User talk:Hawkeye7/Archive 2007

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South West Pacific Area
I reverted your changes for two reasons. (1) There is more than one kind of "General" and "Admiral" (see Comparative military ranks of World War II) and we have separate articles for each rank. (2) It is against Wikipedia style to link the same thing many times in one article. Grant65 | Talk 02:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Please see Talk:South West Pacific Area. Thanks, Grant65 | Talk 09:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Leslie Morshead article
Hi, I'm really impressed with your expansions to the article on Morshead. Keep up the good work! --Nick Dowling 10:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Rupert Downes
Hi Hawkeye7. You are off to such a great start on the article Rupert Downes that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page would help bring publicity to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. Again, great job on the article. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 14:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

PR of Edmund Herring
Hello, just to tell you that i moved your peer review onto the main peer review page instead of within the WikiProject Military history/Review/Royal Navy page. If and when you add peer reviews in the future could you please add them below the main peer review page and not in the first peer review. Don't worry it was an easy mistake to make. It certainly looked correct but it was in the wrong place. Thanks Woodym555 12:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, just read through your responses to my comments at peer review for this article and wanted to congratulate you on it, it was well-researched and written before, but now looks very nice indeed. Keep up the good work, if you need anything else reviewing in the future, drop me line.--Jackyd101 00:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Emergency room
Heya! First, let me congratulate you on your amazing contributions to Wikipedia! If you look on my user page, in emergency room, there is a link to an unwritten Admiralty Campaign article there that you would be far more qualified than me to write. I would be grateful if you could look at it. Cheers! aliasd·U·T 13:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Will do Hawkeye7 21:38, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Your expertise is appreciated. aliasd·U·T 02:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Greece
Hi!

Thanks for your remarks concerning the article. I have tried to address your concerns; please, check my remarks in the peer-review page. I am open to further suggestions or remarks, in case you think my edits are still inadequate.

Since you are a historian, I would also like to ask you one thing. A previous editor of the article had written in "Homage to the Greek resistance" that "Joseph Stalin, in an open letter read over the air on Radio Moscow short wave on numerous occasions during the war, would say "the Russian people will always be grateful to the Greeks for delaying the German army long enough for winter to set in, thereby giving us the precious time we needed to prepare. We will never forget." Unfortunately, I haven't yet managed to ascertain the accuracy and even the existence of such a statement by Stalin by an objective and respectable source. Do you know anything about this issue? If I don't manage to find a credible source, I think about removing this edit.

Cheers!--Yannismarou 11:05, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:FleetAdmiral.gif
I left a note over on for the image removal. It looks like we had each found a few and reverted them. Not sure what was wrong with that image, so I have asked for more information. &mdash; MrDolomite • Talk 11:33, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Kesselring article
You have truly done an outstanding job in re-inventing the Kesselring article. I just have not had any time to commit to it as I could not find the Memoirs for a reasonable price, and my History of Anatolia project is extensive. Once I complete the article, I'll have a lot more time to devote to other articles. One thing though-Wikipedia doesn't like Ibid, and they have a ref name tool to avoid having to quote the full source every time. Check it out in my article, and you'll see how it is used. I'll fix it if I can. Monsieurdl 15:08, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Still only half finished - I'm up to 1943. The rest will follow over the next few days. I'm afrad that Kesselring will not get a longer article than Rommel but at least his birth date is now correct.
 * The ref name I normally only use for web pages (I used it for the first reference) because it has a problem with books in that you cannot change the page number. You can, btw, omit the text of the subsequent ref tags, e.g. &lt;ref name="yadda" /&gt; Hawkeye7 20:35, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

If you take a look at [], you'll see that you are listed as a Nazi field marshal. I doubt that's your intention, so you may want to remove your sandbox article! Asav 08:47, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Brigadier General
I see. Thanks. Pdfpdf (talk) 21:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Liz Cosson (MAJGEN).jpg

 * The copyright information was trashed by a bot. I don't know how to stop them. Please help. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:19, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have fixed things up. Let me know if anyone tries to delete this image or any others that you believe are reasonable under fair dealing. John Vandenberg (talk) 09:01, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thankyou! Much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Liz_Cosson_(MAJGEN).jpg

 * And I have fixed it again. John Vandenberg (talk) 19:49, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thankyou! Much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:53, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I have listed the image for deletion here. See also my answer on my talk page. Rettetast (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * FYI, the discussion at Image talk:Tobruk beaching ADF.jpg was enough to save that Defence image from deletion a few weeks ago. It seems unlikely that Maj. Gen. Cossen appears in full uniform in public and off defence land any more often than HMAS Tobruk beaches in front of spectators (eg, almost never). --Nick Dowling (talk) 09:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * DoD doesn't keep images available on its web sites forever and a lot of old images from the 1990s have now disappeared. It is hoped that the original photographs and negative will eventually make their way to the National Archives. But now that so many photographs are digital, I have a real fear that the digital image will be the only one. I'm hoping that steps will be taken to preserve them. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Morshead & the proposed invasion of Japan
G'day Hawk. I just noticed that you included in Leslie Morshead the suggestion that the Australian govt wanted Morshead to lead the Commonwealth Corps in Operation Downfall. Someone has since added this to the Downfall article. I don't think I've seen this mentioned in any books or other webpages on the subject, so I was wondering if you could point me to a source? Cheers, Grant  |  Talk  04:58, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Horner, High Command, p. 418 Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I thought you would have an answer. Grant  |  Talk  15:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Ernest King article
I noticed that you were a contributor to the Ernest King article and to discussions on the article's talk page. I just made some changes to the citation formatting and left a note with my reasoning on the talk page. I also note that there are some [#]-like notations scattered throughout the page. It is not clear what they are referencing. Would you mind taking a look? &mdash; User: (talk) 15:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)