User talk:SGGH/Archive 2014/February

Draft 'civil war history on stamps'

Thank you for your encouragement. Inline citations to follow. Also crafting Virginia history on stamps, narrative not begun yet. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Cool, look forward to it. I will try to keep an eye out for it but please message me if I miss it. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 20:56, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Ballard.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Ballard.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 00:24, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Uploaded seven years ago? I've found a URL for a site it came from. It's obviously PD from the military. If one disagrees theres a suitable replacement imagine on his CMOH profile. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 12:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

File source problem with File:MoHFoleyRF.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:MoHFoleyRF.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 15:28, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate of File:Robert F Foley portrait 1996.JPEG now anyway. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 16:50, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Battles of Lexington and Concord may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

• {{DEFAULTSORT:

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 15:06, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Ta. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 15:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks a lot for your kindness.. Cheers.. Ashishlohorung (talk) 20:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 21:21, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Please stop making pointless edits

Changing a piped link from its redirect form e.g. [[Coupling (railway)#Link and pin|link and pin couplers]] to the non-redirected form [[Railway coupling#Link and pin|link and pin couplers]]is a violation of both WP:NOTBROKEN and WP:AWB#Rules of use item 4. Thank you. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:38, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually it's avoiding a redirect. The # on the original link would take it to the top of the article, whereas now it takes it to the specific section. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 23:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Here are the two links: link and pin couplers goes to the proper section; and so does link and pin couplers. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:46, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

In that case consider me educated. Thank you for your advice. Regards, --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 00:21, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

No place for ACW on stamps?

Help. At User talk:BrownHairedGirl‬# US Civil War stamps: some advise it seems two other editors do not know what to do with my stub, it is not an article, it's not a gallery, it's not a list..., please assist if you can. I did craft an answer, that this is just a stub...for an article which takes stamps as documents to be interpreted in the time and later, by the lives of those illustrated as they are related to the American Civil War, --- as suggested by other editors at Talk:American Civil War. help. help. --- Even my first efforts at inline sourcing of biographical data independent of WP biographies and documenting unpictured stamps is a reason not to promote the stub. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll have a look. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 19:43, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

QPO

Nice work on the Queen's Park Oval; sorry for the delay, I forgot about it! I've passed now, and did some minor copy-editing. However, I think I buggered up one part in hyphenating, which I always get wrong, so feel free to revert that. And " there is the Trini Posse which perpendicular to the pitch, the Carib Stand, Errol Dos Santos Stand, and the Brian Lara Pavilion, the latter named for the West Indian batsman" looks unreferenced, but I didn't think it was worth holding up the GA review for that, so I'm just mentioning it here. To be honest, if you could find a few more sources and give it another copy-edit, this might be one to think about pushing towards FAC. But I'd recommend more sources first, if you can find any. Either way, I think we have a new exemplar for how to write cricket stadium articles. Sarastro1 (talk) 18:45, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Queen's Park Oval

The article Queen's Park Oval you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Queen's Park Oval for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sarastro1 -- Sarastro1 (talk) 18:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 14

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Fetal pillow, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Labour (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Requesting Deletion of An Image

I would like to request the deletion of this image File:Grantha_yvat.svg as it is on Wikimedia Commons under the file name of File:Grantha_yvat.svg. It was orignally uploaded on Wikipedia on June 14, 2008 and uplodaded to Commons on Sept. 03, 2009. So as you can see it has been long overdue for a deletion under the F8 criteria. I found this in the CAT:NCT trying to slim down the category and move images to the right one and fix the now commons template with the date it was moved over. Thank you. If you have any questions please leave me a message. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 20:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination of Arthur Postle

Hi, the maximum allowed length of a DYK hook is 200 characters, but the one you supplied is 233. It's an interesting hook, but it will have to be condensed. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:20, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

OOO does it include hidden characters like link brackets and things? Darn, I did a word count on word but only on the text, with no spaces. I'll shorten it, sorry. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 15:51, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

@Mandarax: How about that? S.G.^(GH) _ping! 16:10, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

It's fine now. I get 194 characters (after I removed an extraneous "0"). The count only includes visible text, including spaces and the "?", but not the ellipsis. For future reference, when you nominate with an image, the (pictured) does not count.

Just one more note: your "{{ping|Mandarax}}" did not generate a notification. This is because you added just that to an existing message, and notifications are generated only when a user is mentioned as part of an edit which also adds your signature at the same time. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Ah cool, didn't know that. Good job you were watching! --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 09:36, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your courteous behavior to improve my articles. Cheers! Ashishlohorung (talk) 06:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

ACW history on stamps - update

Your suggestions for text placement, inline sourcing and some image presentation alterations have been incorporated in the stub which has been enlarged using general bibliographic sources and is now under review at American Civil War history on stamps.

Several comments have been left, and I have made reply and made additional citations and narrative expansion based on those recommendations.

There are 99 stamps, 87 notes, five bibliographic sources for “civil war on stamps” and seven general bibliographic sources. Your further comments are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 18:46, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I will have a look. Thank you. --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 19:25, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Larry Gonzales (Texas politician) may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

• | PLACE OF BIRTH = Alvin, [Brazoria County, Texas

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 12:34, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCV, February 2014

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Rabaul in World War II and Australia in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:16, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Arthur Postle

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 23 February 2014 (UTC)