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As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the esteemed Bronze Wiki for sharing third place in the 2023 Military Historian of the Year Award for 2023. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts throughout the year. Hawkeye7(discuss) 00:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Congats Zawed, very well deserved! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 18:05, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
December 2023 Military History Writing Contest
The Writers Barnstar
On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 6 articles and 40 points - and second place finish in December 2023 with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 03:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Military History Writers' Contest Cup: 2023 Winner!
Congratulations on a great effort in the 2023 Milhist Writer's Contest Cup! On behalf of the behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to award you the Contest Cup having taken first place overall with a total of 508 points from 77 articles. We hope to see a similar effort for 2024! Donner60 (talk) 03:34, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 10 reviews between October and December 2023. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Plenty
Hi, while working on NPP I've come across Herb Plenty, an RAAF officer. The article seems to have been created by an editor with a COI, and is lacking many citations. I wondered whether you might be able to pass any judgement on it? Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 20:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will take a look and leave some comments on the talk page. Pinging @Ian Rose:, given his expertise in RAAF subjects. Zawed (talk) 10:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for leaving those comments. Acknowledging that the article needs a lot of work, would you say that Plenty is at least notable? Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:58, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks guys for bringing this one up. I'd say Plenty is on the margin of notability -- I recall without looking at the article that he makes it into at least a couple of reference works beyond the official history of Australia in World War II; his leadership after the Red Sales disaster is described in some detail in Alan Stephens Going Solo, the official post-war history, for instance. I think we could make something of this, although I might take some time getting to it... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 18:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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I have linked a discussion on the Dunkirk movie talk page regarding as to whether Al Deere was the inspiration for Farrier, as you maintain that’s it is not confirmed. 92.17.199.182 (talk) 09:56, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Zawed, thank you for your help in the Manekshaw awards inclusion dispute. I want to take INS Shakti (A57) to FA class, and have a question on a potential issue. Is it necessary to include the ship class for every ship mentioned? I've done so sparingly and not for every instance. When I looked through the current FA class naval ships, most of them are WW1/2 or Cold War era ships which saw combat, so they don't have a lot of other ships named. What do you think? Matarisvan (talk) 09:00, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I think that you will probably want to name the ship type (destroyer, cruiser etc...) but not necessarily the ship class (Deepak class, Adiyta class). I generally don't do ship articles though so am not a specialist. For what its worth, I'm not sure that this is the best ship article to go to FA with, partly due to it being on active service. The article would need to be kept updated to maintain its FA standard. Zawed (talk) 03:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, apologies for my delayed response. In hindsight, you are right, the article would be eligible for FA only if the subject ship is retired. That said, could you please close the ACR if possible, I tagged Ian Rose to withdraw but he may have missed it. The review hasn't got any comments and will not get them probably ever, perhaps because active topics aren't eligible for ACR/FAC. I will renominate once the ship is no longer active, which won't be anytime soon, so I will've to work on other articles. Matarisvan (talk) 19:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 4 articles, 1 brought to A-class, and 28 points - and second place finish in the March 2024 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 04:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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