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Thanks for the ship template information!

Thanks for improving {{Invincible class battlecruiser}} with the {{Sclass}} and {{HMS}} style templates. I hadn't seen those before, but are very, very handy. Thanks again! — MrDolomite • Talk 19:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April GA Newsletter

The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Verification for Eagle Scouts page

You can verify that I am an Eagle Scout using the following link. www.sportsdds.com/jefferson.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.131.40 (talk) 22:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you say so, I will not argue with a higher authority. Are you still active in Scouts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.131.40 (talk) 22:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe...to bad editing on wikipedia does'nt count as notible. ;) lol. 74.72.131.40 (talk) 22:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC) Jefferson[reply]

lol...your about page is quite nice, love your photobucket pictures

I'm ESTJ and your pretty funny. Spanish 0 ;).lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.131.40 (talk) 22:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lol...you identify as a lesbian, i love how thats right next to the Boy Scout boxes. wow. That made my day... ;. Btw, I to am a trumpet player Kurtcool2 (talk) 22:46, 9 April 2008

Can you let me in on the joke please? P.S. Your really good at this stuff —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurtcool2 (talk • contribs) 22:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Que? Kurtcool2 (talk) 22:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I joined a wiki projecy the second I logged on Kurtcool2 (talk) 23:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

why are you watching my page? Kurtcool2 (talk) 23:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Its ok, lol, i'm watching yours as well. Kurtcool2 (talk) 20:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

you've got mail!

Message responded to at User talk:Travellingcari, {{talkback}} disabled. -MBK₀₀₄ 15:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! and sorry for so long in making a single header. Well please see this one which I am working on, it's still not complete. If you have any reservations against this one please tell me so, that I can remove them. I will remove this copy of yours once you give an "OK!" signal. Thanks! --SMS ^Talk 04:57, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --SMS ^Talk 05:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Slamdunk09

Hello, MBK004. As a prospective future administrator, I would like to respectfully request your input on my recent response to the vandal Slamdunk09. (I'm asking you because you were the administrator who blocked this user.) Did I increase the level of warning at an appropriate rate? Was it too fast or too slow? I just wanted to get an opinion from somebody who is a bit more experienced than myself. Thank you for your time! Paradoxsociety (talk) 19:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jordan (Katie Price)

Sorry about that edit to the Jordan (Katie Price) article. I saw that one of the editors had made a number of vandalism edits and went back in the history to grab what I thought was the last "good" edit. While I was doing that, you must have already reverted the vandalism and then I just chose the wrong version of the article. I made a poor choice of article versions but wasn't intentionally vandalizing the article. I think if you look at my edit history, you'll see I'm not a vandal. Dismas|^(talk) 19:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit on MPLM

How can I go back and add the edit summary?-Basketball123456 (talk) 01:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lucy Pinder

Hi there

I see you recently were making some changes to this page, in particular the pictures used. I have actually been trying to get some advice on uploading pics, because for the life of me, i cant figure out what is and isnt acceptable as an upload. there is SO much information on the FAQ pages, and essentially i have a problem with the licensing aspect. I have access to several more "encyclopaedic" images of Lucy, rather than the current one used for the article, which I feel are more appropriate. I don't think it is entirely necessary to have her posing, do you?

whats your position on this, and can you help?δ²_{(Talk to me!)} 16:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BCAD - thank you!

		Military history service award
		By order of the coordinators, for your good work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 18:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Military history service award
		By order of the coordinators, for your great work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 18:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		Military history service award
		By order of the coordinators, for your excellent work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 18:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USS Texas (BB-35) copyedit

I gave a pretty thorough copyediting pass to USS Texas (BB-35). I have some thoughts, observations, and questions.

Note #13 "BATTLESHIP TEXAS (BB-35)" is a dead link. From the web address, I would surmise that it might not have been considered an RS for eventual FA consideration, but it is the cite for several items in the D-Day sections. #26 "The Sand Pebbles" link might be rejected as a non-RS, also.
In note #12, the phrase "German Luftwaffe" is redundant (arguably, at least).
In the last paragraph of the "World War I" section, is the 40-mile figure nautical miles, as one would expect? The hard-coded conversion previously in the text treated it as statute miles, so I left it as that.
In the "Rehearsal" section and the "D-Day" sections there are two somewhat overlapping lists of ships. I wasn't clear if they were two distinct units with overlapping and/or changing membership (heat-of-battle type shifts) or descriptions of the same unit from, perhaps, two different sources.
Also, in the 2nd paragraph of the "D-Day" section, it seems like a similar situation about targets on Omaha beach. Like maybe the same actions are described, again, perhaps, from two different sources.
doncram (talk · contribs), at my invitation, added the National Historic Landmark (NHL) information to the article. The NHL infobox he added is somewhat compatible with the ship infobox, so depending on how you want to go with it, it could be incorporated into the ship box, as well.
For A-class and FAC, the lead section for the article should probably be expanded to four paragraphs. I might structure it as follows: the first paragraph could be fleshed out with some info on builder (who, where, when); a second paragraph to summarize up through WWI; a third for Interwar and WWII; and then keep the current final paragraph as the fourth and final paragraph of a new lead.
I linked to a couple of men mentioned in the article, each of whom later had a USN ship named for them (Grant and McDonnell), even though both are redlinked now.
I'm not sure of the significance of the "by hull number" in the last sentence. Is Texas merely the lowest numbered battleship that was made a museum ship, or was she the first (and coincidentally the lowest numbered) made a museum ship. If the former, I honestly don't think thats all that significant; if it's the latter—as seems to be currently indicated in the lead—it need to be reworded for clarity.
Unless you have deep-seated reasons for retaining the current reference setup at the end of the article, it would certainly make for a cleaner notes section if the full details of books were listed in a "Reference" section with a citation of something along the lines of "Smith, p. 25." in a "Notes" section. (See USS Siboney (ID-2999), for example, of one way of doing that.)

Any questions – or complaints ;) – just let me know... — Bellhalla (talk) 02:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I'll leave it to you to strike – or not ;) – from Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Logistics — Bellhalla (talk) 02:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure that I can help you with some of these issues. I'll be back on in a few hours, right now I need a nap (18-hour days are exhausting :) TomStar81 (Talk) 20:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I located the missing cite #13, it can still be accessed through the internet archive. Here is the working link, you can check the info out if you want or simply readd it to the article. The rest I will look more conclusively into tomorrow, time permitting. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added the archive link to the ref, and after poking around the archived site, it would qualify as an RS (for me, at least). — Bellhalla (talk) 10:37, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be done with school by then, and hopefully will be back in full force (assuming I don't die first). TomStar81 (Talk) 08:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your message

I know. There is an explination for you on User:NanohaA'sYuri's talk page, if you are interested. Sorry. 129.108.96.45 (talk) 02:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning US Airways edit

I reviewed the order, and US Airways isn't mentioned. The guy who put it there is a liar.User:Seanwarner86 (talk)

Horsesam

Blocked indef now. Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 05:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

News! Tag & Assess 2008 is coming ...

Milhist's new drive – Tag & Assess 2008 – goes live on April 25 and you are cordially invited to participate. This time, the task is housekeeping. As ever, there are awards galore, plus there's a bit of friendly competition built-in, with a race for bronze, silver and gold wikis! You can sign up, in advance, here. I look forward to seeing you on the drive page! All the best, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 13:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One Stripe (200 articles)
Two Stripes (400 articles)
Three Stripes (600 articles)
Tireless Contributor Barnstar (1000 articles)
Chevrons (2000 articles)
Working Man's Barnstar (3000 articles)
Barnstar of Diligence (4000 articles)
Third place overall
Second place overall
First place overall

thank spam

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral.

Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations.

Thank you again, VanTucky

Vasa (ship)

Within the last 40 or so minutes, the IP Address 71.37.155.224 has replaced the entire page with retarded...well, stuff at least three times. He has also been vandalizing a growing number of other pages. Is there something that can be done to stop it from happening again? Cromdog (talk) 01:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done User was reported to WP:AIV and blocked. Parsecboy (talk) 01:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article rating

Hello MBK004, I saw your edit summary on the Attacotti article talk page, so I added the most relevant pictures I could find. You're welcome to have another look, and if these additions won't do, suggestions are welcome, as there is nothing factually known about the Attacotti beyond what is quoted in the article. (And candidly, I thought that some project banners might be removed, but didn't want to act on that POV) Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 23:22, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

65.43.199.196 (talk) 19:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXVI (April 2008)

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New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 02:43, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ORIANA

Why did you delete my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE information?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boeingaircrafts (talk • contribs) 02:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question about reversion of a minor edit

Hi MBK004,

I haven't been here for a while and just now saw that you reverted a minor edit that I made on the Buzz Aldrin page and left a message on my UserTalk page as follows:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Buzz Aldrin, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -MBK₀₀₄ 01:14, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am just curious as to why you left that message when all I did was edit the first sentence to include Mr. Aldrin's mother's name since the first sentence says that he "was born to..." and then named only his father. Surely, he was born to both his mother and his father, so I guess I just don't quite understand why you reverted it and left a message saying that it "did not appear to be constructive". Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this. [[[User:Jazz2006|Jazz2006]] (talk) 00:26, 6 May 2008 (UTC)][reply]

I got your reply on my talk page, thanks. I will add a reliable source - there are many. It would have been useful if you had simply asked for a reliable source initially instead of simply saying that "it did not appear to be constructive". Alternatively, it would have been useful if you simply added a [needs citation] tag, but thanks for the explanation. {Jazz2006 (talk) 01:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)}[reply]

Highway 35 in Texas.

Hi, MBK004, I got a message from you about citing the things I added on State Highway 35 in Texas.. It's kind of hard to cite things on what I put about the highway when I live a block from the highway and travel it every day. I will try and cite what I can but just about everything I have put is what I see everyday or what I have known forever.

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 :: I got your reply on my talk page, thanks.  I will add a reliable source - there are many. It would have been useful if you had simply asked for a reliable source initially instead of simply saying that "it did not appear to be constructive". Alternatively, it would have been useful if you simply added a [needs citation] tag, but thanks for the explanation. {[[User:Jazz2006|Jazz2006]] ([[User talk:Jazz2006|talk]]) 01:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)}
+== Highway 35 in Texas. ==
+Hi, MBK004, I got a message from you about citing the things I added on State Highway 35 in Texas.. It's kind of hard to cite things on what I put about the highway when I live a block from the highway and travel it every day.  I will try and cite what I can but just about everything I have put is what I see everyday or what I have known forever.