User:Rectilinium/Archive - Mentorship

Rectilinium Archive - Mentorship

I have archived my mentorship-related discussions here...

Adopt offer
The New Mikemoral


 * Hi Mikemoral. Thanks for offering mentorship! As I mentioned on my user page, I will mainly contribute articles in german and french, but also in english, if I think that it makes sense. I allready have a mentor in the german wikipedia, who gives me some general advices. But as my english language skills are quite poor, I also need help here in the english wikipedia - mainly for the editing.

Now... I allready wrote an article ten days ago West Point (1847), and I asked a few people if they would be willing to edit it. A user named Brad made a first "clean up", but I think this is not enough. I know that the article isnt perfect at all: it has not enough technical facts about the ship itself, and too many informations about its owners. But the problem is: it is very, very difficult to find informations about the ship West Point (and I made a research during more than a year). It is my goal, to find further informations about the construction, the history and the fate of that ship, and then to shorten certain parts (property situation) of the article. But meanwhile the article needs a comprehensive editing. Can you help me? --Rectilinium (talk) 07:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Rectilnium, I am going to give you a brief grammar lesson. For th future, proper nouns such as "Wikipedia" and "English," are capitalized, so the correct way to write "english wikipedia" is "English Wikipedia."  And of course, I will help you.  Best regards, ♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 00:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, if I were to have your permission, would you allow me to create a subpage for our use of mentoring? A class room of a sort.  Best regards, ♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 00:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Mikemoral :) Yes, I think a mentoring-subpage is a good idea... Im looking forward to your comments. --Rectilinium (talk) 06:25, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * User:The New Mikemoral/mentor is the link to the page. --♪♫The New Mikemoraltalkcontribs 22:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Ready to Graduate?
So you have been doing good on Wikipedia, and I was wonder if you are ready to graduate from adoption. So are you? -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 23:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Mikemoral :)... It is right that I do my best to make my way on Wikipedia. But still it can happen that I have further questions: Probably not once a day or once a week, but probably once in a month. And I also need further help for the editing of my english articles (which actually was my main reason for searching a mentor). Would you mind remaining my mentor for a certain time period? I really need the help of a native english speaker who is willing to edit my articles for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and spelling. With kind regards, --Rectilinium (talk) 17:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I will. I also fixed a little spelling in your reply.  It would also be best to ask me to proofread an article directly on my talk page.  See you soon.  -- The New   Mikemoral  ♪♫ 22:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:New Article
Rectilinium, is the ship the property of Kermit? If so the article should be "Robert Kermit's Red Star Line." Please reply on my page for the quickest action. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 22:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Message
I am simply leaving this message to tell you I am not going to be here on Wikipedia (for the most part) during next week. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 02:33, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * HI, I'm back. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 01:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

 * Also, there is a slight problem with your grammar. Since an hour I face a problem with my signature. It should be Since an hour ago, I have faced a problem with my signature. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 03:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks :)... When I write short messages I actually dont take care of my grammar (just when I write articles). By the way, I wrote a message to thehelpful one. I hope he can help me... -- Rectilinium  '♥' 04:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * He can. Just take a look at the number of times he has helped me. -- The New   Mikemoral  ♪♫ 03:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

West Point (1847)
On the issue of having no pictures, are any here? -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 01:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Happy Easter. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 07:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hello and happy Easter too :) ! Thanks for the google-link... but actually it is not that simple. Googeling the ship was the first thing that I did more than a year ago, when I started my research (and I tried every imaginable wording). Then I bought 12 books about historical merchant ships and I wrote emails to 49 museums and persons that know a lot about shipping subjects - then a museum sent me a file, but some wiki-users told me, that this picture does'nt show the West Point, but the russian fullship Mir.


 * I think the only way to find a picture from the West Point, is if I stumble upon this ship in some old book or probably it would be possible to find it in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (The Boston weekly (1851-1859... modeled on the London Illustrated News debuts. Contributors included Sylvanus Cobb, T. S. Arthur, and Horatio Alger). But the complete editions of this paper cant be found in the internet.


 * Actually my great-great-grandfather died on the West Point in 1851... thats the reason why I started to make this research. I surfed the Internet for months, I was reading books and I talked to many people, but it was almost impossible to find any information about this vessel. Therefore I investigated the life of its owner (Robert Kermit and his Red Star Line) and its builder (the shipbuilder Jacob Aaron Westervelt / the shipyard Westervelt & MacKay). I thought, that if I publish an article about the ship and these companies, probably other persons can contribute an information I haven't found myself. But I know that there is little chance for this. I actually have some more indications about the West Point (that I found in the online archives of The New York Times), but they are disjointed and can not be easily integrated within the existing article.-- Rectilinium  '♥' 09:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Aha, I see. Well, that's a real shame. I guess it's one of thing that can't be help. Anyway, happy Easter again. -- The New   Mikemoral  ♪♫ 17:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)