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Your opinion please

Can you comment on the recent incarnation of the Hacker's article? Take a look at this post here. Thanks. -- Kerowren ^{(talk • contribs • count}⁾ 20:24, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Monster_Manual_cover-200px.jpg

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Redirect for deletion

Hello. I just listed USS Chattanooga (CL-118) at Redirects for deletion. Please let me know there of your opinion of my rationale. Thanks. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 07:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Karel Doorman & 25 de Mayo

Please post your opinion about a merge proposal at Talk:HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81). Thks --Jor70 13:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your thoughts [1], and sorry to bother you with this but Im not sure to understand your position here --Jor70 11:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jazz Flute

All right, if you don't mind my placing it here, this is what happened with that edit - I removed it, placing a note on Saxstudio's talk page, and logged on to find the entire paragraph back. The editor was one Gustav von Humpelschmumpel, who asked why I had deleted an entire section. I just left a note on his talk explaining pretty much the same thing I left on saxstudio's talk, with an appology for notifying the wrong user, and told him I was going to remove it again, since he seemed able to get it back up rather quickly. I'm just wondering, now, were we reffering to the same article? Thanks for your time, please leave a note on my talk. --Sorcerer of words 16:04, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Guam stamps

Hello, Stan. I am preparing an article about the philatelic and postal history of Guam, for the Wikipedia in French. The idea began with a French magazine article about Guam aerophilatelic covers. If you can find this intel easily, please : outside 1899 overprinted US stamps and the Guam Guard Mail stamps, is there US stamp with a topic connected to Guam outside the one issued last 1st of June (Hagåtña Bay) ? Hoping you are spending a nice summer. Sebjarod 15:59, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked around for other stamps but could not find any though I do not have any major catalogues here. Hopepfully Sebjarod you will also translate this page into English so we can add it here too. Thanks ww2censor 16:55, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, if you are ready to correct lots of barbarism :) I'll try (I have a translation of this Machin series article I have to rewrite before. Sebjarod 08:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure there aren't any - the logical choices would have been the Territorial issue of 1937, or a mention in the WWII issues of the early 90s, but I guess Guam was too small or obscure to be chosen for either. And I'm seeing someone new and wonderful, so it's been a very nice summer, although it cuts into WP productivity, ha ha. Stan 07:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I look in my old 2000 Michel and you ar right (just "GUAM" on each central maps of 1991-1995 issues). Continue your summer to come back wikiproductive again :) Sebjarod 08:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Adrian "Packy" Schade

Stan, I was amazed to find an article on the venerable Mr. Schade. I am curious how you knew him, which I assume you did as you cite his boys and wife by name.

I grew to know the boys in the late 90s while working on a book. The subject matter surrounded Packy's work while head of the Carrier Desk during WWII, from 1942 through 1944. The boys were extremely helpful.

It might interest you to know that at my urging the boys gathered up all of Packy's papers and I arranged to have them added to the manuscript collection at the United States Naval Academy's Nimitz Library. There they are available for current and future generations to research and learn more about this very interesting man.

I wonder if you'd mind terribly if I augmented your Packy article? Mentioning the repository of his papers might prove useful for students and the anecdotal origin of his nickname interesting, etc.

Thanks for remembering a very important man in our nation's history yet to most is unfamiliar. Feel free to contact me as my username is actually linked to email. xl_five_lx 03:37 31 July 2007

Just following up on our previous conversation some weeks back. After a recent move, I still hadn't unpacked many of the document boxes I have containing Navy records. I have now sifted through them and finally located the material on Packy Schade. As promised, I will soon try and add what I can to your article regarding same. Thanks very much. Xl five lx 23:41, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Devil's Hole pupfish

You have been reverting the change from critically endangered to Vulnerable in the taxobox of the Devil's Hole pupfish article. Both IUCN and Fishbase list the species as vulnerable. Do you have a reliable source that says otherwise, or are you mistaking the reversion by anonymous editors as vandalism? Neil916 (Talk) 17:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was assuming vandalism. Astonishing that IUCN can't be bothered to update their listing, considering that with a count of 36 adults remaining in habitat, the pupfish are much rarer than many of the other "critically endangered" species, and just one accidental rockfall away from extinction. Thank you IUCN... Stan 18:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USS Hornet: Image mooring lines

Greetings,

We found this image on the gallery of photos about shipping which you have posted on Wikipedia.

We would very much like to use it as the cover of a book of one of Joseph Conrad's stories. The book is a commercial production. We are happy to comply with the GNU Licence terms, but wanted you to know what we were doing and also wanted to assure ourselves it was your photograph.

Should you have any questions to put to us, or if there are other obligations we need to fulfil, please let us know.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. D. MurgatroydIsobel Coates 16:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

PS We enjoyed looking through your photographs.

Thanks for the kind words! It is indeed my photo, got a chance to tour the ship a couple years ago. I just changed it to be dual-licensed with a Creative Commons license too, in case that's more convenient. When do you think the book is coming out? I'm a bit of a Conrad fan, will keep an eye out for it. Stan 14:45, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prickly pear photo

Hello! I noticed you initiated the article on prickly pear cactus. I recently uploaded a photograph showing a close up of a prickly pear bloom, not a rare picture, but this example contains a small bee exiting the flower after having likely pollinated the plant. I thought you might be interested.

I'm not sure how to best lead you to the photo so I include the Image: line here but without brackets.

Thank you.

Image:Prickly pear bloom with small bee.jpg

--Bad carpet 00:54, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw your Commons page

I'm amazed at how many pics you've uploaded there, is there a way to count how many you've uploaded other than manually and are you one of the top Commons uploaders? BTW, I added your USS Hornet pics to the category USS Hornet (CV-12). I visited the ship myself in November 2004 and plan to upload any of my pics that you haven't already covered BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 05:08, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Harn

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Your back and I'm off

I see you are back, or at least somewhat active. I am just out the door for a few days in London & Ireland and will catch up when I can or after the 17th. Cheers ww2censor 17:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My editing has gotten episodic, more RL distractions than formerly :-) . Stan 18:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now you're back, can you give us your comments on this? Although we don't foresee any problems, we wanted to get your thoughts before we went live with the new template. Cheers, Walkerma 07:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But I am back now too, so we can disuss how to progress. What do you think Stan? ww2censor 17:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I commented on the project page - idea seemed OK to me. Stan 19:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Walkerma has now implemented the assessment paramaters in the philately project tag. You may want to look at the initial stats here. If you disagree with any of the ratings please change them as appropriate though we really should lay down some basic guidelines that we agree on. Cheers ww2censor 18:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI - a photo has been double-promoted to FP

Hi Mr. Shebs!

Since you were the original uploader of the Image:USS_Franklin_list-700px.jpg, I'd like to inform you about some things regarding this photo.

I've recently been doing a complete pictures revision on the World War II article, and I found that I mercilessly:) had to replace the USS Franklin photo with a land photo from Okinawa, in order to do more justice to Okinawa. But I felt a little bad about it; I thoroughly scrutinized each of the previous 80 pictures in the WW2 article, and found the Franklin pic to be exquisite. I am not joking - through the years I have seen thousands (god knows how many) of different photos from WW2, and the Franklin pic is IMO a masterpiece.

Therefore, I decided to upload it to Commons as Image:Attack_on_carrier_USS_Franklin_19_March_1945.jpg, do more research on it, write a caption and nominate it for featured picture on both Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia.

It was recently promoted as FP in both instances, and I am not surprised.

Details on the nomination and votes:

Commons FP result

English Wikipedia FP result

Since you were the original uploader, I've taken the liberty of stating this/linking to you in the image summary. I will most likely soon order a reproduction or digital hi-res version from the National Archives, and upload this. If you want me to notify you about this, please tell me so on my talk page.

I just wanted to tell you about this, since if you hadn't uploaded it, I might never have seen it in the first place. I sincerely want to thank you for this!

My warm regards, --Dna-Dennis 11:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Belegaer

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AfD nomination of Juggs

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Smile!

Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) has smiled at you! Smiles are good! and hopefully this one has made your day better. Why not smile at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend? Happy editing!

heloo, what is this????????????? i do not get it u r cool —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.39.178.72 (talk) 12:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stamp templates

hi Stan. I think its time the footer templates were filled out with all the different entities and the articles at least stubbed. However as there are around 700 different ones - I think I'm going to create postal history templates by continent e.g Postal history of Europe, Postal history of Asia etc. This would make it more manageable and easier to navigate. I'll work on it in a few days. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 21:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes such as French Post offices abroad and British Levant and all that of which there are many. Mmm. I'm thinking it would be best to stick to continents with templates , a British commonwealth one might be a bit dated for instance and has some considerable overlap. I'll see what I can do = I'm certain we can't add all A-Z in one template that would look ridiculous but what could be done is to have the countries of one continent in one box (including past editities/micro states and PO'S etc) and then have links to other continents at the top. This way it connects to the next series of articles from that given area. It might take some time to do, also when I meant stubs I didn't mean one which provides no info - the basics is all that is needed to start with. Keep up the good work anyway, I wish there were more editors that concentrated on this area -I also like the new "rare stamp" info box -looks good . As I said anyway I'll look into it ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:43, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it might actually be a good idea to create another set of templates also for British PO'S etc for those British stamp enthusiasts. The templates can be set at collapsible so it wouldn't look cluttered. I do think it best to stick to geographical area though primarily for an encyclopedia. We'll get there ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi just out of question, I was wondering if you collect stamps from Aland Islands see : Here or Alexandretta. I am currently selling off my entire collection as it takes up too much room. Some of the Alexandretta are slightly damaged but the others are fine. I've sold about 6 penny blacks on ebay. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:24, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes don't worry too much about the template at present as it gets larger I'll move it to one of my work pages where I can list the A-Z and then sort by continent into the more organized templates. If you are redirecting see Postage stamps and postal history of British Guiana to direct to the specific section. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 17:13, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure I know exactly what you are intending to do because in looking at the template on the Postage stamps and postal history of British Guiana page I don't see any links to philatelic articles. The stamps section should be hived off to its own page. Maybe you are referring to the style of that template. In that case it might work in some fashion, but whatever you do, I suggest that you do not populate the template with lots of redlinks. I really think it is unproductive to do that. Your aspiration to have an article for each stamp issuing entity is commendable but unlikely to happen any time soon, even as stubs, unless you are committed to it on your own as there are too few active philatelists. I would prefer to devote some time to improving some of the main philatelic articles. ww2censor 20:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Away team

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Bitterroot

This is an image I uploaded three years ago. I will attempt to find a more suitable free image over the next few weeks. I have no idea exactly why I chose the license based on the current info in the Plants Database. I was either dead wrong or the entry had more copyright info placed on it. If you want to change the license or add a more appropriate photo before I get to it, you are most welcome to do so. Thanks for asking. --Robbie Giles 17:46, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]