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Happy New Year, Zawed!
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Happy New Year!
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- Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. GGOTCC 00:06, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
Congratulations - December 2025 Military History Writing Contest
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| On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 5 articles, 1 brought to GA class, for 29 points - and second place finish in the December 2025 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 02:34, 2 January 2026 (UTC) |
Congratulations from the Military History Project
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| On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for participating in 3 reviews between October and December 2025. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:32, 3 January 2026 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space |
January music
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happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Belated Congratulations - December 2025 Military History Writing Contest
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| On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 5 articles, 1 brought to GA class and 29 points - and second place finish in the December 2025 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 23:53, 27 January 2026 (UTC) |
The Bugle: Issue 237, January 2026
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Precious anniversary
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Your nomination of Frank Murphy (RNZAF officer) is on hold
[edit]Your good article nomination of the article Frank Murphy (RNZAF officer) has been placed 
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Your nomination of Frank Murphy (RNZAF officer) has passed
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The Bugle: Issue 238, February 2026
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Thank you for your help with archaeology articles
[edit]I noticed your work on Neville Ritchie, the Chatham Island waka, and Nigel Prickettâmany thanks! These were all subjects I was hoping to improve as part of the Archaeology Aotearoa project, and that's a big help. If there are other topics in the this small project you're interested in helping with, feel free to add yourself to the list on WP:GLAM/Archaeology Aotearoa. â Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 23:44, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- Giantflightlessbirds All good, doing an article for Nigel Prickett had been on my radar for a little while anyway since I have used a couple of his works in articles relating to the NZ wars. When I noticed it as a redlink on the Archaeology Aotearoa page I figured now was as good a time as any. I will be looking to do a few more of the redlinks there, makes a change from my normal military history work. P.S. If you are ever in Hamilton, drop me a line. I follow your efforts a bit as you work around the country and it would be good to meet another Wikipedian. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 04:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks mate, will do! Appreciate your help. â Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 23:51, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 239, March 2026
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Jim Sheddan and Netherfield?
[edit]When wrote that Jim Sheddan made a forced landing "in Netherfield", which is linked to Woughton#Netherfield in Milton Keynes. Is that really true? Because this Netherfield didn't exist then (or for another 30 years or so. Can you recheck the source? ððð― (talk) 23:35, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for drawing this to my attention. It was indeed Netherfield although not that Netherfield. I probably pipelinked to that one thinking there must have been an airfield in the area in the past. I see that an article to another Netherfield, in East Sussex, has been created since I worked on the Jim Sheddan article and after checking a different source, that looks to be the correct one. I have pipelinked the usage of Netherfield to the one in East Sussex. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 08:19, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Congratulations - March 2026 Military History Writing Contest
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| On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 3 articles for 17 points - and second place finish in the March 2026 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 03:07, 2 April 2026 (UTC) |
The Bugle: Issue 240, April 2026
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Congratulations - April 2026 Military History Writing Contest
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| On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 3 articles for 17 points - and second place finish in the April 2026 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2026 (UTC) |
The Bugle: Issue 241, May 2026
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June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive
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William Hardham scheduled for TFA
[edit]This is to let you know that William Hardham has been scheduled as today's featured article for 31 July 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be posted there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Z1720 (talk) 17:51, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2021) as about "a New Zealand soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for saving a wounded comrade during an engagement of the Boer War. Only the second New Zealander to be a recipient of the VC, he went on to serve in the First World War. Seriously wounded at Gallipoli, after recovering he was commander of a Military hospital in New Zealand and later participated in the Sinai and Palestine campaign. After the war he was involved in rugby union administration. "! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:21, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Hi, Zawed, I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day! Have a great day! âPanamitsu (talk) 00:10, 30 May 2026 (UTC) |
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Happy First Edit Day!
[edit] | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Zawed! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:06, 30 May 2026 (UTC) |  |
Happy First Edit Day!
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Happy First Edit Day, Zawed, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! âïļâïļâïļALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 05:44, 30 May 2026 (UTC) |
Your nomination of Malcolm Calder is under review
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Your nomination of Malcolm Calder is on hold
[edit]Your good article nomination of the article Malcolm Calder has been placed on hold, as the article needs some changes. See the review page for more information. If these are addressed within 7 days, the nomination will pass; otherwise, it may fail. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Hawkeye7 -- Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:04, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Congratulations - May 2026 Military History Writing Contest
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| On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 3 articles for 17 points - and second place finish in the May 2026 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Donner60 (talk) 02:35, 3 June 2026 (UTC) |
Your nomination of Malcolm Calder has passed
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The Bugle: Issue 242, June 2026
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Congratulations from the Military History Project
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Your nomination of John Ross (RNZN officer) is under review
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The Bugle: Issue 243, July 2026
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Your nomination of John Ross (RNZN officer) has passed
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Good article nominations RfC
[edit]Hi Zawed,
There is an ongoing Request for Comment (RfC) at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/August 2026 RfC, which you may be interested in because in the past year, you have nominated or reviewed more than one good article nomination. This message has also been sent to all subscribers to the Good Article Gazette. The RfC contains many proposals (33 at the time of writing), which are split into the following categories: nominators, reviewers, reviews, volunteer roles, reviewing initiatives, and others. However, you are more than welcome to add any proposals of your own that you wish to put to the community.
By the end of September, all the proposals will have been closed by an uninvolved editor, either as a consensus for one of the options or with no consensus. At this point, editors will be invited again to develop these proposals into coherent policy and implement them.
Thank you for your contributions to the good articles project, and I look forward to your input! (in solidarity), JacobTheRox(talk|contributions) 16:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 244, August 2026
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Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
[edit]Nominations for the upcoming Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination 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 will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
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Revert of Paul Rabone
[edit]Maybe you should check with the community before you revert a legitimate upgrade to an article Paul Rabone, one that helps our users to better understand the article. If you were to look at Wikipedia as a whole, you ill find that about 90% of all dates include the year, and those that do not, should include the year.
Just because someone thinks an edit is unnecessary does not give that person the right to revert it.
Articles are reverted because they violate Wikipedia standards, not because someone doesn't like it.
I've been a Wikipedia editor for 19 years, and including the year in the date is standard practice.
If you can show me specific Wikipedia rules and guidelines that state dates without years are acceptable and preferred, and that adding a year to a date violates a Wikipedia guideline or rule, I will leave your revert as-is. I'll give you one week (until 25-Sep-2026) to reply with evidence of that. If I do not hear that, I will again revert Paul Rabone to the version that contains the year on all dates, so that our users can better understand the article and when events happen. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 15:02, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- As per my edit summary for the revert, I directed you to the talk page for the article which is the appropriate place for this discussion. The reasoning is explained there and is based on my experience (coming up 16 years worth if you want to start throwing that card around) of taking many articles through the GA process (which includes this one), MilHist's A-class review process, and FA process. If this article was taken there I would be asked to remove all mention of the years, except for when the narrative has moved to a different year. Note the reversion was not because I took issue with all of your changes, it was just the least time consuming way of removing the unnecessary years that were added. I returned mention of the place of burial to the infobox, which you also added, in subsequent edits. Finally, as the editor wanting the change, it is on you, not me, to produce the necessary rules/guidelines. However, I will extend you the courtesy that you should have extended to me and refer you to MOS:DATEVAR, which to me seems appropriate in the circumstances. If you wish to discuss further, do so on the talk page of the article. Zawed (talk) 00:26, 19 September 2026 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 245, September 2026
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Congratulations from the Military History Project
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New cross-language page link: 18th Battalion (New Zealand)
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The Bugle: Issue 246, October 2026
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Your good article nomination of the article Gage Sise is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Pickersgill-Cunliffe -- Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that I'm running The Asia-Oceania Destubathon in November. ÂĢ2000 (about NZ$4,694.08) in prizes. It would be great to see content improved for New Zealand and the Pacific region as part of this. Sign up if interested, I'm sure there are a lot of stale old NZ articles needing destubbing! If it is a success, perhaps next year we could do something specifically for New Zealand or with Australia and the regional Pacific. Thanks.âĶ Dr. Blofeld 14:56, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
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