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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIII (November 2008)

The November 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Nevada

The picture on the main page...did we want that one or the one of her sunk at Pearl Harbor? The latter would be to emphasize the Pearl Harbor connection...I dunno. I just noticed it ans I thought the I'd ask you. :) Cheers! —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 00:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Need help on a page move

I screwed up moving the page Maritime Disaster by moving it to List of Maritime disasters. I didn't realize that someone else had used List of maritime disasters (The title I had intended) as a redirect to the original page. Could you take a look? Shinerunner (talk) 01:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks MBK004! I think this falls under the old saying "Look before you leap or be prepared to limp." Shinerunner (talk) 01:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry

Sorry about the vandalism, I had been drinking too much red bull that night and had gone berserk on the computer. I promise not to do a bad edit again.--SUFCboy (talk) 19:24, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

North Carolina Class

Sorry if I stepped on toes, but the links are so messed up that I thought it was a painfully obvious edit. Please check it out more closely. Wezelboy (talk)

Darn it!

Sorry for forgetting to post all of the notifications around for Error: {{sclass}} invalid format code: 6. Should be 0–5, or blank (help)'s ACR.... :/ —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 22:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Champions Forest

Hi! If you want to please look over Champions Forest, Texas - I know you are from the area, so please take a look at it WhisperToMe (talk) 00:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would really appreciate photographs of the neighborhood - Maybe a sign that says "Champions Forest" and the Klein ISD schools that serve Champions Forest (Klein HS, Kleb IS, Brill ES) - As for the history and genesis, the Houston Chronicle has free archive access, but its search function won't let me simply search for "Champion Forest" - What I may do is do Google News first and then get an exact Chron copy afterwards. BTW, Gulfton, Houston should be a model for other neighborhood articles as it has GA status. I hope to eventually take it to FA. :) WhisperToMe (talk) 01:24, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

edit war

Hi MBK004

I'm again involved in an edit war with a user who delets my comments from the talk page of the crossbow article. Could you please tell him to stop that and explain him the reasons why such a behaviour isn't acceptable. Thanks a lot. Greetings Wandalstouring (talk) 15:53, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need an opinion

Hi MBK004, we're kicking around ideas on how to list entries on the List of maritime disasters page and we need some spanking new opinions. If your interested please pop in on the talk page. Shinerunner (talk) 11:46, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page move

Hello again MBK004, I need help with a page move. The article Arandora Star should be moved to SS Arandora Star which is being used as a redirect. Thanks again (and I'll quit pestering you for a bit) Shinerunner (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Navigation Template

I too would like to use your navigation template that you have at the top of your page. I will credit you and put your name under it if desired. --Kurtcool2 (talk) 00:02, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of spaceflight vs List of [rocket] launches

Hi. I noticed you've been copying information from timeline of spaceflight articles into articles such as List of R-7 launches. I thought you might want to know that there is a slight difference between the two formats which your conversion of the launch information seemed to miss. The "Result" field in TLS articles refers to the outcome of the entire mission, whereas the "result" field in lists of launches by a specific rocket only refers to the outcome of the launch itself (for example, the Soyuz 1 mission was launched successfully but later failed, so should be listed as a failure in 1967 in spaceflight, but a success in List of R-7 launches. I thought this might be helpful if you intend to copy more launches between articles of these two formats. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 11:29, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Book on Iowa conversions

Thought you might like this "limited preview" Google book. Apologies if you have already looked at it. :) Allanon ^{♠The Dark Druid♠} 05:51, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Holiday Greetings

Wishing you a Merry Christmas or a Happy Holiday Season and a joyous and healthy 2009! Postoak (talk) 20:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple Designations

Hi MBK004. Was looking at USS Oklahoma City page, which is titled USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5). Would be preferable to name it (CL-91/CLG-5), but not only do I not know how to do it, and not sure I should do it myself, but also wondered about formatting conventions. Is there a convention that handles this situation? Also, could you look at the South Dakota intro idea on my page? ThanksBusaccsb (talk) 16:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Response

Hi MBK004. Thanks for taking the time to look at this on your vacation. Dates were already linked, so I didn't mess with them. Was thinking about conversions as well, so will fix that. Decided to go ahead and put that chunk up, but will fix as you suggest. Will also make similar fixes to anything else I have done.Busaccsb (talk) 05:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tons to What?

Hello again. Have done the converts, but the tonnage has me stumped. Not sure what units to use, and can't find an example. Inset boxes seemm to convert everything except tonnageBusaccsb (talk) 07:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with Convert

Sorry to be asking all these questions, but I'm taking a few days off and have time to learn this stuff and get a significant amount of work done here. I'm having trouble with ^{[convert: needs a number]}. Can't figure out how to make it help me write "... mounted 15 6-in.(152mm) guns" or 6-inch. All I get is "..mounted 15 6 in (152mm) guns", which could be confusing. I've done this to a couple pages. Once I learn the correct way to do it, I'll go back and fix it.Busaccsb (talk) 21:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TPS'ing here... You may have to just write it out longhand w/o a template...I took a quick glance at {{convert}} and I don't think that it supports using hyphens. Otherwise, you will have to write "15" out - even though you are only supposed to do that for numbers under 10, you really don't want to confuse any readers. :) Cheers, —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 21:30, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings (and some Milhist business)

First, happy new year!

Second, I've raised a couple of things here which could use swift responses. May I trouble you please to check them out?

Thanks! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

...for the welcome back, and for looking after my FA articles in my absence. I do apreciate it. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:51, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thats odd, they show up for me on both Mozilla and IE7. Did you click the either of the to show tabs after clicking the show button on the master "barnstars and awards" part? If not then they may not have shown. They are there though: User:TomStar81/Awards leads to the page. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:11, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Case closed then :) I was actually quite suprised to find I had been award the chevron w/oak leaves award; although in hindsight it dawned on my that after resigning ~~adminship~~coordinatorship I was in fact eligible for it. I am thrilled to have received the award, as I am sure the others (yourself included) were; its on of wikipedia's rare awards, and proud to have the honor of displaying it. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I created Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The ed17; I left a spot for your co-nom as well. When you have filled out, pass this along to ed so he can fill out the three questions and well be in business. TomStar81 (Talk) 02:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(I'm a T-P-S-e-r) One minute after I reply?!? Thanks :)

Um, can you par that down to one GA? CB-4, CB-5 and CB-6 are that boilerplated text, and I have to merge them into Error: {{sclass}} invalid format code: 6. Should be 0–5, or blank (help) still. —Ed 17 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 02:39, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ed's rfa

I can not get the talk page stats to show, can you give it try? TomStar81 (Talk) 04:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done -MBK₀₀₄ 04:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Only the second time I have filed one of these, so it stood to figure that I would be unable to handle one little thing. In this case, the edt stats turned out to be that thing :) TomStar81 (Talk) 04:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's only my third, but a bot used to do that. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ocean liner ship-name style

I appreciate your comment and will await outcome of discussion. One effect of my edits is that there is now a consistency which will greatly aid future consistent change of whatever nature is desired. Regards Bjenks (talk) 05:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[You wrote] Please stop your changes to the article until there is consensus on the talk page about them. Also, I'd appreciate it if you'd bring this up at WT:SHIPS so other like-minded editors have a chance to comment since they all might not watch this particular article. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have done, but please can we discuss openly on the article talk page Bjenks (talk) 05:46, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

USS Iowa (BB-61)

With the passage of USS Iowa turret explosion only this article remains off the FA-list. I opened the FAC to get Iowa into the FA-club, and assuming that this passes we will have our first FT in about six weeks. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A contest you may be interested in

Hello, MBK004. There is a new contest for U.S. and Canada roads that you may be interested in. To sign up or for more information, please visit User:Rschen7754/USRDCRWPCup. The contest begins Saturday at 00:00 UTC. Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 01:32, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An unblock request that might merit review

It's one of yours, being discussed here.—Kww(talk) 22:18, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIV (December 2008)

The December 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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RE: new adminship

Thanks. Now I can join that epic Admin-Coordinator Cabal you've all been talking about! Cam ^(Chat) 05:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admittance is automatic upon passing the two requirements. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But only for Class of '08. Class of '09 need to start their own one :)) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 05:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

How do I prevent Vandalism on my user page, etc? --Kurtcool2 (talk) 22:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. --Kurtcool2 (talk) 22:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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