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Always precious

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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you for your memory of this great honour. I hardly feel worthy, but I will endeavour to be of whatever little value I can to this encyclopaedia in future. RGloucester — ☎ 02:28, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Orlik (armoured train)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Orlik (armoured train) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 March 6 § Orlik (armoured train) until a consensus is reached. CitrusHemlock 18:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection of "Law enforcement in Ukraine"

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Hello. Ten years ago you have erased the content of the article Law enforcement in Ukraine and redirected it to the article Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine): diff. What was the reason to do so? Tohaomg (talk) 12:10, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tohaomg: Apologies for the delay in my reply. As you are aware, at that time, 'law enforcement in Ukraine' was being completely reorganised. The militia abolished, the National Police established...and our articles on the subject were in a right old state. Prior to my reorganisation, there was no independent article for the Ukrainian militsiya. The content was spread across law enforcement in Ukraine and Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine). In order to make way for new content relating to the reorganised law enforcement scheme, I created Militsiya (Ukraine), and moved all content related to the former militia there. The article on the ministry was refocused on the its new role as a pure government department, and content related to the new police service was placed at National Police of Ukraine. At the time, there was no existing content for a seperate 'law enforcement of Ukraine' article, and so it was merged, as you saw. I can say that you have done a great job on the new article using that title. Thanks very much for improving our articles related to Ukraine! RGloucester — ☎ 11:47, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Hi RGloucester. Thank you for your work on Mitsui High-tec. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for taking the time to write the article! Have a blessed day!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|SunDawn}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 12:10, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion

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Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 15 § The war in Ukraine until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 13:42, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025

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Information icon Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Mitsui High-tec. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. Thanks. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:29, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bolding

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It's minor, but the bolded text was based on Invasion of Poland, which was what I was working off of here. I think it's important to say "was" here, to be clear that we are talking about the events of 2022. FOARP (talk) 09:25, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@FOARP: Thank you for your message. Yes, I saw that in your edit summary, but it is not clear to me why the 'invasion of Poland' article should be treated as any kind of model. I think MOS:AVOIDBOLD is pretty clear on this point. It should be our goal to avoid redundant and clumsy wording; I reckon that even you may be able to admit that the text was a tad unwieldy. Think of the reader! RGloucester — ☎ 09:48, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
One thing I'm starting to think you might have been right about: it might have been better to just write an article about the invasion de novo rather than use the draft. Whilst the draft already existed and was basically OK, making it a better article runs up against the very large amount of primary sourcing used to write it. FOARP (talk) 12:36, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@FOARP: At this point, there are more than enough good, academic sources with a military history focus chronicling the invasion. The ideal approach would be to use these, and abandon news sourcing altogether. This is what I would have suggested, had there have been a discussion on the matter. In days of yore, I would have been happy to contribute to such an article, but my access to good sources on Ukraine is somewhat diminished by my present locale. Never mind that I have no interest in getting involved in a 'contentious' folderol, which is what I know editing any such article will end up being. Don't think that I don't appreciate your efforts; I simply think of the reader, and the mess he will have to wade through to get to any information of relevance. RGloucester — ☎ 13:02, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Russo-Ukrainian war (2014–2022)

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Hello, RGloucester,

Please when you use your Page Mover tool, ALWAYS leave a redirect behind. By not doing so for this page move, you created dozens and dozens of broken redirects (it was 61 broken redirects to be specific). I do not know why page movers don't like to leave redirects behind when they move an article but it really messes things up. If you don't want to leave a redirect, then please check "What links here" and manualy correct all of the pages that are linked to the article you want to move. That would be a project that can keep you occupied for a few hours. Liz Read! Talk! 23:18, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Good morning, and my most sincere apologies for having created more of a mess than had already been created. In my haste to resolve the debacle that had been imposed by one wayward editor, I failed to note that the 'Leave a Redirect' box was unchecked. Again, my deepest apologies, and thank you for your swift action on this manner. RGloucester — ☎ 00:19, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting some help in copy edit

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Hi,

Greetings @RGloucester, I am User:Bookku. I initiate and support update in information and knowledge gap areas on WP wherever whenever possible. Time to time, also invite other users in draft/ article expansion work or copyedit help for diversity in inputs.

Requesting you to visit the draft article User:Bookku/My Choice (2015 film) and provide copy edit or any suitable input, article expansion help in the draft, if the topic interests you.

Just fyi: How I came to user name? My general way is mentioned on my user page. In this specific instance: A page in my watch list was edited by you with summary c/e.

Thanks Bookku (talk) 03:40, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good afternoon, and thank you for your message. Whilst in normal circumstances I would be happy to help, I do not feel comfortable copyediting text written in a variety of English (Indian English) with which I am not intimately familiar. Kindly consider making a request at WP:GOCE. The veteran copyeditors there will be happy to help. Yours, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 07:38, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I understand. Thanks and happy editing. Bookku (talk) 08:00, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]