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I should now be online most days, at least briefly, in the next few months, absent some unexpected RL matters or medical issues. If I expect to be offline for more than a day or two at a time, I will post a message here and on my user page. Donner60 (talk) 09:47, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

I am also watching things here.

I have added a prioritized to do list to my user page. These have been getting done much more slowly than intended because of coordinator tasks and other unanticipated editing that needed more immediate attention. Donner60 (talk) 05:06, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

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In appreciation

		The Good Article Rescue Barnstar
		This is presented to you by the GAR process in recognition of your sterling work in helping Flavian dynasty retain its Good Article status. Please feel free to display the GA icon on your userpage. Keep up the good work! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:34, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

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		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you, Donner60, for your straightforward review of the “Charles Thau” article. Your expertise (and time) to help get my 1st wiki article to B‑class status are deeply appreciated.

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		On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your election to the position of Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best of luck for the coming year! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

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		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for participating in 2 reviews between October and December 2025. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

James City CW Battle

Thanks for your comments and help a few months earlier. I finally made some more edits and submitted it for review if you have time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Battle_of_James_City

I think James City might be added to the Bristoe campaign now. I'm not familiar with the term for the Wiki "grouping/name" for a campaign.

I really appreciate your help and comments earlier. Qstor2 (talk) 13:55, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I will take a look at the article within the next day or two unless something delays me. I want to be more careful than I was with another reply recently which I did not get exactly right. "Grouping/name" does not ring a bell with me, but I may have forgotten it or think of it under another term. Did you see it on a page you can point out? Campaign may be described or defined on a project page but I would need to think about where to look for it. Closeness in time of the progression of battles and movement of armies may have something to do with it. I am reasonably sure that most, if not all, Civil War campaign names have been placed on a series of battles and movements by historians, and possibly contemporaries, for quite some time and they probably used names of a major battle within these movements. A few such as Peninsula, Antietam, Gettysburg and several others come to mind. Donner60 (talk) 07:20, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

USCGC Dione A-class

Hi Donner60, something got screwed up with the USCGC Dione A-class review. MilHist Bot closed the review as a fail, but then promoted the article's talk page. I also saw that you failed the review here because Phoenix was banned (back in January) as a sockpuppet. As the second nominator for the A-class review, would it still be possible to keep the review open as I am still active? GGOTCC 06:42, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@GGOTCC: This is an edited and I hope is a more accurate and clearer comment on how to progress this than the one I posted at 22:21.

I forgot to change the bot's A class assessment when I put the "fail" into the current status. It is a separate entry which the bot does not change automatically. I have changed it to B.

I have edited the assessment review to change the status on the review page to "current" from "fail". I have not done this before and don't recall ever seeing it done. For the next 24 hours, I am counting on the bot reopening the review page. Perhaps a new review page will need to be set up to confirm supports and pass the assessment to A.

I think the bot should reopen the review within the next 24 hours. If it doesn't, I will need to find out how to restart it unless the supports can be otherwise confirmed. I assume that if a new one is started the current reviews and comments can be transferred to it which would result in it not having to start the reviews and comments all over.

So with your changes, we may just need to confirm that the reviews' support votes still apply. The previous reviewers can be pinged when it is again ready for confirmation of supports or any necessary reviews to finalize the supports.

Let me know if you do not see the review reopened after 24 hours and I will see if restarting it on a new page is necessary or whether we can just confirm the supports and pass it to A class. Donner60 (talk) 23:01, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@Donner60: The Bot already closed the nomination, so you have to go through the WikiProject Military history/Academy/Creating an A-Class review or reappraisal procedure. I'll do this now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:16, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Hawkeye. I had not encountered this type of situation before. I thought I might be more or less on the right track but was not completely sure - as I think my comments showed. Donner60 (talk) 02:10, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

@GGOTCC: I have carried out the required move. Could you re-nominate the article? That way it will be listed against your name. You can ask the previous reviewers to re-confirm their support. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:25, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Also: I have corrected the Bot error. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:04, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

I have just done that, and contacted the reviewers. Thank you both for the help! GGOTCC 01:52, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for progressing this. Donner60 (talk) 02:11, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Update: @Hawkeye7: MilHist Bot just closed the new review and reverted my new listing for the same reason as before. Is this MilHist Bot's fault for a new review so soon after the old one, or have I incorrectly renominated the article? I will not revert the edits yet, because I am not sure if that would break things further. What is the best course of action here? GGOTCC 15:40, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for your help reopening USCGC Dione's A-class review! :) GGOTCC 02:12, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

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Civil War High Commands

Donner, I've been working through the article for Elkanah Greer in fits and starts over the course of several months and there are some dates which the sources disagree on - could you please look up what Eicher has for Greer? I'm particularly interested in what Eicher has for date of birth, the date that he was replaced as commander of the Trans-Miss conscription bureau, and any inkling of what he was doing between his resignation and when he was appointed to the conscription bureau position. Hog Farm _Talk 23:55, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1, pp.266-267. (266): Born Paris, TN 11 Oct. 1825. Moved to MS, Pvt. 1st (MS} Rifles, Mexican War. Moved to Texas, planter, merchant. Grand C. in C., Knights of the Golden Circle, 1859. Col. CSA 3 Tex Cav, 1 July 1861; South Kans. & Tex (267): Aug. 1861. Cav B, Army of the West, 13 Mar. 1862-1 June 1862, wounded Pea Ridge Ark. Mar. 1862 resigned 1 June 1862; Brig. Gen. CSA 8 Oct. 1862; Bureau of Conscription Trans.-Miss Dept. 8 Oct 1862 - 26 May 1865; Texas Reserve Cavalry Forces 27 Mar. 1865-26 May 1862; no record of parole. Died Devalls. Bluff, Ark. 25 Mar 1877, int. Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, TN. That is Eicher's information in its entirety. Nothing on the interim between the resignation and appointment to the conscription bureau. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9 which you may have, at p.118 notes that Jefferson Davis was colonel of the 1st Mississippi Rifles, that Greer was grand commander of the Knights of the Golden Circle, wounded at Elkhorn Tavern, the alternate name for Pea Ridge as I am sure you know. Warner says Greer tried to reconcile the laws of Richmond with the laws of Texas, not entirely successfully. He lived in Marshall, Texas after the war and died while vising his sister in DeValls Bluff, Ark. Also says he was "slightly wounded" rather than just wounded. Also nothing on the June to October 1862 period. No contradiction in dates. Hope that helps. Donner60 (talk) 07:38, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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For Talk:USS Arkansas (1863) - reassessment to b-class is this diff. Would the starting class be start-class as was hardcoded in the template, or c-class as would be indicated by the prior manual assessment of meeting all criteria except for b1? Hog Farm _Talk 00:58, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

This is an odd one. I looked at the changes in the assessments during the early years of the article, which were mainly made by bots or by users assisted by AWB, as in this case. Of course, the user is supposed to check all of the changes made (and presumably should have been made) by AWB. I also looked at the article immediately before and at the times the b4 criterion was changed. An assessment for the b4 (grammatical) criterion before it was changed to yes had been erroneously entered as yes/no, apparently by a bot or user assisted bot. Despite a run-on sentence, b4 seems to have been met all along. The user making the change to yes for b4 to correct an error apparently was the reason the user changed b4 to yes. He appears to have determined that "no" for b4 resulted from an erroneous yes/no entry, not because the article did not meet b4. Once that correction was made, the article met all criteria except b1. However, the editor using the AWB seems to have neglected to change the overall rating to C as should have been done as a result of correcting the b4 criteria. That left the contradiction in place for 12 years until your recent work on the article.

At first I thought that these inconsistences were caused by conflicting bots and that start could be the appropriate starting entry for work done this month. But when I noted that the user, only using a bot for help, actually changed a criterion which was considered "no" due to a "yes/no" entry, I thought that C was actually intended by that user 12 years ago but that user in turn made an error by leaving the rating at start. This present a hard case to me in some respects. But I think I have to come to the conclusion that it was a C class article when you started to work on it and was not shown as such due to a mistake in matching the rating with the criteria met. (I certainly hope that no other such cases arise, although it seems like a judgment call of a sort, I do think the history of the assessments leads to the conclusion I am expressing in this case.) Noting run-on sentences may appear in this odd hour reply: if this explanation is unclear in some way, misses something obvious or otherwise leaves you with some question or different analysis, please let me know. 07:27, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

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