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Nominations are now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!

Nominations now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2025! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Nominations are open here and here respectively. The nomination period closes at 23:59 on 30 November 2025 when voting begins. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:43, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations are now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!

Correction: nominations are open until 23:59 (UTC) on 14 December 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TFA

Thank you today for SMS Pommern, introduced (in 2018): "Another one of my articles on German battleships, this one was the only battleship of any type on either side to be sunk at the Battle of Jutland - her loss accounted for about a third of German deaths in the battle. I wrote the article and it passed a Milhist A-class review several years ago, but recently revamped it with new sources"! - Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda! Parsecboy (talk) 12:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday, Gabriel Dessauer - enjoy music he played, Dance Toccata. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More music, Guy Morançon, playing Mendelssohn on a great instrument, illustrated with historic images. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:25, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was the first time that I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was a fascinating article - I didn't know anything about Gehry, though I've been to a couple of his buildings. Nice job helping to bring his article up to snuff for the news! Parsecboy (talk) 13:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I didn't know much either, and also have been to some buildings, Bilbao (I thought right after opening but looking closer it was in 2005), the Paris one several times (there's an annual conference), Berlin, Hanover, and Herford because a relative lives there who appeared on its stage ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ps: today's story continues the Dessauer birthday with the image Colin Mawby's lead pic is taken from. A composer who had most of the piece ready a year before the premiere, unheard elsewhere. As the Guggenheim Bilbao ready both on time and on budget. Did you look into the videos? Two again today, one where you see him conducting his work, and one that we like to sing for fun (usually for Easter). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, not yet - I've been bogged down most of the day doing year-end performance reviews. The joys of being a manager! I'll have to find some time to check them out. Parsecboy (talk) 21:24, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Understand! - Laughter for Christmas - enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda, you as well! Parsecboy (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, happening ;) - Thank you today for the 2009 Moltke class battlecruiser! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda! I finally got around to making significant improvements earlier this year using a book that's been on my shelf since 2014 or so! Parsecboy (talk) 11:50, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IP editor shenanigans

I've got a guy who's insisting on changing the Ships paragraph for a bunch of RN capital ship classes to Ships in Class. Dunno if he's done it to any of yours, but I'm on my second round of reverts so far. He's also complicating the infoboxes for Dreadnought and the Invincible-class BCs by adding the relationship between them, which is better saved for the main body, IMO.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw them do it to Iron Duke-class battleship, but that's the only one in my watchlist. I don't care all that much about it, but edits like this are definitely not an improvement. Parsecboy (talk) 23:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, but I'd have probably been willing to let the others slide if he hadn't capitalized "Class". That was just offensive.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:42, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, they didn't do that to the Iron Duke article. Parsecboy (talk) 14:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was Flognar editing logged out. See User talk:Flognar#"Ships" or "ships in class" headings in ship class articles.-- Toddy1 (talk) 13:07, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I saw them pop up on my watchlist on a few of the articles they edited. I don't know that the section titles matters all that much, though the internal links issue you mentioned on their talk page is a valid one. Parsecboy (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox ship sections

Hoi Parsecboy, I noted you've modified the infobox ship in some articles, introducing sections. I see a bot has modified likewise some of the articles I'm expanding. When i open the editor of a ship infobox, i get now only one field for each section, where i can edit the source of the sub-infoboxes. I'm struggling a bit with this change, i'm usually not editing source. Could you give some more context about this introduction of sections or redirect me to some explanation page ? Klutserke (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Klutserke - there have been discussions going back to 2022 about "correcting" the ship infobox ecosystem, since they're not actually infoboxes, they're actually just tables. For example, there's this recent discussion, and then this one currently on WT:SHIPS about the implementation of the conversion.

I started converting articles in my watchlist in part because I knew the bot was eventually coming and it's annoying when your list explodes because a bot just updated one or two thousand articles (so I figured if I got ahead of it, it'd minimize the disruption) - but also because I wanted to figure out exactly how the templates worked and what would mess them up (and I have a pretty good sense of it now). I only ever edit in source, since that's how I started editing almost 20 years ago (which feels wild to say!), so I don't know how it looks in the visual editor. Parsecboy (talk) 16:16, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thx for giving this context. Let's go with the flow then, and start editing in source mode. It will make me feel either 20 years younger or either 20 years older :) Klutserke (talk) 17:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, I make no promises on feeling younger! Parsecboy (talk) 17:35, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).

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Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
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Miscellaneous

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Your nomination of SMS Camaeleon is under review

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Your nomination of SMS Salamander (1860) is under review

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Voting is now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2025! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2025. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Parsecboy. — W.andrea (talk) 01:24, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of SMS Salamander (1860) has passed

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Your nomination of Habicht-class gunboat has passed

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Your nomination of SMS Eber (1903) is under review

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Your nomination of SMS Camaeleon has passed

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The Bugle: Issue 236, December 2025

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 and Hawkeye7 review five recent releases
Timeline: This month in military history

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January music

300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:56, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year, Gerda! Parsecboy (talk) 00:44, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Parsecboy!

Happy New Year!

Parsecboy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
GGOTCC 00:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

GGOTCC 00:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And the same to you, GGOTCC! Let's look forward to another productive year writing and reviewing content! Parsecboy (talk) 00:44, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The High Seas Fleet gets a little taller whenever you work on it. Thanks! Bigturtle (talk) 02:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! It's a little wild to think I've been working on these articles since 2007 - and there's still a ways to go! Parsecboy (talk) 12:51, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year Parsecboy, and congrats on 200 reviews at GAN! A note on this milestone has been left in this edition of the Wikipedia:Good Article Gazette. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 02:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and happy new year to you as well! I've been trying to reduce the imbalance I racked up over the years - at 200 reviews and 737 GAs, so a little better than 4 to 1 now! Parsecboy (talk) 12:51, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The WikiChevrons
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the WikiChevrons for participating in 15 reviews between October and December 2025. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Undeletion of edit at USS Elden

Hello, back in 2019, you deleted this page to make way for a page move. Would you mind considering undeletion *just* the very earliest edit (the one with content), so the page history is complete? It's listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge/13 (last updated in 2018), but in this case the history merge now just involves undeleting that edit. I know from this script that the edit in question was made by the same person and I know from the percentage of text changed in the history merge report that it's the same text, but it's just ... the principle of the thing for me and I think timestamps should be preserved as much as possible. I know not everyone would do a history merge in this situation and I'm particularly extreme about doing them in cases where there's a single author, but if I could, I'd definitely do the undeleetion. But since you're the deleting admin, I'll let you decide what to do. Thanks for your consideration. Graham87 (talk) 12:43, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I can do that. I don't know that there's a lot of point in merging it in, since it was the original edit in a cut-and-paste move, but it also doesn't hurt anything. Parsecboy (talk) 13:00, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

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All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ships built in Granville, France

A tag has been placed on Category:Ships built in Granville, France indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, 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!} 20:05, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]