User talk:Bwmoll3/2008

RAF Staplehurst
Hi, you may not be aware that a tag has been placed on this article. The reason for the tag is that although five sources are quoted as sources, there is nowhere in the article that these sources are referenced. As you have the info, perhaps you could add the references. If you need help with actually adding the refs, let me know. Mjroots (talk) 18:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

SPAM: Open Street Map..
Hi, were you aware of (or interested in the Open Street Map project, given your former connections with GIS systems? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thier wiki ( OSM is not a WMF project ) is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page I would suggest reading pages linked from there :)
 * The current version of OSM's mapping is at http://www.openstreetmap.org
 * The top level (as far as I can determine) for the current continental US appears to be :

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.6&lon=-92.4&zoom=4&layers=B0FT although by browsing the map more specific areas could be examined.
 * Hope this helps

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

McCoy AFB Images
I would load them into commons. How do I do that? Bwmoll3 (talk) 12:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Refer to the instructions linked to by the template I added to a number of your uploads :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Record Images
I've added appropriate license tags to a few of these, so that they aren't removed by the bot's that look for missing licenses on uploads, I hope you don't mind. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Bottersford-apr44.jpg and simmilar
Thanks, you might want to clarify the exact dating on these, as the original (which is reproduced) may be Crown Copyright(albiet expried). I am assuming in good faith the publication mentioned in respect of the annotations is a work of US fedral Govt?. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Images and Wikimedia Commons
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Nice updates...
To Carswell AFB...field...whatever. :-).

I, BQZip01 hereby award Bwmoll3 these Wikiwings for exceptional work in improving Carswell Air Force Base. — BQZip01 — talk 00:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Barksdale Air Force Base
BW, you've doing/done a super job on the article. KUDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LanceBarber (talk) 19:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

USAF AEF OPSEC Notice
"The task of developing a comprehensive listing of AEW units present in Southwest Asia and other combat areas is particularly difficult as the events of 11 September 2001 and the Global War on Terrorism has made such an effort significantly difficult. The USAF seeks to improve operational security (OPSEC) and to deceive potential enemies as to the extent of American operations, therefore a listing of which units deploying where and when is unavailable."

Your notice on the AEF wing pages is commendable, but I have to ask why it is there - I can understand the logic from a USAF perspective... but Wikipedia is not run by the USAF, nor the US Government. Should we use the same logic on military units and installations from other countries (i.e. Russia and Iran)? Some "other" (non-US Gov) resources (from UK and Netherlands) have compiled a list of "probable" AEW locations - why isn't that fair game to place on Wikipedia? TDRSS (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * This is an ethical battle that I have thought about for the last week - what you've done is great and should be kept as such. I can't see endangering fellow airmen for "accuracy points" on Wikipedia. If someone else does it, I can't do much about it, right? Keep up the good work! TDRSS (talk) 12:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Lowry Air Force Base
BW, I really like your new Former SAC Bases Navbox, excellant idea!!!! This would be an excellant pattern for other former Commands, TAC, ATC, etc. Lowry was also former base of Air Training Command when it was Lowry Technical Training Center. Probably number of current and former bases belonged to multiple Commands over the years. This could really BLOOOM! But, one project at a time, and not to where oneselve out. Side note, I got an off-line article project of re-writing the history of Lowry. On hold at the moment, got other issues in the mill. Cheers, Lance...LanceBarber (talk) 05:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree on the creation of the NAVBOX, but would ask that it follows the template examples of the others (i.e. NAFs, Air Divisions, Wings, Bases and perhaps aircraft); the bases themselves can be created into a list (with chronology when belonging to SAC) that is a bit easier to read. Just a thought...TDRSS (talk) 12:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I was stationed at Lowry in 1955 for 22 weeks of "Specil Weapons" training as a radar electronics specialist. From here I was assigned to a Mark 7 nuclear bomb maintenance team at RAF Woodbridge UK where I worked on altimeter fuzing radar for these weapons (1956 - early 1957) 17:29, 4 December 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.161.79 (talk)

Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg
Hi Bwmoll3, and thank you for uploading Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg. Would it be feasible to redraw Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg with the mark indicating the location of Misawa Air Base farther north? The mark on the map is considerably south of the actual location. The mark is at or perhaps south of the boundary between Aomori Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture. Please see en:Misawa, Aomori for the location of the city. The airport is in the city. You'll see that it is farther north than Image:Misawa ab-dotmap.jpg indicates.

Fg2 (talk) 22:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Norton
I didn't know that Norton was from San Berdoo -  thanks for adding this! Mark Sublette (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 12:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * My dad was assigned to SAMSO (1968-71), we lived in Redlands until 1972, and I prowled the base as a teen on a bicycle. Wish I'd had a camera!  Mark Sublette (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

1951 Birmingham (AL) Airport Image
Thank you for the addition of the great USGS image of the Birmingham International Airport (US) in 1951. It really adds to the article. If you please, a technical question: how did you capture and crop the uploaded image from the Alabama maps website? I tried to do the same for a wider angle view and am stumped. Thanks! Civilengtiger (talk) 15:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response and technical explaination to my question, keep up the good work! Civilengtiger (talk) 03:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Image
Hi. Please see Copyright problems/2008 June 11/Images. You noted that the Larson image was a scan of a postcard rather than original work as the uploader claimed. If a scan then it should be deleted. Thanks --Justallofthem (talk) 16:59, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Category sort for USAF Wings
Hi Bwmoll3; note you've done some incredible hard work on USAF wings; great stuff! I'd like to ask your opinion on a change of category sort in the USAF wings category. I am often dealing with past periods in a wing's history, and looking for the article in the category, only with great difficulty, because it's sorted by the present wing title. For someone looking for past history, it would be much easier if the wings were sorted numerically, and there are already sub categories for types of wing existing. What would you think of changing the category sort to numeric, 455, 456, 457, 458 etc? Also, who else should I check this out with? Best regards from New Zealand, Buckshot06(prof) 02:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you Brent. I'll start. One other thing; in the references you always list, would you mind doing an example wing switched to footnotes, so I know which references refer to which sections? Then as I change things I can insert insert footnotes - and send numerous articles, I think, towards FA status. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 08:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Ninth Air Force
As someone who has not looked at the Ninth Air Force article in sometime, I would like to thank you for the development work you have done on the article. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 18:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Apostrophe mis-use
Hello. Please make an effort to learn the difference between its and it's, because that will save a lot of unnecessary effort cleaning up after you. Thanks. – Signal head  &lt; T &gt;  14:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Please? – Signal head  &lt; T &gt;  19:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific‎
Given you expansion of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe you might be interested in adding to the stub article United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific that I have created recently. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:35, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Pacific Air Forces
Please see Talk:Pacific Air Forces --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Thanks for your useful work on articles such as Malmstrom Air Force Base! One request: could you please provide more informative edit summaries than "edited", "edited and expanded", and the like? It helps us more when you specify what/how/why you edited. Nyttend (talk) 03:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

possible problem edit to navbox
Can you take a look at this edit to Template:Air National Guard? I'm really not sure if it's constructive or not, and you are a much better subject-matter expert than I. Thanks.  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   21:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks!  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   21:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

How to use ·
Hi, and thanks for your many edits on the United States military navigational boxes. I just want to point your attention to the documentation of the · template, which states: "The recommended usage is to use no space before the template and one space after the template […] Putting one or more spaces before the template will cause it to render […] with two spaces before the dot, and one after […] And if it line breaks it might break before the dot" In other words, instead of typing, type.

Best regards, Fred Bradstadt (talk) 19:37, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Acc-regions.jpg
Has a spelling error. I don't have the original image, but It might be good to redo that part... — BQZip01 — talk 00:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Mitchel Field
Thanks for all of the work on Mitchel Field, however, I noticed that a lot of the text is taken, verbatim, from the Cradle of Aviation website (http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/airfields/index.html), which is copyrighted material. As much as I love seeing it here, Wiki doesn't permit its editors to do this. I think unless there are some major revisions to the material, it may have to be deleted. ButtonwoodTree (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

USAF portal
Hello, I noticed that you seem to have an interest in articles relating to the United States Air Force. The USAF portal is in need of editors to maintain it, I was wondering if you are interested?  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   14:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As you can see in the talk page, there are 7 monthly features. A maintainer would choose what to feature for each category, create a template for that month, and the portal will automatically transclusion switch from one month to another. If you look at each type of feature, you can see the format used in previous months. You can also see that maintenance hasn't happened in a while.  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   14:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, that's perfectly fine. User:ERcheck and I will be running it until we find someone with a vested interest. Do you mind if we ask you for some ideas on what to feature from time to time?  bahamut0013 ♠  ♣   15:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)