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- Hi CF-501 Falcon! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 17:04, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello CF-501 Falcon and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.
A few features that you might find helpful:
- Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
- The announcement and open task box is updated very frequently. You can watchlist it if you are interested, or you can add it directly to your user page by copying the following: {{WPMILHIST Announcements}}.
- The project Academy has lots of useful information about editing and writing military history articles. One very useful introductory course to get you started is Writing a good stub.
- Important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
- The project has several departments, which handle article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, writing contests, and article logistics.
- We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, periods, and conflicts.
- We've developed a set of guidelines that cover article structure and content, template use, categorization, and many other issues of interest.
- If you're looking for something to work on, there are many articles that need attention, as well as a number of review alerts.
- If you would like to receive the project's monthly newsletter, The Bugle, please sign up here.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask any of the project coordinators or any other experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome, and we are looking forward to seeing you around! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 12:35, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Pickersgill-Cunliffe. Thank you for the warm welcome. I will certainly utilise the above resources. See you around. CF-501 Falcon (talk) 00:16, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
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I don't know if you directly contributed, but one of your previous messages at the Teahouse really helped me out. Thank you so much, L.E. Rainer 04:05, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hey, @Luke Elaine Burke nice to hear that I was able to help! I have been seeing you around the wiki and the Teahouse, you're doing great. Your welcome, and feel free to ask any questions. CF-501 Falcon (talk) 14:43, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
December blitz bling
| The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
| This barnstar is awarded to CF-501 Falcon for copy edits totaling over 15,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:25, 24 December 2024 (UTC) |
| The Copy Editor's 10K Star | ||
| This barnstar is awarded to CF-501 Falcon for copy-editing at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words during the most recent Guild of Copy Editors' Drive or Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:25, 24 December 2024 (UTC) |
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A barnstar for you!
| The Special Barnstar | |
| For being an exemplary new editor, you deserve recognition. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:12, 17 January 2025 (UTC) |
- @Clovermoss, Thank you. You are a fantastic Admin. Cheers, CF-501 Falcon (talk) 18:35, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
How to propose deletion
Although I "fixed" the article you brought to the Teahouse, I didn't really answer your "how to" question and that won't help you in the future. WP:PROD gives instructions for proposing a deletion. To make that task easier (as well as many other tasks), have you considered enabling WP:TWINKLE? It's an incredibly useful tool for (1) proposing deletion (prod), (2) nominating for deletion (AfD), (3) reverting multiple consecutive edits, (4) warning or welcoming other editors, (4) adding maintenance tags to articles, (5) nominating for speedy deletion (CSD), (6) requesting page protection, (7) reporting an editor for vandalism or edit-warring, and (8) reporting a possible sock-puppet (SPI). Hope that helps! Schazjmd (talk) 17:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- I will look at the Twinkle tool. It seems helpful. Once again, Thank you so much. Do you recommend anything specific to get used to the back-end of Wikipedia? Thank you, CF-501 Falcon (talk) 18:30, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- I spent my first active year reading everything—following every link someone mentioned in a discussion, going through tons of talk pages, digging into archives. Other than that, the only thing that helps is time (experience). There's the written back-end (policies, guidelines, etc.) to learn, but also the communal back-end (how the community interprets and applies those policies, guidelines, etc.). You only have to get as involved as you want. Anyway, feel free to ping me anytime you have a question, I'll do my best to help. Schazjmd (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Okay then, Thank you for the advice. I will definitely ping you if I have any questions. CF-501 Falcon (talk) 01:16, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- I spent my first active year reading everything—following every link someone mentioned in a discussion, going through tons of talk pages, digging into archives. Other than that, the only thing that helps is time (experience). There's the written back-end (policies, guidelines, etc.) to learn, but also the communal back-end (how the community interprets and applies those policies, guidelines, etc.). You only have to get as involved as you want. Anyway, feel free to ping me anytime you have a question, I'll do my best to help. Schazjmd (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Message to a user
Hey @Clovermoss, writing this here so I don't end up catching flak.
I have a very minimal understanding of what has been going on. (I think it is better to not sticking my head in there and get it chopped off.)
I don't know if you did the right things, but I believe you did. From what I have seen, you are a very level headed editor. I hope you feel better and decide to stick around. Till next time, CF-501 Falcon (talk) 02:08, 3 February 2025 (UTC)