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Lewis Lyne article
editThe sentence starting with "Too young to see service during the First World War..." seemed possibly inaccurate to me. An article in War History Online https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-boy-soldiers-of-wwi.html entitled "Almost 250,000 Boys Under The Age Of 18 Fought In The British Army In WWI" states that the age of enlistment was 18 and the age for service overseas was 19. Unless this is wrong or there was another condition, or I don't fully understand it, it seems Lyne was old enough to have served in the last months of WWI without even being in the large group of underage boys who served despite the age requirements. (Many were mustered out as the war progressed if their parents produced a birth certificate showing their actual age but many were also casualties.) I mention this for your consideration in case you wish to remove the phrase. My guess is that someone would question it if it were included without a further explanation. Donner60 (talk) 04:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, he could have. Overseas service was consider to be leaving the UK for France, not Australia for the UK, so the AIF had an entire battalion of 18 year olds who were trained in the UK and then shipped to France as reinforcements when they reached the age of 19. In Lyne's case he did not graduate from Sandhurst until April 1919. I have re-worded the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:59, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Anna Lee Fisher, about "one of the first six women selected to be astronauts by NASA in 1978. During her long and distinguished career at NASA, she was involved with the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion spacecraft. This article is the fifth in the series about the first six women astronauts, following Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Kathryn Sullivan and Rhea Seddon. Unlike those astronauts, Fisher has no biography, so its writing was more difficult."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter
editThe fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:
- Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
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Voting for coordinators is now open!
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The Signpost: 4 September 2024
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MILHIST articles for review and GAs issue
editHi Hawkeye7, I've spotted two issues with the MILHIST articles for review template and thought I should bring them to your notice. The template still shows 4 GARs, 1 FAC and at least 2 GACs as being active, even though all of these have been closed. Additionally, on the list of open tasks page, it still lists the Thorsten Nordenfelt FPC as being active, even though it has been closed for about 10 months now. I think there may be some issue with a bot which is still leading to these reviews being marked active.
The other issue is with the MILHIST GA list. I've recently added WPMH tags to at least 15 GAs which are under the WPMH purview but the tags were never added to them. I went through the MILHIST GA category and noticed that these were not being listed over there. I think there are 10s of such GAs which can be added to WPMH, I've yet to go through the full list. How do you think this can be fixed, will it have to be done manually? Thanks in advance and cheers Matarisvan (talk) 16:21, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, I went through the GA category for WPMH and the recent additions have also been added there. They weren't when I last checked, but they are now. My apologies. However, the first issue is still current. Matarisvan (talk) 16:24, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- I am currently in Europe for the Paralympic Games, but will investigate when return. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 16:58, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Hawkeye7. Since you commented on a previous FLC for this article, I'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at the current FLC spearheaded by The Herald and myself? We've addressed the issues in the previous FLC and I believe this article is ready. ~ Matthewrb Talk to me · Changes I've made 03:36, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-37
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- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [5][6]
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This Month in GLAM: August 2024
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Congratulations, and thenk you today for Frederick Browning, introduced (in 2022) as "about Boy Browning, a British Army general and Olympian who served as head of the Duke of Edinburgh's office. His wife is more famous than he is." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-38
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Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
editVoting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
Gulf of Tonkin incident
editI noticed your PhD in military history among your qualifications for the upcoming military history coordinator elections. I hope the election gives you support.
On a separate issue I am hoping you might suggest interested professional historians I might contact regarding my theory about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. My interest was aroused because I experienced a similar situation aboard USS Chicago on PIRAZ station several years later. I was the officer in charge of Chicago's RIM-24 Tartar missile battery and was standing the midnight to 4 AM midwatch as the combat information center (CIC) weapons control officer. It was a quiet night until the AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR picked up a surface contact zig-zagging toward us at about 40 knots in typical torpedo boat fashion from the direction of Haiphong. The CIC evaluator called the captain to CIC and the captain ordered general quarters. The contact was being tracked by the AN/SPS-43 air search RADAR, by the AN/SPG-49 fire control RADAR for the RIM-8 Talos missiles, and by the AN/SPG-25 RADAR of the MK 37 Gun Fire Control System. The contact was out of gun range, and the long-range Talos missiles were unable to engage surface ships. My Tartar missiles were theoretically capable of engaging a surface target at that range, but my AN/SPG-51 fire-control RADAR could not achieve the RADAR lock required to fire. The captain turned away from the contact at best possible speed, which was significantly less than 40 knots, so the contact kept closing the range.
We vectored a combat air patrol fighter out for a visual check, but the pilot was unable to see anything in the darkness. The gun fire control RADAR dropped track as the contact came within gun range, as did the other RADARs. Subsequent discussions with navy veterans indicated similar RADAR phantoms had been observed in the Gulf of Tonkin as early as the second world war. These were generally regarded as "freak weather events" although Admiral Stanley Thomas Counts suggested they may have been flocks of cormorants. I think Admiral Counts' suggestion deserves wider recognition. These black birds would be very difficult to see during hours of darkness, and might disappear from RADAR if the flock dispersed or the birds landed in the water.
While cormorants are seldom observed in flocks significantly seaward of coastal roosting trees, the Đàn boat people of the Tonkin Gulf used an unusual fishing method which offered roosting opportunities far from shore. In the vicinity of the Vietnam war PIRAZ station, three-generation families of Đàn lived aboard small sailboats tending fish traps our Navy called "fish sticks". I do not know the actual design of these traps, but they could be visually observed as a collection of bamboo poles floating semi-vertically. I speculate these poles would have offered perches for cormorants, and the cormorants would presumably have been attracted to any fish which might have been in the traps. I further speculate the Đàn might have tried to protect their catch by chasing away these flocks of cormorants, and our RADAR phantoms might have been wandering flocks of cormorants seeking another perch in the hours of darkness. Can you suggest someone who might be interested in investigating this speculation? Thewellman (talk) 02:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)