Hog Farm

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Things to review

Things to write

1. User:Hog Farm/Siege of Vicksburg
2. Engagement at Fredericktown- MHR article and unit history; needs trip to library
3. Fort Pemberton (Mississippi)
4. CSS Colonel Lovell

Current projects

1. CSS General Earl Van Dorn-Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/CSS General Earl Van Dorn

"Pasta" is watching my talk page. Or looking for an opportunity to step on my keyboard while I'm trying to edit. I don't know which.

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		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves for Hog Farm isthename in the English Wikipedia's coverage of the American Civil War, with dozens on dozens of articles of quality, and has devoted years of his time and energy to the coordination and maintenance of MILHIST.Hawkeye7(discuss)19:20, 2 October 2023 (UTC).Harrias(talk) viaMilHistBot(talk)00:30, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Congrats, HF! 👍🏻Peacemaker67(click to talk to me)01:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Congratulations!Hawkeye7(discuss)02:19, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

This is quite the honor - it's humbling to think that I'd be considered for this.Hog Farm_Talk02:24, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Hog Farm. Just reaching out as you and I and User:Buidhe seem to be the only editors who have been granted theWikiChevrons with Oak Leaves so far this decade. It's a much more exclusive club these days, and I'm honored to share it with you. I've been interested in the US Civil War since I bought a deleted copy of "Terrible Swift Sword" around 1984. Thanks for your contributions. Now I have to go back to the162nd Rifle Division.

Cerro Panizos

Greetings, was wondering if you had time to do a pre-FAC checkup ofCerro Panizos,as I plan to send it to FAC after Hudson.Jo-Jo Eumerus(talk)08:15, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look. I've got several other things I need to finish up first though, so it'll be later this week or maybe even the weekend before I can get to that.Hog Farm_Talk13:19, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Aston Martin DB9at FAC

Hi HF, could you possibly leave your comments on thisFACabout theAston Martin DB9?(This is my first nomination). The source and image review have both been concluded, so I think that, because this is my first, it will need quite a lot of supports. Thanks and best, and don't feel obliged to,750h+ |Talk13:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hog_Farm/Editnotice&action=edit&redlink=1

@750h+:- unfortunately I'm rather busy in real life right now and am fairly backlogged on things I've already promised people to review on-wiki, but Imightbe able to take a look at some point in the future.Hog Farm_Talk01:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay, hope things get better, and thanks for the response.750h+ |Talk03:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@Hog Farm:with the FAC where you said "Let me know when PCN02WPS finishes their review and I'll try to take a look.", PCN02WPS stated that their time might be a little limited, do you mind reviewing before PCN02WPS does?750h+ |Talk03:09, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I'll try to take a look soon.Hog Farm_Talk13:57, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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Calling all talk page stalkers

Battle of Grand Gulfis going to be TFA on 4/29 - due to work being busy that day I will not be able to adequately monitor the TFA for changes that day. I would appreciate it if people keep an eye on that one in case it attracts problematic edits through the semi-protection. Thanks!Hog Farm_Talk13:59, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Will do.Extraordinary Writ(talk)04:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

story·music·places

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "Mainly a ship vs. shore naval bombardment, there's not a whole lot to the battle itself, but it is inseparable from one of the most significant events in American military history: Grant's crossing of the Mississippi River during the Vicksburg campiagn." - I watch every TFA on the day, did you know? I havea rather sad storyon the same page, - yesterday's was more fun. --Gerda Arendt(talk)09:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

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Battle of Tinian

I know you are semi-retired and very busy, but if you could have a look atWikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Tinian,that would be appreciated. I just need one more review.Hawkeye7(discuss)00:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll try to get to this over the next week. Ishouldbe less busy this week than I was last week.Hog Farm_Talk01:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Promotion ofJohn Bullock Clark

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story·music·places

Congratulations! - Today's TFA,Felix M. Warburg House,was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory --Gerda Arendt(talk)14:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's storymentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt(talk)14:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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YourGAnomination ofCSS General Earl Van Dorn

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I'vebegun reviewingthe articleCSS General Earl Van Dornyou nominated forGA-status according to thecriteria.This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.Message delivered byChristieBot,on behalf ofSturmvogel 66--Sturmvogel 66(talk)18:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Coincidentally, I lived for a short time a few blocks off of Van Dorn Street in Alexandria. The street and a Metro station are named after him, although I doubt that most people know who Earl Van Dorn was.TwoScars(talk)19:21, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I sometimes get a kick out of showing friends/family a picture of theVan Dorn battle flaghe designed and having them guess what country is was associated with. Most assume its from the Middle East.Hog Farm_Talk19:36, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

YourGAnomination ofCSS General Earl Van Dorn

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Narwhal

Hi Hog Farm, if or when you're free, can you please provide a thorough review ofNarwhalon thispeer review.Your comments would be greatly appreciated,WolverineXI^{(talk to me)}05:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Promotion ofBattle of Poison Spring

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David McDermut

Hi, I came acrossDavid McDermutand was surprised to see how bare the article is, considering he is the namesake for two warships. Had a brief look to see what mentions there are on Google books, scholar, IA, etc, but found almost nothing. Would appreciate any input you might have on whether the man is even notable. Thanks,Pickersgill-Cunliffe(talk)23:47, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe:- I'm inclined to think that McDermut isn't notable.This bookcovers his death, but that's about all I can find. There were a number of AFDs awhile back on similar people who had an article created mainly because they were the namesake of a warship; most of them ended in the article being merged into the warship's article if I recall correctly. A merge of a couple of sentences to the SIA article atUSS McDermutseems to be the best case of action here.Hog Farm_Talk00:36, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Have completed a merge/redirect. I find it strange that there are ship namesakes who aren't themselves notable. Not that usual I would think.Pickersgill-Cunliffe(talk)13:15, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, no worries if you need more time, just noting it here because I see you've edited recently!Pickersgill-Cunliffe(talk)20:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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Would you look over my shoulder?

I'm startled at recent contributions by a new userand my reversionwas somewhat reflexive. I saw so much bad I acted quickly. Did I go too far? My good faith felt challenged a bit, per NOCONFEDs.BusterD(talk)13:51, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

The more I look at their edits, the more I think that rollback is valid; see alsothisatSam Houstonwas also pretty bad.Weaver family (North Carolina)is of doubtful notability. And there talk page discussion atTalk:Charley Crockettlooks pretty blatantly like original research to me. I tend to suspect that their major edits are all a mess of original research, content problems, and the like. At a minimum they need to take a break from major content editing in the racial topic areas.Hog Farm_Talk14:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

The Houston edit caught my eye but I thought regular editing would work it out. I gave Weaver a look too and agree it's draftworthy at best. Thanks. I'm going to confront them directly myself and then post at a noticeboard depending on reaction.BusterD(talk)14:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

MEVC volcanism

Hi, I'm just letting you know thatVolcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complexis at FAC now. I've added more content and made some improvements since your review in April but that shouldn't be a problem. The article has nearly 9k words now so I don't want to make any more big expansions.Volcanoguy15:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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Promotion ofBattle of Plum Point Bend

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Battle of Shiloh

As info, might have an edit war at Battle of Shiloh.TwoScars(talk)16:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I have copies of Cunningham, Sword, Daniel, and McDonough's works on Shiloh at home. I'll try to write a compromise version that actually follows the sources when I get home, unless you think the whole thing is totally undue detail.Hog Farm_Talk18:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

@Hog Farm:,@Joseph A. Rose:I'm somewhat neutral on addition of information, but if done the changes and corresponding citations must agree. It is little additions with bad citations (if any) that caused the article to deteriorate from FA to C-Class. Now that it is back up to GA, I hope to keep it from deteriorating again. I believe Appler was cashiered—Cunningham says "Appler was dismissed" in the footnote at the bottom of his page 171. Why would more info about Appler (even his name) merit inclusion in a long article that already has 274 citations and 25 footnotes? It seems to me a better use of everyone's time would be for Joseph A. Rose to find a C-Class or B-Class military article and upgrade it to GA. For example,Battle of New Marketis lucky to have a B-Class rating, has some controversy, and has importance—it would be great to have that fixed up.TwoScars(talk)19:07, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I tend to agree with the above - this sort of information is too detailed for a major article like this. Wiley Sword can include material like that because his work was a 300-400 page book, but this is suppose to be a summary article of the battle of Shiloh, so we don't have room for that level of detail.Hog Farm_Talk19:29, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

Hi, just letting you know thatVolcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complexis still at FAC in case you want to support per your pre-FAC review on the article'stalk page.Volcanoguy16:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello, the last FAC got archived; the current FAC isWikipedia:Featured article candidates/Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex/archive2.Volcanoguy22:45, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

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Longstreet

FYI, there is a discussion about Beyond My Ken's conduct at the Longstreet article at ANI. I am alerting you due to your comment on the article talk page. Thanks.Display name 99(talk)01:15, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm very busy in real life with work and other matters right now and would prefer not to enter the ANI septic tank at the moment if I can avoid it.Hog Farm_Talk01:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Understandable. I'm not on Wikipedia nearly as much as I was several years ago anymore either due to both real world stuff and on-wiki difficulties, but I decided to alert you just in case given your comment on the talk page.Display name 99(talk)01:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cerro Panizos/archive1

Greetings, since you took part in the review atWikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mount Hudson/archive1I was wondering if you had any thoughts onWikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cerro Panizos/archive1,especially the disagreement between me and David Fuchs.Jo-Jo Eumerus(talk)08:26, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I'll try to take a look since I did the pre-FAC review right now, but I've been really busy so I can't make any promises.Hog Farm_Talk12:20, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Seems like it's moot now:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cerro Panizos/archive1was archived. I hope to renominate it but it probably needs some work beforehand. I am just not sure what.Jo-Jo Eumerus(talk)08:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for not getting to this - I got busy and forgot about it.Hog Farm_Talk21:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Small poke in case you have time.Jo-Jo Eumerus(talk)06:58, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Hindman

I can probably take a look if you like. What sort of copyedit are you looking for -- sentence level review, smoothing out, etc, or more structural?Mike Christie(talk-contribs-library)21:36, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Mike Christie- Thank you! I'm not really sure what is needed. SandyGeorgia remarked thatI'm finding a bit more copyediting needs than I feel confident to tackleandI wasn't happy with the prose, and wanted fresh eyes.I'm pretty sure she watches this talk page and might be able to weigh in with what is needed. I think the prose issues were fairly pervasive. A lot of my articles need substantial prose work; I blame Missouri's rural public school system.Hog Farm_Talk23:20, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Funny cause I grew up in Seattle, went to excellent schools etc. but I feel I never really learned to write well until I started editing (t·c)buidhe23:32, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I went to college thinking that "drownded" was a word...Hog Farm_Talk23:57, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I'd bet every FAC nominator could add their own examples. I agree that one learns more from editing prose than from writing it. I'm reading a novel at the moment in which at one point the two main characters debate the pleasures of writing vs. editing; and it's odd to realize how different the two skills are. That's presumably partly why it's so hard to edit one's own prose. (I once wrote a nine-word sentence in which the word "instead" was used twice, and couldn't see the problem with it even after someone said the sentence needed copyediting.)Mike Christie(talk-contribs-library)02:04, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your votehereby 23:59 UTC on 29 September!MediaWiki message delivery(talk)18:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

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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!Does this mean you are no longer semi-retired?Hawkeye7(discuss)00:07, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

ACW Q for you

If you have any ideas about what "Brookhaven" might be inSamuel S. Boyd#American Civil War,I'd love to hear them! It sounds like an unpleasant stockade or prison somewhere in Mississippi/Louisiana but when I search I come up empty. Thought you might have some notion of where to look. Cheers.jengod(talk)19:08, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Jengod:- I'm pretty stumped as well.Brookhaven, Mississippimight be a possibility? All I can come up with is that, with him being sent to Brookhaven in the sense of "If you like the Confederacy so much, go enjoy its hyperinflation, food shortages, and lack of political/military protection for your life and property". I really don't know; I can't come up with anything that doesn't lean heavily into original research/guesswork.Hog Farm_Talk02:28, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Hog Farm1. LOL. 2. That seems like a very plausible theory but I think we will leave it to further ACW scholars and/or until some book serves it up when we're not looking. TY!!!jengod(talk)02:36, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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Promotion ofBattle of Lake Providence

Congratulations, Hog Farm! The article you nominated,Battle of Lake Providence,has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. Thenomination discussionhas been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you maynominate itto appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers,Gog the Mild(talk) viaFACBot(talk)00:06, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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		To Hog Farm on the occasion of theMinneapolis FAbeingkept.Your review asked questions and taught me lessons. Thank you! -SusanLesch(talk)17:40, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm glad to see that the FAR was finally closed as kept.Hog Farm_Talk00:20, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Battle of Cane Hill

Hi HF, you've listed this for TFA at pending for November. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it.Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests,yada, yada. Cheers.Gog the Mild(talk)20:22, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Nominated. Hopefully Nov. 28 isn't too close to Glasgow on 10/15.Hog Farm_Talk02:47, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story·music·places

Thank you today forBattle of Glasgow, Missouri,introduced (in 2022): "The Confederates need weapons, so they raid a town on the Missouri River, getting weapons and supplies and burning a steamboat."! - You may like the cat pic I took (se places). Mystory todayis a DYK 10 years old. --Gerda Arendt(talk)07:52, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Battle of Cane Hillscheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled astoday's featured articlefor 29 November 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found atWikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2024,or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article atWikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2024.Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there byuser:JennyOz,who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlistWikipedia:Main Page/Errorsfrom two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work!Gog the Mild(talk)16:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Input requested

SeeTalk:Landis's Missouri Battery#Revamping.Hog Farm_Talk01:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey,Hog Farm.I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of theWikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!DaniloDaysOfOurLives(talk)19:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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