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The Victoria Cross Reference Migration Project was set up to manage the migration of the information stored on the Victoria Cross Reference (www.victoriacross.net - now closed) website to Wikipedia. The Victoria Cross Reference project has for many years collected information on the Victoria Cross award which is the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces of any rank in any service and civilians under military command.
The initial notice on this migration was posted on June 27, 2004. Archive of dead link at: Web.archive.org
Mike Chapman, the creator of that site, has given his permission and full backing and has initiated this project: "At this time of the 150th Anniversary of the first VC I hope that those active members of the Victoria Cross Reference’s community will embrace this project and its aims. I am very pleased that the information will not only continue to be available but can be greatly expanded and built upon by a much wider group of contributors, both now and into the future."
Articles that were added to during the migration have the following template on their talk pages, {{Wikiproject VC migration}}, which appears as follows