User talk:Cla68

New Guinea campaignbox

If you have a minute, could you take a look at Template talk:Campaignbox New Guinea? I've done a major expansion/reorganisation and have "compressed" some battles as sub-campaigns. Grant65 | Talk 16:39, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Grant65 | Talk 08:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Well spotted. (I had a redlink to Battle of Driniumor‎.) On a related note, after much pondering and changes of mind I have also created Battle of Aitape as a dab and moved "Battle of Hollandia" to Operations Reckless and Persecution with several redirects. Grant65 | Talk 03:23, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI

As a courtesy, I wanted to draw advise you of my response to your comments in AN/I, in case you're not monitoring that page.--Mantanmoreland 15:41, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Bougainville campaignbox

Looks like we were both working on Bougainville simultaneously. I had decided to group the Japanese counterattacks of March 9-17, 1944, as "Bougainville counterattack", (see http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Rabaul/USA-P-Rabaul-17.html) but I'm assuming that you have split it up into smaller actions(?) I'm fine with it either way -- the problem with the theatre as a whole from the point of view of military history is that there were so many small, interlocking actions. Grant65 | Talk 13:17, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, isn't Landings at Cape Torokina already covered under Battle of Empress Augusta Bay? Grant65 | Talk 13:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

NM, I just saw your answer at Talk:Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. Grant65 | Talk 13:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

After thinking about it, I think it is somewhat confusing to have a "Battle for Bougainville" within "Bougainville campaign". Since you don't mind, I'll change it to Bougainville counterattack, with it showing as "Japanese counterattack" in the campaignbox. Grant65 | Talk 17:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. :) - Darwinek 20:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Request

Dear Cla68,

I noticed that you have a lot of experience with getting articles to FA status. I have been working on the Ohio Wesleyan University page article and am trying to get it to FA status. I was wondering if you could provide some advice on how the article can be improved? Also, any contributions to it will be even more appreciated! Thank you so much for your time! I greatly appreciate it! WikiprojectOWU 01:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I've just added that photo to the article, replacing the photo of the sub on the back of a truck. It fits in nicely with the photo of the funeral of the Australians killed in the attack. --Nick Dowling 10:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Edson's Ridge

I saw the request for A-class review in the WPMILHIST pages. Nice, complete article. One quick question:

• Background section - 2nd paragraph: Was the goal to secure the islands by night fall of the 8th, or was the goal simply to secure the islands (which was accomplished by the 8th)?

— ERcheck (talk) 21:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The goal was to secure the islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo as well as the airfield on Guadalcanal (which was accomplished by the 8th). Since it may not be clear enough, I'm going to try to rewrite that sentence. Cla68 23:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.... the article is well on its way to Featured. — ERcheck (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I left an additional comment on the Peer review page. — ERcheck (talk) 13:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Rex Germanus vs. Matthead

You have made an entry on my talk page regarding Rex Germanus (talk · contribs) original report [1] on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. He has filed another report there since. Please check the case again, and update your comments. Thanks in advance. -- Matthead ^discuß!     O       22:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Cactus Air Force

Since you are the go to guy for the Pacific War I thought I'd ask you to take a look at the CAF page and let me know what you think about the layout. My biggest concern right now is that it is presented in a logical format where the info flows. Do you think the sections are what the need to be? Any advice you can give is appreciated. Thanks--Looper5920 08:56, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your helfpul edits to the article. This is the kind of help that will get the article to FA status. Thank you again! WikiprojectOWU 01:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Dear Cla68,

Happy New Year! And thank you so much once again for you very helpful comments. I included all of them and I included numerous suggestions made by various reviewers. Do you mind taking a look one more time at the article Ohio Wesleyan University. Any comments will be very much appreciated!!! WikiprojectOWU 19:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you for the quick response! Which sentences you think are uncited? I will try to add citations. Thanks again! WikiprojectOWU 23:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Excellent! I provided the citations for the paragraphs that you had mentioned. Thank you again! WikiprojectOWU 00:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• I added all of your suggestions. If anything else comes up, please do let me know. Thank you agai for your help! WikiprojectOWU 03:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

British Solomon Islands Protectorate

Hi, happy new year from me also. I have changed the terminology at Battle of the Tenaru because "United Kingdom" in military history is usually understood as meaning the British Isles and forces recruited and emanating from there. British Solomon Islands Protectorate is now a redirect to Solomon Islands as the present state is a direct successor of the colonial one.

BTW, I just discovered 15,900 Google hits for "British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force" and 17,300 hits for "BSIPDF"! So that is clearly worth an article too. Sadly ironic that the present day Solomons is a failed state which barely even has a polic force, let alone a military. Grant65 | Talk 04:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's comparable to the situation with the (British) Indian Army, in which units/formations were referred to as "Indian _ Brigade", "Indian _ Division" , "Indian _ Corps" etc, when a majority of the subordinate units/personnel originated in India, even if other units in the formation were actual British Army units. Grant65 | Talk 05:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I've started a stub article for British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force. Information is very scarce. Grant65 | Talk 11:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Armia Krajowa

Thank you for your comments, I believe I have addressed most of them. If you have time, could you look at the recent dispute on the article's talk page and offer some comments on that issue? I am afraid as long as there are only two opposed voices we are rather deadlocked.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  03:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Gus

Thanks for the cites that he's an Eagle Scout, but please format them properly. You may want to add them to his main artilcle too. This Eagle Scout list is a featured list, so the cites need to be in a standard format.Rlevse 03:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I did some minor work on the main article to help out. I spent 3 years in Tachikawa when I was a kid, then later 3 in Atsugi and 2 in Misawa.Rlevse 11:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I just noticed the acknowledgement on your user page. "Advice on preparing a history article for FA" is a good read too. Grant | Talk 11:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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Quick question

Was wondering if you thing that Cactus Air Force maybe sonmeday has a chance of being nominated for FA-status. I know it is a long way off but it does have some potential. Was wondering if you thought it was worth a chance?--Looper5920 13:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Favor

As one of the editors I really trust I was hoping you could do me a favor and take a read through List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons. You may have noticed that it has been my pet project for awhile. I am still working on the intro but I was hoping you could just go through and copyedit. Right now I still need to add the Post WWII info and edit some of the earlier stuff. It needs a fresh set of eyes to make sure it is on the right track. When it is complete one of these days I am hoping to put it up for WP:FLC. Anyway, if you have a few spare moments please give it the once over. Cheers.--Looper5920 07:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: US Navy officer references

Honestly the web has very few resources for lower ranking officers and enlisted personnel, even famous ones. Two that come to mind are Barbara Rainey the first female Naval Aviator and Doris Miller the first African American awarded the Navy Cross neither have significant bios on the internet. You may want to try Arlington Cemetery (If the officer is buried there) they sometimes have decent bios on certain famous officers. Your best bet is the library but even then your limited by the officers notability. If the officer is notable enough they will have a biography somewhere, but thats not to say it will be easy to find. I wish I had a better answer but, I have found most of the time you will have to piece together small tidbits of information from various sources in order to really get anywhere. Sorry I couldn't be more help. As for John McCain Sr. I did find a small bio on Arlington site here Cheers — WilsBadKarma ^(Talk) 07:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Southwest trivia

We actually have discussed removing some trivia on the Southwest Airlines article - I invite you to join the discussion. Cheers! --Matt 15:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you

Dear Cla68,

Thank you again for leaving me feedback for the Ohio Wesleyan University. I addressed the two concerns regarding the lead paragraph and the referencing that you brought up in January. Thank you once again! I just nominated the article in the FAC process. LaSaltarella 19:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your support and appreciation! I really appreciate that! LaSaltarella 05:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Book question

I just purchased Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II written by Ikuhito Hata and Yasuho Izawa (1970) and edited by Don Cyril Graham (1989). I was wondering if you own this one amongst your library and if so have you been using it? It has some numbers for the Guadalcanal campaign and a others but I would want to bounce them off what you have to make sure we are putting a good product out there. Some seem legit and others seem a bit high. Let me know--Looper5920 09:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

This is the first time I've heard of this book. Does it cite its sources? One problem, from what I've seen, of Japanese history books translated into English is that they often don't have a reference list or bibliography. So, it's hard to tell how credible the information they contain is. Henry Sakaida's book on Japanese Navy Aces is considered credible so that book might serve as a cross-reference for this one, but I don't have that book either. If the numbers in Hata/Izawa's book differ greatly from numbers in Frank's or Lundstrom's books, then I'd probably go with what Frank or Lundstrom say. But, that book must have some good information, because in searching the web it looks like it was used as a reference for at least one article in World War II magazine. Cla68 13:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Video Still

You made and uploaded the video still for the 190th/Blues and Royals friendly fire article. I need to capture a video still for another article that I'm preparing to start but don't know how to do it. How do you capture a video still into a .jpg or .gif file? Cla68 09:34, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

VideoLAN has the built in function to screen capture. I use and recommend that. VideoLAN is also an excellent video player and it can even play corrupt video files to a degree. -- Cat ^chi? 09:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Administrator?

By the way, are you an admin? If not, would you like to be? If so, I'd be happy to nominate you. —wwoods 20:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was considering trying to become an administrator. I'm not sure if I would pass the review though. I haven't participated that much in some of the community "clean-up" activities like the AfD voting pages or the Community noticeboard and I've had a few "run-ins" with other established editors, including a couple of the more well-known administrators. If you think I could pass the admin review, however, I would accept the nomination. Cla68 23:21, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. I don't think the lack of community participation is a show-stopper; I don't do that much myself. I thought to ask when I saw you reverting vandalism – not for the first time – and wondered if you didn't have access to the admin tools. I don't know about your disputes with other admins, so I don't know how they'll feel... If you want to try, I'll push the button. Here's what happened to me:

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wwoods

There's a standard set of questions. Don't forget to mention all those Featured Articles. :-)

—wwoods 02:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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User pages

So someone gets a valid vandism notice, removes it, gets reported to AIV and the admin checks to see if they have been warned and has to dig through history pages to find it? Ha, I'll stop fighting vandals if I have to do that.Rlevse 02:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with new "rule" or not, just letting you know what seems to be the situation now from what I've read on the admin pages. One of the reasons may be due to instances of editors harrassing other editors with warning banners and then arguing back and forth about whether the warning was justified or not. Cla68 03:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

ANI

Thanks for your helpful comments on my ANI posting regarding User:Orangemarlin. Could you please take a look at this? I imagine he feels justified by part of this discussion, where another editor comments that he likes my extensive refactoring of the Talk:Evolution but mentions refactoring should have broad consensus. Gnixon 04:44, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Spam and your RfA: a recruiting pitch for WP:WPSPAM

You wrote:

• "One area of special concern to me is Eric Goldman's prediction that spammers, in his opinion, will eventually "overwhelm" Wikipedia's administration and destroy the credibility of the project. So far that doesn't seem to be happening, in large part due to aggressive monitoring and action by administrators to prevent it. I would hope to participate in this effort also. Cla68 23:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)"

We can use all the help you can give us at WP:WPSPAM! Check out the talk page if you haven't already. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I've put that page on my watchlist and hope to help out in the future. Cla68 23:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Savo Island

Hmmm, all I was trying to do was correct Crutchley's name, reinstate Getting's name and maybe one or two other minor touches. I think we were both working on it at the same time and one or two edits got tangled up. I've seen this happen at least once before. I certainly wasn't trying to alter the stuff you are talking about. Grant | Talk 00:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves

By the order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your many valuable contributions to military history articles, and, in particular, your leading role in the creation of numerous featured articles on the topic of the Pacific Theater of World War II. For the coordinators, Kirill Lokshin 01:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)