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Happy Birthday

 * Thanks. I appreciate it.-- Bedford  20:50, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I need you to teach me how to fish
So to speak. One of the tasks I do least well over at Portal:American Civil War is create DYKs (as it turns out, I'm using some of yours clipped straight out of main page DYK). I'm sure, based on your experience, you could whip 20 out in a few hours. That's not what I'm asking. Because of your success in this arena, I was wondering how you went about identifying possible DYKs, and how you processed the items. Do you mind sharing something of your secret, and share something of your process? Any consideration is appreciated. BusterD (talk) 22:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The War is my scholarly specialty, so I can find various topics that would make good articles. Then I pick the most interesting thing about them, and put it up for discussion where DYKs for the front page are nominated; every one I have nominated has made it.  You probably already know this, but I have DYKs coming for Indianapolis in the American Civil War and Francis A. Shoup, and just succeeded in getting ones for Basil W. Duke and Battle of Pogue's Run.-- Bedford  01:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Civil War sites in South Carolina
Hi. Perhaps you'd also be interested in First Baptist Church (Columbia, South Carolina), an article just started, about site where the South Carolina voted to secede from the Union. HABS photos available; documents linked to stub article. I noticed you did a good job developing the Burt-Stark Mansion article; thought you might be interested in this, too, as another bookend to the war, across 5 aprils in South carolina. Cheers doncram (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Indeed, it does sound interesting. I have one or two I want to start first (Murat Centre and Shoupade), but after that that chruch should be irresistible.-- Bedford  01:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice job with developing the church article, and nice writing of the factoid for the DYK mention. :) Another two that could be of interest:  Robert Smalls House in Beaufort, and Penn School Historic District on an island occupied by the Union during almost the entire Civil War.  Robert Smalls, a slave, became a Union hero for commandeering a ship and steering it out to the Union blockaders;  that was only the start of his efforts during the Civil War as he later captained a different ship in battle for the Union.  He later was a U.S. Congressman and this was his house.  The island where the Penn School is located, is perhaps where he brought his family on the commandeered ship.  The school was a missionary school for freed slaves, including Gullah slaves left behind by their Confederate owners.  It is named Penn School out of gratitude for the state of Pennsylvania which provided for a building (a prefab, shipped from PA?).  I opened the Robert Smalls House article 2 days ago;  the Penn School one just now.  In the way that I work, I can't tell in advance what might be interesting, because i access the good NRHP source documents only by creating the articles and then testing the links to the documents (documents that probably will be found by using the REFNUM of the site).  Have at these, if u like.  Boatloads of HABS pics are available for both articles, too. doncram (talk) 00:11, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Brown Bess in Basil Duke
The person probably deleted Brown Bess because it seems extraordinarily unlikely that a Union soldier at Shiloh was carrying such an antiquated arm. I'm not aware of any regiment using them. Nevertheless there is a citation claiming that it was such an arm. Without identifying the regiment that fired the shot and tracing what weapons they had, I wouldn't believe the identification is correct. Red Harvest (talk) 05:00, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It is unusual; in fact, I almost made it the DYK nomination. It was on page 50 of Dee Alexander Brown's The Bold Cavaliers, and he gave various sources for his Shiloh chapet.-- Bedford  05:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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Photographer's Barnstar
Thanks Jahnx. Hope you don't mind I copy this onto my talk page. That's where Barnstars are normally placed for others first.-- Bedford 17:30, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

New! BCAD drive from Milhist
Can I invite you to particpate in our new assessment drive? It's strictly for experienced wiki-gnomes and has a degree of friendly competition built-in. It involves re-evaluating around 3500 Milhist B-Class articles to ensure they match our new criteria. As ever, we're offering a range of awards as our way of expressing our thanks. The drive doesn't start until 18:00 (UTC) on March 10 but you can sign up in advance here. It would be great if you can spare the time, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 05:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)




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Bluegrass Barnstar
Thanks. I love the Blue grass Barnstar; especially since its my third BB.-- Bedford 18:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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DYK x2
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid (talk) 23:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

More DYKs - three in one update
Thanks, you too.-- Bedford 02:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: WPBIO
Thanks for the message, Bedford. I'm in the process of trying to sort out some Milhist gongs for this so I'll keep you posted. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 13:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Bedford, I have written an article which is up for its second Peer Review in hopes of nominating it to FA. The PR can be found here. Any comments you may have would be appreciated. Regards, Daysleeper47 (talk) 20:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Musical groups are part of WikiProject Biography
Hi, you have just removed from Talk:Four Year Strong. That is wrong: includes musical groups as you can see in the displayed template where it says: "This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed biographical guide to musicians and musical groups on Wikipedia. Regards, BNutzer (talk) 00:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Doesn't make sense to me, but I'll cede to your experience in this matter.-- Bedford 00:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyeditor's Barnstar
A full-time job. :D Thanks.-- Bedford  09:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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Admin Help
I am not sure if you are an admin or can tell me a good one to go to. I am having difficulty with a random user whose edits of not only the Sean Hannity page but the polarization (politcal) aritcle are dubious at best. If you have any advice on how to combat the POV/weasaling that this person seems guilty of, it would be greatly appreciated. If not, I would greatly appreciate a link to a possible admin that you think would be able to help in this matter. Thanks for your time Rocdahut (talk) 06:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not an admin but I'll see what I can do.-- Bedford 13:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * FYI, I don't think I'm the person Rocdahut refers to above...I'm definitely not a Sean Hannity partisan or critic. However, if you look at the talk page, you'll see that I crafted the language you're deleting as a compromise to stop edit-warring, following a report at WP:BLPN. I'm not sure why you're violating the talk page consensus by unilaterally deleting the material without any discussion. Nesodak (talk) 14:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I really wish you wouldn't edit-war there - just a heads-up that you are about to break WP:3RR on that page. I really encourage you make your case on the article's talk page. Nesodak (talk) 16:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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DYK

 * Thanks. I expect to get a few more as well. :)  -- Bedford  05:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)