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Thanks for the disambiguation link. I didn't know. Do you have any info on other Stone Fleet ships?Pustelnik 19:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
In RE: Also a quick note - some articles you've created (and others that you have been working on) could use renaming to follow wiki conventions. Examples are Coffin (whaling family), Phoenix (ships with this name), Sydney Packet (1826-1837). I understand the issue of disambiguation on all these, so I can see why you've done what you have, but more standard names would be Coffin family (whaling), Phoenix (ships), and Sydney Packet (1826). You can find the naming conventions specific to ship articles here. I'd be happy to answer any questions or help in any way I can. Maralia 14:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Actually, the Coffin whaling family page isn't mine. I don't know how to change the titles on the other pages you mentioned. Feel free to change them and let me know that you did, or direct me to instructions on how to do so. When I started the first page on the Phoenix, I had no idea how many ships of the wooden saling ship era bore that name. Maybe it is a Masonic thing, or they were all built after fires? There are several ships named "Sydney Packet" as well. The only one I am interested in was built in Australia, and involved in discoveries in the Pacific. The whole Stone Fleet was a side effect of trying to sort out ships named Phoenix. I'm interested in the one captained by Perry Winslow. I understand that there is a book in progress about the wreck of this Phoenix, written by a relative of one of its captains. I finally joined the ships group. Pustelnik 17:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
The "Sydney Packet" was a civilian ship. I'm not sure why "Sydney Packet (1826)" is preferrable to "Sydney Packet (1826-1838)" even after reading the naming convention page. For many of the whaling era ships, I have no idea when they were built or lost, but do have some data on when and where they were active, or who their captains were. I suspect that these ships careers were overlaping, rather than being sequential, like military ships. I may be wrong about that. It might help if someone expands the "naming convention for civilian ships" category. Most of the article does not apply to civilian wooden sailing vessels, which is my particular interest. I understand the need for conventions, I'm just unsure what they are, even after reading the article.Pustelnik 00:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Lol - that's one very good argument for actually checking wikilinks go where they're supposed to when editing! EyeSereneTALK 21:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sheerness article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 12:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
If you ever need any help just leave me a message, and with the vandalism report you did fine. Always make sure they receive a recent final warning (within last day prefereably sooner) and a block will almost always be issued. All the best and happy editing. Khukri 17:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Virginia, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 22:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
You said about Vialuxe that "This page does not describe the subject in a neutral and encylopedic manner". You are quite right, it appears to have been an advertisement, and as such has been deleted. As you may have heard, Wikipedia is on guard against people or websites who try to use the encyclopedia for self-promotion; if you spot any, if you want, you can use the template {{db-advert}} to request their deletion. Happy editing! >Radiant< 14:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Maralia. Sorry if I screwed up with the addition of the sentence re: murders of persons listed in sex offender registries. But I _did_ put """http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/Articles/Law/oldspeak-sexregistries.asp Sex-Offender Registries: Public Safety or Public Hazard? """ in the External Links which I thought would be sufficient. Should I instead have put that link in the Reference section? Thank you for your attention.81.184.59.20 06:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
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For making a difference! This Barnstar isn't free, this is a chain barnstar, as payment please give this star to at least 3-5 others with 500+ edits but no barnstar. So that everyone who deserves one will get one Pseudoanonymous 19:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC) |
I'm very sorry I haven't had a chance to welcome you earlier, I have been incredibly busy lately. We are glad to have your help. Currently, we have really cut down the backlog of articles in need of copyedit. Therefore, a major goal at this moment is to identify new articles that are in need of work. When you run across them, be sure to tag them for copyediting.
If you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to drop me a line. Trusilver 16:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello Maralia!
I see you deleted the Joseph Browne article. In the form that you found it, it was indeed full of rubbish. If you'd checked through the edit history, however, you would have found that the rubbish was actually vandalism; the article itself (which I wrote) was of a highly respected public figure in Fiji.
Before deleting articles, it is good to check the edit history. It often happens that an article that appears to be rubbish is actually a good article that has been vandalized. The solution is to go though the edit history, find the last "good" version of the article and restore it. You can then delete all of the vandalized edits.
I have restored the article, minus the vandalism.
Please don't take this as a criticism - I've made similar mistakes more often than I'd like to admit. Anyway, welcome to wikipedia! David Cannon 10:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey Maralia! I noticed that you're adding categories to various ship articles, and I was wondering if you know about DEFAULTSORT. It lets you specify a sort key on one line so it doesn't have to be mentioned in each category. For example, in this diff, it's unnecessary to include |Archer-Fish (SS-311) on each category, because the {{DEFAULTSORT:Archer-Fish (SS-311)}} takes care of that for you. TomTheHand 15:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Connell66 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
I saw your request over on User talk:TomTheHand for a review of Brown Shipbuilding, you can use these diff links to see what another editor and I thought needed doing. Also you can usually be pretty liberal in adding project banners, and I agreed with your suggestions, so added those. --J Clear 15:32, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Dear Maralia,
Thank you for applying for NPWatcher! You've been approved to use it. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the application page to see if there is a newer release (or just add the main page (here) to your watchlist). Report any bugs or feature suggestion here. If you need help, feel free to contact me or join NPWatcher.
Hi. Please see [Independenta]. Thanks.CeeGee 19:20, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 17:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I said that the speculation continues about Mr. Graham's death, but never stated that his wife murdered him. Please, keep in mind that Wikipedia is not Conservapedia. To avoid discussion and argument, go somewhere else. Dukered
You weren't very civil deleting and deleting the entry. I'm aware that this is a controversial topic, and that Katharine Graham was a woman with many detractos and many lovers. But here on Wikipedia facts or details are not buried just like that, unless they are completely unsourced. Moreover, there was something else about Philip Graham's death (which I did not write and you did delete like the user before you) totally neutral. This raises my suspicions. But I'll do my homework because the truth won't be buried, you can be sure of that. Sincerely, Dukered 23:45, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome and the advice. I've fixed the flag thing on the Buckley class Captains class frigate articles. Thefrood 05:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Part 2: As to the reason "for starting the infoboxes after the intro to the article?", It seems the sensible thing to from an accessibility point of view, the user of a voice reader gets enough info to hopefully know that they have reached the page they want (or not reached as the case may be) before having to deal with the horrors that is a layout table. This is (IMHO) in accordance with the the Wikipedia Accessibility guidelines, of course the big question is how good is my humble opinion :|
Question, is there no way of implementing this sort of thing using CSS on Wikipedia? Thefrood 05:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Infoboxes are a summary of the article, and therefore should be put before any text.
Would the Royal Navy shore based establishment HMS Saker come under the subject area covered by WikiProject Ships? Thefrood 19:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
(Charles Keck and the USS Maine) and this is a good thing, but it is not why I am here. Rather, it's your propensity towards shipwrecks. What do you know, or perhaps, should there be an article about the crash of the SS Vesta and the SS Arctic, which I read somewhere was the first such collision between steamships on the open sea. There are books about it, which perhaps you have? Of interest to me - besides the huge amount of human drama that surrounded this accident (the owner of the SS Arctic lost his family, for example) was that Frederick Catherwood went down at that point and darn near disappeared from history too. Just a thought. Carptrash 14:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that on your user page, so I tought that I would share this with you. My friend Rear Admiral Jay A. DeLoach has participated in the search of the USS Alligator that went down in a storm off the coast of North Carolina in 1863. The USS Alligator was the first submarine built during the Civil War by the Union Navy. I'm thinking about joining them in the hunt this coming year. Just thought you would enjoy this. Tony the Marine 05:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
"I noticed that you added Captain class frigate to the Review page", not me (not checked but I suspect Emoscopes} - however I was planning to do this once I finshed updating the refs in the operations section to a more formal style and Emoscopes had done the same for his Lenton, H T. British and Empire Warships of the Second World War Greenhill Books.
That said, thanks for the input. I'll get to work on the position of the citations and the capitalisation issues. As to your comment "there are 3 builders listed in the infobox, yet 4 are mentioned in the article" (actually 5) yes that is correct, no error; Captain class frigates were built by Boston Navy Yard, Mare Island Navy Yard and Bethlehem-Hingham however orders for Captain class frigates were placed with Boston Navy Yard, Mare Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound Navy Yard (initial order) and later Bethlehem-Hingham. All the ordered ships from Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound Navy Yard were taken over by the US Navy (as were all but one of the ships ordered from Mare Island Navy Yard). --Thefrood 03:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Unless the review request is the one that got the article upgraded from Start to B in which case it was me (and should be removed). Thanks for your kind words about going for an FA rating, I was just hoping to get it up to a GA rating - FA would be awesome! As to when you can copyedit I do not foresee any major changes to the text (unless you really do think a change needs to made regarding the order/build thing) the main thrust of what I'm now doing is formalising the refs (not looking forward to doing the tables in the Operations section :-/) so feel free. --Thefrood 04:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
One final note before you copyedit, I have used British English spellings throughout (colour not color, "s" not "z", aeroplane not air plane, etc). --Thefrood 05:17, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
The first paragraph looks great. As to the end of war stuff, it does look a bit missed place where it is, as a temporary measure I'll copy a paste it into a separate a paragraph at the end of the History section - as to its final disposition I am quite happy to leave that in your hands. --ThefroodTalk 08:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I supplied the reference you asked for for the A-4 which fell overboard with a B43 nuclear bomb on board. It was the CV-14 Ticonderoga; the VA-56 was the aircraft squadron, not the ship. I also added a subsection about the incident to the Tico (CV-14) article... Georgewilliamherbert 06:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the excellent and extensive rewrite of the Judy. Epic! Binksternet 13:34, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Go right ahead. He used to be Labyrinth13 (talk · contribs), who was indef blocked for gross incivility and vandalism. Although, I don't know if it'll do much good; he's used dozens and dozens of different IPs, and I don't think he's ever used the same one twice, so I don't know what good blocking will do. It's probably best to keep reverting and ignore him otherwise, until he loses motivation and leaves. Parsecboy 12:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Maralia You seem to be an expert on US ships. I am not an expert and came across USS Yankton via the sources for a biography article Charles Armstrong (MD), where I also found USS Seneca. On this website I found another ship Seneca, which obviously is not on the list USS Seneca in Wipipedia. Google has a Seneca (2004) here, which is also not in the wiki list. Do you know more? Have a nice day --Hans555 07:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Nice work on updating it. Nice to know that somebody besides me is interested in these old WWII AKA's! Lou Sander 10:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation! I was afraid that once I quit lurking and actually started posting I might get discovered. As there are a few items in other areas I'd like to get to, I'm not sure how much time I could spend on the project. Therefore I have not yet decided whether to join. You folks seem to have it well in hand anyway-- keep up the great work! Kablammo 17:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
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I'd like to thank you for coming to my defense, and explaining the situation in that vandalism/3RR mess on Linkin Park. :) Parsecboy 16:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC) |
Hi Maralia, I noticed your post to User:Toddy1's talk page about proposed renames for Bulwark Class Battleship (1859) and Duncan class (1859). I agree they could do with retitling, but per the discussions we've had at the project, those ships would really be classed as ships of the line rather than battleships. It's a hazy area the whole terminology, and the standard term is debatable, but rather than trying to reopen that debate again, would you have any objection to 'Bulwark class ship of the line (1859)' and 'Duncan class ship of the line (1859)'? Benea 21:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Wow, those are some pretty impressive coincidences! I might have been the evil twin, however after nearly eight years of facial hair, I shaved my goatee off on Monday. Not having been exposed to the air since the twentieth century, my face has felt funny all week long. Did you happen to start growing a goatee on Monday by any chance ... ? If so, perhaps you are taking a turn as the evil twin! Kralizec! (talk) 18:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Coincidentally, we're doing the same thing. ;-)
Please feel free to carry over any assessments below A-Class to the MILHIST banner; we have piles of articles to go through, so we'd definitely appreciate getting some that have already been assessed. Thanks! Kirill 02:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out. I'd come across it several times, but wasn't sure exactly what its purpose was. I'll update the articles I've created/edit with that template now. Thanks again. Parsecboy 00:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Ha! Now that is funny!! --Kralizec! (talk) 03:09, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on the article. I'm going to try to get this up to either A-class or FA over the next couple of weeks so I'd appreciate it if you continued monitoring it. I will modify one change you made (from "do" to "complete" basic training): it has changed the meaning so I'll find a formula that gets rid of the clumsy "do" whilst preserving the original meaning. Anyhow, much appreciated! --ROGER DAVIES TALK 19:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks very much for noticing that! It certainly was a lot of fun to research and write. I came across his story quite by chance whilst writing up HMS Glasgow (1909) and couldn't resist writing an article about him, especially since I even found a photograph of him. It's quite a heart warming tale, up until the bit where he gets auctioned off and eaten! I've even found that some of the sources go up to the point where he's on Whale Island, and then leave it at that, with no mention of his ultimate fate. I guess it's a bit distressing for some. Kind regards, Benea 13:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Not a problem, the least I could do for bringing Tirpitz to the project's attention! Shouldn't be difficult to work up some basic stubs, I'll ping you when I've done it. Beware the curse of Tirpitz! One of the reviews of the exhibition notes that "his head smiles down on the exhibition with a surprisingly benevolent expression." But those war pigs, that's a different story, they're battle hardened elephant killers! I just love the idea of herds of pigs routing fully armed war elephants! Not pigs to mess with, that's for sure! Perhaps you'd better ask Tirpitz for forgiveness before a herd of war pigs comes knocking! I think I'm going to go into hiding before the incediary monkeys get me! ta ta for now, Benea 04:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
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Tirpitz is now front page material! Is nowhere safe? ttfn, Benea 15:06, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Would you have the time and inclination to take on a copy-edit of this article? The primary editor is a Swede, and concerned because English is not his mother tongue. He would also like feedback on what the general reader might perceive as gaps. "I know just the person I thought to myself ...." --ROGER DAVIES TALK 15:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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