coordinator elections have opened!

Voting for the Military history WikiProject coordinator elections has opened; all users are encouraged to participate in the elections. Voting will conclude 23:59 (UTC) on 28 March 2010.
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Re: User talk:Black Falcon#Talkback

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I've uploaded the group photo to Commons under PD-China and asked Durova for her evaluation of the headshot. I may ask at commons:Commons talk:Licensing (I found that page just a few minutes ago) if she is not sure.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for your help. Cheers, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 20:26, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congrats on your election as Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations on your first election! Rin tin tin 1996 (talk) 12:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Why thanks, good luck next time around. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs/^Vote! 14:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Congrats NF! It's nice to have you onboard. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 01:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

[1] It should be noted that certain sites like Combined Fleet or Navweaps, which are authored by recognized or published experts in the field, are not "most websites."

[2] Stacey, Colonel C.P. Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific. 1, Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1955.

[3] For example, some of the Canadian newspaper articles written about the raid are listed on their War Museum's website here, while a London Gazette supplement written after the war can be seen on their website. Anyone with access to the archives of The New York Times can view the stories printed by that paper on the raid by searching their archives, and the Google News archive lists many newspapers, some of which were scanned by Google and are available at no charge; most of the non-free material requires a subscription to ProQuest.

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