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MILHIST template question

Hawkeye, what change needs to be made to WikiProject banner at Talk:USS Romeo so that this shows up in the MILHIST FA categories instead of the MILHIST A-Class categories? It passed ACR in June 2025 and FAC in December 2025. Hog Farm _Talk 02:03, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have corrected this. Not completely happy though. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:29, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Edward Neufville Crosse

Hi Hawkeye, hope you're well? A while ago you gave some feedback on Edward Neufville Crosse, namely about referencing. I think I have made the required changes now, and would really appreciate a final check on whether it now meets B Class requirements? Thanks! BBWood1908 (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Re-assessed B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:40, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Hawkeye! BBWood1908 (talk) 11:14, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 11

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Volume 3 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News The International Space Station's eight compartments were fully occupied for the first time on 1 December, with the rebirthing of Cygnus NG-23 to Unity. On 3 December, China's Zhuque-3 made the first non-American attempt at landing a booster. The booster failed to land following a landing-burn anomaly. A second attempt on the 23rd, this time using the new Long March 2A launch vehicle, also failed. On 6 December, contact with NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter was lost. The last received telemetry was from the 4th, with the fragmented transmission of the 6th suggesting that the craft was rotating in an unintended way, and possibly having changed orbit. As of 16 January 2026, the mission has not yet been officially ended, although reestablishing communications with MAVEN is considered highly improbable.
Featured Content The article "Gordon Cooper" was promoted to Featured Article status on 9 December. It was nominated by Hawkeye7.
Article of the month PROCYON PROCYON (Proximate Object Close flyby with Optical Navigation) was an asteroid flyby space probe that was launched together with Hayabusa2 on 3 December 2014 13:22:04 (JST). It was developed by University of Tokyo and JAXA. It was a small (70 kg, approx. 60 cm cube), low cost (¥500 million) spacecraft. It was intended to flyby the asteroid (185851) 2000 DP107 in 2016, but the plan was abandoned due to the malfunction of the ion thruster.	Image of the month STS-116 spacewalk STS-116 was the 33rd mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Launched in the late evening of 6 December, the main aims of the mission were the installation of one of the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure segments, rewiring of the power system, and personnel exchange. Also known as ISS-12A.1, STS-116 was the first mission to include a Swedish astronaut, Christer Fuglesang. It returned to Earth in the evening of 22 December. This image, of the first of three EVA sessions, was taken on the fourth day of the mission. Flight engineer Robert Curbeam is on the left, opposite mission specialist 3 Christer Fuglesang. The image was taken over New Zealand; the South Island is visible on the left, while the southern portion of the North Island, mostly consisting of the Wairarapa region, is visible in the top-right.
Members New Members: none Number of active members: 218. Total number of members: 445. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See the complete list here. Zhuque-3 — no payload (3 Dec. at 04:00) (success) HANBIT-NANO — various (22 Dec. at 12:45) (launch failure) Long March 12A — mass simulator (23 Dec. at 02:00:00) (success) LVM3 — BlueBird-6 (24 Dec. at 03:25:30) (success) Soyuz-2.1b (1st stage), Fregat-M (2nd stage) — various (28 Dec. at 13:18:05) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 December 2025. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 29 15 8 59 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 12 26 33 57 2 130 B 16 78 195 234 5 528 C 45 169 609 847 1 57 1,728 Start 15 134 1,024 2,698 493 4,364 Stub 5 196 1,988 282 2,471 List 11 119 109 238 1 43 521 Category 1,281 1,281 Disambig 48 48 File 262 262 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 43 141 1,246 1,432 Template 532 532 NA 2 2 Other 32 32 Assessed 107 565 2,230 6,216 3,693 882 13,693 Unassessed 10 119 129 Total 107 565 2,230 6,226 3,693 1,001 13,822 Monthly Changes Since November 2025, there are one more mid-importance, 29 more low-importance, two more NA-importance, and 20 more unknown-importance class articles, for a total of 52 more articles. There are also one more FA-class articles, one less GA-class articles, ten more C-class articles, 20 more Start-class articles, eleven more Stub-class articles, and four more lists.
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Good article reassessment for Netball

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Hi Hawkeye I have a problem per se, with another article, and I am trying to find the best place to reach out to the military project group at large

Hi Hawkeye. Sorry to bug you but I would like your help.

For the article United States intervention in Syria. Some of the editors tried to remove the entire infobox. I did not create this article, but even I will admit that it is rather long. On the other hand this conflict has an extremely complex history and system of alliances, and I do not think removing an entire infobox especially without deliberation sets a good precedent.

That being said I am not 100% sure how the military project would handle or historically has handled such extreme edits before. I get sometimes infobox issues can be tricky, but if we start removing entire infoboxes, we are going to lose a lot of that on many military conflicts.

I proposed 2 comromises:

1. We modify the infobox to removed the military leaders.
2. We modify the infobox to be more simple, however owing to the extreme complexity of this conflict perhaps we add a new article that is solely a summary of belligerents of this conflict, complete with a chart. And only dedicate that page for those purposes.

But again I am looking for information on how similar cases were handled by military project volunteers as a whole to see if I can find other solution or to find out if my compromises are good ideas or not, or maybe perhaps my compromise ideas are not acceptable for reasons I am not aware of or have not thought of.

Where do you suggest I go to find such answers? Can you send me a link or refer me to some editors?

Thank you so much. (: Historyguy1138 (talk) 17:31, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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		You deserve this barnstar for all your contributions since 2005, especially those related to the Gaza war. Pachu Kannan (talk) 14:30, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Military logistics

I went through the aforementioned article and made a few revisions, but I cannot do a formal review at the moment due to my ongoing examinations. I will, however, fix any changes if necessary. Good luck with your nomination. MSincccc (talk) 11:40, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Queue 4

You just deleted the queue; as the reviewer, I don't think you're supposed to mess around with it. Also, the secondary source says "Van Vleck credits her with key work on the quantum mechanics of magnetism", which was early work. I have no objection to restoring the thesis part, but my information was correct and it's best to notify me. Viriditas (talk) 01:22, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You're right; I should not have edited it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:27, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That's okay. I've made the same mistake before. Now, how do you want to word it? Viriditas (talk) 01:28, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The issue I have is that the hook and the article are now out of step. The wording of the article, hook, and source should all agree with each other. (WP:DYKHOOKCITE) The Conversation source (fn 1) says "Frank’s thesis, partially published in Physical Review in 1932, focused on the element samarium. It showed quantum mechanical corrections were needed to explain the experimental data and contains a plot that appears in Van Vleck’s Nobel lecture (fn 6), labelled 'V.V. & F'." The Nobel Prize speech does not cite Frank's thesis but a 1929 paper, Van Vleck, J. H.; Frank, A. (1 December 1929). "The Effect of Second Order Zeeman Terms on Magnetic Susceptibilities in the Rare Earth and Iron Groups". Physical Review. 34: 1494–1496. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.34.1494.. I know from personal experience that supervisors often publish material from their graduate students under their own name, but at least van Vleck read it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:10, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’m confused. I added back in the wording you wanted. Are you saying it should be removed again? Viriditas (talk) 05:10, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No, it now matches the article. The use of "cited" is a bit colloquial here but I think it is okay. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:42, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

What would you change it to ("cited") if you had a preference? Viriditas (talk) 21:25, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure. I am not good at finding better words. Referenced? Included research from? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:30, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Savannah River Plant article

This sentence in the article appears to contain an error: "The commissioners learned that DuPont was recommending the acquisition of 240,000 acres (97,000 ha) instead of 2,160,000 acres (870,000 ha)." The source: Reed, et al 2002, at page 144 states: "The engineering manpower was needed as the AEC learned that Du Pont was recommending the acquisition of 240,000 acres rather than the 160,000 first projected." The 240,000 acres as the larger number is consistent with the next sentence of the article; "The additional land provided river frontage as a natural boundary, secure access to the water supply, and provide flexibility in the location of pumping stations." Other than that, B class headed up. Donner60 (talk) 01:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Typo. Corrected. Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:13, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I want to be sure you're seeing [28], and I really hope you can help keep this from ending in tears. You of all people know how much respect men such as Uwikis deserve, and I don't want to see him hurt. EEng 13:27, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2026-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [29]

Updates for editors

• The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [30]
• Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [31][32]
• The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
• The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [33]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [34]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Relief of Douglas MacArthur scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Relief of Douglas MacArthur has been scheduled as today's featured article for 11 April 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/April 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/April 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) 21:52, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]