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Together, we're making good articles. Danglingdiagnosis (talk) 07:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

M249 squad automatic weapon

Hey. You opposed this articles FAC over referencing. I know you've already struck your oppose, but I've completely redone the refs. You might like to take a look :-).--Patton 14:19, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Just something

I haven't seen your input about some of the grammar claims about the Johnson page. I was wondering if you could take a third party look and contact me with any that are still in the article and should be addressed? I respect your opinion on such things. It seems that the fighting halted many of the reviews. I should have more time to devote to article writing this week, as my current Wiki stuff will be finishing up tonight when it closes. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and don't think that this is urgent and needs to be done now, if you are willing to. I'm sure that the FAC will be there for a week or so more, as no one is really reviewing and its stagnated near the bottom. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

That FAC was promoted by Karanacs this morning. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, well. That gives Maralia even more time to look at any concerns. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 19:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Are you looking for a grammar check on the article, or specific feedback vs the grammar issues raised at the FAC? I would rather eat hot lead than try to decipher the lengthy FAC page, but I'd be happy to do the former. Maralia (talk) 19:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Just a general sweep of the article looking for grammar. Some of the issues raised were a few words that were characterized as "antiquated" or some sentences that were vague or too confusing to understand. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:26, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Old templates

Are you sure we want to have them removed? I thought we were keeping them around in case we ever had to wing it without GimmeBot? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:37, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Not wholesale indiscriminate removal; mostly just tagging as deprecated to make it clear that they're no longer in active use. Some of them, though, never were used and could be deleted. Don't worry, I will take the time to look into each one and form a good recommendation case-by-case. Maralia (talk) 20:16, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

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Collins Line

I did Baltic and Pacific. When I start on a class of ships I usually do the lot but in this case I just whipped these two out to get a five-part DYK on another topic. I might have gone on to do the rest but since I see you already started on them, I thought you might want to do at least a couple.

If I was doing them as a set, I would probably write a blanket article called something like "Collins Line ships" where I would include the detail common to all four ships (or five, including Adriatic), and then just concentrate on the service histories in the individual articles. I think that's the best way to proceed because otherwise you end up with a lot of redundant info in the individual ship articles. If you would like to tackle such an article though, I can give you a couple of useful sources. Gatoclass (talk) 07:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Is the DYK nom up yet? Was curious about a five-part DYK related to those ships, but couldn't find a nom.

I wouldn't in the least mind if you wanted to work on any of the other ships. I am mainly interested in working on Arctic, due to the spectacular manner in which she was wrecked, and the extreme amount of coverage in newspapers and books. Maralia (talk) 18:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The nom was up, but I just decided to pull it as I am now considering breaking it up into two separate hooks (ironically, after spending all that time researching those two ship articles!).

I think the Collins Line ships are very interesting, and I would like to give them the attention I think they deserve, but I have other priorities at the moment and if I manage to get back to them at all it probably won't be for weeks, if not months. So if you change your mind about them, it's not likely to bother me :) Cheers, Gatoclass (talk) 18:35, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

What every happened to

Hey there Maralia, I know that back in November/December there was some talk about your running for admin, whatever became of that? If you want a new nom, I would not be opposed to giving you one.---I'm Spartacus! 16:20, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I had some real life stuff going on that would've made it difficult to handle an RFA (first an illness in the family, and then my primary computer gave up the ghost). Things have settled down since, and I'm gearing up to get on with it again. I've recently contacted both people who previously wrote co-noms for me and they're still on board, so I think I'll stick with that; 3 co-noms seems a bit much to me. Thanks very much for the offer, though! Maralia (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem... I've been seeing your name around a lot more lately and just wanted to find out what happened... I knew there were personal issues then, but didn't know if you had completely decided against it or what.---I'm Spartacus! 17:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Keith Johnson

Thanks for pointing those out, I've fixed them. YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 00:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Whip it! 03:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

A barnstar

It was just a few minutes' work, really. But thank you, it's always nice to be appreciated :) Maralia (talk) 04:18, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

SD tagging per AWB

Hi Maralia
Could I ask you to instead of mass-tagging pages for speedy deletion, just compile a list of the pages in some sandbox and notify one admin (like me or xeno or Toon05) to batch-delete them, in the future? Otherwise those are clogging up CAT:CSD, and people are going to start deleting them one by one while they could pretty easily all be deleted with one click, with the proper tools.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea 12:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I'll figure out a way. I've been using AWB to tag because I have to eyeball each one (they're not in a convenient category, or reliably in a subset of whatlinkshere, and even the false positives need other editing). It's further complicated by AWB bugging out—creating a list from 'what transcludes page' is busted, so I'm having to start with a manual copy/paste of onwiki Special:Whatlinkshere results into a text file, clean up the formatting with search/replace, then import it into AWB just to get a working list. Ugly, huh? :) I'll try weeding out the ones needing editing first instead; a few pre-parse runs after that might get me to a reliable list for CSD. Maralia (talk) 16:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Hmm, if it's easier for you you can also just categorize them in some non-existant category, like Category:FAC pages for G6 deletion, which can then be used to delete them all. That wouldn't change much in your workflow I assume? Amalthea 17:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

A category had occurred to me, but I figured that would be frowned on for being out-of-process :) (This is where some smartass talkpage stalker will point out that this would have been the smartest way to get it done.) Per your previous suggestion, I had already started preparing a subpage list, using multiple pre-parsing runs in AWB and a review pass onwiki (thank all that's holy for popups!) to weed out false positives. Glancing at the rest of my batch, it appears that they are mostly false positives that I just need to edit, so I think I'll just keep adding to my subpage. Thanks for the suggestion, though; once I'm through with this batch, it will take some inventive searches to isolate the rest of the relic pages (these were the 'easy' ones!), and a temp category would be more efficient than back-and-forth from wiki–AWB–wiki. In any case, the pages listed at the subpage link above are multiply-confirmed and ready to be deleted. Thanks for your help. Maralia (talk) 03:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

 Done, batch deletion of those listed on the subpage is complete. I have left the backlinks intact. I was just about to mention this until I saw that you already did. You really should think about going for it, your need for the tools has just exhibited itself yet again. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, MBK. I just finished processing the rest of the first batch. Even though I had drafted the subpage list at an arbitrary breaking point, it turns out that the list captured all the remaining positive matches from this batch. Creepy. Maralia (talk) 04:28, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi
That second batch doesn't happen to be reviewed yet, does it? I'd be needing a test case cause the batch deletion tool is acting out a little. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 13:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, it is ready now; knock yourself out :) After that, I expect to have only one more batch, probably smaller than the others. Thanks. Maralia (talk) 13:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Alright, they are all gone. Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea 15:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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Tex Settle

Thanks for cleaning up that Hindu grammar of mine! Any suggestions how to find verifiable date/place of his death, other than breaking into Pentagon screaming FOIA? NVO (talk)

You're welcome! I have some ideas; let me see what I can find. Maralia (talk) 01:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's what I've found so far:

• The SSA lists a Thomas Settle, born 4 Nov 1895, last residence in zip 20015 (DC), that died in April 1980. His SSN was 579-52-8080; you can see the summary report I pulled this from by searching on that SSN at this site.
• SSA info on Fay can be found by searching on 579-60-9349; she died in 1989.
• Tex appears to be listed in the 1900 DC census, at age 4.
• He's also listed in the 1910 Honolulu census, at age 14, in the household of Joseph Settle and May C W Settle.
• By the 1920 census, Joseph seems to be back in DC, but it's not clear if the family was with him. Tex would have graduated from the Naval Academy by that time anyway.
• While I'm on the topic of the Naval Academy: this Navy source says he graduated in 1915. The USNA alumni site shows Thomas G. Settle as a member of the class of 1919.
• It seems likely that May's maiden name was Williams. I haven't sussed out a Greenhow connection yet; any of your sources hint at where that came from? It has some interesting possible connections.
• The Joyner Library at East Carolina University apparently has a 67-page transcription of an oral history given by his wife Fay, covering 1923–1957.
• The University of Texas/Dallas has a box of some correspondence between Tex and Admiral Rosendahl, including articles by Tex.
• The Naval Historical Center has a box of Tex's correspondence and notes.

I don't have immediate access to the relevant census listings (they are available online, but behind pay walls). Know anyone with an ancestry.com paid subscription? Maralia (talk) 16:51, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

1980 sounds reasonable - at least one of the books I used say he lived over 80. As for the middle names - no idea; in fact, the only book I saw that deciphered G. W. is They sailed the skies, p. 35 but it does not mention anything prior to Academy. NVO (talk) 17:27, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your note regarding dashes—I clearly was confused about it. I was using the insertable dashes on the edit page for a while, but I guess you are right—they display OK on the article pages with my IE7 browser, but not in the edit space. I'd much rather not use the html code. Any idea how I change the browser setting to display them in the edit window? LilHelpa (talk) 10:59, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah.. I found the setting in preferences that will change the font to permit me to see this better. Many thanks for clearing this up for me. I still have a lot of MOS to learn before I'm a really good copy editor. I try to respond to requests, but it is not really my thing (yet). LilHelpa (talk) 11:19, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply

What do you mean by "breaking wikilinks?" Magus732 (talk) 18:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

FAR

Just the techie I was looking for. Can you look at the two computing FARs at the bottom please? Nobody is reviewing it. Thanks YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 03:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

ANI thread on Gimmebot

Here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Ships

I'm working on Clements Markham, currently at peer review. It has a lot of 19th century warships in it, and I'm not sure I've linked them all correctly. If you could possibly look at this aspect of the article, I would be very grateful. Brianboulton (talk) 12:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Jacob Aaron Westervelt‎

Nice work on cleaning this one up some more, I obviously missed quite a bit first time round -- that will teach me to copy edit after a 3 hour conference call! – ukexpat (talk) 19:17, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing :) I can tell that you put a lot of work into it, too; the prose is much better than it was when I skimmed the article a couple weeks ago. I still have a fair amount of work to do on the reference formatting, but it's getting there! Maralia (talk) 19:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Opera cleanup

Why are you delinking Opera Software in the citations, changing "cite press release" to "cite press release/citation", changing "Agnitum" to "Agnitum Ltd", wikilinking small screen rendering (a redirect to mobile browser), and changing all the dates from American to British format? The rest of your changes look mostly okay. —Remember the dot 17:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

In order:

• I delinked redundant wikilinks to Opera Software in the citations. The article as a whole had tons of redundant wikilinks.
• I changed {{cite press release}} to {{cite press release/citation}} because the former improperly displays press release titles in italics, while the latter properly displays them in quote marks.
• I changed Agnitum to Agnitum Ltd because that's how the linked website displayed the name.
• I wikilinked small screen rendering because the term was not explained in-text; several redirects (from various wordings) to mobile browser existed, and it seemed an appropriate link.
• The date formats used in the article were not consistent. The dates used in the text were mdy and dmy, while the dates in citations were invariably dmy format. I standardized to the latter form as it required vastly fewer changes and seemed appropriate given the international scope of the article.

I'm sorry that the FAR has been a bit contentious, but I'm just trying to help here. Maralia (talk) 17:51, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

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