User talk:MCG

Category:Military history

Please don't add general historical topics to this category; as the category description indicates, it is intended for only a few high-level categories. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 07:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Categories

You have added a category to (eg) Royal Canadian Sea Cadets of Category:Military Youth Groups. The issue is that this category contains the category Category:Naval Cadet Organisations. Thus the article is already categorised in Category:Military Youth Groups as a matter of course. You probably did not notice this when you added it. I have reverted the addition of that category, and wanted you to know why.

As a convention we place articles in the lowest possible place in the category hierarchy.

Hope this helps you, and please enjoy future editing and contributing to Wikipedia

Fiddle Faddle 09:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see you created the new parent category. That may explain it. From my perspective "good call" with the parent category. Fiddle Faddle 09:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

New unit categories

If it's not too much trouble, could you hold off on creating lots of new categories until we've finished discussing the structure and naming conventions to use? As it is, it's likely to just be extra categories that will need complicated renamings. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 04:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

STA merges

Perhaps you are confused about the nature of the merges you suggested.

ISTAR and C4ISTAR are one thing: They describe a systems based doctrine for command, control, and surveillance/targeting. Those groups I have no problem with you merging.

However: RSTA is a physical type of squadron in the US Army. It's not just a doctrine: It's an actual type of squadron, just like cavalry or infantry (battalion). STA is the same thing for the USMC.

Merging these two would be like merging Hacker and Information Systems: just because the two cover similar ground does not mean they are the same.

I'm thus removing RSTA and STA from your merges. Your ISTAR/C4ISTAR merges are probably ok. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 23:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sold. I propose discussion occur here at Talk:C4ISTAR. -- MCG 03 Sept 06

Unfortunately it doesn't matter if you're sold or not, if your logical reasoning for the merge is faulty. I've explained it in depth at the c4ISTAR talk page, however I've removed again RSTA and STA from your merges. They refer to something completely different, in no way similar to C4ISTAR, therefore a merge is not valid. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 00:45, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I propose discussion occur here at Talk:C4ISTAR. -- MCG 04 Sept 06

Military unit categories

I would try to avoid getting too carried away with doing category renamings by hand; the proposal still has to be put through CFD before it's official (at which point there will be bots available to do most of it for us). Thanks! ;-) Kirill Lokshin 23:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

ABCA Armies

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RE: Science and technology

Much thanks for the invitation, but not interested. SteveMc 18:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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Addition To Military Technology & Equipment Request

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Category:Military units and formations of the Cold War

See proposal to delete Category:Military units and formations of the Cold War & Category:Military units and formations of the United States in the Cold War Hugo999 (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

U.S. spelling of 'defense'

Hi MCG, Thanks for the work with category updates. FYI, 'defence' is spelled 'defense' in the US, so Category:United States defence procurement should be renamed to Category:United States defense procurement. I can change it later today, unless you have some automated tools to do it faster. --CapitalR (talk) 21:49, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I knew that too. Sorry for the oversight. I have no tool that can do it faster, so please go ahead. MCG (talk) 05:14, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:Military units and formations by era

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Hand-coding

Hey all :).

I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).

You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).

If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Category:Military bridges and ferries

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2nd Canadian Infantry Division vs. 2nd Canadian Division

Hi, I've started a discussion here and would be interested in your take on it. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:27, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

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