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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXI (November 2007)The November 2007 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. DYK nom ... another ..
I added a link to his brother, but I suspect this article needs a summary opening intro to make this a B class. Is it possible to put inline citations on the key facts (DYK like this). Oh and I'm one of the other 7. OK with the hook? Victuallers 12:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC) --Royalbroil 02:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)Use of "public domain" templates in References sectionHi. I noticed that you have recently been adding the {{DANFS}} template to some articles. This template, as well as the one for Marine Corps citations, is meant to be used with specific text from the public domain source is part of the article, not when the source is simply used as a reference. In the case of some/all of the recent {{DANFS}} additions, such as Harold C. Agerholm, these were simply citation. I see the purpose of these templates as two fold:
— ERcheck (talk) 13:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC) Referencing and citationsYou asked:
Generally, not all sources of information on a topic need to be/should be included. For "References", these should be the sources specifically used to develop/create the article and which provide reliable sources for the information. Likewise inline citations are used to provide specific validation of statements in the article. If a {{DANFS}} site is the initial site on which an article is based, then it should definitely be included as a reference. If it repeats information that is in the Who's Who site, then, you might consider adding it into the "External links" section as a site of interest. Certainly, not all sites that speak to the article's subject should be included. For example, if you have a "blog"-like source/personal website that provides information from a reliable source, site the reliable source. For links such as "Find-A-Grave", I add that to the "External links" section; only including it in the "Reference" section if it is specifically used for creating the article/is the only site with certain information. Hope this helps. — ERcheck (talk) 14:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC) FYI: Archiving your talk pageFYI. I note that your talk page is getting long. Check out Help:Archiving a talk page — you might be interested in archiving some of the oldest entries. — ERcheck (talk) 14:33, 8 December 2007 (UTC) This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Andre W. Brewster, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/awbrewst.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 20:47, 16 December 2007 (UTC) This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of James Machon, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1862_cwh/machon.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 13:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
About the Arlington National Cemetery website.FYI. At first glance, one might think that the [Arlington National Cemetery website http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/] is a government website; and, thus assume that the material is in the public domain. However if you scroll to the bottom of their home page, you will find the following disclaimer:
I have often found that many of the biographies posted are taken directly from U.S government biographies (though I don't usually find the credits given on the ANC website; I find this when I check it against other sources). The ANC profiles often include obituaries from news sources (often credited). The ANC site is a creditable source, but text cannot be copied. — ERcheck (talk) 16:37, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of James MachonIf the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding
James MachonYes, I was in error. It has been restored; I'm really sorry. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, Keilanatalk(recall) 21:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Happy New YearHappy New Year, my Marine brother. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC) AutoWikiBrowserHi, I have approved you for AutoWikiBrowser. You can download it from here. Good luck! jj137 ♠ 16:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)
Note: This newsletter was automatically delivered. Regards from the automated, Anibot (talk) 23:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC) CleanupThanks for all the clean up you are doing. Many of the articles you did are ones I watch, mostly military ones, but you also did the king of Thailand (I helped get it to FA). — Rlevse • Talk • 12:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:Armymoh.jpgThanks for uploading Image:Armymoh.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, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged. As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 22:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈talk 22:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC) Welcome to VandalProof!Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Kumioko! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. βcommand 14:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC) Washington, D.C.Please don't wikilink this city in the infoboxes of NFL players, as you did at Kevin Huntley and Mike Flanagan (American football). The infobox already links birth places, so if you put brackets around them they show up around the already-linked city. Thanks.►Chris NelsonHolla! 17:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
AWB strangenessMay I ask why you are doing things like this? I tend to agree with you on "|foo" being preferable to "| foo", but not on "*Foo" being preferable to "* Foo", the former being harder to read. Most editors don't mess with template code, but most do mess with lists. Not a big deal, it just seems strange to me to spend that much time in AWB fixing something that isn't broken as opposed to fixing something broken. For "|foo" it would be far more productive for you to go change the documentation of the infoboxes in question so they stop giving copy-pasteable code that includes unneeded spaces, so henceforth you'd never have to do that AWB run ever again. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 21:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you please explain more fully?Could you please explain more fully this edit? Aside from changes the references to reflist your intent was? IMO trimming the spaces in the individual <ref></ref>s reduces the readability, and thus the maintainability of the article. Geo Swan (talk) 03:27, 22 January 2008 (UTC) AWB commentHi there! Just a friendly note on your use of AWB on this dif[2]. If you take a look at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#Rules_of_use, it says "Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists." Which is exactly what it did -- clogged up my watch list. Thanks!--Fabrictramp (talk) 23:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
We don't prefix single-digit dates with 0. –Pomte 19:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Incorrect XHTML-TagWhy did you replace the correct
Yet another AWB commentAdd my voice to the chorus above objecting to frivolous edits with AWB. Other than to just futz with extra spaces, there’s no need for edits like this. On some systems a pipe character "|" looks suspiciously like a lower case "L". Having the extra space helps distinguish the two. There are, I'm sure, many better uses of your time and Wikipedia’s resources. — Bellhalla (talk) 05:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)The January 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. living peopleWhen adding "living people" categories to articles, please remember that the category names have minimal capitalization: it's Category:Living people and Category:Year of birth missing (living people), not [[Category:Living People]] and [[Category:Year of birth missing (Living People)]]. --Paul A (talk) 01:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC) Military history WikiProject coordinator electionsThe Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! Kirill 03:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC) An edit on Henry Wager Halleck didn't end up the way you intendedTake a look at this diff. I'm not that familiar with the code, so I didn't see an obvious break. Please take a look. Thanks! BusterD (talk) 22:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Your edit to Johnston de PeysterHey, thanks for looking over quite a few of my articles with AWB, but I noticed that on some of them you have been deleting Wikipedia:Persondata. Make sure that you check over your edits before clicking submit! Thanks. Mrprada911 (talk) 05:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC) AWB image damageI suspect this [4] is not what you intended to do to the images. Check your work. -- SEWilco (talk) 06:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC) removing spaces after section headersHi, you're certainly not the first editor I've seen doing this, but my curiosity is piqued. What is the purpose behind this sort of edit? It doesn't seem to make any difference to the reader and requires you to spend time doing it and prompts me, and who knows who else, to double-check when it pops up on my watchlist. I'm not upset. I just don't understand the point. Thanks, BanyanTree 07:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Did you get the Notes and References sections reversed? It seems to me the section that now reads Notes really are References. Thanks. Ward20 (talk) 22:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC) Your edit to Charles C. Krulak - Silver StarYou made a recent edit to Charles C. Krulak, replacing Silver Star with Silver Star Medal. Please note that this creates a redirect, as the main article name is Silver Star. — ERcheck (talk) 01:35, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
EditsYou've garnered a lot of complaints about frivolous edits. You may want to take them to heart, esp when using AWB, the rights to which can be revoked. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
AWBTake care when using AWB for cleanup, you just edited 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States) in a way that messed up a lot of the images and charts, which would have been harmful as it is a current GA candidate. -Ed! (talk) 18:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC) Bump Elliott GA
Persondata templateUntil AWB adds persondata template, you may be interested in User talk:Dr pda/persondata.js, which works fairly well, depending on the quality of info in the infobox. Regards—G716 <T·C> 01:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC) Milhist coordinators election has started
Another useless AWB edit…I reverted your edit of Charles A. Stafford diff. In addition to the removal of spaces at the end of citation templates — spaces which I leave intentionally for ease of reading — you changed Silver Star to Silver Star Medal. Unfortunately, "Silver Star Medal" redirects right back to "Silver Star". I appreciate the time and effort that you put into trying to make Wikipedia better, but you need to have better quality control on your work. — Bellhalla (talk) 12:30, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
AWB Broke Wikilink to Woodrow Wilson HSHi Kumioko. I noticed your AWB cleanup of Eugene Peyton Deatrick broke the wikilink to Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, DC). The cleanup replaced "DC" with "D.C" but the article name uses "DC". Are you planning to rename the article as well so the wikilink will work? Thanks. Skeet Shooter (talk) 13:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC) Reverted your AWB Edit Because of Formatting AestheticsHi Kumioko. I reverted your edit of William B. Ebbert Your AWB edit adversely affected the easy-flowing text that had previously wrapped around photos for ease of reading. Also, the poem text got pushed up into the poem title. Most noticeable was the edit caused all the photos to jump to the left, "divorcing" them from the text. I appreciate the effort, but I feel the previous version flowed much more smoothly and seemlessly. Cordially yours... Partypeeps (talk) 03:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC) Speedy deletion of Template:Unites States ArmyA tag has been placed on Template:Unites States Army requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted. If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>). Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC) WP:AFC Backlog Drive
You are receiving this letter because you are listed as a participant in the Articles for creation WikiProject at WP:WPAFC. To avoid receiving further notices, please remove your name from the list. Thanks! AWBAs per AWB rules of use please do not make inconsequential edits, such as you did to James Record where you modified a <br /> tag. Thanks, Rich257 (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Refs and punctuationAlso don't break the referencing by moving punctuation like you did at <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Taguba&diff=194211118&oldid=183779494#_ref-Sullivan2004_0>. A reference is placed after the fullstop when it references the entire sentence, moving a reference to indicate that it references something it does not (e.g. the first part of of a sentence) is wrong. Please revert. -- Jeandré, 2008-03-02t18:20z Hello, Kumioko ... I noticed that you've made some cosmetic edits to John R. Fox (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) ... I was wondering if you had any personal interest in the subject ... FYI, my father served with Fox in Italy, and attended the White House MoH ceremony in 1997. :-) Happy Editing! — 141.156.217.11 (talk · contribs) 16:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC) Hello again, Kumioko ... please see
this talk page and tell me
what you think of my newly
created Also, what are your thoughts on my proposed WP:FLAG-BIO and other flag templates? BTW, speaking of high school math, I still have my old trusty & reliable slide rule from high school! :-) Happy Editing! — 141.156.217.11 (talk · contribs) 21:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC) QuestionHello. Where can I learn how to make info boxes and templates? is there any page on wikipedia to teach wiki language? Thanks!--78.180.30.33 (talk) 21:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Why is replacing "Second World War" with "World War II" a "clean-up"? What's wrong with the expression "Second World War"? It seems a perfectly reasonable phrase. Is this an American English/British English thing? Xyl 54 (talk) 17:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
ProblemHello, there is a problem with this edit. Poppy (talk) 00:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIV (February 2008)The February 2008 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Finding people in Find-A-Grave listsHello, and thanks for finding some people on the Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people lists! The standard procedure, if you find that someone on the list is listed in Wikipedia, is:
Thanks again! --Alvestrand (talk) 07:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
DC Meetup on May 17thYour help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC) List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo JimaI wanted to let you know that I changed my "vote" to Support for the FL nomination of List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima. Also, I finished adding the unit information for those on the list that were missing it. I'd appreciate it if you could double check those that I did to ensure I got them right. — Bellhalla (talk) 21:02, 8 March 2008 (UTC) |