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Your submission at Articles for creation

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Neutral Buoyancy Simulation as a Training Aid for EVA, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:26, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

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Sorry for the belated welcome, but the cookies are still warm!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, DM18HD. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! ke4roh (talk) 10:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, DM18HD! Let me welcome you again to the ranks of Wikipedia editors. Thank you for your excellent contributions. I just recently improved Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, and happened across your contributions because of the titles' similarity. I categorized the images, and marked File:Aldrin_Gemini_XII_5.jpg as {{PD-USGov-NASA}} because it is obviously taken by Jim Lovell while he was working for NASA. The other pictures looked to me like they were taken by NASA, but it's possible someone else took them. Please update the source and licensing information for these pictures, or I fear they will be deleted. If you also have the actual dates of the photos, that would be excellent to include.

I was considering including some of the information you provided about the origins of neutral buoyancy training, though didn't immediately see the references I'd need. Further investigation shows you do have the sources there - which is great. Could you sprinkle the references around a little more, then? You can refer to the same reference multiple times by setting it up once as <ref name="foo">Simpson, Homer. Nuclear Operations Safety Manual. Springfield, 1988.</ref> and later just say <ref name="foo" />. I set up a couple of ref names.

So long as we're on the topic of references, there are some templates to make it even easier to cite references of nearly any sort in the standard format. Rather than use the templates directly, though, I usually use a tool called "ProveIt," which can be enabled on the "My Preferences" -> "Gadgets" tab. (There are other cool gadgets there, too.)

You've done some great work here - and this first article of yours is fantastic. Thanks again for the contributions. -- ke4roh (talk) 11:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. I (mostly) wrote Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, but as is the custom on Wikipedia, nobody has claim to any article, no matter how much work they put into it. Per WP:BOLD, change it as you see fit. I've been pretty careful with the references there, so I'll check your work likewise :) . If that is outside your comfort zone, the best place to discuss changes is on the article's talk page Talk:Neutral Buoyancy Simulator. I'll follow up there, too.
It looks like the images are in good shape. Thanks for that, and thanks again for the excellent work on Neutral Buoyancy Simulation as a training aid. -- ke4roh (talk) 11:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]