User talk:Petercorless

Battle of Jilib

Nice teamwork! I was working on the article at the same time. --Petercorless 17:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Awards and thanks moved

Folks, I moved your thanks and praise to a different page:

User:Petercorless/Community_Recognition

Please feel free to drop off further attaboys yonder. Very gratefully yours... --Petercorless

Maps

You should change to War in Somalia 2006 on your battles maps, now. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 17:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point of view, yet I maintain the war is still primarily a civil war, fought between the ICU, the TFG, Puntland, and Galmudug, etc., with the foreign intervention of Ethiopia (and others). The media still refer to it as a civil war as well, such as this Dec 24, 2006 reference in the Boston Globe: The surrogate war in Somalia --Petercorless 18:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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ip address

Hi, Peter. If you want to notify someone about troublesome edits, you can post a message at WP:ANI. You'll get a better response than by adding the information as an article. Joyous! | Talk 22:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Errr... thanks. The instructions need to be cleaned up and explained better. I did what I was instructed to do and hit the button. It created its own new page. I didn't understand what I was supposed to do differently. Thanks, and let me know what I need to do now. --Petercorless 22:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CITE

Hi Petercorless, first of, you're doing some amazing work on Wikipedia, thank you! However, it would be very helpful if you considered use of guidelines on citing sources included in WP:CITE. It's not compulsory but sources without retrieved on, author, date of publishing, etc. are generally considered invalid. F.e., if the your articles are to be considered for WP:FAC someone will have to add all the information you omitted, which will be much more difficult to do. Please consider using source citation templates; see Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles#Citations_of_generic_sources. Also consider providing edit summaries on your edits as it's helpful for other editors and may be use preview more often than submit as you are flooding wikipedia' database with edits often just one-three minutes one from another. Thank you.--Pethr 04:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Yes. Since the "urgency" of the Somalia war is winding down, I can take more time to read through the Wiki guidelines and put in the more formal information for references. I've been doing it on a few articles, but I had not been all-too-thorough yet. On the flip side, I am already going in at some places cleaning up those even-more glib links and poorly-formed external refs by others left long before me. As far as using "preview" -- I do. However, there are a number of technical issues I've been having, including losing sessions (particularly bad today), which require me to save early and often. Otherwise, the update gets "lost" when I try to submit it. I've also found a lot of my updates are iterative as I swap data around from section to section. There's just no other way to do that than a few submissions at a go. I'll try to do better with the change notes. --Petercorless 04:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reply. Try hitting back buttom in your browser if your session is aborted or if you receive some kind of error from the server. It works for me in Safari/Firefox without exception. Hope it helps.--Pethr 05:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good tip, which I did try, and it didn't work. Restarting the browser also did not seem to clear it up. However, by this evening, I'm back to mostly normal. --Petercorless 05:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And what exactly is happening? What error are you seeing? It's unusual to say the least, modern browsers remember those things. I assume you're a mac user, I like using simple apps such as TextEdit for editing Wikipedia, it adds one copy and paste to the process but it can be more comfortable especially if you have enough screen real estate to accommodate browser and editor side by side.--Pethr 05:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be editing, and suddenly I was unable to save. It would tell me I had lost my session. Going back and trying to re-submit would tell me I needed to log in again. Have to log out, then log in again, then go back to the page I was editing. I'd also have to copy the text buffer of the article, and paste it once I got back in and ready to edit. It was not a good time. It happened about 20 times today. It finally cleared up a few hours ago. --Petercorless 05:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that your problem is descibed in Help:Logging in#Log in problems but I'd double check cookies settings (usually in privacy tab in prefs) first. External text editor also might help (as you don't lose your changes when the session ends unexpectedly. Hope you will solve this!--Pethr 05:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: War in Somalia

I never said they weren't involved. I merely said the source provided next to their listing under 'combatants' makes no such claim. It states merely that the US gives 'tacit approval' to Ethiopia's military support for the TFG. Thus, it is wholly inaccurate and mis-representative to use it as a reference claiming the US is a 'combatant'. Further, if are not combatants, as you readily admit, why would they be listed under the 'combatants' section of the campaign box? —Aiden 13:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check the reference I made, which shows the USN is indeed patrolling off the coast, and has committed to trapping escaping Jihadists. I mentioned they were on "Maritime Patrol," a form of combat support, though they are not direct combatants in the land combat. --Petercorless 13:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

To say that his successor is the incumbent is false; he is the incumbent — he doesn't have a successor. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eh... thanks. I didn't write that. And I agree. --Petercorless 12:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, of course you didn't — I misread the History. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a worry. It's taken care of. --Petercorless 13:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

African military history

Would you be interested in joining the African military history task force? Wandalstouring 18:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done! --Petercorless 20:28, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image lincensing

Hello, you should probably visit Commons and put licensing tags to your images, they're in danger of deletion. Conscious 22:16, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Argh!! I thought I did! --Petercorless 22:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old Images

Hi Peter, I created commons:Category:Somali Civil War maps and placed your maps, as well as those created by others, there. I noticed that in one case you had noted on a talk that an image had been superceded by an updated upload. When you have the time, it would be helpful of using the "other versions" field to clarify both the "previous" and "succeeding" maps for the images, so users can step through the maps without searching the entire category. Cheers, Banyan Tree 21:10, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I was thinking of doing that just the other day but got sleepy! I took the old images and marked them with "badname" and also filled out the succeeding maps field. I also took out the Somali Civil War category field so that they would not clutter up the gallery. Yes, it would be confusing to someone to see the others, which I consider "deprecated" like old versions of software. --Petercorless 23:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Castle Marrach

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:

Place {{hangon}} on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion notice(s)
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Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. JuJube 10:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- You have recently re-created the article Castle Marrach, which was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not re-create the article. If you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a deletion review. JuJube 11:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Williams

Hello, can you move your current article to Bruce Williams (Royal Navy). It is to follow the policy on disambiguation. Thank you, --Janarius 15:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Willdo. I had already created the redirect under that. I'll flip-flop it. --Petercorless 15:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Petercorless 15:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Galmudug

Galmudug isn't a civil war faction or a country so much as it's a state, like a USA state. Maybe there's a better template we can use? Galmudug's ambition, for instance, isn't to overthrow an authority or independence, but rather a regional administration.--Ingoman 01:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know it is a "state" but it's not a country with its own currency, etc. I gave it the same sort of Infobox we're using for the ICU and other Somali Civil War factions. It is certainly not as well-organized as Puntland or Somaliland, and in fact, we've heard no news of it since the December battles. It is far more like a faction which declared itself like a state, such as Southwestern Somalia or the Juba Valley Alliance. --Petercorless 01:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good work

Peter, great work on the Somali articles! How do you know so much about Somalia (I ask b/c aren't you an author on role playing games)? Anyways, keep up the good work!!! Cheers - - WilsonjrWikipedia (talk) 01:29, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]