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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIV (December 2008)
This month saw 14 military history-related articles promoted to featured status, the highest number for a single month since the project's establishment in October 2002. Congratulations all round!
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Who will be the three "2008 Military historians of the Year"? There are 13 candidates so far and the number is rising rapidly. The winning editors will receive the Gold, Silver and Bronze Wikis; and all other nominees the WikiProject barnstar. To nominate editors you admire, or to cast your votes, please visit here!
A new drive has been started to identify the core topics of World War I with the aim of improving their quality before the centenary of the start of World War I in 2014.
Thanks for catching my gaffe over the Nursing in Ireland article! I'm afraid I don't know that part of the world well enough, and so just used the existing subheading as the page title. Cheers, Basie (talk) 12:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
HMS Inflexible (1876)
Back in December 2006 you worked on the above article for HMS Inflexible. I have been trying to trace the origin of the caption on the image at the top of that article, which says the original masts were removed in 1885. As far as i can see, this comment appeared somewhere in the middle of your edits. Anyway, there is a picture of a painting of the battle of Alexandria, 1882, which shows the ships masts pretty much as they are after the supposed 1885 changes. The picture appears p. 80 in the the book, 'the life of lord fisher of Kilverstone' by Admiral R h bacon, supposedly painted by the Chevalier de Martino. Of course, it is entirely possible the chevalier was not present and obtained a picture of the ship after its alterations, but still this is an anomaly. Wondered if you know anything about it? Sandpiper (talk) 20:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)