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Majestic Titan
Too many are left. You should help us! :-D The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (available online in full by searching here) is a common major source in U.S. warship GAs. For A or FA you need to supplement it with books like Battleships: United States Battleships in World War II by Garzke and Dulin, Battleships of World War II by M.J. Whitley, and History of United States Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot Morrison. For older ships I suggest New York Times archives (if pre-1923), the first two above (if they fought in WWII), and Peter Hore's Battleships of World War I. :-) — Ed  (talk  •  contribs)  22:01, 1 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi again! For British ships, I know that Battleships of World War I, Battleships of World War II and Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships cover them if you can get a hand on the books (tip: the latter two are available under "limited preview" on Google Books). So does the New York Times, though more sparingly (archive search here).
 * For more than that, I'd talk to User:Sturmvogel 66, who has written Invincible-class battlecruiser. I'll direct him here. Many thanks, and I hope you decide to take a crack at a ship! :-) — Ed  (talk  •  contribs)  05:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * So what period are you interested in? Hope you have a really, really good public library, or one that does Interlibrary Loan for free as the best books are scarce, which means expensive. R.A. Burt covers all of the British ships in 3 volumes, predreadnoughts, WWI and post-WWI, although they're titled: British Battleships of XXXX; I've only seen the predreadnought volume, but I've got the WWI volume enroute. Oscar Parkes has a monster book titled British Battleships, although its a little dated, but still useful. Be sure to use the third edition, which is early '70s vintage, IIRC. Just about anything over 100 pages by John Roberts or Alan Raven is damn useful, the shorter stuff being mostly picture books, I think; my find of a cheap used copy of Roberts' book on British Battlecruisers prompted me to start upgrading the Invincible class articles, and I'll work through the rest of the British BCs with it as the primary source. V. E. Tarrant and Peter C. Smith have done decent individual ship histories. Stats are pretty easy, the real problem is finding accounts of what the ships were doing in peacetime as well as wartime. Conway's is pretty good on major refits and transfers, etc., but you'll need to put in accounts of each ship's activities in the battles that it participated in if you want B-class articles. Again, let me know what you're interested in and I can give you more specific pointers. But look through the articles graded B-class or better and you can get a feel of what's required for each level and what sources people have used.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 06:24, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks Sturm, don't try to scare him off though. ;-) Gerald, for warships you will need one, preferably two, books from a library. The reason why we are naming so many is that there are many out there; they all cover different ship types and time periods. Worldcat is great for finding books in libraries near you, by the way. Again, I hope you make the effort and take a stab at writing an article! :-) Ping me anytime if you would like to collaborate on a ship. All the best, — Ed  (talk  •  contribs)  06:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I do actually have access to a good public library and ILL to all of the public libraries and universities in Maryland. I'll see what I can put on order and then decide whether to try an American or British ship. Was thinking to start at the beginning with the predreadnoughts, but, well, we'll see what sources I come up with. Geraldk (talk) 11:24, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I actually don't know much about books on American battleships, but there is a design history on the early ones that I can picture the cover of, but can't remember title or author; perhaps American Battleships xxxx or some such. With the Naval Academy library reasonably close by hopefully you'll have only a short wait for any ILL books that you order; I'm up to 3 weeks or so for my copy of Burt, dammit. Don't be shy about asking for help or if you'd like a review or something; just post a note on my talk page.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Bolding
Hi. Regarding this edit you made, can you point me to where in the MoS it says that redirect targets can't be bolded in the article body? I'm going off of WP:REDIRECT, which says to bold redirect targets. Yes, it says that "Normally, we try to make sure that all 'inbound redirects' other than mis-spellings or other obvious close variants of the article title are mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the article or section to which the redirect goes." But for a short article like Automobile Manufacturers Association, I don't see the utility of introducing all the different names of the association in the first paragraph, and then have to repeat them soon thereafter. It seems to me that my solution of bolding the redirect targets as they occur is more economical and makes it easier for the reader to grasp each name change, and qualifies under the guideline as not the 'normal' situation that a longer article would have. Wasted Time R (talk) 00:35, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Arthur Eve
Is Arthur Eve on hold now?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:35, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you adjust the talk page and GAC templates?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:16, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Have a look. I think I have addressed your concerns.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:24, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * When you promote articles to WP:GA, you are suppose to update the articlehistory and all the project templates.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

GAN
I volunteered to review Isiah Leggett which you nominated at WP:GAN. However, on the talk page Talk:Isiah Leggett there is no GAN template. Is this the correct article? --maclean (talk) 23:37, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for List of 2010 Winter Olympics venues

 * Good job! Already had DYK with the Sliding Centre in early 2008! Chris (talk) 22:10, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award
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Olympic navboxes
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2007 Pan American Games medal table
Hi Geraldk! Could you review the list 2007 Pan American Games medal table? Regards; Felipe Menegaz 01:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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DYK reply
I replied to your question here.

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Family Guy cast FLC
the review has been open for a time now and therte are no oposses just suppoortrrts, shouldn't it be closed.--Pedro J. the rookie 10:31, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

SS Crown Arun dyk
I've fixed the reference so that the accessdate displays. Mjroots (talk) 14:24, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Oddball Barnstar
Thanks, glad to bring some oddity! Lampman (talk) 15:22, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of James R. Lilley
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Collab?
Hey Geraldk, thanks again for supporting 1997 Qayen earthquake's FAC. I'm finishing up writing some info requested for the background section but it should pass soon enough. In the meantime, would you like to collaborate on an earthquake article? I've never written an article on a really well-known earthquake, perhaps we could work on one together?  ceran  thor 17:17, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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1755 Cape Ann Earthquake
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FLC
can you review this FLC Featured list candidates/Family Guy (season 5)/archive2--Pedro J. the rookie 22:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners
In case you are interested, I just created List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners. I saw that you have worked very successfully on Olympics-related lists in the past, so I thought I would give you a heads up! Keep up the great work! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:32, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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Charles Carroll the Settler TFA
Coming soon, please look at article and blurb, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Precious
A year ago, you were the 285th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

FLC WV County List
Hello, can you take a look at ? Its my first FLC and I think it has merit, both as a FL and for value to a few Wikiprojects. ANY support or comments are welcomed. You also have ALOT of experience with county listsCoal town guy (talk) 03:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Precious again
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Thank you for quality articles such as Charles Carroll the Settler, for Olympic efforts in the Olympics project, and for opposing the, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were the 285th recipient of my  Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 26 October 2014 (UTC)