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DYK for Mark A. Clark (general)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:04, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

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		Thanks for helping me with my Wikipedia ribbons a while back. Cheers! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 05:05, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Wow, Thank you very much! I'm glad I could help you out. — -dainomite   05:07, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

No problem, cheers! :-) Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 21:58, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

Courtesy notice to let you know that an Afd you participated in, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yale College Democrats, has been brought up in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 March 18. Cheers! Location (talk) 19:08, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

The RAWR returns!!!

Hi Dainomite!!! Cheeky name you got there!! I am soo sorry of this late reply but you had sent me a welcome a few days ago!!! I saw it, and I planned to reply but I'm writing my exams and so took the chance to wait until I was free so thank you for the RAWR!! I feel very happy that there are many awesome enthusiasts like you here and that's what is needed on a Hard Day's night in Wikipedia!!!! I now know one more superb Wikipedian and you'll find yourself another stalker of your movements cause I wanna learn and the best solution they say is to stalk!! Thanks and let me just say: Im watching you, I got my eyes on you!!! The Wikimon (talk) 19:27, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey Wikimon, sorry for the uber late reply. Haha, thanks for the compliment, I wouldn't consider myself a superb wikipedian , I'm a good example of a Wikisloth I think. If there's anything you ever need or want my .02 on, just let me know, I'll be more than happy to conversate on pretty much any topics. Anywho, cheers! — -dainomite   18:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Rollback button

Dainomite, I was leaving a comment on Dennis Brown's talk page and happened to notice your gripe about clicking on a rollback button by mistake. You might be interested to know that this discussion is looking at ways to hide the rollback button - and the block button, if desired. RockMagnetist (talk) 18:03, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

You pinged, sir?

I believe you contacted me on IRC earlier; was it anything important? For future reference I'm around more in the evenings. Rcsprinter (rap) @ 23:11, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, yeah. I was going to ask whether or not there's anything in the MOS regarding image sizes in infoboxes or using thumbnails. I couldn't find it but I'm sure it's due to operator error on my part Thanks for getting in touch with me too, my internet crapped out and I disconnected from IRC =/.— -dainomite   18:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Without you bring too specific, I can suggest that the image size for an infobox should be between 150px to 200px, see what fits each image best. Most infobox templates have an image parameter so you shouldn't need to put thumbnails in. Is that what you needed, if not please ask. Rcsprinter (gas) @ 22:27, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I apologize, I meant it in the context of I stumbled across some other guy (who ended up getting blocked) who was editting tons of articles changing the infobox pictures to 450px thumbnails of the picture that was already present. It was super odd. So I was refreshing his contribs page every 10 minutes and undoing all of it and left him a few talk page messages so I was hoping to include how that is against the MOS if it indeed was against it. But yeah, he ended up getting blocked before it got to that point. — -dainomite   05:35, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Help...

Check out Olympus Has Fallen the scores table that I've added, and it just doesn't fit correctly... Tell me what to do.... The Wikimon (talk) 07:21, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Heya Wikimon, I checked out the table, it looks good to me... this anonymous user fixed it by adding |} to the end of the table, closing it. — -dainomite   18:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!! Worked out fine!! True, you are a Wikisloth, it took you a week to answer!! But no problem, at least you answered... And I will be watching your pages!! So meet you on the next article, until then Boom Away (reference to your username)!!! The Wikimon (talk) 18:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Lol, yeah, >.< I just not the sort of person who sits here and is super attentive to wikipedia I guess... lol. I just sort of edit stuff here and there and my activity fluctuates depending on what I feel like doing — -dainomite   05:37, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	This one's for being such a great help and maintaining the mood of fun and slothiness! Please remember that I'll be back to pester you with technical questions... Until then Have fun! The Wikimon (talk) 13:16, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Heyyyy, thanks a ton Wikimon! I really appreciate it! — -dainomite   04:37, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Lifting the Gibraltar DYK restrictions

A couple of months ago, you opposed a proposal to lift the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012. Could you possibly clarify (1) under what conditions you would support a lifting of the restrictions, and (2) when you think it would be appropriate to lift the restrictions? Prioryman (talk) 20:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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Userbox

While visiting your pages in connection with our discussion about USAF SOF units, I see by your user page that you mess around with userboxes. I occasionally post semihemidemibarnstar for little things editors do that I find pleasing. I'm not sure anyone else would find it useful, but I wonder if it could be converted to a userbox. Sadly, my computer skills approach 0 as a limit --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

I sure can do that for you. Would you like this in the image box, File:Hemidemisemiquaver.png? Also, what would you like it to say in the body of the userbox? Any particular color scheme you would like me to use? Do you want me to put any parameters in the userbox? — -dainomite   06:23, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

I like the idea of including the musical note graphic in the box (provided the teeny star is the predominant image. I let my wife decorate, so I have little experience with selecting colors. I am realy a content person, not a computer person, so I would be lost in discussing parameters, but I would not restrict its use by anyone who wanted to. I use it when someone does something minor but I liked it. (just not important enough to award one of those big stars).--Lineagegeek (talk) 23:33, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Here's what I have so far.

{{User:Dainomite/userboxes/semihemidemibarnstar}} produces;

Here is a semihemidemibarnstar for {{{1}}}

and {{User:Dainomite/userboxes/semihemidemibarnstar|1=''<whatever you want to say here>''}} produces;

Here is a semihemidemibarnstar for <whatever you want to say here>

I scrapped the music notes for a more plain look. What do you think so far? — -dainomite   04:32, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

720th Special Tactics Group

I played around with this a little, expanding and formatting in the "new" Lineage section mostly. I doubt the 720th Ops Spt Sq will ever merit its own article, and IIRC the 10th Wx Sq may have had an article deleted in the past for lack of notability. When they were where I was editing, I snuck in some style items, so watch out if you have other preferences --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:03, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks good! Thank you. I just added a picture and a little bit more regarding OCONUS/ANG units as well. I wish I could find some stuff to be able to add in a history section, arg! I wish AFHRA had factsheets for the 22nd and 22rd STS's so we could find out when they were assigned to the 720th, it irks me a bit that I can't find anything heh. Anywho, do you think we could make a DYK out of something on the page once we move it out to the mainspace? Thanks again, — -dainomite   22:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

My info on the 23d has a gap that I don't know whether it was caused by a brief period of inactivation or not. It was assigned directly to 23d AF as late as 1 Oct 1987 as the 1723d Combat Control Squadron. It was part of the 1720th by 1 July 1989 as the 1723d Special Tactics Squadron (it was consolidated with a WW II unit, the 23d Fighter Control Squadron in May 1992 and the consolidated unit was designated the 23d Special Tactics Squadron). Same thing happened with the 24th. I have less info on the 22d, knowing that it was assigned to the group and was at McChord by 1996.

And I don't mind tb. Wish I knew about it last year, when I discovered belatedly that I had an extensive conversation with myself. --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:27, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Ugh, yeah I wish all the Special Tactics Squadrons had AFHRA fact sheets, it would make things so much easier. It's highly irksome that some do and some don't. Hell, even force support squadrons have fact sheets! — -dainomite   05:26, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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Not a problem, the pleasure is all mine. — -dainomite   22:18, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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I was pointed at you

by another editor (do we need to name names?) pointed me at you when I asked this question.

I am working on an article about a guy who, in WW2 taught "recognition" classes in the military. What is a term that I can use that could be linked to a wikipedia article that could explain to the interested just what that would have meant? Or might still mean? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 18:49, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi there Carptrash! Sorry for the late reply, I had a long day at work. Would you mind if I asked for a bit more context for the manner in which "recognition" is used in the sentence? Or a link to the article to get a feel for what the individual was doing? For instance, they could have been teaching recognition classes about enemy equipment, armor, uniforms or maybe identifying targets for aerial bombs, Targeting (warfare), imagery analysis, image analysis, intelligence gathering or a lot more depending on the context. I hope to help you solve this mystery good sir. Cheers, — -dainomite   02:38, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me with these suggestions. I have the reference in book at home, (pretty much all my postings are based on a book that I have at home) but I don't currently have a computer at home (See: Real life and its implications for wikipedians) so have to do this from work. Which is not always convienient either, but is possible. The book states that he taught "recognition" and that he was called to the carpet (or what ever they have in the military) for teaching art in his classes until it turned out that his students did much better at "recognition" than folks taught the other way, so his techniques were adopted by all. I imagined it was 'Which tank or airplane should you shoot at" sort of stuff, but since wikipedia is not really a repository for what crawls out of my imagination, I thought I'd ask around. Carptrash (talk) 20:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

I think I would link it to Targeting (warfare) myself, glad I could help you out Carptrash. — -dainomite   20:37, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Look for William McVey (sculptor), coming soon to an encyclopedia near you. Carptrash (talk) 20:41, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Will do!— -dainomite   21:19, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Interesting! Check this out Carptrash, Randolph Air Force Base#1940s to 1970s. — -dainomite   16:40, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks foor the Randolph link. I knew thqat here was one ther somewhere, but had not dug it up yet because of my no computer at home business. The article (RAFB) mentiones a great football team that the base had during the war and my guy had just playted four years of ball at Rice under coach Heisman, so it seems to me likely that he would have been involved at some level. Finding a source is another matter. Life is good. Carptrash (talk) 16:57, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hah! That is too damn funny. — -dainomite   03:56, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Ramón Colón-López

You asked for a B-class review at WP:BIO for this. I think it is B-class, but as it is a milhist bio I'd suggest you ask for at WP:MILHIST review for a B-class review. They are very quick there - it will take only a day or two - and you may get extra feedback before a possible GAN consideration. My only concern is the list of orders, it looks not very pretty - maybe a table would be better? And most bios don't show pictures of awards, they just list them, so perhaps you'd be better of just redoing the section as a few sentences. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

I had totally forgotten that I requested that a few months ago. Thanks for the suggestions Piotrus. — -dainomite   16:42, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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