User talk:Ricky Shaw

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Untitled[edit]

Hi Ricky, welcome to Wikipedia. Please provide a brief edit summary when you edit articles - especially when (e.g. recent edit to RAOC article) you remove a lot of text.

A couple of the articles you've written may be of questionable notability so to give your contributions a good chance to last I'd recommend ensuring there are sufficient 3rd-party references. Another thing to think about is what categories to put the new articles in. DexDor (talk) 18:59, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join MILHIST[edit]

Hello Ricky Shaw! Thank you for your contributions.

If you would be interested in joining a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history, please take a look at the Military history WikiProject—we would be delighted to have you! If you like what you see, please sign your name here, and a project coordinator will soon be along with a formal welcome. Regards, Anotherclown (talk) 08:17, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to MILHIST[edit]

Hello 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.

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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! Anotherclown (talk) 10:11, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

my error[edit]

I apologize for my series of very confusing errors this morning with your article Controllers/Directors/Directors General Ordnance Services 1942-1983) When I realized that I had idiotically missed seeing the main page, I was forced by a technical limitation that even as an admin I could not over-ride to move it to its current name General Ordnance Services heads 1942-1983. I think I fixed the redirects. My apologies. Please don't think of this as a bad omen. I, and the other people here too, are not usually so foolish. DGG ( talk ) 17:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

no problems[edit]

Thanks for getting in touch and absoloutely no need to apologise. In due course might change title a little when I have constructed the complete list from 1892-1993. I am a neophyte at all this and left the article unfinished because I could not get the tabulation right. Your layout most helpful. Ricky Shaw (User talk: Ricky Shaw) 22:37, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history coordinator election[edit]

Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Kirill ^[talk] 17:16, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history coordinator election[edit]

Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 22:16, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history coordinator election[edit]

Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 29 September. Yours, Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:22, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User group for Military Historians[edit]

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) 11:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive[edit]

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]