User talk:Bookish Worm

January 2018
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Unsourced Military Citations
Bookish Worm, thank you for working on some of the U.S. aces pages here on Wikipedia. If you can add appropriate citations (appropriate in terms of source and cite scheme within the pages in question) for the information you've provided, it would be greatly appreciated. If you aren't able to provide supporting evidence for this material then I'm going to have to remove it. As an example, I'm referring to things like the Navy Cross block quotes in Cornelius N. Nooy. Cheers, Finktron (talk) 09:46, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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James F. Hollingsworth
You need to provide WP:RS for all the changes you are making to this page. regards Mztourist (talk) 07:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from VPB-109 into Norman M. Miller. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:31, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Please check categories at Norman M. Miller
Please check categories at Norman M. Miller article. I am not an expert in the US military history, so just hope that I've added the right ones. Also, don't forget to add categories in the future. Good luck with your edits! -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 16:20, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

James Linder medals
You posted this comment to my talk page; I am the creator of James B. Linder article. Thanks for adding ribbon board and metal table for his decorations. But you missed out one more decoration, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation l. If possible can you add it along with the ribbon board. (Bookish Worm (talk) 04:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC))
 * I not sure what you mean by "I missed one". I simply took the list you made, and created a ribbon board and medal table. You listed 28 awards, and I created a standard 7x row/ 4x column board, which is the manner a member of the military would wear them at that point. At the time, you left a note that there were "two unidentified foreign decorations", and I left that same note at the bottom. I didn't "miss" anything.


 * However, since you left that message, you've since edited that page, (adding the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, without the "1" included) and adding a second place holder to the board with a corresponding "unidentified award" notation on the table. (and still another note saying the same, directly below). So I take it you identified one of the unknown foreign awards... that's good. I'm sure if you keep searching, you'll find the other. That said, I don't know what source is telling you that he has another unidentified award and that it goes between the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation and the Vietnam Presidential Unit Citation. Unless you're working from a recent image that places it there, it shouldn't be on the ribbon board until you identify it.


 * Also, I see that after adding two additional entries to the board, you changed it from 4x7 (28) to 3x10 (30)? That's too long. A member of the military wouldn't wear it like that. If you do a little research, you'll see that once they accumulate a certain number of medals, their ribbon boards go to 4 rows. (no, I don't know the number, and since we're talking about the military, there is likely a uniform policy, somewhere, governing that.) I don't know what source you're working from (the image in the infobox? There he only has 22 awards and it's from 1978), but it should go back to a 4 row/ 7 column board, with the Navy Cross alone on top, unless you can confirm the position of the unknown award, then it should be 4x7 with the Navy Cross and Silver Star on top. Lastly, his Navy Cross citation should come first, as it supersedes all other awards.


 * On another note, the article is already created, but in the future I would recommend using your sandbox to draft articles first. That way, there isn't literally dozens and dozens on entries in it's mainspace history. Now that it is created, could you please use the preview button to check your edits before saving? It cuts down the number of errors and, this page will be watchlisted now, on more and more editor's watchlists, so it will reduce the number of entries there as well.


 * It's a good start for an article though, and I hope you continue to improve it, and perhaps create some others. I, along with many others here, are happy to assist if you need it. Cheers - the WOLF  child  13:03, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Please stop
The changes you are making to medal tables on BLPs such as James B. Linder, James P. Hagerstrom and Norman M. Miller are leaving the tables in unsuitable/ less-than-ideal condition. If you're not aware of how to use mark up and templates, please ask for help. As you can see above, I offered my assistance to you, both here, which you ignored, and on the Linder article, which you both ignored and changed. If you don't want my assistance, that's fine, but please get it from somewhere, (eg: the help desk, the village pump, or use the ((help me)) template, before you make any further changes with content you're not familiar with. Thank you - the WOLF  child  16:16, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * To, I apologise for what I was doing. I am familiar of these articles, but first time using these tables. I will make sure to be careful while editing. Thanks for the advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookish Worm (talk • contribs) 16:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * note: please see indent, ping and sign regarding this change to your above post. Hope this helps. - wolf 13:42, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Follow up
Bookish Worm, as you may recall (it's right above) I asked you to stop making changes to BLP articles, specifically to military bio's with 'awards and decorations' sections, as your edits had been leaving the tables, the layouts and therefore the articles in an unsuitable condition in need of clean-up. I even linked (3) articles that you had disrupted with your problematic editing right there. I had also encouraged you to read up on relevant help topics, use your sandbox for practice, check your edits before you save and again after you save them, before leaving the page. You did leave a brief note above that appeared to have acknowledged the articles noted as well as the overall problem. But, it appears you then just continued with the same problematic editing, disrupting another article, noted below where a different editor posted a clear warning to you about your editing and the problems it's causing. I also posted a comment there (it's right below) that you've appeared to have ignored.

And with that, it not only arrears that you didn't follow up with any of the help tools and learning guides available to you, or fix the articles noted, but you instead continued to edit even more articles, creating more problems of the same nature, I have since gone and fixed the BLPs for Linder, Hagerstrom and Miller. I then also fixed Morgan, Treadwell and Archer. And that's just from a recent, cursory search of you contribution history. I don't know yet how many other BLPs you may have edited, and of those, how many may be in need of repair.

I'm asking you again, please stop altering tables, mark-up, templates, layouts, and any other areas of editing you are not yet familiar with. I don't want you to stop altogether, quite the opposite. I think it would be great if you could create more BLPs, especially for military flag officers and other notable members of the armed forces. Or just edit whatever interests you. Just, please, try to learn what you need to in order to leave articles better than you found them. Learn to use the help available here and please, start communicating; here on your talk, on other user talk pages, on article talk pages, on Wikipedia talk pages (eg: templates, MOS, tags, files, etc)... you can learn from other editors as well. Sorry about the lengthy post, but I did just fix up half a dozen articles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. (remember to ping me) Thanks - the WOLF  child  11:30, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Desmond Doss with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. — 2601:243:481:2CC0:FDEB:2979:F85D:C117 (talk) 04:54, 2 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I have to agree with this notice here. I have also just asked you to stop making changes to content like this. The changes you're making are not improvements. The more articles you change like this, the more work you're creating for others that have to fix it afterwards. You still don't seem to be checking your edits with the Preview function, or you simply don't care what the page looks like after you make changes. You were off to a good start when you created the Linder page, but if you continue disrupting pages like this, it could lead to some limitations of your ability to edit. We don't want that to happen. So, again, please stop changing tables and other layouts until you understand how to use markup and templates, and check your edits. Competency is required to edit this project. Please take a break from editing and start reading the manual of style and help pages (like help with markup and help with tables) and try practicing your editing in your sandbox, until you're ready to make constructive changes to article space. Thank you - the WOLF  child  06:24, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Further Warning
After posting my comments above, I came across another BLP, George Andrew Davis Jr., that you recently edited and again found problems you left behind that had to be corrected. Your changes to the table were needless and made it look awful. This was in part due you needlessly changing the number of columns from four (4) to three (3) on ribbon boards and medals tables. I've already addressed this with you before on other similar pages. There is no need for these changes, and in some cases, four columns is actually preferred, or even necessary, depending on the number of medals the BLP subject has been awarded. Furthermore, you clearly are not checking your edits before saving them, or after you've saved and before you leave the page. In this case, you edits caused an error and I don't see how you could possibly miss the large, red error message at the bottom of the page;"Cite Error: There are  tags or ((efn)) templates on this page, but without references will not show without a ((reflist" Did you realize that this article was a Featured Article? You really shouldn't make random changes to these articles, you could upset some of the editors that put a lot of work into them. Now, I've since fixed the table and took care of the error, but I am again asking you to please stop making changes to these tables, boards and other related items with wikitext markup and templates until you know what you doing. Article space is not where you learn by trial and error, that is what your sandbox is for. I would ask that you please, carefully read/ re-read all the comments here, on your entire talk page, and further urge you to take heed of the warnings and follow the advice given. Thank you - the WOLF  child  13:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Stephen C. Ananian
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Proposed deletion of Moshe Melnik


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