User:Buckshot06

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

The key turning point was the increase in emphasis on WP:VERIFY. It unquestionably improved the quality of the encyclopedia, but it just as unquestionably changed us from a large community of online users sharing everything they know to a much smaller community of scholars willing to put in a significant amount of effort researching and documenting their use of reliable sources. That was a good thing for producing a more informative and trustworthy reference work, but it was effectively the end of "the encyclopedia everyone can edit", since most people simply can't or won't make the effort to do the kind of research required to make significant edits when every such edit requires an inline citation to a reliable published source. That combined with the exhaustion of many of the easiest topics has inevitably lead to the community shrinking. --User:Rusty Cashman, [1]

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Projects:

From Scratch:

Land Command (British Army)
Moscow Military District
Leningrad Military District
Other Soviet military districts
Chinese Ground Forces - Shenyang Military Region, Nanjing Military Region, other Chinese military regions
50th Armored Division (United States), 194th Armored Brigade (United States)
6th Guards Tank Army, 9th Army, 10th Army, 13th Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army, 29th Army, 33rd Army, 35th Army, 40th Army, 51st Army, other Soviet armies
27th Guards Rifle Division, 31st Guards Rifle Division, 59th Guards Rifle Division, 75th Guards Rifle Division, 30th Rifle Division
No. 18 Group RAF

Overhauls:

Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Russian Ground Forces
Armed Forces of Liberia (A-class)
List of Soviet armies
linking British divisions of World War One and World War Two with continuous histories together - 50th and ~~51st~~ to do
Expanding African army articles, including Military of Sierra Leone, Military of Guinea

In recognition of your diligent contributions towards the various reviews of military history articles, I am delighted to award you the *Content Review Medal*. Kirill 16:55, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I, noclador, hereby award you, **Buckshot06**, this barnstar for your extensive and tireless contributions to various army articles, especially your excellent contributions to articles about the armies of the Soviet Union and Russia. Keep up the good work! --noclador 10:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Awarded for your efforts in improving military history articles on an wide range of topics. Nick Dowling 09:43, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

		Wikiwings
		For your extensive contributions to Air Force-related articles (especially the Russian Air Force and People's Liberation Army Air Force) and commitment to article quality and consensus. Eurocopter Tigre 10:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For expanding, painstakingly researching, and improving the overall qualities of Soviet-military related articles, I have decided to award you the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Cheers, The Marshal.

I really appreciate the work you have contributed to the Soviet-army related articles; it's enlightening to have more Westerners be so interested in the area, particularly when it relates to not the Russians but the other minorities in the Soviet Union, i.e. the Armenians. So thanks.

For your consistently excellent edits and your continued commitment and tireless efforts towards improving the quality of articles pertaining to military history, and in recognition of your efforts towards maintaining the military history project, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves, Woody (talk) 21:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Awarded an honorary Red Army Guardsman badge for tireless contribution to Military History of the Red Army --Mrg3105 (talk) 03:56, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		Thanks for the addition of Structure of the Pakistan Army, it is a good article which can be improved and will be of great help to our visitors; thankyou very much for your this contribution. BurhanAhmed (talk • contribs) 17:00, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Military History Project Resources

I personally own Schofield's 'The Russian Elite,' Odom's 'The Collapse of the Soviet Military,' and, on the NATO side, 'Armies of NATO's Central Front,' if people want something looked up
User:Ceriy/Military terms
ru:Список_сокращённых_обозначений_в_Вооружённых_силах_СССР_и_России - List of abbreviations in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russia
Viktor Suvorov, Inside the Soviet Army online text, useful if you take it with a grain of salt

Other Stuff

This user likes to read Tintin
comic albums and books about Tintin.

This user is a member of WikiProject: Russian and Soviet military history task force

This user is interested in Wikipedia:Statistics
Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
WP:SELFPUB
Wikipedia:MOS#Bulleted and numbered lists
Special:longpages
https://stats.grok.se/ - operator is User:Henrik
MOS:APPENDIX
See also fr:Utilisateur:Buckshot06
WP:OWB - a good essay
https://africacenter.org/2011/01/ - Africa news review
Wikipedia:Articles about ongoing enterprises - includes Jimmy Wales quote
https://www.history.navy.mil/shiphist/index.htm
Sade; Contact Group

Onwards and upwards

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This user has visited 9 of the 205 countries in the world.

- Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, and a few others..

Want to (and will) go to,
but have no certain plans just yet:

You asked me what the source was. It's from a book called "Air Commando:Fifty Years Of USAF Air Commando and Special Operations Command, 1944-1994 Jak474 (talk) 22:37, 19 August 2016 (UTC)