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		2023 Military Historian of the Year
		As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the esteemed Bronze Wiki for sharing third place in the 2023 Military Historian of the Year Award for 2023. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts throughout the year. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congats Zawed, very well deserved! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 18:05, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please contact me re J Hayter page as I have confirmation of his log book entries as I have his group and log books (I can email documentation to you as confirmation etc.)

You will have to email me, using the "Email this user" link in the column on the left. Note though that his log books would be considered a primary source by Wikipedia referencing standards so not appropriate to use here. Regardless, I suspect the totals you added include aircraft destroyed on the ground, rather than aerial victories. I have Wynn's "A Clasp for 'The Few'" book and from the content of that book, it appears that Hayter was interviewed for it. There is no mention of aerial victories matching the totals that come from the log book. Zawed (talk) 05:34, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is no "Email this user" link in the column on the left..... 110.23.183.202 (talk) 04:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have to be a registered user. Zawed (talk) 06:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Writers Barnstar
		On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 6 articles and 40 points - and second place finish in December 2023 with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 03:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Military History Writers' Contest Cup
		Congratulations on a great effort in the 2023 Milhist Writer's Contest Cup! On behalf of the behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to award you the Contest Cup having taken first place overall with a total of 508 points from 77 articles. We hope to see a similar effort for 2024! Donner60 (talk) 03:34, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 10 reviews between October and December 2023. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply] Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Hi, while working on NPP I've come across Herb Plenty, an RAAF officer. The article seems to have been created by an editor with a COI, and is lacking many citations. I wondered whether you might be able to pass any judgement on it? Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 20:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will take a look and leave some comments on the talk page. Pinging @Ian Rose:, given his expertise in RAAF subjects. Zawed (talk) 10:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for leaving those comments. Acknowledging that the article needs a lot of work, would you say that Plenty is at least notable? Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:58, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks guys for bringing this one up. I'd say Plenty is on the margin of notability -- I recall without looking at the article that he makes it into at least a couple of reference works beyond the official history of Australia in World War II; his leadership after the Red Sales disaster is described in some detail in Alan Stephens Going Solo, the official post-war history, for instance. I think we could make something of this, although I might take some time getting to it... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 18:03, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dunkirk_(2017_film)#Tom_Hardy’s_character_not_based_on_Al_Deere?

I have linked a discussion on the Dunkirk movie talk page regarding as to whether Al Deere was the inspiration for Farrier, as you maintain that’s it is not confirmed. 92.17.199.182 (talk) 09:56, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Zawed, thank you for your help in the Manekshaw awards inclusion dispute. I want to take INS Shakti (A57) to FA class, and have a question on a potential issue. Is it necessary to include the ship class for every ship mentioned? I've done so sparingly and not for every instance. When I looked through the current FA class naval ships, most of them are WW1/2 or Cold War era ships which saw combat, so they don't have a lot of other ships named. What do you think? Matarisvan (talk) 09:00, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I think that you will probably want to name the ship type (destroyer, cruiser etc...) but not necessarily the ship class (Deepak class, Adiyta class). I generally don't do ship articles though so am not a specialist. For what its worth, I'm not sure that this is the best ship article to go to FA with, partly due to it being on active service. The article would need to be kept updated to maintain its FA standard. Zawed (talk) 03:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, apologies for my delayed response. In hindsight, you are right, the article would be eligible for FA only if the subject ship is retired. That said, could you please close the ACR if possible, I tagged Ian Rose to withdraw but he may have missed it. The review hasn't got any comments and will not get them probably ever, perhaps because active topics aren't eligible for ACR/FAC. I will renominate once the ship is no longer active, which won't be anytime soon, so I will've to work on other articles. Matarisvan (talk) 19:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Writers Barnstar
		On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 4 articles, 1 brought to A-class, and 28 points - and second place finish in the March 2024 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 04:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Kia ora Zawed, hope life's treating you well. Paora and I spent some time turning a sad-looking stub into something more decent. It's got an empty section on his military campaign, though. I thought you might be tempted tackling that. The Evening Post obituary can give you a taste of what he was like as an officer. Schwede66 03:42, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede66, apologies for the delayed response, just got back from a holiday in Rarotonga. I will take a look at the Buckley article and see what I can do. As I have some books on Antarctic exploration, I review these too see if anything useful can be added. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 23:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you had a great holiday! Schwede66 23:22, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		Military history reviewers' award
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		The Writers Barnstar
		On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your sterling performance - 4 articles, for 24 points - and second place finish in the August 2024 Military History Writing Contest with this award of the Writers Barnstar. Congratulations, Donner60 (talk) 06:17, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great work with this article! I toyed with writing an article on this topic after the A-4G Skyhawk article but it was too hard finding sources here in Australia. I'm glad I didn't try as this is much better than what I would have produced. I have a copy of Skyhawks: The History of the RNZAF Skyhawk if it would be helpful, though you've made very good use of this source. Nick-D (talk) 10:18, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick-D: thanks! I model these "in New Zealand service" articles after your own "in Australian service" articles so you led the way for me. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 10:29, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you provide a reference at the end of the first paragraph in the "Squadron command" section? Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 05:02, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Donner60: whoops, I had missed that when splitting the original paragraph, thanks for spotting that. Added the cite now. Thanks again, Zawed (talk) 06:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assessed B class. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 06:39, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I am removing this thread from the assessment page and replying to your latest comment here. I have copied the article to a sandbox page and have begun editing it there. I will split the background section into background and prelude as you suggest. In the new draft I have already moved nine substantive footnotes to a footnotes section separate from the citations section. That is how I would do it today and I think most editors would also do that, at least if they had added more than one or two brief text footnotes. I will edit the lead. I am reviewing my current sources to see if I can add anything to the battle description. It was in fact a brief skirmish that would not even merit mention, except maybe briefly as part of a campaign, if it had not been one of the earliest engagements of the war and only five miles from Washington, DC. It got outsized notice, especially at the time, because of those two details. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 06:16, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Kia ora, User:Zawed. I am the Wikimedian in Residence at Auckland Museum. User:Panamitsu got in touch and said you are involved in military and war history editing. I thought I would share my project Wikiproject x OnlineCenotaph. The main page explains some of the project goals if you would like to collaborate/contribute!

Hi Winnie, thanks for bringing this to my attention, I had actually noticed your post on the WPNZ page about it (and the unfortunate and needless COI commentary that followed). I would be keen to contribute. Zawed (talk) 04:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your well intentioned improvements to map caption but you introduced inaccuracy with what is shown at high zoom. Tweaked now. I had same issues of clear wording and clear mapping created by the two very different designs of the redoubts. ChaseKiwi (talk) 06:17, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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