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Please take your schoolboy arguments elsewhere. This AfD is not the venue. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 18:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry I think there may have been a little mix up, per your edit summary: "revert deleted entries, removed for inexplicable reason". I wasn't trying to delete those comments, rather I moved them to the talk page, I was attempting to "disengage". It's my fault, I should've made that clear in the edit summary. Ryan4314 (talk) 22:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, though I am not a fan of removing comments from an AfD except in the most extreme circumstances. Having said that, things were getting that way, as User:A Nobody is making life somewhat difficult for all concerned. Do you have a history with this guy? He seems to be a bit of a troublemaker. I've never encountered him before. He's not the only one involved in this mess, though. I'm inclined to let him and his adversaries have at it and pee all over each other for now. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 23:14, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry thought you had gone offline, were you happy for me to restore the move? Ryan4314 (talk) 23:15, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History, not especially, he does have some history with bigger editors though. I used to comment at AFD a lot in 2008, so we butted horns then, nothing exciting. I've recently just returned to AFD, otherwise I was only one of the many who commented at his RFC and Editor Review last year. I've seen your talk page, I wouldn't worry too much, he reported me to ANI once, because I nominated some copyrighted images he uploaded for deletion. There's not much advice to give, just hope the people in authority are monitoring the situation and keep an eye out for any oppurtunities to raise your concerns i.e. RFC etc. Ryan4314 (talk) 23:30, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An ANI post has been started here, concerning his behaviour this evening. It doesn't mention your exchange, so you may wish to add your thoughts. Ryan4314 (talk) 23:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Catching all three comments above: Restoration is fine. Thanks for the heads-up on ANI and the links to other pages regarding his history, I added a comment to the ANI. Apparently this chap can best be summed up as a royal pain in the ARS. :-) - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 01:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryan, I see you're interested in boats. I'm trying to flesh out the history of the whalecatcher Southern Pride which served in the Royal Navy and was the inspiration for the design of the Flower class corvettes - do you have access to any info that might help?   pablo_hablo. 23:44, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Although the cold war era is more my speciality (therefore most of my sources are current online givernment ones), I can recommend searching:

Hansard

Perhaps an FOI request (not sure if you have to be a British resident to do this)[1]

Navy News etc, might be to modern, but try the refs on my Cardiff article, they were all ok'd at the FAC. Ryan4314 (talk) 23:54, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I selected 80. Ryan4314 (talk) 15:14, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryan, when you have a minute a little c/e would be appreciated --Jor70 (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be honoured. In the next 24 hrs. Ryan4314 (talk) 22:50, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thks for that, but I meant this new one Argentine Army Aviation :-) --Jor70 (talk) 13:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, feel free to revert the other c/e if you wish. Ryan4314 (talk) 13:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you see this ? [2] . UK DoD just denied all [3] what the problem with these guys ? they even stole the Drummond pic from poder naval blog without properly source it ! --Jor70 (talk) 21:01, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jor, this is why it is important that individuals like you, me and Darius ignore the right-wing sentiments of our countries and continue trying to forge friendships for the future. LOL don't read The Sun, it's terrible. ;) Ryan4314 (talk) 12:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryan. A mix of non native English and hypercorrection led me to do this edit. Thank you for for enlightening me about the correct meaning of "to limp". Cheers.--Darius (talk) 23:17, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's ok mate, your English is very good :) Ryan4314 (talk) 00:22, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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As always, I will honoured by your c/e of Argentine defense industry. Im still adding data to Battle of San Carlos but of course you are welcome there too --Jor70 (talk) 12:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It'd be my pleasure amigo. Ryan4314 (talk) 20:59, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited this article based on your suggestions in the GA review and am now in the copyediting stage. Although I haven't really added an enormous amount of detail for each point, I thing what I've done is fairly good. One slight problem was that I couldn't find any decent references to show what the USN intends to do with nuclear powered aircraft carriers after decommissioning (I was looking to see what would happen to Enterprise), although I think a substantial proportion of the costs would be safely removing the spent fuel and the reactors. Anyway, what I wanted to ask you was how far you think the article is from being an FA, and roughly what would need to be done to improve it. I've never done an FA before, and I don't really know what is required. And thanks for the suggestions on the GA review by the way. Jhbuk (talk) 17:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Content wise, I believe you're ready FA. However passing FA is more about minor technicalities:

• Are the references all formatted correctly and uniform
• Do you have the correct licensing on all the images (they're really strict on this!)
• As ever, people who don't know what else to say will request a copyedit be done (by someone else other than you), therefore you have to find a friend who'll do one for you
• Check the article against all of the Wikipedia:Featured article tools
• try and rally support over at Milihist before you apply, other milihist members will help. Ryan4314 (talk) 20:59, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've decided to start another peer review just to make sure that everything is good enough, and to get some other ideas for improvement, although I've carried out some of your suggestions. Jhbuk (talk) 22:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Ryan, do you know if we have any Port Stanley's wikieditor among us ? I would like to have confirmation if Carlos Benitez tomb who was killed on May 3 when he crashed with his MB339 is still on Stanley cemetery or he has been moved. cheers --Jor70 (talk) 15:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't even know any Falklands-based editors, sorry. Jor, have you read: "The Red & Green Life Machine"? Ryan4314 (talk) 15:56, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

unfortunately not, but I read one Rick Jolly's letter here [4] and seems a very honorable man. I also was profound impressed with a video I recently found about HMS Fearless rescue of Lt Lucero 7:00 an A-4C pilot who died last month on an aircraft accident --Jor70 (talk) 16:26, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lucero is featured heavily in the book and also seems a very honourable man/pilot. I recommend you read it, the book is very much written in the spirit of reconciliation. Ryan4314 (talk) 16:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I request here that you not comment ofn the health conditions of other editors. It is not to your credit. DGG ( talk ) 01:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather you'd just e-mailed me in private if you felt that way, instead of trying this publicly on my talk page. That was not to your credit sir. Ryan4314 (talk) 19:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello mate. I see you are "are actively involved" with the Romanian Land Forces article. I couldn't help notice there is no record of the army's role in the revolution. I'd be interested to learn more about this and maybe add to the article, your thoughts? Ryan4314 (talk) 01:22, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, excuse me for my late response, I was quite inactive on wiki during the recent period. The most important issue here on wiki regarding Romanian military history is the lack of reliable English sources and low level of interest besides Western historiography. The best thing I could do is to start adding information based on press articles - but that wouldn't be very professional for an encyclopedia. Briefly, starting with the evening of the 21st December the army switched sides and joined the protesters; afterwards, until 22nd evening there where intense fightings between protesters and army on one side and Securitate together with other loyalist forces on the other side. What is most important is that out of 1.150 victims of the revolution, about 940 died in confrontations between army and securitate after Ceausescu was overthrown and the new regime seized power. All the best --Eurocopter (talk) 19:47, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for replying, I hope you don't mind me replying on my talk page. Of the 1150 killed, how many were soldier and how many were civilians? Ryan4314 (talk) 21:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Whatever mate, don't burst a blood vessel over it, I don't care that much. Ryan4314 (talk) 14:05, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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File:South Atlantic Medal.jpg nominated for deletion yet again. Do you have time to rescue it? Justin talk 07:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the Lynx flights were originally part of 829, later the Lynxes were absorbed into 815. (829 NAS states this, as does the source I use for Lynx 335). WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • shot down) 17:06, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did your mate Ken have a photo of Atlantic Conveyor? Article currently has no photos due to a copyright violation. Justin talk 23:07, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nah mate, Cardiff didn't get to the TEZ till the 26th. Ryan4314 (talk) 06:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ain't seen you around buddy? Wee Curry Monster talk 10:15, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi mate, recently moved house, but editing wikipedia has been becoming less interesting to me recently as well, still read it though. Ryan4314 (talk) 17:54, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't blame you, losing interest for me as well. I naively believed in WP:NPOV as a policy but find that increasingly it is not really valued. Wee Curry Monster talk 22:41, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i tried to take it out on the "list of post-1945 of British victims by the United States military" is because i don't want people to think it's a US-on-UK friendly fire. It was clearly a Brit-on-Brit Friendly Fire. Remember where it says in august 2007 where there British soldier were killed y US jet fighter planes. that It was well-documented that the British Foward Air-Controller will face Manslaughter charges so the US was not to blame for this. I mean some one look it it and just blame on the US. Especially when Brits(even today) are very quick to blame this on the US despite the fact it was proven it was the fault of the British FAC giving the bad coordinates to the US pilot. That's why i'm trying to take it out many times and yet someone still post it in there. I do not want people(mostly foreigners) to continue to believe it was the Americans fault for this.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1038781/British-soldier-faces-manslaughter-charges-Afghanistan-friendly-deaths.html

I tried removing it but they kepy putting it back on. Now many people will continue to think it's a US on UK friendly fire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulioetc (talk • contribs) 23:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I think the reason why people were reverting your edits was because you were simply removing the whole entry. I'd recommend updating the entry with a recent source (the daily mail reference you gave above is two years out of date). Our role is to simply inform and allow readers to choose to investigate further and formulate their own opinions. How does this updated entry sound to you:

• 23 August 2007: a bomb dropped by an F-15 killed three soldiers of the Royal Anglian Regiment and wounded a further two. An inquest is currently ongoing, issues such as inadequate communication equipment and incorrect coordinates from a British forward air controller have been raised. A coroner has stated it was down to the "flawed application of procedures".^[1][2]

Also I would like you to read my former correspondence on the article's talk page. I hope you will see that my discourse is neutral and I believe this article actually exonerates the U.S. military in what is a very prevalent issue in the minds of the British public. Ryan4314 (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you have a look at your !vote here. From what you wrote it sounds like you meant to delete, but your !vote says to keep. Note: I believe that your vote was changed by another user (the next editor after you), but just want to double check first. Ravendrop 20:44, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Ryan, I was browsing the list of barnstars and couldn't help but notice your Barnstar of Recovery seems functionally identical to {{The Rescue Barnstar}}. Since that one "can be independent of or in cooperation with the Article Rescue Squadron," isn't the Barnstar of Recovery a bit redundant? I wouldn't want to propose deletion or anything without hearing your perspective first. Best, BDD (talk) 21:42, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really care about barnstars, inclusionism and those sort of things anymore and I genuinely don't mind you proposing deletion (didn't even know they really did XFD's for barnstars). Can I point out that when I created it, the ARS barnstar didn't exist, you're welcome. I wont comment on the XFD, but the only reason I could give for keeping it would be: perhaps someone would want to award a barnstar but not wish to be affiliated with the ARS (and therefore some of it's more eccentric members), but I doubt that, because no one really gives a shit about those sort of things, it's just a PNG on some website and I never really saw it as popular barnstar anyway. You have my full support with this and anything else you wish to do in your life, I'm channelling my love and good kharma towards you brother, namaste. :) Ryan4314 (talk) 07:41, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. My apologies for not looking closer; it looks like the ARS barnstar was only proposed in 2007. --BDD (talk) 15:22, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello mate, I'm fine, how are you? Nah, I'm not really back. I just click on 'my watchlist' as a habit, but only do simple edits like removing vandalism. Ryan4314 (talk) 09:45, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Ryan, Ken Griffiths (HMS Cardiff 1982) wants to regain contact with a view of uploading new Falkland pics. Has no idea of original log in details and needs help. Please email me Ilovetheandrew@gmail.com thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.41.152 (talk) 17:24, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for aircraft supplying the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. An Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was making a routine delivery to British troops on East Falkland. Cardiff's crew assumed it was hostile, given its speed and course, and fired two missiles, destroying it. When the wreckage was found, the loss was attributed to enemy fire. Although Cardiff was suspected, scientific tests on the wreckage were inconclusive. No formal inquiry was held until four years later. Defending their claim that the helicopter had been lost in action, the UK Ministry of Defence stated that they had not wanted to upset relatives while they were still trying to ascertain how the Gazelle had been shot down. The board of inquiry did not blame any individuals but identified factors including a lack of communication between the army and the navy and the army's decision to turn off helicopters' identification friend or foe transmitters. (Full article...)

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On behalf of the Military history WikiProject's Coordinators, we would like to extend an invitation to nominate deserving editors for the 2015 Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards. The nomination period will run from 7 December to 23:59 13 December, with the election phase running from 14 December to 23:59 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway, and as a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 23 September. For the Coordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:01, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Time is running out to voting for the Military Historian and Newcomer of the year! If you have not yet cast a vote, please consider doing so soon. The voting will end on 31 December at 23:59 UTC, with the presentation of the awards to the winners and runners up to occur on 1 January 2017. For the Military history WikiProject Coordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:02, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This message was sent as a courtesy reminder to all active members of the Military History WikiProject.

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
• updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next 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 doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.[reply]

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election closes soon, at 23:59 on 28 September. 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. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. The voting itself is occurring here If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:14, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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