User talk:IronShip

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USS Texas
Hello, we have a few questions for you on the talk page of the article. A convenient link to the discussion: Talk:USS Texas (BB-35). -MBK004 00:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I apologize for you having difficulties with my talk page. Unfortunately some editors have spoiled the fun for everyone else and now you have to be autocomfirmed to post there, which you should gain shortly once you've been here long enough and made enough edits (7 days and a few edits). As for the corrections, I was blindsided with an assignment for school and I have been unable to check-up on those proposed corrections. I'd appreciate you holding-off on making them until I have a chance to go through them. The world will not stop unless these things are done. -MBK004 17:47, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

I will hold off for a while.

The total corrections is 52. Some are making vague dates more specific, such as mid-year of 1919 for entering the Pacific to 27 July 1919 the date exiting PC into the Pacific. The 1924 return to the Atlantic was 16 January 1924.

Most are major corrections. The characteristics as to armor needs a major rewrite. The 1990 wood deck was installed in Greens Bayou and not in Todd's Shipyard. the unspecified AA guns were not installed at Todd's Shipyard but Greens Bayou and San Jacinto with all of the guns being 10 mounts of 40mm (Still has the same 8 20mm and 10 3inch before going to Todds). Texas did not intern the WWI German fleet to Scapa Flow. Cherbourg was the 25th. Invasion of Southern France, Texas went from Oran to Taranto for about 2 weeks before joining us with the 3 French ships and heading for the Invasion In 1948, arrived in the Galveston area of Bolivar Road, on 28 March and moved on to the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot on 31 March while the berth as San Jacinto State Park was being completed. Moved into SJ on 19 April. The WWI photo is only for the period of July 1916 through 27 September 1917 for during the Block Island repairs, many changes were made, replace 2-tired searchlight platforms on both masts to a single platform on each mast, turret training stripes on the sides (black and white), canvas enclosure of the torpedo defense platform on both masts, 5 vacant 5inch gun positions on 2nd deck (1,2,9,10,19) - there were 7 reconfigurations of 5inch guns on BB35 (Oct 1917 to Mar - May 1942) with 5 removals from 2nd deck, 1 addition to 2nd deck and 1 removal from the Superstructure Deck in 1941

Almost all of the corrections are verified with five documents - Deck log - for 1918 and Mar - 21 Apr 1948 - Deck log armament page (monthly) 1915 through Dec 1919 and key pages from 1919 through 1924 - BB35 War Diary (WWII. I have paper copy and I also scannedand - Quarterly Cruise Report (April 1914 to 31 Dec 1941. I have on 35mm microfilm but I copied to paper form (which I gave a copy to TPWD) and I scanned it all - "General Information USS Texas finished plans 37 and 38" published by NNS The rest are verified with other documents that I have

I am not correctly cited with the Normandy statement of " " combined US-British flotilla of battleships, five cruisers and 22 destroyers " ". I am cited as the source but I never said made such a statement. My website included a ship deployment map (Western and Eastern) with the Western section showing 20 destroyers (not 22) 6 cruisers (not 5) – British:  Hawkins, Glasgow, Enterprise, Black Prince. Free French: Montcalm, Georges Leygues 1 gun ship – Soemba (Dutch) 1 monitor –Erebus (British)

The BB35 article will be a one time edit for me, with the possible exception of radars CXZ and CXAM-1, using the 1947 RCA published history of radar developement involving CXZ, CXAM and CXAM-1. The paper includes drawings of the equipment plus electric schematics and technical data (which I do not understand).

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Sandbox "banned" message
The sandbox is an edit testing area that everyone is allowed to edit freely. The ban message you found their was not directed at you, but was merely an editing test. Everyone who even looked at the sandbox saw that message, although I can certainly understand the confusion a new user might have at seeing it. You have not been banned, and as far as I can tell, you haven't done anything such that anyone would want to. Someguy1221 (talk) 06:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Someguy1221 is exactly right, and your contributions will be welcome here. Welcome aboard!  --CliffC (talk) 11:18, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Sending documents anonymously
In discussion at Talk:USS Texas (BB-35), I see that one apparent problem is that you cannot send various documents to certain editors who choose not to reveal their personal contact information. I support them in choosing not to, it is their right. If you have the documents in electronic form, or if you could scan them into electronic form, then there is still a good way you could transfer the documents to them (if they agree and cooperate) while keeping their privacy. It is to use the free internet document transfer service at yousendit.com, which allows for very large files to be sent. I use it to transfer big scanned documents to other wikipedia editors, documents that are too big to email.

You would have to open a free account there. They would have to give you an email address that you could send to. Perhaps they would choose to create a new free Yahoo or other email account, just for this purpose, so they could give that email address to you. Then at yousendit.com, you would upload one of your documents and send it to them. They would receive an email notification that the file was available, and they would have one week to download it from yousendit.com. You can only send one document at a time, unless you pay for a premium account. You just repeat the process right away to send the next document. I found it very easy to use.

If they don't want to receive the documents from you that is another matter, but I hope this suggestion of a logistical solution might be of help to you. doncram (talk) 22:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

BB35
Apologies for the invasion of privacy as some may call it, but your name sounded familiar. In my email archive I found a two-year reference to you from an acquaintance who knows a damn sight more than me, which read in part:

Does anyone know what has happened to Charles Moore's USS Texas website at: http://www.bb35library.com/ ?

It was an excellent site, with copious technical data, plans, action reports, etc. It no longer comes up and doesn't even show in a Google search anymore; it has just vanished.

And it seems that links to your personal website from GWPDA no longer work, although there are still fortunately the pages on machinery and armament. The question of who was going to take over the editorship of the Naval GWPDA page from Bill Schleihauf was discussed after he passed away, but I'm not sure if it was ever resolved. If it has been, you may want to try and transfer any pertinent Texas information (such as deck logs, for example) to that page since some of your work already appears there. --Simon Harley (talk | library | book reviews) 21:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

USS Texas (BB-35)
TomStar81 (Talk) 07:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

one suggestion about verification
You should take pictures of the pages of the ship log, and post them in your website in a pdf, as if it was a scanned book (indeed, you could simply scan the log in a computer scanner). This way you could cite the log (citing the specific page so people can verify it quickly in the pdf) and other people could check them. Even if it's still a primary source, the other editors will be more willing to approve your changes if they can check the whole log for verification. Do you think you can obtain the permission to do that? --Enric Naval (talk) 03:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

I have posted (18 June) scans of the primary sources to the Wiki Commons (per instructions in BB35 discussion). The documents are public domain so there is no problem with having them on the Wiki Commons. I had a huge quantity of primary documents (drawings, reports, logs, photos, etc) on my BB35 website IronShip (talk) 05:30, 19 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, IronShip. I noticed you scanned the images to Commons, and I think they're better off at Wikisource. Here is an example of a similar type of document I uploaded there. I did that over a year ago, and don't really remember how it all works, so you might want to ask for help from one of the regulars over there if you decide to move the documents over from Commons. Parsecboy (talk) 10:55, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Parsecboy: You might be right about where to place the scans. Being new to such activity I really do not know where to place them so I think I put them where the discussion talk said to. IronShip (talk) 03:44, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
— Ed   (Talk  •  Contribs)  04:15, 20 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I have replied on my talk page again. Cheers, — Ed   (Talk  •  Contribs)  17:18, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Reply: USS Texas
If you read the history a bit more carefully, and go through the previous edits, you'll realize the only thing I changed was the US customary-to-metric conversion... I did notice that fluke, though... no Mark 15's were available when Texas was still carrying torpedo tubes... if you want, you can go and change it... Magus732 (talk) 06:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)