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Guadalcanal Campaign[edit]

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Guadalcanal Campaign

Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo - Battle of Savo Island - Battle of the Tenaru - Battle of the Eastern Solomons - Battle of Edson's Ridge - Actions along the Matanikau - Battle of Cape Esperance - Battle for Henderson Field - Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands - Matanikau Offensive - Koli Point action - Carlson's patrol - Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - Battle of Tassafaronga - Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse - Battle of Rennell Island - Operation Ke

The main article as well as all 17 sub-articles in the campaign box are now at Featured level. Cla68 (talk) 00:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. A comprehensive, consistent and coordinated series of articles on this campaign. Cla68's work here has been stellar. Kablammo (talk) 00:41, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I appreciate Kablammo's frequent help during the two-year effort to build all of these articles. Cla68 (talk) 06:06, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - Wow, what an accomplishment, make sure you have a free use image for the topic. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support That is truly amazing. An 18-article topic that's entirely featured? –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:05, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Very well done! --Admrb♉ltz (talk) 01:06, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Excellent work Gary King (talk) 01:27, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Nice. That represents a lot of work. Any thoughts about adding Cactus Air Force and Tokyo Express sometime as supplemental? Gimmetrow 02:01, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Cactus Air Force and Tokyo Express actually overlap with the Solomon Islands Campaign, so, I'll probably include them in that topic once it's ready, add them to this one, or both, if that's permissible. Cla68 (talk) 02:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• OK. Gimmetrow 00:19, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - Stellar work! -MBK₀₀₄ 03:57, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as of August 28 As I suspected in the last nomination this was deliberately withheld until the last GA was made FA, this should not be allowed!!! This is why non-contributors need to be able to nominate. Zginder 2008-09-12T04:24Z (UTC)
• Support These are all outstanding articles. Nick Dowling (talk) 10:29, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Nick provided a lot of valuable help during this effort that is much appreciated. Cla68 (talk) 21:45, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - truly amazing, will be up there as one of the best featured topics Wikipedia has. And as a comment, as Cactus Air Force and Tokyo Express overlap with both this and a potential larger Solomon Islands campaign, in my opinion it is certainly allowable for you to include them in both topics, as this would not present unreasonable levels of overlap - rst20xx (talk) 15:33, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Impressive! ErikvDijk (talk) 19:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support – this is quite a collection, its not every day you get to see 18 interlinked featured articles. -- Sabre (talk) 20:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Excellent work. -- Qjuad (talk) 14:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - been following this for a while, a truly brilliant achievement.--Jackyd101 (talk) 22:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Absolutely amazing achievement, excellent work. Abraham, B.S. (talk) 08:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support A fantastic effort. Seems a complete topic, all are FA, so meets the criteria as far as I can see. And to Zginder, I think this is a perfect example of why it should be main article contributors only, (or with their agreement of course). Regards. Woody (talk) 20:30, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• But the main contributor ignored the rules and would not let it be nominated until all the GA's were FA's. Zginder 2008-09-14T21:14Z (UTC)

• There's nothing wrong with that. If an editor works on a series of articles, writes them, and builds them, why isn't he allowed to wait until he's reached his goal before letting someone nominate it or doing it himself? –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• (E/C) No he didn't "let anyone" nominate it until he thought it was complete, which it now is according to him. The main contributor is usually the one with the most time and effort invested into the articles, and usually the one with a high knowledge of what makes the topic complete. It is only right that the original creator and developer, the one who has invested the most time in the topic. Anyway, not the place for it, bring up a comment at FTC (and remove the discussion from here), this is not the place for this. Regards. Woody (talk) 21:28, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support — Congratulations to Cla68! —WWoods (talk) 03:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support this is an exemplary piece of work, well done. -- _{Escape Artist Swyer} ^Talk _{Contributions} 23:07, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - WOW. ~~ ĈĠ ☺ ^Simple? 22:35, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - an incredible effort on the part of Cla68. JonCatalán^(Talk) 18:33, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Close with consensus to promote - Jeez, promoting an 18-article FT is going to take me hours... I better get to work! rst20xx (talk) 22:27, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]