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9th Queen's Royal Lancers

Hi, I saw your request regarding references. I've retyped the references using the cite book template and added a ref parameter to each. So Bright is Bright1951 and Reynard is Reynard1904. So when you want to add an inline citation if you type <ref>[[#Bright1951|Bright]] p. 300.</ref> it will generate your reference as Bright p. 300. with a link to the full citation for Bright rather than each note having the full book citation.

Using the name parameter in references you need to use a different name for each ref that refers to a different page in a book or they all just show as the first one that uses that name parameter in the article. I tend to use the author name and page reference for each different page. e.g. <ref name=Bright15> [[#Bright1951|Bright]] p. 15.</ref> for a reference to page 15 and <ref name=Bright20> for a reference to page 20. After you've written the reference the first time on the second and subsequent occasions you just need to type <ref name=Bright15 /> and the reference to page 15 will be there.

Don't worry if most of your references are from the same works - I had the same issue rewriting North Staffordshire Regiment and it still got GA status at the end of it. As long as the sources are reliable that's the important thing.

If you have any questions or similar just leave a message on my talk page. NtheP (talk) 16:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Nthep; Good suggestions which I will endeavour to follow. :-) --WickerWiki (talk) 19:53, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but saying a seciton comes from a particualr book isn't regarded as good practice. You need to cite individual paragraphs at least, with page numbers really. David Underdown (talk) 22:03, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is neither mandatory nor practical to quote page numbers for every addition. If someone is REALLY interested in the subject they would acquire the original source and read it themselves. I haven't the time to quote individual page numbers but, if you have, feel free to add them :-) --WickerWiki (talk) 22:20, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is considered good practice, see WP:CITE#Including page numbers - and doesn't acutally take long. I ahve access to one history of 9th Lancers, but it doens't seem to be any of the ones you quote. See the article on thier WWI CO that I've been knocking up, User:David Underdown/David Campbell (British Army officer). David Underdown (talk) 09:44, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military History

I also saw your post at WP:RFEA, and wondered if you'd be interested in joining up with us at the Military history WikiProject. We're a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history. As one of Wikipedia's largest WikiProjects, we provide a central venue for assisting and coordinating the work of editors in milhist-related areas, including in article assessment, editing and copyediting, image and map-making, mentoring, advice, and just generally in offering a friendly, supportive place to meet like-minded people :) If you're interested, we'd be delighted to welcome you; you can find out more about who we are and what we do by following the above bolded link, and if you decide to sign up, you might also like to take a look at our list of task-forces and perhaps add yourself to one or two of these too. I do realise you've been here a while, so I apologise if I'm informing you of things you already know about! Anyway, all the best, and thank you for your many valuable contributions to date. EyeSerene^talk 17:34, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EyeSerene, I am not really a military history buff; my interest is really on the family history side of things and have picked up a few books in connection with some of my rellies. One is quite expensive but contains a lot of interesting material so I thought I would share it. In addition one of the accounts of the WW2 desert battles on Wiki seems to have been written by someone with the viewpoint of an Aussie artillery involved. They claim that they were supposed to be joined by the British armoured regiments, who they almost imply were incompetent and/or cowardly, but were left to shell the advancing panzers on their own, before running. What they don't mention is that the British armour had been ordered to attack the panzers directly and fought down to virtually the last tank, under fire from both the panzers and the Aussie artillery. Thought it might be worth correcting this injustice of reporting but haven't got round to it yet! --WickerWiki (talk) 20:11, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, sounds like an interesting and worthwhile project. I fully appreciate your reasons for not wanting to join up, but if you ever want a hand with anything (not just milhist-related; the community was reckless enough to give me the mop'n'bucket for my sins) feel free to drop me a note. Best regards :) EyeSerene^talk 09:17, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank EyeSerene, will let you know when I have produced the finished articles or if I run into any big problems. --WickerWiki (talk) 14:19, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling "corrections"

I must say that I disagree with your revert of Thomas de Scales. "Wherever" is the correct spelling of the term, not "Whereever". Firstly, my built-in dictionary shows me that the latter is spelt wrongly, and checking reference sites has shown it to be wherever. (As can be found here. It seems even Wikitionary disagrees with you. And Google, just for some more weight.)

Privilege was also the correct term. (See here, here and here.) --Rah rah bahb ^T 21:24, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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