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Henry Peel Ritchie

I will review it. Ruslik (talk) 13:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

requesting second opinion

Would you mind taking a look at Singapore Stone? I requested a second opinion at WP:GAC regarding the use of block quotations. It's small article and a small point, but I wasn't sure how insistent to be or whether my preference for fewer quotations was really just a preference. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 13:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Eric Gascoigne Robinson

Hi Eye, I think I have addressed the issues you have raised except one of the photographs, for which I have asked the original uploader to provide detailed information. When you get a chance, could you have another look?--Jackyd101 (talk) 00:04, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou for your positive review. As a note, do you know of anywhere where there is a list of templates for pictures which sahow what they all say explicitly? I'm asking because at least one of the pictures there is an anonymous photograph from 92 years ago therefore is in the public domain, but I can't find a tag representing this. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:39, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

"Cunnan"?

Dear EyeSerene,

I have logged onto a wiki site called "Cunnan" which appears to be an extension of wikipedia as it uses all the same graphics. It is a wiki connected to the Society for Creative Anachronism, but the standards are appalling with little requiement for referencing and the information on Anglo Saxon history is usually highly inaccurate. I have cleaned up some of the egregious errors, but I do not know if it is worth it. There is no entry at all on King Edgar, they seem to think that Eric Bloodaxe killed King Eadred (it was the other way round) and the stub (they are nearly all stubs) on Edward the Exile calls him "Edward Atheling" meaning "Exile"! (which it doesn't). I think this may be giving wikipedia a bad name. Maybe there is nothing to be done, but I needed to talk. Streona 11:09, 1 December 2007 (UTC) (I wrote most of their article on Eadric Streona, but I did that on Wikipedia too)

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Conservapedia

Thanks- these Cunnan people are quite harmless- I mean haven't we all wanted to run our own Medieval Kingdom somewhere in Pennsylvania? Actually it is quite pleasant creating the first articles on Eadric Streona etc., since although I did most of the Wikipedia one, it was modified from a Britannica entry from 1911, and the Cunnan one is probably the better one. I have since logged on to Conservapedia instead to help them out. How long will it be before they twig that Ann Widdicombe is not the love-child of Hattie Jaques? Merry Christmas. Streona (talk) 23:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah- and I've also got John Major down as the son of Charles Hawtrey !

Streona (talk) 23:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Invitation to participate in the Content review workshop

Thank you for your kind comments. To be invited into such esteemed company is quite flattering. However, if my first post there was too whimsical, feel free to rescind the invitation :) Cheers, Unimaginative Username (talk) 05:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Humbert Roque Versace

Hi EyeSerene, I have eliminated the paragraph in the "In Memory" section which some else added because it was unsourced. Now, in regard to the last paragarph, an image of the speech, which is an official U.S. document as such P.D.(since P. R. is an American territory) has been added as a source. I was present and also honored on page 2 of the same speech. If this is not good enough then the paragraph shall be deleted. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you for taking care of the Versace article situation. It is always a pleasure to work with a former member of the military. We are the unsung heroes who have helped to make this country what it is. Take care my brother. Tony the Marine (talk) 04:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Request

I am so glad to hear that you are a Brit. because maybe you can help me out in my quest. I would like to know what was the highest military decoration that the British Empire bestowed upon American soldiers who served in World War I. I wrote the bio of Marcelino Serna. In the Internet websites that I have found, they state that he was awarded the "British Medal of Honor" and I know that there was no such thing. That is why I would like to set the record straight.

I have some fond memories of the members of the great British Army. Once when I was in Hong Kong, some of my fellow Marines from Puerto Rico and I met a group of British soldiers and together we drank up a storm. Needless to say, without any authority, I invited them to visit our ship. The next day, I woke up with a hang over and could not remember a thing, when I was summoned by the Captain of the ship that I had the British Army visiting me. I thought to myself "Tony, you are in a world of s--t!" Well, I didn't get into trouble and I was given permission to give my newly found friends a tour of the ship (smile). Tony the Marine (talk) 15:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

GA renomination

Can you do me a favor and renominate force for GA? I don't have the time to go through the correct bullshit procedures that have been invented over the last year at GA. Thanks. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:29, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, the same guy who quick-failed force is making a stink at the talkpage and GAR again. Even though I have a master's degree in astrophysics, I cannot really understand what point he is trying to make, unless he just wants to be disruptive. It may be a language thing, but I don't know what to do about this guy's reticence. ScienceApologist (talk) 23:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Congrats

Heh :) Thanks. And thanks for that "French units" -> "men" change too; I spotted the units thing when the CE introduced it, and was going to change it, but promptly forgot. I'm particularly proud of Gebora, since it went from a redlink just over a month ago to FA now :)

BTW, I was thinking of asking you and Jacky for opinions on Albuera at FA. I'm still concerned that Background and Prelude to battle are too long, because of the lack of articles on the 1st and 2nd Badajoz sieges (which I will get around to writing as soon as my writer's block goes away), but I'm starting to feel tempted to give it a go anyway. Do you have any thoughts, bearing in mind I know you don't normally play in the FA arena? Carre (talk) 18:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence - I've asked Jacky for his opinion too. In the meantime, I went back to re-read the Albuera article, and have a bit of a problem: in the penultimate paragraph of Soult's retreat, we have "Girard's and Gazan's men fled to the rear". Considering that column was entirely V Corps, and hence entirely Girard's and Gazan's men, it didn't strike me as good writing. Can you think of a better phrasing? Ta. Carre (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Another one of those starry userbox thingies for Albuera - just passed FAC with no problems at all, which surprised me a little. At a loss for new stuff to do now...perhaps those Badajoz sieges will get done, finally! <wanders off to find another Peninsular War article both idle and interesting enough to attract my attention :)> Thanks for the help, again and as usual. Carre (talk) 17:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Re:Marcelino Serna

Thank you for your response. I also believe that it must have been the Military Medal. Take a look at the "Military decorations and awards" section in Marcelino Serna's article and tell me if you agree with the notation that I made. Tony the Marine (talk) 21:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

• What I did was delete the image of the "Military Medal Ribbon" since there is no clear evidence nor source which may indicate that he was awarded said Medal. Tell me what you think of the section now.Tony the Marine (talk) 19:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Wolf Armoured Vehicle

Hey EyeSerene, first off, thanks for giving me that third opinion. I was really stuck, because I unsure whether an article of that length and context was suitable for GA. I've left comments on the talk page, incorporating the points you and the other editor made. Thank you once again. Best, — Rudget _{Contributions} 16:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Randall Flagg

I corrected all the problems that you laid out. I was wondering if you think its worth it for me to renominate or if I should do some more stuff.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your insight. I tried adding it to the LoC but my comment isn't showing up for some reason, although the request itself is.--CyberGhostface (talk) 15:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Since you helped me out I thought you'd like to know that I nominated it again and its now a Good Article.--CyberGhostface (talk) 02:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) --CyberGhostface (talk) 13:28, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

	<font=3> Wishing you a "Feliz Navidad and a Happy new Year" Tony the Marine (talk)

Happy New Year

Hi Eye,

Thank you for your kind season's greetings. I trust you had a pleasant break, no family squabbles, plenty of good food, presents and of course booze! Here's hoping that 2008 brings good health, kind fortunes and other good stuff to you and yours.

I look forward to working with you again in the coming year, and getting some more Peninsular War articles up there ready for main page! Getting fed up of Soult's campaign in Extremadura now (reading and writing about the same names over and over again!), so I think I'll do the 2nd Badajoz siege, then take a break from 1811 and move on to Vitoria, which you so kindly directed me to ;) All the sources are lined up and raring to go... Carre (talk) 15:20, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Oops, broke your talk page ;) Or Tony's card did... one or t'other. Carre (talk) 15:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

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Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Albuera Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) Battle of the Gebora Constantine II of Scotland Francis Harvey Vasa (ship) Wulfhere of Mercia New A-Class articles: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing Evacuation of East Prussia
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Hector Lopez GA on Hold

I am not sure what general references you want. Basically, if you look at the page of Panamanian players and then look at who played in the 50s and then look at each of their career stats you can back these statements up. I used the link to the page of Panamanian players and Lopez' career stats as refs in this section. My other responses are on the talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I had not noticed your latest thoughts until just moments ago. Please reconsider the article again.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 18:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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Help with prose

Hi Eye, I have recently written articles Glorious First of June and Atlantic campaign of May 1794 and although the latter has recently reached GA there has been some broad criticism of the prose style in these articles. I was wondering if you might be able, when you have time, to take a look and see if you can identify any problems. I'm not asking for a detailed copyedit or anything, just an overview of the problems with my prose. Any help you can give would be appreciated and if you can't then thats fine and I'll catch you later.--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou very much, whenever you have time. Any imput you can give me would be gratefully recieved.--Jackyd101 (talk) 11:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

If you have the time to do a copyedit then it would be enormously appreciated, but if not thats fine, I realise its a lot of text. The main reason I was asking was that in the past my prose style has been criticised and I was wondering if you could take a look and give me some pointers as to where I was going wrong. Any improvements you can make or suggest to the article would be a great bonus. Thanks--Jackyd101 (talk) 12:45, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome message

Many thanks! You're too kind. And thanks also for pointing out the difficulty with User:GarethShort. I've zapped him an email to sort it out. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 00:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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Glorious First of June

'Ello again again again,

Back to Jacky's article, this sentence fragment: "The effect of such a draconian policy was devastating, beheading the fleet and removing at a stroke many of its most capable officers."...

There's a specific word for the removal of the upper echelons of a hierarchy, be it military, religious or monarchy, but I can't think of it for the life of me. That "beheading" really grates with me, but I just can't think of the proper word. Can you? Carre (talk) 22:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I did think of "decapitate", but it just didn't "taste" right, if you follow me. A rephrase is probably in order. Carre (talk) 16:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

FA-Team and first mission (MMM)

Dear EyeSerene,

Many thanks for volunteering to join the FA-Team. We now have a first mission, to help the Murder, Madness and Mayhem WikiProject improve twelve articles towards featured article status. These articles are really interesting, and the person in charge of WP:MMM is enthusiastic about our support, so this mission should be a real pleasure. Please watchlist the mission page and the WikiProject page as well as some (or all) of the twelve articles. The students contributing to these articles are all new to Wikipedia, so please be ultra-friendly towards them.

The coordinator for this mission is Wrad (talk), who may suggest further ways in which you can help. I will provide back-up. In particular, it might be useful for you to indicate which of the twelve articles interest you most (or which ones you are watchlisting) on the mission page.

Thanks again for joining in. I think this will be a lot of fun for all of us, and hopefully we can make it fun for the students too and create a few more featured articles between now and April. Geometry guy 21:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Helloo!! Thank you very much for your help. I think I really need your help in uploading images, and put reference or foot notes in the information I´ve already upload. The image is from another website but I dont really understand if we cannot upload images from another website. Thank You very much eye serene --miriamMiriamcc (talk) 11:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

HELP IN EDITTING MY WIKIPEDIA PROJECT

Hello Eye Serene Thank You very much for your help! I need some help in uploading images and putting the reference notes from where I took the information.

--Miriamcc (talk) 11:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)miriam--Miriamcc (talk) 11:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)