User:Donner60

Highest priority; priorities more or less in this order unless a task can be done quickly
A. Military history project coordinator work.
1a. Correct Battle of Gettysburg casualty revision.
1b. Help improve Battle of Antietam to retain GA assessment if I can get to it and other editors (mainly Hog Farm) do not complete it.
1. Improve Battle of Atlanta to regain GA assessment.
2. Rewrite Battle of Augusta (1862).
3. Improve Grierson's Raid; improve Battle of Newton's Station or merge it into Grierson's Raid.
Middle priority:
4. Finish expanding John McClernand for possible higher assessment rating.
5. Minor expansion and clarification of attention to text about care of wounded in Battle of Gettysburg and possibly reduce or improve concluding sections.
6. Finish improvement of Battle of Greenbrier River.
Lower priority:
7. Finish new 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battery article.
8. Add Missing House of Burgesses bios for 1619 session; brief ones if necessary to start.
9. Copy edit, improve introductory sections American Civil War brevet Union generals list
10. New article on "Widow Blakely" blakely rifle. May not be enough info on this so it may not get done, will keep a few sentences in Blakely rifle article for now.
11. Possible Greenback Raid article.
12. Complete offline or in sandbox and post an article on Bvt. Gen. Andrew J. Alexander, if an adequate one can be completed (already started).
13. Battle of Strasburg Terrible and inaccurate stub article, needs to probably be deleted; substantial change and merger into another article may be the best this can do, if that. I put a note on the talk page about all this.
14. Work on requested American Civil War articles for military history project to the extent such articles can be written consistent with notability, verifiability etc. I have some started with a paragraph and source or two but they now have to take low priority.
15. 16. 17. Minor battle articles Battle of Albuquerque, Battle of Brentwood need better citations and possibly a little expansion; George B. Boomer could be expanded a little.
And:
Some gnome work; adding needed references to articles.
I will try to spend time on lower priority articles and article improvements only when I can devote short periods of time online on a given day. I don't want to be distracted from military history project coordinator work or work on priority items for long periods of time or I will never get them done.
If an important article needs prompt work to keep assessments or correct errors, I will add them to the priority list if I can, although I don't want to put off existing priorities or needed military history project coordinator work very often, as just noted.
If someone brings to my attention needed work of an article in my area of concentration that I think I can help on, I will try help if I can. Again, unless a quick response or fix is possible, my already rather long list and the military history project coordinator work and possible gnome work mentioned almost certainly will need to take priority. Quick completion time estimates likely will not be possible (or, alternatively put, I should not promise more or faster work than I can reasonably deliver).

To help find important pages at the wikiproject military history; have also bookmarked these and a few others.

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User:Evad37/rater Rater helps fill in assessments and other parameters for WikiProject banners. Find it in the "Tools" dropdown menu on the default Vector (2022) skin. Use Alt+5 to open Rater (on Windows, or a similar combination for other OSs) without using the dropdown menu. Rater is available from either the page itself or its talk page, in all namespaces, apart from Special pages and base User and User talk pages (but is still available for userspace drafts in subpages).

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history Scope. 8 broad areas. 2. Military personnel, including both leaders and common soldiers, as well as other people involved in military affairs.[Note 3] Military service does not in and of itself place an individual within the scope of the project—particularly in the case of service in modern militaries. To qualify them, an individual's military service must have been somehow noteworthy or have contributed—directly or indirectly—to their notability.

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User:Donner60/Military History Project duplicates review alerts for now; maybe add to this or remove it

Draft for February 2025 Bugle

{{WPMILHIST Newsletter section header 2|Contest department}} {| style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; background: transparent;" |- style="vertical-align:top;text-align: center;" | [[Image:WikiChevrons.png|40x40px]] [[Image:Writer's barnstar.png|40x40px]] |} * The January 2025 edition of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest|contest department]]'s article writing, and improvement, contest saw {{u|Gog the Mild}} take the top spot with 51 points from 4 articles, 2 promoted to FA class and 1 started at GA class and another brought from start class to GA class. He claims the Wikichevrons as his prize. {{u|simongraham}} finished second in the January contest with 43 points from 7 articles 7, 5 brought to GA and 2 started at B class and was awarded the Writer's Barnstar. Other entries in January were submitted by Djmaschek, Hog Farm, Parsecboy and Zawed. Monthly totals are applied to the overall 2025 Writers, Cup, which will be decided at the end of December.<br> The February edition of the contest is now open. Please consider submitting your current article projects as entries into this friendly competition. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2025/Footer}}

The somewhat makeshift collection of user boxes to start the page was a small group at first. Through additions, it became longer. I found that I could not readily disentangle the cross full page grouping. Perhaps it is the combination of conventional, reconstructed and custom boxes. Maybe I just haven't taken enough time to find the right formatting. Now, it does not seem worth the time to change the page to place the user boxes in a column or two. I may try to do that some day or place them all at the bottom of the page, as some users have done. Since most of my content is in collapsible lists, that placement of user boxes at the bottom seems to me to be much the same as the current format. I would rather not hide them in sections because much of my information about what I do and have done here is in them. I had adjusted the format enough so the user boxes didn't scatter around the screen but I suppose they may not display quite as well on screens with narrower margins and, as noted above, will probably scatter again with the 2022 vector skin discussed above.

I now use collapsible sections to keep a compact first look at the page and the content topics. Over the years, lists of my articles, activities at the project, research library and other matters related to the project have grown. I have created sub-pages to keep this content because this page had too many bytes and even as revised had sometimes still been hard to save. I had to split some of the original sub-pages for this reason but perhaps that is better anyway. Most of my books used for research are listed on some of them.

I occasionally have been interested by lists (including the lists about my activities here). Many years ago I bought a book entitled: The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace; New York: Morrow, 1977: ISBN 978-0-688-03183-1 (which became a #1 bestseller). I have created (italics) or largely expanded some lists here at Wikipedia including: List of American Civil War generals, List of American Civil War generals (Union), List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union), List of American Civil War generals (Confederate), List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate), List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War, Bibliography of the American Revolutionary War, and Bibliography of the American Civil War.

The number of times my pages have been vandalized in the user box is the number of separate edits by vandals. A few vandals made several edits before their vandalism was reverted. So, I have added all or most of the vandalism edits to my pages to the userbox count. Thanks to User:DeltaQuad, now AmandaNP, for keeping this number stable by semi-protecting this page on October 31, 2016.

Template awards for my DYK articles and a list of DYK articles that I have reviewed have been moved to User:Donner60/DYK. I have retained the text of my DYK articles in a section below as well.

My On this day Articles:
A June 17 anniversary from one of the new articles that I created appeared on the On this day section of the Main Page on June 17, 2012:
1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the earliest military movements of troops by train in the world.

A March 29 anniversary from two articles that I rewrote and substantially expanded (Appomattox Campaign and Battle of Lewis's Farm) appeared in the "On this day" section of the Main Page on March 29, 2015:
1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.

An April 1 anniversary from an article that I substantially expanded, Battle of Five Forks although stated in an April Fool way, appeared in the "On this day" section of the Main Page on April 1, 2015: 1865 – American Civil War: Ordered to hold five forks, Confederate General George Pickett (pictured) instead lost almost 3,000

A June 1, 2022 On this day anniversary article: 1861 – The first land battle of the American Civil War after Fort Sumter took place in the village of Fairfax, Virginia.

When I thought to check the latter two articles at a later date, not long after they were used in the On this day section, I had contributed 84.6% of the text of Appomattox Campaign, 89.7% of the content of Battle of Lewis's Farm and 91.8% of the content of Battle of Five Forks. So I think it was fair to include them. Despite the addition of some irrelevant content about re-enactments and commemorations added by another editor, my contribution to the article was still 83.0% of the content at the time of the later post on this page.

An April 1 anniversary from an article that I substantially expanded, Battle of Five Forks again appeared in the "On this day" section of the Main Page on April 1, 2019: "1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army inflicted over 2,900 casualties on the Confederates in the Battle of Five Forks." The page history still showed that the great majority of the article was written by me as of the date of the on this day posting.

Barnstars Awarded and Given

Moved to User:Donner60/Barnstars