User talk:Bellhalla/Archive 15

Question
Can you recall the name of the font used for File:WPMILHIST-composite-logo.png and File:The Bugle.png? I'm looking to adapt the format for WP:OMT. Thanks!  bahamut0013  words deeds 20:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LII (June 2010)
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LIII (July 2010)
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The Milhist election has started!
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Submarine working group
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Main page apperance
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on November 20, 2010. You can view the TFA blurb at Today's featured article/November 20, 2010. If you think that it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director,. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tb hotch Ta lk C. 06:54, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

 

SS Dakotan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company that served as a transport ship under the United States Army in World War I, and then was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease in World War II before being finally scrapped in 1969. During World War I, she was taken over by the United States Army. Near the end of that war she was transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned as USS Dakotan. During World War II, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed SS Zyrianin. Dakotan was built by the Maryland Steel Company as one of eight sister ships for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, and was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened. During World War I, as USAT Dakotan, the ship carried cargo and animals to France. Dakotan was in the first American convoy to sail to France after the United States entered the war in April 1917. In Navy service, USS Dakotan carried cargo to France and returned over 8,800 American troops after the Armistice. After her Navy service ended in 1919, she was returned to her original owners and resumed relatively uneventful cargo service over the next twenty years. Dakotan ran aground off the coast of Mexico in 1923 but was freed and towed to port for repairs. Early in World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and transferred to the Soviet Union under the terms of Lend-Lease in December 1942. Sailing as SS Zyrianin, the ship remained a part of the Soviet merchant fleet into the late 1960s. (more...)

The Bugle: Issue LVI, October 2010
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The Bugle: Issue LVII, November 2010
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Submarines
I've seen your work on subs on your contrib pages *whistles*. Nearly half your GAs are subs. Would you mind joining Operation Nautilius? It is still a infant project, but with your help we might be able to achieve our far-fetched and far-flung goals. Please consider this. WikiCopter (t • c • g &bull; simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 04:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, if you help create more featured content on subs, I'll give you half credit for Portal:Submarine if and when it gets to Featured Portal. WikiCopter (t • c • g &bull; simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 04:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Volume LVIX, January 2011
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The Bugle: Issue LX, February 2011
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Service award level
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So what happened to you, I wonder. All those contributions, and then one day whoosh, gone. Nothing obviously wrong, your last edits seem normal, no big dropoff, then... Whatever happened to you, I hope that you are all right. Herostratus (talk) 06:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXI, March 2011
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The Bugle: Issue LXII, April 2011
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Speedy deletion nomination of German submarine U-70


A tag has been placed on German submarine U-70, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Because there is disambiguation - see "U-70" page

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Submarines of the Reichsmarine
Category:Submarines of the Reichsmarine, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. FJS15 (talk) 14:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXIII, May 2011
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Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity
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The Bugle: Issue LXIV, June 2011
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Non-free rationale for File:Kings in disguise anthology.png
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The Bugle: Issue LXV, July 2011
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GA on pl.wiki
Hello

I want thank you for your work on U-1 class submarine (Austria-Hungary), SM U-1 (Austria-Hungary), SM U-2 (Austria-Hungary). I translated them to pl.wiki and get GA. They are probably best source of information in Polish language.

Thanks for your work.

PMG (talk) 11:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXVI, August 2011
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Category header ship century/decades
Template:Category header ship century/decades has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:14, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:British L class submarines of the Royal Navy
Category:British L class submarines of the Royal Navy, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 22:16, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Greetings
Ahoy Bellhalla! Have been around since '06 but have only recently signed up with the Military Project and with the WikiProject Ships. Over the last couple months I have completely rewritten the Stephen Decatur, Thomas Macdonough and John Rodgers pages and have started on several others articles of naval commanders. The Decatur page, I am hoping, is now at FA quality, with Macdonough and Rodgers almost there, again I hope. I have amassed quite a bibliography of material of RS's and soon will be putting together a Naval Library that writers of naval history can easily access and use here at WP. If you have the time and are so inclined I would greatly appreciate your input on these pages, esp the Decatur page, considered one of the forefathers of the US Navy. I was once told that this page comes off with some bias, but because Decatur was involved in so many heroic efforts in many early American wars it is perhaps difficult to mention all of this without the page coming off as biased. Need more feedback.

Just recently I created the USS Concord (1828) page. As there is no image of the Concord (that I know of) I was perusing through the List of sloops of war of the United States Navy for a "sister" image to use. While going from article to article I discovered that almost all of these articles were lifted, cut and pasted to one degree or another, some entirely, from a PD source. I discovered the same situation exists in the List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy. I compiled two lists of these ships and put them in a dual nav-box and posted it here hoping to get others to join in the effort to fix and expand these pages. Over the last several days I have gone through nearly 100 of these articles fixing/building the info-boxes, providing bibliographies, and am still in the process, but this task is becoming sort of overwhelming, which is another reason I posted the lists on the ships project page, hoping others will join in the effort. I am approaching you as I noticed your credentials here at WP are impeccable and accordingly I would value, greatly, your input and advice on this matter also. (Getting long winded here.) Again, just wanted to say howdy and get some advice from someone with your background. All the best. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:21, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXVII, September 2011
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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Patrol vessels of the Myanmar Navy
Category:Patrol vessels of the Myanmar Navy, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 07:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:United States Army hospital ships
Category:United States Army hospital ships, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 16:37, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:United States Army transport ships
Category:United States Army transport ships, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 16:37, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:TrbNM
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Military Historian of the Year
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