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Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for Battle of Irtysh River (13th century)

On 24 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Irtysh River (13th century), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Mongol campaigns in Siberia, the Mongols defeated rival tribes at the Battle of Irtysh River? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Irtysh River (13th century). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Battle of Irtysh River (13th century)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Mongol campaigns in Siberia

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

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Iga–Kōka alliance GAN

You may not have seen this, but User:Vami IV has passed away. I will be taking over the GA review in his memory. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos I did not see that! That's really sad. Thank you. --3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 19:24, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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