User talk:Prof .Woodruff

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Please use edit summaries

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Edit summary usage for Prof .Woodruff: 32% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 2 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 04:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

June 2007

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Allan Rockwell McCann. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites ({{{url}}} in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Talk:USS Nantucket (PG-23)

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Articles

Thanks for adding articles from the DANFS, but could you please spend a few minutes wikifying them? They aren't that useful as just text dumps. See what I did here: [1] --W.marsh 18:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

USS Royone (IX-235)

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November 2007

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Speedy deletion of USS Neshaminy

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USS Amphion (AR-13)

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USS Cadmus (AR-14)

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Invitation to join WikiProject Ships

WikiProject Ships Hello Prof .Woodruff! I noticed your contributions to a ship article, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Ships, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ships of all kinds. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~

--Brad (talk) 12:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

USS Burleson (IX-67)

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Adding new ship articles

Before you add a new ship article to WP it might be worth your while to search for the ship name to see if an article already exists but under a slightly different name. For example, you created USS Robert L. Barnes (AG-27)‎ but an article was already at USS Robert L. Barnes (AO-14). And again you created USS Black Douglas (IX-55) when there were already articles at USS Black Douglas (PYc-45) and Schooner Black Douglas. The US Navy redesignated and renamed a lot of ships during their career and especially during WW2 there were a lot of ships that had civilian and military careers as well.

What happens in these cases is that I or someone else will redirect your article to the one that already exists. It might be worth your while to read some of the documentation found at WP:SHIPS to help prevent situations like this. --Brad (talk) 19:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• Created: USS General Oswald H. Ernst (AP-133) Existed: USS General O. H. Ernst (AP-133) under proper danfs naming. --Brad (talk) 20:27, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Arthur L. Busch [Naval Architect and Shipbuilder]

Dear Prof. Woodruff:

Middim13 would like you to know (that) Arthur Busch was (a) shipbuilder from Great Britain who designed and built, or designed and supervised the development of many (different classes of) ships for the United States Navy [and other "allied" nations as well] between the years 1892 to 1945. He did this work at many locations including William Cramp and Sons, The Crescent Shipyard, and New York Shipbuilding Corporation of (Camden, N.J.). He came out of retirement at the age of 70+ and was a shipbuilding consultant to the most well known shipbuilders in America during WWII. Busch was also responsible for the development of America's first submarines developed at Lt. Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Others, however, attempted to cover this story up (at Electric Boat) while discrediting the major contributions made at John Holland's company by Busch between the years 1896 thru 1905 while [in Yokosuka, Japan] working for a most corrupt financier, Isaac Leopold Rice, and his crony, Elihu B. Frost. Sadly, these men never acknowledged Busch's tremendous role while pioneering "their" company at Electric Boat. They also never rightfully compensated him with company stock as they were left promising in 1904, as Busch left the United States for Japan. But these men were men of deceit who practiced in chicanery as they stopped at next to nothing to get what they wanted. The United States Navy named ships after these men (including Rice) who overran EB while taking credit for something they did not do. Lawrence York Spear and Frank Taylor Cable are just two of the men who (have naval vessels named after them... but they) lacked integrity - as they were selfish and distorted Electric Boat's/General Dynamic's early heritage. A whole new side to this distorted story is making its way back to the surface. It is not a politically correct set of events, nor is it one that "they" would appreciate being brought back to the surface... but it is factual and it is what occurred at the early Electric Boat Company - like it or not. It is time (that) somebody rewrite this slanted history in a corporate book (about General Dynamics Electric Boat) and set these records straight for the good of doing what is right here in America. etc. etc. etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.29.67.33 (talk) 21:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The Crescent Shipyard

Lewis Nixon and Arthur Busch started the Crescent Shipyard (Jan. 1895) after leaving William Cramp and Sons to venture out on their own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Middim13 (talk • contribs) 20:22, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

208.29.67.36 (talk) 17:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)== Chairman and CEO of Electric Boat Lawrence York Spear and his "cronie" Frank Taylor Cable. ==

Spear worked his way all the way to the top of Electric Boat as Chairman of the company. He died just before John Jay Hopkins changed the company name to General Dynamics in 1952. Spear was a cocky and arrogant character who lacked integrity... much like Frank T. Cable. How the United States Navy ended up naming a Warship after these individuals "I'll never know". Company (is) known to be "steeped in scandals" and "embroiled in controversies" since their foundations no thanks to those people such as Isaac Leopold Rice/Elihu B. Frost and the men mentioned above. Corruption at company started w/ the likes of these men. Rice taking refuge in very poor memories while conducting business as the first President of Electric Boat Company. Secretary of Navy also named ship (U.S.Navy barge) after Isaac Leopold Rice (circa 1918). A conflict of interest if there ever was one.208.29.67.36 (talk) 17:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)