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Tech News: 2026-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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The Bugle: Issue 242, June 2026

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at three recent works Timeline: This month in military history

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Your nomination of Edward Victor Appleton is under review

Your good article nomination of the article Edward Victor Appleton is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of A.Cython -- A.Cython (talk) 01:03, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Anniversary

	Celebrating 21 years!
	Celebrating your 21 years of editing Wikipedia and illustrating your achievements with the first image you uploaded to Commons – General Brehon B. Somervell. Oronsay (talk) 08:42, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Oh wow! Thanks for this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:46, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Hawkeye7, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 15:59, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Edward Victor Appleton has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Edward Victor Appleton has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of A.Cython -- A.Cython (talk) 18:02, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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Tech News: 2026-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
• After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
• An update to Search is refining how the -prefix: behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using -prefix: with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, -prefix: will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of prefix: without negation however remains unchanged.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 11:46, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

WikiCup 2026 July newsletter

The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, while peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• MCE89 (submissions) with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews
• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews
• Reconrabbit (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews
• A.Cython (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from good articles about warfare, along with 22 article reviews
• Generalissima (submissions) with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 13 reviews between April and June 2026 Donner60 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 02:45, 3 July 2026 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

WikiCanberra July 2026

We hope to see you at the next WikiCanberra meetup on 18 July!

FYI: error msg in Manhattan project article

FYI I was looking at Manhattan project and saw a red error msg in the cites:

138. Nichols 1987, p. 47 Cite error: The named reference "Nichols 1987 47" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

Thought you'd want to know. Great article! Noleander (talk) 02:07, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I've fixed it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of Ernest J. King

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, Ernest J. King, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:05, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.

Updates for technical contributors

• In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
• The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the src attribute and SVG in the srcset attribute.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

The 2026 Core Contest Winners!

The winners of the 2026 Core Contest are announced 🎉. A huge turnout that resulted in one of our trickiest deliberation sessions. The judges (Aza24, Femke and Casliber) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners!

• First place (and a prize of £120) goes to Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk · contribs) for his dual efforts on Flatbread and Tortilla! One, formerly an unsourced list-like article, and the other, once a poorly sourced and spotty overview, both now number 250+ citations from an impressively academic source pool. We particularly commend the efforts to globalize content, treat the topics comprehensively and thoughtfully select illustrations. Both articles (one now a GA) are of a uniquely high quality amid the often underserved food topics on Wikipedia. Bravo!
• Second place (and a prize of £100) goes to Phlsph7 (talk · contribs), a Core Contest regular who has once again shown a mastery of big topics, with his dual efforts on Agnosticism and Premise—both now GAs (one, with a review by our first place winner!). With immensely thorough sourcing improvements, alongside carefully nuanced text on these often misunderstood topics, both articles are a pleasure to read.
• Third place (and a prize of £80) goes to MCE89 (talk · contribs), whose improvements to the Heard Island and McDonald Islands article have led to a triumphant FA declaration. The incredible balance of detail between human, geographical and flora-fauna elements is a great achievement, and sets a high standard for future island articles.

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June 2026 Good Article Backlog Drive

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	This award is given in recognition to Hawkeye7 for accumulating at least 7 points during the 2026 June GA backlog elimination drive. Thank you for your efforts! -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:20, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Greetings

Nice to bump into you at DYK! It has been a while since we met at the stay in Esino! Hope you are doing well. Shyamal (talk) 09:39, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Gosh! That was a long time ago! I'm still here. Still active at DYK although I never got the 500 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:56, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue VI, June 2026 Headlines From the team: Tools, tech, and Wikimania Argentina report: New digitization partner Bangladesh report: International Museum Day Edit-a-thon and Workshop held in Dinajpur, Bangladesh Belgium report: Postal Mission on Wikimedia Brazil report: Empowering Institutions through Wikisource Education and GLAM Capacity Building Czech Republic report: Bridging the gap between labs and Wikipedia: continuing cooperation with FZU Egypt report: From Museum Celebrations to Archival Documentation Finland report: Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu France report: #1lib1ref Recap and International Archives Week Italy report: Heritage and Community Action Mexico report: Open GLAM in Puebla Netherlands report: Interview with Olaf Janssen, Wikimedia coordinator of the KB, National library of the Netherlands New Zealand report: BAU at Auckland Museum, Otago Uni Library Life and the NZBSI WiR is complete North Macedonia report: Collaboration with the Botanical garden at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje Poland report: Poland Report: New Partnerships, Conferences, and Wikimedians in Residence Serbia report: Opening the Doors of Serbian Heritage: Wikimedia Serbia’s Recent GLAM and Wikidata Successes Spain report: GLAM Labs Futures 2026 Sweden report: Finnish-Swedish cooperation Switzerland report: Exhibition, International Archives Week Panel UK report: Ninth Good Article from Khalili partnership USA report: Philadelphia WikiSalon Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members AvoinGLAM report: Is the sauna still hot? Memory of the World report: New articles Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 13 July 2026

• News and notes: An exclusive club
  Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.

• In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
  Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!

• Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making
  Rules we can actually read, trust and change!

• Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
  And other research findings.

• News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
  The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.

• Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026
  Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.

• Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now
  A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.

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  Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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  If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.

• Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
  We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.

• Comix: schnozzed
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Tech News: 2026-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
• The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
• View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
• To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:09, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

III Armored Corps vs. III Corps

Hey Hawkeye7, Got an issue for the Military History Lead Coordinator that I don't know how to solve without it becoming edit-revert-edit-revert ad infinitem. The entry for what should be III Corps (United States) is currently given as III Armored Corps. This is completely inaccurate and confusing, but sadly also sustained by the actual III Corps website (https://home.army.mil/hood/units-tenants/iii-corps). I've even written the III Corps PAO to see what their response is, but have not received a response yet. I will paraphrase from that note to identify the issue:

When was the unit redesignated as "III Armored Corps"? I find no corroborating evidence that the name has changed from III Corps from either the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH), which is responsible for the lineage and honors of units within the United States Army, or by The Institute of Heraldry (TIOH), which is responsible for designing, approving and maintaining unit insignia, etc.

And for the historical record, according to the Army Lineage Series Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades, p. 95, published by the CMH, there was an actual III Armored Corps (its SSI was the Armor triangle with the Roman numeral "III" in the top yellow corner), which existed in the early days of World War II from 7 July 1942 to 10 October 1943, at which point it was redesignated at the XIX Corps, and served with distinction in the European Theater of Operations attached to either the First or Ninth Armies.

The CMH lineage ( Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, III Corps ) also does not recognize the current III Corps as having any common lineage with either the III Armored Corps or the XIX Corps.

Do you have any suggestions how to fix this? The knock-on effects are pretty wide ranging for Wikipedia. If you want III Armored Corps (actual, aka XIX Corps), you land on the III Corps page. Likewise, if you are looking for III Corps (actual), it is hard to find (it doesn't even show up in the autofilled hits) because it is misnamed; and if you know there was a REAL III Armored Corps, search hits give III Corps (actual) and incidentally XIX Corps. Also, if we fix the naming problem, how many other articles are affected that reference the article that need to be fixed to redirect to the corrected article?

What a mess! Appreciate any ideas you may have. Regards, Greg Bilhartz (talk) 14:54, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes. In the early part of World War II, the United States Army formed five armoured corps, copying the German panzer corps. The type corps was abandoned in 1943. Patton's I Armored Corps became the Seventh Army; the other became regular corps: II Armored Corps became XVIII Corps, III Armored Corps became XIX Corps, IV Armored Corps became XX Corps and V Armored Corps became XXI Corps. The SSI of each was the Armored Force triangle with the corps' Roman numeral (divisions used the triangle with arabic numerals). Only the I Armored Corps saw action before being renamed.

The present day III Armored Corps is what was known as the III Corps and uses its SSI (the caltrop) and lineage. It was deactivated in 1946, reactivated in 1951 and deactivated again in 1959 before being reactivated at Fort Hood (where it remains) in 1962. Its main constituents are the three armored divisions: the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, and the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley. Despite the names, all three are armored divisions. I'm not sure when they started calling it the III Armored Corps. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:10, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Hawkeye7. Yes, I'm familiar with the histories you recount (actually have all those armored corps patches in my collection!).

The problem is, III Corps is claiming a title that officially is not theirs. The Wikipedia problem is, by doing so, Wikipedia is unable to provide accurate links to the correct organization and perpetuates the disinformation promulgated by the unit.

Regardless of how "III Armored Corps" styles itself, it is officially III Corps. Personally, I would say the Wikipedia entries should reflect their official designation and perhaps include a note that recaps what I explained in my first note to you.

However, I'm not about to do that without getting some topcover from you and the editors and get into an edit/revert war.

I'm asking for some guidance on how to proceed. Do we follow III Corps's lead and muck up the historical record? Or do we lay out the truth, include a note of clarification, and be the sort of definitive reference we try to be? Thank. Regards, Greg Bilhartz (talk) 20:06, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Well, we lay out the truth but note WP:COMMONNAME: Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's official name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable, English-language sources) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:16, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

But to put it succinctly: If someone types "III Armored Corps", it should redirect you to XIX Corps. Yes? Taking you to the Phantom Corps is factually wrong and confounding to someone who does not have our knowledge of military history. Regards, Greg Bilhartz (talk) 01:32, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

I think it should go to III Corps, as that is most likely what the user is looking for. An explanatory note would be good. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:23, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

III Corps is what we called it when I was assigned to it during the '80s and what was on the HQ building, for what it's worth.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:18, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

I was at Fort Hood in the 1990s and the III Armored Corps name was in use then. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

23 Parachute Engineer Regiment

Hi Hawkeye. Would you mind taking a look at 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment#Death of Connor Morrison? I noticed the section when checking on some other stuff in the article. I don't really do much editing of articles about military units, but the section seems a little bit WP:UNDUE, at least to me. I figured I'd ask someone involved with MILHIST to take a look at it to see whether it's OK. Since you're listed as the lead coordinator, I thought you'd be a good person to ask. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

I have removed it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:21, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look at this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:18, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

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