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For your contributions to bring Medal of Honor (estimated annual readership: 814,448) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! -- Bobnorwal ( talk) 13:04, 14 May 2015 (UTC) |
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Hi Foxtrot5151. I noticed that in your edits on Billy Mitchell, you used the term ibid in some of the citations. Since ibid is totally dependent on the content of the immediately preceding citation, and any editor could make a change that disrupts that connection by inserting an intervening citation or moving text around, it (and also any other of the Latin citation abbreviations) should not be used. Could you convert those to proper Wikipedia citation format? Indyguy ( talk) 17:35, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Been meaning to ask this for some time. Usually, sourcing for dates of rank of four-star military officers is easy, as they often appear in news articles of their promotions, videos of their promotion ceremonies, or appendices in their Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing documents. The latter are digitized. However, a particular one is missing from the GovInfo archives: the one for the second session of the 106th Congress.
This document stands out as all the other ones (including the 106th's first session) during this period have been digitized. This document contains the dates of rank of GEN Tommy R. Franks, GEN William F. Kernan and LTG Robert B. Flowers, among others, which will prove useful for List of United States Army lieutenant generals from 1990 to 1999, List of United States Army lieutenant generals from 2000 to 2009 and List of United States Army four-star generals. The Army four-star generals page has Kernan sitting pretty without a specific rank date (currently stuck at July 2000) since its creation.
My question is, do you happen to have that PDF in your research archive anywhere that I can use? If not, do you have tips on who to contact and how an email to them should look like, especially if it's the NARA legislative archive that you've contacted before? SuperWIKI ( talk) 04:59, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Do you have any past experience requesting non-publicly available service records/General Officer Management Office (GOMO) biographies? The reason why I ask is because some officers in this list, among others, don't have a specific date of rank (DOR). Still can't find the DORs of Alexander Haig, Sam S. Walker and William F. Kernan (even after searching S. 106-985). So far, I've tried requesting the GOMO biographies of these officers from the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair but haven't got anything back yet for the past week. Doesn't help that the trio, among others I'm looking for, retired after 1960.
May I have some tips on how to request DORs, seeing as requesting details from the National Personnel Records Center looks very painful? This includes, especially if you got Doolittle's records from the NPRC, what the NPRC email is (they don't seem to have a publicly-listed one since 2011), how to format an email asking for DORs as a Wikipedian (highly specific and unusual for them, I assume) and other tips from your past experience. SuperWIKI ( talk) 05:53, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
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